"Pot of Greed is OP!" Me: Maybe you shouldn't of let old school cards playing style to be played in newer card playing style? Each era of play style should of had their own rules and their own play. These are cards from Link era and you can only use them to play Link era play style.
@@nullpoint3346 Lol. Sorry. I'm being 100% hindsight on my end but I can kind of see why they didn't make rules and restrictions from the very beginning when they start making the new era YugiOh. "Money talks" and they know people will complain about the sudden changes. A lot of people prefer to Rush in Recklessly, run into the problems and later take care of the problems.
That art choice is superb! It encapsulates greatly how those kinds of wishes are. The welcoming, but menacing and full of malice the Pot of Greed's smile; the dumb, and yet extravagant is the Pot of Richies' design are... Yu-Gi-Oh! is surely a broken and unbalanced game, but no one can deny they're amazing in telling a story with just a single image.
This proves Jaden is the best protagonist. He is the only one who actually used Pot of Greed at one point and didn't announce what it did, and just drew.
Effect: Select a monster Type. Send the top 2 cards from your deck to the graveyard. Add a monster with the selected type whose level is equal or lower to the added level of the cards sent to the graveyard by this card's effect +1, otherwise, banish the top 5 cards from your deck. You can only activate one "The Pot of Archetype" card per turn. Yeah, I know, somewhat of a bad effect, but that's what I came with.
The Pot Of Archetype Excavate the top 2 cards of your deck, if they are from the same archetype add them to your hand, otherwise banish them face down.
I've dedicated my life to quantum analyses of duel monsters. This video was the final piece of the puzzle for my doctoral thesis because I think I finally know what the actual fuck pot of greed does. It seals the god cards, right?
Ancestral Recall is another good comparison from MTG, because even though it doesn't cost literally nothing like Pot, it's comparable in how it gives you so much card advantage for a very low cost
A lot of old, powerful cards like Raigeki and Harpie's Feather Duster are playable and don't break the format. Even a truly horrible card like Card Destruction is still playable, despite the fact that it can cause serious disadvantages to your opponent while you yourself aren't affected in any way because you can just set what you need. But drawing 2 is too OP. Konami logic.
How is Card Destruction anything but disadvantage? If you're running a strong grave combo, yeah sure, it could be used, but you're also giving your opponent the same amount of cards and their own graveyard plays, while you're going minus one since CD doesn't replace itself.
Sure. Any spell cards that draw card(s) without restrictions and/or hard once per turn will be abused by, including, but not limited to, Royal Magical Library Solitaire deck. Also it allows you to technically run a deck with less than 40 cards.
4:22. It actually makes sense if you link "Pot Genie" with the Spirit of the Pot of Greed since Genies or "Djinns" are ghostly beings that like to make their homes in pots, jars, urns and kettle lamps.
The Pot of Generosity effect is extremely powerful in any circumstance where having a card in your deck is more beneficial than in your hand, such as being able to put specific cards into your graveyard from your deck, or special summoning directly from your deck. Haven't played YuGiOh in a while, so not sure how viable those types of decks are, but it can be extremely powerful in other card games.
Lightsworns Infernity Neos to send my rainbow dragon back into the deck for Neos Fusion Garnet heavy decks I even used generosity in conjuncting with E Hero Bubbleman's effect for a more complicated magical mallet that let me fusion summon Absolute Zero and swing for game.
The magic equivalent, I would argue, is most likely ancestral recall, which draws three cards for one blue Mana. At instant speed. For any player. Yes black lotus is more of a boogeyman, but just like ancestral recall it's banned everywhere except vintage (magic has multiple formats with different card pools).
Yes but ancestral recall does have situations where you don't instantly chuck it out of your hand unlike pot of greed, lotus is the magic card equivalent of if you have it play it 99.9 percent of the time
Was gonna say it's without a doubt that one since it's banned for the same reasons only being slightly less free; not only this but like pot of greed there are other cards with nerfed versions of that effect like Brainstorm or more fittingly, Ancestral Visions which like the original but with a four turn delay and no instant speed.
Pot of Greed is the OG yugioh card, love it! Got Keychains, many different reprints of the card, the actual pot as a mug and much more, one of the coolest designs ever!
The Black Lotus also has a series of MTG cards it inspired, being: Lotus Petal, Lotus Bloom, Lotus Vale, Lotus Cobra, Lotus Blossom, Lotus Cobra, Gilded Lotus, Nyx Lotus, Blacker Lotus and Mox Lotus. The last two are from basically parody sets that aren't legal for play in most formats
"Why would anyone not play that card in their deck? And it was for this reason that this card was banned". Me: *glances suspiciously at anaconda and dragoon both at 3 and in nearly every deck for nearly a year...*
I'm pretty sure the reason they kept repeating part of greens affects in the cartoons is simply because the writers and producers of the cartoons weren't certain if or when newcomers to the series would pop up in midseason, or if any longtime fans would miss any episodes. They do this sort of thing all the time in cartoons and TV shows, reiterating past events or certain details for any newcomers or in case anyone missed any previous episodes.
