I can never take Delinquent Duo seriously, because I was playing a GBA Yugioh game and Marik used Magician of Faith to bring Delinquent Duo back to his hand with less than 1000 life points (while having Monster Reborn and Raigeki in his graveyard) and used it on me his next turn and cost him the duel
Nothing better than just giving a huge ton of defense to a monster, wait the A.I to crash into it and then flipping it face down, just for the I.A to crash into it again and so on until I win. xDD
@@PsychSoldier756 though Tempest resides on the limited list since it has the weakest effect of the 4 and the fact that wind is by far one of if not the weakest attribute in the game.
"BUT... THAT LEAVES ME WITH A DECK OF ONLY SIX CARDS!" you could hear the sudden dread in his voice as he subconsciously realizes that Ishizu was probably telling the truth about the whole "prophecy" thing
Lloyd Adam Smith Grande it’s just a simple +1, it doesn’t do anything else, or even hurt your opponent’s advantage, it only nets you advantage. Personally I think it could come back.
Brian Aguilar that’s why it’s banned. It’s a simple plus 1 literally every deck would play it. There’s no need to have it come back. And before you say errata we kind of already have an errated version which is called pot of desires.
I'd really love to see a History of the Meta video from you, detailing the first meta decks, how and why the meta changed, what decks were the best as new mechanics came out, etc.
@@ibra8096painful choice would probably have to have something like paying either a high set of life points (like 2000 or 3000) or paying half your life points to make it balanced enough.
It's a little bit too slow especially compared to other ftk. Besides Yata is not the main reason the F&L list was created, it was CED(pre-errata) that really made Yata-Lock a viable deck since it requires you to go second and can't out boards to actually do get it's effect off. Don't get me wrong, it's still a powerful card but not deserving of top 10 most broken card, although i also don't think that some of the cards in this list also deserve to be on it.
Spellbooks and Dragon rulers. The only T0 decks that never reached T0 status, becauss they were the only T0 decks that faced another T0 deck. Eachother.
Another note about Firewall is how effective it was at link climbing as long as you had the hand resources. Being able to special summon a card from your hand each time you use a monster it points to as material makes it one of the easiest methods of extra linking. It's basically Ultimate Offering 2.0.
Drago Guy number c69 when your opponent attacks it blows up their field. That's the only effect I remember. But... They could just blow it up with something like fissure or raigeki.
Fun fact: Firewall Dragon's second effect has been used exactly once in all of VRAINS thusfar. Also, funnily, Dark Strike Fighter had an effect pretty similar to the errata'd version in the anime. Meaning the game, of all things, was what made it broken.
Kind of like what they did with honest in yugioh GX, in the show honest literally says it can only be used on a level 7 or higher warrior type monster.
@@nifty6970 true but the character that uses it has only a hand full of monster he can use it on to begin with, if it was like it was on the show you would kind of need to build your deck around it.
Everytime I see these lists my answer is always the same, Makyura as the enabler of the breaking mechanic of making all traps into spells is the number 1 for obvious reasons. Even if you banned all the possible cards that conduct to FTK combos, it would still enable pretty degenerate turn 1 boards, increase deck consistency 1000 fold, and of all the cards it holds the honours of not having been errata nor having ever been legal to begin with. Card was banned 1 week before it's first print, that's all you need to know who the real king troublemaker of the f/l list is.
also it was banned week 1 in the TCG not OCG. It was legal for months there alongside exchange of spirit in the same format enabling FTK cancer decks lol
@@kefkapalazzo9587 Vijam The Cubic Seed, Exploder Dragon, Grave Squirmer, Kozmoll Wicked Witch, Yubel. There are way more cards... also Yubel can kill the person who activated Last Turn if their LP are low enough and cards like Dark Destroyer with on summon destruction removal, shit like that can get you a free win. So yeah. It's way easier to force a tie than it is to summon cards like the Wicked Avatar.
Probably the most reliable easily accessed and self-maintaining monsters (that I can think of) for the Last Turn user to use would be Raidraptor - Ultimate Falcon or Eater of Millions. Alternatively some of best monsters (that I can think of) to summon if you get Last Turned would be Vijam The Cubic Seed or Kozmo Dark Destroyer. (Provided on summon effects could activate)
@@namedfuzzball4393 The thing about Last Turn is that it doesn't include any kind of summon-blocking. There are just so many routes to make it end in a draw. Any floater or battle-indestructible monster. Any Special-Summon blocker. Anything that gets rid of the opposing monster before (or in some cases after) the damage step starts. Not to mention the floating effects of stuff that might get sent in the process of activating Last Turn. Like, what made Last Turn an absolute friggin' joke wasn't the Jowgen combo. It was that you could easily fill your whole deck with cards that didn't necessarily win off Last Turn, but did force a draw, and count on the few times you could pull off the Jowgen combo (or some variant of it, like Jowls of Dark Demise or Non-Aggression Area). After all, two draws and a win is still a win. And three draws... well, it's not a loss.
No though considering that DuelLogs had it #1 on another list, I guess he wanted to show off different cards. I was personally expecting Chaos Emperor Dragon.
Is it broken? Definitely, but the fact that is a gamble card makes it unreliable and it's also a trap. In the end you can pull it off 1 in 3 times. In floating decks is great tho
Richard the pastamancer there’s no downside to Sixth Sense. You can either get a result so powerful it’s a game winning effect (drawing 5 to 6 cards) or a decent mill effect, and it’s not a downside in many decks (Lightsworns, Burning Abyss, or pretty much any Zombie Deck ever) to mill cards.
Lmao, don't make me laugh. Buster Blader, the Dragon destroyer swordsman is an easy fusion that NEGATES the effects of any and ALL dragons. Also forces them to defence and prevents them from changing battle position.
In a more "pure power" way, the two cards black luster soldier envoy and Dragon envoy are really so easy to summon and give you a massive advantage, especially considering you could use the effect of the dragon if somehow your opponent activates a trap or magic card to destroy it. If you try those cards through a cheated Yu-Gi-Oh video games just to see why some are banned you will quickly realise that there is a good reason some cards are banned.
What is so scary about things like Painful Choice, Delinquent Duo, Makyura the Destructor, Last Will, and Graceful Charity (the last two of which should have been on this list) is that none of the cards listed have a power ceiling. No matter how many sets come out with broken cards like Firewall Dragon, the above five cards will *ALWAYS* be super powerful simply because of their design and what they allow players to do, either to benefit themselves or to screw over their opponents.
My favorite card probably doesn't deserve to be on this list, but Cyber Jar was my favorite card ever when I played the game when I was 8. A board wipe that lets you refill hands and the field? It's just so neat!
I dont remember when it was released, but it would be a balanced card back in the day where basically only way to special summon from the GRY was with Monster Reborn.
10 seconds in, and I just want to say THANK YOU for putting the list in the description, saving me from flicking through your video. Truly, thank you!!
