Joey's arc truly embodied the story of many of us back in the day. First, we didn't know what we were doing, and filled our decks with useless garbage, misplaying all the time. But eventually, we learned and adapted... by shoving a Jinzo into our deck and let it carry us.
Yeah, that's why I feel people need to give Yuma more credit cause Yuma is also a reflection of young duelists getting into the game but being really bad at it and too stubborn to listen to their mentor's advice. Sure Yuma is "annoying" but his story is very relatable to many kids trying to get into the game and while he relies on Astral's advice a lot, his final duel against Astral was a perfect way to genuinely show how much he has grown, relying on his own Gagaga deck and the one Utopia card he was allowed to have to secure a victory. Plus his Zexal morph was super cool even if technically it didn't do anything except act as a "Skill" which would allow him to use the Zexal cards, but his Shining Draw was also a skill anyway and Skills are a thing...in the Speed Duel format. XD
@@MarioMastareh. There's a big difference between these arc types when one is the best friend and the other is the protagonist. Also, let's just be honest, no other ygo is nearly as well written(character wise) as the actual source material
Kaiba: 'Play your last pathetic card, Yugi.' Yugi: 'My grandpa's deck has no pathetic cards, Kaiba.' Joey: 'Yea!' Yugi: 'He shoved them all into Joey's deck.' Joey: 'Yea!...wait, what?'
@@Samagachi That's true. Yugi had a lot tricks that needed two or more specific cards (for example "Multiply" x "Kuriboh" or "Magical Cylinder" x "Dark Magician"/"Dark Magician Girl") without any plan on how to draw them somewhat consistently. Combo extender? Searcher? He don't even know what this mean. All of his duel relied heavily on luck... I mean heart of the cards XD But that's still better than his best pall, Joey Wheeler. He needed an exactly card and a lucky dice roll XD IRL it would be a miracle if those two would one anything XD
One card he used that was completely nerfed was graceful and skull dice. They could've been game winning if they weren't changed to be the result x100.
@@EssexAggiegrad2011 I don't. For me it was laughable that Yugi won almost every duel in Duel Kingdom by making some bullcrap and saying it out loud with confidence in his voice XD I remember that as a child I was wondering what are the rules of this game? And how do you determine what would happen next? Because it was looking like story a telling RPG without GM. Does the computer somehow calculate the outcome of polymerizating monsters that are fused for the first time? If so, how did Yug know exactly what would Mammoth Cemetery do with Blue-Eyes? Because Kaiba had no clue...
Yeah the mammoth arrow fusion killing the blue eyes was a bit much, and i usually dont mind the lack of rules in that arc but that was just egregious @pierogitozycie8426
early yugioh anime rules seemed to work closer to something like dnd than a card game. Spells seemed to largely come from spell caster monsters while warriors used weapons as equipment.
There's an obscure fan format in Magic the Gathering called Kangaroo Court in which rather than follow the rules as written on the card, you RP reasons for the cards to work as per your own descriptions. Naturally this requires another player to act as a judge. Duelist Kingdom especially reminded me of that.
It was based off the original manga where Yugi would get possessed by the Pharaoh who was the "King of Games" as in purely shadow games. Yugi would get put into a brutal life or death situation and the Pharaoh would take over and play an evil game against the opponent as their punishment. One of those happened to be duel monsters and it took off.
@@RuneTrips Yeah, back when Kaiba had green hair. Also why the rules changed so much and why the first video games had random ass rules. I remember one of them where you could stack monsters on top of each other to fuse them.
I think what's weird about Metal Dragon is that technically, Joey didn't really summon it. He just equipped Metal Morph to Red Eyes and it just sort of morphed into Metal Dragon and being more like a weird pseudo card. The same kind of applies to Metal Zoa and Heavy Metal King. Just weird early Yu-Gi-Oh shenanigans.
Same thing with Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon. In the manga Kaiba remarks that he can't draw a card to possibly help him stop Yugi's combo because he still technically has 5. Two regular, and the 3 Blue Eyes. BEUD isn't technically a card, hence why Kaiba can resurrect a Blue-Eyes once one of it's heads is cut off.
