Fun fact about Insect Queen in the manga: Unlike in the anime, Joey never bothers to use her like he does with Jinzo (whose ability was always useful) or Legendary Fisherman (who in the manga was a four star monster and easier to bring out).
The thing i always found weird about insect queen was they talk about it's eggs hatching in the anime. Both Weevil and Joey suggest those eggs can give birth to a new monster but there's no card to suggest it.
Like, can you imagine if there was a Continuous Spell that, if an Insect Egg Token survived your opponent's turn, turned it into an Insect Soldier Token that had a similar ATK gain effect as Insect Queen for your entire field? Like, _During your Standby Phase, you can Tribute any number of "Insect Egg Tokens": Special Summon the same number of "Insect Soldier Tokens" (EARTH / Insect / Level 4 / 1200 / 1000) that have the following effect. •All Insect monsters you control gain 100 ATK for every Insect monster on the field._ If the Spell doubles as an Insect-locked DNA Surgery clone, it also makes the "Weevil vs. Joey" strat more consistent. For the curious, assuming the maximum number of these Tokens, and Insect Queen herself, loading up 5 of your Main Monster Zones, all 4 Tokens would be 3200 ATK, and the Queen would reach 5700 ATK. This is without accounting for the Extra Monster Zones, or your opponent's board.
In the manga they hatch after being summoned, 1200 atk 0 def. it also didn't have the tribute to attack effect, darn shame how much they butchered some cards in the org/tcg.
Insect queen was always one of the dumber early cards to me cause in a limited format all you can really do is just wait around until you can attack on your next turn whereas an opponent van get out a blue eyes or dark magician that can easily attack over it unless the field is flooded with insects
Insect queen's unnecessarily high rarity back then made pretty much everyone ended up pulling it in packs(e.g. Beginners Edition 2) which lead them trying to somehow _use_ it. I recall nobody who carried THAT out successfully.
@@soukenmarufwt5224 I like that the anime hypes terrible cards. Because it would be boring just seeing the meta cards from real life in the anime all the time.
I remember over a decade ago, my brother and i misread the effect text thinking that Insect Queen could tribute any monster on the field, including the opponent's, and incorrectly assumed that it was super overpowered. Hoo boy was it a wakeup call when we found out how wrong we were.
Late Tag Force games's early game NPCs actually have quite effective or deadly strategies to deal with unprepared decks - unless you're going with easy mode.
@@realpatriot1769 i tested it, it does really good at making a llteral invincible queen, in gimmick banlist like master duel legend anthology events i can tell they are pretty cracked
@@smicklou3297 My favorite card in all of Yugioh is Exodius the Ultimate Forbidden Lord. Duel Logs finally talking about it would be a dream come true.
@@agustin12689 There's a Dzeff video about the Exodia retrains which is pretty good, although it's a few years old by now so doesn't include the newest Exodia support.
Speaking of White Night Queen: I'm really annoyed that they still haven't made an actual White Night archetype. Like White Night Dragon is pretty decent and I like the whole ice aesthetic.
Fushioh Richie is a fun target for „A wild monster appears“ as its flipping mechanic allows it to bypass the downside of said spell card and thus it remains on the field. I would argue that this makes it much better than the majority of the cards on this top 10 list, since it can fit easily into a deck that has numerous targets for „a wild monster appears“ and most of the other 9 monsters have worse effects and stats or require more gimmicks to bring them out alternatively.
I love Fushioh Richie despite how bad of a card it is. I really like the flavor of a wizard doing a thing in order to become a lich is a cool concept. I could see retrains of the two like make Fushioh Richie an extra deck card and the summon condition be something that is actually achievable in the modern game. IDK maybe its just that it reminds me of the flip mechanics in MTG cards transforming under the right conditions is cool.
(9:01) Metalizing Parasite - Soltite isn't a retrain of Lunatite they're just a small series and technically Metalmorph cards (per their Japanese name) which actually makes sense since they're "Metalizing" a monster just like Metalmorph does (they're basically a metal version of Venom). Lunatite is the living version of Rare Metalmorph (gives spell protection) and the new Enhanced Metalmorph (released last month in JP) gives the monster the protection from both Soltite and Lunatite.
I swear if Wall Shadow had Shadow Ghoul's effect of gaining 100 attack for every monster in your GY along with switching to defense position after every attack, it would have been much better for such an early boss monster, in fact idk why it doesn't have Shadow Ghoul's attack gain effect when Wall Shadow literally is Shadow Ghoul but traversing through the walls of the magical labyrinth
My guess is that it was just an unfortunate effect of early card designers trying to decide how to make cards from the early anime before the game rules had actually been written. But doing the bare minimum due to not being overly creative with their effects.
I still love the original Shadow Ghoul because it got me my most clutch win ever in the old GBA Eternal Duelist Soul game. My opponent had 3000 LP and a monster out, while I had nothing in my hand, 100 LP left, and just one card left in my deck. I drew it and it happened to be Monster Reborn, which I used to revive Shadow Ghoul with 4600 ATK, and attacked over his monster for game.
