Pot of Greed being banned is why I never got into playing Yu-Gi-Oh. I didn't care about strategy or card advantage or winning, I just wanted to explain what it did extremely verbosely every time I played it.
you sort of can with the later alternatives shown in the video example, i often say “i activate sekkas light which allows me to draw 2 cards” when playing superheavy samurai
@@samhainmoonlight8403 it’s better now. Links are easier to comprehend and one pen summon per turn makes the game way more balanced. Pendulums were inherently broken, especially in a time where Nibiru didn’t exist
Did the first scenario in master duel a few months ago where it makes you play a pendulum theme deck(mech-dinosaurs). Didn't explain shit so I spent an hour losing duels until I figured it out lol.
True story: I dug out my old PSP not too long back that had a copy of one of the Tag Force games still in it. My only saved deck was 80 cards and running triple jar of greed... I was not very good at the game
Good to know i wasn't the only madlad that had an 80 card deck, i even somehow managed to beat zane with it (don't question it, i was a madlad), then i realized 40 is the go for strategy and made a legendary ocean deck
I remembered in the GX anime, Alexis’ card “Cyber Angel Idaten” could recycle any spell in the GY when Special Summoned and she used it to play Pot of Greed twice in one turn. I think it was that episode that made me realize how OP the card really was.
@@coreygolphenee9633 kinda. Painful choice is stronger as its almost always an instant win where pot of greed is just never bad. Every deck would always play the max amount of pot of greed though.
then imagine being able to play your entire deck on turn one (no draw), and realize that drawing effects in the current meta aren't nearly as powerful as you think.
@@ianbraun271 I don't know what Meta you're playing in, but draw effects have been up there for the entirety of competitve YuGiOh's existence, including the latest Metas. Pot of Desires, Pot of Extravagance, D-Hero Celestial, Mo Ye, occasionally Upstart and in the very near future Guardian Chimera are just some examples.
@@tiredandsleepy69 yes, but that's what makes it insanely powerful, its a unconditional increase card advantage card. If it's a draw one card, You are already thinning your deck out with putting in pot of greed. Draw two, you get to dig deeper looking for cards you want, the likelihood increases so much to draw a specific card when you draw a pot of greed. If you draw a pot of greed it essentially changes a 1 card draw to a 3card draw discard 1 useless card that you just drew. It's a no brainer to put pot of greed in because it always improves the deck no matter the situation.
The year is 2042. The graveyard is now your hand. The banished zone is now the Extra Deck. You play Ojama Chartreuse, sending your opponent's Chaos Fairy Lily - Envoy of the Peg to the Mega Ultra Hell zone. The judge comes over and eats the card. Your opponent plays Emergency Heimlich, and the judge vomits the card back onto the field. It still fucking misses timing somehow.
My deck consists of 40 cards. The five cards of Exodia and 35 copies of Pot of Greed. This deck was made before they put a limit on how many copies of a card you could have in a deck.
@@passtheapplejuice2619yeah but they would win everytime. As there is a limited amount of times they can negate Pot of Greed before it just starts a chain reaction.
@@goofballjim6167 Can you imagine during the character's entire turn, they are epically announcing each time Pot of Greed gets used with the kind same energy and delivery each time?
From the VERY FIRST rulebook: "The maximum number of copies of each card you can have in your battling Deck and your Side Deck combined is 3." So, your deck is from before Yu-Gi-Oh existed.
When it first came out it was not nearly as broken. Back when 80% of monsters were generic vanilla monsters, and special summons were extremely rare (so that summon 1 monster per turn was a pretty hard cap). Pot of Greed was more a hand refill card, or dig for a spell/trap you save your ass than an actual combo starter.
I love how Pot of Greed is the most insane shit in Yu-Gi-Oh, but it's equivalent in magic the gathering "Divination" which does the EXACT same thing... is pretty much trash and no one plays it.
Well, divination isn't free like pot of greed. It costs three mana, meaning it's your entire turn on turn three in the average deck. Zero mana draw 1s do see play in magic, and 0 mana draw 2s would too.
Divination isn't an exact equivalent, it's got a fairly high mana cost for what it does. The closest cards in magic would be ancestral recall and gitaxian probe. Gitaxian probe is a 0 mana draw 1, with a very minimal drawback of costing life, and additionally it let you look at your opponent's hand. It was banned, because every deck would just run 4 copies of and essentially have 56 cards instead of 60. Ancestral recall is a 1 mana draw 3, and much like pot of greed, has existed since the early days of magic when the creators didn't know how to balance things, and is one of the most broken cards ever made for the exact same reasons.
Surprised you didn't talked about Pot of Extravagance, is a nice way to draw cards for decks that don't rely on Extra Deck and for that reason it has more restrictions, it has to be at the start of the turn and it locks any more draws. Pd: I run necroface in some decks that don't rely on normal summon just to reset banished cards from pots, sometimes is worth it but is mostly a meme.
Thanks for watching! I try to make my videos understandable to people who aren't familiar with the thing I'm talking about - so I avoided talking about the Extra Deck in this video, because you don't really need to know about it to understand how Pot of Desires works. Pot of Extravagance is another good example of restrictions that encourage creative deck building, though!
Pretty much anything that recycles banished cards without any restrictions on what kind of cards they have to be can do this. They aren't common but they do exist.
Well alright here goes. See, Pot of Greed has this effect...(bear with me now) When you use Pot of Greed, you can acquire two new cards from your deck of cards. Remember, it's your deck. Not the Graveyard. Your deck, alright? Good
My siblings and I played Yu-Gi-Oh (not knowing banned cards were a thing) about the beginning until shortly after the introduction of the Egyptian gods. Since we were young, we didn't have optimized strats and just found monster themes we liked and used spells/traps that worked with it. We definitely didn't understand the concept of how much power a larger hand had back then. For example, since I was the only girl, I made a girly deck. I had things life Gemini Elf and used Graceful Charity instead of Pot of Greed. I had a GBA Yu-Gi-Oh game at one point, and they didn't follow tournament bans either. They had Grandpa run an Exodia deck that had three sets and so many drawing cards. I did not fair well.
If you had to choose between Graceful Charity and Pot of greed, I'd argue Graceful is actually better. ...but why not just play both? Gemini Elf is pretty good too, in the very early part of the game.
@Dhfa 10 I think my point was she was implying she wouldn't play Gemini Elf or Graceful if she wasn't playing a girly deck; which she should be playing anyway, especially Graceful.
Also, I think Pot of Desires is way better from a theatrical standpoint; if we think about the card from the standpoint of it being used in the anime it comes with way more stakes. Cards that have been banished and cards that have been drawn are predetermined, so it allows there to be some stakes put up at the simple use of a card. Of course you can do the predictable, they banish 10 useless cards, and draw the 2 they need to win the game... but I think the game you showed was a much more INTERESTING way to play the card in a dynamic moment in the anime. The card(s) they were looking for... was banished, but instead they drew two _different_ cards that are useful in a very _different_ way, as if the deck itself was saying "That's not what you want, this is." They go to win a game that was thought lost, even from the viewer since everything went wrong, by simply "Trusting what the deck gave them." You can have bad guys do the same ploy, always getting the cards they want, but then they get two cards they don't want and they get in a huff... only to be told how those cards truly _could_ have won if they simply kept an open mind.
@@almasywinter1248 based on the background and the lord of D being behind him, it's probably during the duel with lector in the Noah arc. idk what episode # it is though
Huh! This video just randomly showed up in my recommends, but explained the basics of a cardgame I only got one booster for as a kid AND why its biggest meme was such a disaster! Lovely editing too! Great stuff, hoping you're catching the video-essay bug, cause I'd enjoy more things in this style! :) (Time to queue your other two videos!)
Yea, it popped in my recommended today, and despite knowing the why it was banned, I didn't know that a double-strategy deck was possible, so I still learned stuff by watching it.
Yeah I don't even remember how I had a handful of cards. But it was so boring as a kid, I gave up. Videogames were more for me. Game Boy, Game Boy Color, SNES, Sega Genesis, N64, PlayStation.
I know next to nothing about Yu-Gi-Oh and have only played MtG when it comes to card games, this video had great pacing and the segments were short but engaging with a good amount of info to understand what was happening, great video!
I’m starting to think it was limited cause the card became more accessible with the sacred beast structure deck and thus overtime became cheaper. And komoney being komoney wants more money and so limits it. And I think extravagance is in the newest structure deck and if so I wouldn’t br suprised if it gets limited as well.
Dark Red Enchanter. First heart of the cards moment I ever had was when I managed to discard the L from my opponents hand after they had gotten out F I N and A due to me never drawing card destruction.
My favourite card is Dimension Fusion, but that card needs to stay banned forever unfortunately. I would like Return from a Different Dimension return to 1, though.
2:41 I'm calling bullshit. I've seen the heart of the cards with my own two eyes. I was playing against my brother and tired of constantly losing I decided to cheat. I needed to draw one specific card to more or less win the game, so i played a card that would make me reshuffle my deck and shuffled it in a way, that I was guaranteed to draw that specific card, which I did. I was only one turn away from victory and the only way my brother could prevent his doom was by drawing one specific card (deja vu). This was very early into the game so both our decks had like 40 cards still. He looks at me, puts his hand on his deck, does the stupid heart of the cards speech and actually pulls the one fucking card he needs. No cheating, just heart of the cards
Dose anyone ever think about how Yugioh's most iconic card is probably its least played in the last 15 years because it has been and will always be banned? like what percent of Yugioh players have ever naturally played Pot of Greed?
