@@Linkwii64 I honestly don't get that either. Why does the English language have one word for picking up a card from a deck AND for drawing a picture/graph/etc.?
@@r4nd0mguy99 Because the word "draw" as you said is used like that you usually read the context of what it was said. That's why pot of greed says "draw 1 card" and not simply "draw".
Duel Links uses the old text for Darkness Approaches, but uses the new ruling. I was slightly disappointed when I tried to turn my opponent's monster to face-down Attack position, just to see how it would work😂
I kind of wish they had made a whole archetype based on putting monsters into face down attack position, it would have been so whacky and fun. Instead they made the ONLY CARD in the HISTORY of yugioh, a 2 discard facedown defense card... they ruined it... They need to stop errata-ing cards, they're ruining what made yugioh fun.
@@PhunkieZero Usually I like erratas, it is basically a patch to older stuff to make them either less broken or fix the wacky wording. But yeah, this card did not deserve to become Worse Book of Moon
@@galaxyburst7208 It's really annoying when Konami changes the actual effect, like Masked HERO Koga's ATK reducing effect now only lasting one turn instead of until the target leaves the field. Pay money for a cool card, then Konami rewinds and now your card is shit.
I was a 13-year-old kid living in a Spanish-speaking country when I got my hands on a Starter Deck Pegasus. You bet your ass reading the Relinquished effect was a trip.
I think it was one of the few cards the show portrayed accurately though. The opponent's monster becomes an equip card, and Relinquished becomes a magic cylinder.
@@GeteMachineBut it's not true. It's not magic cylinder. It's reflector bounder. You BOTH take damage equal to the difference. The show didn't do damage to Unicorn as far as I recall.
I had to call a judge at a locals when my opponent was using an old Necrovalley, and someone playing near us yelled “just read the card!” If only it was that simple...
That's still how it's fucking written. It just means you can use other Ritual Spells to spell it, but according to the rules you still can't just Normal Summon a Ritual mon. Otherwise, why aren't you cracking a more ridiculous joke like "can i normal summon my fusion mon from extra deck, it doesnt sat i cant xD" Stupid attempt at a joke there, bud. Great fail tho. Ur embarrassing.
With Reverse Trap, I remember an interpretation that the "...increases and decreases to ATK and DEF are reversed" meant that ATK changes got applied to DEF, and DEF changes got applied to ATK. It's bad when there are three vastly different interpretations to the same card text, and without an official Upper Deck ruling handy, this could result in fisticuffs.
ughhh yeah I remember some kids saying that, we couldn't agree on wth it really does, and ppl would sometimes pitch the most convenient effect at that moment
I genuinely believe my reading comprehension was greatly bumped ahead of other kids partly due to constantly reading shit like relinquished's effect and other confusing effects.
Me: Penguin knights Unite ability, your vanguard is dealt two damage Opponent: Were playing yugioh Me: Oh I thought penguin knight was a gold paladin🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is where the old games are very helpful. Even if it's confusing, because the rulings were made using the OCG text and rulebook, there wasn't any issue with the cards. For example, since Relinquished is a Ritual monster, the games wouldn't let you summon it without doing a Ritual summon.
Easier language for Penguin Knight 'When this card is sent directly from your Deck to your Graveyard by an opponent's card effect, shuffle your Graveyard into your Deck."
I initially would've agreed, but there are those people that will simply shuffle the Graveyard cards *into* the Deck, and leave the original order of the Deck cards unchanged, because that's all the card would say to do. So they might shuffle the Graveyard cards, then slide them sideways into the Deck somewhere in the middle, and leave it at that. Common sense is not always common. A more pointed wording could be "move your Graveyard cards to your Deck and then shuffle".
Dice Man I don’t think that’s a sensical interpretation of “shuffle your Graveyard into your deck”, but how does “send all cards in your Graveyard into / put the contents of your Graveyard at the top of your Deck, then shuffle your Deck” sound?
Penguin Knight cracks me up. The original is confusing, and then Konami is like, "Oh, by the way, combine means unite. Hope that helps!" Absolute classic.
I remember Thousand Eyes Restrict; it had a chopped down brief description of Relinquished's effect plus the whole "no other monsters can attack while this card is face up on the field". Didn't really include the whole "the equipped monster is detroyed instead of Restrict". (Of course no one can attack anyway, so eh). But i still love my cards.
You're not wrong. As a kid I had a lot of difficulty reading the card not only because of its confusing wording, but because the text was too small for me.
Blue Sparx same. When I was a kid I didn’t even know what “relinquished” meant..I had to ask my teacher and she didn’t know either lmao. I also couldn’t read the card description
Penguin Knight is broken, after the first effect resolves you can pick all the extra cards you have in front of your opponent and just form a new deck based on the match.
When I was a kid playing Kaiba the Power on PC and won Penguin Knight, I got excited cause I legitimately thought it would form a random deck of cards which would've meant I get to use cards I haven't won yet
5:50 Ironic that a card called "Reverse Trap" uno reversed the trend seen with other cards when introducing problem solving card text, and got longer text instead.
The "best" part is that the old wording makes it seem like you would only be able to Special Summon Gilasaurus in Attack Position when using its built-in condition. In truth, you were always supposed to be able to Special Summon it in either Attack Position or face-up Defense Position, even though the old wording implies otherwise.
I still think Wobaku is the worst, at least Gilasaurus still makes sense lol, a bit confusing but at least the actual effect is still written on the card.