*I want to clarify something about Card of Safe Return* : it was okay by the time it was created because there was almost no easy way of special summoning monsters from the graveyard. Treeborn Frog doesn't work, Call of the Haunted was limited at 1, and the only deck that had a theme of special summoning monsters from the graveyard were Zombies, and even they didn't have that many effects to do it. Book of Life, Vampire Lord's effect if you got lucky it happened or you forced it, Twin-Headed Behemoth. It also was at 3 for a very short time, it was mostly at 1 until it was banned.
@@kzr_1613 no there not there the worst 1 bc they all go 0 atk but (bad) 2 got high def. (good) 3 how is this cards gotta beat your opponent? (bad) 4 effects (goood) But there is no reason of using this decks but you can still won with these guys
I feel like almost every broken card could easily be fixed by just putting "You can only use each effect of [card name] once per turn." on it. (not every broken card would be fixed, but the vast majority would be with this) I mean, you'd think they'd just make that little bit of text mandatory over how many dozens of broken cards they've had to errata or ban over the years that had no limit on them, especially since in Yu-Gi-Oh there's no resource system to limit things naturally, like how there's mana in Magic the Gathering.
Yeah, but I feel they'd lose their "soul" if you errata'd them. Look at the poor Sangan and all those other cards nobody really cares about anymore after getting off the banlist with an errata. This is my personal silly opinion, but I think the same applies to any other TCG too.
It wouldnt help sixth sense, yatagarasu, book of judgement, dragon rulers, delenquent duo, trap dustshoot, pot of greed, chaos dragon envoy of end (without errata) etc. But maybe that would fix some, dunno...
@@vatekanore3756 Yeah, like they are so going to become teir 1 with Painful Choice that way even at 3... After all, a face-down banish makes the cards a lot less useable then a face-up one.
@@Verde4755 But you also have to give up 4 other really good cards to do so (as it's your opponent's choice which of the 5 you get. If just one of them is crappy, they will give you the crappy one) And even if it still breaks even, it's not like you will be able to do anything with the 4 that weren't chosen... as the fact that those previously wen't to the GY is the reason why the card is so broken now.
@@13KuriMaster it's true, but you can use desires logic here, since the cards were in the deck, they were useless anyway, so painful choice is still super powerful
For some reason I love the old school overpowered cards, I used to play power of chaos yu gi oh back in the day, and every old card was there. Those were the days.
I remember from years and years ago, my younger brother and I went to a small local tourney at some game shop in our city. This was way back in the earlier days of YGO, before even E-Heroes were a twinkle in Konami's eye. My brother was like 12-13 years old at the time. He played some douche bag guy who cheezed out easy wins by abusing Wall of Revealing Light to instantly burn himself to 1000 LP, activate Last Turn and prevent my brother from getting a monster on the field, or say that Walls attack blocking effect prevented by brother from attacking despite the card being destroyed by Last Turn or something stupid like that. I don't remember the specifics (again, this was like 15 years ago) but it was dirty as hell and the guy was being a real shitheel about it to my brother, who he looked 10+ years older than and for whatever reason he is trying to give some kid the runaround to scum out a win in some silly card game at a local no one cares about. 🙄 Long story short, we went home after that and my brother stopped playing YGO all together.
"Konami decided to ban the problem card of this loop-" "Oh we finally banned the cannon soldiers?" "And banned firewall dragon" Yup. That fuckin sounds like Konami.
Only casual gameplay is any fun anymore, but if you prefer that over meta gameplay, people call you names, even if you try to make a non-meta deck as tournament viable as possible.
@@TrianglePants I don't play meta at all. I was discriminated against in the duel amino for this very reason. I play fair, fun, and honest. Now-a-days, meta decks are just tournament decks, even if the deck isn't commonly used in tournaments today. They're still built the same way, so they're still a tourney deck
I think it's because it's so interesting to see someone with authority explain why something works the way it does and go into great detail about any justification. It's interesting to see an expert talk about their expertise with passion.
I'd like to point out that Card of Safe Return was also involved in a couple of degenerate Exodia OTKs. For example, the Manticore loop, which involves one Manticore of Darkness in your hand and another one in your Graveyard. During the End Phase, you discard the Manticore in your hand to SS the one in your GY, then send that one back to the GY to summon the one you discarded, repeat until your opponent flips the table.
"You'd think they would have learned their lesson after the first 10 or so times." Lol they did learn their lesson, keep printing broken cards and players will keep giving them money! It's really the people that keep playing this game that haven't learned anything.
most of this cards aren't made by konami to be broken and then banned, the problem is that players find ways to exploit them and win them the duel, and also some banned cards that are broken are card that were printed long time ago like painful choice or delinquent duo and during the old time, konami didn't know how broken these cards acctually are until players start to abuse them.
Most of the card that is op is just because they are created during simpler time.Just take grinder golem for example: legit trash until link and it suddenly become the most broken card ever printed the very day link come
To people wondering why Yata-Garasu isn't in the list.... The case about Yata is that Yata is not broken ON HIS OWN, it requires something to combo with in most situations. But thats also why it will more than likely be forever banned, the amount of different cards nowadays that could combo with Yata would be completely ridiculous, this would lead to so many unhealthy and degenerate strategies.
@@dudono1744 With the current state of the game, successfully pulling off yata would be a win-more move. You're already winning if you get to that situation in the first place.
Card Of Safe Return was a big part of my Zombie Deck The Deck Revolved around 4 Cards - Card Of Safe Return - Zombie World - Imperial Iron Wall - Soul-Absorbing Bone Tower Get these 4 cards out along with Plaguespreader and you can Synchro Summon For Days Imperial Iron Wall Stops Monsters from Being Removed so you could spam Plaguespreader's Effect over and over again
Firewall Dragon should be no.1 why? because it damage the game not like any other broken card, its all thanks to konami refusal of banning it on the first sign of trouble. if you see other broken card, konami straight up banning it immidietly first time they see a potential destructive mechanic. but its different case with Firewall Dragon
It is the card in the anime, banning random cards of the game is fine but banning the Ace Monster of an anime that is currently airing is another story involving literally legal issues alongside a lot of additional problems including potential damage to new audiences dragged in by VRAINS if they so happens to be, gets excited, try to get the Ace Monster, and realizes you can't use it because it was banned. This wasn't a problem before because they never had to ban an Ace Monster of the Protagonist ever before.
@@noitucx Clearly, they did not. I really wonder how much time they take on testing each and every card. Like probably 1 day or more I would assume. Konami should really just get people to be like, can this new proposed card synergize with a card on(A gigantic list).
@@adamxue6096 You'd think Konamai would know by now that an effect that allows you to bounce any card from your field or graveyard with a generic requirement and no archtype restrictions is will definitely be abused.