Soltite feels like it's one cheat out option from being incredibly good. Just a way to bring it out during a combo, and bam, some really good free monster protection.
Worm Victory is one of those cards which really annoy me because they describe a concept not associated with the card art itself. It’s like how Mammoth Graveyard isn’t a Graveyard and how Ice Water isn’t Water.
It does the "V" for victory though and it's effect was intended as a win condition. Flip it to clear the opponent's board and attack with high ATK gained through Worms in GY to win. Also all Worms have a different letter of the alphabet as the first letter of their name. Apocalypse, Barses, Cartaros, Dimikles, Erokin, Falco, etc. so V for Victory was just too good not to use as a name.
No mention of Jeff Leonard using Flare Neos in his Exodia deck? In that deck, Flare Neos is not only a Warrior-type that you can Instant Contact to churn out to make Isolde with, but it being FIRE also allows Renaud to SS itself from hand for the crucial two Warrior-types material to start the combo
I actually kind of liked Insect Queen, i just liked how gross it was in the anime. It eats monsters tributed rather then them just being destroyed, it lays eggs in a way that make it look like it's taking a dump and the monsters it destroys turn into goop
I loved the design of *Humanoid Worm Drake* so much, I tried my best to build a deck around it hehe always lost but it felt like an accomplishment every time I managed to summon it.
I love the idea and art of Fushio Richie, being a spellcaster that can turn into a lich. I'd love to see a retrain of Fushioh and Dezard to see what they could do in 2024 with such a concept
This is just me messing about with random decks but I've found that if you play around summoning Worm Zero with future fusion (as unlikely as it is to pull off), Worm Victory comes out as an even bigger beat stick than worm Zero itself, it becomes a sort of plan B if you can get it out of the GY if you used it as fusion material.
If anything the only card that will see potential meta play is the new Light one as a generic extender for many decks to insulate combos vs Nibiru. New support doesnt help much for the actual deck.
4:08 Retrain idea for this card to make it easier to summon AND turn it’s “Cannot be Special Summoned” bit into an advantage: _White Knight Queen_ (LIGHT) Level 7 Fairy/Effect _Cannot be Special Summoned. You can Tribute Summon this card by Tributing 1 Facedown monster from either player’s field. If this card is Normal or Flip Summoned, you can take 1 Monster that cannot be Special Summoned (From your Hand, Deck, or GY): Add it to your hand, Shuffle it into your deck, or Send it to your GY. Once per turn (Quick Effect), You can target 1 Facedown card on the field: Destroy that target, and if you do, apply 1 of the following effects._ _⚪️This card can make an additional attack in a row per battle phase during the next turn declares an attack._ _⚪️Draw 1 card._ ATK/2100 DEF/800
@@a1rg3ar31 I know I know, but A: I’m not sure if 10 retrain ideas would even _fit_ in a single comment, B: If they DID a lot of the response comments would probably be like “Ah HELL NAH I AIN’T READING ALL THAT!”, and C: The one comment would probably just get lost in the sea of the videos others. Even if I put them as replies to the first one of these I made people would only read the first comment.
Nice video, but I don't think "Humanoid Worm Drake" should have been on the list. Everyone can agree that Normal Fusion monsters (of any level) are completely terrible and a complete waste of resources (except in some niche strats), you can literally make an entire list of just Normal Fusion monsters. So, taking a spot is kind of redundant IMO.
I always liked insect queen, but really hate what they did to her. I wish they made some kind of strategy around her, like giving her a tree born frog who restricts it's after she it's it. Or a field spell that gives you buffs for the tokens. Also my man worm Drake making it to finals! First ever fusion monster I tried to summon
One thing that was missed with worm victory is that having to tribute 2 monsters for it also makes it an incredibly obvious play when one of the only advantages of a flip effect is the surprise factor.
I use to use the og metalizing parasite in my water deck Mother Grizzly > MP > legendary ocean > Terrorking Salmon. It was either used for tribute fodder, or to protect my larger cards like fissure, hammer shot etc.
When I saw this in my recommended, I was half expecting one of my favorite archetypes to get dumped on. Rein-Beux Overlord of Dark World's effect is really niche, being that his effect exclusively bounces him when being discarded from GY by an opponent's effect, and his row destruction effect only activates AFTER he's successfully special summoned off his own effect. But modern support has made him more viable, so I'm glad the list recognizes that there are other 7's far more scuffed.
Kinda surprised that Regenerating Rose didn't get a Yubel Retrain like with Grave Squirmer, Samsara Lotus, and Grinder Golem. Like, let it float on any destruction into letting you add a Yubel or a card that mentions it to your hand. And knock that defense down to 0 while we're at it.