Magic the Gathering player here Very interesting video. Pot of Greed is always one of the YuGiOh cards I DID know about, along with your usual other suspects like Exodia and Blue Eyes White Dragon. It's cool to see how YuGiOh's version of Magic's Ancestral Recall (1 mana draw 3 cards) was JUST as busted and had even more variations of it that were nerfed in some way (Even if Pot of Avarice on paper feels like build around upside)
Extremely late reply but Avarice's "downside" is bad because it's a really significant element of inconsistency. If you draw this turn 1, you have a 4 card hand because it's not playable. And it might not be next turn either depending on how things are going. Especially in the modern era of Yugioh, games only last a couple of turns and "slow" cards like that won't always get to proc. Wherein your +1 becomes a -1 by default. Which if you think about it, kind of evens the card out in a macro sense to not be a positive (or negative) really. You could build around it I guess and make a deck that can discard a ton of its own guys to the grave turn 1 in your initial combo but unless that style of deck is already meta, it's not at all worth the effort for 3/40 of your cards to be still-kind-of-situational +1s. Compared to Pot of Extravagance where some archetypes don't use their extra decks anyway really so you can slot it into that style of deck and it really is just +1 for free, pretty much. Pot of Prosperity is the other really strong one where you can banish 6 cards (your choice) from your extra deck then excavate the top 6 cards of your deck (look at them) and pick one to go to your hand. Which is so good because obviously you're sending the 6 cards you're almost certainly not going to use anyway (so no downside, almost) and get the best of 6 cards. Ridiculously good for searching for a specific out or combo starter because it's functionally a draw 6 at that point. In a really slow sealed format though I'd agree you could argue Pot of Avarice can sometimes be superior to Pot of Greed, even. Though it is worth noting especially with modern Yugioh that the graveyard is actually a super valuable location for your cards to be as a lot of cards have effects there and a lot of others can pull back from there, or proc effects using your grave as cost. Meanwhile cards in your deck are usually a lot harder to interact with because you have to either specifically search that card (pretty limited circumstance) or draw through your deck (obviously drawing is heavily repressed in Yugioh). So the adding back is only really valuable if 1. Your deck can search monsters from your deck extremely easily and pull them back to your hand/field whenever you need 'em 2. You're playing a deck/format where you have one or two super-threat boss monsters, and getting them back in rotation for a chance to draw and re-threaten is a win condition (low power sealed formats) 3. You're looking at a potential deck-out win condition game, where the +5 draws gives you a huge edge in decking out last (though obviously you draw 2 so you're only +3 on deck size, but you also get the value so that's nice)
You gotta love how immediate the punish is for taking your hand out of the Pot of Greed. You’d think it’d be some slow, gruelling curse or something else to slowly punish and torment you. Nah, it just gets straight to the point and blows up.
@@ampotat9018 I wouldn't be surprised if Konami ends up putting it on the ban list in the future when they make more sacred beats support since having powerful monsters with target and destroy protection while getting a +2 every turn is insane.
@@AxisChurchDevotee I guess they would have put them on the banlist already, and since there are better decks that haven't been banned yet I doubt they will, at least soon
We need a pot boss monster that gets different effects depending on the number of pot/jar traps, spell and monsters in your graveyard with different effects.
Man of the Pot "Avatar of The Pot" + "Spirit of the Pot of Greed" If this card is Fusion Summoned: Draw 1 card for each Pot or Jar cards in your GY with different names. If this card is sent to the GY: Set 1 "Pot of The Forbidden" from your Deck. You can only use this effect of "Man of the Pot " once per turn.
in magic, drawing cards is considered to be “gaining knowledge” as you’re drawing from your library of spells to widen your mind, so pot of generosity would be the equivalent of becoming +2 stupid
The expression on the original pot’s face makes me think it’s in the middle of introducing itself and really hitting that double e. “Yeeeeeessss, hellooooooooo. I am Pot Of Greeeeeeeeeeed.”
Actually, Magic's "Pot of Greed" is Ancestral Recall and it draws 3 cards for one Blue. And yes, its every bit as game-breaking as it sounds. But since spells in YGO doesn't use a mana system, Pot of Greed is just a straight up +1 in card advantage w/o any cost at all, arguably more game-breaking than the aforementioned Ancestral Recall bcoz of it.
You can use a pot of generosity in a gimmick puppet deck, because it allows you to put back two cards from a hand that you don't like and allows to keep the cards you need with a fresh chance of setting up an XYZ summon. Depending on your extra deck you can use it to set up some really nasty combos
Yeah... but dude said what deck that couldnt use a better card instead. Reload and magical mallet are both better at putting bricks back into the deck.
In a latin american TCG game, Mitos y Leyendas, the issue of cards like this was solved by making the deck your health. You didn't have HP in there, but instead when attacked you discarded from your deck as many cards as the enemy damage was. Thus the game encouraged to never go below the 50 max cards allowed, and cards like these that allowed you to draw brought the disadvantage of reducing your deck, and thus your health
Next expansion "Pot of the Gods" Flavor text "This mystical artifact was said to be the chamberpot of the pharaoh himself its divine waters said to cure any disease" Effect: After you play this draw 5 if theyre pot cards play them immediately with their effects. If you end with 10 pot spells that were sent to your graveyard this turn by this effect you win the game.
Fun fact the original rules allowed both players to draw on there first turn but got changed later to allow the second player to draw on there first turn
I was thinking maybe with assault modes back in the day when they first initially released 🤔 i just didn't really like assault teleport tbh then. There's better cards to use though. Hell even Saryuja is nice for putting back the assualt modes. Baobaboon too.
9:01 It doesn’t always effect 7 cards actually, it’s possible for players to draw 1 or 2 of the cards they’ve shuffled into the main deck from the first effect. Meaning players could affect 5-7 cards from Pot of Avarice.
I'm surprised you didn't reference MTG's Ancestral Recall, which was much more similar to Pot of Greed in that you had a lot of value for little/no cost. Divination can be strong when played right, but you would have to play around it being a good card in your deck. Ancestral Recall is so powerful they technically made it illegal to reprint it, along with the other Power Nine cards. I'd love to see if YuGiOh had a set of cards like the Power Nine?
YGO's power nine equivalent would be ever-changing due to the fact that the meta is so volatile. But there are cards that can be somewhat of an equivalent: Pot of Greed for its draw power, Yata-Garasu for its ability to skip opp's turn, and Fiber Jar for its ability to instantly restart the duel.
Yep, in the first format, they were even called "The Power Five" Pot of Greed Dark Hole Raigeki Change of Heart And Monster Reborn Then many others came that would tie their power, but never were really addressed as part of the Power Five, like Delinquent Duo and the Forceful Sentry Damn Spell Cards have a really long history of being fucking broken
@@azurabbit12 um are you trolling or no mtg has a power series but the only cards I can think of as always being banned is Pot of greed and maxx c in tcg and maybe cold wave all the cards you mentioned I said or are unbanned now duel logs does have a never to be unbanned list two of them but one list has already had a few cards being unbanned and list 2 also just had some of the cards unbanned like red reboot so… idk 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷🤷🤷🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️ edit: forceful sentry that’s one more you actually mentioned but stayed but that got a remake in triple tactics talents which is a pot of greed change of heart and forceful sentry in one also change of hearts now unbanned for the fifth time so it’s staying definitely
@@Momijitheawoo first off please use punctuation, I couldn't understand almost ANYTHING of what you said, jc I really don't know what point you're even trying to make, the cards I mentioned WERE called "the power five", that's just a fact, it didn't have anything to do with them being banned permanently, and I seriously couldn't decipher anything else of what you said
@@ShiningJudgment666 Heavy storm would activate a lot of spell/trap card floating effects like the F.A. Spells and Traps, and the Fist of the Unrivaled Tenyi (or however it’s spelled)
Best MTG example is A different piece of the Power 9. The card is "Ancestral Recall". It has a CMC (Converted Mana Cost or Cost to play) of 1 blue mana (Tap 1 Island land in play) Card effect: Draw 3 cards. Like PoG it has no downside. Hence why it is banned in all formats except Vintage where it is restricted to 1 copy, just like Black Lotus.
