Fun Fact: Sparks is the fastest power crept card in the game's history. It has the Serial Number LOB-055, meaning it was Card #55 in the Booster Pack "Legend of Blue-Eyes White Dragon." The very next card in the same set, Serial Number LOB-056, is Hinotama.
I love how you mention situations in which these cards could be useful. Most people who do "worst card" videos just end up ranting about old cards. The way you do it makes it interesting to watch and shows that you know your stuff. Love your videos! Keep up the good work!
I know, right. That's an unfortunate trend I noticed with a lot of TH-cam channels. They either do a "How to fix [Insert name of Video Game/Show/Card Game/Etc.]" or a "Ten Reasons why ___________ sucks", but hardly ever go into why they think it's worth fixing or what the positives are. This guy actually put in some extra effort to come up with some situations where the cards where viable, though not really useful, and I can appreciate that.
Yea Totally I never knew there were cards that could combo with this cards to make them better It sorta reminds me of 5ds yusei motif Of how there are no bad cards alone they may not to much but together anything is possible
ratchetandclankfan2 Going further, the first and 6th card can be used together to essentially eliminate problematic draws in the near future. For example, if they have one, preventing a Kaiju from reaching their hand in case you managed to set up a beefy boss monster with protection that forces them to stall out turns. It also can be used in conjunction with any cards that force the opponent to show them your hand in order to prevent future plays. It’s still a bad card, but I can think of minor uses for it. Abyssal Designator can also probably be used to counter exodia decks if you know the opponent is running one. It’s still underpowered and most people won’t run Exodia, but it does have that use.
Yeah this guy's top 10 lists are surprisingly entertaining. He gives you a history of the cards' tournament play + common/viable strategies and drawbacks. When I first saw these videos I thought it'd be some lazy WatchMojo shit but they're very detailed.
You can tell Konami thought information gathering was going to be a way more useful mechanic in the game by the way th made Pegasus special ability was to know all opponents cards
I have a suspicion that at some point they wanted specific cards to counter specific cards. So, like, Dark Magician would have been able to counter Blue-Eyes with a specific card, or something. But, they didn't do that, and instead added flip monsters, and generic traps to counter cards. So, theoretically, knowing what your opponent was playing would have been useful to know how to counter it. I think they tried to implement the 'counter' archetypes thing later with stuff like Ally Of Justice, and Meklords. But, the problem became that they would make a very good archetype and a bad archetype that was meant to counter it but didn't because Konami made it so that the archetype could only counter specific plays and monsters, not stand on its own. After that, they just gave up on the whole idea.
@@qty1315 I think you're right. There were even cards like "Last night of the witch" or something like that, which specifically destroyed one type of monster. And that monster that Pegasus used that flipped (the effect was different in the anime) all dragon monsters to defense position.
Pegasus's ability was way better than these cards though. At the start of every single duel, he knew every card in your hand, every card in your deck (because he could read your mind) and every card in your Extra Deck (back then was just the Fusion Deck, and wasnt as big of a deal). He also knew all your combos and what you were planning, he also didnt have to draw any cards for his ability and didnt have to go -1 either. For a card to be as good as Pegasus it would have to read "You can activate this card from your Deck at the start of the Duel, if this card is in your hand also draw 1 card. Your opponents hand, face down cards, extra deck, and side deck become public knowledge." And even that wouldnt be as good as Pegasus's ability because you still wouldnt know your opponents future plans, though if you know your opponent and/or the deck they're playing you could probably deduce their most likely play.
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. It's the term for when you get that prickly feeling that starts in your head and goes down your neck. It's also sort of a term for videos that try to create that sensation by doing weirdly calming things.
Man I gotta say, you have the most optimistic and positive attitude whenever you make a list about some of the worst pack filler cards in the game. Compliments for that and your awesome lists.
I used Abyssal Designator as a tech against my friends' Exodia deck. Didn't have any real way to pull the cards back from the graveyard, so it was fun. XD
@@zen4realfightman426 Exodia Necross is not the best backup option. Exodius and Legendary Incarnate both recycle a lot better, and LEI is pretty much better in every way barring lack of battle immunity.
Designator is a really good card against exodia, but you don't see exodia every day, so that's why it's not worth it. Paying 1000 to know all of your opponent's deck doesn't seem so bad, but I'm not a good player and I've never seen anyone playing this card, so I might just be mistaken
One use of Abyssal Designator is for Yugioh video games. If the opponent doesn't have a monster matching the type/attribute combo you select, they have to show you their deck so you can confirm it. As a result, you can use this if you're writing a game guide of some sort to figure out what each CPU's deck consists of by selecting a combination that doesn't exist :)
WAIT! RECYCLE IS JUST THE CARD I AM LOOKING FOR! Ojamasimilation, only 3 copies isn't enough in many games, I am forced to try to recycle it with transmigration of prophecy... Ojama cards are super easy to search so as long ojamasimilation is in my deck I can instantly get it back. I've never seen recycle before.
If you need more than twelve copies of a card over the course of a duel, you _really_ need to learn to just kill your damn opponent before the heat death of the universe.
@@joshualambs1124 no,hand trap aren't play as much as 2018 since Neo Aqua Dolphin is the better inexperienced spy but can pop the hand trap since most hand trap are 0atk and inexperienced spy cannot pop a card,just look opponent card
A lot of bad cards are still bad in duel links. I may have picked a few cards that just happened to be used in duel links to make the list a little interesting.
Use polymerization to combine it with mammoth graveyard to see your opponents hand and inflict direct damage for game. You would know this if you believed in friendship and the heart of the cards
I was playing one of the old Yugioh video games the other day and I actually used Recycle in my Final Countdown stall deck as a way to stop myself from decking out. Admittedly, I only used it because I didn't have access to more stall cards or any better anti-mill cards, but it is still a use for it.
There’s an achievement in one of the Yugioh video games where you have to win a duel with Sparks. Using it against Ra is the way to go, if I had to guess.
I think that Recycle would work better in a Timelord deck, as that deck is typically shuffled every turn. Therefore, the cards don't stay at the bottom of the deck for long.