I put Humanoid Worm Drake in my Ra deck as fodder and I’ve been going down this rabbit hole about slime cards lol. I’m just happy to see one of my favorite YuGiTubers speak on it. They need to retrain Slime cards and make it an archetype immediately. It would have so much potential in this current state of the game. Something refreshing in having an OG monster rather than some random hentai girl as artwork with overpowered effects.
another negative of white night queen it that at the end of her effect say "that target" which means that set card have to be set when her effect resolve.
What was messed up about that Waking the dragons flashback is after Weevil & Rex got beat up, a stray dog lifted it's hind leg at them. I think we all know what that implys
I remember playing in a progression series server that started from the very first set. Once in a while, we would do a no-banlist tournament and the first one was on the release of IOC. Everyone did Chaos or Scientist shenanigans, but I went the route of stun, and funny enough Metallizing Parasite Lunatite was a key part of the combo. Send a monster from the field to GY (Nuvia the Wicked or Boar Soldier), activate Last Will to get Parasite, Metamorph into Last Warrior, profit.
16:40 AND in the original manga, it didn't need to sacrifice a monster to attack (though to be fair, neither did Joey's Panther Warrior). It was hinted that the tokens had another effect too, but Weevil never got a chance to use it.
I remember playing the Yu Gi Oh Worldwide Edition game on GBA against Weevil, who played Insect Queen. The Queen had 2600 attack, courtesy of another Insect on his side, so he attacked my Summoned Skull - only to lose 200 attack and suicide bomb into it.
A slight correction about Flare Neos: the highest potential attack it can have only by its own effect should be 11300. This due to there being several trap monsters that are still treated as traps when summoned as monsters. So if Flare Neos is summoned to a ED-zone and all other spaces on the field (except the other ED zone) are filled with Spell/Traps and trap monsters that are still treated as traps, then his attack is: (24x400)+2500=11300 I hope this inspires someone to make a Flare Neos OTK
Regenerating Rose is just so bizarre to me. It really feels like they were planning on replacing the anime effect with something else because they felt it was too overpowered due to being Special Summonable, but then mid-way their attention shifted to something else and they completely forgot to ever look back, just releasing it unfinished as a result. Because it just feels so unfinished with only that 2x tokens effect.
The silliest part of Fushioh Richie is that it mentions unnecessary details on its summoning condition instead of just saying "must be Special Summoned by the effect of Great Dezard".
9:43 I don't know.... the fact that its minimum a Giant beatstick that you can easily summon from Neos Fusion should at least make it the number 10 of the list 18:34 Bakura has a line with this?
Humanoid Worm Drake should get a modern Retrain to Egyptian God Archetypes; like how God Slime turned into the 3 Sacrifices. While we continue talking about slime, Konami should finally print Mad Dog's (GX) Slime cards. Imagine a Egyptian God Deck with a Hand destruction x Burn Deck. This would definitely bring the God's to a Higher Tier in the current Meta. Edit: The Burn Strategy is an Ode to Yami Marik's sadistic play tactics.
Funny thing, I tried to make both Wall Shadow and Allure Queen work. With Wall Shadow, I kicked it out of my deck after a couple losses due to back to back brick hands. Allure Queen came closet to decent with cards like A Forces and Razz helping the Guards. Unfortunately, a lack of proper support made Allure Queen difficult to play.
@@il3fortunato664our lord and savior is making his triumphant return. Poseidra just had to get a retrain in response to what the Fire Kings (the Atlanteans’ biggest rivals) got
He wasn't exactly the best duelist. "My Revival Jam + Jam Defender combo means you can't attack. So now, I activate Nightmare's Steelcage so you can't attack even more than you already couldn't while it also prevents me from attacking, muhahahaha!"
I'd say you're half wrong about Allure Palace and Golden Allure Queen being currently unreleased since they were released this June in the OCG, but haven't yet in the TCG. In the OCG they got them in Animation Chronicle 2024 which if I recall correctly typically has it's cards imported in the TCG in Battles of Legend sets, I'd say they'll probably get released in the June-August 2025 for the TCG.
Weird thing about cheating out Humanoid Worm Drake within Phantasm Spiral is that Fists of the Unrivalled Tenyi could also summon, like, Gagagigo the Risen or if you needed a Fusion for whatever reason there's also Aqua Dragon though due to that being a McDonald's Promo with no reprints it's slightly less dirt cheap.
6:11 Idea to retrain this card to make the “Victory” part more apt: _Worm Victory - Violence_ (LIGHT) Level 7 Reptile/Flip/Effect _FLIP: Destroy all Face-up Monsters on the field, except “Worm” monsters._ _Can be Normal Summoned/Set by tributing 1 Reptile monster. ”Worm” monsters you control gain 500 ATK/DEF, and can make additional attacks per battle phase, for each Reptile monster in your GY. If a “Worm” monster you control attacks a defense position monster, inflict piercing battle damage. If a “Worm” monster you control destroys an opponent’s monster by battle, or directly attacks your opponent: You can Normal Set or Special Summon facedown 1 “Worm” monster from your hand or deck._ ATK/0 DEF/2500
Wall shadow could've been good, it's effect just needed a few tweaks: - it can attack using it's 1600 points of atk while being on defense position - if it destroys a monster by battle it can attack again - if it is in your hand when you activate magical labyrinth, it returns itself to the deck and you draw two cards And even with all that extra advantages, it still wouldn't have seen competitive play, it just would've been good for fun, gimmick focused decks.