I, the opposing duelist, on the opposite side of the field, am now informing you that I, the opposing duelist am choosing to partake in the activity of activating the Konami brand Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card spell card, who’s title tells you that it’s name is in fact Pot of Greed. I will now inform you that by taking Pot of Greed from my hand, placing it on the field, and announcing that I am using the Konami brand Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading card spell card, who’s name is in fact pot of greed; I am now permitted to turn my head to look at my deck, to place my hand upon my deck, and draw not one, but two Konami Brand Yu-Gi-Oh! trading cards from my Konami Brand Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading card deck.
Pot of generosity sounds like it would be good for monsters that can be special summoned from the deck, but not from the hand. It would be a way to recycle them back to a place where they are more useful
Here’s a fun idea for a pot of greed card: _Greedy Pot_ Quick Play Spell _Both players place two cards from their hand, field or GY onto the top of their decks in any order. When this set card is activated both players instead place all their cards in their hand, field or GY onto the top of their decks in any order._
I like how after this video came out two months before the the new banlist! Harpie's Feather Duster got unbanned and is now limited and I bet TGS Anime Was Like This is A Absolute Win lmao
@@mark1A100 99% of the time is not a Bad draw in all stages of the Game while Black Lotus being more powerful in early/mid it can be a more serious dead draw. Pot of greed is Also never a dead draw in 99% of situations. 1 mana draw 3 es "almost free" if You compare that most draw 2 nowdays in mtg are 3 or 4 mana with sometimes another condition. Very complicated to compare a mana system vs "do almost everything free everytime". (And yes I know YGO use cost and condition too) Is just more acurrate to compare 2 cards with similar effects that 2 with completely different ones specially with a different pay cost systems. PD: Sorry for My Bad English.
Still think that Black Lotus is more like Pot of greed, because both are costless and help you accelerate game state far beyond. With a single land and a black lotus you start straight in turn 4 and set something very difficult for your opponent to counter, if you set something good enough there will not be a mid/late game, since you might be able to just win a couple turns after.
Ancestral Recall is just as unbalanced, and was part of the boon cycle. Of those 5 cards, 2 are definitely too powerful to be printed today, one is suspect of being too powerful, and one is too weak. In order of power: Ancestral Recall Dark Ritual (3 black Mana) Lightning Bolt (3 damage to any target, rarely reprinted, often imitated) Giant Growth (powers up a creature by 3 power and toughness) Healing Salve (gain 3 life or prevent the next 3 points of damage a target takes that turn.)
If you put pot of generosity in invoked any shaddoll build you could plant the fusion material you want to use for the fusion summon in the deck so when you fusion from the deck and send the 2 cards to the graveyard you’ll be able activate to special ability. For example if you put beast in the deck you could activate it’s draw effect
I have an mtg card that’s pretty interesting. It’s called winged words. It’s another draw 2 card that has the same cost as divanation but it has another interesting effect were if you control a creature with flying it costs one less mana. Combined with something like ravenous reader and a creature with flying you now have a draw 2 card that costs one mana.
“Public Knowledge” refers to things your opponent can see. You can still look at your own face-down banished cards same as you would with your field; allowing you to interact with them just makes sense.
2:11 So, any card with a effect that benefits any deck or strategy; without any limitation, condition or cost, is likely to be BANNED!... or at least Limited to 1. mmm, fair enough!
@@sakuyabestgirl3418 dragoon is strong but it isn't invincible. i can either checkmate it or play through its negate and overpower it. ash blossom is annoying but i can either bait its hard once per turn or outsmart it. ash blossom isn't really broken but it's always gonna be relevant considering any modern deck has searching and/or drawing ability or even special summons from the deck. dragoon kinda is though considering it's kinda like multiple boss monsters in 1.
@@ShiningJudgment666 Yet they take no skill to play and just halt the game for either a (Ash):Hope to bait the effect, or (Dragun): Beat a 4K beatstick by hoping you drew Dark Ruler No More. I'd be fine with dragun if it were more limited to it's archtype or had a harder summoning requirement instead of "I guess since i can't beat your monsters i'll just summon Verte to get an instant negate with protection"
@@sakuyabestgirl3418 Don't even need Dark Ruler No More to beat Dragoon. Kaijus, non-targeting and non-destruction removal after playing through the negate, forcing them into a checkmate situation with Invoked Mechaba or punishing your opponent for leaving Verte Anaconda open can also beat it. Hard to argue with Ash Blossom though but at best, you've stopped your opponent from starting their potentially game-winning combo play and at worst unless it gets Called by the Graved, you've either given your opponent one less card to play at the cost of one of your own and/or done nothing to really stop them.
At 5:30 with Pokémon there is bill from base set which is literally the same as pot of greed. It was not quite as broken though because in Pokémon you can draw cards like a madman
In recent sets, the item "acro bike" draws two cards and can be played multiple times per turn. It's not overpowered, however, because the threat posed by 2-3 prize attackers and the availability of search cards means having more options is often better than perfect simplicity.
What would you see in the Pot Of Greed?
idk probably water
Wondering what it actually does, it is a big mystery to solve.
To be honest, my mind is just drawing blanks.
Jose Luis Trejo How is it a mystery?
Probably future cards that could be banned or the current banned cards
Gotta give props to whoever is in charge of drawing these cards. The face design on all of these pots are phenomenal!
“Pot of Greed is OP!”
“Okay, we’ll just make alternatives with stupidly unreasonable costs.”
And you know what those cards are still good.