We still have effects that fly in the face of typical rules. Cards that summon themselves from the deck, specifically. Something they shouldn't be able to do(card effects shouldn't activate in the deck IIRC), but here they are. Special exceptions that are still around today to remind us of all the jank the game used to have. It's great.
They removed "from your deck" which means it's impossible to tell where you should draw the cards from. Do I draw from my uno deck that's in the closet? Who knows? The card certainly doesn't tell me!
Fun fact: The original *Japanese* printing of Pot of Greed said that the card destroyed itself after it was played, since spell cards just going to the graveyard on their own after being played wasnt really a rule yet.
Face down attack position works as if it were face up. That's how it was in the old games. If you attack into it and the face down has higher attack, the attacking monster will be destroyed
Weather Report and An Unfortunate Report may be some of the weirdest cards of all time, solely due to the fact that they're the only reason some cards say "this" battle phase, which alludes to multiple battle phases. It's hilarious to me that these old, unpopular, extremely weak cards are technically some of the most influential cards in the game.
Imagine you activate a card that says "your opponent has to form a new deck" and what is does is your opponent gets 10 minutes to build a new deck out of cards he found when he stranded at the north pole
Having been in 1st grade when some of the more confusing text cards were coming out; reading some of these older card text helped a lot more with my reading skills than the Dr.Seuss books
I know there probably isn't a huge base of people asking for a penguin knight reprint, but god, even 20 years ago, how hard was it to think of the phrase "Shuffle your graveyard into your deck" lmao
6:05 I would be part of the third group of kids that thought Axe of Despair would now decrease your DEF by 1000. 9:15 I'm under the impression that Last Will's official ruling is that it can be activated in the Main Phase before or after your monster actually dies. Then you can get your free summon either immediately when the monster dies or at any time as a Chain Link 1 during the Main Phase. I'm not sure how it would be ruled now.
My favorite is Dark Elf: "This card requires a cost of 1000 of your own Life Points to attack." It's never had an errata and that's still its effect. It requires a cost? That doesn't even mean anything. Dark Elf cannot attack
He's literally explained on multiple occasions why "Commenters Don't Understand" videos are so infrequent. The "Commenters don't understand commenters don't understand" comment above hits the nail on the head.
You described Last Will exactly how I interpreted as a kid. I thought you’d play it like Swords of Revealing Light in that it stays on the field and it’s effect is active the whole turn.
When this card is sent from the deck to the GY by an opponent's card effect, shuffle your GY into your deck.- penguin knight with PSCT. or close enough.
I don’t think you understand the true power of Gilasaurus. Step 1: Slip True Exodia into your opponents deck before the duel. Step 2: Dragged Down from the Grave to rip it out of their hand Step 3: Gilasaurus effect Step 4: ??? Step 5: Profit?
The pros and cons of playing cool archetypes Pros: you got to perform cool combos (maybe) Cons: you got to lecture the opponent every time you pull out another card
As I'm reading the first Reverse Trap, I realized that you could also argue that increases/decreases to Attack Points are now increases/decreases to Defense Points and vice versa
Why would people assume that Reverse Trap would make Axe of Despair's (to also use your example) cancel itself out? Honestly surprised that the card apparently was understood that way sometimes. It adds 1000 atk to whatever value it was before, so with Reverse Trap it clearly reduces by 1000 now instead and not just cancel itself out. Apply this to all effects that add/reduce and done. The only thing that really needed to be added is the multiplication and division thing.
darkness approaches doesnt word that discard bit as a cost, which means it could have done well in dark world decks. Discard 2 dark worlds to prevent an opponent's monster's effect from being active on the field
It was fun going through my old cards while watching this and finding these cards. Does anyone else find the old cards hard to read irl? The font of the text hurts my eyes
PLEASE feature Gravekeeper's Watcher. Years ago, I managed to win a match at locals by having its effect ruled in my favor versus my opponent's Brionac. Lol So wacky.
Soul Exchange is a rather old card (from the original starter actually) that I remember having a lot of people not understand correctly, even after Monarch monsters became mainstream.
For a time, I ran a Relinquished deck (this was way before it became popular), and brought with me a print out of what the full effects were and just left it on the table for my opponent to read, even after I got a playset of the newer ones that tried to clean up the text box. It was quite funny.
Fun fact in Duel Links since release, using riryoku's second effect (reduce attack) on any monster that has below regular attack (for any reason, like a effect from a special summon) and once riryoku resolves, that monster will have its normal attack as stated on the card. Fun way for more deck builds with fancy effects.
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I think the “Then, Shuffle your Deck” text was placed, because players used to argue that if a card didn’t specify to shuffle after, that they didn’t have to
3:16 - The funny thing is, a lot of people still don't know that a face-down monster equipped with Relinquished gives it 0 ATK/DEF. Same with equipping certain Tokens that have ?/? ATK/DEF.
Dynatherium is a cool card i just found out about. Great option 1st turn and still can be normal summoned whenever. Waboku is a great card and need a foil printing; one of the best generic traps in yugioh
Penguin Knight could have just said, "If this card is sent from your deck to the graveyard by an opponent's card, return all cards from your graveyard back to your deck.
Darkness Approaches does do a good job of emptying your hand/loading the GY. Even then there are countless other cards that do one or both of those things better
3:53 "[Spellcaster / Ritual / Effect ]" -.- "Ritual" Wut? What do you mean it being a ritual summon wasn't mentioned anywhere? It was Ritual type; when was a Ritual monster ever normal summoned? When was that ever in the rules? I thought this card was plenty self explanatory back in the day.