Well in the original anime the IRL game didn’t have all the fleshed out rules that it does now which is how in the OG anime characters can do weird shit like fuse spell and monster cards or age monsters into more powerful ones
@@jamesonweimann4720😂 Bro i went back to watch this show and my hraun would nearly pop with the levels of bs plays or turn arounds in the season 1 tournaments
Probably the best way to think of Metal Morph's anime effect, is as an equip spell that changes a monster to machine type and gives it a small attack buff. With the Anime holograms just applying a visual change to represent this.
Yusei is an example of a good player making the most of what he had, but Yusei is an adult and acts like how an adult player forced to play the game to survive would likely play the game. It's interesting because it's what makes 5Ds so good when you're older and can appreciate the story it's trying to tell. Thus even though the characters are total opposite in maturity, people who relate to Yusei could look back at Joey and smile thinking "Man I wonder if I played my old deck now how good I'd be? Maybe there was a strat I just overlooked back then?" Sounds like a good time for a memory lane duel. I personally found out I REALLY Love Rex's dino cards a lot cause I just love dinosaurs.
That's exactly the issue of why Joey's cards are so bad. His lack of strategy and initial non-inclusion of any spell/trap cards is from inexperience, but his bad cards are from lack of money. In the manga it's shown that the dad he lives with is a drunk and in debt when he got onto a (rigged to lose) game show to win some money. Since he doesn't have the cash for the good cards, he has to rely on gamble cards or cards with a harsh cost to get the same great effects that people like Kaiba get for free.
Joey was the everyman like us. His deck was cheap and mostly filled with monsters that looked cool. As he developed and learned his deck evolved to reflect that in more trap cards and stronger monsters.
A funny thing about real life Parasite Paricide; there was one of those which fell into my possession as a kid because someone used it in a duel with my brother and then forgot to ask for it back. Eventually, one of us also lost it in another duel because, yet again, we forgot it was still in the opponent's deck. I like to think kids are still handing around the same copy of Parasite Paracide to this day.
I always feel like any cards that have the effect of being given to your opponent would result in accidently trading cards. I mean heck, Monster Reborn lets you steal a card from your opponent's graveyard and I can imagine players may have forgotten to change back when using them for an extra deck summon and putting the card in thier own graveyard, or Xyz and forgetting about the overlay units. XD Thank goodness for virtualization keeping our cards and rules intact.
@@MarioMastar Don't most players have sleeves on their cards? Unless you and your opponent are using the exact same sleeves it feels like this wouldn't happen now because as soon as you turn the deck over you'll see a completely different pattern/color.
@@kyuubinaruto17 nowadays, yea, but back when a lot of those cards were still newer and in widespread use, most of us were kids and card sleeves weren't even a consideration.
@@MarioMastarto be fair, on the first one, once the monster summoned by reborn dies it goes to the Owners graveyard not the controllers, though I can easily see that happening anyway back in the day. Also, when XYZ first came out that happened alot at the local school group that played.
It always surprised me that Joey got the whale when Mako actually had a better monster in his deck that was a simple 2400 atk lv6 monster. And back then that statline for 1 tribute was actually pretty decent (or at least better than a ritual monster he can't summon anyway).
I still can't get over Mako not giving Joey the Ritual Spell needed to summon Fortress Whale?! Cause without it, Fortress Whale is just a dead card in your deck.
@altermann1991 Jinzo could be a decent temporary boss monster if only because he's the most "general use" monster out of the four Joey earned during Battle City.
Keep in mind that in the anime there is no difference between REBMD and and Red eyes equipped with Metal morph as Joey is never seen playing the actual card both times he’s used it. Also back when Joey first used it against Keith the LP value was 2000 and if Red eyes had its attack modifier it would depleted Keith’s LPs when he attack Barrel Dragon and that would’ve been too anti climactic for an anime duel
@@novamaster9645 I agree, the real life cards(that should be extra deck cards) that FORM in duelist kingdom should honestly just not be included as "worst cards" for the characters. But that is what I'm saying, that ISNT the red eyes black metal dragon card. That's red eyes effected by metalmorph
This definitely was a case of the OCG/TCG trying to explain away the anime. When it was used in Duelist Kingdom on Zoa and Red Eyes it turned then into machines and gave them a 400 atk boost but didn't give them the boost of gaining half the target's atk points. However, later on, Metalmorph would be used in the same way as it's actual card effect, so they tried to explain that inconsistency by basically saying "well it's because Joey and Bandit Keith actually used that card to summon Red Eyes B Metal Dragon and Metal Zoa respectively, even though it would make no sense why anyone would do that."