@@ohok9356 Ah yes, the curse of the cards. Draw power is the only power.
"Pot of Greed is OP!"
Me: Maybe you shouldn't of let old school cards playing style to be played in newer card playing style? Each era of play style should of had their own rules and their own play. These are cards from Link era and you can only use them to play Link era play style.
@@SCH292 Oh, so another Magic Clone?
@@nullpoint3346 Lol. Sorry. I'm being 100% hindsight on my end but I can kind of see why they didn't make rules and restrictions from the very beginning when they start making the new era YugiOh. "Money talks" and they know people will complain about the sudden changes. A lot of people prefer to Rush in Recklessly, run into the problems and later take care of the problems.
I love how the pot cards artwork have to always be as grotesque as possible
They represent their respective sin
Pot of Riches is me when I find a yogurt in the fridge after thinking I already ate all of them
@@skeletonwar4445 it's me when I see for the 20th time the same food mom make
That art choice is superb! It encapsulates greatly how those kinds of wishes are. The welcoming, but menacing and full of malice the Pot of Greed's smile; the dumb, and yet extravagant is the Pot of Richies' design are...
Yu-Gi-Oh! is surely a broken and unbalanced game, but no one can deny they're amazing in telling a story with just a single image.
thats's part of the charm
This proves Jaden is the best protagonist. He is the only one who actually used Pot of Greed at one point and didn't announce what it did, and just drew.
Fun fact: In the manga The punishment of Ushio was called
*"The illusion of Avarice"*
Ah yes, my favourite card “The Pot Of Archetype”
Effect: Select a monster Type. Send the top 2 cards from your deck to the graveyard. Add a monster with the selected type whose level is equal or lower to the added level of the cards sent to the graveyard by this card's effect +1, otherwise, banish the top 5 cards from your deck. You can only activate one "The Pot of Archetype" card per turn.
Yeah, I know, somewhat of a bad effect, but that's what I came with.
N o t f u n n y
B u t i l a u g h e d
It allows you to draw 2 archetypes
The pot of-archetype
The Pot Of Archetype
Excavate the top 2 cards of your deck, if they are from the same archetype add them to your hand, otherwise banish them face down.
People: Pot of greed what does it do?!?!?!
Me: It smiles
Profile pic checks out
@@chrishansen1842 atleast I don't draw 2 kids
You get two more Pot .
Pot of Greed
1:31
Pot of Greed what does it do?!?!? 😂
Reminder that THE CHAZZ is one of the few people that play Pot of Greed, without telling you it's effect....
Chazz it up
(Chazz it up echoes)
(Chazz it up echoes)
(Chazz it up echoes for the rest of eternity and more)
(Chazz it no longer ups cuz I broke the chain)
@@plushytv5295 You are worse than people who play mystic mine
I've dedicated my life to quantum analyses of duel monsters. This video was the final piece of the puzzle for my doctoral thesis because I think I finally know what the actual fuck pot of greed does.
It seals the god cards, right?
Oof.
Yeah I think so
Look forward to your Circle of Ourichalcos paper since those are still tourney legal (I think).
I could only imagine Pot Of Generocity in a milling deck, where it is essential to keep your deck stocked on cards ahead of your opoonent.
I was gonna say that it could be good in lightsworn, to get bricks like felia and wulf back into the deck so that they can be milled
it would work in infernity but people rather cheat by setting monsters in the spell/trap zones then to use the card.
Couldn't you use it with brilliant fusion decks?
@@uteriel282 *Chuckles like i dont use pendulums on a regular basis* I feel like trash but sometimes i win matches
Back when I was a kid, one night, I heard my dad yells "Pot of Greed activated" from his room. And boom! Now I have 2 younger brother
Oh so that's what it does.
Any way we can watch that duel?
Cringe
Ayo how can we watch that duel?
@@panker_san Oh no! I want to like but I don't want to remove the magic number.
Seriously, can we get a count of how many times pot of greeds effect WAS NOT explained in the anime?
0 I guess.
There was 1 time where it almost wasn't, I think it was when Dartz used it, idk I don't remember the og series that well
Jayze Zeddrick Actually Dartz never used that Card
Oh wait it was the pink haired dude wasn't it
Once, by Aster Phoenix against Sartorius
Ahh yes +4 in uno, the most deadliest card, yet they didn’t banned it.
Because its cost is your friendship.
learn english
Yes
@@shis1988 To true
Imagine someone draws a card and plays plus 4
Pot of generosity actually saved me once when I used it to put back my Stardust dragon Assault mode back in my deck.
Nice!
You could use magical mallet or reload instead...
@@fallendeus doesnt risk drawing it again
Ancestral Recall is another good comparison from MTG, because even though it doesn't cost literally nothing like Pot, it's comparable in how it gives you so much card advantage for a very low cost
TGS: 'I'll be able to play you one day Harpies Feather Duster... One day...'
Konami, today: 'I'm gonna do what's called a pro gamer move.'
Correction: pro ban hammer move
Since when is it unbanned anyway?
@@Halopen94
A banlist or two ago. I know that was one of them that came off it.
A lot of old, powerful cards like Raigeki and Harpie's Feather Duster are playable and don't break the format. Even a truly horrible card like Card Destruction is still playable, despite the fact that it can cause serious disadvantages to your opponent while you yourself aren't affected in any way because you can just set what you need. But drawing 2 is too OP. Konami logic.
How is Card Destruction anything but disadvantage? If you're running a strong grave combo, yeah sure, it could be used, but you're also giving your opponent the same amount of cards and their own graveyard plays, while you're going minus one since CD doesn't replace itself.
Pot of greed would be a ban-worthy card even if the text was "draw 1 card"
Sure. Any spell cards that draw card(s) without restrictions and/or hard once per turn will be abused by, including, but not limited to, Royal Magical Library Solitaire deck.
Also it allows you to technically run a deck with less than 40 cards.
@@MrCegeb practically not tecnically
Upstart
@@KBX12Gaming that's why it is limited.
jar of greed?
4:22. It actually makes sense if you link "Pot Genie" with the Spirit of the Pot of Greed since Genies or "Djinns" are ghostly beings that like to make their homes in pots, jars, urns and kettle lamps.