Oh also this is a cool video just subbed! Some cards are like... easy to make fixes for, but Pot is so unique in how simple and elegant a function it serves it takes a long hard thing to how to "fix" this card without losing that same elegance without just reading badly
when the yugioh anime aired in my country, i was 12 years old (im 30 now). i remember playing all these broken oldschool cards with my friends and once one of my friends told me they introduced the forbidden list. back in the day i was devastated, all my decks didnt work anymore haha
when we were kids pot of greed is just staple basic plus one no cost, even stupid kid knows thats op. almost all my frend use it those who dont just dun have it
@@jojoenathan yeah yeah we know that cause we are adults. but tons of players have to be kids. or young adults that started with like 5Ds long after Pot was gone
YOU NEVER SAW THIS COMING! I SUMMON POT OF GREED WHICH ALLOWS ME TO DRAW THREE ADDITIONAL CARDS FROM MY DECK! THEN I PLAY, MAGIC FORCE WHICH ALLOWS ME TO SUMMON POT OF GREED DRAWING THREE ADDITIONAL CARDS FROM MY DECK!!!!
(Sorry for my bad english) Something that i think should have been mentioned in the video are first turn kill strategies, like exodia, cannon solider, or gem-knight ftk Even at 1 copy, pot of greed would make those strategies insanely more consistent, as they already run a whole of draw power, even if it means to use dead cards like blue-eyes just to have fuel for trade-in (wich let you discard 1 level 8 monster to draw 2 cards) Those strategies aren't that consistent luckily, but i think it's interesting of how the new pot of greeds are balanced to prevent that Pot of desires: banish 10 cards from your deck, as you said, banishing your key cards is incredibly dangerous, but even more in FTK combos, because they rely on specific cards to work, banishing only 1 piece of exodia completely shuts down the strategy Pot of prosperity: banish 3 cards from your extra deck to excavate 3 cards from the top of your deck, or banish 6 to excavate 6. Look really powerful for FTK, but you can't use other draw effects during the same turn, making it a cards that exodia decks cannot even try to use, but it also halves both battle AND effect damage that your opponent recieves, meaning that burn focused FTKs, despite having more consistency, they would need to put a lot more of effort, and without more draw power, it's really easy to just run out of resources Pot of extravagance: similar to prosperity, but in exchange of not halving the damage, it banishes the cards at random, so you can banish 3 cards to draw 1, or banish 6 to draw 2. It locks you out of more draw effects, and it has another restriction that makes it so you can only use it as the first card of your turn, meaning that you cannot summon the important cards from your extra deck before using it. This, alongside being blocked to draw more cards makes really hard to FTK by using it, as a lot of the FTK combos use extra deck monsters in one way or another, and you cannot risk banishing them, like with the exodia pieces, and banishing 3 to draw 1, for then being blocked of more draws, it's not worth it Of course, there are other FTK strategies like simochi or banquet, but those are more gimmicky or only good in a best out of 1 format, and also, normal decks can be build around that, as they don't lock you out of searching effects, just generic draw power
@@phamquang7885 Rule 1 of Gren Maju: When pot of desires is activated, there are only 3 places Gren Maju can be. In hand, 11th from top of deck, or 12th from top of deck.
Magic the Gathering: "Yeah in the beginning of Development, we created a card called Ancestral Recall, you pay only one Blue Mana to draw three cards. It seemed like a good idea at the time." Yu-Gi-Oh: "Hold my Beer."
9:34 A card that is banished face down is not truly removed from the game. A card that refers only to "banished cards" in general, such as Leanchoilia or PSY-Framelord Omega ("Once per turn, during your opponent's Standby Phase: You can target 1 banished card; return it to the GY"), can affect face-down banished cards. If a face-down banished card is returned to the Graveyard, it will be placed face-up in the Graveyard.
Because in magic you have to choose what to spend your mana on. If you want to cast a creature or draw cards or kill stuff it all costs mana. It's balanced. Yugioh on the other hand is so poorly balanced that if you draw an extra card it's considered broken lmao P.S. this is coming from a yugi boomer
@@paperfart3988 there are literally thousands of combinations that make infinite mana in magic. I get it can be a limiting factor, but it is not always the case
@@MarkTheeuwes ancestral recall, draw 3 cards at instant speed, meaning even during your opponants turn. Not to mention magic has the concept of counterspells, which just completely upends all strategery. I have no idea how this video was reccommended to me, since I have nothing bur disdain for the trashfire game that ya'll are obsessed with
Honestly, I don't think I agree. POD is one of the more balanced POGs out there, but I never thought it was the Holy Grail of cards imo. Whether you argue if the Card is a +1 or a -9, the fact of the matter is that not every deck can realistically play it. Sure, many higher tier decks at the time and some lower tier decks could run it and be mostly fine, but it really hurts decks that can't afford to play POD that need consistency in their decks. God help you if you get ashed on top of that. Nowadays, it's either POE, POP, Allure (if your deck can run that) or bust. Which sucks :/
Absolutely, not every deck can play Pot of Desires - but deciding whether or not it's right to include in a deck is a very interesting choice for the player to have. Pot of Extravagance and Pot of Prosperity also have interesting downsides that encourage creative deckbuilding.
@@PenguinInPyjamas that's the problem I see. It's not a choice for some decks because of their inherent design. Some decks only run 2 or 1 of something that they really need to do stuff with. You mentioned the clip of that Japanese Salamangreat player outplayed his opponent with his tech cards because he couldn't play on his turn. While impressive on its own, it only solidifies how detrimental the card actually is. And not everyone is lucky enough to play around stuff like that because their deck needs certain cards to even play.
@@fogblades6811 It's certainly not the holy grail of cards if you're talking about power level, but it does encourage creative deck building which, yes, inherently means not every deck can play it and that's the good point. What makes Pot of Greed (and other DM staples) so bad is that when building a deck back then, players would always start with ~10 good cards like Pot itself, Change of Heart, Delinquent Duo, etc., before filling out the rest of the deck. Basically the only difference between your deck and your opponent's is "only" the remaining 25-30 non-staple cards, and even then they weren't that different to begin with.
They make these youtuber videos as clickbaity is possible "heres the top ten reasons why your favorite card that is the best in the meta is actually TRASH" shit like that the use all the time to get you to click then try to justify their ridiculous opinions. Like trying to say pot of greed is somehow a poorly designed card. Bro even UNO uses this card come on.
@@Kugrox You clearly missed the point of the video. Pot of Greed was poorly designed in the context of Yu-Gi-Oh. In a game where every card drawn can be immediately used for free, Pot of Greed is inherently unhealthy for the game. Pot of Desires is a well-designed card, not because it is better or stronger than Pot of Greed, but because it is more balanced, and forces you to play the game creatively.
Sometimes I like to tell myself to believe in the heart of the cards every time I find myself in a corner, and the times where I draw a good card that helps me with executing my strat is an amazing feeling
Ok, my issue is the overabundance of search effects that aren't hard cap once per turn. this makes it so you basically have your entire deck to play with. It's why i like Rush duels, the Hard once per turn and the lack of chaining is just so good
Idk where you're getting that from. Almost all searchers in modern meta decks are hard once per turns. The only relevant examples I can think of in recent times are Sky Striker's Engage and Drytron's Benten. Both of which got banned or limited in some way specifically because they weren't hopt.
You forgot to mention that the effect is NOT draw 2 cards. It's "toss a coin, if heads draw 2 cards, if tails add 2 'Pot of Desires' from your deck to your hand"
Pot of greed is to powerful. Yet cards like runick fountain let me draw up to 3 cards every turn, even my opponents turn. And cast spells during their turn. And refresh my graveyard every time it activates.
Whenever I teach friends about YuGiOh, the first thing I mention is “there are only two resources. Board space and hand size. Everything else is aesthetic, especially the life total” This games the most ridiculous combo farm imaginable and I love it for that
POD being limited is honestly surprising. A card that requires so much focus when deck building needs to be unlimited or fully banned. Building a deck with the requirements that Pot of Desires places on you without having somewhat reliable access to the card is hard to justify. The only decks that can make effective use of the card now are the ones who didn’t care about the cost to begin with or actively benefit from it. Examples being, Gren Maju, who wants cards banished, and Virtual World, which has one of the few cards that can cycle face down banished cards back into the deck.
Well it's not that pod actually one of the card that helping your deck by just discarding card you don't want multiple (namely hand trap or multiple engine starter ), and with 60 pile recently people running rn with adventurer DP scythe stuff the cost became more and more profitable rather than draw back, I mean I agreed no one see that 60 pile meta rn before but I kinda nice to see card that make pile profitable less outrageous to deal with.
@@vo1ce147 pile decks wouldn't run desires even if it was at 3. they trade consistency for power and that means playing mandatory bricks that you musn't banish. even if the chance to banish 1 specific card is very low... when you have 5-10 specific cards you don't want to banish, you're not dodging them reliably.
@@vasilboev1383 that's why pot of prosperity it's so popular right now. It let's you choose what cards you banish from the extra deck, and let's you dig deeper into your deck for whatever card you need, even if you only get one card. It's less card economy over all but can potentially get you that starter or combo piece you need.
I don't play it anymore, but watching this video feels so nostalgia, and decided to scroll through my stuff again and still found 3 copies of pot of greed, lovely video 😉
Almost as many comments as subscribers. Nice! I remember playing yugioh ages ago. I had a three blue eyes white dragon deck because kaiba had that. I never won. Awesome video.
you’d be getting 2 blue eyes white dragons, wing flap of a dragon, and 2 call of the haunteds in ur first hand and lose in 2 turns it would be so tough😭😭😭😭
in the end Konami is going to print so many pot variations that every deck has one they can run without it hurting the deck too much. Might aswell release a pot of greed with once per turn clause
Card: if the solar alignment of the sun, moon, and jupiter is 24 degrees or more than deal 20^5-7 to the card to the left of the hyperwarp spacedrive then negate all damage dealt to the crafting bench if the hyperwarp is less than half charged and then deal 5 damage to a card for every solar flare this turn Players: perfectly normal Card: draw 2 cards Players: ITS TOO OP AND COMPLEX!!!