"There's no bad cards in GRANDPA'S deck" Emphasis on Solomon's, Joey was on his own. XD It would be Yusei of 5Ds who believed that every card had value. Didn't mean he was saying they were good, just they had a use in the hands of a good duelist (and proceeded to prove that in his epic duel against Tanner where he used a deck filled with mostly detrimental cards and won through really outside the box tactics...all by just looking at the cards as they were splattered on the floor. Yusei is the GOAT though.)
The amount of times we say "I summon Time Wize'hd" or "Kunaiiiii wi'chains" when in a discord call with my friend because of Joey is great. Just playing a completely separate game and when we're boned and have nowhere to go we pull a anime get out of jail free card with "Time wize'hd" in hope that the heart of the cards, aka, some miracle saves us.
Im surprised you didn't really harp on the fact that Insect Queen is just a bad fit for Joey's deck for typing reasons. He has no insect support or other insect monsters in general. So he can't even get the most out of its effects and use it as a serious beat stick.
He probably felt he didn't have to do so given that he talked about the way it was played by Weevil. That, and I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Joey doesn't use insect monsters at all
I think it's telling he NEVER summoned it in the manga. In the duel with Odion his third monster was Baby Dragon. The anime just threw in Insect Queen to show his growth with all the high level duelists he beat.
It might have actually been useful with parasite given that it would change his monsters into insects which in turn would boost Insect Queens attack all on its own and then he could tribute it for an attack once it was no longer useful and Joey had better cards to make plays with, or if he flipped it and put it into his opponents deck it would hurt them while giving more insects to boost his Queens attack. Of course with Joey being an idiot that sort of play wouldn't pan out ever.
Insect Queen though is just bad in general. Weavil basically had to build his entire deck and cheat just to make it useful. There's a reason no one plays it.
I always found it strange that Jinzo didn't just immediately replace Red-Eyes as Joey's ace the moment he got it. It has the same Attack, requires one less tribute, and has a really good (at the time) effect. Red-Eyes costs double the tribute fodder for the same Attack and zero effect whatsoever.
Honestly it kinda did. At the beginning of season 2 Joey lost red eyes to the rare hunter and then yugi after all. It was in filler arcs where he started using it again.
@@youngoptimus14 Except that potential was very rarely explored in the anime since most Red Eyes Support didn't come out until after the OG anime ended. Otherwise Joey's options consisted of Red Eyes, Dragon Nails, Meta Morph, and Lord of the Red. Not to mention Joey rarely used most of the Red Eyes support he did have outside of filler arcs.
20:51 Idea to improve these cards: _Gearfried The Adamantine Knight_ (EARTH) Level 4 Warrior/Tuner/Effect _This card’s name is always also treated as “Gearfried The Iron Knight. Cannot be destroyed by monsters who’s Level/Rank/Link is 4 or lower. (Quick Effect) You can destroy any card(s) equipped to this card, then increase or decrease this card’s level by up to the number of destroyed cards. Once per turn, you can tribute 1 card from your hand or field: Add 1 card to your hand from your deck or GY that mentions “Gearfried” in its name or effects._ ATK/1800 DEF/1600 _Gearfried Unbound_ Quick-Play Spell _Tribute 1 “Gearfried” monster you control: Special Summon 1 "Gearfried the Master of Arms" from your hand, deck or GY. You can shuffle this card you own that is banished or in the GY into your deck while you control a face-up “Gearfried” monster: Add 1 Equip Spell to your hand from your deck or GY._ _Gearfried the Master of Arms_ (LIGHT) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Warrior/Effect _Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned with "Gearfried Unbound". Can declare additional attacks per battle phase, equal to the number of cards equipped to this card. (Quick Effect) You can shuffle this card from your hand or GY into your deck: Add 1 Spell/Trap that mentions “Gearfried” in its name or effects to your hand from your deck or GY. Each time a card is equipped to this card: Apply 1 of the following effects:_ ⚪️Destroy 1 card your opponent controls. ⚪️Add 1 card that mentions “Equip” in its name or effects to your hand from your deck or GY. ATK/2600 DEF/2200
Not sure if it'd count as a "bad card that Joey used", but one of the riskiest Spell Cards he played was "Roulette Spider". Don't even know if it's been released IRL, but I know that it had an even higher risk of backfiring on him than Time Wizard. Joey used that in his first Battle City duel against Espa Roba on the latter's ace monster, Jinzo, where it was spun like a roulette that would only stop when Espa told it to. There were FIVE potential targets. Two of them were the duelists directly while the other three were any of the other monsters on the field, with Espa making a comment in his head that Joey's deck was so lame that he had nothing to lose. Upon ordering Jinzo to stop spinning, it pointed at Espa's only other monster: Reflect Bounder. Both were destroyed because of Reflect Bounder's effect while winning Joey the duel.