Humanoid Worm Drake deserves some credit for actually being as strong as the sum of its parts. If you look at almost every other fusion, they're way weaker than the combined ATK of their materials.
The number one spot may be bad but come on man, it’s so cool.😅 when I first saw this card I was like damn this is cool until I read the effect. However, I like how it basically references how a Lich is made and how it’s basically an undead king striving for immortality.
You use Future Fusion on Worm Zero or Snake Rain to get Worm Victorys stats up its one of best ways to clear monsters in a worm deck so to good for this list.
The labyrinth wall episode of the show was my favorite episode, and so I've always been attached to the card. It sucks that it sucks so much. I've always wanted to use it?? EVER?? And I haven't been able to use it ever. :(
I have a strategy with fusihoh richie that won me a local tournament. You see, i took the card, and i placed it in the garage can, and by filling that spot with a different card, it allowed me to take first place. Would recommend.
Funny thing is, back when i barely know how to play yugioh, i used to get hard stuck against Joey's insect queen deck. I had 80 cards in my deck and it's full of 2000 def walls, so i used to think that his deck was unbeatable. Now after i understand english (it's my third language) and statistics, insect queen deck become so easy. I barely lose to joey anymore even when he's on the highest level
Drake, the type of guy to transform into a level 7 humanoid worm
How to ruin a card ☠️
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I mean, he’s not like us 😂.
Dune reference
Fun fact about Insect Queen in the manga: Unlike in the anime, Joey never bothers to use her like he does with Jinzo (whose ability was always useful) or Legendary Fisherman (who in the manga was a four star monster and easier to bring out).
The thing i always found weird about insect queen was they talk about it's eggs hatching in the anime. Both Weevil and Joey suggest those eggs can give birth to a new monster but there's no card to suggest it.
Like, can you imagine if there was a Continuous Spell that, if an Insect Egg Token survived your opponent's turn, turned it into an Insect Soldier Token that had a similar ATK gain effect as Insect Queen for your entire field?
Like,
_During your Standby Phase, you can Tribute any number of "Insect Egg Tokens": Special Summon the same number of "Insect Soldier Tokens" (EARTH / Insect / Level 4 / 1200 / 1000) that have the following effect.
•All Insect monsters you control gain 100 ATK for every Insect monster on the field._
If the Spell doubles as an Insect-locked DNA Surgery clone, it also makes the "Weevil vs. Joey" strat more consistent.
For the curious, assuming the maximum number of these Tokens, and Insect Queen herself, loading up 5 of your Main Monster Zones, all 4 Tokens would be 3200 ATK, and the Queen would reach 5700 ATK. This is without accounting for the Extra Monster Zones, or your opponent's board.
In the manga they hatch after being summoned, 1200 atk 0 def. it also didn't have the tribute to attack effect, darn shame how much they butchered some cards in the org/tcg.
The token is the egg
Insect queen was always one of the dumber early cards to me cause in a limited format all you can really do is just wait around until you can attack on your next turn whereas an opponent van get out a blue eyes or dark magician that can easily attack over it unless the field is flooded with insects
Insect queen's unnecessarily high rarity back then made pretty much everyone ended up pulling it in packs(e.g. Beginners Edition 2) which lead them trying to somehow _use_ it. I recall nobody who carried THAT out successfully.
Made cause anime writers don't know how to make a good monster that's not just a big stupid beater.
Not to mention constantly hyping up terrible cards
@@soukenmarufwt5224 I like that the anime hypes terrible cards. Because it would be boring just seeing the meta cards from real life in the anime all the time.
At least she got a retrain in Metamorphosed Insect Queen, which is downright decent (and by decent, I mean you could use it without being a burden)
I remember over a decade ago, my brother and i misread the effect text thinking that Insect Queen could tribute any monster on the field, including the opponent's, and incorrectly assumed that it was super overpowered. Hoo boy was it a wakeup call when we found out how wrong we were.
2:05 - I never noticed Slifer was standing in that shot. That just looks weird.
Goddammit, I’ll be having nightmares about this now
Wait he does?
WTF?
I cannot unsee that now
"Look at my little legs! They support me giant-ass body somehow! I don't know what a center of gravity even is!"
Oh my god look at it's tiny freaking legs! That's hilarious
I tried to make an Allure Queen deck in one of the Tag Force games. That deck can't even beat early game NPCs, it genuinely hurts to play
At least the new Allure cards look pretty good.
God I miss those games, animations, and npcs
Late Tag Force games's early game NPCs actually have quite effective or deadly strategies to deal with unprepared decks - unless you're going with easy mode.