0:25 Why don’t they explain where to draw two cards from? I infer it lets you draw two cards that are sitting at the bottom of your deck but anyone’s guess is as good as mine. 😥 I hope one day we’ll know what Pot of Greed does for sure.
Sorry but are you stupid? No disrespect but isn't it obvious that you draw 2 cards on a piece of paper from memory? Do they literally have to spell it out for your kind (imbeciles)?
I know nothing about YGO proper, just the memes. So I knew Pot of Greed allowed you to draw 2 cards and that it was banned, but I didn't have any other understanding. This video perfectly summed up what I needed to know about the game to understand why pot of greed was so powerful.
It is powerful indeed, but the guy is exaggerating, it is nowhere near being the most powerful Yugioh card, and one quick glance at the banlist can tell you that.
@@dagothcharles2044 While Pot of Greed alone may not be the card that wins you the game, it would be an automatic include in *every single deck* at however many copies are legal at any given time. And successfully resolving it against an opponent who didn't draw their copy or got it negated means you basically won right there. I'd say that constitutes for calling it one of the most powerful cards of all time.
Retrained Pot of Greed : Continuous Spell Card Draw 2 cards. Your opponent draws 3 cards on their next draw phase. If this card is added to your hand by a card effect; banish 2 cards from your hand or take 8000 damage.
@@PenguinInPyjamas But even then Dark Dragoon brings up an interesting discussion of how a card can be super broken in the OCG and just good in the TCG.
Meanwhile in the Pokémon TCG using hop, barry, Friends in Galar etc. (Draw three cards) is a terrible draw support card 💀 while there are cards like professors research that let u draw seven (but u discard your hand for that) or cynthias resolve where you can draw cards until u got five cards in your hand or until u got eight if a monster got knocked out during your opponents last turn. Crazy how different the value of one card seems between Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokémon TCG
Pot of Greed in Pokemon is Bill before it got changed to be a Supporter card, it's extremely broken in Pokemon too. Also I feel like Desires would probably be a good card in Pokemon too, if it worked the same way. The reason modern draw cards in Pokemon don't seem so strong is they're all Supporter cards rather than Item cards.
Psy Frame Lord Omega and Paleozoic Leanchoila can technically put back face down banished cards into the graveyard which makes me really like those cards but they are very niche interactions since one is a extra deck monster that requires resource investment and the other is a trap card that needs to be set first
The fact that it’s an extra deck monster makes it easily more accessible than anything else. The extra deck is the easiest place to Simon monsters from.
I'm just now realizing that the Pot Carving from backpack heroes is why I'm getting this video. It literally does exactly what it does in Yu-Gi-Oh and it's even part of a pretty major exploit where you can thin your deck to the point where all you get are more pots and zero-turn-use items and kill every single enemy that comes up against you before the round even begins.
To be fair back in the old days of yugioh, when pot of greed was first added there wasn't the card combos we have today so drawing 2 cards wasn't as broken still really good but not completely ludicrous.
That's not how resources work. Even if Pot of Greed only drew 1 card instead of 2, every single deck would run three copies, because it freely replaces itself at no cost so it's effectively like running a 37 card deck. The fact that it freely not just replaces itself but even gets an additional card on top of that means that no matter the meta, no matter the speed of play, every single deck would run as many copies as possible because there's literally no cost and only upsides. Having a copy in your opening hand isn't just powerful, it's effectively starting the game with one extra card in hand compared to your opponent.
@@yewchungREMIX your points are taken but we’re talking about an era when decks aren’t that consistent and was a lot harder to get to your best cards. As the person mentioned above you, the game was way slower than today. Today you have almost every deck having near complete consistency with a lot of deck searchers, basically there are so many easier ways to get to your best cards without need of draw cards like pot of greed. But back in the early days of yugioh, building a consistent deck was challenging and you definitely needed those draw cards like pot of greed. Yes those cards are dangerous in today’s standards but it was not dangerous back then because of the challenging game environment at those times.
This sort of hard once per turn restriction is really really common on modern yugioh cards. Me looking at my flower cardians Yup. Totally. Everything is once per turn. Totally not only one card. Lots of once per turn. Starts excessively sweating.
I recall when Pot of Desires was first revealed, my friend at the time and I laughed cause we were more casually minded players and didn't think of the card from a competitive standpoint, assuming no one would be willing to give up a quarter of their deck for a draw 2. Many years later and the egg is still on my face lmao. As for how I see it now, I wasn't the biggest fan of it as I preferred having my resources available and the risks of not only banishing the 1-ofs but also just giving up those 10 cards felt a bit too steep for me. And then I began to play True Draco to ladder in Master Duel. Now I just roll with it and I'm less against it than I was. Somewhat prefer Extrav and Prosperity though nowadays given you can sack Extra Deck cards easier than MD cards.
something i like about pot of desires its how its penalty could be flipped to be the advantage, if played correctly and paired up with cards that gain from having banished cards like golden homunculus i think you could make quite an interesting deck
That's pretty much actually a modern application for desires, though instead of "golden homunculus" people play "gren maju da eiza" along with other cards that banish such as "Eater of millions", "Gizmel Orochi" etc.
Gren Maju is a very funny deck. You watch the opponent setup their board, then you banish your entire deck facedown and Normal Summon a dude with 40k attack to crash into someone.
@@elis6836 You can just run some of these stupid broken going 2nd cards like Dark Ruler No More, Droplet, Kaijus, Sphere Mode, Lava Golem, Duster, Lightning Storm, Pankratops, Alpha, Superpoly, etc. Wait for them to establish their whole ass board, then say "No lol" and eat it for breakfast.
thanks for fully explaining why pot of greed was broken. every time someone said that it never made sense even if their response was "because drawing 2 cards is really good". like that i can understand but that doesnt explain why it was *broken*. pointing out that there is no cost or limit to the cards you can play really made it clear why its was so strong.
how come you didn't mentioned jar thief, don't get me wrong having it ready when your opponent would play pot of greed would be slim but mentioned of the trap card designed to counter pot of greed should be mentioned
Never thought a card like this could be so good in any card game. Usually extra card draw can be very flexible and if you have nothing left, a few more cards can make your turn matter. However I never thought it would ever be so broken like this. In Pokémon more cards can allow you to give energy to a Pokémon if you didn’t have it in your hand, otherwise you could’ve missed out on launching a heavy attack. In nova island there’s a coin system (similar to mana system of hearthstone) and towards late game you could be getting 10 coins a turn but only being able to play one card with abs card draw, screwing you. In yu gi oh however, More cards doesn’t just mean more options, it means more ‘pieces’ on the board ready to demolish the life points
To elaborate on "Searcher Effect" (or Tutors as they're called in MtG which is where I'm drawing experience from): Tutors are more consistent than raw card draw. With card draw you still run the risk of not getting the tools you need to make a play. With Tutors, you can draw exactly what you need as soon as you hit the tutor. And from a probability standpoint it effectively allows you to double the chances you hit the card you need. Whether it's because you can only have 1 copy of the card or only use 1 copy of the card. You now have the chance to draw into the card you're actually looking for, or the tutor which can get it to you anyway. Thought a straight draw 2 for no cost is bonkers in any game. Even MtG doesn't have something like that without an insane mana cost to get it out that makes it usually not worth using. Like I have a "big brother" to Pot of Greed in one of my desk: Harmonize. For four mana you draw 3 cards. Considering you get 1 mana per turn (assuming you have one to play, and/or you don't have a way to bypass that restriction). This means you could get 3 extra cards 4 turns into the game, and even than that's your entire turn. So yeah, card draw is still good, just when used properly, as the video explained. But tutoring is usually much, much better.
great video, as a magic player you explained everything that needed to be explained incredibly well, allowing someone like me with little experience in the game to still understand the importance and legacy of pot of greed that, *looks at writing on arm* smalls 2 bards
I think POD got limited because of the trend with running 60 card decks of recent. In a 40 card deck banishing 10 facedown can be a serious issue, but in a 60 card deck it doesn't have anywhere near the same impact.
No? The 60 card pile decks wouldnt even use desires of it was at 3, 60 card piles decks are playing a lot of one ofs that they don’t want to banish. Imagine banishing your celestial or dasher, the whole dpe engine just becomes dead
I think it's more of the fact that when you have a deck of extenders it doesn't matter how many you banish as long as you get to set up that otk/8 negates play.
After they banned nearly every card from the yugioh TV series and "effect timing," I had to give up on card game. Petin the dark clown (when this monster card is sent to graveyard from field by battle, search deck for a Petin the dark clown and special Summon to field). Then ruling came out, so now the effect is only activated when Petin the dark clown is the LAST monster to be attacked.
"We can't allow players to draw 2 cards with one card at no cost! That's way too overpowered! Now lets get back to finding new ways to spam the entire field with overpowered monsters on the first turn, completely lock down your opponent with your opening hand, and win the game on your opponents turn" -Konami probably
There's a pair of cards that actually let you reuse the face down banished cards, but you can count them with your hands, and I could say *you'll still have unused fingers*
If you've ever played Ascension you may be familiar with the Enlightened group of cards, which comprise a quarter or so of all hero cards and are mostly themed around drawing cards with little cost. If you've never played Ascension, this sounds super broken, but the twist is that you and your opponent effectively play with the same deck and take turns buying cards to put in your personal deck. Any broken strategy you can use is also a broken strategy your opponent can use, and the other three groups of cards (or four if you count monsters) are kinda broken in their own unique ways, balancing things out. This just goes to show that context is everything. Also if you like Yu-Gi-Oh and haven't played Ascension you should play Ascension. It kicks ass.