The Pot of Generosity effect is extremely powerful in any circumstance where having a card in your deck is more beneficial than in your hand, such as being able to put specific cards into your graveyard from your deck, or special summoning directly from your deck. Haven't played YuGiOh in a while, so not sure how viable those types of decks are, but it can be extremely powerful in other card games.
Lightsworns
Infernity
Neos to send my rainbow dragon back into the deck for Neos Fusion
Garnet heavy decks
I even used generosity in conjuncting with E Hero Bubbleman's effect for a more complicated magical mallet that let me fusion summon Absolute Zero and swing for game.
Yeah but you could use magical mallet or reload instead...
The magic equivalent, I would argue, is most likely ancestral recall, which draws three cards for one blue Mana. At instant speed. For any player.
Yes black lotus is more of a boogeyman, but just like ancestral recall it's banned everywhere except vintage (magic has multiple formats with different card pools).
Yes but ancestral recall does have situations where you don't instantly chuck it out of your hand unlike pot of greed, lotus is the magic card equivalent of if you have it play it 99.9 percent of the time
Was gonna say it's without a doubt that one since it's banned for the same reasons only being slightly less free; not only this but like pot of greed there are other cards with nerfed versions of that effect like Brainstorm or more fittingly, Ancestral Visions which like the original but with a four turn delay and no instant speed.
I can't wait for all the comments to be pot of greed jokes
Jar of Greed: :(
Does anyone one else notice that Pot of Avarice and the purple side of Pot of Desires has a Hitler mustache?
@@AxisChurchDevotee your right! lol! Just noticed that.
Seems I'm not the only pot of greed fan 😁
@@pot_of_greed2414 yeah lol
“wHiCh lEtS mE dRaW 2 cArDs” what’s with that voice omg
god i dont even know who that character was that caught me off guard lmfao
Mad dog the most annoyingly dubbed voice ever. So glad hell Kaiser decided to overkill him
Most of GX dubs are childish and silly, DM dubs is much better
That my friend is the most annoying dubbed voice to ever be given to an anime character
Consider yourself lucky in the german dub he has the same voice as german mickey mouse xD
Pot of Greed is the OG yugioh card, love it! Got Keychains, many different reprints of the card, the actual pot as a mug and much more, one of the coolest designs ever!
That must suck having to draw two cards everytime you take a drink
@ZombifiedBuizel draw 2 drinks, then when you do, you must draw again, and it repeats until you deck out
I don’t even play yu-gi-oh anymore but god I love this content, it’s so fun hearing all the history of cards I had as a kid
The thing is one time yugi almost got disqualified due to not saying the effect of a card he played so its mandatory to explain pot of greed's effect
When was this?
The Black Lotus also has a series of MTG cards it inspired, being: Lotus Petal, Lotus Bloom, Lotus Vale, Lotus Cobra, Lotus Blossom, Lotus Cobra, Gilded Lotus, Nyx Lotus, Blacker Lotus and Mox Lotus. The last two are from basically parody sets that aren't legal for play in most formats
Hell! It even got a reference in that My Little Pony Friendship is Magic cardgame.
Unglued was great!
Now also jeweled lotus
Vanta jar of lotus
Why is there 2 Lotus Cobra in your list? Are there two different ones?
The Utopia Archetype It Would So Cool!
I wanna see code talkers first but there not really as much of an archetype like utopia
Ignister
Forget Utopia, do ALL the numbers.....
@@matthewoliveira3782 YES!!!!!
Utopia archetype?
At 0:13 Kaiba has no thumb, it's replaced with another index finger
Every character in the anime: Pot of greed lets me draw *2 CARDS!* 1:22
"Why would anyone not play that card in their deck? And it was for this reason that this card was banned".
Me: *glances suspiciously at anaconda and dragoon both at 3 and in nearly every deck for nearly a year...*
I'm pretty sure the reason they kept repeating part of greens affects in the cartoons is simply because the writers and producers of the cartoons weren't certain if or when newcomers to the series would pop up in midseason, or if any longtime fans would miss any episodes.
They do this sort of thing all the time in cartoons and TV shows, reiterating past events or certain details for any newcomers or in case anyone missed any previous episodes.
While that is obvious, it doesn't diminish how funny it is that it is repeated every damn time
They should also bring other pots in the anime
No one ever:
Avatar of the Pot: **PILLAR MEN THEME INTESIFIES**
Oh yeah
Magic the Gathering player here
Very interesting video. Pot of Greed is always one of the YuGiOh cards I DID know about, along with your usual other suspects like Exodia and Blue Eyes White Dragon. It's cool to see how YuGiOh's version of Magic's Ancestral Recall (1 mana draw 3 cards) was JUST as busted and had even more variations of it that were nerfed in some way (Even if Pot of Avarice on paper feels like build around upside)
Extremely late reply but Avarice's "downside" is bad because it's a really significant element of inconsistency. If you draw this turn 1, you have a 4 card hand because it's not playable. And it might not be next turn either depending on how things are going. Especially in the modern era of Yugioh, games only last a couple of turns and "slow" cards like that won't always get to proc. Wherein your +1 becomes a -1 by default. Which if you think about it, kind of evens the card out in a macro sense to not be a positive (or negative) really.
You could build around it I guess and make a deck that can discard a ton of its own guys to the grave turn 1 in your initial combo but unless that style of deck is already meta, it's not at all worth the effort for 3/40 of your cards to be still-kind-of-situational +1s. Compared to Pot of Extravagance where some archetypes don't use their extra decks anyway really so you can slot it into that style of deck and it really is just +1 for free, pretty much. Pot of Prosperity is the other really strong one where you can banish 6 cards (your choice) from your extra deck then excavate the top 6 cards of your deck (look at them) and pick one to go to your hand. Which is so good because obviously you're sending the 6 cards you're almost certainly not going to use anyway (so no downside, almost) and get the best of 6 cards. Ridiculously good for searching for a specific out or combo starter because it's functionally a draw 6 at that point.