@@realpatriot1769 i tested it, it does really good at making a llteral invincible queen, in gimmick banlist like master duel legend anthology events i can tell they are pretty cracked
Are we going to ignore the fact that Insect Queen, who is an *insect,* apparently has breasts like a mammal?
Not at all I am observing them... respectfully.
Princess, too.
Weirdos
I’ve been trying to ignore that with all of my might.
I hope they're, like, an eggsack
Amazing video. Hope one day you make a video about Exodia Retrains.
This.
@@smicklou3297 My favorite card in all of Yugioh is Exodius the Ultimate Forbidden Lord. Duel Logs finally talking about it would be a dream come true.
@@agustin12689 There's a Dzeff video about the Exodia retrains which is pretty good, although it's a few years old by now so doesn't include the newest Exodia support.
@@nyecrozier8663 I saw that vídeo. But I like Duel Logs videos better. Dzeff is still one of the Best Yugioh youtubers arround
okay
Speaking of White Night Queen: I'm really annoyed that they still haven't made an actual White Night archetype. Like White Night Dragon is pretty decent and I like the whole ice aesthetic.
Not like "White Knight" exists to cause confusion.
Well, Fushioh Richie activates it's effect when flipped face-up, meaning it DOES trigger when flipped face-up by an attack.
how about a video where you go "cards that would be good if you could ignore their summoning condition"
hey, I second this!
Good idea!
"And at number one we have Holactie the Creator of Light."
I would also want to see a list of "The best/worst cards if you could replace "if" with "when" and vise versa.
@@alexanderrobins7497 would be great aswell
finally a video that mentioned wall shadow being impossible to summon if you drew thats what really makes it so terrible
Fushioh Richie is a fun target for „A wild monster appears“ as its flipping mechanic allows it to bypass the downside of said spell card and thus it remains on the field. I would argue that this makes it much better than the majority of the cards on this top 10 list, since it can fit easily into a deck that has numerous targets for „a wild monster appears“ and most of the other 9 monsters have worse effects and stats or require more gimmicks to bring them out alternatively.
I love Fushioh Richie despite how bad of a card it is. I really like the flavor of a wizard doing a thing in order to become a lich is a cool concept. I could see retrains of the two like make Fushioh Richie an extra deck card and the summon condition be something that is actually achievable in the modern game. IDK maybe its just that it reminds me of the flip mechanics in MTG cards transforming under the right conditions is cool.
(9:01) Metalizing Parasite - Soltite isn't a retrain of Lunatite they're just a small series and technically Metalmorph cards (per their Japanese name) which actually makes sense since they're "Metalizing" a monster just like Metalmorph does (they're basically a metal version of Venom). Lunatite is the living version of Rare Metalmorph (gives spell protection) and the new Enhanced Metalmorph (released last month in JP) gives the monster the protection from both Soltite and Lunatite.
I swear if Wall Shadow had Shadow Ghoul's effect of gaining 100 attack for every monster in your GY along with switching to defense position after every attack, it would have been much better for such an early boss monster, in fact idk why it doesn't have Shadow Ghoul's attack gain effect when Wall Shadow literally is Shadow Ghoul but traversing through the walls of the magical labyrinth
My guess is that it was just an unfortunate effect of early card designers trying to decide how to make cards from the early anime before the game rules had actually been written. But doing the bare minimum due to not being overly creative with their effects.
@zaleost that actually does sound about right
I still love the original Shadow Ghoul because it got me my most clutch win ever in the old GBA Eternal Duelist Soul game. My opponent had 3000 LP and a monster out, while I had nothing in my hand, 100 LP left, and just one card left in my deck. I drew it and it happened to be Monster Reborn, which I used to revive Shadow Ghoul with 4600 ATK, and attacked over his monster for game.
Metallizing Parasite Soltite and Freezing Blast have some of my favorite artworks in all of YuGiOh
Soltite feels like it's one cheat out option from being incredibly good. Just a way to bring it out during a combo, and bam, some really good free monster protection.
Worm Victory is one of those cards which really annoy me because they describe a concept not associated with the card art itself. It’s like how Mammoth Graveyard isn’t a Graveyard and how Ice Water isn’t Water.
Frog the Jam
@@williamdrum9899 this one is more excusable because its name could be Frog and it is indeed a jam
@@Dr.Livingdarkit isn’t frog
@@Deathmare235yeah but maybe frog is a name, a surname even.
It does the "V" for victory though and it's effect was intended as a win condition. Flip it to clear the opponent's board and attack with high ATK gained through Worms in GY to win. Also all Worms have a different letter of the alphabet as the first letter of their name. Apocalypse, Barses, Cartaros, Dimikles, Erokin, Falco, etc. so V for Victory was just too good not to use as a name.