@@PenguinInPyjamas IIRC there’s a free version of the base game on Android and iOS, if you wanna check it out. From there you can get into some of the weirder versions for a couple bucks each.
Sekka's Light was always an interesting card to me, it completely locks you into it being the ONLY spell/trap you can use as the cost of a draw 2 effect... And Konami still felt it was too powerful to be run at more than 1.
So, if unrestricted just put 33% pot of greed into your deck and you might be able to draw the whole deck and get a turn one win. In practice, put 40% pot of greed and you get a turn one win.
Every single CCG in existence has at some point had a simple "draw this many cards" card that had to later be nerfed because card advantage is too important. Magic the gathering, pokemon cards, you name it. This isnt a case of the people making yugioh cards being historically bad at designing or balancing. It's just part of the natural growth cycle and progression of any CCG.
@@Emperorhirohito19272 Damn, almost like Hearthstone is a way newer game that had decades of TCG balancing knowledge to draw from when designing their cards. (And they still didn't do it perfectly. I'm just gonna say Pirates.)
No joke, but when I would duel as a young boy, when I REALLY NEEDED a certain card, I copied the faith placed into my deck that I saw in the show, and, believe it or not, I remember VERY well, that it NEVER failed me. I would spend hours on end creating the most strategically sound decks, dueling against them one on one, attempting HARD to win as each deck, playing how I would if I didn't know the other cards the opposite deck has, and I found no matter how many different tournaments or individual duels or party duels, one after the other after the other after the other, I found the best opponent to give me a REAL challenge was myself. My parents were FAR from rich, but they did buy me a SHIT load of cards, so I had a pretty damn good selection to choose from. I'd make my deck with the question in mind, can this one card turn the duel around if I draw it? 🤔 and I was good. Really good 🤣🤣 I eventually was known so well people would DEMAND they shuffle my deck instead, and I'd always allow them to, and cut it as many times as their hearts desires, 💕 and I'd mop the floor with them during the days when you would put up your best card for the duel, or a tleast a good card. Never lost one card, except to a younger guy who was losing and being bullied, I handed him an entire deck of sweet cards, taught him a few tricks ,and he won ALL the cards he lost, plus some. Let him keep the deck, and looking back those cards NOW would be worth a nice penny. First edition on card sleeves and all. Lol don't want to sound to ego is its just nostalgia, and sadly the game nowadays is SO Different, but duel links is fun af
There's a reason you only get one summon a turn, aside from special summons. THAT was the limiting factor instead of lands, mana or energy cards. Back when the game was made, special summoning was *special*, making the summon limit effective. So in my opinion, all of this special summoning unbalances the game so much
A couple months ago on yugioh master duel, I used pot of desires in my blue-eyes deck and it banished all 3 copies of blue-eyes and my only copy of dragon spirit of white. From that day on, I never used that card again and replaced it with cards of consonance 😑😑🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
@@pauloazuela8488 looking back at it, you're absolutely correct! Just needed a +2 due to extreme cases of bricking. The banish effect didn't affect me all that bad back then. However, it took me that one specific incident to make me fully abandon that card. Never again 😅🔫
@@pauloazuela8488 as a side note regarding the danger of banishing cards being dangerous if your deck doesn't rely on them being banished, if my understanding of that card is correct, then pot of desires is brutal even for decks that rely on banishing cards cuz pot of desires banishes those cards *facedown* which I'm pretty sure negates banishing effects (correct me if I'm wrong if you've discovered otherwise)
![Explaining All Banned Spell Cards in YuGiOh - [Part 1]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/lnI-zAYVM00/mqdefault.jpg)
![Explaining All Banned Spell Cards in YuGiOh - [Part 1]](/img/tr.png)
Pot of Greed being banned is why I never got into playing Yu-Gi-Oh. I didn't care about strategy or card advantage or winning, I just wanted to explain what it did extremely verbosely every time I played it.
Every kid's dream
you sort of can with the later alternatives shown in the video
example, i often say “i activate sekkas light which allows me to draw 2 cards” when playing superheavy samurai
I love to explain every card. Lol
When mister reborn was banned that was when it really ended
I played until I went into the Army. Always found explain all my cards and very fast cause my friends would get annoyed if I went too slow lol
i just busted out hysterically laughing at the “i’m not explaining pendulum cards” slide
3:34
When it got to the part, I was like "Oh damn, finally somebody who can explain it to m-oh..."
Pendulum creatures are why I quit yu gi oh
@@samhainmoonlight8403 it’s better now. Links are easier to comprehend and one pen summon per turn makes the game way more balanced. Pendulums were inherently broken, especially in a time where Nibiru didn’t exist
Did the first scenario in master duel a few months ago where it makes you play a pendulum theme deck(mech-dinosaurs). Didn't explain shit so I spent an hour losing duels until I figured it out lol.
True story: I dug out my old PSP not too long back that had a copy of one of the Tag Force games still in it. My only saved deck was 80 cards and running triple jar of greed... I was not very good at the game
Better than me anyhow. Deck Building is something i will never be good at lol...
Good to know i wasn't the only madlad that had an 80 card deck, i even somehow managed to beat zane with it (don't question it, i was a madlad), then i realized 40 is the go for strategy and made a legendary ocean deck
Waiting for the 'Pot of Super desires', 'Banish 30 cards, draw 4 cards'.
Wait, Tag Force let you have main decks with more than 60 cards?
Was That Grass Looks Greener in the game?
Yeah... 80 cards... All random, no archetypes etc. Had a blast though
I remembered in the GX anime, Alexis’ card “Cyber Angel Idaten” could recycle any spell in the GY when Special Summoned and she used it to play Pot of Greed twice in one turn. I think it was that episode that made me realize how OP the card really was.
Insane how they nerfed it so hard, and it can still be useful.
Goes to show how overpowered it really was at the start
I'd thought the same thing! You discard 10 cards from your deck (25% if a 40 card deck), and it is still useful!
@@MATYFONTES ironically if desires discarded 10 from your deck it would automatically be banned
@@tempestgreen1125 Considering the Graveyard is essential a second hand now that would be broken beyond belief.
It's the most overpowered card in respect to it's game ever
@@coreygolphenee9633 kinda. Painful choice is stronger as its almost always an instant win where pot of greed is just never bad.
Every deck would always play the max amount of pot of greed though.
In a game where DRAW 1 is considered incredibly powerful. Imagine a DRAW 2.
Then imagine DRAW 3 (discard 2 of your choice)
then imagine being able to play your entire deck on turn one (no draw), and realize that drawing effects in the current meta aren't nearly as powerful as you think.
@@ianbraun271 I don't know what Meta you're playing in, but draw effects have been up there for the entirety of competitve YuGiOh's existence, including the latest Metas.
Pot of Desires, Pot of Extravagance, D-Hero Celestial, Mo Ye, occasionally Upstart and in the very near future Guardian Chimera are just some examples.
Draw 2 cards only puts you up by 1 card because it takes pot of greed to use
@@tiredandsleepy69 yes, but that's what makes it insanely powerful, its a unconditional increase card advantage card. If it's a draw one card, You are already thinning your deck out with putting in pot of greed. Draw two, you get to dig deeper looking for cards you want, the likelihood increases so much to draw a specific card when you draw a pot of greed. If you draw a pot of greed it essentially changes a 1 card draw to a 3card draw discard 1 useless card that you just drew. It's a no brainer to put pot of greed in because it always improves the deck no matter the situation.
" Banishing a card face down removes it entirely"
**Necroface and other cards that can still affect them*
"We don't do that here"
Exactly what I was thinking 😂
The year is 2042. The graveyard is now your hand. The banished zone is now the Extra Deck. You play Ojama Chartreuse, sending your opponent's Chaos Fairy Lily - Envoy of the Peg to the Mega Ultra Hell zone. The judge comes over and eats the card. Your opponent plays Emergency Heimlich, and the judge vomits the card back onto the field. It still fucking misses timing somehow.
@@valritz1489 missing timing is something I’ll never understand. My brain too smooth
@@valritz1489 You do not believe how hard this just made me laugh. xD
@@valritz1489 *The judge comes over and eats the card.*
My deck consists of 40 cards. The five cards of Exodia and 35 copies of Pot of Greed.
This deck was made before they put a limit on how many copies of a card you could have in a deck.
If an anime character played that deck it would last forever
@@passtheapplejuice2619yeah but they would win everytime. As there is a limited amount of times they can negate Pot of Greed before it just starts a chain reaction.
@@goofballjim6167 Can you imagine during the character's entire turn, they are epically announcing each time Pot of Greed gets used with the kind same energy and delivery each time?
From the VERY FIRST rulebook:
"The maximum number of copies of each card you can have in your battling Deck and your Side Deck combined is 3."
So, your deck is from before Yu-Gi-Oh existed.
It was limited to 3 copies of a card right from the very start. There was never a time where you could have unlimited cards.
When it first came out it was not nearly as broken. Back when 80% of monsters were generic vanilla monsters, and special summons were extremely rare (so that summon 1 monster per turn was a pretty hard cap). Pot of Greed was more a hand refill card, or dig for a spell/trap you save your ass than an actual combo starter.
Ye dude, this video is fluff for OG decks. :T
It was just as broken.
It doesn't matter how strong the decks are compared to today. There is no reason not to play PoG.
It was always broken and op
You forget about the staple spells that you could get off POG
The card was broken even in the early game. That’s why it was immediately limited and then banned in competitive play
I love how Pot of Greed is the most insane shit in Yu-Gi-Oh, but it's equivalent in magic the gathering "Divination" which does the EXACT same thing... is pretty much trash and no one plays it.
Really goes to show how different every card game is. I'd love to get into card games like this, if they weren't so expensive.
Well, divination isn't free like pot of greed. It costs three mana, meaning it's your entire turn on turn three in the average deck.