Sure, but Lunalight Cat Dancer can attack potentially up to 14 times in a single turn for 1400 burn PLUS whatever battle damage gets dished out twice, and will usually string together an absolute minimum of 4-6 attacks, wheras Sparks is very much a "one and done" type of card. It's like saying Cemetary Bomb is worse because it only does 100 damage for each card in the graveyard. Usually, it'll do more than that.
@@nxttme He said that "Sparks does the least amount of damage a burn card can do excluding setup and gamble effects." I'm just correcting some slight misinformation.
@@mfznal-hafidz8592 you'd actually have a cost here: you have to waste a card for Spell Economics. So ironically you'd be better off just using Autonomous Action Unit (or just Monster Reborn) and have one more card than to use Spell Economics.
10- Legend of Blue Eyes (2004) 9- Starter Box Theatrical Release (1999 in Japan only) 8- Dark Revelation Volume 1 (2005) 7- Invasion of Chaos (2005) 6- Soul of the Duelist (2004) 5- Power of Chaos: Kaiba the Revenge (2004) 4- Dark Revelation Volume 1 (2005) 3- Starter Deck Kaiba (2002) 2- Pharaonic Guardian (2003) 1- Starter Deck Kaiba (2002) Spells and traps were pretty binary in early Yu-Gi-Oh, either totally overpowered (black hole, pot of greed...) or totally useless. I would have preferred 10 underpowered spells of the last 5 or 10 years, as most "top 10 worst Yu-Gi-Oh card" will be full of early cards without this kind of restriction...
Nah, this card would straight up hurt Slifer. Activating it would actually cost Slifer 1000 atk because you have one less card in your hand, and Slifer already struggles from being so cost intensive to bring out that it rarely gets over 2000 atk anyways.
I used ancient telescope as a one of in my old spyral deck for the lols it got. I quite liked it to be honest. That was before Spyrals turned into an op meta deck....
@@thecornmaker849 Can't believe that Konami ditched levels *again,* and this time, they even removed defense points. So, they replace levels and ranks with these awkward little markers. Konami is trying to essentially 'reboot' the game again for their new "linking play style," again; ignoring the fact that Links are breaking quite a few major rules.
@Jay Harv28 as an old yugioh fan, I disagree with you. New yugioh takes more thinking out your moves. You can special summon monsters like crazy but not have anything else left to do, y'know? I run Lyrilusc cards and they have me glued to some link monsters and XYZ monsters.
@@robe.d.7027 as old yugioh fans, i disagree, summoning bunch of wombo combo and potentially lose in 2 turn just because you have slightly bad hand while has bunch of bullshit hand traps make yugioh faster than speed of light, it's basically rare for current yugioh to go more than 3 turn now, new archetypes are basically so overpowered old archetypes become useless where's the balance in that? current yugioh also force you to this stupid link monster which the main reason every deck become fast as hell. This is why i quit normal format duelling and instead go to speed duelling duel link has to offer.
There's a classic strategy in M:TG called Lantern Control where you combine a way to see the top card of your opponent's deck with a way to shuffle or mill one whenever you want, thereby ensuring that you can selectively remove their draws. So the shuffle once per turn ability with Convulsion of Nature still wouldn't be good, but it would probably be pretty funny.
@@thelippyserver58 I am basically only familiar with the game through the shoe, and the memes it spawned. That led me here, and I stayed because it's a legitimately fascinating, well presented channel. All that ti say, yours is the ONLY comment I have read on any yugioh vid where I knew 100% of the cards mentioned, lol
Quite a few spell target players it often doesnt allow you to chose the target. Look into the rulings for mystic ref panel. Raigeki, pot of greed, pot of duality, all spells that say the "draw a card" basically any card that says your or your opponent.
Every card with lose restrictions has the potential to be amazing in the future. Pot of Generosity will probably be meta at some point when power creep has driven us to the point where putting Garnets back into your deck is broken.
I seen what one brilliant fusion can do. Leads to broken boards. I doubt pot of generosity will make a comeback but it's not a bad idea. I like experimental decks like these.
The game changed too much. The game speed went up by like, 1 billion percent. I know that telescope would be here, but when it came out, knowing the next 5 draws of your opponent was HUGE.
Yeah I get that it was useful, way more useful than garbage like the inexperienced spy or gather your mind and such but not something you'd play in a competetive deck, more of a casual card
+Zade Gather Your Mind was actually useful. Not on its own of course, although it could make your deck just a tiny bit smaller. But there were quite a few cards that combo'ed well with it, most notably the spell counter cards. Granted, THOSE were pretty bad as well, and Gather Your Mind was immediately replaced in those decks once Toon Table of Contents came out.
all that changed is having 3 more neighbors in Fusion Deck that can only be played 1 by 1, falling easily into pre GX Compulse and SolemnJudgement... and having MST'able monsters that go to the ExtraDeck, with the same weakness now lol
Sparks is 1 of the most powerful cards in the anime though, but to be fair, that's the case for all burn cards. Gotta love Dark Room of Nightmare and Abyss Invitation.
Y'know, you could call Dark Spellcaster on Abyssal Designator with a deck that doesn't play them to force them to send Dark Magician and lock them out of Dragoon.
For Number 6, before the trust me bruh ruling, if you called an impossible combination, your opponent doesnt reveal deck. It is public knowledge that it doesn't exist. It would be like calling Last turn with mind crush.
Top 10 Duel Logs Favorite Cards! Top 10 Duel Logs Favorite Cards! Do it! Please? Yes? What i mean by Top 10 favorite cards is not cards that are useful or they are useful, but cards you like because of art, effect or other. Like for example. One of my favorite cards is Airknight Parshath. Yes, its a lvl 5 with 1900 atk and just a pierce plus draw, but still one of my favorite cards. Infact, i like most fairy cards in the archetype. Sure, might not be top tier or meta. But, they still hold a special place in my heart and this card is one of my favorite once in that archetype.