At least White Night Queen can be searched by Cyber Angel Benten in Ritual decks
Make sense. Both alexis's carf
No mention of Jeff Leonard using Flare Neos in his Exodia deck? In that deck, Flare Neos is not only a Warrior-type that you can Instant Contact to churn out to make Isolde with, but it being FIRE also allows Renaud to SS itself from hand for the crucial two Warrior-types material to start the combo
Did you read the title? No with this is about at all.
I actually kind of liked Insect Queen, i just liked how gross it was in the anime. It eats monsters tributed rather then them just being destroyed, it lays eggs in a way that make it look like it's taking a dump and the monsters it destroys turn into goop
"Her boobs are censored. Which means someone somewhere is turned on by this. And i don't balme them"
Cyber Laser Dragon deserved to be on the list lol
I loved the design of *Humanoid Worm Drake* so much, I tried my best to build a deck around it hehe always lost but it felt like an accomplishment every time I managed to summon it.
Fushioh Richie is one of my favorite old cards.
Forever held back by how bad Great Dezard was.
It has such dope artwork, and I absolutely love Liches.
I love you duellogs please dont die
I love the idea and art of Fushio Richie, being a spellcaster that can turn into a lich. I'd love to see a retrain of Fushioh and Dezard to see what they could do in 2024 with such a concept
This is just me messing about with random decks but I've found that if you play around summoning Worm Zero with future fusion (as unlikely as it is to pull off), Worm Victory comes out as an even bigger beat stick than worm Zero itself, it becomes a sort of plan B if you can get it out of the GY if you used it as fusion material.
Wall shadow should have at least have the ability to attack while in defense position.
A Wild Monster Appears!? Gets Nosferatu Lich on the Field and he switch himself facedown to Evade the suffle into the Deck
Allure Queen at least got support in the OCG. Just gotta wait for it to hit the TCG to play around with.
If anything the only card that will see potential meta play is the new Light one as a generic extender for many decks to insulate combos vs Nibiru. New support doesnt help much for the actual deck.
4:35 "there's no getting around those 2 tributes" i see what you did there DuelLogs...
4:08 Retrain idea for this card to make it easier to summon AND turn it’s “Cannot be Special Summoned” bit into an advantage:
_White Knight Queen_ (LIGHT)
Level 7
Fairy/Effect
_Cannot be Special Summoned. You can Tribute Summon this card by Tributing 1 Facedown monster from either player’s field. If this card is Normal or Flip Summoned, you can take 1 Monster that cannot be Special Summoned (From your Hand, Deck, or GY): Add it to your hand, Shuffle it into your deck, or Send it to your GY. Once per turn (Quick Effect), You can target 1 Facedown card on the field: Destroy that target, and if you do, apply 1 of the following effects._
_⚪️This card can make an additional attack in a row per battle phase during the next turn declares an attack._
_⚪️Draw 1 card._
ATK/2100 DEF/800
The ideas are appreciated, but you don't need to make so many individual comments, y'know.
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I know I know, but A: I’m not sure if 10 retrain ideas would even _fit_ in a single comment, B: If they DID a lot of the response comments would probably be like “Ah HELL NAH I AIN’T READING ALL THAT!”, and C: The one comment would probably just get lost in the sea of the videos others. Even if I put them as replies to the first one of these I made people would only read the first comment.
Mr Duel Logs why did you neglect to mention Neos Fusion in the Flare Neos section??
Nice video, but I don't think "Humanoid Worm Drake" should have been on the list. Everyone can agree that Normal Fusion monsters (of any level) are completely terrible and a complete waste of resources (except in some niche strats), you can literally make an entire list of just Normal Fusion monsters. So, taking a spot is kind of redundant IMO.
Yeah mine as well include slot machine and stone dragon if we're counting normal fusions.
I always liked insect queen, but really hate what they did to her. I wish they made some kind of strategy around her, like giving her a tree born frog who restricts it's after she it's it. Or a field spell that gives you buffs for the tokens.
Also my man worm Drake making it to finals! First ever fusion monster I tried to summon
After watching these videos, I always want to try making them work in MD, something wacky to throw at friends or casual match.
One thing that was missed with worm victory is that having to tribute 2 monsters for it also makes it an incredibly obvious play when one of the only advantages of a flip effect is the surprise factor.
I use to use the og metalizing parasite in my water deck
Mother Grizzly > MP > legendary ocean > Terrorking Salmon.
It was either used for tribute fodder, or to protect my larger cards like fissure, hammer shot etc.
When I saw this in my recommended, I was half expecting one of my favorite archetypes to get dumped on. Rein-Beux Overlord of Dark World's effect is really niche, being that his effect exclusively bounces him when being discarded from GY by an opponent's effect, and his row destruction effect only activates AFTER he's successfully special summoned off his own effect.
But modern support has made him more viable, so I'm glad the list recognizes that there are other 7's far more scuffed.
Say what you will about Great Dezard, but damn he looks cools as hell. God I hope he gets a retrain.