In a really slow sealed format though I'd agree you could argue Pot of Avarice can sometimes be superior to Pot of Greed, even. Though it is worth noting especially with modern Yugioh that the graveyard is actually a super valuable location for your cards to be as a lot of cards have effects there and a lot of others can pull back from there, or proc effects using your grave as cost. Meanwhile cards in your deck are usually a lot harder to interact with because you have to either specifically search that card (pretty limited circumstance) or draw through your deck (obviously drawing is heavily repressed in Yugioh). So the adding back is only really valuable if
1. Your deck can search monsters from your deck extremely easily and pull them back to your hand/field whenever you need 'em
2. You're playing a deck/format where you have one or two super-threat boss monsters, and getting them back in rotation for a chance to draw and re-threaten is a win condition (low power sealed formats)
3. You're looking at a potential deck-out win condition game, where the +5 draws gives you a huge edge in decking out last (though obviously you draw 2 so you're only +3 on deck size, but you also get the value so that's nice)
You gotta love how immediate the punish is for taking your hand out of the Pot of Greed. You’d think it’d be some slow, gruelling curse or something else to slowly punish and torment you. Nah, it just gets straight to the point and blows up.
"pot of greed is op"
Meanwhile, Fallen Paradise: *Laughs in free pot of greed once per turn and protecting the bois*
Underrated comment
The fact that it has Pot of Greed's Effect is awesome and Hilarious.
@@AxisChurchDevotee And it's actually going +2 as you're not sending the card to the gy, unlike pot of greed, all while protecting your monsters
@@ampotat9018 I wouldn't be surprised if Konami ends up putting it on the ban list in the future when they make more sacred beats support since having powerful monsters with target and destroy protection while getting a +2 every turn is insane.
@@AxisChurchDevotee I guess they would have put them on the banlist already, and since there are better decks that haven't been banned yet I doubt they will, at least soon
We need a pot boss monster that gets different effects depending on the number of pot/jar traps, spell and monsters in your graveyard with different effects.
So, it relies on you playing all of the other trash 'pot of' cards? Doesn't seem good for me
It should be based on Avatar of the Pot.
Man of the Pot
"Avatar of The Pot" + "Spirit of the Pot of Greed"
If this card is Fusion Summoned: Draw 1 card for each Pot or Jar cards in your GY with different names. If this card is sent to the GY: Set 1 "Pot of The Forbidden" from your Deck. You can only use this effect of "Man of the Pot
" once per turn.
@@chrisbelair5916 that effect would be so actually broken exodia would be playable again with normal draw power.
@@bacaslayer9922 it's for each different name though...
in magic, drawing cards is considered to be “gaining knowledge” as you’re drawing from your library of spells to widen your mind, so pot of generosity would be the equivalent of becoming +2 stupid
i forgot that magic had flavor text thats hillarious
🥱
This made me smile thank you very much for that xDD
The expression on the original pot’s face makes me think it’s in the middle of introducing itself and really hitting that double e. “Yeeeeeessss, hellooooooooo. I am Pot Of Greeeeeeeeeeed.”
These archetype videos are so cool. Also I'm glad that you focus more on the Duel Monster Yugioh instead of xyz, link and what not
6:45 Got the Reese's commercial where the Reese's exploded, and it was perfectly timed and placed!
I just now realized that the Pot of Avarice has a Hitler mustache
Proper name is toothbrush moustache.
The nationalist haircut
Or Charle Chaplin's mustache
Nah, it’s based off a popular moustache style in Japan
Yeah , it's just the stereotypical trait given to greedy and wealthy men in Japan
Actually, Magic's "Pot of Greed" is Ancestral Recall and it draws 3 cards for one Blue. And yes, its every bit as game-breaking as it sounds.
But since spells in YGO doesn't use a mana system, Pot of Greed is just a straight up +1 in card advantage w/o any cost at all, arguably more game-breaking than the aforementioned Ancestral Recall bcoz of it.
It also lets you play with a 37 card deck if you could max out on it
Well one blue Mana is literally accomplishable on turn one.
Magic had a deck that could win before it took its first turn.
@@csmead209 magic has several decks that can (theoretically) win before the game begins.
@@INTCUWUSIUA *Magic has several decks that could win before turn one*
Fixed that for you.
You can use a pot of generosity in a gimmick puppet deck, because it allows you to put back two cards from a hand that you don't like and allows to keep the cards you need with a fresh chance of setting up an XYZ summon. Depending on your extra deck you can use it to set up some really nasty combos
Yeah... but dude said what deck that couldnt use a better card instead. Reload and magical mallet are both better at putting bricks back into the deck.
In a latin american TCG game, Mitos y Leyendas, the issue of cards like this was solved by making the deck your health. You didn't have HP in there, but instead when attacked you discarded from your deck as many cards as the enemy damage was. Thus the game encouraged to never go below the 50 max cards allowed, and cards like these that allowed you to draw brought the disadvantage of reducing your deck, and thus your health
the real reason why this archetype video took so long to make is because TGS Anime took this long to remember what pot of greed does
PokeGar i thought it was because his backyard blew up
when you come to this video one month later and laugh at him thinking harpies feather duster is banned
Next expansion "Pot of the Gods" Flavor text "This mystical artifact was said to be the chamberpot of the pharaoh himself its divine waters said to cure any disease"
Effect: After you play this draw 5 if theyre pot cards play them immediately with their effects. If you end with 10 pot spells that were sent to your graveyard this turn by this effect you win the game.
Ahahahahah, where did that idea of using that picture as profile picture come to ye?
cards with effects usually font have flavor text
I would at to that
"This cards name is treated as pot of greed"
“PoT oF gWeEd! It WeT’s Me DwA tWo cAwDs”-High Voice Guy
Fun fact the original rules allowed both players to draw on there first turn but got changed later to allow the second player to draw on there first turn
Pot of Generosity is perfect if you bricked with Infernitys
mabye slyvan because of suqoia
Or if you don't want to draw garnets that would stop your combo
true
I was just thinking that
I was thinking maybe with assault modes back in the day when they first initially released 🤔 i just didn't really like assault teleport tbh then.
There's better cards to use though. Hell even Saryuja is nice for putting back the assualt modes. Baobaboon too.
9:01 It doesn’t always effect 7 cards actually, it’s possible for players to draw 1 or 2 of the cards they’ve shuffled into the main deck from the first effect. Meaning players could affect 5-7 cards from Pot of Avarice.
Technically if there is no monster in the GY and no more cards in the deck, it affects 0. Idc that ot doesn't makes sense, it would be funny
Imagine going -9 off of one card.
