@@okita_souji_alter yea but not errata'd and not currently banned. So it be wrong to say all the banned/errata'd synchro monsters - "explaining all the synchro monsters which were banned at 1 point ft. Borreload Savage" would be right .. i think
The reason Konami keeps making broken cards without a "once per turn" clause is because when the founders created the company, they forgot to put the restriction "only create broken cards once per turn".
That was the thing with card design in early Yugioh. Once per turns were rare in the earliest history of the game likely because there was no need at the time. Then we got soft once per turns and the once per duel thing with Twin-Headed Behemoth which ended up becoming a rulings nightmare which resulted in an otherwise non-broken card getting Limited. Soft once per turns weren't really resetable either. They made Synchros broken as early on because they wanted to push the new game mechanic given how Fusions weren't really broken or even good as a whole for that matter except with Thousand-Eyes Restrict which was sorta broken with Metamorphosis and then Instant Fusion.
The 5DS era was basically the only time I REALLY played this game, like getting cards IRL and travelling to tournaments. And as this list shows, it was quite the wild ride 😌
The fact that 3 ice barrier synchro monsters are on this list really shows how impressive there extra deck monsters are compared to the main deck. Also I don't know if you already did this but can you do a list on the best non generic xyz monsters
Man, i consider that they are from a series of extra deck monsters. The Ice Barrier archetype isn't worth of such power and the difference between the Dragons and the rest of the archetype is stunning
@@nabkill0134 Yeah, the lore of Ice Barriers was just human sealed off these insanely powerful dragons from one generation to another. And Dewloren was like the Holy Beast that protected those seals or something. In the new support card artwork you can see Dewloren got wrecked by Trishula tho. It's kinda spotted on considering Dewloren got once per turn nerf while Trishula is just as strong as ever while also having a new upgrade form lol
Duel Terminal lore has it that the Ice Barrier dragons were these uber-powerful creatures that took a lot of effort to seal away. And they were only released one by one to fight off the invasion of the Worms. Trishula was the last seal, and it f-ed up the Worms. But now the Duel Terminal tribes (Dragunity, Ice Barrier, Mist Valley, -tellar Knights, and some others) have a new problem: the Ice Barrier dragons are free again.
If Borreload Savage Dragon is at the bottom of the list, you know it's going to be interesting. It will never stop being hilarious to me that most of the main deck Ice Barriers are garbage, yet they've had one Extra Deck monster that didn't spend time on the ban list. And the one Extra Deck monster they have didn't serve time is still good. I'm starting think that when Yugioh tries to implement something new, it's either not worth the time (original Fusions) or straight busted (early Synchros and Links).
I remember playing water decks from chaos era to syncros. People were always confused why and I just loved water. Then one day brionic and deep sea diva came out along with my favorites like abyss soldier and premature burial and other combos it was crazy and my water decks got way overpowered very quickly. And abyss and brionic were great counters to other syncros at the time
I'll be honest, including an example clip for the more complex card explanations is an amazing idea for more casual duelist like myself that just don't care about the meta enough to learn these things. I could learn it on my own in 10-30 minutes or I can get the jist from an example.
One thing I love about Synchros is that they seemed to make lower level monsters more valuable because they could be used as Material. I feel like before Synchros came out, monsters were judged based on their level, among other factors. Great video, by the way!!
The card "Denglong, First of the Yang Zing" should've definitely been in this list. You can summon it with completely generic material and it can search an counter trap with Omni-Negate ability. And when Denglong leaves the field, you can summon a monster from your deck.
It was originally going to be in 10th place, but I thought Borreload Savage dragon was better. The omni negate it searches is only live while Genglong is on the field, and the card it summons from the deck on its death is only a yang zing monster, so you have to play a garnet outside of yangzing decks if you want its floating effect to be live. Its still good, but theres a reason its unlimited in the OCG with no problems.
@@TheDuelLogs after i watched the video and thought critically about the commentary, tempest magician should have been a #10/ honorable mention and denglong should have been placed on the list through your own criteria: an ftk enabler is only as powerful as the engine that facilitates the ftk
@@Gaddict9 i think same logic for ancient faerie dragon here. Without the OP field spell cards then it won't be on this list. And that ftk engine is really really insane if at full power. Since this list is "all time" then it should be really taken into account with the engine just like ancient faerie dragon with whatever OP field spell card konami shits out next.
Sucks to be one of the OG Ancient Fairy Dragon crew though. "Oh man, this card has so much potential!" "You don't say? Well here is a bunch more cool Field Spell cards..." "Aw sweet, its time!" "Aaand, it's banned." " :\ "
Theres a solid rogue deck in duel links at the moment that revolves around using junk convertor and junk synchron to go into junk warrior -> stardust dragon (or junk destroyer). A skill unique to Yusei and the recent release of Tuning makes this very consistent. Theres the added benefit that with summoning stardust dragon, the skill let's you summon formula synchron for free so you can go into shooting star dragon Thats one of the decks main plays. The other play is to use quickdraw synchron and mill/discard Olion or use Junk forward to go into Junk Destroyer
@@SnorticusClavicus True, I mean a free Junk Synchron target and Formula Synchron. Not to mention the deck restrictions to use the skill isn't a problem since the cards in those archtypes are pretty good in their own right.
Awesome to see 3 Ice Barriers on here! I love the new main deck support that was released for them recently as well. They need more negates though lol.