Ishizu: Exchange of Spirit! Kaiba: Exchange of what now? Ishizu: Now we must swap the cards in our deck with the ones in our graveyards, leaving me with all the cards I need, and you Kaiba, with only six. Kaiba:........FUUUUUUUUUU---
I wonder what sort of errata would have to happen for Firewall Dragon to be unbanned? I can’t imagine it’d be too extreme. Maybe a once-per-turn limit to its effects
As great as _Shooting Quasar Dragon_ is, it's not a literal auto-win like many of these cards are. Also, _Painful Choice_ doesn't read, "Synchro Summon 1 'Shooting Quasar Dragon' from your Extra Deck." It facilitates a combo, with numerous steps that are each vulnerable to disruption. Additionally, _Painful Choice_ and _Shooting Quasar Dragon_ were never legal at the same time in the advanced format, so that combo was never an actual factor in competetive play.
Rescue Cat's old effect was pretty powerful, lead to tons of 1 card FTKs. Also, pretty surprised that Yatagarasu wasn't on here, even though I don't think it would hurt the game as much as people think in the current game.
Could you repeat this theme but from the perspective of Duel Links? Cards like Amazoness Onslaught, Treacherous Trap and Golden Bamboo would make the list :p
Mentioning Amazoness Onslaught but not Sea Stealth Attack is a bit of bias there. People complained about Onslaught because they didn't want to add any Spell/Trap removal.
Lord Nightraven at no point did he ever say those were the ONLY cards that would make the list. In fact, they specifically said “cards like” so it was never even implied.
Technically traptrix atrax brings the effect of makyura back but with a specific type of "hole" trap cards but you can still activate them from your hand making her op if you have hole trap cards in your hand especially treacherous trap hole on the first turn
Have you considered a 'top 10 direct attackers' video? You discussed direct attackers in 2015 but there are a lot of new ones relevant to the nets meta since then, and it wasn't a top 10 video. Btw I like the format of these videos. Perfect length, and good descriptions for someone like me who generally keeps current but doesn't always know the entire meta in-and-out.
I feel like you just completely forgot Victory Dragon. This was a good list, but Victory Dragon really is on a whole other level from everything on this list. It may be kinda slow and situational, but the ability to instantly win a match goes beyond just OTKing or FTKing, that's potentially just skipping 2 whole games
That, and not the cards effect, is why it was banned. It resulted in a lot of arguments about whether the opponent surrendered in before damage calculation or not. It was wasting too much time with players calling for judges and disrupting tournament rounds. So basically it was banned so sanctioned events would run smoother.
One simple way of stopping the argument would have been if your opponent had Victory Dragon on the field and you had nothing whatsoever to negate the summon and stop attack(s) that destroyed any field monsters and/or reduced your life points to 0 via direct attack from other monsters and Victory, surrendering could not occur. Otherwise you could surrender as soon as you had nothing on the field and Victory came out. It's so highly situational I feel if you're on the wrong side of it you should lose the match. If it had far more consistency like Firewall/Danger FTK e.t.c then yeah it would deserve banning because that was just sheer aids.
@@coooldonkey the whole deck is for it, i get that. You keep burning/draw exodia but it was not 100% without the draw cards ALL the time AND the card to send it to grave turn 0 Judgment is a 1 card God board and hand. It resolves, its game TURN 0. And theres 6 searches for it plus cards that repeat its effect
@@NY-Buddy exodia wasn't the most op version, exchange of the spirit was, literally the only way for that deck to not win instantly turn 1 was if they draw 6 of the draw 1 trap cards, then if they don 't get otk'd they still win the next turn. All other combinations they win before you can make any moves period. Thats literally the strongest possible deck in the entire game and would be the only tournament deck if its legal. Judgement while good doesn't matter against this when its not a FTK, All the advantages and setups can be countered when they have a god hand too, even at its height it wasn't a tier 0 deck and other could compete against it, nothing competes against exchange of the spirit FTK.
I think Last Turn can come back if Konami decide to put something like, "When this card's activate, negate all other card's effect until this card's effect resolves."
This is random. I haven't played Yu-Gi-Oh in over 10 years. I remember delinquent duo being broken. I used to run that and confiscation. You'd decimate your opponent's hand in just a single turn. Don't quite remember card of safe return being broken. Maybe newer formats had/have more special summoning than back in the day? Idk, I just remember everyone had the cards I mentioned above, chaos emperor dragon, BLS, yata garasu, so in and so forth. I miss yugioh, fun times in my life. Thanks for the nostalgia! Throwing you a sub for sure!
Card of Safe Return being broken is a relatively recent development. I quit playing in the OG Cyber Dragon days (a good 2 years after CoSR was out) and summoning from the graveyard was still a pretty rare thing, IIRC. Monster Reborn was banned, Premature Burial and Call of the Haunted were limited, and we expected them to get the banhammer soon, too.
I’ve seen the new Exchange of the Spirit still work with a Monarch’s deck that just sent both players extra decks to the graveyard, so as long as people run 15 card extra decks; you just need to last 1 turn against a player without the ability to search their deck.
Chaos. Emperor. Dragon. A card so broken that it was even mentioned as being a banned card IN THE ANIME! I really don't know how the people who made the card wrote down its effect and were like, "Yeah, that seems about right." It would be broken in today's standards, so releasing back in such an early age of yugioh was akin to putting to Messi on the field in a middle school soccer game.
exchange of spirit can still be extremely broken if combined with mekk knights if you manage to send the opponents entire extra deck to the grave and then switch the cards they have 0 in their main deck
First one forbidden. Didn't Stardust Dragon get onto the ban list at one point? Not banned but like Limited or Semi-Limited or something? I know after the first Synchro format some Synchro monsters got hit.
@@ShiningJudgment666 yeah but not stardust. There mere were monsters like goyo gardian or dark strike fighter (not entirely sure about this one but noramlly he was banned or at least limited).
@@jeune-fou Oh. That's right. Yeah. Goyo was kind of on and off the list and Dark Strike Fighter got emergency banned. It was Black Rose Dragon that got limited for a bit too.
But Judgement was broken. Insanely so. It was a Super Rejuvenation for Spellbooks, and was the main card that let Spellbooks compete with one of the most powerful decks in the game. If it weren't for Judgement, Dragon Rulers would be tier 0.
Spellbooks and Dragons were both really easily fixed with Zombie World. It shut down all their shit. They required spellcasters and dragons and had only zombies...It shut down monarch Frogs and stuff too.
>+7 card "B-b-but this one card shut it down, so it's okay!" No, no it's not. No deck should be able to gain as much advantage as super rejuv and judgement gave someone. This can be proven by arguing for Firewall Dragon. Yes, Firewall could in theory be stopped by something as common as Summon Limit, does that mean we should have Firewall at 1 or 3? Absolutely not, and the same goes for other cards that provide absurd advantage such as Spellbook of Judgement and Super Rejuv. People will find ways to run it if it was released from the banlist today. Look at Rudra, a simple draw 2 card was teched in several decks just for the advantage it provided. The same would happen for Judgement only much worse.
I never said it was OK. I hated that meta. Truly. Roll the dice to see who wins. Judgement was a really stupidly powerful card. But I had an out that many did not. I ran, and still run, zombies, so the 2 big decks really did not affect me at all. It was the other annoying decks at the time that were more problematic.