One thing you could do is combo "Card Shuffle" and "Recycle". Also "Kishido Spirit" works well with cards that damages your opponent when they destroys a monster by battle e.g. Elemental HERO Flame Wingman and Inferno.
Abyssal designator is the perfect card to counter tech cards like Neo-Spacian Aqua Dolphin.Remember kids,keep your hand traps safe,think 2 steps ahead. I can only see this card working if all hand traps are limited to 1.Hell even then it's underwhelming
Techinically Card shuffle could also be a counter to Diamond Dude decks. Especially if you have some tell that your opponent is setting up stuff with spells being on the top spot of his deck.
After watching this, i realized these cards are not bad, it's the new cards that are utilizing power-creep over and over, and how greedy is Konami, you know, just doing business. In old days, players supposed to buy more random cards to get better cards, or trade cards with players. YGO in 5-10 years (2025-2030): -every new card has way too much text that Konami decides to use short abbreviations for every effect, "Once per turn" becomes "OPT", "Banish" becomes "B", etc LOL -every new card has self-protect, destroy bunch of cards, search the deck, special summon itself and other monsters, has atk/def 5000+ etc. Every card is a whole-lock-down LOL -every new monster can special summon itself from anywhere LOL -GY & banished not enough, so 1 or 2 more super GY and super banished will be introduced LOL -more special summoning LOL -field becomes double the size LOL -the game will be like you either FTK or you lose LOL -the game is heavily PTW (pay-to-win), more expensive cards LOL
Nah, these cards were terrible even when they came out. You'd get The Inexperienced Spy and Ancient Telescope in the original two Starter Decks and you'd immediately replace them with basically any other card you could get. The game's current cancerous meta is already "either you FTK or you lose" and has been for years. Also, the game is ALREADY pay to win, or rather "pay to compete at the meta level", and always has been.
Honestly all those cards are bad, and always have been from the very start, and that is for a simple reason: They cost a resource: themselves. The amount of stuff you can do is determined by how many cards you have on your field and in your hand, and if a card in your hand is a useless spell card, that means you can do less than your opponent. That alone puts you in an awful spot.
8:44 you can also use timaeus knight of destiny to take down any monster with a high attack since it’s atk and def become that of the highest attack monster
With abyssal Designator, if u call a combination that does not exist you do not get to look at your opponents deck as it is public knowledge that they do not have it.
Recycle is very good in an Endymion deck. Its a combo with a card i can't remember the name, however its a card that lets you place 1 spell counter (plus the spell itself!) And let you draw one copy of itself from the deck.
That's Spell Power Grasp, and it's once per turn though, so it's not like you could just cycle through this card 20 times in one turn. The recycle play could only ever come into play on turn 7 in the best possible scenario, assuming you go first, play a spell power grasp on turn one and turn three, then use recycle on turn five to make sure the spell power grasp you activate on turn five gets you another one for turn seven. And that's the literal best scenario assuming you lead the game with spell power grasp and draw a recycle early enough. That's... straight up awful.
@@nicolaistuhlmuller8718 when i wrote this i wasn't playing yugioh since a long time.. then I tried it lol. You are right, too slow since every match is almost an OTK game; and plus a new version of spell power grasp was made.
"Abyssal Designator can let you check your opponents hand and deck and obtain information if you pick an attribute/type combo that doesn't exist or that you know they don't have." Not since April 2019 rules sadly. RIP old tech.
I wish you had a list that includes Darkness Approaches, literally the most trolly card in my opinion. Being able to Nobleman of Crossout a face-down ATK monster is hilarious to me
Three of those cards are actually popular suicide cards in Duel Links, because of the LP cost and card availability. Suicides are good in case you get rewards for playing 3 ranked games, even if you lose, and you are not in the mood to play against the current meta.
I used to take a deck full of prohibitions, cloak and dagger, psy-blocker and spyrals to regionals every year because everyone just played the same two or three decks any given year. I was such a troll, but God it was fun
7:03 Adjudicator also seems to circumvent immunity to card effects since your opponent is the one sending the monster to the graveyard and not a card effect.
Okay, I have found a deck where Card Shuffle would maybe be kinda useful. Runick stall decks. With Runick Fountain, you are constantly placing your quickplay spell cards on the bottom of your deck, so you could conceivably have Card Shuffle be there to make it possible to draw into them. But, you're better off playing cards that just so happen to require you shuffle your deck. Like Gold Sarcophogus, Jar of Avarice, Timelords, or any other searcher.
I used Abyssal Designator in duel links. With this card cost 1000 life points i was able to activate skill that turns oll monsters on opponents graveyard into useless lv1 normal skeletons. And benefit of using Abyssal Designator as activation requirment over other "spell cards 1000lp cost" is that synergy with that skill, you may send you opponent's key card to they graweyard before polimorfing it.
thats the beauty of these catds. back then yugioh was great because.... simplicity. now with its complexity, you seen so many people leave the game and came back through duel links because duel links gave us a taste of that simplicity back
These cards were created in a time when Netdecking/Magazine Building wasn't a thing. Cool Story Time : Had the pleasure of watching my nephews play. The game has changed drastically since the last time I sat down played, - Their decks were similar and after a little googling were considered "top tier" so, ultimately why do you need to confirm what the other player has when you have a pretty good guess? I might want to play again, dust off my vintage zombie deck, google what the new zombies are and give them a spin.
With how many cards that search the deck, recycle's negative of putting the card at the bottom becomes practically a non-issue because of how often you can shuffle your deck
To be fair, the Telescope in its time isn't really that bad, because back then there simply was next to no deck searching, so you kinda at least knew the enemies' next 5 cards. It is still not worth, but I kinda can see how as a game developer you'd think that this is a strong effect.
I feel like Ancient Telescope was more useful before there were that many ways to search cards in your deck (so the deck wouldn't be shuffled too much)
Back when I was a super scrub player, I used to play three copies of Card Shuffle for the sole reason of preventing people from intentionally stacking their deck to cheat at my locals. We had a couple of players that did this quite often. They quit showing up when I started playing this and others caught on to their cheating ways. Then I actually became good at the game.