I started playing the game in the Synchro Era (2011) and I was wondering why cards like Brionac, where you need to discard so many cards, were considered good. I couldn't understand how easy it was to abuse these effects. By the way, Dark Strike Fighter was super easy to obtain, being in a Starter Deck. I remember all of my friends had one in the Extra Deck, but almost never summoned it
@@Deathmare235 With old Priority, when you summon a monster you can activate it's effect before your opponent can respond so in Brionac case when you bring it out you can immediately use its effect before your opponent could activate Trap Hole for example
@@bdf1006 Basically. Or in modern terms, a standard ignition effect could be used as if it were a quick effect with old priority. Good times. Though no longer having it made stuff like Bottomless Trap Hole better than it already was.
I will still not get over the delicious irony that Ruka/Luna - the Signer with the least amount of screen-time, is the one whose Signer Dragon became so ludicrously busted that it's banned. Maybe the Dark Signers really were onto something when they had Ancient Fairy's card under their grasps.
I ran Fish FTK at 2011 Nats. The deck used TG Hyper Librarian to continue drawing cards as you managed to summon three Formula Synchron, three Dewloren, a Brionac, and eventuality loop the same Trishula 5 times using a combination of Brionac's effect, Symbols of Heritage, Level Eater, and Dewloren's effect. And then the ending board gets ready to do it again on the opponent's turn with Formula Synchron. I just love how all of those components were mentioned in this video!
@@JungleRice Dude, same. It always pains me how cards like halqifibrax can be printed and used for ages, but the current meta just can't handle a card from 2009 can't be at one copy per deck. Too powerful.
I've been waiting for this day to come. Synchros are my favorite types of cards so seeing this made me happy. Also can you do top 10 best and worst XYZ monsters.
Funny how the ice barrier archetype is so bad but it’s synchro monsters were so incredibly broken. Maybe they did that for that reason. Otherwise probably everyone would have ran an ice barrier deck in the day.
God, I hope Ib comes back. As a World Chalice player since Links started, she was a godsend. Really boosted consistency and gave the deck access to synchro plays (which usually resulted in Borreload Savage tbh). Sadly, I think the only way she’s come back is if they changed her summoning conditions to include a WC monster to stop her from being completely splashable
I still remember when I was in Middle School, when Brionac was released for the 1st time, I got it from a $3 dollar pack and immediately put it in my Chaos Monarch deck. good times
Probably the greatest irony was that Dark strike fighter was less broken in the anime than in the actual card game with the anime effect being: Once per turn, you can Tribute 1 monster, except this card, to inflict damage to your opponent equal to its Level x 200. If you activate this effect, this card cannot declare an attack.
At 12:00 , you say the really good field spells started in 2016 with union hanger , but i think it was 2 years earlier with Kozmotown... Also no Denglong , Yang Zing of the DInosaurs on the list pains me greatly... Although to be fair , this list should have been a top 15 , so many broken Synchros
Windwitch made it easy to summon but outside that, some deck has to jump over 2 fences to go for it, so yeah not that broken especially when it is partially useless against Link and XYZ.
@@dexterion5940 yes, but if you are able to make crystal wing or borrelload savage dragon and have a link monster in your GY you are mostly gonna make borrelload, but you can make borrelload in many situations, other then crystal wing.
Brionac is one of favorite synchro monsters in Duel Links; it so powerful when combined with other monsters that can special summon themselves from the GY to win through an OTK. Duel Links has starting life points at 4000.
Maaaaate, seeing Tempest Magician on this list made me remember when I built my spellcaster counters deck (from scratch; didn't have much for structure decks). She was one of my favourite cards ever, and I ended up losing her in a house fire recently :(
Had a pretty consistent karakuri build with tempest magician that added the counters using the discard effect. The drawing potential of karakuri's is crazy
Basically: Ib gets kidnapped by Mekk-Knights, then gets possessed by Lee, then killed by her childhood friend, and when she finally resurrects she hits the banlist. Poor Ib, give her some love
Original Dark Strike Fighter was so easy to OKT with. Summoner Monk+Cat+ mind control or 2 Gravekeeper spies+cat into 2 Dark Strike Fighters is lethal, because atracking with 2 2600s and burning for 2800 is 8000. It was really easy to set up turn 1 or 2 and the spells/traps back then were easy to hate out.
The fact that 4 of the top 10 synchros are from an otherwise bad archtype, whos lore is all about summoning the all powerfull ice dragons to prevent a world ending apocalyps, is the most thematicly correct yugioh has ever been.
I still find it hilarious how full power world legacy basically didn’t happen because girsu the orcust mekk knight was released after ib was already banned and that guy was basically designed to turbo that card out
Started playing in the DM era and quit during GX. I came back during the Synchro era and remember all these meta defining cards and combos. Black Rose + Goyo + Dark Strike Fighter, scoop; Six Samurai with Gateway and 3 x Legendary Shi en with triple spell and trap negate; Plant Synchro with 3 x Formula Synchron that resulted in easy 1 -2 Shooting Star Dragon on field for game.
Top 10 parody cards. Top 10 cards based on other Konami games. Top 10 special conditions in the games. Top 10 anime/manga exclusive cards. Top 10 cards that newcomers shouldn't use. More Rescue Rabbit, please.