27:25 Ideas to improve MetalMorph and REBMD: _Living Metalmorph_ Trap Card _This card’s name is always also treated as “Metalmorph”. You can discard 1 card to activate this card from your hand, field (face-up or facedown) or GY. You can apply each of the following effects of “Living Metalmorph” once per turn:_ ⚪️Target 1 face-up monster on the field; equip this card to that target. It gains 300 ATK/DEF. If it battles, it gains ATK/DEF equal to half the ATK or DEF (your choice) of the attack target, during damage calculation only. ⚪️ Special Summon this card as an Effect Monster (Machine/Tuner/DARK/Level 1/ATK 300/DEF 300). (This card is also still a Trap.) If this card battles, it gains ATK/DEF equal to half the combined total ATK/DEF of 1 monster on the field. _Red-Eyes Black Iron Dragon_ (DARK) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Machine/Effect _Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must first be Special Summoned (from your Hand, Deck or GY) by Tributing1 "Red-Eyes" monster equipped with "Metalmorph". Cannot be destroyed. If this card battles, it gains ATK and DEF equal to the ATK and DEF of any monster it battles, during the damage step. If this card leaves the field, Special Summon 1 “Red-Eyes” monster from your hand, deck or GY, and add 1 “Metalmorph” card to your hand from your deck or GY._ ATK/2800 DEF/2400
My buddy John who got me back into Yugioh after almost 15 years of not playing gave me his Parasite Paracide saying it was his best card and he put it in all of his decks. I'm pretty sure he has no idea how the card even works tho. 🤣
I didn't see these points mentioned in the video or comments, so I'm gonna mention them. 1) Book of Moon saw play because it is a quick-play spell, otherwise it would've been just as bad as Block Attack. 2) Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon is even worse than described in the video because it has to be summoned from the Deck. If you draw it, it is dead in your hand, and you aren't summoning it unless you shuffle it back in the deck with something like Reload or Magical Mallet.
Book of moon can be used on your OWN cards That way you can farm a flip effect or attack n activate to switch into the defense position Block attack affecting ONLY the opponent is why it's bad
Even as a young child. I never could understand why red eyes black metal is worse then just keeping red eyes with the metalmorph equip. It makes no sense why it has no special effect.
A lot of cards are deliberately made bad to be pack filler or for the sake of an anime moment. Despite how careful Konami is about ensuring the cards are balanced (within thier own archetype at least), it's clear some cards are better than others, but a LOT of early game cards were simply terrible even for the time. Even as a kid most of us knew what metal morph on it's own does, the ONLY benefit to getting Metal Dragon out is you could tank a 2700 opponent but...that's literally it. and you're likely going to run it over with Red eyes anyway unless it has some protection or a potential equip destruction. So nich of a situation I could only see it happening in the earliest Yugioh.