The "Attribute Summoners" from Magic Ruler (UFO Turtle, Mother Grizzly, Mystic Tomato, etc.) all said "Tributes are not required for Level 5 or higher monsters", or something to that effect. Spear Cretin from the same set has the same clause. The original Thunder Dragon text from MRD implies the Thunder Dragon archetype existed 20 years before it actually did, if looked at with today's PSCT in mind. Of course, the one card that should be mentioned is Curse of Fiend. Even to this day, I've no idea how you're supposed to use it. It's a Normal Spell....but it can only be used during the Standby Phase?
Bro when me & my Brothers were kids, we both had tons of Reverse Traps, & had them in our decks , and we had absolutely Noooooo freakin idea what it did 😅😅
As a kid, Reverse Trap and Last Will both confused the heck out of my friends and I. We ended up deciding to just not play with them. Years later, I discovered Last Will is actually awesome, and was disappointed we hadn't been playing with it all along.
I wonder if penguin knight wants to specify it's a new deck because of a card effect only applies to a deck once, then it can be done again. Like if a monster would have a restriction, "can only be special summoned from your deck once per duel," then if it's a new deck, maybe it would be considered to have never been summoner from that deck.
What I find pretty funny is that Penguin Knight's original text starts off like it actually uses PSCT, before they butchered that part too in the next printing.
Oh that newer print of Last Will actually makes it a lot worse. Originally you could play Last Will in your Main Phase 1, and then you can activate and special summon monster during ANY PHASE of the rest of the turn. So for example- you would play Last Will on main phase one, then you could crash one of your monsters during your battle phase, activate the effect of Last Will, special summon a monster, and attack with it during the same battle phase (This is how it works in the videogames like in Nightmare Troubadour). Changing the "if" to "when" in the card text, makes the spell muchhhh weaker.
Last will was the cause for so many elementary school debates because one printing said to activate it before the monster is destroyed and the other said after the monster is destroyed. I always thought I'm losing my mind because I remembered one printing but as soon as I played somebody else they had another printing which works differently
An argument over Waboku lead to a physical fight between me and my friend in third grade haha. I knew from the GBA game that the monster couldn’t be destroyed, but the card text was ambiguous
For some stupid reason, I used to think Reverse Trap affected life points, so when I was running final countdown, I’d make myself gain 2000 instead of lose 2000. Either I never pulled off the combo, or no one ever called me out for my BS. Had to learn the hard way on YGOPRO. In that same game, my op summoned a Utopia and started equipping their ZW’s. I watched as the atk dropped to basically nothing, and then they left the game
One thing that i always wondered about relinquished, and by extension thousand eyes restrict, was where the equipped monster went. Didn't know for certain until i looked it up, while watching this video, that it was your s/t zone and not your opponents. I'm 24 and have been using relinquished since i got Pegasus' deck when it first came out in the states.
i think you're not quite understand how last will works, based off the comment about activating it after meeting the requirements. mostly because _last will itself has no activation requirements._ in fact, there's no activation requirements on the card, as the only part that actually activates is the card itself see, last will does something _extremely weird_ even for an old yugioh card. after you activate and resolve last will, it has no direct impact on the game state. you don't search your deck as part of resolution, then plop a monster down to finish resolving it. no, what resolving last will does is _give you a lingering effect that you can apply once within the same turn that special summons a monster,_ as long as a monster was sent from your field to the gy at any time during that turn. yes, it's a special summon effect you _apply,_ not activate. while that's not the weirdest thing ever because innate special summons of non-nomi monsters are unclassified effects ( it itself one of those weird obscure rules that basically only matters when grapha is beaten over by ha des ), the thing about last will's special summon effect? well, aside from the fact that it can be applied to _any monsters with 1500 atk or less within your deck,_ the really weird part is that it _can be applied whenever you feel like, as long as it's not the damage step_ i don't even think that last part is implemented all that often in dueling sims or even official yugioh video games, because it's just such an absurd thing. yet the ocg rulings are very specific about the effect not being applicable during the damage step, which implies it's applicable during any part of the turn _aside_ from the damage step, which is just ... something, alright so, yeah. last will's text is always gonna be really weird, because its effect is just actually that weird. i'm not even sure _what_ a modern printing of the card would look like, because it just defies all conventions with how yugioh works. i can't say i can imagine it ever being knocked off the forbidden list for that reason, even if we ever reach the point where its effect isn't extremely powerful to begin with
So, sounds like the PSCT for this card (assuming it weren't to get a power-level errata) would be something like this: "Once this turn, you can use the following effect: 'If a monster has been sent from your field to the GY this turn (Quick Effect): Special Summon 1 monster with 1500 or less ATK from your Deck.'" Still pretty wonky, but I think that gets the idea across. I don't remember if you were allowed to use the Last Will effect as Chain Link 2 or higher back then, though I seem to remember that you couldn't. If I'm right about that, that would have to be worked in to the activation condition of the granted effect in the PSCT version I wrote.
that unclassified effects is a psuedo classification is oof. Also. that continuous S/T cards have continuous like and not actually continuous effects is weird.
I'm guessing that the game version of Darkness Approaches isn't actually an errata, it's really just to facilitate the card in the game without having to program in mechanics for a particular card that no one's going to use anyway.