Card of safe return was used in the anime by Marik’s mindslave Strings to make Slifer unstoppable, in combination with Revival Jam, who instantly revived from the graveyard if destroyed in the anime, and a card I forget the name of that made Revival Jam always intercept an attack. The strategy was defeated by Yugi using Brain Control to take control of the Revival Jam, which caused Slifer’s second ability to activate, which makes new monsters on the opponent’s field lose 2000 Attack points, and be destroyed if their attack became 0 by this effect. Revival Jam would proceed to be resurrected to Yugi’s field, and Strings would draw 3 new cards. Slifer became more powerful, Revival Jam was destroyed, Strings drew 3 cards, and this continued until Strings lost because he couldn’t draw any new cards. This shows that Konami definitely knew what they were doing by creating the real card, and then it proceeded to be banned even with its nerfed effect. Konami is honestly weird sometimes, they even stated that Chaos Emperor Dragon was outlawed from official Duel Monsters Tournaments in GX, so what’s up?
The 4th copy of the Blue Eyes White Dragon is the most broken of all thanks to Kaiba.
R.I.P.
@@milesgerschefske6231 'Ripped'
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Good one
May it resting peace
I can never take Delinquent Duo seriously, because I was playing a GBA Yugioh game and Marik used Magician of Faith to bring Delinquent Duo back to his hand with less than 1000 life points (while having Monster Reborn and Raigeki in his graveyard) and used it on me his next turn and cost him the duel
Dude i have try using imperial order againt pegasus and just watch as he kill himself using all those lp cost magic card for nothing lul
Nothing better than just giving a huge ton of defense to a monster, wait the A.I to crash into it and then flipping it face down, just for the I.A to crash into it again and so on until I win. xDD
Yugioh Worldwide Edition Stairway to the Destined Duel?
Great AI right there
The AI in those GBA games were either braindead or cheating
Top 10 times we got reminded that dragon rulers and judgment were in the meta at the same time, and that's why they weren't tier zero.
Red Eyes Dragoon two years jumping in like: Hello there.
Ah another meme to add to my collection
It's not a broken card. It's just good. There are million ways to stop it
@@ahmatmuric3788 Yes and the dragon rulers have a million ways to counter them. That doesn’t mean they aren’t broken and overpowered
@@ahmatmuric3788, pot of greed has a counter but clearly unbanning it would be madness.
@@PsychSoldier756 though Tempest resides on the limited list since it has the weakest effect of the 4 and the fact that wind is by far one of if not the weakest attribute in the game.
When I first saw Exchange Spirit in the anime when Ishizu used it on Kaiba, I was speechless on how good that was.
Using one on a casual match is lotsa fun
"BUT... THAT LEAVES ME WITH A DECK OF ONLY SIX CARDS!" you could hear the sudden dread in his voice as he subconsciously realizes that Ishizu was probably telling the truth about the whole "prophecy" thing
if (pre errata) exchange of the spirit didn't result in deck out nowadays, it would activate opponent's whole deck
Pot of greed because no one knows what it does.
Lloyd Adam Smith Grande it’s just a simple +1, it doesn’t do anything else, or even hurt your opponent’s advantage, it only nets you advantage. Personally I think it could come back.
@@brianaguilar8283 literally no one knows
@@brianaguilar8283 but what does it do?
Brian Aguilar that’s why it’s banned. It’s a simple plus 1 literally every deck would play it. There’s no need to have it come back. And before you say errata we kind of already have an errated version which is called pot of desires.
Never heard of it. Is it a new card?
Top 10 best card artwork. Obviously completely opinion based but it’d be interesting to see your favorites
James Bush's idea is pretty good
Top 8 would be all Traptrix cards
@@gumball2253 why don't you sit over there sir?
@@gumball2253 why don't you sit over there sir?
"obviously completely opinion based" lmao you sound like such a libtard.
Everyone knows Jerry Beans Man is the most broken card.
Silver Fang. Raigeki combo
Beaver Warrior-Dark Hole FTK
Mokey mokey
Dude when someone summons it I always scoop instantly.
Jerry Beans Man can't be the most broken card... That spot goes to Rescue Rabbit because it can bring out 2 Jerry Beans Man
I'd really love to see a History of the Meta video from you, detailing the first meta decks, how and why the meta changed, what decks were the best as new mechanics came out, etc.
If u check out swagkage’s other channel, roobin dale, he made a vide on exactly that.
A lot of the problematic effects can be solved with the clause: "Only use this effect once per turn".
yeah, would be great if exodia was only once per turn
Yea painful choice would be fixed if it was a hard once per turn
@@ibra8096painful choice would probably have to have something like paying either a high set of life points (like 2000 or 3000) or paying half your life points to make it balanced enough.
@@Kenneth2413 Surely you are joking? I would pay up to 7999 LP to activate it and have it at maximum copies in 99% of decks in the blink of an eye lol
surprised Yata-Garasu wasn't on the list, considering it was the reason the ban list existed in the first place
It's a little bit too slow especially compared to other ftk. Besides Yata is not the main reason the F&L list was created, it was CED(pre-errata) that really made Yata-Lock a viable deck since it requires you to go second and can't out boards to actually do get it's effect off.
Don't get me wrong, it's still a powerful card but not deserving of top 10 most broken card, although i also don't think that some of the cards in this list also deserve to be on it.
Yata was broken because there were a lot of cards that removed cards from your oponent's hand like d.duo
wasnt CED the reason for the Banlist? Because at that time it was nearly impossible to win against thar Card?
@@Y0G0FU Exactly. Yata had been out for awhile before the banlist ever happened. it was after Invasion of Chaos that they implemented the banlist.
CED was commonly used in conjunction with Yata to achieve the desired effect.
Top 10 cards that are used in another archetype than the one they belong to
*Blackwing - Zephyros the Elite intensifies*
Like how batteryman solar is actually just thunder dragon support and is actually shit in batteryman decks
*Brionac and Trishula intensflies*
Galaxy worm
Needlefiber
Spellbooks and Dragon rulers.
The only T0 decks that never reached T0 status, becauss they were the only T0 decks that faced another T0 deck.
Eachother.
"If everybody is super, nobody is!"
Delinquent Duo: Imma end this man's whole career
The kid who plays Dark World deck : Yeah that will help
Delinquent Duo: NANI!!!
I wish Konami made more Dark world cards.
@@SepulchureValen Everyone don't know that only Amazoness swordwomen is more broken that the number 1 spot
Or fabled/danders
69 likes haha funny number
Lol, I remember getting owned once by Ishizu with Exchange of the spirit in Nightmare Troubadour on the DS, making me deck out instantly
The first time I played with her in that game I wondered how can she win a duel and why does she give so much xp lol
hi there kaiba
Another note about Firewall is how effective it was at link climbing as long as you had the hand resources. Being able to special summon a card from your hand each time you use a monster it points to as material makes it one of the easiest methods of extra linking. It's basically Ultimate Offering 2.0.
MeeTonToE without the 500 LP cost.
top 10 worst cards who looks good on the surface
Darkworld Brainwashing comes to mind.