Brionac was somewhat balanced by the fact that drawing/searching was incredibly limited in the Synchro era. Pot of Duality was very popular but it forced you to not make any Special Summons, Allure of Darkness was limited, etc. Discarding 2-3 cards was a steep cost and if the 2300 ATK Monster was removed you would be left in a bad position with little chance to recover as even Monster Reborn was banned and Call of the Haunted was limited.
I love the dragunity archetype. Ascalon is a beast and Ahreadbhar is even better because it can negate monster effects. I only just realized that Dragunity combined with Ancient Fairy Dragon would be a power house if Ancient fairy wasn't banned lol.
Honestly master rule 4 has to be one of the worse decisions ever made just for how it impacted not just previous designed cards but also how it forced new cards to have to compensate in order to ensure that people didn’t just quit the game because their favorite summoning method was thrown in the bin for links. Fuck needlefiber.
What’s hilarious about Dark Strike Fighter isn’t just the FTK potential but the fact that you can just easily go into it, attack a bunch, then sac everything off for a win in pretty much any deck. If you thought “Cowboy for game” was a big thing then hoo boy. Both nerfs to it are extremely necessary despite the sad fact that they also make it generally unplayable.
Borreload Savage would be a main deck monster with 0 ATK & DEF that requires 2 specific monsters to be destroyed at the same time to summon itself and equip any monster from your GY if it was made in the Duelist Kingdom era. And it'd still see play.
Somehow out of all the archetypes, ice barrier is the one who receives the most broken synchro monster lineup, while the main deck ice barriers can hardly afford to summon any of them consistently before their new support. Also pretty funny how the least broken ice barrier synchro, Gungnir, is actually the most useful in its own archetype. Self-bouncing does nothing for ice barrier and they can't afford the cost most of the time, so Dewloren and Brionac might as well not be ice barrier monsters, and Trishula is too hard to summon consistently for ice barrier. Gungnir can destroy 1 or 2 cards depending on how much resources you have and is not too hard to summon.
Kinda proud to have 9/10 of these Monsters, as Synchros are my favourite kind of Extra Deck Monsters. =) Top 10 Tuner Monsters (that aren't mainly used as hand traps); Top 10 Synchro Tuner Monsters; Top 10 Ritual Monsters; Top 10 Union Monsters; Top 10 Gemini Monsters; Top 10 Link 4 Monsters; Top 10 "Number" Xyz Monsters; Top 10 Monsters whose ATK/DEF depend on their effects; Top 10 (Worst) Level 4 Monsters with 2000 ATK or more; Top 10 Rock/Reptile/Fish/Sea Serpent (you name it) Type Monsters; Top 10 Cards that have a better version of themselves (BLS>Chaos Sorcerer, Magical Stone Excavation>Spell Reproduction, Gold Sarcophagus>Different Dimension Capsule...) Top 10 Spell/Trap Cards that activate from the GY; Top 10 Best Equip Cards.
I remember there being a puzzle in the Over the Nexus game that used Dark Strike Fighter. To beat the puzzle you had to bring it back with its effect negated, then tribute it to its own effect to inflict the last of the damage, which apparently is allowed.
Of course it's allowed. The effect resolves in the graveyard. When an effect is negated, you're still allowed to activate it. To activate DSF's effect, you tribute it. It's now in the graveyard, where the effect is not negated. It resolves, and burns
@@Sillimant_ I don't think so, if DSF got negated dark ruler no more, and you used the effect to tribute itself, it will stil be negated. A better example is seal of the heavenly spheres. It will still be negated because the chain link 1 starts on the field, and the effect is negated on the field.
I still think Catastor needs an honorable mention. It came out in an era that monster removal was still pretty crap and it was painful to fight against.
Have you ever done top 10 pendulum extra deck monsters, or top 10 pendulum normal monsters? The fact that nearly anything could by a hybrid/pendulum monster has always been one of the most interesting aspects of them to me.
You could cut tempest magician's spell counter requirement down if one of the spells in your gy was a previously activated magical blast, a card that inflicts burn damage for each spell caster you control and if you did go for the full Endymion pendulum package, would get you a head start on spell counters as it prepares to deal damage. If you control 2 pendulum scales, and 4 face up Spellcaster monsters including tempest magician you could take a decent chunk of your opponent's LP with this normal spell and have your field gain 2+ spell counters based on the kinds of cards on it. Scary strong combo.
"at the tail end of 2020" em Selene came out in march in duov if I remember correctly tempest got banned in the January ban list of 2020 before Selene came
Tempest got banned before selene came out in the tcg since their deck was destroying everything in the ocg So they banned her before that deck could even be made in the tcg
When talking about Ancient Fairy Dragon, I feel like they always had this idea that field spells would be a broken mechanic or that they were stronger than they actually were. It's one of my favorite mechanics in the game and I like that each player can have their own now, but it's so weird how they developed towards this current iteration and just how much power some of the field spells have now when compared to stuff like Mountain and Umi.