I have Hieroglyph Lithograph and it's awesome. Also, I don't know if it's just me or how they made it, but you can see the God Cards in the picture of this card. You can see Obelisk the Tormentor the best in the blue colored tablet.
Recycle was handy in the DS game Nightmare Troubadour, where it allowed combo decks some additional resilience. Those guys loved to run the spell that makes you discard one at random and then one of your choice, which could really put the hurt on
Solomon's Lawbook is a trap that skips your next Standby Phase. This allows you to bypass major costs in decks like Amorphage or D/D/D, but lacks utility for the fact that it is one shot and (especially for D/D/Ds), the first turn of the game is usually more important than later turns, and this is a -1 when you draw it. However, it does produce some very positive effects in a deck like Amorphage and probably could have been a great tech if it were continuous
Fun fact I run my Superheavy samurai with a three of spell card. Sekkas light. It's a free draw two that removes itself from the grave and has little to no downside for the deck (since you're not running other spells anyway.)
There is actually a weird effect for "Shuffle" that makes it quite useful. If you are running a casual "convulsion of nature" deck where you get to draw cards that are on the bottom of your deck if you guess them correctly (with the support of the true name, gishki diviner and archfiends oath for example), you can shuffle your own deck to choose the best cards to draw. Its a really specific scenario, but in this case its quite useful.
Abbysal designator is for killing a exodia or maybe retire a card of deck which you saw with effect if another card. Hand traps, boss monster or monster which start the combo.
Fun Fact: Sparks is the fastest power crept card in the game's history.
It has the Serial Number LOB-055, meaning it was Card #55 in the Booster Pack "Legend of Blue-Eyes White Dragon."
The very next card in the same set, Serial Number LOB-056, is Hinotama.
I’d say that record will never be beat but power creep in Yu-Gi-Oh is so crazy I would be surprised if somehow Konami finds a way.
I love how you mention situations in which these cards could be useful. Most people who do "worst card" videos just end up ranting about old cards.
The way you do it makes it interesting to watch and shows that you know your stuff.
Love your videos!
Keep up the good work!
I know, right. That's an unfortunate trend I noticed with a lot of TH-cam channels. They either do a "How to fix [Insert name of Video Game/Show/Card Game/Etc.]" or a "Ten Reasons why ___________ sucks", but hardly ever go into why they think it's worth fixing or what the positives are.
This guy actually put in some extra effort to come up with some situations where the cards where viable, though not really useful, and I can appreciate that.
Yea
Totally
I never knew there were cards that could combo with this cards to make them better
It sorta reminds me of 5ds yusei motif
Of how there are no bad cards alone they may not to much but together anything is possible
ratchetandclankfan2 Going further, the first and 6th card can be used together to essentially eliminate problematic draws in the near future. For example, if they have one, preventing a Kaiju from reaching their hand in case you managed to set up a beefy boss monster with protection that forces them to stall out turns. It also can be used in conjunction with any cards that force the opponent to show them your hand in order to prevent future plays. It’s still a bad card, but I can think of minor uses for it. Abyssal Designator can also probably be used to counter exodia decks if you know the opponent is running one. It’s still underpowered and most people won’t run Exodia, but it does have that use.
Yeah this guy's top 10 lists are surprisingly entertaining. He gives you a history of the cards' tournament play + common/viable strategies and drawbacks. When I first saw these videos I thought it'd be some lazy WatchMojo shit but they're very detailed.
King has returned
You can tell Konami thought information gathering was going to be a way more useful mechanic in the game by the way th made Pegasus special ability was to know all opponents cards
I thought he read minds
Info gathering can be practiced today by watching ur opponent's decks online
I have a suspicion that at some point they wanted specific cards to counter specific cards. So, like, Dark Magician would have been able to counter Blue-Eyes with a specific card, or something. But, they didn't do that, and instead added flip monsters, and generic traps to counter cards. So, theoretically, knowing what your opponent was playing would have been useful to know how to counter it.
I think they tried to implement the 'counter' archetypes thing later with stuff like Ally Of Justice, and Meklords. But, the problem became that they would make a very good archetype and a bad archetype that was meant to counter it but didn't because Konami made it so that the archetype could only counter specific plays and monsters, not stand on its own. After that, they just gave up on the whole idea.
@@qty1315 I think you're right. There were even cards like "Last night of the witch" or something like that, which specifically destroyed one type of monster. And that monster that Pegasus used that flipped (the effect was different in the anime) all dragon monsters to defense position.
Pegasus's ability was way better than these cards though. At the start of every single duel, he knew every card in your hand, every card in your deck (because he could read your mind) and every card in your Extra Deck (back then was just the Fusion Deck, and wasnt as big of a deal). He also knew all your combos and what you were planning, he also didnt have to draw any cards for his ability and didnt have to go -1 either.
For a card to be as good as Pegasus it would have to read "You can activate this card from your Deck at the start of the Duel, if this card is in your hand also draw 1 card. Your opponents hand, face down cards, extra deck, and side deck become public knowledge."
And even that wouldnt be as good as Pegasus's ability because you still wouldnt know your opponents future plans, though if you know your opponent and/or the deck they're playing you could probably deduce their most likely play.
if..if you used mooyan curry at a tournament could you select anyone in the tournament to increase their life points..?
I activate Mooyan Curry and target........that guy at Table 50!
@@SMAXZO "Ha ha! I have 900 life points! I activate Last Turn! Now I can- OH GODDAMMIT!!"
@@SMAXZO :D
Midnight Pausch Oh, so that's how I gained those life points
_Harvard would like to know your location_
Ancient telescope so old it’s still a “Magic Card”
Same as hieroglyph lithograph
That's how it should had stayed.
@@avruvimtu2204 it legally couldn't.
@@pphyjynx8217 It was legally bullshit.
@@avruvimtu2204 Yeah I agree. All hail Dark Spellian ;-)
This is THE BEST asmr channel on TH-cam.
Agree 100%
exactly!
asmr?
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. It's the term for when you get that prickly feeling that starts in your head and goes down your neck. It's also sort of a term for videos that try to create that sensation by doing weirdly calming things.