Magic Cylinder
Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon
@@ArmorFrogEntertainment don't Ever say that again😂
Drago Guy number c69 when your opponent attacks it blows up their field. That's the only effect I remember. But... They could just blow it up with something like fissure or raigeki.
Fun fact: Firewall Dragon's second effect has been used exactly once in all of VRAINS thusfar.
Also, funnily, Dark Strike Fighter had an effect pretty similar to the errata'd version in the anime. Meaning the game, of all things, was what made it broken.
Then you remember that the anime is a romanticized version of the game where problems are created and solved by the game itself.
@@misterbadguy7325 *Looks blankly at Nibelung's Treasure*
Kind of like what they did with honest in yugioh GX, in the show honest literally says it can only be used on a level 7 or higher warrior type monster.
@@Nyghtking yeah but in the show it's not for 1 battle. It's literally permanent.
@@nifty6970 true but the character that uses it has only a hand full of monster he can use it on to begin with, if it was like it was on the show you would kind of need to build your deck around it.
New drinking game: Take steroids every time TheDuelLogs says: "Steroids".
😆
Omae wa mo shindeiru
Everytime I see these lists my answer is always the same, Makyura as the enabler of the breaking mechanic of making all traps into spells is the number 1 for obvious reasons. Even if you banned all the possible cards that conduct to FTK combos, it would still enable pretty degenerate turn 1 boards, increase deck consistency 1000 fold, and of all the cards it holds the honours of not having been errata nor having ever been legal to begin with. Card was banned 1 week before it's first print, that's all you need to know who the real king troublemaker of the f/l list is.
and then they errata'd it 😅
also it was banned week 1 in the TCG not OCG. It was legal for months there alongside exchange of spirit in the same format enabling FTK cancer decks lol
I only miss Last Turn cuz......it's a epic way to end a duel
Yeah. It's either Funny, Stupid pointless or annoying for everyone involved. Considering it is so goddamn easy to force a tie.
Last turn + The wicked avatar
@@kefkapalazzo9587 Vijam The Cubic Seed, Exploder Dragon, Grave Squirmer, Kozmoll Wicked Witch, Yubel. There are way more cards... also Yubel can kill the person who activated Last Turn if their LP are low enough and cards like Dark Destroyer with on summon destruction removal, shit like that can get you a free win.
So yeah. It's way easier to force a tie than it is to summon cards like the Wicked Avatar.
Probably the most reliable easily accessed and self-maintaining monsters (that I can think of) for the Last Turn user to use would be Raidraptor - Ultimate Falcon or Eater of Millions.
Alternatively some of best monsters (that I can think of) to summon if you get Last Turned would be Vijam The Cubic Seed or Kozmo Dark Destroyer. (Provided on summon effects could activate)
@@namedfuzzball4393 The thing about Last Turn is that it doesn't include any kind of summon-blocking. There are just so many routes to make it end in a draw. Any floater or battle-indestructible monster. Any Special-Summon blocker. Anything that gets rid of the opposing monster before (or in some cases after) the damage step starts. Not to mention the floating effects of stuff that might get sent in the process of activating Last Turn.
Like, what made Last Turn an absolute friggin' joke wasn't the Jowgen combo. It was that you could easily fill your whole deck with cards that didn't necessarily win off Last Turn, but did force a draw, and count on the few times you could pull off the Jowgen combo (or some variant of it, like Jowls of Dark Demise or Non-Aggression Area). After all, two draws and a win is still a win. And three draws... well, it's not a loss.
So, are we going to ignore The Sixth Sense?
One of the most exciting cards
No though considering that DuelLogs had it #1 on another list, I guess he wanted to show off different cards. I was personally expecting Chaos Emperor Dragon.
Not adding sixth sense to a number 10 list of most broken cards was a painful choice.
Is it broken? Definitely, but the fact that is a gamble card makes it unreliable and it's also a trap. In the end you can pull it off 1 in 3 times. In floating decks is great tho
Richard the pastamancer there’s no downside to Sixth Sense. You can either get a result so powerful it’s a game winning effect (drawing 5 to 6 cards) or a decent mill effect, and it’s not a downside in many decks (Lightsworns, Burning Abyss, or pretty much any Zombie Deck ever) to mill cards.
Winged Dragon of RA + last turn was the combo i used to always see when the card was playable and still even see it in casual duels sometimes
Chaos emperor dragon
Nuff said
Accept the fact that chaos Emperor dragon wasn't actually broken on its own, in fact the ocg had it off the banned list before it got an errata.
Lmao, don't make me laugh. Buster Blader, the Dragon destroyer swordsman is an easy fusion that NEGATES the effects of any and ALL dragons. Also forces them to defence and prevents them from changing battle position.
@@fallendeus OCG got it off the banlist with errata. It was never released from the banlist, pre errata..
Glad to see this channel is super popular now. I havent played yugioh in maybe 3-4 years but cool to see content still being made.
Um you mind telling me why shapesnatch isn't number 1? I mean he IS the one whose shape was snatched.
Shapesnatch is the one who snatched the shape, and not the one whose shape was snatched.
In a more "pure power" way, the two cards black luster soldier envoy and Dragon envoy are really so easy to summon and give you a massive advantage, especially considering you could use the effect of the dragon if somehow your opponent activates a trap or magic card to destroy it. If you try those cards through a cheated Yu-Gi-Oh video games just to see why some are banned you will quickly realise that there is a good reason some cards are banned.
I see Chaos Emperor Dragon first thing and remember how I pulled it from my IOC pack in LC Gameboard Edition.
Haaaaaah...
Clearly Swordsman of Landstar is the most broken card in the game.
The Swordsman of Landstar?!? That’s one of the most powerful cards in all of duel monsters!
@@luislara6762 How about Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth?
Broken bamboo sword
Exchange of the Spirit, Ishizu’s biggest meme.
ZeskGames Because shut up
@@darkyumenine729 It's probably Abaki
Because a robot from the future told me to!
My favorite banned card is change of heart it’s so much fun to use
lol face_9 mine are avarice and trunade
just use eCon, same effect but even more versatile
Good news everyone!
Makyura is my favorite card ever and i loved the infinite attack combo with call of the haunted and chic the yellow
What is so scary about things like Painful Choice, Delinquent Duo, Makyura the Destructor, Last Will, and Graceful Charity (the last two of which should have been on this list) is that none of the cards listed have a power ceiling. No matter how many sets come out with broken cards like Firewall Dragon, the above five cards will *ALWAYS* be super powerful simply because of their design and what they allow players to do, either to benefit themselves or to screw over their opponents.
My favorite card probably doesn't deserve to be on this list, but Cyber Jar was my favorite card ever when I played the game when I was 8. A board wipe that lets you refill hands and the field? It's just so neat!
painful choice logic "i don't care what one you choose to give me, they're all bad choices"
Yeah. All bad choices for your opponent.
I dont remember when it was released, but it would be a balanced card back in the day where basically only way to special summon from the GRY was with Monster Reborn.