Zero mana draw 1s do see play in magic, and 0 mana draw 2s would too.
Divination isn't an exact equivalent, it's got a fairly high mana cost for what it does. The closest cards in magic would be ancestral recall and gitaxian probe. Gitaxian probe is a 0 mana draw 1, with a very minimal drawback of costing life, and additionally it let you look at your opponent's hand. It was banned, because every deck would just run 4 copies of and essentially have 56 cards instead of 60. Ancestral recall is a 1 mana draw 3, and much like pot of greed, has existed since the early days of magic when the creators didn't know how to balance things, and is one of the most broken cards ever made for the exact same reasons.
@@randombozo1306 you could try Eternal TCG. Mechanics is similar to MTG but devs are generous with free card and card packs.
Equivalent would be a 0 mana draw 2.
Surprised you didn't talked about Pot of Extravagance, is a nice way to draw cards for decks that don't rely on Extra Deck and for that reason it has more restrictions, it has to be at the start of the turn and it locks any more draws. Pd: I run necroface in some decks that don't rely on normal summon just to reset banished cards from pots, sometimes is worth it but is mostly a meme.
Thanks for watching!
I try to make my videos understandable to people who aren't familiar with the thing I'm talking about - so I avoided talking about the Extra Deck in this video, because you don't really need to know about it to understand how Pot of Desires works. Pot of Extravagance is another good example of restrictions that encourage creative deck building, though!
He showcases it briefly at 8:06 as a good (or noteworthy) card
The biggest down side to this card/strat is that if you run into a DD Dynamite deck, you will lose every time.
@@PenguinInPyjamas if that was the rout you took, then it's understandable. I was going to bring up cards that benefit from the Banished pile lol
@@epic8088 the cards are face down
Use desires, draw 2 desires, scoop, cry.
"If you banish a card face down you can't put if back into your deck"
Necroface:Hold my Beer
I was going to say that there must be some card that allows just that
@@glow262 virtual world nyannyan and psy-grame lord omega are probably more relevant cards that can interact with face down banished.
Pretty much anything that recycles banished cards without any restrictions on what kind of cards they have to be can do this. They aren't common but they do exist.
Don't forget D.D survivor who gets special summoned everytime you happen to banish it
This whole fucking game is just:
"My guy has an unbreakable forcefield!"
"Oh yeah well *my* guy can break through it!"
This is one of the most well wrote video essays on yugioh I've ever seen.
Only one problem, I still don't know what Pot of Greed does.
_NOW I USE THE MAGIC CARD POT OF GREED, WHICH ALLOWS ME TO DRAW TWO MORE CARDS FROM MY DECK !_
@@leophyte9663 that is what it do yugi
@@leophyte9663 Draw from where? from the top? from the bottom? and which deck?
avaricious ceramic jar enables the acquisition of multiple objects in a singular cast
Well alright here goes.
See, Pot of Greed has this effect...(bear with me now)
When you use Pot of Greed, you can acquire two new cards from your deck of cards.
Remember, it's your deck. Not the Graveyard. Your deck, alright? Good
My siblings and I played Yu-Gi-Oh (not knowing banned cards were a thing) about the beginning until shortly after the introduction of the Egyptian gods. Since we were young, we didn't have optimized strats and just found monster themes we liked and used spells/traps that worked with it. We definitely didn't understand the concept of how much power a larger hand had back then.
For example, since I was the only girl, I made a girly deck. I had things life Gemini Elf and used Graceful Charity instead of Pot of Greed.
I had a GBA Yu-Gi-Oh game at one point, and they didn't follow tournament bans either. They had Grandpa run an Exodia deck that had three sets and so many drawing cards. I did not fair well.
If you had to choose between Graceful Charity and Pot of greed, I'd argue Graceful is actually better.
...but why not just play both?
Gemini Elf is pretty good too, in the very early part of the game.
@Dhfa 10
I think my point was she was implying she wouldn't play Gemini Elf or Graceful if she wasn't playing a girly deck; which she should be playing anyway, especially Graceful.
Also, I think Pot of Desires is way better from a theatrical standpoint; if we think about the card from the standpoint of it being used in the anime it comes with way more stakes. Cards that have been banished and cards that have been drawn are predetermined, so it allows there to be some stakes put up at the simple use of a card. Of course you can do the predictable, they banish 10 useless cards, and draw the 2 they need to win the game... but I think the game you showed was a much more INTERESTING way to play the card in a dynamic moment in the anime. The card(s) they were looking for... was banished, but instead they drew two _different_ cards that are useful in a very _different_ way, as if the deck itself was saying "That's not what you want, this is."
They go to win a game that was thought lost, even from the viewer since everything went wrong, by simply "Trusting what the deck gave them."
You can have bad guys do the same ploy, always getting the cards they want, but then they get two cards they don't want and they get in a huff... only to be told how those cards truly _could_ have won if they simply kept an open mind.
Cup of Ace allows you to draw two cards
as long as you just get heads :] just get heads it's that simple
Believe in the heart of the... coins?
Just always win the coin toss 5head
heads always shreds
Bring the weighted coin/die
Don't do this you'll get banned
Second Coin Toss.
can we just appreciate kaiba's smooth hand motions and how he grabs his 2 cards?
I know right? What episode is that from
@@almasywinter1248 based on the background and the lord of D being behind him, it's probably during the duel with lector in the Noah arc. idk what episode # it is though
Or the fact that the guy after that scene drew 3 he ain’t slick I saws it.
@@showoofity50 that is what it do
Huh! This video just randomly showed up in my recommends, but explained the basics of a cardgame I only got one booster for as a kid AND why its biggest meme was such a disaster! Lovely editing too! Great stuff, hoping you're catching the video-essay bug, cause I'd enjoy more things in this style! :)
(Time to queue your other two videos!)
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Yea, it popped in my recommended today, and despite knowing the why it was banned, I didn't know that a double-strategy deck was possible, so I still learned stuff by watching it.
Yeah I don't even remember how I had a handful of cards. But it was so boring as a kid, I gave up. Videogames were more for me. Game Boy, Game Boy Color, SNES, Sega Genesis, N64, PlayStation.
I know next to nothing about Yu-Gi-Oh and have only played MtG when it comes to card games, this video had great pacing and the segments were short but engaging with a good amount of info to understand what was happening, great video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
(A couple of minor corrections in the video description)
What's YOUR favourite Yu-Gi-Oh card?
I’m starting to think it was limited cause the card became more accessible with the sacred beast structure deck and thus overtime became cheaper. And komoney being komoney wants more money and so limits it. And I think extravagance is in the newest structure deck and if so I wouldn’t br suprised if it gets limited as well.
I still completely understand why pot of greed should stay banned.
Dark Red Enchanter. First heart of the cards moment I ever had was when I managed to discard the L from my opponents hand after they had gotten out F I N and A due to me never drawing card destruction.
My favourite card is Dimension Fusion, but that card needs to stay banned forever unfortunately.
I would like Return from a Different Dimension return to 1, though.
Either Endymion the Mighty Master of Magic, Servant of Endymion, or Pot of Extravagance
2:41 I'm calling bullshit. I've seen the heart of the cards with my own two eyes.
I was playing against my brother and tired of constantly losing I decided to cheat. I needed to draw one specific card to more or less win the game, so i played a card that would make me reshuffle my deck and shuffled it in a way, that I was guaranteed to draw that specific card, which I did.
I was only one turn away from victory and the only way my brother could prevent his doom was by drawing one specific card (deja vu).
This was very early into the game so both our decks had like 40 cards still.
He looks at me, puts his hand on his deck, does the stupid heart of the cards speech and actually pulls the one fucking card he needs.
No cheating, just heart of the cards
😂
Dose anyone ever think about how Yugioh's most iconic card is probably its least played in the last 15 years because it has been and will always be banned?
like what percent of Yugioh players have ever naturally played Pot of Greed?
Oh also this is a cool video just subbed!
Some cards are like... easy to make fixes for, but Pot is so unique in how simple and elegant a function it serves it takes a long hard thing to how to "fix" this card without losing that same elegance without just reading badly
Thanks for watching!
when the yugioh anime aired in my country, i was 12 years old (im 30 now). i remember playing all these broken oldschool cards with my friends and once one of my friends told me they introduced the forbidden list. back in the day i was devastated, all my decks didnt work anymore haha
when we were kids pot of greed is just staple basic plus one no cost, even stupid kid knows thats op. almost all my frend use it those who dont just dun have it
@@jojoenathan yeah yeah we know that cause we are adults. but tons of players have to be kids. or young adults that started with like 5Ds long after Pot was gone
I really like the design of pot of desires, I like how they mixed pot of greed and pot of avarice, really nice touch
YOU NEVER SAW THIS COMING! I SUMMON POT OF GREED WHICH ALLOWS ME TO DRAW THREE ADDITIONAL CARDS FROM MY DECK! THEN I PLAY, MAGIC FORCE WHICH ALLOWS ME TO SUMMON POT OF GREED DRAWING THREE ADDITIONAL CARDS FROM MY DECK!!!!