Max Thomas, where are you from?
in the Yugioh PSX game (Forbidden memories) sparks is even weaker,dealing only 50 points of damage.
Lmao, that's more like a sneeze at that point. Or at best a static shock.
My little sis when she was a baby can pinch harder than that.
I remember that
At that point it might as well have dealt no damage
reshef and sacred cards, too
Man I gotta say, you have the most optimistic and positive attitude whenever you make a list about some of the worst pack filler cards in the game. Compliments for that and your awesome lists.
I used Abyssal Designator as a tech against my friends' Exodia deck. Didn't have any real way to pull the cards back from the graveyard, so it was fun. XD
It's a fine tech to use at locals
That's why you should keep Exodia necross in his deck that way you get to summon Exodia necros
@@zen4realfightman426 Exodia Necross is not the best backup option. Exodius and Legendary Incarnate both recycle a lot better, and LEI is pretty much better in every way barring lack of battle immunity.
Or I could call Fire Zombie and have them pitch an Ash.
Designator is a really good card against exodia, but you don't see exodia every day, so that's why it's not worth it. Paying 1000 to know all of your opponent's deck doesn't seem so bad, but I'm not a good player and I've never seen anyone playing this card, so I might just be mistaken
One use of Abyssal Designator is for Yugioh video games. If the opponent doesn't have a monster matching the type/attribute combo you select, they have to show you their deck so you can confirm it. As a result, you can use this if you're writing a game guide of some sort to figure out what each CPU's deck consists of by selecting a combination that doesn't exist :)
“I activate Kishido Spirit!”
“My Blue Eyes White Dragon Attacks your Blue Eyes White Dragon!”
Honestly it’s a pretty good card ngl
Honestly you lie
WAIT! RECYCLE IS JUST THE CARD I AM LOOKING FOR! Ojamasimilation, only 3 copies isn't enough in many games, I am forced to try to recycle it with transmigration of prophecy... Ojama cards are super easy to search so as long ojamasimilation is in my deck I can instantly get it back. I've never seen recycle before.
Granted I probably won't be adding it to my deck, but it could actually be worthwhile running.
Dark Abandon why not use jar of avarice?
It isn't. Just use Jar of Avarice or something, it's better than Transmigration because it actually cycles itself.
@@hi-i-am-atan jar of avarice cant shuffle jar of avarice
If you need more than twelve copies of a card over the course of a duel, you _really_ need to learn to just kill your damn opponent before the heat death of the universe.
Inexperienced Spy is one of the best card art though
Wouldn't this card be really good now? For hand traps or traps activate from hand
@@joshualambs1124 no,hand trap aren't play as much as 2018 since Neo Aqua Dolphin is the better inexperienced spy but can pop the hand trap since most hand trap are 0atk and inexperienced spy cannot pop a card,just look opponent card
I think the best card art is from the trap "Typhoon". It is really good, and the SR or UR version is just amazing to see
Maybe he could make a comeback as a monster card, make him a weak tuner with an effect that can peak and block a hand trap for a turn
So basically, every bad card is slightly better in duel links
A lot of bad cards are still bad in duel links. I may have picked a few cards that just happened to be used in duel links to make the list a little interesting.
vampires is a tier """"1"""" in duel links
You should do cards that sucks in TCG and are good in Duel Links.
@@leonardoaugusto909 Vampires get beat by Ojamas easy
No, they're increasingly good though
"GUIDE ME MY DECK BRING ME VICTORY WITH THIS NEXT CARD! I DRAW!
.......
WHAT THE HECK AM I GONNA DO WITH ANCIENT TELESCOPE!?"
Use polymerization to combine it with mammoth graveyard to see your opponents hand and inflict direct damage for game.
You would know this if you believed in friendship and the heart of the cards
I don't even play duel links but I enjoy hearing how some cards apply.
I was playing one of the old Yugioh video games the other day and I actually used Recycle in my Final Countdown stall deck as a way to stop myself from decking out. Admittedly, I only used it because I didn't have access to more stall cards or any better anti-mill cards, but it is still a use for it.
There’s an achievement in one of the Yugioh video games where you have to win a duel with Sparks. Using it against Ra is the way to go, if I had to guess.
Top 10 outclassed cards would be a cool concept (i.e lightning vortex is a bad dark hole/raigeki)
But Lightning Vortex is younger than Dark Hole. It would be more fun if it was cards that became outclassed by more powerful cards being printed.
Spell Reproduction is weaker than Magical Stone Excavation.
Dian Keto the Cure Master is weaker than Poison of the Old Man.
@@Ninjamanhammer - Actually, Lightning Vortex was released after Dark Hole.
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That's what I said, it is younger, as in it hasn't been around for as long time.
Lightning Vortex was a reverse power creep card printed when Raigeki and Dark Hole were banned, so that's not the fairest comparison.
Actual quality Top 10 videos?! What sorcery is this???? Subbed.
I think that Recycle would work better in a Timelord deck, as that deck is typically shuffled every turn. Therefore, the cards don't stay at the bottom of the deck for long.
Lunalight cat dancer does 100 damage when it declares an attack. Which is less than Sparks.
Sure, but Lunalight Cat Dancer can attack potentially up to 14 times in a single turn for 1400 burn PLUS whatever battle damage gets dished out twice, and will usually string together an absolute minimum of 4-6 attacks, wheras Sparks is very much a "one and done" type of card. It's like saying Cemetary Bomb is worse because it only does 100 damage for each card in the graveyard. Usually, it'll do more than that.
@@OnEiNsAnEmOtHeRfUcKa I was just saying that there is a card effect where a single resolution will do less damage than Sparks.
Yeah but this video is about spells
@@nxttme He said that "Sparks does the least amount of damage a burn card can do excluding setup and gamble effects." I'm just correcting some slight misinformation.
But it also Attacke directly so it will always Deal more damage than sparks
I like how this list is basically a summation of all the common drops you get from standard duelists in Duel Links.