Leogun has stats that aren’t justifiable for its level, because in the manga at the time monsters typically had much higher levels, because tributing wasn’t a thing yet, and when this card was brought to the actual game, they kept its level, the same even though a lot of other cards of similar power scaling had lower levels now, so they could still be summoned easy since levels mattered more now
It’s also worth noting is that Leogun actually has good stats for Duelist kingdom where tribute summoning wasn’t required. And especially in comparison to the rest of Joey’s deck. It’s also odd he owns it in the first place as a lot of Joey’s card choices was because he was poor. Leogun would be his lucky break in canon.
@@bijuutamer729 He didn't own Leogun in the manga, the anime basically added it for "turn padding". Joey surprisingly had many high atk monsters by Duelist Kingdom standards, Flame Swordsman, Giltia, Battle Steer and Garoozis are up there with the best or second best monsters from pros like Mako, Rex and Mai.
15:31 needed to remind that Johnson thinks Joey is burden to Yugi even though the reason Joey is struggling middle of the duel against him is because he Actually rigged the result of his gamble cards
The problem with thousand dragon is that a lot of tactics that could be applied in the manga or anime couldn’t be pulled off in the actual real world card game due to their complexity so simplifying thousand dragon into a fusion monster made sense for the real world game mechanics, but it also made it much Less competitively viable even though the monster still has decent stats
Actually, they could have translated it perfectly to the real life card game...that's what Dark Sage is. Er, this might actually be a case where the real life version is an improvement over the anime.
@@kyklous3657 Might have just been that they wanted to make Joey's structure deck revolve more around fusions or Dark Sage was designed as a card later on and they were willing to make its summoning more complicated.
I wished Tine Wizard did that because that would have great but also made it pretty OP so only getting that with the time magic to age up Baby Dragon would be about right.
It just came out too early in the game. Honestly I don't think the games rules were even in effect in that ark. Honestly Thousand Dragon should get a retrain.
That new Swordsman fusion monster is a beast of a card. Combined with the other support cards and the new fusion spell it can do some serious damage, even win the duel outright if your opponent cannot stop it. I have already built a deck around it and whilst it is a bit slow, the payoff is well worth it. My only complaint with the new set is that Bonfire only works specifically with Pyro monsters and not Fire monsters so it is mostly useless to Flame Swordsman. Had it worked with Fire monsters then Swordsman would have been unstoppably fast.
Idea to make this card more FUN: _Dangerous Machine Type-7_ Continuous Spell _If a Die is rolled: You can activate this card from your hand or GY during either players turn. During the beginning of each Phase: The Turn Player can Roll a six-sided die and apply the result. The controlling player of this card can reroll the result once per Phase._ ● 1: Discard 1 card. ● 2: Your opponent discards 1 card. ● 3: Draw 1 card. ● 4: Your opponent draws 1 card. ● 5: Destroy 1 card your opponent controls. ● 6: Destroy 1 card you control.
That would make the card genuinely interesting. Being able to activate the effect from the hand or graveyard to always have a risky dice roll to gain or lose advantage. That sounds perfectly in the heart of Yugioh, than the whole "Big play or lose it all" that most gamble cards do. Since the biggest problem with the original is that you have to protect it...for the chance of giving your opponent some benefit. Even if the card wouldn't be "good", it'd still be a lot more fun to play for casual games, rather than a complete waste of a draw.
I do appreciate Duel Logs trying to express the best way to use a card EVEN in the modern day instead of just dismissing it as inferior at face value. He always explains the strategy around it and how to use it if it happens to be your favorite card, but why you likely wouldn't see it used in serious duels. That and I REALLY appreciate him mentioning Duel Links a lot more, as it's a lot more casual friendly and has it's own meta so a card that's terrible in the TCG may be one of the best cards in Duel Links due to the pace and power level and that's the way us Duel Links players recognize the cards. (Link monsters aren't nearly as powerful in Duel Links due to the powerlevel of the cards released so far and the limited board space. Most of them are either attack modifiers, or archetype specific and a lot of the loops are impossible in Duel links due to key cards missing from the game entirely.)