How about Ultimate Offering? It used to say something along the lines of a player can pay 500 life points for an extra normal summon or set, implying that either player could use it.
My argument for why people shouldn't have been confused by Relinquished is two points: 1 it's color makes it blatantly clear it's a ritual monster, and old school yu gi oh didn't do exceptions on on special monster types like that 2 it was used prominently in the anime by Pegasus and he used a ritual spell (I mean tbf the anime did lots of stuff incorrectly but still).
Aw man, and people wonder why some people who haven't played yugioh in a while think the Egyptian gods have effects not listed on the card or that the wording can be argued to make like Obelisk immune to everything or something. On the note of Face-down attack position it was a huge meme back in the day because there were some interesting interactions, people really wanted them to expand on it for a while. Also I hold it up as evidence that back in the day they expected you to know things not on the cards or in the rule book like 0 damage doing all the various nonsense and the couple times in the anime polymerization used a battle ox and a mystic horseman to summon Blue-eyes. I think it mighta been a gimmick to make people need to watch the anime/buy the video games to know how things actually worked. Those were dark times.
I think it'd be cool if they made Panik support that utilized face-down ATK position. Darkness Approaches has not been printed, so It's not too late imo.
Reverse trap is stupid for not allowing you to double/halve. They're still increases and decreases. The only technicality I can find where it's a problem is if a card says "multiply by 0". But that's not a decrease nor increase.
Actually in many videogames you can activate Last Will, then a monster of yours is sent to the GY and you point at your deck to trigger Last Will's effect.
Was there ever a use for Penguin Knight in any Gimmick deck? I do not remember it being played in the anime and the effect doesn't make much sense for old school Yu-Gi-Oh
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**starts picking new cards to make another deck**
My friend: "bro wtf are you doing? We're in the middle of a duel"
Me: "It says to make a new deck"
Hahaha of course!
@@robertm5110 lol... I'm dying of laughter.. Same thing like the word 'Draw'. It implied that I start drawing something like a picture.
@@Linkwii64 I honestly don't get that either. Why does the English language have one word for picking up a card from a deck AND for drawing a picture/graph/etc.?
@@Linkwii64 i can't tell if that's sarcastic or genuine, but thanks for the reply!
@@r4nd0mguy99 Because the word "draw" as you said is used like that you usually read the context of what it was said.
That's why pot of greed says "draw 1 card" and not simply "draw".
That's actually so sad that darkness approaches got updated. Face down attack position sounds so fun.
I know! I swear died a little inside when I heard that.
Duel Links uses the old text for Darkness Approaches, but uses the new ruling. I was slightly disappointed when I tried to turn my opponent's monster to face-down Attack position, just to see how it would work😂
I kind of wish they had made a whole archetype based on putting monsters into face down attack position, it would have been so whacky and fun. Instead they made the ONLY CARD in the HISTORY of yugioh, a 2 discard facedown defense card... they ruined it...
They need to stop errata-ing cards, they're ruining what made yugioh fun.
@@PhunkieZero Usually I like erratas, it is basically a patch to older stuff to make them either less broken or fix the wacky wording.
But yeah, this card did not deserve to become Worse Book of Moon
@@galaxyburst7208 It's really annoying when Konami changes the actual effect, like Masked HERO Koga's ATK reducing effect now only lasting one turn instead of until the target leaves the field. Pay money for a cool card, then Konami rewinds and now your card is shit.
I was a 13-year-old kid living in a Spanish-speaking country when I got my hands on a Starter Deck Pegasus. You bet your ass reading the Relinquished effect was a trip.
same but drom a Dutch-speaking country
I think it was one of the few cards the show portrayed accurately though. The opponent's monster becomes an equip card, and Relinquished becomes a magic cylinder.
Literally same, the anime kinda helped tho
uhh i just did what the anime said,
@@GeteMachineBut it's not true. It's not magic cylinder. It's reflector bounder. You BOTH take damage equal to the difference. The show didn't do damage to Unicorn as far as I recall.
I had to call a judge at a locals when my opponent was using an old Necrovalley, and someone playing near us yelled “just read the card!”
If only it was that simple...
lol what happened?
I played old Necrovalley at a local tournament. I don't recall a ruling dispute though.
Card: You "can" ritual summon this card with Black Illusion Ritual.
Me: I'll just normal summon it because apparently it's optional!
My thinking as a kid was "Ah, so to ritual summon I need the spell, but for any other summon I dont need anything"
I wonder how many ppl actually put rituals in the extra deck when they first came out
@@JanJanNik At least this potential problem was sort out as it was called "Fusion Deck" back then.
That's still how it's fucking written. It just means you can use other Ritual Spells to spell it, but according to the rules you still can't just Normal Summon a Ritual mon. Otherwise, why aren't you cracking a more ridiculous joke like "can i normal summon my fusion mon from extra deck, it doesnt sat i cant xD"
Stupid attempt at a joke there, bud. Great fail tho. Ur embarrassing.
@@powerfulberry237 "It just means you can use other Ritual Spells to spell it" lol
So Reverse Trap used its own effect to increase the amount of text in its errata?