I know this might be weird to say, but your voice is so good to hear
Kinda surprised that Regenerating Rose didn't get a Yubel Retrain like with Grave Squirmer, Samsara Lotus, and Grinder Golem. Like, let it float on any destruction into letting you add a Yubel or a card that mentions it to your hand. And knock that defense down to 0 while we're at it.
I put Humanoid Worm Drake in my Ra deck as fodder and I’ve been going down this rabbit hole about slime cards lol. I’m just happy to see one of my favorite YuGiTubers speak on it.
They need to retrain Slime cards and make it an archetype immediately. It would have so much potential in this current state of the game.
Something refreshing in having an OG monster rather than some random hentai girl as artwork with overpowered effects.
another negative of white night queen it that at the end of her effect say "that target" which means that set card have to be set when her effect resolve.
The intro alone was enough to remind me of how much I despise kashtira fenrir.
This situation is _not_ ice cream.
What was messed up about that Waking the dragons flashback is after Weevil & Rex got beat up, a stray dog lifted it's hind leg at them. I think we all know what that implys
It's been written in the ancient books that anybody who can make a competitive Fushioh Richie deck will unlock infinite power and wisdom...
I guess that one Phantasm Spiral player did not have access to Aqua Dragon for its 50 additional attack lol
I remember playing in a progression series server that started from the very first set. Once in a while, we would do a no-banlist tournament and the first one was on the release of IOC. Everyone did Chaos or Scientist shenanigans, but I went the route of stun, and funny enough Metallizing Parasite Lunatite was a key part of the combo.
Send a monster from the field to GY (Nuvia the Wicked or Boar Soldier), activate Last Will to get Parasite, Metamorph into Last Warrior, profit.
Bro said worm victory and I remembered the rescue rabbit series what a throw back
16:40 AND in the original manga, it didn't need to sacrifice a monster to attack (though to be fair, neither did Joey's Panther Warrior). It was hinted that the tokens had another effect too, but Weevil never got a chance to use it.
I remember playing the Yu Gi Oh Worldwide Edition game on GBA against Weevil, who played Insect Queen.
The Queen had 2600 attack, courtesy of another Insect on his side, so he attacked my Summoned Skull - only to lose 200 attack and suicide bomb into it.
After 15 years I just now learned that Magical Labyrinth was the labyrinth reforming itself and not a diamond fence
18:58: I feel a bit chuffed because that one popped into my head. But I'm not alone, aren't I?
You could hypothetically use Melodius to get it out with one sacrifice I meant White Night Queen
A slight correction about Flare Neos: the highest potential attack it can have only by its own effect should be 11300. This due to there being several trap monsters that are still treated as traps when summoned as monsters. So if Flare Neos is summoned to a ED-zone and all other spaces on the field (except the other ED zone) are filled with Spell/Traps and trap monsters that are still treated as traps, then his attack is:
(24x400)+2500=11300
I hope this inspires someone to make a Flare Neos OTK
Regenerating Rose is just so bizarre to me. It really feels like they were planning on replacing the anime effect with something else because they felt it was too overpowered due to being Special Summonable, but then mid-way their attention shifted to something else and they completely forgot to ever look back, just releasing it unfinished as a result. Because it just feels so unfinished with only that 2x tokens effect.
9:53 why flare neos here at 6? It honestly be at 9th consider you can instant contact it out.
The silliest part of Fushioh Richie is that it mentions unnecessary details on its summoning condition instead of just saying "must be Special Summoned by the effect of Great Dezard".
Humanoid Worm Drake has a sick design. I had no idea it was in the anime
I remember trying to make a deck around White Night Queen, back in the day.
"But this is not ice cream" was funnier to me than it should've been 😂
Instant contact and flare neos goes great into Kashtira, Red-Eyes galaxy tomahawk shenanigans. He’s great.
9:43 I don't know.... the fact that its minimum a Giant beatstick that you can easily summon from Neos Fusion should at least make it the number 10 of the list
18:34 Bakura has a line with this?
Humanoid Worm Drake should get a modern Retrain to Egyptian God Archetypes; like how God Slime turned into the 3 Sacrifices. While we continue talking about slime, Konami should finally print Mad Dog's (GX) Slime cards.
Imagine a Egyptian God Deck with a Hand destruction x Burn Deck. This would definitely bring the God's to a Higher Tier in the current Meta.
Edit: The Burn Strategy is an Ode to Yami Marik's sadistic play tactics.
3:53 Card games in general. I find it one of the draws of MTG commander
Funny thing, I tried to make both Wall Shadow and Allure Queen work.
With Wall Shadow, I kicked it out of my deck after a couple losses due to back to back brick hands.
Allure Queen came closet to decent with cards like A Forces and Razz helping the Guards. Unfortunately, a lack of proper support made Allure Queen difficult to play.
My favorite Level 7 Monster:
Poseidra, the Atlantean Dragon
(I love him so much, I have him as a 1 of in my Atlantean/Mermail deck)
I have a Shark/Atlantean deck, Poseidra is the Boss Monster with Shark Drake. I can't wait for the new support!