Abysmal designator combos with the monster "Victoria"
Or Autonomous Action Unit and Spell Economics for free opp. Monster and no cost
@@mfznal-hafidz8592 you'd actually have a cost here: you have to waste a card for Spell Economics. So ironically you'd be better off just using Autonomous Action Unit (or just Monster Reborn) and have one more card than to use Spell Economics.
10- Legend of Blue Eyes (2004)
9- Starter Box Theatrical Release (1999 in Japan only)
8- Dark Revelation Volume 1 (2005)
7- Invasion of Chaos (2005)
6- Soul of the Duelist (2004)
5- Power of Chaos: Kaiba the Revenge (2004)
4- Dark Revelation Volume 1 (2005)
3- Starter Deck Kaiba (2002)
2- Pharaonic Guardian (2003)
1- Starter Deck Kaiba (2002)
Spells and traps were pretty binary in early Yu-Gi-Oh, either totally overpowered (black hole, pot of greed...) or totally useless. I would have preferred 10 underpowered spells of the last 5 or 10 years, as most "top 10 worst Yu-Gi-Oh card" will be full of early cards without this kind of restriction...
Love the vid I didn't even know some of these cards were actual cards
"Increase your hand size by 1 with one dose of this card
Duelists hate it, but your Slifer will love it😉"
Nah, this card would straight up hurt Slifer. Activating it would actually cost Slifer 1000 atk because you have one less card in your hand, and Slifer already struggles from being so cost intensive to bring out that it rarely gets over 2000 atk anyways.
@@nicolaistuhlmuller8718 I... don't think you got the joke
I used ancient telescope as a one of in my old spyral deck for the lols it got. I quite liked it to be honest. That was before Spyrals turned into an op meta deck....
Top 10 cards ruined by new rules/updated game mechanics. :P
EndlessEdgar
So extra deck monsters?
@@thecornmaker849 Can't believe that Konami ditched levels *again,* and this time, they even removed defense points. So, they replace levels and ranks with these awkward little markers. Konami is trying to essentially 'reboot' the game again for their new "linking play style," again; ignoring the fact that Links are breaking quite a few major rules.
@@anayos6726 Or maybe ur just old, and you refuse to step up.
The old yugioh is a sht, slow, broken card should never exist.
@Jay Harv28 as an old yugioh fan, I disagree with you. New yugioh takes more thinking out your moves. You can special summon monsters like crazy but not have anything else left to do, y'know? I run Lyrilusc cards and they have me glued to some link monsters and XYZ monsters.
@@robe.d.7027 as old yugioh fans, i disagree, summoning bunch of wombo combo and potentially lose in 2 turn just because you have slightly bad hand while has bunch of bullshit hand traps make yugioh faster than speed of light, it's basically rare for current yugioh to go more than 3 turn now, new archetypes are basically so overpowered old archetypes become useless where's the balance in that? current yugioh also force you to this stupid link monster which the main reason every deck become fast as hell. This is why i quit normal format duelling and instead go to speed duelling duel link has to offer.
top 10 cards that change a rule permantly in the game.
Convulsion of Nature and Hieroglyph Lithograph.
#1 is The Inexperienced Spy, calling it now.
It was on the list but not number 1
Was number 2 on the list
it was number 3. good card pick
Dexxus *Oof* close
I use Kishido Spirit with Cyber Shadow Gardna in Duel Links
There's a classic strategy in M:TG called Lantern Control where you combine a way to see the top card of your opponent's deck with a way to shuffle or mill one whenever you want, thereby ensuring that you can selectively remove their draws.
So the shuffle once per turn ability with Convulsion of Nature still wouldn't be good, but it would probably be pretty funny.
it's so funny to see legit almost all of these cards in the self-TK decks for the xyz event in master duel lmao
Mooyan curry on yourself? I chain mystical refpanel! It is I, who gains 200 now muhaha
Lol
Haha but in response to your refpanel i activate bad reaction so you lose life points
@@adrian0alabaster How about I red reboot the chain?
@@lpfan4491 I'll red reboot your red reboot
If there is no artwork of someone physically holding up and looking through an Ancient Telescope, it needs to be made.
I think theres a card with an ogre or troll ... Looking through the telescope but it has another name...
Anime archetypes with no current support(Pls do something evil heroes pls :3)
Abyssal Designator seems like it would be good in getting rid of handtraps.
It is yeah
I used it to get rid of Lava Golem.
@@ferdinandpurczeld234 Waaaay back in middle school I used to run three. I used it to snipe my friend's Jinzo and Injection Fairy Lilly.
@@thelippyserver58 I am basically only familiar with the game through the shoe, and the memes it spawned. That led me here, and I stayed because it's a legitimately fascinating, well presented channel.
All that ti say, yours is the ONLY comment I have read on any yugioh vid where I knew 100% of the cards mentioned, lol
They'd just send a redundant copy from their deck to the grave.
When I saw sparks was the best card of this list I though "oh god"
Quite a few spell target players it often doesnt allow you to chose the target. Look into the rulings for mystic ref panel. Raigeki, pot of greed, pot of duality, all spells that say the "draw a card" basically any card that says your or your opponent.
King Hext mooyan curry is just a rare card that specifically mentions targeting a player.
Every card with lose restrictions has the potential to be amazing in the future. Pot of Generosity will probably be meta at some point when power creep has driven us to the point where putting Garnets back into your deck is broken.
Big Bando that makes no sense
Fixing a garnet with a garnet is still a garnet
@@zacharyportnoy7618 There might be a way to search spells or "pots" in the future? And card draw might be a lot more common.
I seen what one brilliant fusion can do. Leads to broken boards. I doubt pot of generosity will make a comeback but it's not a bad idea. I like experimental decks like these.
If this ever happens ill play mallet while you play generosity
more like top 10 cards for HardLeg Mindgame
Interesting spell cards! Nice vid DuelLogs!
Oh boy. When sparks is said to be the best card on this list, you know it's gonna be a good video.