The first isnt so much an example of teamwork as its an example of almost nobody ever thinks to look at the card text/stats after its played in the anime
That happens an infuriating number of times. When these characters BUILT THE DECK and forgot what thier own cards do. I kind of get the opponent may have cards and they likely can't read what the opponent uses given the nature of the battle field, but that was used as a plot point in Arc-V where players genuinely kept their cards a secret and would only reveal the effects AFTER the moment came up. IIRC Yuri was the king of doing that given how ridiculous his anime-only field spell was. It kind of legitimized when Yami Yugi would just make up rules as he went in the Duelist Kingdom era.
While it's interesting to learn his weakest cards by modern day standards it would have been even more interesting to compare his deck to the cards of the time as well, maybe a future video idea?
Funny idea, inprove some of joey worse cards by retraining them into support for his other archetypes or fusing them together. A fusion of Legendary Fisherman and Insect Queen would be funny. A Red-Eyes Black Jinzo would be terrifying. Or a Leogun retrain that acts as a mount/union for Flame Swordsman.
*Updated retrain of baby dragon, thousand dragon, plus time wizard with their animated card game effects into real life TCG/OCG will definitely be worth it for joey wheeler deck arsenal.*
Dangerous Machine Type-6 could potentially be useful in a Dark World deck, as now it's basically a 2/3 chance of getting a benefitial effect (only negatives being your opponent draws one card or the card is destroyed)....but it still has the downside of waiting two whole turns to actually have it activate.
Ahm, a small point of view eith block attack and book of moon, bavk in the day, flip effects where more predominant and monster effects not so much, so it was more common to find problematic to put a face down rather than a face up defense monster card
Joey was easily the best natural duelist in the entire series. He took what was at most a mid tier deck and beat some of the best duelists in the world. He even had Marick beat and was the first person to go toe to toe with the winged dragon of ra and also defeat it.
Duel links is still alive and just as popular. Pendulum decks aren’t in the top competitive spots either. Yugioh won’t always be caveman Yugioh forever
@@williamdrum9899 at inception it was but they can’t stay that way forever. Duel links is a market strategy for Konami. Bringing in newer cards and play styles keeps the game running and money flowing as people spend their money on main boxes to get the best cards
I love Red Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon, an extremely powerful card is a combination of Red Eyes Darkness Dragon, a bad card, and Red Eyes Metal Dragon, a terrible card
video idea you might have already done: "Top 10 Yugioh Monsters that are fusions without being Fusion Monsters." Stuff like how Arise-Heart is a merger of all of the Visas, Heavymetalfoes Electrumite is a fusion of Gold and Silver, Full Armored Utopic Ray Lancer is Utopia Ray wearing the Black Ray Lancer armor, etc.
I miss Yugioh Cross duel.... Block attack was a nice card there due to the mechanics of that game. Really is a shame it didn't last long but it was painfully slow paced.
Have its effect be "During the Battle Phase, change all Attack Position monsters your opponent controls to face-up Defense Position" in addition to being Quickplay, and it's now not dogwater tier in even old school Yugioh; being a side-grade to Enemy Controller (non-targeting and affects your enemy's entire field at the cost of only being usable in the Battle Phase + not having EC's entire second effect) rather than a direct downgrade. Of course, you then have to buff cards like Earthquake and the like, but they're _also_ dogwater tier, so that's completely fine to me.
I think Joey was my favorite duelist to watch of the main cast in the original specifically because of how he would use these mediocre and bad cards in creative ways. I know it's functionally no different from how Atem would draw exactly what he needs when he needed it, but he would almost always draw a good card and then use it like a good card, It was just more interesting to see Joey draw a bad card but find a good way to use it.
No he didn’t he just thought he had too. He was so used to cheating he just “played it safe” and did so. We know he was a solid duelist in tournaments playing fair.