@@il3fortunato664our lord and savior is making his triumphant return. Poseidra just had to get a retrain in response to what the Fire Kings (the Atlanteans’ biggest rivals) got
>Marik/Strings makes a deck focused on stalling and card drawing.
>Goes -4 by the end of his second turn.
He wasn't exactly the best duelist. "My Revival Jam + Jam Defender combo means you can't attack. So now, I activate Nightmare's Steelcage so you can't attack even more than you already couldn't while it also prevents me from attacking, muhahahaha!"
I'd say you're half wrong about Allure Palace and Golden Allure Queen being currently unreleased since they were released this June in the OCG, but haven't yet in the TCG. In the OCG they got them in Animation Chronicle 2024 which if I recall correctly typically has it's cards imported in the TCG in Battles of Legend sets, I'd say they'll probably get released in the June-August 2025 for the TCG.
Wall Shadow. Well back in my playground days nobody cared about Wall Shadow's effect. We play it as if it was a normal tribute monster.
I love how a vanilla fusion monster that has no effects is sort of the best on this list.
Weird thing about cheating out Humanoid Worm Drake within Phantasm Spiral is that Fists of the Unrivalled Tenyi could also summon, like, Gagagigo the Risen or if you needed a Fusion for whatever reason there's also Aqua Dragon though due to that being a McDonald's Promo with no reprints it's slightly less dirt cheap.
Insect queen felt like great moth part 2 as a kid. One of the coolest cards youll never even come close to doing anything with
You know it's a sad day for Worms when their arguably best monster makes this list.
Fun fact : Worm Drake can be "considered" as Worm archetype since Worm archetype can target any reptile-type Worm monster
If you haven’t yet can you do a top 10 worst machine type monsters? Also if you do I think metalzoa would be a good addition to the list.
6:11 Idea to retrain this card to make the “Victory” part more apt:
_Worm Victory - Violence_ (LIGHT)
Level 7
Reptile/Flip/Effect
_FLIP: Destroy all Face-up Monsters on the field, except “Worm” monsters._
_Can be Normal Summoned/Set by tributing 1 Reptile monster. ”Worm” monsters you control gain 500 ATK/DEF, and can make additional attacks per battle phase, for each Reptile monster in your GY. If a “Worm” monster you control attacks a defense position monster, inflict piercing battle damage. If a “Worm” monster you control destroys an opponent’s monster by battle, or directly attacks your opponent: You can Normal Set or Special Summon facedown 1 “Worm” monster from your hand or deck._
ATK/0 DEF/2500
Wall shadow could've been good, it's effect just needed a few tweaks:
- it can attack using it's 1600 points of atk while being on defense position
- if it destroys a monster by battle it can attack again
- if it is in your hand when you activate magical labyrinth, it returns itself to the deck and you draw two cards
And even with all that extra advantages, it still wouldn't have seen competitive play, it just would've been good for fun, gimmick focused decks.
18:12 They had us in the first half NGL.
Top 10 RUSH Duel retrains
No Slot machine?
REALLY?
Humanoid Worm Drake deserves some credit for actually being as strong as the sum of its parts. If you look at almost every other fusion, they're way weaker than the combined ATK of their materials.
Worm Victory looks like a fusion of Goro & Kollector, while covored in blood
You should make a video of the 10 worst cards in general. I’m curious what the worst of the worst are.
The number one spot may be bad but come on man, it’s so cool.😅 when I first saw this card I was like damn this is cool until I read the effect. However, I like how it basically references how a Lich is made and how it’s basically an undead king striving for immortality.
You use Future Fusion on Worm Zero or Snake Rain to get Worm Victorys stats up its one of best ways to clear monsters in a worm deck so to good for this list.
Fushioh Richie seems like Konami's Jinzo sub when they put him on limited/semi-limited status
The labyrinth wall episode of the show was my favorite episode, and so I've always been attached to the card. It sucks that it sucks so much. I've always wanted to use it?? EVER?? And I haven't been able to use it ever. :(
Make a top 10 rarest combinations of type and atribute. Great top TDL.
I have a strategy with fusihoh richie that won me a local tournament. You see, i took the card, and i placed it in the garage can, and by filling that spot with a different card, it allowed me to take first place. Would recommend.
Waiting for the worst of lv 10
Funny thing is, back when i barely know how to play yugioh, i used to get hard stuck against Joey's insect queen deck. I had 80 cards in my deck and it's full of 2000 def walls, so i used to think that his deck was unbeatable.
Now after i understand english (it's my third language) and statistics, insect queen deck become so easy. I barely lose to joey anymore even when he's on the highest level
I'm surprised that White Veil's artwork made it through the US.
At #10 I was about to say...we don't tolerate any Egyptian god slime slander around here
I'm shocked he put allure queen here even tho it just gotten support making it playable now
Flare Neos is the most commonly used Contact Fusion Monster in the GX anime.