Random question as I’ve never been into competitive YGO and I haven’t played it since 2009. Can you use a pre-errata card in a tournament? Of course you would use the actual effect of the card, but can the physical card you use be older? Thanks
to add the to the other comment, if the card is pre errata or in rare cases like the astral utopia printing in a non standard in your place langauge you need the updated ccard text at hand
With the consistency of Dragon links & Lil Halq running around, I wouldn't be surprised if B. Savage gets banned Pdta: Since I'm kinda newbie on TCG, I'm still wondering which are the (Top 10) best foolish (& goods) burial targets (generic or on x archtype that can send it like Krawler Ranvier)
"there were no good field spell cards back then". Laughs in Geartown and Ancient City - Rainbow Ruins, and in playground format, Jurassic World+Volcanic Eruption. As for broken cards, XYZ give Syncros a run for their money thanks to Konami deciding that it was okay to print a bunch of them packing the effects of banned cards like Cold Wave in the form of Number 16: Shock Master, for example. Whoever designed Utopic ZEXAL, Elder Entity Azathot, True King of All Calamities and D/D/D Duo-Dawn King Kali Yuga in particular should be shot out of a cannon into the ocean, with the cannonballs tied to his nutsack.
Easy solution to Ib: make it’s two effects mutually exclusive along with the hard once per turn (aka: “you can only use 1 effect of ___ per turn, and only once that turn).
Ice Barrier main deck: About as strong as melted ice cream
Ice Barrier extra deck: Titanium
now they have support they are insane
@@miguelbrandt9750 what new support?
I have the deck and it was a mistake for the deck not the extra deck
I have three of the structure decks that i have not opened. I approve this message..
Tbf, in the beginning of duel terminal, they're supposed to keep the dragon away instead of using them
Alternate title: explaining all the banned/errata’d Synchro monsters. ft. Borreload Savage
And T.G. Hyper Librarian
@@kingfatih it's been banned before tho
@@okita_souji_alter yea but not errata'd and not currently banned. So it be wrong to say all the banned/errata'd synchro monsters - "explaining all the synchro monsters which were banned at 1 point ft. Borreload Savage" would be right .. i think
@@kingfatih this list went over cards that used to be banned as well "goyo guardian"
@@okita_souji_alter he is referring to the comment with the alternative title and not the actual title
Synchro during Synchro era: "I'm too weak".
Synchro during modern era: "POWEEEEER. UNLIMITED POWEEEER".
more like
*Clear mind intensifies*
NGL, the concept of Synchro was way ahead of its time and I never thought that a handful of tuners would end up being banned today.
@@jandanielbondad5176 That's because of needlefiber at this point lol
@@xerospades My point exactly. Deskbot 001 and Plaguespreader is shaking right now because that card exists.
@@jandanielbondad5176 Doubt it lol
The reason Konami keeps making broken cards without a "once per turn" clause is because when the founders created the company,
they forgot to put the restriction "only create broken cards once per turn".
That was the thing with card design in early Yugioh. Once per turns were rare in the earliest history of the game likely because there was no need at the time. Then we got soft once per turns and the once per duel thing with Twin-Headed Behemoth which ended up becoming a rulings nightmare which resulted in an otherwise non-broken card getting Limited. Soft once per turns weren't really resetable either. They made Synchros broken as early on because they wanted to push the new game mechanic given how Fusions weren't really broken or even good as a whole for that matter except with Thousand-Eyes Restrict which was sorta broken with Metamorphosis and then Instant Fusion.
Or maybe bc broken cards sell a lot and give then tons of money
"In this video, we'll be going over--" Whatever it is, I'll love it
Fact
Yeah, absolute and universal truth
I give like before touching play... Quality content
TheDuelLogs: **uploads video**
“You son of a b-ch, I’m in.”
Duel logs you should print this comment to put on your fridge lol
I'm glad that T.G. Hyper Librarian _finally_ has a spot in one of The DuelLogs's top-ten lists after only being mentioned in many others.
And one of the best ones at that
The 5DS era was basically the only time I REALLY played this game, like getting cards IRL and travelling to tournaments. And as this list shows, it was quite the wild ride 😌
5ds era was the best era change my mind
@@NeostormXLMAX lemme guess, you grew up with the anime
The fact that 3 ice barrier synchro monsters are on this list really shows how impressive there extra deck monsters are compared to the main deck.
Also I don't know if you already did this but can you do a list on the best non generic xyz monsters
For real they're so good I don't associate them with the archtype
Man, i consider that they are from a series of extra deck monsters. The Ice Barrier archetype isn't worth of such power and the difference between the Dragons and the rest of the archetype is stunning
By lore, main deck Ice Barrier monsters are actually trying to prevent them from being summoned, that's why they're so bad at bringing them out lol
@@Marko-he8el
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@@Marko-he8el that's Not really N-Ice
I can't believe 3 of the most broken Synchros came out of such a mediocre archetype
That was the whole point of ice barriers in the beginning.
Somehow that fit their lore so much
@@nabkill0134 Yeah, the lore of Ice Barriers was just human sealed off these insanely powerful dragons from one generation to another. And Dewloren was like the Holy Beast that protected those seals or something. In the new support card artwork you can see Dewloren got wrecked by Trishula tho. It's kinda spotted on considering Dewloren got once per turn nerf while Trishula is just as strong as ever while also having a new upgrade form lol
Duel Terminal lore has it that the Ice Barrier dragons were these uber-powerful creatures that took a lot of effort to seal away.
And they were only released one by one to fight off the invasion of the Worms. Trishula was the last seal, and it f-ed up the Worms.