With Reverse Trap, I remember an interpretation that the "...increases and decreases to ATK and DEF are reversed" meant that ATK changes got applied to DEF, and DEF changes got applied to ATK. It's bad when there are three vastly different interpretations to the same card text, and without an official Upper Deck ruling handy, this could result in fisticuffs.
ughhh yeah I remember some kids saying that, we couldn't agree on wth it really does, and ppl would sometimes pitch the most convenient effect at that moment
@@seribelz that's actually sounds pretty cool though, make a card that can do all possible interpretation of reverse trap
I genuinely believe my reading comprehension was greatly bumped ahead of other kids partly due to constantly reading shit like relinquished's effect and other confusing effects.
Nobody:
Penguin Knight: "Unite your cards! We ride at dawn!"
the writers of that card were as high as penguin soldier himself dude!
Me: Penguin knights Unite ability, your vanguard is dealt two damage
Opponent: Were playing yugioh
Me: Oh I thought penguin knight was a gold paladin🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is where the old games are very helpful. Even if it's confusing, because the rulings were made using the OCG text and rulebook, there wasn't any issue with the cards. For example, since Relinquished is a Ritual monster, the games wouldn't let you summon it without doing a Ritual summon.
I actually learned that way that MST didn't negate when I was a kid
@@afernandez9579 and yet some people lists that ruling as a glitch when i download the roms for my emulatots,
Easier language for Penguin Knight
'When this card is sent directly from your Deck to your Graveyard by an opponent's card effect, shuffle your Graveyard into your Deck."
If this card is sent from your Deck to the GY by an opponent's card effect: Shuffle all cards in your GY into the Deck.
@@Jay_R. Penguin Knight's effect is a "when"-effect, but aside from that, you're correct.
@@r4nd0mguy99 It's a mandatory effect, so it becomes an "if" effect, if you were to follow PSCT.
I initially would've agreed, but there are those people that will simply shuffle the Graveyard cards *into* the Deck, and leave the original order of the Deck cards unchanged, because that's all the card would say to do. So they might shuffle the Graveyard cards, then slide them sideways into the Deck somewhere in the middle, and leave it at that. Common sense is not always common. A more pointed wording could be "move your Graveyard cards to your Deck and then shuffle".
Dice Man I don’t think that’s a sensical interpretation of “shuffle your Graveyard into your deck”, but how does “send all cards in your Graveyard into / put the contents of your Graveyard at the top of your Deck, then shuffle your Deck” sound?
Penguin Knight cracks me up. The original is confusing, and then Konami is like, "Oh, by the way, combine means unite. Hope that helps!"
Absolute classic.
Penguin knight broke the 4th wall with a fusion summon of the deck and graveyard🤣🤣🤣🤣
The original Thousand Eyes Restrict text that was almost impossible to read
Bro yes it was so tiny that even with a magnifying glass it would be blurry af still from how small it was printed
To make it worse it didn't even have the ritual name in the card text
@@rashanmcrae9166
It wouldn't. Thousand Eyes Restrict is a fusion monster. You're thinking of Relinquished.
@@VestedUTuber oh my bad
I remember Thousand Eyes Restrict; it had a chopped down brief description of Relinquished's effect plus the whole "no other monsters can attack while this card is face up on the field". Didn't really include the whole "the equipped monster is detroyed instead of Restrict". (Of course no one can attack anyway, so eh). But i still love my cards.
When you need a magnifying glass to see relinquished text, you’d think they’d think about how to shorten it before releasing it
Endymion: *Sweating nervously
You're not wrong. As a kid I had a lot of difficulty reading the card not only because of its confusing wording, but because the text was too small for me.
Blue Sparx same. When I was a kid I didn’t even know what “relinquished” meant..I had to ask my teacher and she didn’t know either lmao. I also couldn’t read the card description
Forget a magnifying glass, how about a microscope? That font size had to be below 6 pt, cause that’s barely legible.
I could make Ra full effect shorter lol
When I was a kid, I was adamant that Reverse Trap meant reverse ATK & DEF - as in, something that gives 1000 ATK would instead give 1000 DEF
Penguin Knight is broken, after the first effect resolves you can pick all the extra cards you have in front of your opponent and just form a new deck based on the match.
When I was a kid playing Kaiba the Power on PC and won Penguin Knight, I got excited cause I legitimately thought it would form a random deck of cards which would've meant I get to use cards I haven't won yet
5:50 Ironic that a card called "Reverse Trap" uno reversed the trend seen with other cards when introducing problem solving card text, and got longer text instead.
Gilasaurus will be the best. Consider the normal a special it's the finest of the confusion
that has already been done
Secret Altergeist tech
If the normal summon counts as a specail summon, would I still be able to normal summon after summoning gilasaurus?
The "best" part is that the old wording makes it seem like you would only be able to Special Summon Gilasaurus in Attack Position when using its built-in condition. In truth, you were always supposed to be able to Special Summon it in either Attack Position or face-up Defense Position, even though the old wording implies otherwise.
I still think Wobaku is the worst, at least Gilasaurus still makes sense lol, a bit confusing but at least the actual effect is still written on the card.
Reliquished, to this day, is still my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh monster design
We still have effects that fly in the face of typical rules. Cards that summon themselves from the deck, specifically. Something they shouldn't be able to do(card effects shouldn't activate in the deck IIRC), but here they are. Special exceptions that are still around today to remind us of all the jank the game used to have. It's great.
The charmer lolis ❤️
Smh Pot of Greed needs to be on this list. Worst part is that they’ve never even changed it
They did change it though. They remove where you draw the cards from so now I always carry a drawing book to make sure I can draw 2 cards.
They removed "from your deck" which means it's impossible to tell where you should draw the cards from. Do I draw from my uno deck that's in the closet? Who knows? The card certainly doesn't tell me!