Underpowered spells: Exists
XYZ Event: it's free real state
My opponents about to win with Sparks but little does he know I have Mooyan Curry
Abyssal Designator would probably be used to get my Slifer out of the game, since all my friends know I love it so much
I love these lists that go on about older cards :)
I use Mooyan in Mythical Beast Cerberus deck to increase the opponent's LP so I can win with the bonus from Duel Links (Comeback Victory)
The game changed too much. The game speed went up by like, 1 billion percent. I know that telescope would be here, but when it came out, knowing the next 5 draws of your opponent was HUGE.
Not really. Having information at the cost of an entire card has never been a meta strategy in yugioh. Sure it was a lot better but it was never great
@@zade3488 remember: back in the day we didn't have a lot of card draw effects, so it really wasn't that bad
Yeah I get that it was useful, way more useful than garbage like the inexperienced spy or gather your mind and such but not something you'd play in a competetive deck, more of a casual card
+Zade
Gather Your Mind was actually useful. Not on its own of course, although it could make your deck just a tiny bit smaller.
But there were quite a few cards that combo'ed well with it, most notably the spell counter cards.
Granted, THOSE were pretty bad as well, and Gather Your Mind was immediately replaced in those decks once Toon Table of Contents came out.
all that changed is having 3 more neighbors in Fusion Deck that can only be played 1 by 1, falling easily into pre GX Compulse and SolemnJudgement... and having MST'able monsters that go to the ExtraDeck, with the same weakness now lol
you make very interesting videos i love your channel!!!
great work
Sparks is 1 of the most powerful cards in the anime though, but to be fair, that's the case for all burn cards. Gotta love Dark Room of Nightmare and Abyss Invitation.
Y'know, you could call Dark Spellcaster on Abyssal Designator with a deck that doesn't play them to force them to send Dark Magician and lock them out of Dragoon.
Vídeo perfeito! Parabéns!
When sparks is the "best" card on this list, you know this is going to be a fun list
For Number 6, before the trust me bruh ruling, if you called an impossible combination, your opponent doesnt reveal deck. It is public knowledge that it doesn't exist. It would be like calling Last turn with mind crush.
Top 10 Duel Logs Favorite Cards! Top 10 Duel Logs Favorite Cards! Do it! Please? Yes?
What i mean by Top 10 favorite cards is not cards that are useful or they are useful, but cards you like because of art, effect or other. Like for example. One of my favorite cards is Airknight Parshath. Yes, its a lvl 5 with 1900 atk and just a pierce plus draw, but still one of my favorite cards. Infact, i like most fairy cards in the archetype. Sure, might not be top tier or meta. But, they still hold a special place in my heart and this card is one of my favorite once in that archetype.
Card shuffle is used by hackers in Duel Links? I'm dead xD
I never saw someone use that skill though
One thing you could do is combo "Card Shuffle" and "Recycle". Also "Kishido Spirit" works well with cards that damages your opponent when they destroys a monster by battle e.g. Elemental HERO Flame Wingman and Inferno.
Abyssal designator is the perfect card to counter tech cards like Neo-Spacian Aqua Dolphin.Remember kids,keep your hand traps safe,think 2 steps ahead.
I can only see this card working if all hand traps are limited to 1.Hell even then it's underwhelming
Vampire kingdom is good for it
Sparks is the most op card since it counters the winged dragon of ra when fused with marik. He only leaves behind 1 lp left
Techinically Card shuffle could also be a counter to Diamond Dude decks. Especially if you have some tell that your opponent is setting up stuff with spells being on the top spot of his deck.
After watching this, i realized these cards are not bad, it's the new cards that are utilizing power-creep over and over, and how greedy is Konami, you know, just doing business. In old days, players supposed to buy more random cards to get better cards, or trade cards with players.
YGO in 5-10 years (2025-2030):
-every new card has way too much text that Konami decides to use short abbreviations for every effect, "Once per turn" becomes "OPT", "Banish" becomes "B", etc LOL
-every new card has self-protect, destroy bunch of cards, search the deck, special summon itself and other monsters, has atk/def 5000+ etc. Every card is a whole-lock-down LOL
-every new monster can special summon itself from anywhere LOL
-GY & banished not enough, so 1 or 2 more super GY and super banished will be introduced LOL
-more special summoning LOL
-field becomes double the size LOL
-the game will be like you either FTK or you lose LOL
-the game is heavily PTW (pay-to-win), more expensive cards LOL
Nah, these cards were terrible even when they came out. You'd get The Inexperienced Spy and Ancient Telescope in the original two Starter Decks and you'd immediately replace them with basically any other card you could get.
The game's current cancerous meta is already "either you FTK or you lose" and has been for years. Also, the game is ALREADY pay to win, or rather "pay to compete at the meta level", and always has been.
Honestly all those cards are bad, and always have been from the very start, and that is for a simple reason: They cost a resource: themselves. The amount of stuff you can do is determined by how many cards you have on your field and in your hand, and if a card in your hand is a useless spell card, that means you can do less than your opponent. That alone puts you in an awful spot.
It's been so long since I've played that i have almost all these cards and loved using them
8:44 you can also use timaeus knight of destiny to take down any monster with a high attack since it’s atk and def become that of the highest attack monster
With abyssal Designator, if u call a combination that does not exist you do not get to look at your opponents deck as it is public knowledge that they do not have it.
I like how so many of these cards are ones you get from standard duelists in duel links
Recycle is possibly useful with the Spellbook field spell also
Card shuffle looks like something that Yugi would use in the anime to deal with a cheater.
Recycle is very good in an Endymion deck. Its a combo with a card i can't remember the name, however its a card that lets you place 1 spell counter (plus the spell itself!) And let you draw one copy of itself from the deck.
That's Spell Power Grasp, and it's once per turn though, so it's not like you could just cycle through this card 20 times in one turn. The recycle play could only ever come into play on turn 7 in the best possible scenario, assuming you go first, play a spell power grasp on turn one and turn three, then use recycle on turn five to make sure the spell power grasp you activate on turn five gets you another one for turn seven. And that's the literal best scenario assuming you lead the game with spell power grasp and draw a recycle early enough. That's... straight up awful.