-This post was made by the Negate Gang
haha gren maju go brrrr
A comment about -9 that I saw 9 months after post, neat.
A card so old and so few words yet so powerful. Like a man of few words but absolutely dangerous
fun fact, pot of greed allows you to draw two card from the deck into your hand
That feather duster line aged well
"Pokemon's Tierno: draw 3 cards" - *laughs in Lillie* (draw cards until you have 6 cards in your hand, if it's your first turn, draw until 8)
I'm surprised you didn't reference MTG's Ancestral Recall, which was much more similar to Pot of Greed in that you had a lot of value for little/no cost.
Divination can be strong when played right, but you would have to play around it being a good card in your deck.
Ancestral Recall is so powerful they technically made it illegal to reprint it, along with the other Power Nine cards. I'd love to see if YuGiOh had a set of cards like the Power Nine?
I was thinking the same thing!
YGO's power nine equivalent would be ever-changing due to the fact that the meta is so volatile. But there are cards that can be somewhat of an equivalent: Pot of Greed for its draw power, Yata-Garasu for its ability to skip opp's turn, and Fiber Jar for its ability to instantly restart the duel.
Yep, in the first format, they were even called "The Power Five"
Pot of Greed
Dark Hole
Raigeki
Change of Heart
And Monster Reborn
Then many others came that would tie their power, but never were really addressed as part of the Power Five, like Delinquent Duo and the Forceful Sentry
Damn Spell Cards have a really long history of being fucking broken
@@azurabbit12 um are you trolling or no mtg has a power series but the only cards I can think of as always being banned is Pot of greed and maxx c in tcg and maybe cold wave all the cards you mentioned I said or are unbanned now duel logs does have a never to be unbanned list two of them but one list has already had a few cards being unbanned and list 2 also just had some of the cards unbanned like red reboot so… idk 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷🤷🤷🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️ edit: forceful sentry that’s one more you actually mentioned but stayed but that got a remake in triple tactics talents which is a pot of greed change of heart and forceful sentry in one also change of hearts now unbanned for the fifth time so it’s staying definitely
@@Momijitheawoo first off please use punctuation, I couldn't understand almost ANYTHING of what you said, jc
I really don't know what point you're even trying to make, the cards I mentioned WERE called "the power five", that's just a fact, it didn't have anything to do with them being banned permanently, and I seriously couldn't decipher anything else of what you said
That's one thing I love when someone played pot of greed and explained it effect
One of the most iconic spell cards in Yu-Gi-Oh! Community.
But what does it do ?
Seriously tho this is probably the most overused joke in yugioh
"M.S.T. negates" comes close too
But what is the joke?
This is a play on what does it do if you didn't get that.
Pot of Greed
1:31
But what does it do?
@@truegem4322
"Draw 2 cards."
There's also the fact that theres no mana system like in MTG or PTCG. So, you're more likely to get the exact card you need
Can't believe Harpie's Feather Duster finally gets unbanned lol
Yet Heavy Storm is still banned lol.
@@ShiningJudgment666 heavy storm is better in a lot of decks, that's why it is banned.
@@ugh5880 If you need your own board as well as your opponent's cleared as well, sure. Though they pretty much play the same for the most part.
@@ShiningJudgment666 Heavy storm would activate a lot of spell/trap card floating effects like the F.A. Spells and Traps, and the Fist of the Unrivaled Tenyi (or however it’s spelled)
@@matthewhaffner4416 I see. Makes sense. Pretty sure Tenyi is spelled like that but I know what you mean.
Best MTG example is A different piece of the Power 9. The card is "Ancestral Recall".
It has a CMC (Converted Mana Cost or Cost to play) of 1 blue mana (Tap 1 Island land in play)
Card effect: Draw 3 cards.
Like PoG it has no downside. Hence why it is banned in all formats except Vintage where it is restricted to 1 copy, just like Black Lotus.
I, the opposing duelist, on the opposite side of the field, am now informing you that I, the opposing duelist am choosing to partake in the activity of activating the Konami brand Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card spell card, who’s title tells you that it’s name is in fact Pot of Greed. I will now inform you that by taking Pot of Greed from my hand, placing it on the field, and announcing that I am using the Konami brand Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading card spell card, who’s name is in fact pot of greed; I am now permitted to turn my head to look at my deck, to place my hand upon my deck, and draw not one, but two Konami Brand Yu-Gi-Oh! trading cards from my Konami Brand Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading card deck.
Thank goodness this video exists. I couldn't remember what Pot of Greed actually did
Pot of generosity could be at least not a hindrance in infernity
True but they an artype card that not only dicard the card but also sends two card from the deck to the grave
Okay, okay, it allows the user to draw 2 cards... but it technically never says which deck. 😏
and that's how Endymion, Mighty Master of Magic ends up with a ~180 word count effect
@@DaneeBound The most literate boss monster of all time
“Draw 2 Cards”
_takes out a piece of paper and draws new cards mid match_
Fun fact: If you use the magic card Magic Force it allows you to use Pot of Greed which allows you to draw 3 cards, and play another Pot of Greed.
That's not what it does
Loved the ol' reference to Eye of Judgement @5:37 That game was ahead of its time
7:13, this pot was a great way to get garnet back in your deck while the fusion wasnt banned yet
Magical mallet
@@thegameplace3748 its a -1
Unlike igknight reload wich is neutral
@@peter-rg9jf pot of genorosity is -3
Pot of generosity sounds like it would be good for monsters that can be special summoned from the deck, but not from the hand. It would be a way to recycle them back to a place where they are more useful
Back in my days, we call it "pot of weed" kids...
No cap, we had fun
Don't forget pot of cannavice
Here’s a fun idea for a pot of greed card:
_Greedy Pot_
Quick Play Spell
_Both players place two cards from their hand, field or GY onto the top of their decks in any order. When this set card is activated both players instead place all their cards in their hand, field or GY onto the top of their decks in any order._
I like how after this video came out two months before the the new banlist! Harpie's Feather Duster got unbanned and is now limited and I bet TGS Anime Was Like This is A Absolute Win lmao
"Smug ass Pot"
-Emperor of Mankind m.41
Credits to the TCG, the original names of some of these pots are kind of lazy.
Yeah, the individual pots are fine but the combos... try harder!