@@shuttlecrossing1433 I think you draw 2 cards from your opponent's deck
Fun fact: The original *Japanese* printing of Pot of Greed said that the card destroyed itself after it was played, since spell cards just going to the graveyard on their own after being played wasnt really a rule yet.
@@shuttlecrossing1433 I think you draw them from your opponent's deck and can either add it to your hand, or add it to your opponent's hand
Face down attack position works as if it were face up. That's how it was in the old games. If you attack into it and the face down has higher attack, the attacking monster will be destroyed
Narrator (with a mysterious voice): And so... a new deck was formed...
Am I the only one who finds it hilarious that Hungry Burger is a Warrior?
I suppose the next closest type would be beast? Idk. How would you classify Hungry Borgar?
@@shmarfle47 I was thinking Fiend. It's sinister, but not dead.
@@shmarfle47 plant, duh
You mean it wouldn't be Spellcaster?
@@shmarfle47 is a dragon for sure
These all sound like custom cards.
Plot twist they are
The oldest custom cards so far.
Weather Report and An Unfortunate Report may be some of the weirdest cards of all time, solely due to the fact that they're the only reason some cards say "this" battle phase, which alludes to multiple battle phases. It's hilarious to me that these old, unpopular, extremely weak cards are technically some of the most influential cards in the game.
"form a New deck" it's Morphin Time!
Hey dzeef you should do a video on Normal monsters who’s flavor text translation is no where near its OCG translation.
"Check THIS out!"
double blind Literally the worst translation ever.
"A warrior who fights with his bare hands!!!"
Back when i was a kid I would use last will to summon relinquished.
Chad move
And then use Penguin Knight to form a new deck.
Did you shuffle the deck though?
considering how broken penguin soldier used to be back in the day, penguin knight was super underwhelming
Imagine you activate a card that says "your opponent has to form a new deck" and what is does is your opponent gets 10 minutes to build a new deck out of cards he found when he stranded at the north pole
Relinquished reads like a fake knock-off. That isn't even English.
Having been in 1st grade when some of the more confusing text cards were coming out; reading some of these older card text helped a lot more with my reading skills than the Dr.Seuss books
I know there probably isn't a huge base of people asking for a penguin knight reprint, but god, even 20 years ago, how hard was it to think of the phrase "Shuffle your graveyard into your deck" lmao
Penguin knight: *goes to the graveyard
Me: *pulls out a binder of cards and proceeds to form an Altergeist deck
Yesterday my friend tried to negate my torrential tribute with MST lmao
6:05 I would be part of the third group of kids that thought Axe of Despair would now decrease your DEF by 1000.
9:15 I'm under the impression that Last Will's official ruling is that it can be activated in the Main Phase before or after your monster actually dies. Then you can get your free summon either immediately when the monster dies or at any time as a Chain Link 1 during the Main Phase. I'm not sure how it would be ruled now.
My favorite is Dark Elf: "This card requires a cost of 1000 of your own Life Points to attack."
It's never had an errata and that's still its effect. It requires a cost? That doesn't even mean anything. Dark Elf cannot attack
Bring back "Commenters Don't Understand." 🙏
“Commenters don’t understand commenters don’t understand”
Commenters don’t understand big daddy Endymion's effect
He does that with every Egyptian God support
He's literally explained on multiple occasions why "Commenters Don't Understand" videos are so infrequent.
The "Commenters don't understand commenters don't understand" comment above hits the nail on the head.
You described Last Will exactly how I interpreted as a kid. I thought you’d play it like Swords of Revealing Light in that it stays on the field and it’s effect is active the whole turn.
When this card is sent from the deck to the GY by an opponent's card effect, shuffle your GY into your deck.- penguin knight with PSCT. or close enough.
I don’t think you understand the true power of Gilasaurus.
Step 1: Slip True Exodia into your opponents deck before the duel.
Step 2: Dragged Down from the Grave to rip it out of their hand
Step 3: Gilasaurus effect
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Profit?
If you could somehow tribute Gilasaurus to smmon the four forbidden one pieces lmao
Also if it wasn't for the fact that the second effect of Gilasaurus is optional
The pros and cons of playing cool archetypes
Pros: you got to perform cool combos (maybe)
Cons: you got to lecture the opponent every time you pull out another card
I used to just straight up summon relinquished like a normal monster back in the day lol
Lol
@@leandyricroix its okay
Reading old school Relinqushed was a nightmare for many old school players like me.
As I'm reading the first Reverse Trap, I realized that you could also argue that increases/decreases to Attack Points are now increases/decreases to Defense Points and vice versa
Why would people assume that Reverse Trap would make Axe of Despair's (to also use your example) cancel itself out? Honestly surprised that the card apparently was understood that way sometimes.
It adds 1000 atk to whatever value it was before, so with Reverse Trap it clearly reduces by 1000 now instead and not just cancel itself out.
Apply this to all effects that add/reduce and done.
The only thing that really needed to be added is the multiplication and division thing.
Darkness approaches would have stayed the same if it wasn’t for links because you could technically flip a link face down
Gotta live old school Man Eater Bug. Simple effect that wins locals everytime
This video really took me back, I had all of the cards mentioned in the video and was sometimes as confused when playing
I can't even read yugioh cards now. I didn't feel old until I recently took a gander at some.