I'm surprised you didn't include Chaos Emperor Dragon, one of the cards that caused the forbidden list in the first place.
Ah Spellbook of Judgement ... I miss you ...
I agree lol
Good news everyone!
top 10 cards that needs a buff
full house
All normal monster
Every Ice Barrier card... ever.
Mst needs to negate.
@@d4rkm4gicattack34 *Laughs in Trish*
10 seconds in, and I just want to say THANK YOU for putting the list in the description, saving me from flicking through your video. Truly, thank you!!
*I want to clarify something about Card of Safe Return* : it was okay by the time it was created because there was almost no easy way of special summoning monsters from the graveyard. Treeborn Frog doesn't work, Call of the Haunted was limited at 1, and the only deck that had a theme of special summoning monsters from the graveyard were Zombies, and even they didn't have that many effects to do it. Book of Life, Vampire Lord's effect if you got lucky it happened or you forced it, Twin-Headed Behemoth. It also was at 3 for a very short time, it was mostly at 1 until it was banned.
It would be op now cause special summoning from the graveyard is so common now
Where is Ojama Lime???
Ojamas are the best monsters in the entire game
@@kzr_1613 no there not there the worst
1 bc they all go 0 atk but (bad)
2 got high def. (good)
3 how is this cards gotta beat your opponent? (bad)
4 effects (goood)
But there is no reason of using this decks but you can still won with these guys
@@Beatbot400 whoosh
Too powerful to even see print
I feel like almost every broken card could easily be fixed by just putting "You can only use each effect of [card name] once per turn." on it. (not every broken card would be fixed, but the vast majority would be with this)
I mean, you'd think they'd just make that little bit of text mandatory over how many dozens of broken cards they've had to errata or ban over the years that had no limit on them, especially since in Yu-Gi-Oh there's no resource system to limit things naturally, like how there's mana in Magic the Gathering.
Yeah, but I feel they'd lose their "soul" if you errata'd them.
Look at the poor Sangan and all those other cards nobody really cares about anymore after getting off the banlist with an errata.
This is my personal silly opinion, but I think the same applies to any other TCG too.
It wouldnt help sixth sense, yatagarasu, book of judgement, dragon rulers, delenquent duo, trap dustshoot, pot of greed, chaos dragon envoy of end (without errata) etc. But maybe that would fix some, dunno...
@@LSparkzwz Yeah as an old school player reading the errata for Sangan makes me cringe.
@@Begeru Agreed. Just leave them banned and don't change their effect. Like the stupid change to Ring of Destruction. Just leave my old cards alone.
maybe "once per duel" on some of them would fit better.
For Painful Choice..... what if, instead of sending the cards to the GY, they were just Banished Face down? Maybe that would balance it?
DD
@@vatekanore3756 Yeah, like they are so going to become teir 1 with Painful Choice that way even at 3... After all, a face-down banish makes the cards a lot less useable then a face-up one.
Still a better upstart goblin, choosing a card from the deck is too good
@@Verde4755 But you also have to give up 4 other really good cards to do so (as it's your opponent's choice which of the 5 you get. If just one of them is crappy, they will give you the crappy one) And even if it still breaks even, it's not like you will be able to do anything with the 4 that weren't chosen... as the fact that those previously wen't to the GY is the reason why the card is so broken now.
@@13KuriMaster it's true, but you can use desires logic here, since the cards were in the deck, they were useless anyway, so painful choice is still super powerful
For some reason I love the old school overpowered cards, I used to play power of chaos yu gi oh back in the day, and every old card was there. Those were the days.
I recently had a traditional touney at my locals and used painful choice in danger/trickstar deck. hands down the funnyest plays of the night for me.
I remember from years and years ago, my younger brother and I went to a small local tourney at some game shop in our city. This was way back in the earlier days of YGO, before even E-Heroes were a twinkle in Konami's eye.
My brother was like 12-13 years old at the time. He played some douche bag guy who cheezed out easy wins by abusing Wall of Revealing Light to instantly burn himself to 1000 LP, activate Last Turn and prevent my brother from getting a monster on the field, or say that Walls attack blocking effect prevented by brother from attacking despite the card being destroyed by Last Turn or something stupid like that. I don't remember the specifics (again, this was like 15 years ago) but it was dirty as hell and the guy was being a real shitheel about it to my brother, who he looked 10+ years older than and for whatever reason he is trying to give some kid the runaround to scum out a win in some silly card game at a local no one cares about. 🙄
Long story short, we went home after that and my brother stopped playing YGO all together.
"Konami decided to ban the problem card of this loop-"
"Oh we finally banned the cannon soldiers?"
"And banned firewall dragon"
Yup. That fuckin sounds like Konami.
I don't even play Yu-Gi-Oh. How's this so entertaining?
U get to send people u don't like to the shadow realm.. legally
Only casual gameplay is any fun anymore, but if you prefer that over meta gameplay,
people call you names, even if you try to make a non-meta deck as tournament viable as possible.
It makes u think hard
@@TrianglePants I don't play meta at all. I was discriminated against in the duel amino for this very reason.
I play fair, fun, and honest.
Now-a-days, meta decks are just tournament decks, even if the deck isn't commonly used in tournaments today. They're still built the same way, so they're still a tourney deck
I think it's because it's so interesting to see someone with authority explain why something works the way it does and go into great detail about any justification. It's interesting to see an expert talk about their expertise with passion.
You know what I like from you? You make the list based to informations, not your top personal ten. Keep it up bro 👌🏻
I'd like to point out that Card of Safe Return was also involved in a couple of degenerate Exodia OTKs. For example, the Manticore loop, which involves one Manticore of Darkness in your hand and another one in your Graveyard. During the End Phase, you discard the Manticore in your hand to SS the one in your GY, then send that one back to the GY to summon the one you discarded, repeat until your opponent flips the table.
Also Mass Driver burn loops with Lumina and other like-cards.
if makyura was free, paloezoic would be meta
Then makuya get errata
"You'd think they would have learned their lesson after the first 10 or so times." Lol they did learn their lesson, keep printing broken cards and players will keep giving them money! It's really the people that keep playing this game that haven't learned anything.
most of this cards aren't made by konami to be broken and then banned, the problem is that players find ways to exploit them and win them the duel, and also some banned cards that are broken are card that were printed long time ago like painful choice or delinquent duo and during the old time, konami didn't know how broken these cards acctually are until players start to abuse them.
Most of the card that is op is just because they are created during simpler time.Just take grinder golem for example: legit trash until link and it suddenly become the most broken card ever printed the very day link come
To people wondering why Yata-Garasu isn't in the list....
The case about Yata is that Yata is not broken ON HIS OWN, it requires something to combo with in most situations.
But thats also why it will more than likely be forever banned, the amount of different cards nowadays that could combo with Yata would be completely ridiculous, this would lead to so many unhealthy and degenerate strategies.
the bird is at 3 now
@@dudono1744 With the current state of the game, successfully pulling off yata would be a win-more move. You're already winning if you get to that situation in the first place.