But now the Duel Terminal tribes (Dragunity, Ice Barrier, Mist Valley, -tellar Knights, and some others) have a new problem: the Ice Barrier dragons are free again.
@@sekaihunter9378 you mean the zero dragon, right?
If Borreload Savage Dragon is at the bottom of the list, you know it's going to be interesting. It will never stop being hilarious to me that most of the main deck Ice Barriers are garbage, yet they've had one Extra Deck monster that didn't spend time on the ban list. And the one Extra Deck monster they have didn't serve time is still good. I'm starting think that when Yugioh tries to implement something new, it's either not worth the time (original Fusions) or straight busted (early Synchros and Links).
Ice Barriers desperately needed a monster lineup dedicated to a time when they needed to release the Dragons.
5ds and Synchro Era really live up to their name. Evolve and predict the future.
Imho it was the best era of the game along DUEA
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I love how you're going directly to your top 10s without a long introduction.
I remember playing water decks from chaos era to syncros. People were always confused why and I just loved water. Then one day brionic and deep sea diva came out along with my favorites like abyss soldier and premature burial and other combos it was crazy and my water decks got way overpowered very quickly. And abyss and brionic were great counters to other syncros at the time
I'll be honest, including an example clip for the more complex card explanations is an amazing idea for more casual duelist like myself that just don't care about the meta enough to learn these things. I could learn it on my own in 10-30 minutes or I can get the jist from an example.
Top 10 Extra Deck Monsters That Are Retrains Or Evolutions Of Main Deck Monsters
D/D/D Orleans looks like Guardian Angel Joan, has a similar effect, same stats and would be able to counter OTK burn damage decks
:D
One thing I love about Synchros is that they seemed to make lower level monsters more valuable because they could be used as Material. I feel like before Synchros came out, monsters were judged based on their level, among other factors. Great video, by the way!!
The card "Denglong, First of the Yang Zing" should've definitely been in this list. You can summon it with completely generic material and it can search an counter trap with Omni-Negate ability. And when Denglong leaves the field, you can summon a monster from your deck.
should have shared the spot with Ib to be honest, they do basically the same thing
I definitely thought it was going to be 1/2
It was originally going to be in 10th place, but I thought Borreload Savage dragon was better. The omni negate it searches is only live while Genglong is on the field, and the card it summons from the deck on its death is only a yang zing monster, so you have to play a garnet outside of yangzing decks if you want its floating effect to be live. Its still good, but theres a reason its unlimited in the OCG with no problems.
@@TheDuelLogs after i watched the video and thought critically about the commentary, tempest magician should have been a #10/ honorable mention and denglong should have been placed on the list through your own criteria: an ftk enabler is only as powerful as the engine that facilitates the ftk
@@Gaddict9 i think same logic for ancient faerie dragon here. Without the OP field spell cards then it won't be on this list. And that ftk engine is really really insane if at full power. Since this list is "all time" then it should be really taken into account with the engine just like ancient faerie dragon with whatever OP field spell card konami shits out next.
Stardust Dragon and Junk Destroyer will always be my favorites
Sucks to be one of the OG Ancient Fairy Dragon crew though.
"Oh man, this card has so much potential!"
"You don't say? Well here is a bunch more cool Field Spell cards..."
"Aw sweet, its time!"
"Aaand, it's banned."
" :\ "
Theres a solid rogue deck in duel links at the moment that revolves around using junk convertor and junk synchron to go into junk warrior -> stardust dragon (or junk destroyer). A skill unique to Yusei and the recent release of Tuning makes this very consistent. Theres the added benefit that with summoning stardust dragon, the skill let's you summon formula synchron for free so you can go into shooting star dragon
Thats one of the decks main plays. The other play is to use quickdraw synchron and mill/discard Olion or use Junk forward to go into Junk Destroyer
@@shasan2393 Yeah, trying to build it right now. The annoying part it trying to get the copies of Tuning that I need.
yeah solid star road skill is broken in duel links atm.
@@SnorticusClavicus True, I mean a free Junk Synchron target and Formula Synchron. Not to mention the deck restrictions to use the skill isn't a problem since the cards in those archtypes are pretty good in their own right.
Black rose: am I a joke to you, I was on the ban list even longer than ancient fairy.
wait black rose was banned ?
@@lucidreverie3024 yeah, before ancient fairy was
Crystal Wing: am I a joke to you?
@@silverslayer6262 i didnt know this
@@Combustr_11 well, your owner was
Awesome to see 3 Ice Barriers on here! I love the new main deck support that was released for them recently as well. They need more negates though lol.
I started playing the game in the Synchro Era (2011) and I was wondering why cards like Brionac, where you need to discard so many cards, were considered good. I couldn't understand how easy it was to abuse these effects.
By the way, Dark Strike Fighter was super easy to obtain, being in a Starter Deck. I remember all of my friends had one in the Extra Deck, but almost never summoned it
Borreload Savage Dragon is truly Savage in effect.
Drinking game: take a shot every time he says "once per turn"
Alternative drinking game. Take a shot once per turn
@@pandaman1331 and only once that turn
take it with a soft when its a soft opt
@@printemps4799 Or take a shot every time the card effect resovles. We will start with kin-tele-undead
Don't forget Brionac came out when old priority was a thing so you were going to bounce at least one card when you bring it out.