@@nicolaistuhlmuller8718 when i wrote this i wasn't playing yugioh since a long time.. then I tried it lol. You are right, too slow since every match is almost an OTK game; and plus a new version of spell power grasp was made.
"Abyssal Designator can let you check your opponents hand and deck and obtain information if you pick an attribute/type combo that doesn't exist or that you know they don't have."
Not since April 2019 rules sadly. RIP old tech.
I wish you had a list that includes Darkness Approaches, literally the most trolly card in my opinion. Being able to Nobleman of Crossout a face-down ATK monster is hilarious to me
Darkness Approaches had its effect errata’d
@@brianaguilar8283 Yea, I saw..he actually made a video that included it. It was just soo gimmicky
Three of those cards are actually popular suicide cards in Duel Links, because of the LP cost and card availability. Suicides are good in case you get rewards for playing 3 ranked games, even if you lose, and you are not in the mood to play against the current meta.
I always felt like abyssal designator had so much potential, information is more valuable than many people think.
I used to take a deck full of prohibitions, cloak and dagger, psy-blocker and spyrals to regionals every year because everyone just played the same two or three decks any given year. I was such a troll, but God it was fun
Sparks was no joke I was beaten by one while I had the winged dragon of ra on the field and I only had 100 life points true story
I used to run Ancient Telescope, Inexperienced Spy, Kishido Spirit, Mooyan Curry, and Sparks as a youth
7:03 Adjudicator also seems to circumvent immunity to card effects since your opponent is the one sending the monster to the graveyard and not a card effect.
Okay, I have found a deck where Card Shuffle would maybe be kinda useful. Runick stall decks. With Runick Fountain, you are constantly placing your quickplay spell cards on the bottom of your deck, so you could conceivably have Card Shuffle be there to make it possible to draw into them.
But, you're better off playing cards that just so happen to require you shuffle your deck. Like Gold Sarcophogus, Jar of Avarice, Timelords, or any other searcher.
I used Abyssal Designator in duel links. With this card cost 1000 life points i was able to activate skill that turns oll monsters on opponents graveyard into useless lv1 normal skeletons. And benefit of using Abyssal Designator as activation requirment over other "spell cards 1000lp cost" is that synergy with that skill, you may send you opponent's key card to they graweyard before polimorfing it.
Do top 10 cards with huge downsides please
That be cool
Graverobber is one
thats the beauty of these catds. back then yugioh was great because.... simplicity. now with its complexity, you seen so many people leave the game and came back through duel links because duel links gave us a taste of that simplicity back
These cards were created in a time when Netdecking/Magazine Building wasn't a thing. Cool Story Time : Had the pleasure of watching my nephews play. The game has changed drastically since the last time I sat down played, - Their decks were similar and after a little googling were considered "top tier" so, ultimately why do you need to confirm what the other player has when you have a pretty good guess?
I might want to play again, dust off my vintage zombie deck, google what the new zombies are and give them a spin.
You're giving me ideas for duel links for unlocking characters.
With how many cards that search the deck, recycle's negative of putting the card at the bottom becomes practically a non-issue because of how often you can shuffle your deck
I would love to see you talkin about the old YGO competitive meta, if you make a video about this it would be great!
To be fair, the Telescope in its time isn't really that bad, because back then there simply was next to no deck searching, so you kinda at least knew the enemies' next 5 cards. It is still not worth, but I kinda can see how as a game developer you'd think that this is a strong effect.
I feel like Ancient Telescope was more useful before there were that many ways to search cards in your deck (so the deck wouldn't be shuffled too much)
I love the Recyle-Card Trader combi and played it pretty often :D
I wish this guy would give overviews and combos of architypes. Let's hear about those Traptricks or the Aroma architypes!
Back when I was a super scrub player, I used to play three copies of Card Shuffle for the sole reason of preventing people from intentionally stacking their deck to cheat at my locals. We had a couple of players that did this quite often. They quit showing up when I started playing this and others caught on to their cheating ways. Then I actually became good at the game.
I have Hieroglyph Lithograph and it's awesome. Also, I don't know if it's just me or how they made it, but you can see the God Cards in the picture of this card. You can see Obelisk the Tormentor the best in the blue colored tablet.
Ayyee my favorite spell card, gather your mind.
Needs ulti printing
Recycle was handy in the DS game Nightmare Troubadour, where it allowed combo decks some additional resilience. Those guys loved to run the spell that makes you discard one at random and then one of your choice, which could really put the hurt on
delinquent duo?
@@mrfishman9016 my man, this comment was FOUR YEARS OLD. Yes, the card was Delinquent Duo, but goddamn
@@firedrake110 Zamn
Solomon's Lawbook is a trap that skips your next Standby Phase. This allows you to bypass major costs in decks like Amorphage or D/D/D, but lacks utility for the fact that it is one shot and (especially for D/D/Ds), the first turn of the game is usually more important than later turns, and this is a -1 when you draw it.
However, it does produce some very positive effects in a deck like Amorphage and probably could have been a great tech if it were continuous
Epic Dude Solomon’s Lawbook can skip a standby phase for Golden Castle of Stromberg so that you don’t have to banish 10 cards face down.
Fun fact I run my Superheavy samurai with a three of spell card. Sekkas light. It's a free draw two that removes itself from the grave and has little to no downside for the deck (since you're not running other spells anyway.)
I used to run Recycle with Gather Your Mind.
Never had so many spell counters.
Never lost so many duels.
There is actually a weird effect for "Shuffle" that makes it quite useful. If you are running a casual "convulsion of nature" deck where you get to draw cards that are on the bottom of your deck if you guess them correctly (with the support of the true name, gishki diviner and archfiends oath for example), you can shuffle your own deck to choose the best cards to draw. Its a really specific scenario, but in this case its quite useful.
Abbysal designator is for killing a exodia or maybe retire a card of deck which you saw with effect if another card.
Hand traps, boss monster or monster which start the combo.
card shuffle can be used to casino shuffle your opponent's deck if you don't like them very much, or if your just one of those type of people
in regards of abyssal designator: you do not get to check your opponents deck if there is no card of your chosen type/attribute in the game at all.