I have a pre-errata Sinister Serpent that basically just says “this card is returned to your hand at the end of your turn”
Card Of Safe Return was a big part of my Zombie Deck
The Deck Revolved around 4 Cards
- Card Of Safe Return
- Zombie World
- Imperial Iron Wall
- Soul-Absorbing Bone Tower
Get these 4 cards out along with Plaguespreader and you can Synchro Summon For Days
Imperial Iron Wall Stops Monsters from Being Removed so you could spam Plaguespreader's Effect over and over again
Dark Strike Fighter + Junk Synchron + Quillbolt Hedgehog + imperial iron wall
Firewall Dragon should be no.1
why? because it damage the game not like any other broken card, its all thanks to konami refusal of banning it on the first sign of trouble.
if you see other broken card, konami straight up banning it immidietly first time they see a potential destructive mechanic.
but its different case with Firewall Dragon
They legally couldn't touch it before coming to some sort of agreement with Shueisha and the company in charge of the anime.
It is the card in the anime, banning random cards of the game is fine but banning the Ace Monster of an anime that is currently airing is another story involving literally legal issues alongside a lot of additional problems including potential damage to new audiences dragged in by VRAINS if they so happens to be, gets excited, try to get the Ace Monster, and realizes you can't use it because it was banned.
This wasn't a problem before because they never had to ban an Ace Monster of the Protagonist ever before.
Maybe put some thought into an Ace monster's effect if you are deciding not to touch it afterwards.
@@noitucx
Clearly, they did not.
I really wonder how much time they take on testing each and every card.
Like probably 1 day or more I would assume.
Konami should really just get people to be like, can this new proposed card synergize with a card on(A gigantic list).
@@adamxue6096 You'd think Konamai would know by now that an effect that allows you to bounce any card from your field or graveyard with a generic requirement and no archtype restrictions is will definitely be abused.
Ishizu: Exchange of Spirit!
Kaiba: Exchange of what now?
Ishizu: Now we must swap the cards in our deck with the ones in our graveyards, leaving me with all the cards I need, and you Kaiba, with only six.
Kaiba:........FUUUUUUUUUU---
I wonder what sort of errata would have to happen for Firewall Dragon to be unbanned? I can’t imagine it’d be too extreme. Maybe a once-per-turn limit to its effects
I had (2) Delinquent Duo cards.
Sometimes I got them in one hand and played them at the same time.
My opponent reaction was priceless!
I feel like Painful Choice deserves number 1. It's the strongest spell of all time IMO.
@Efe Uchiha it's not? Painful choice is a spell
Top 10 12-star/rank Monsters
painful choice should be number 1 before master rule 4 it was a 1 card shooting quasar
Can you explain the combo to me
As great as _Shooting Quasar Dragon_ is, it's not a literal auto-win like many of these cards are. Also, _Painful Choice_ doesn't read, "Synchro Summon 1 'Shooting Quasar Dragon' from your Extra Deck." It facilitates a combo, with numerous steps that are each vulnerable to disruption.
Additionally, _Painful Choice_ and _Shooting Quasar Dragon_ were never legal at the same time in the advanced format, so that combo was never an actual factor in competetive play.
@Gecko-chan I think it was just a term, like "a one man army" and not an actual combo. I could be wrong tho
Only recently learned you have 2 channels Hiru! WoW and Yugioh? You the man
Rescue Cat's old effect was pretty powerful, lead to tons of 1 card FTKs. Also, pretty surprised that Yatagarasu wasn't on here, even though I don't think it would hurt the game as much as people think in the current game.
Could you repeat this theme but from the perspective of Duel Links? Cards like Amazoness Onslaught, Treacherous Trap and Golden Bamboo would make the list :p
Mentioning Amazoness Onslaught but not Sea Stealth Attack is a bit of bias there.
People complained about Onslaught because they didn't want to add any Spell/Trap removal.
Lord Nightraven at no point did he ever say those were the ONLY cards that would make the list. In fact, they specifically said “cards like” so it was never even implied.
Sometimes they seem to not notice how good something is before it's too late.
they only notice it when players find ways to abuse them.
Top 10 christmas cards
Technically traptrix atrax brings the effect of makyura back but with a specific type of "hole" trap cards but you can still activate them from your hand making her op if you have hole trap cards in your hand especially treacherous trap hole on the first turn
Have you considered a 'top 10 direct attackers' video? You discussed direct attackers in 2015 but there are a lot of new ones relevant to the nets meta since then, and it wasn't a top 10 video.
Btw I like the format of these videos. Perfect length, and good descriptions for someone like me who generally keeps current but doesn't always know the entire meta in-and-out.
I feel like you just completely forgot Victory Dragon. This was a good list, but Victory Dragon really is on a whole other level from everything on this list. It may be kinda slow and situational, but the ability to instantly win a match goes beyond just OTKing or FTKing, that's potentially just skipping 2 whole games
I think alot of players who don't go to tournaments don't realize the difference between a Duel and a Match.
@@archentity even dueling book and ygopro have matches though
@@tempusername-l5d can you surrender in tournament?
That, and not the cards effect, is why it was banned. It resulted in a lot of arguments about whether the opponent surrendered in before damage calculation or not. It was wasting too much time with players calling for judges and disrupting tournament rounds. So basically it was banned so sanctioned events would run smoother.
One simple way of stopping the argument would have been if your opponent had Victory Dragon on the field and you had nothing whatsoever to negate the summon and stop attack(s) that destroyed any field monsters and/or reduced your life points to 0 via direct attack from other monsters and Victory, surrendering could not occur. Otherwise you could surrender as soon as you had nothing on the field and Victory came out. It's so highly situational I feel if you're on the wrong side of it you should lose the match. If it had far more consistency like Firewall/Danger FTK e.t.c then yeah it would deserve banning because that was just sheer aids.
*Spellbook of Judgment should always be #1.*
Its that insane.
Chaos Emperor, yata all required setup.
Makyura would probably be #2
Makyura was like a 95% consistent FTK, judgement couldn't even touch that level of broken
@@coooldonkey the whole deck is for it, i get that. You keep burning/draw exodia but it was not 100% without the draw cards ALL the time AND the card to send it to grave turn 0
Judgment is a 1 card God board and hand. It resolves, its game TURN 0. And theres 6 searches for it plus cards that repeat its effect
@@NY-Buddy exodia wasn't the most op version, exchange of the spirit was, literally the only way for that deck to not win instantly turn 1 was if they draw 6 of the draw 1 trap cards, then if they don 't get otk'd they still win the next turn. All other combinations they win before you can make any moves period. Thats literally the strongest possible deck in the entire game and would be the only tournament deck if its legal. Judgement while good doesn't matter against this when its not a FTK, All the advantages and setups can be countered when they have a god hand too, even at its height it wasn't a tier 0 deck and other could compete against it, nothing competes against exchange of the spirit FTK.
this reminded me of a simpler time, where my favourite combo was ultimate offering with gadgets
Great idea for content👋🏼😀 btw. Mesmerizing background
I think Last Turn can come back if Konami decide to put something like, "When this card's activate, negate all other card's effect until this card's effect resolves."