What’s old priority
@@Deathmare235 With old Priority, when you summon a monster you can activate it's effect before your opponent can respond so in Brionac case when you bring it out you can immediately use its effect before your opponent could activate Trap Hole for example
@@bdf1006 Basically. Or in modern terms, a standard ignition effect could be used as if it were a quick effect with old priority. Good times. Though no longer having it made stuff like Bottomless Trap Hole better than it already was.
I will still not get over the delicious irony that Ruka/Luna - the Signer with the least amount of screen-time, is the one whose Signer Dragon became so ludicrously busted that it's banned. Maybe the Dark Signers really were onto something when they had Ancient Fairy's card under their grasps.
Technically luna is not the signer with the least screen time that technically belongs to leo
Can't believe SPYRAL wasn't mentioned in Ancient Fairy Dragon's 5th place on the list. Smh
We don't talk about the cursed Deck that summons the Devil here
He mentioned FA's instead which didn't see any competive play me thinks duelogs isn't doing enough homework
@@nodeberiaestaraqui93 so that’s why rda ain’t in the list
I ran Fish FTK at 2011 Nats. The deck used TG Hyper Librarian to continue drawing cards as you managed to summon three Formula Synchron, three Dewloren, a Brionac, and eventuality loop the same Trishula 5 times using a combination of Brionac's effect, Symbols of Heritage, Level Eater, and Dewloren's effect. And then the ending board gets ready to do it again on the opponent's turn with Formula Synchron. I just love how all of those components were mentioned in this video!
I miss fishborg blaster
@@JungleRice Dude, same. It always pains me how cards like halqifibrax can be printed and used for ages, but the current meta just can't handle a card from 2009 can't be at one copy per deck. Too powerful.
Top 10 Worst Synchro tuner monsters
Top 10 Cards that include the Yugioh characters in its artwork
Synchro Tuner.
Life Stream Dragon would be one of them. Konami butchering the anime is the cherry on top
For the card with character artwork, can the illegal zexal theme cards be included? Or not because their illegal
Hey 🌈🐲=Rainbow Dragon
@@JadenvsWatIGalaxyPlaymaker Hi
@@soukenmarufwt5224 it would’ve been op for xyz summoning
I've been waiting for this day to come. Synchros are my favorite types of cards so seeing this made me happy. Also can you do top 10 best and worst XYZ monsters.
Funny how the ice barrier archetype is so bad but it’s synchro monsters were so incredibly broken. Maybe they did that for that reason. Otherwise probably everyone would have ran an ice barrier deck in the day.
Awesome video! Scarlight, Crystal Wing, Stardust and Junk Warrior are my favorite Synchros
Yeah my synchro deck in yugioh 5d world championship over the nexus game is so great
25:56 He uses Geh in the example because Hardleg Joe keeps losing to it.
God, I hope Ib comes back. As a World Chalice player since Links started, she was a godsend. Really boosted consistency and gave the deck access to synchro plays (which usually resulted in Borreload Savage tbh). Sadly, I think the only way she’s come back is if they changed her summoning conditions to include a WC monster to stop her from being completely splashable
Brother she has returned
I still remember when I was in Middle School, when Brionac was released for the 1st time, I got it from a $3 dollar pack and immediately put it in my Chaos Monarch deck.
good times
Is that good
Top 10 XYZ monsters of all time next.
probably shock master takes the cake
It might just end up being a list of Utopia cards lol
YES as a massive synchro fan this is now my favourite video
Funny enough, Gaia Knight was actually played quite a bit during a specific time in YGO because of the popularity of Fiendish Chain.
It was also played since better options for a Generic Level 6 didn't exist at the time.
Nice vid! Can't wait for the custom cards review ❤️
I want a part 2 on that cards that tell a story video
Probably the greatest irony was that Dark strike fighter was less broken in the anime than in the actual card game with the anime effect being: Once per turn, you can Tribute 1 monster, except this card, to inflict damage to your opponent equal to its Level x 200. If you activate this effect, this card cannot declare an attack.
At 12:00 , you say the really good field spells started in 2016 with union hanger , but i think it was 2 years earlier with Kozmotown... Also no Denglong , Yang Zing of the DInosaurs on the list pains me greatly... Although to be fair , this list should have been a top 15 , so many broken Synchros
From someone who stopped playing in 07, I learn so much from you.
Borreload Savage Dragon is still extremely widely used to this day
I was expecting to see Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon
I think the summoning restriction is just to restrictive, it's not bad, but just not good enough.
Crystal Wing is good, but not broken in any way
Windwitch made it easy to summon but outside that, some deck has to jump over 2 fences to go for it, so yeah not that broken especially when it is partially useless against Link and XYZ.
@@grafinakaasu9048 almost any synchro deck can bring it out,and it's definitely worth it!One of rare monsters who can singlehandedly beat Dragoon...
@@dexterion5940 yes, but if you are able to make crystal wing or borrelload savage dragon and have a link monster in your GY you are mostly gonna make borrelload, but you can make borrelload in many situations, other then crystal wing.
This brings back so many memories
Brionac is one of favorite synchro monsters in Duel Links; it so powerful when combined with other monsters that can special summon themselves from the GY to win through an OTK. Duel Links has starting life points at 4000.
Great job man! Really well done. Excited for the next videos
Maaaaate, seeing Tempest Magician on this list made me remember when I built my spellcaster counters deck (from scratch; didn't have much for structure decks). She was one of my favourite cards ever, and I ended up losing her in a house fire recently :(
Neat video! Thanks for uploading!