The word unite was why I never understood Monster Recovery when it was released.
darkness approaches doesnt word that discard bit as a cost, which means it could have done well in dark world decks. Discard 2 dark worlds to prevent an opponent's monster's effect from being active on the field
It was fun going through my old cards while watching this and finding these cards.
Does anyone else find the old cards hard to read irl? The font of the text hurts my eyes
PLEASE feature Gravekeeper's Watcher. Years ago, I managed to win a match at locals by having its effect ruled in my favor versus my opponent's Brionac. Lol So wacky.
Relinquished is such a Lovecraftian horror that even its text turns into mad gibberish when reading it.
Imagine a card with this effect:
'If you control 3 mosnters in Attack position, but you control no face-up monsters, then you win the duel'
Darkness Approaches Turbo Intensifies
@@kareumello2859 Unfortunate that Darkness Approaches was nerfed to make you go to defense :(
Soul Exchange is a rather old card (from the original starter actually) that I remember having a lot of people not understand correctly, even after Monarch monsters became mainstream.
With penguin knight, they should have just written “shuffle your graveyard into your deck.”
For a time, I ran a Relinquished deck (this was way before it became popular), and brought with me a print out of what the full effects were and just left it on the table for my opponent to read, even after I got a playset of the newer ones that tried to clean up the text box. It was quite funny.
I still have my SDP Relinquished Card. Considering how text-wall-ish cards are now, it kinda fits right at home.
Fun fact in Duel Links since release, using riryoku's second effect (reduce attack) on any monster that has below regular attack (for any reason, like a effect from a special summon) and once riryoku resolves, that monster will have its normal attack as stated on the card. Fun way for more deck builds with fancy effects.
Asking directions/ introducing yourself.
Casual conversation.
Describing a way.
Understanding newspapers.
Understanding novels and scientific articles.
The Queen's English.
Shakespeare.
Old English.
YuGiOh card texts.
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I think the “Then, Shuffle your Deck” text was placed, because players used to argue that if a card didn’t specify to shuffle after, that they didn’t have to
I wonder if anybody tried to use Reverse Trap against Waboku to effectively double their monsters attack points
3000 IQ
3:16 - The funny thing is, a lot of people still don't know that a face-down monster equipped with Relinquished gives it 0 ATK/DEF. Same with equipping certain Tokens that have ?/? ATK/DEF.
"If a monster of yours..."
With the old school reverse trap I was actually in a third category, plus 1500 attack actually gives 1500 defense
Dynatherium is a cool card i just found out about. Great option 1st turn and still can be normal summoned whenever. Waboku is a great card and need a foil printing; one of the best generic traps in yugioh
Penguin Knight could have just said, "If this card is sent from your deck to the graveyard by an opponent's card, return all cards from your graveyard back to your deck.
Darkness Approaches does do a good job of emptying your hand/loading the GY. Even then there are countless other cards that do one or both of those things better
3:53 "[Spellcaster / Ritual / Effect ]" -.- "Ritual" Wut? What do you mean it being a ritual summon wasn't mentioned anywhere? It was Ritual type; when was a Ritual monster ever normal summoned? When was that ever in the rules? I thought this card was plenty self explanatory back in the day.
The "Attribute Summoners" from Magic Ruler (UFO Turtle, Mother Grizzly, Mystic Tomato, etc.) all said "Tributes are not required for Level 5 or higher monsters", or something to that effect. Spear Cretin from the same set has the same clause.
The original Thunder Dragon text from MRD implies the Thunder Dragon archetype existed 20 years before it actually did, if looked at with today's PSCT in mind.
Of course, the one card that should be mentioned is Curse of Fiend. Even to this day, I've no idea how you're supposed to use it. It's a Normal Spell....but it can only be used during the Standby Phase?
Bro when me & my Brothers were kids, we both had tons of Reverse Traps, & had them in our decks , and we had absolutely Noooooo freakin idea what it did 😅😅
As a kid, Reverse Trap and Last Will both confused the heck out of my friends and I. We ended up deciding to just not play with them. Years later, I discovered Last Will is actually awesome, and was disappointed we hadn't been playing with it all along.
I wonder if penguin knight wants to specify it's a new deck because of a card effect only applies to a deck once, then it can be done again. Like if a monster would have a restriction, "can only be special summoned from your deck once per duel," then if it's a new deck, maybe it would be considered to have never been summoner from that deck.
What I find pretty funny is that Penguin Knight's original text starts off like it actually uses PSCT, before they butchered that part too in the next printing.
Oh that newer print of Last Will actually makes it a lot worse. Originally you could play Last Will in your Main Phase 1, and then you can activate and special summon monster during ANY PHASE of the rest of the turn. So for example- you would play Last Will on main phase one, then you could crash one of your monsters during your battle phase, activate the effect of Last Will, special summon a monster, and attack with it during the same battle phase (This is how it works in the videogames like in Nightmare Troubadour). Changing the "if" to "when" in the card text, makes the spell muchhhh weaker.
Last will was the cause for so many elementary school debates because one printing said to activate it before the monster is destroyed and the other said after the monster is destroyed. I always thought I'm losing my mind because I remembered one printing but as soon as I played somebody else they had another printing which works differently
An argument over Waboku lead to a physical fight between me and my friend in third grade haha. I knew from the GBA game that the monster couldn’t be destroyed, but the card text was ambiguous
8:09 What? No, it said "after playing *the* card," not "after playing *this* card". It was clearly referring to the special summoned monster.