2:59 well, that day finally has come! Lmao
“I summon pot of greed to draw 3 additional cards from my deck!”
pot of greed will never cost as much as a black lotus
Pot of generosity's use could be in infernity decks so you have no hand
But it would be better replaced by Phantom hand which lets you get those cards back in exchange for banishing them face down
@@thomasdunn9009 yeah but it's stil to have one copy in the deck
Yeah no. That's not how you play Infernities.
Black Lotus is the pod of greed of MTG.
Ancestral Recall: "I'm I a Joke to you"...
Recall does have a cost though even if minor. You need to have blue Mana available to cast it so technically it can be a dead draw.
@@mark1A100 99% of the time is not a Bad draw in all stages of the Game while Black Lotus being more powerful in early/mid it can be a more serious dead draw. Pot of greed is Also never a dead draw in 99% of situations. 1 mana draw 3 es "almost free" if You compare that most draw 2 nowdays in mtg are 3 or 4 mana with sometimes another condition.
Very complicated to compare a mana system vs "do almost everything free everytime". (And yes I know YGO use cost and condition too) Is just more acurrate to compare 2 cards with similar effects that 2 with completely different ones specially with a different pay cost systems.
PD: Sorry for My Bad English.
Still think that Black Lotus is more like Pot of greed, because both are costless and help you accelerate game state far beyond. With a single land and a black lotus you start straight in turn 4 and set something very difficult for your opponent to counter, if you set something good enough there will not be a mid/late game, since you might be able to just win a couple turns after.
Ancestral Recall is just as unbalanced, and was part of the boon cycle.
Of those 5 cards, 2 are definitely too powerful to be printed today, one is suspect of being too powerful, and one is too weak.
In order of power:
Ancestral Recall
Dark Ritual (3 black Mana)
Lightning Bolt (3 damage to any target, rarely reprinted, often imitated)
Giant Growth (powers up a creature by 3 power and toughness)
Healing Salve (gain 3 life or prevent the next 3 points of damage a target takes that turn.)
Feather duster is free! Pot of Greed is left 😆
If you put pot of generosity in invoked any shaddoll build you could plant the fusion material you want to use for the fusion summon in the deck so when you fusion from the deck and send the 2 cards to the graveyard you’ll be able activate to special ability. For example if you put beast in the deck you could activate it’s draw effect
I have an mtg card that’s pretty interesting. It’s called winged words. It’s another draw 2 card that has the same cost as divanation but it has another interesting effect were if you control a creature with flying it costs one less mana. Combined with something like ravenous reader and a creature with flying you now have a draw 2 card that costs one mana.
I wonder, will they release a new "Pot of" card to unite it with Pot of Acquisitiveness?
The next Pot fusion spell should be Pot of Greed + Pot of Acquisitiveness or maybe Pot of Avarice + Pot of Riches.
Ah yes. Rule #104 of Yugi rules in Yu-Gi-Oh. Fuse anything you want
It was duality + extrav
Been playing Yugioh forever and I'm still confused on what pot of greed does
The effect pot of being greed.
Pot of Greed
1:31
Darude sandstorm
I think I need a PHD to understand Pot of Greed's effect
You win the game once its out
“Public Knowledge” refers to things your opponent can see. You can still look at your own face-down banished cards same as you would with your field; allowing you to interact with them just makes sense.
Even though I have never watched or played yugioh I still enjoyed and somewhat understood the video. Great video!
2:11 So, any card with a effect that benefits any deck or strategy; without any limitation, condition or cost, is likely to be BANNED!... or at least Limited to 1.
mmm, fair enough!
*significantly benefits and doesn't take any skill to use or is just outright broken to the point it creates an unhealthy metagame state.
@@ShiningJudgment666 welcome to the modern meta. dragun and ash blossom welcome you.
@@sakuyabestgirl3418 dragoon is strong but it isn't invincible. i can either checkmate it or play through its negate and overpower it. ash blossom is annoying but i can either bait its hard once per turn or outsmart it. ash blossom isn't really broken but it's always gonna be relevant considering any modern deck has searching and/or drawing ability or even special summons from the deck. dragoon kinda is though considering it's kinda like multiple boss monsters in 1.
@@ShiningJudgment666 Yet they take no skill to play and just halt the game for either a (Ash):Hope to bait the effect, or (Dragun): Beat a 4K beatstick by hoping you drew Dark Ruler No More. I'd be fine with dragun if it were more limited to it's archtype or had a harder summoning requirement instead of "I guess since i can't beat your monsters i'll just summon Verte to get an instant negate with protection"
@@sakuyabestgirl3418 Don't even need Dark Ruler No More to beat Dragoon. Kaijus, non-targeting and non-destruction removal after playing through the negate, forcing them into a checkmate situation with Invoked Mechaba or punishing your opponent for leaving Verte Anaconda open can also beat it. Hard to argue with Ash Blossom though but at best, you've stopped your opponent from starting their potentially game-winning combo play and at worst unless it gets Called by the Graved, you've either given your opponent one less card to play at the cost of one of your own and/or done nothing to really stop them.
Judging by the artwork, wouldn't the "Pot of the Forbidden" belong to the Jar-Series?
2:59
I'm from the future, feather duster is now unbanned in the TCG.
Pot of Greed was born to make flipping the table more intense
I still lose it at
"Wits wets me dwa two cawds."
7:08
Maybe it can go with decks that contain dragonic tactics
Sorry if I misspelled something english is my second language
The Warrior archetype would be cool as well as the Synchron, Rose and Rose Dragon archetypes!
At 5:30 with Pokémon there is bill from base set which is literally the same as pot of greed. It was not quite as broken though because in Pokémon you can draw cards like a madman
In recent sets, the item "acro bike" draws two cards and can be played multiple times per turn. It's not overpowered, however, because the threat posed by 2-3 prize attackers and the availability of search cards means having more options is often better than perfect simplicity.
@@Reginald_Ritmo Acro bike is not the same as bill. Acro bike makes you discard one of the two cards you draw. Bill does not make you discard.
6:19
What would happen if someone flipped the pot upside down without sticking their hand in the pot? Would it still explode?
Would it be nice if they will create a story based on the events/characters on the cards like where do these monsters came from before we summon them?