Goyo guardian plus DSF was such a great but OP combo back in the day of 5Ds
Had a pretty consistent karakuri build with tempest magician that added the counters using the discard effect. The drawing potential of karakuri's is crazy
Basically: Ib gets kidnapped by Mekk-Knights, then gets possessed by Lee, then killed by her childhood friend, and when she finally resurrects she hits the banlist.
Poor Ib, give her some love
And now Trishula is completely free...
Me who just realized F.A.s and Fairy Dragon are both in Duel Links now:
"Oh yeah, its all coming together"
Original Dark Strike Fighter was so easy to OKT with. Summoner Monk+Cat+ mind control or 2 Gravekeeper spies+cat into 2 Dark Strike Fighters is lethal, because atracking with 2 2600s and burning for 2800 is 8000. It was really easy to set up turn 1 or 2 and the spells/traps back then were easy to hate out.
The fact that 4 of the top 10 synchros are from an otherwise bad archtype, whos lore is all about summoning the all powerfull ice dragons to prevent a world ending apocalyps, is the most thematicly correct yugioh has ever been.
And now we have barron de fleur
I still find it hilarious how full power world legacy basically didn’t happen because girsu the orcust mekk knight was released after ib was already banned and that guy was basically designed to turbo that card out
I am a synchro fan and was looking forward to this video
Happy to see Trishula. It was my favorite synchro card in my old duel generations dragon deck.
Started playing in the DM era and quit during GX. I came back during the Synchro era and remember all these meta defining cards and combos. Black Rose + Goyo + Dark Strike Fighter, scoop; Six Samurai with Gateway and 3 x Legendary Shi en with triple spell and trap negate; Plant Synchro with 3 x Formula Synchron that resulted in easy 1 -2 Shooting Star Dragon on field for game.
Top 10 parody cards.
Top 10 cards based on other Konami games.
Top 10 special conditions in the games.
Top 10 anime/manga exclusive cards.
Top 10 cards that newcomers shouldn't use.
More Rescue Rabbit, please.
Soitsu and Aitsu could probably fit on most of those lists.
Brionac was somewhat balanced by the fact that drawing/searching was incredibly limited in the Synchro era. Pot of Duality was very popular but it forced you to not make any Special Summons, Allure of Darkness was limited, etc.
Discarding 2-3 cards was a steep cost and if the 2300 ATK Monster was removed you would be left in a bad position with little chance to recover as even Monster Reborn was banned and Call of the Haunted was limited.
Finally, a video about my favorite extra deck monster and now i know why they're all so good
I think a list of the monsters with the best or worst continuous effects would be a fun one
I feel like some of the Dragunity synchros, Stardust synchros and Red Dragon Archfiend synchros are underrated or overlooked
I love the dragunity archetype. Ascalon is a beast and Ahreadbhar is even better because it can negate monster effects. I only just realized that Dragunity combined with Ancient Fairy Dragon would be a power house if Ancient fairy wasn't banned lol.
Honestly master rule 4 has to be one of the worse decisions ever made just for how it impacted not just previous designed cards but also how it forced new cards to have to compensate in order to ensure that people didn’t just quit the game because their favorite summoning method was thrown in the bin for links.
Fuck needlefiber.
Trishula was the best synchro with the six samurai deck xD you could get it in the first or second turn
What’s hilarious about Dark Strike Fighter isn’t just the FTK potential but the fact that you can just easily go into it, attack a bunch, then sac everything off for a win in pretty much any deck. If you thought “Cowboy for game” was a big thing then hoo boy. Both nerfs to it are extremely necessary despite the sad fact that they also make it generally unplayable.
Beelze Crystalwing scarlight
Could have been honerable mentions
Excellent video- very entertaining to watch. Suggestion box: Top 10 Field Spells
fairy dragon was already huge in post ban dragon ruler with the dragon ravine combo
This is a really well written video, only topped by Top 10 Waifus
Dark Strike Fighter was so OP when it first arrived in the TCG 😲😏
TheDuelLogs loves to tease us with these monsters then says it's been "errata'd or banned".
Borreload Savage would be a main deck monster with 0 ATK & DEF that requires 2 specific monsters to be destroyed at the same time to summon itself and equip any monster from your GY if it was made in the Duelist Kingdom era.
And it'd still see play.
Somehow out of all the archetypes, ice barrier is the one who receives the most broken synchro monster lineup, while the main deck ice barriers can hardly afford to summon any of them consistently before their new support. Also pretty funny how the least broken ice barrier synchro, Gungnir, is actually the most useful in its own archetype. Self-bouncing does nothing for ice barrier and they can't afford the cost most of the time, so Dewloren and Brionac might as well not be ice barrier monsters, and Trishula is too hard to summon consistently for ice barrier. Gungnir can destroy 1 or 2 cards depending on how much resources you have and is not too hard to summon.