That’s not what it does 🤓
@@kennypham6990 it does what it do
(Sorry for my bad english)
Something that i think should have been mentioned in the video are first turn kill strategies, like exodia, cannon solider, or gem-knight ftk
Even at 1 copy, pot of greed would make those strategies insanely more consistent, as they already run a whole of draw power, even if it means to use dead cards like blue-eyes just to have fuel for trade-in (wich let you discard 1 level 8 monster to draw 2 cards)
Those strategies aren't that consistent luckily, but i think it's interesting of how the new pot of greeds are balanced to prevent that
Pot of desires: banish 10 cards from your deck, as you said, banishing your key cards is incredibly dangerous, but even more in FTK combos, because they rely on specific cards to work, banishing only 1 piece of exodia completely shuts down the strategy
Pot of prosperity: banish 3 cards from your extra deck to excavate 3 cards from the top of your deck, or banish 6 to excavate 6. Look really powerful for FTK, but you can't use other draw effects during the same turn, making it a cards that exodia decks cannot even try to use, but it also halves both battle AND effect damage that your opponent recieves, meaning that burn focused FTKs, despite having more consistency, they would need to put a lot more of effort, and without more draw power, it's really easy to just run out of resources
Pot of extravagance: similar to prosperity, but in exchange of not halving the damage, it banishes the cards at random, so you can banish 3 cards to draw 1, or banish 6 to draw 2. It locks you out of more draw effects, and it has another restriction that makes it so you can only use it as the first card of your turn, meaning that you cannot summon the important cards from your extra deck before using it. This, alongside being blocked to draw more cards makes really hard to FTK by using it, as a lot of the FTK combos use extra deck monsters in one way or another, and you cannot risk banishing them, like with the exodia pieces, and banishing 3 to draw 1, for then being blocked of more draws, it's not worth it
Of course, there are other FTK strategies like simochi or banquet, but those are more gimmicky or only good in a best out of 1 format, and also, normal decks can be build around that, as they don't lock you out of searching effects, just generic draw power
Yeah, a big part of designing the new pot cards is making sure that you can't just slap a bunch of them into one deck
POD being limited hurt Gren Maju decks the most since banish is part of the wincon.
Normal summoning a 4000 attack Gren Maju Da Eiza is always funny
What's the odd of banishing your own Gren Maju?
@@phamquang7885 You play 2-3 copies so that if one gets banished, you have another in the deck
@@phamquang7885 Rule 1 of Gren Maju: When pot of desires is activated, there are only 3 places Gren Maju can be. In hand, 11th from top of deck, or 12th from top of deck.
You could play Extravagance, but the downside is that you dont get to thin your main deck and you potentially lose access to rank 8 shenanigans.
Just dont miss cup of ace
Gentleman's agreement that Cup always hits heads.
Ahhh, when cup of ace can't miss in duel links if you use Sartorius, it's basically pot of greed. It scares me
@@blastmole299 it was just a farfa meme buuuuuuut... yeah (rants about destiny)
@@thearrivalcyberseignister8898 Your meme just triggered my ptsd
But where do I draw the cards from? It never specifies. Can I draw two cards from my opponent's extra deck?
Magic the Gathering: "Yeah in the beginning of Development, we created a card called Ancestral Recall, you pay only one Blue Mana to draw three cards. It seemed like a good idea at the time."
Yu-Gi-Oh: "Hold my Beer."
9:34
A card that is banished face down is not truly removed from the game. A card that refers only to "banished cards" in general, such as Leanchoilia or PSY-Framelord Omega ("Once per turn, during your opponent's Standby Phase: You can target 1 banished card; return it to the GY"), can affect face-down banished cards. If a face-down banished card is returned to the Graveyard, it will be placed face-up in the Graveyard.
It's frankly incredible how good Omega is
I thought all graveyard cards were face up....
Yu-gi-oh: "drawing 2 cards= Broken as hell."
Magic the gathering: "hold my beer, nancy"
Because in magic you have to choose what to spend your mana on. If you want to cast a creature or draw cards or kill stuff it all costs mana. It's balanced. Yugioh on the other hand is so poorly balanced that if you draw an extra card it's considered broken lmao
P.S. this is coming from a yugi boomer
@@paperfart3988 there are literally thousands of combinations that make infinite mana in magic. I get it can be a limiting factor, but it is not always the case
@@steffensgary a 3 card combo that lets you draw 2 cards < drawing 2 cards with 1 card for free
@@MarkTheeuwes ancestral recall, draw 3 cards at instant speed, meaning even during your opponants turn.
Not to mention magic has the concept of counterspells, which just completely upends all strategery.
I have no idea how this video was reccommended to me, since I have nothing bur disdain for the trashfire game that ya'll are obsessed with
@@steffensgary do nit forget that Ancestral Recall also allows you to let somebody else draw 3 cards.
Honestly, I don't think I agree. POD is one of the more balanced POGs out there, but I never thought it was the Holy Grail of cards imo. Whether you argue if the Card is a +1 or a -9, the fact of the matter is that not every deck can realistically play it. Sure, many higher tier decks at the time and some lower tier decks could run it and be mostly fine, but it really hurts decks that can't afford to play POD that need consistency in their decks. God help you if you get ashed on top of that. Nowadays, it's either POE, POP, Allure (if your deck can run that) or bust. Which sucks :/
Absolutely, not every deck can play Pot of Desires - but deciding whether or not it's right to include in a deck is a very interesting choice for the player to have.
Pot of Extravagance and Pot of Prosperity also have interesting downsides that encourage creative deckbuilding.
@@PenguinInPyjamas that's the problem I see. It's not a choice for some decks because of their inherent design. Some decks only run 2 or 1 of something that they really need to do stuff with. You mentioned the clip of that Japanese Salamangreat player outplayed his opponent with his tech cards because he couldn't play on his turn. While impressive on its own, it only solidifies how detrimental the card actually is. And not everyone is lucky enough to play around stuff like that because their deck needs certain cards to even play.
@@fogblades6811 It's certainly not the holy grail of cards if you're talking about power level, but it does encourage creative deck building which, yes, inherently means not every deck can play it and that's the good point. What makes Pot of Greed (and other DM staples) so bad is that when building a deck back then, players would always start with ~10 good cards like Pot itself, Change of Heart, Delinquent Duo, etc., before filling out the rest of the deck. Basically the only difference between your deck and your opponent's is "only" the remaining 25-30 non-staple cards, and even then they weren't that different to begin with.
They make these youtuber videos as clickbaity is possible "heres the top ten reasons why your favorite card that is the best in the meta is actually TRASH" shit like that the use all the time to get you to click then try to justify their ridiculous opinions.
Like trying to say pot of greed is somehow a poorly designed card. Bro even UNO uses this card come on.
@@Kugrox You clearly missed the point of the video. Pot of Greed was poorly designed in the context of Yu-Gi-Oh. In a game where every card drawn can be immediately used for free, Pot of Greed is inherently unhealthy for the game.
Pot of Desires is a well-designed card, not because it is better or stronger than Pot of Greed, but because it is more balanced, and forces you to play the game creatively.
Sometimes I like to tell myself to believe in the heart of the cards every time I find myself in a corner, and the times where I draw a good card that helps me with executing my strat is an amazing feeling
Ok, my issue is the overabundance of search effects that aren't hard cap once per turn. this makes it so you basically have your entire deck to play with. It's why i like Rush duels, the Hard once per turn and the lack of chaining is just so good
Idk where you're getting that from. Almost all searchers in modern meta decks are hard once per turns.
The only relevant examples I can think of in recent times are Sky Striker's Engage and Drytron's Benten.
Both of which got banned or limited in some way specifically because they weren't hopt.
You forgot to mention that the effect is NOT draw 2 cards. It's "toss a coin, if heads draw 2 cards, if tails add 2 'Pot of Desires' from your deck to your hand"
I'm pretty sure the effect is banish 10 cards from your deck, your opponent activate ash blossom of joyous spring.
LMAOOOOOOOOOO
@@reisen9584 That's worth running in most rogue decks.
That would still be a very good card, you're raising the chances of drawing other cards from your deck, it could be used for exodia
@@kristyandesouza5980 yeah, exodia, a deck famous for having cards able to be thrown out and still complete their win condition
I remember the phrase used back then for banished cards were “Out of play”
I remember when this got recommended to me two months ago and had 2k views, I'm glad it got the recognition it deserved
Pot of greed is to powerful. Yet cards like runick fountain let me draw up to 3 cards every turn, even my opponents turn. And cast spells during their turn. And refresh my graveyard every time it activates.
Whenever I teach friends about YuGiOh, the first thing I mention is “there are only two resources. Board space and hand size. Everything else is aesthetic, especially the life total”
This games the most ridiculous combo farm imaginable and I love it for that
you forgot the GY, it's a 3rd ressource. You could sum it up as 1 ressource : cards
POD being limited is honestly surprising. A card that requires so much focus when deck building needs to be unlimited or fully banned. Building a deck with the requirements that Pot of Desires places on you without having somewhat reliable access to the card is hard to justify. The only decks that can make effective use of the card now are the ones who didn’t care about the cost to begin with or actively benefit from it. Examples being, Gren Maju, who wants cards banished, and Virtual World, which has one of the few cards that can cycle face down banished cards back into the deck.
Yeah, a single copy of the card probably isn't going to justify the deckbuilding cost for a lot of decks
Well it's not that pod actually one of the card that helping your deck by just discarding card you don't want multiple (namely hand trap or multiple engine starter ), and with 60 pile recently people running rn with adventurer DP scythe stuff the cost became more and more profitable rather than draw back, I mean I agreed no one see that 60 pile meta rn before but I kinda nice to see card that make pile profitable less outrageous to deal with.
@@vo1ce147 pile decks wouldn't run desires even if it was at 3. they trade consistency for power and that means playing mandatory bricks that you musn't banish.
even if the chance to banish 1 specific card is very low... when you have 5-10 specific cards you don't want to banish, you're not dodging them reliably.
@@vasilboev1383 that's why pot of prosperity it's so popular right now. It let's you choose what cards you banish from the extra deck, and let's you dig deeper into your deck for whatever card you need, even if you only get one card. It's less card economy over all but can potentially get you that starter or combo piece you need.
A lot decks were just playing naturally and Konami hates those kinds of cards running around everywhere
I don't play it anymore, but watching this video feels so nostalgia, and decided to scroll through my stuff again and still found 3 copies of pot of greed, lovely video 😉
Åååääääååå
Almost as many comments as subscribers. Nice!