You got him there
4:25 Yeah, but I'm pretty sure the original rulebooks that came with the starter decks said that ritual monsters need to be ritual summoned.
For some stupid reason, I used to think Reverse Trap affected life points, so when I was running final countdown, I’d make myself gain 2000 instead of lose 2000. Either I never pulled off the combo, or no one ever called me out for my BS. Had to learn the hard way on YGOPRO. In that same game, my op summoned a Utopia and started equipping their ZW’s. I watched as the atk dropped to basically nothing, and then they left the game
One thing that i always wondered about relinquished, and by extension thousand eyes restrict, was where the equipped monster went. Didn't know for certain until i looked it up, while watching this video, that it was your s/t zone and not your opponents. I'm 24 and have been using relinquished since i got Pegasus' deck when it first came out in the states.
i think you're not quite understand how last will works, based off the comment about activating it after meeting the requirements. mostly because _last will itself has no activation requirements._ in fact, there's no activation requirements on the card, as the only part that actually activates is the card itself
see, last will does something _extremely weird_ even for an old yugioh card. after you activate and resolve last will, it has no direct impact on the game state. you don't search your deck as part of resolution, then plop a monster down to finish resolving it. no, what resolving last will does is _give you a lingering effect that you can apply once within the same turn that special summons a monster,_ as long as a monster was sent from your field to the gy at any time during that turn. yes, it's a special summon effect you _apply,_ not activate. while that's not the weirdest thing ever because innate special summons of non-nomi monsters are unclassified effects ( it itself one of those weird obscure rules that basically only matters when grapha is beaten over by ha des ), the thing about last will's special summon effect? well, aside from the fact that it can be applied to _any monsters with 1500 atk or less within your deck,_ the really weird part is that it _can be applied whenever you feel like, as long as it's not the damage step_
i don't even think that last part is implemented all that often in dueling sims or even official yugioh video games, because it's just such an absurd thing. yet the ocg rulings are very specific about the effect not being applicable during the damage step, which implies it's applicable during any part of the turn _aside_ from the damage step, which is just ... something, alright
so, yeah. last will's text is always gonna be really weird, because its effect is just actually that weird. i'm not even sure _what_ a modern printing of the card would look like, because it just defies all conventions with how yugioh works. i can't say i can imagine it ever being knocked off the forbidden list for that reason, even if we ever reach the point where its effect isn't extremely powerful to begin with
So, sounds like the PSCT for this card (assuming it weren't to get a power-level errata) would be something like this: "Once this turn, you can use the following effect: 'If a monster has been sent from your field to the GY this turn (Quick Effect): Special Summon 1 monster with 1500 or less ATK from your Deck.'" Still pretty wonky, but I think that gets the idea across. I don't remember if you were allowed to use the Last Will effect as Chain Link 2 or higher back then, though I seem to remember that you couldn't. If I'm right about that, that would have to be worked in to the activation condition of the granted effect in the PSCT version I wrote.
that unclassified effects is a psuedo classification is oof.
Also. that continuous S/T cards have continuous like and not actually continuous effects is weird.
Simplified ‘Penguin Knight’:
“When this card is sent from the deck to the GY, shuffle your GY into your deck.”
Darkness Approaches. A great card in The Sacred Cards and Reshef of Destruction.
I'm guessing that the game version of Darkness Approaches isn't actually an errata, it's really just to facilitate the card in the game without having to program in mechanics for a particular card that no one's going to use anyway.
" as a reminder of the duel"
How about Ultimate Offering? It used to say something along the lines of a player can pay 500 life points for an extra normal summon or set, implying that either player could use it.
I’m loving this series tbh
My argument for why people shouldn't have been confused by Relinquished is two points:
1 it's color makes it blatantly clear it's a ritual monster, and old school yu gi oh didn't do exceptions on on special monster types like that
2 it was used prominently in the anime by Pegasus and he used a ritual spell (I mean tbf the anime did lots of stuff incorrectly but still).
Aw man, and people wonder why some people who haven't played yugioh in a while think the Egyptian gods have effects not listed on the card or that the wording can be argued to make like Obelisk immune to everything or something.
On the note of Face-down attack position it was a huge meme back in the day because there were some interesting interactions, people really wanted them to expand on it for a while. Also I hold it up as evidence that back in the day they expected you to know things not on the cards or in the rule book like 0 damage doing all the various nonsense and the couple times in the anime polymerization used a battle ox and a mystic horseman to summon Blue-eyes. I think it mighta been a gimmick to make people need to watch the anime/buy the video games to know how things actually worked. Those were dark times.
Heyo, can you do Ultimate Offering in the next one? I've even read the current errata and have no idea how it works.
I think it'd be cool if they made Panik support that utilized face-down ATK position.
Darkness Approaches has not been printed, so It's not too late imo.
Reverse trap is stupid for not allowing you to double/halve. They're still increases and decreases. The only technicality I can find where it's a problem is if a card says "multiply by 0". But that's not a decrease nor increase.
Actually in many videogames you can activate Last Will, then a monster of yours is sent to the GY and you point at your deck to trigger Last Will's effect.
Was there ever a use for Penguin Knight in any Gimmick deck? I do not remember it being played in the anime and the effect doesn't make much sense for old school Yu-Gi-Oh
probably to counter the really old needle worm mill ? even so its still bad
Was it played in the Virtual World Arc by one of the Big 5 who had this Penguin obsession and got obliterated by Anzu/Tea?