Kinda proud to have 9/10 of these Monsters, as Synchros are my favourite kind of Extra Deck Monsters. =)
Top 10 Tuner Monsters (that aren't mainly used as hand traps);
Top 10 Synchro Tuner Monsters;
Top 10 Ritual Monsters;
Top 10 Union Monsters;
Top 10 Gemini Monsters;
Top 10 Link 4 Monsters;
Top 10 "Number" Xyz Monsters;
Top 10 Monsters whose ATK/DEF depend on their effects;
Top 10 (Worst) Level 4 Monsters with 2000 ATK or more;
Top 10 Rock/Reptile/Fish/Sea Serpent (you name it) Type Monsters;
Top 10 Cards that have a better version of themselves (BLS>Chaos Sorcerer, Magical Stone Excavation>Spell Reproduction, Gold Sarcophagus>Different Dimension Capsule...)
Top 10 Spell/Trap Cards that activate from the GY;
Top 10 Best Equip Cards.
My boy PSY-Framelord Omega should’ve been on this list.
Yeah I think that he could take Goyo Guardian, since is not a good as Omega even without the errata.
I remember there being a puzzle in the Over the Nexus game that used Dark Strike Fighter. To beat the puzzle you had to bring it back with its effect negated, then tribute it to its own effect to inflict the last of the damage, which apparently is allowed.
Of course it's allowed. The effect resolves in the graveyard.
When an effect is negated, you're still allowed to activate it. To activate DSF's effect, you tribute it. It's now in the graveyard, where the effect is not negated. It resolves, and burns
@@Sillimant_ I don't think so, if DSF got negated dark ruler no more, and you used the effect to tribute itself, it will stil be negated. A better example is seal of the heavenly spheres. It will still be negated because the chain link 1 starts on the field, and the effect is negated on the field.
I still think Catastor needs an honorable mention. It came out in an era that monster removal was still pretty crap and it was painful to fight against.
Have you ever done top 10 pendulum extra deck monsters, or top 10 pendulum normal monsters? The fact that nearly anything could by a hybrid/pendulum monster has always been one of the most interesting aspects of them to me.
18:45 I disagree if they gave it an errata so it needs none tuner world chalice monsters then they can unban it
It wouldn't make the deck its intended for any less overpowered but it would limit splashability to a point.
You could cut tempest magician's spell counter requirement down if one of the spells in your gy was a previously activated magical blast, a card that inflicts burn damage for each spell caster you control and if you did go for the full Endymion pendulum package, would get you a head start on spell counters as it prepares to deal damage. If you control 2 pendulum scales, and 4 face up Spellcaster monsters including tempest magician you could take a decent chunk of your opponent's LP with this normal spell and have your field gain 2+ spell counters based on the kinds of cards on it. Scary strong combo.
top ten cards that got off the ban list
My man, did you really imply that AFD reached its peak with F.A.s and not Spyrals?
im sure i saw a video somewhere of a guy FTKing someone with post errated Dark Strike Fighter.
God I love this channel I always learn so much about the game
"at the tail end of 2020" em Selene came out in march in duov if I remember correctly tempest got banned in the January ban list of 2020 before Selene came
Tempest got banned before selene came out in the tcg since their deck was destroying everything in the ocg
So they banned her before that deck could even be made in the tcg
You should do a top 10 cards that were banned for other archetypes and not their own.
Are you going to do a top 10 series of all extra deck monsters?
When talking about Ancient Fairy Dragon, I feel like they always had this idea that field spells would be a broken mechanic or that they were stronger than they actually were. It's one of my favorite mechanics in the game and I like that each player can have their own now, but it's so weird how they developed towards this current iteration and just how much power some of the field spells have now when compared to stuff like Mountain and Umi.
I dont play Yugioh for maybe 8 Years, But i am adicted to these videos xD
Nice vid!
Random question as I’ve never been into competitive YGO and I haven’t played it since 2009. Can you use a pre-errata card in a tournament? Of course you would use the actual effect of the card, but can the physical card you use be older? Thanks
Yes, you are allowed to use the Card even if it was printed pre-errata, aslong as you use its corrected effect.
to add the to the other comment, if the card is pre errata or in rare cases like the astral utopia printing in a non standard in your place langauge you need the updated ccard text at hand
With the consistency of Dragon links & Lil Halq running around, I wouldn't be surprised if B. Savage gets banned
Pdta: Since I'm kinda newbie on TCG, I'm still wondering which are the (Top 10) best foolish (& goods) burial targets (generic or on x archtype that can send it like Krawler Ranvier)
"there were no good field spell cards back then". Laughs in Geartown and Ancient City - Rainbow Ruins, and in playground format, Jurassic World+Volcanic Eruption.
As for broken cards, XYZ give Syncros a run for their money thanks to Konami deciding that it was okay to print a bunch of them packing the effects of banned cards like Cold Wave in the form of Number 16: Shock Master, for example. Whoever designed Utopic ZEXAL, Elder Entity Azathot, True King of All Calamities and D/D/D Duo-Dawn King Kali Yuga in particular should be shot out of a cannon into the ocean, with the cannonballs tied to his nutsack.
lol, funny enough Geartown missed timing if destroyed by Ancient fairy dragon.
@@TheDuelLogs And Ruins can't be destroyed by Ancient Fairy Dragon if there are any Cbeasts in the backrow. Ironic, isn't it?
Yo, ma boi Brionac's on the thumbnail, yay!
Easy solution to Ib: make it’s two effects mutually exclusive along with the hard once per turn (aka: “you can only use 1 effect of ___ per turn, and only once that turn).
Last time I was this early my teacher thought I was trying to butter him up cuz I forgot my homework or something.