I remember playing yugioh ages ago. I had a three blue eyes white dragon deck because kaiba had that. I never won.
Awesome video.
Thanks for watching!
Luckily for you, I don't think Konami is going to stop making new Blue-Eyes cards any time soon
you’d be getting 2 blue eyes white dragons, wing flap of a dragon, and 2 call of the haunteds in ur first hand and lose in 2 turns it would be so tough😭😭😭😭
I thought Yu-Gi-Oh was a fever dream I had as a child. Nice to know it actually exists.
in the end Konami is going to print so many pot variations that every deck has one they can run without it hurting the deck too much. Might aswell release a pot of greed with once per turn clause
Card: if the solar alignment of the sun, moon, and jupiter is 24 degrees or more than deal 20^5-7 to the card to the left of the hyperwarp spacedrive then negate all damage dealt to the crafting bench if the hyperwarp is less than half charged and then deal 5 damage to a card for every solar flare this turn
Players: perfectly normal
Card: draw 2 cards
Players: ITS TOO OP AND COMPLEX!!!
pot of greed gives you one more card to destroy the enemy with
0:25
Why don’t they explain where to draw two cards from? I infer it lets you draw two cards that are sitting at the bottom of your deck but anyone’s guess is as good as mine. 😥
I hope one day we’ll know what Pot of Greed does for sure.
You don't draw from the bottom of the deck stupid.
You draw with pencil and paper :P
Sorry but are you stupid? No disrespect but isn't it obvious that you draw 2 cards on a piece of paper from memory? Do they literally have to spell it out for your kind (imbeciles)?
Time to draw 2 cards from my opponent's Extra Deck :^)
So basically, that guy in the champion match brought 2 nukes with him. Just in case the first one missed.
“Ok we’re making a card game we need a spell card to help draw cards.”
“Just make it draw two cards what can go wrong?”
Could do with a break down of all the pots up to current, even the niche ones or maybe the evolution of the hand trap
I know nothing about YGO proper, just the memes. So I knew Pot of Greed allowed you to draw 2 cards and that it was banned, but I didn't have any other understanding. This video perfectly summed up what I needed to know about the game to understand why pot of greed was so powerful.
It is powerful indeed, but the guy is exaggerating, it is nowhere near being the most powerful Yugioh card, and one quick glance at the banlist can tell you that.
@@dagothcharles2044 While Pot of Greed alone may not be the card that wins you the game, it would be an automatic include in *every single deck* at however many copies are legal at any given time.
And successfully resolving it against an opponent who didn't draw their copy or got it negated means you basically won right there.
I'd say that constitutes for calling it one of the most powerful cards of all time.
These captions are incredible! Thank you for the effort!
I'm glad you find them helpful!
Retrained Pot of Greed : Continuous Spell Card
Draw 2 cards.
Your opponent draws 3 cards on their next draw phase.
If this card is added to your hand by a card effect; banish 2 cards from your hand or take 8000 damage.
They still don't know what good balance is
Card design in general has improved a lot - but every now and then they still go and print cards like Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon...
@@PenguinInPyjamas Anaconda was the problem card, avoiding the red-eyes fusion restrictions just by summoning 2 monsters, wich every deck can do.
@@PenguinInPyjamas But even then Dark Dragoon brings up an interesting discussion of how a card can be super broken in the OCG and just good in the TCG.
@@deproissant different format different playstyle is essentially the best way I can put it
honestly your underated
Meanwhile in the Pokémon TCG using hop, barry, Friends in Galar etc. (Draw three cards) is a terrible draw support card 💀 while there are cards like professors research that let u draw seven (but u discard your hand for that) or cynthias resolve where you can draw cards until u got five cards in your hand or until u got eight if a monster got knocked out during your opponents last turn.
Crazy how different the value of one card seems between Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokémon TCG
Pot of Greed in Pokemon is Bill before it got changed to be a Supporter card, it's extremely broken in Pokemon too.
Also I feel like Desires would probably be a good card in Pokemon too, if it worked the same way.
The reason modern draw cards in Pokemon don't seem so strong is they're all Supporter cards rather than Item cards.
"pendulum summon"
what's a pendulum summon
"I AM NOT EXPLAINING PENDULUM MONSTERS"
oh, ok.
WayneRadioTV: "You'll never saw this coming! I SUMMON POT OF GREED TO DRAW 2 ADDITIONAL CARDS FROM MY DECK!"
Psy Frame Lord Omega and Paleozoic Leanchoila can technically put back face down banished cards into the graveyard which makes me really like those cards but they are very niche interactions since one is a extra deck monster that requires resource investment and the other is a trap card that needs to be set first
The fact that it’s an extra deck monster makes it easily more accessible than anything else. The extra deck is the easiest place to Simon monsters from.
@ 0:31 dude drew 3 cards instead of 2
Idk, sometimes it feels like the heart of the cards is real. For my opponents anyway..
Right? Just like that one time when they have 3 Solemn Judgment or another time when they have 2 Revolt.
@@phamquang7885 I always seem to get judgement used against me for some ungodly reason
Yeah, any Hearthstone player could tell you how busted a 0 mana draw 2 neutral spell would be.
I'm just now realizing that the Pot Carving from backpack heroes is why I'm getting this video. It literally does exactly what it does in Yu-Gi-Oh and it's even part of a pretty major exploit where you can thin your deck to the point where all you get are more pots and zero-turn-use items and kill every single enemy that comes up against you before the round even begins.
To be fair back in the old days of yugioh, when pot of greed was first added there wasn't the card combos we have today so drawing 2 cards wasn't as broken still really good but not completely ludicrous.
Nah, it was absolutely ludicrous and the game would have been better without it.
I agree. Also, back then the game was a lot slower compare to now. You needed cards like pot of greed and graceful charity to speedup the game.
That's not how resources work. Even if Pot of Greed only drew 1 card instead of 2, every single deck would run three copies, because it freely replaces itself at no cost so it's effectively like running a 37 card deck. The fact that it freely not just replaces itself but even gets an additional card on top of that means that no matter the meta, no matter the speed of play, every single deck would run as many copies as possible because there's literally no cost and only upsides. Having a copy in your opening hand isn't just powerful, it's effectively starting the game with one extra card in hand compared to your opponent.
@@yewchungREMIX your points are taken but we’re talking about an era when decks aren’t that consistent and was a lot harder to get to your best cards. As the person mentioned above you, the game was way slower than today. Today you have almost every deck having near complete consistency with a lot of deck searchers, basically there are so many easier ways to get to your best cards without need of draw cards like pot of greed. But back in the early days of yugioh, building a consistent deck was challenging and you definitely needed those draw cards like pot of greed. Yes those cards are dangerous in today’s standards but it was not dangerous back then because of the challenging game environment at those times.
@@maravilla3x476 Doesn't matter. It's a two player game, if one draws pot and the other doesn't it's way too unfair.
This sort of hard once per turn restriction is really really common on modern yugioh cards.
Me looking at my flower cardians
Yup. Totally. Everything is once per turn. Totally not only one card. Lots of once per turn.
Starts excessively sweating.
Imagine playing flower cardians...
I recall when Pot of Desires was first revealed, my friend at the time and I laughed cause we were more casually minded players and didn't think of the card from a competitive standpoint, assuming no one would be willing to give up a quarter of their deck for a draw 2. Many years later and the egg is still on my face lmao.
As for how I see it now, I wasn't the biggest fan of it as I preferred having my resources available and the risks of not only banishing the 1-ofs but also just giving up those 10 cards felt a bit too steep for me. And then I began to play True Draco to ladder in Master Duel. Now I just roll with it and I'm less against it than I was. Somewhat prefer Extrav and Prosperity though nowadays given you can sack Extra Deck cards easier than MD cards.
My deck works around banishing everyone’s cards and saying “actually nevermind” and just play the banished cards anyways
something i like about pot of desires its how its penalty could be flipped to be the advantage, if played correctly and paired up with cards that gain from having banished cards like golden homunculus i think you could make quite an interesting deck
That's pretty much actually a modern application for desires, though instead of "golden homunculus" people play "gren maju da eiza" along with other cards that banish such as "Eater of millions", "Gizmel Orochi" etc.
@@darealclownpeice yee i was thinking of gren maju at first but i couldn't remember his name!
Gren Maju is a very funny deck. You watch the opponent setup their board, then you banish your entire deck facedown and Normal Summon a dude with 40k attack to crash into someone.
@@skeletonwar4445 need that in master duel im sick of mfs otking me and countering my normal summons
@@elis6836 You can just run some of these stupid broken going 2nd cards like Dark Ruler No More, Droplet, Kaijus, Sphere Mode, Lava Golem, Duster, Lightning Storm, Pankratops, Alpha, Superpoly, etc.
Wait for them to establish their whole ass board, then say "No lol" and eat it for breakfast.
Pot of Desires is very powerful too, it's effect gives Topologic Zeroboros +2000 ATK
True, the extra cards are just a bonus
thanks for fully explaining why pot of greed was broken. every time someone said that it never made sense even if their response was "because drawing 2 cards is really good". like that i can understand but that doesnt explain why it was *broken*. pointing out that there is no cost or limit to the cards you can play really made it clear why its was so strong.
I'm glad the explanation made sense!
imagine the creator of PoG's face when they say that PoG is "stupid" and "overpowered"
Like " :O, it just lets u draw 2 cards my guy."
how come you didn't mentioned jar thief, don't get me wrong having it ready when your opponent would play pot of greed would be slim but mentioned of the trap card designed to counter pot of greed should be mentioned
Pokemon: Ah, a draw 7 card, this is perfectly balanced.
Yu Gi Oh: draw 2 is too powerful, ban it.