Chaos Ezel Or just have it negate all effects on the field until the effect resolves. Make it a “big number” fight instead of an effect text fight
Exchange of the Spirit + Makyura: Solitaire deck.
(1) pot of greeds so broken nobody's even sure what it does or was supposed to do anymore.
(2) yatalock, so broken it invented the ban list
Yep. Yata was the reason the Forbidden part of the list started being used.
"temple of the kinks"
This is random. I haven't played Yu-Gi-Oh in over 10 years. I remember delinquent duo being broken. I used to run that and confiscation. You'd decimate your opponent's hand in just a single turn.
Don't quite remember card of safe return being broken. Maybe newer formats had/have more special summoning than back in the day? Idk, I just remember everyone had the cards I mentioned above, chaos emperor dragon, BLS, yata garasu, so in and so forth. I miss yugioh, fun times in my life. Thanks for the nostalgia! Throwing you a sub for sure!
Card of Safe Return being broken is a relatively recent development. I quit playing in the OG Cyber Dragon days (a good 2 years after CoSR was out) and summoning from the graveyard was still a pretty rare thing, IIRC. Monster Reborn was banned, Premature Burial and Call of the Haunted were limited, and we expected them to get the banhammer soon, too.
I’ve seen the new Exchange of the Spirit still work with a Monarch’s deck that just sent both players extra decks to the graveyard, so as long as people run 15 card extra decks; you just need to last 1 turn against a player without the ability to search their deck.
Chaos. Emperor. Dragon.
A card so broken that it was even mentioned as being a banned card IN THE ANIME! I really don't know how the people who made the card wrote down its effect and were like, "Yeah, that seems about right." It would be broken in today's standards, so releasing back in such an early age of yugioh was akin to putting to Messi on the field in a middle school soccer game.
So make sure to always get 1st edition yugioh cards!!! Got it
Obviously the most broken card in the game is my expired drivers license
exchange of spirit can still be extremely broken if combined with mekk knights
if you manage to send the opponents entire extra deck to the grave and then switch the cards they have 0 in their main deck
Fun fact: it's the first time the main 2500 atk monster played by the protagonist of an anime is not only included in the ban list but forbidden
First one forbidden. Didn't Stardust Dragon get onto the ban list at one point? Not banned but like Limited or Semi-Limited or something? I know after the first Synchro format some Synchro monsters got hit.
@@ShiningJudgment666 yeah but not stardust. There mere were monsters like goyo gardian or dark strike fighter (not entirely sure about this one but noramlly he was banned or at least limited).
@@jeune-fou Oh. That's right. Yeah. Goyo was kind of on and off the list and Dark Strike Fighter got emergency banned. It was Black Rose Dragon that got limited for a bit too.
No Fiber Jar?
Fr... should have been Number 1.
Matt Vohs it isn’t broken at all. It helps both players
It's a free reset button, it would become like Pot of Greed, meaning ''everybody would be forced to run one''
Fiber and Cyber Jar are the 2 best cards in the game.
i guess cuz it's slow A.F.
Judgement wasn't that broken!😏
*BRING IT BACK!!*
Hurr durr +7 hulthy for da gaem
But Judgement was broken. Insanely so.
It was a Super Rejuvenation for Spellbooks, and was the main card that let Spellbooks compete with one of the most powerful decks in the game.
If it weren't for Judgement, Dragon Rulers would be tier 0.
Spellbooks and Dragons were both really easily fixed with Zombie World. It shut down all their shit. They required spellcasters and dragons and had only zombies...It shut down monarch Frogs and stuff too.
>+7 card
"B-b-but this one card shut it down, so it's okay!"
No, no it's not. No deck should be able to gain as much advantage as super rejuv and judgement gave someone. This can be proven by arguing for Firewall Dragon. Yes, Firewall could in theory be stopped by something as common as Summon Limit, does that mean we should have Firewall at 1 or 3? Absolutely not, and the same goes for other cards that provide absurd advantage such as Spellbook of Judgement and Super Rejuv. People will find ways to run it if it was released from the banlist today. Look at Rudra, a simple draw 2 card was teched in several decks just for the advantage it provided. The same would happen for Judgement only much worse.
I never said it was OK. I hated that meta. Truly. Roll the dice to see who wins.
Judgement was a really stupidly powerful card.
But I had an out that many did not. I ran, and still run, zombies, so the 2 big decks really did not affect me at all. It was the other annoying decks at the time that were more problematic.
Makyura plus burn deck
I needn’t say anymore
Firewall Dragon: The only ace monster to be banned while the series was still running.
And Gumblar too
7:00 this is such a Baki thing considering the artwork looks like Yujiro Hanma fighting a Naga which is also something he'd do
"It's kind of amazing to think that Konami is still printing broken cards today." Nah, not at all, it's called power creep and it's to sell more.
I want dragon rulers back :'(
Imagine Dragon Rulers with Psyframelord Omega and Master Rule 5. The gigabrokenness would be glorious.
@@Pr1est0fDoom and also with zoodiac cards.
Wait, really? No Cyber Stein?
No, it's even come off the banlist
i remember when Makyura was released in the TCG he was already banned, poor broken guy didn't even had a chance
@9:40, "Spellbook Of Of Fate"?
Wtf is a link monster wow I guess theyve changed a lot since I last played at 14
"Syncro"? "Link" effect? "Cyberse"? What is yugioh anymore 😥
Games need to evolve
@@harryfields8646 *"if it aint broke.." tho*
It kinda was broke;
But it was never necessarily fixed, just updated.
Bro synchro has existed for over 10 years
@@LamboJ20 shows you how long i been away.
Just saying yata lock....
just saying "effect veiler" in response.
@@sblower9410 you won't have a hand you idiot, they intentionally get rid of you hand/field and then yata lock you
Card of safe return was used in the anime by Marik’s mindslave Strings to make Slifer unstoppable, in combination with Revival Jam, who instantly revived from the graveyard if destroyed in the anime, and a card I forget the name of that made Revival Jam always intercept an attack. The strategy was defeated by Yugi using Brain Control to take control of the Revival Jam, which caused Slifer’s second ability to activate, which makes new monsters on the opponent’s field lose 2000 Attack points, and be destroyed if their attack became 0 by this effect. Revival Jam would proceed to be resurrected to Yugi’s field, and Strings would draw 3 new cards. Slifer became more powerful, Revival Jam was destroyed, Strings drew 3 cards, and this continued until Strings lost because he couldn’t draw any new cards. This shows that Konami definitely knew what they were doing by creating the real card, and then it proceeded to be banned even with its nerfed effect. Konami is honestly weird sometimes, they even stated that Chaos Emperor Dragon was outlawed from official Duel Monsters Tournaments in GX, so what’s up?
I’m surprised that a main character’s monster got on the banlist. They should make Firewall’s effect once-per-turn to fix the OTK problem.