Never thought a card like this could be so good in any card game. Usually extra card draw can be very flexible and if you have nothing left, a few more cards can make your turn matter. However I never thought it would ever be so broken like this. In Pokémon more cards can allow you to give energy to a Pokémon if you didn’t have it in your hand, otherwise you could’ve missed out on launching a heavy attack. In nova island there’s a coin system (similar to mana system of hearthstone) and towards late game you could be getting 10 coins a turn but only being able to play one card with abs card draw, screwing you. In yu gi oh however, More cards doesn’t just mean more options, it means more ‘pieces’ on the board ready to demolish the life points
And generally can end games as well. One extra monster, or one extra removal, and you can open up lethal
"If they're banished face down, they're removed from the game"
Ledger of Legerdemain: Allow me to introduce myself
And Psy-Frame Omega
Good ole Virtual World Nyan Nyan's banish effect
And Orcust deck
7:58
Pot of Generosity + Mystical Refpanel. A funny combo. Causes your opponent to return two cards instead
Mystical refpanel has some goofy interactions that single handidly win the game if you manage to pull it off, unfortunately its too slow and janky
To elaborate on "Searcher Effect" (or Tutors as they're called in MtG which is where I'm drawing experience from):
Tutors are more consistent than raw card draw. With card draw you still run the risk of not getting the tools you need to make a play. With Tutors, you can draw exactly what you need as soon as you hit the tutor. And from a probability standpoint it effectively allows you to double the chances you hit the card you need. Whether it's because you can only have 1 copy of the card or only use 1 copy of the card. You now have the chance to draw into the card you're actually looking for, or the tutor which can get it to you anyway.
Thought a straight draw 2 for no cost is bonkers in any game. Even MtG doesn't have something like that without an insane mana cost to get it out that makes it usually not worth using.
Like I have a "big brother" to Pot of Greed in one of my desk: Harmonize.
For four mana you draw 3 cards. Considering you get 1 mana per turn (assuming you have one to play, and/or you don't have a way to bypass that restriction). This means you could get 3 extra cards 4 turns into the game, and even than that's your entire turn.
So yeah, card draw is still good, just when used properly, as the video explained. But tutoring is usually much, much better.
I've never had a problem with this card. I personally don't understand banning cards. Some cards are just better than others
"You can't just play a magic card and draw more cards in one turn"
"SCreW dA ruLez I hAve MonEy"
great video, as a magic player you explained everything that needed to be explained incredibly well, allowing someone like me with little experience in the game to still understand the importance and legacy of pot of greed that, *looks at writing on arm* smalls 2 bards
Thanks for watching! I'm glad it made sense
I always wanted to try a game where everyone is forced to have 3 pots of Greed in a tournament and see what it does to the rng. Could be fun.
The person that draws the most pot wins.
I think POD got limited because of the trend with running 60 card decks of recent. In a 40 card deck banishing 10 facedown can be a serious issue, but in a 60 card deck it doesn't have anywhere near the same impact.
No? The 60 card pile decks wouldnt even use desires of it was at 3, 60 card piles decks are playing a lot of one ofs that they don’t want to banish. Imagine banishing your celestial or dasher, the whole dpe engine just becomes dead
I think it's more of the fact that when you have a deck of extenders it doesn't matter how many you banish as long as you get to set up that otk/8 negates play.
@@dgayle2348 this
60 deck card strong thank to the That Grass Looks Greener and you dont want to bannish is out of you deck...
@@anghainguyen9951 Do you live in a rock
After they banned nearly every card from the yugioh TV series and "effect timing," I had to give up on card game. Petin the dark clown (when this monster card is sent to graveyard from field by battle, search deck for a Petin the dark clown and special Summon to field). Then ruling came out, so now the effect is only activated when Petin the dark clown is the LAST monster to be attacked.
"We can't allow players to draw 2 cards with one card at no cost! That's way too overpowered! Now lets get back to finding new ways to spam the entire field with overpowered monsters on the first turn, completely lock down your opponent with your opening hand, and win the game on your opponents turn"
-Konami probably
There's a pair of cards that actually let you reuse the face down banished cards, but you can count them with your hands, and I could say *you'll still have unused fingers*
Gizmeks (:
If you've ever played Ascension you may be familiar with the Enlightened group of cards, which comprise a quarter or so of all hero cards and are mostly themed around drawing cards with little cost. If you've never played Ascension, this sounds super broken, but the twist is that you and your opponent effectively play with the same deck and take turns buying cards to put in your personal deck. Any broken strategy you can use is also a broken strategy your opponent can use, and the other three groups of cards (or four if you count monsters) are kinda broken in their own unique ways, balancing things out. This just goes to show that context is everything.
Also if you like Yu-Gi-Oh and haven't played Ascension you should play Ascension. It kicks ass.
I'm not familiar with Ascension, but I do like a good deck building game!
It makes me wish YuGiOh had an actively supported draft format
@@PenguinInPyjamas IIRC there’s a free version of the base game on Android and iOS, if you wanna check it out. From there you can get into some of the weirder versions for a couple bucks each.
I always feel uneasy activating pot of desires.. banishing 10 random cards from your deck is so harsh
It's funny how a card with simple effect can be exploited so hard it's banned 4ever, while the same effect to Pokemon TCG doesn't.
Sekka's Light was always an interesting card to me, it completely locks you into it being the ONLY spell/trap you can use as the cost of a draw 2 effect... And Konami still felt it was too powerful to be run at more than 1.
Sekka's Light is one of my favourite cards, I think it's got a really interesting drawback.
It's sad to see it limited today
To this day it was a very weird hit because the card was not played in any top tier deck although it saw a couple of tops.
@@Dhaydon75 it was definitely played in top tier decks
@@GuitarBloodlines like the highest I can find is a WCQ top 16 using it in a crusadia thunder dragon deck.
The closest mulligan you have is magical mallet, reload and hand destruction 😅 but that too relies on luck
Ngl magical mallet be saving my ass in certain decks
Pot of green, the Black Lotus of Yugioh
Loved this video. Really interested to see more from you! Great style and flow. Subscribed!
Thanks for watching!
So, if unrestricted just put 33% pot of greed into your deck and you might be able to draw the whole deck and get a turn one win. In practice, put 40% pot of greed and you get a turn one win.
Every single CCG in existence has at some point had a simple "draw this many cards" card that had to later be nerfed because card advantage is too important. Magic the gathering, pokemon cards, you name it. This isnt a case of the people making yugioh cards being historically bad at designing or balancing. It's just part of the natural growth cycle and progression of any CCG.
Can’t think of one for hearthstone. Our “draw 2 cards” is arcane intellect and it’s always been fair at 3 mana
@@Emperorhirohito19272 Damn, almost like Hearthstone is a way newer game that had decades of TCG balancing knowledge to draw from when designing their cards.
(And they still didn't do it perfectly. I'm just gonna say Pirates.)
@@skeletonwar4445 bro said every one in existence. What you said is true, but it doesn’t mean what I said was false
“They’re gone for good”
Necroface: Am I a joke to you?
No joke, but when I would duel as a young boy, when I REALLY NEEDED a certain card, I copied the faith placed into my deck that I saw in the show, and, believe it or not, I remember VERY well, that it NEVER failed me. I would spend hours on end creating the most strategically sound decks, dueling against them one on one, attempting HARD to win as each deck, playing how I would if I didn't know the other cards the opposite deck has, and I found no matter how many different tournaments or individual duels or party duels, one after the other after the other after the other, I found the best opponent to give me a REAL challenge was myself. My parents were FAR from rich, but they did buy me a SHIT load of cards, so I had a pretty damn good selection to choose from. I'd make my deck with the question in mind, can this one card turn the duel around if I draw it? 🤔 and I was good. Really good 🤣🤣 I eventually was known so well people would DEMAND they shuffle my deck instead, and I'd always allow them to, and cut it as many times as their hearts desires, 💕 and I'd mop the floor with them during the days when you would put up your best card for the duel, or a tleast a good card. Never lost one card, except to a younger guy who was losing and being bullied, I handed him an entire deck of sweet cards, taught him a few tricks ,and he won ALL the cards he lost, plus some. Let him keep the deck, and looking back those cards NOW would be worth a nice penny. First edition on card sleeves and all. Lol don't want to sound to ego is its just nostalgia, and sadly the game nowadays is SO Different, but duel links is fun af
haha pot of desires limited
To be fair I don't think anyone saw that hit coming
Well because it is basically pot of greed for most decks .
There's a reason you only get one summon a turn, aside from special summons. THAT was the limiting factor instead of lands, mana or energy cards. Back when the game was made, special summoning was *special*, making the summon limit effective.
So in my opinion, all of this special summoning unbalances the game so much
And searcher effects just takes a lot of the suspense out
I love the way you say the card name “Po’ o’ Greed” 🤣
A couple months ago on yugioh master duel, I used pot of desires in my blue-eyes deck and it banished all 3 copies of blue-eyes and my only copy of dragon spirit of white. From that day on, I never used that card again and replaced it with cards of consonance 😑😑🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
Why would you actually used it though 😂. Banishing cards are dangerous if your deck doesn't rely on banishing in its team
@@pauloazuela8488 looking back at it, you're absolutely correct! Just needed a +2 due to extreme cases of bricking. The banish effect didn't affect me all that bad back then. However, it took me that one specific incident to make me fully abandon that card. Never again 😅🔫
@@pauloazuela8488 as a side note regarding the danger of banishing cards being dangerous if your deck doesn't rely on them being banished, if my understanding of that card is correct, then pot of desires is brutal even for decks that rely on banishing cards cuz pot of desires banishes those cards *facedown* which I'm pretty sure negates banishing effects (correct me if I'm wrong if you've discovered otherwise)
@@magaming7853 You're still absolutely right. The card was just there to mock you 😂. I hate that card
@@pauloazuela8488 😭😭