15:00 I can retrain this and Dark Magician Knight to become more worthwhile: _Magician’s Knighting_ Quick-Play Spell _Tribute 1 face-up “Magician” Monster from your Momster or Pendulum Zones: Special Summon 1 “Dark Magician - Gallant Knight” from your hand, deck or GY, then apply 1 of the following effects depending on the zone you tributed from for this effect:_ Monster Zone: Add 1 Monster to your hand (from your deck or GY) that mentions “Magician” in its name or effects. Pendulum Zone: Add 1 Spell/Trap card to your hand (From your deck or GY) that mentions “Magician” in its name or effects. _Dark Magician - Gallant Knight_ (DARK) Level 7 Spellcaster/Tuner/Effect _Cannot be normal summoned/set. Must be special summoned by the effect of “Magician’s Knighting”. If this card is special summoned: You can change this card’s original type to Warrior. (Quick Effect) You can shuffle this card from your hand or GY: Add 1 “Magician’s Knighting” and 1 “Magician” monster to your hand from your deck or GY. (Quick Effect) You can tribute 1 card from your hand or field: Apply 1 of the following effects depending on that tribute’s card type:_ Monster: Special Summon (face-up or facedown) 1 Level 4 or lower “Magician” monster from your hand or deck. Spell: Place 1 level/rank 4 or lower Pendulum monster from your hand, deck, monster zones, GY or face-up from your extra deck into your pendulum zones. Trap: Either (From your hand, deck or GY) set 1 Trap Card OR Equip 1 Equip Spell to a face-up Monster on the field. _You can only activate each effect of “Dark Magician - Gallant Knight” once per turn._ ATK/2500 DED/2100
I feel like Fairy Box should also be considered, because not only is it a gambling card, it's also a gambling card that has a maintenance cost just to keep it around. Plus, since it only really works in the Battle Phase, it can be played around quite easily like other Battle Phase-exclusive cards
Fairy Box was actually pretty good when it came out. Its main advantage is that it's your opponent who has to gamble, and more often than not they simply wouldn't attack because the risk was too high, potentially stalling for a lot of turns and baiting out removal.
4:24 I used a dragon fusion deck back in the beginning of duel links, and because I had a few fusion substitute cards, I had a baby dragon slotted in my deck specifically for Thousand Dragon. I thought it was clever, but looking back, I think I'd have been better off with a good back row card lol.
Comparing how duelling in the anime works with their TCG counterparts is a bit unfair. Basically the Extra Deck would have needed a limit of 30 cards and the additional type "Evolved Monster", because a Ton of Monsters were evolutions that spawned, when you used certain cards on certain monsters. They never had to draw those cards, making the "Evolution Monsters" way stronger.
4:32 Ok… This one has actually been bothering me on how to improve it, but I think I have an angle now: _Time Wizard’s Dragon_ (LIGHT) Level 7 Dragon/Fusion/Tuner/Effect “Time Wizard” OR 1 Spellcaster monster + “Hundred Dragon” OR 1 Dragon monster _This card that is face-up on the field or in the GY is also WIND-Attribute. If this card is fusion summoned: You can special summon 1 Fusion Monster from your Extra deck that mentions “The Claw of Hermos” in its effects, ignoring its summoning conditions. Once per turn (Quick Effect): You can have this card gain or lose Levels equal to the number of cards you control, and if you do, it gains 200 ATK/DEF for each Level gained or lost. These changes last until the end of this turn. You can shuffle 1 card from your hand, deck or GY into your deck (Quick Effect): Toss a coin and call it. If you call it right, destroy 1 card on the field. If you call it wrong, Your opponent can destroy 1 card on the field, except this card._ ATK/2500 DEF/2400
Thousand dragon is a relatively lackluster fusion monster, compared to the newer fusion monsters that have come along, it came in handy for Joey in duelist kingdom. When Joey was able to get both baby dragon and time wizard together on the field and that time wizard’s staff didn’t land on a skull, causing him to lose all monsters on his side of the field and take damage.
To be fair early on a lot of really good cards in early anime we’re considered very rare even something like negate attack so the gambling was a more common way to get effect like those
Please do Top 10 archetypes with multiple different extra deck monster (must have more than 2 because almost all of the archetypes in the game received a link monster !)
Why not make "Magic Metal" retrains of the monsters that can be special summoned by tributing the right monster with an equip card(s) and then re-equip the "Magic Metal" monster with an equip card that was previously attached.
Really, the majority of Joey's cards were lousy, even back in the day, and most of wins were the result of dumb luck, not skill. DuelLogs didn't even mention that Red-Eyes Black Metal can only be summoned from the deck, making it a garbage Garnet on top of everything else. Judai has to have a Top 10 Worst list at some point since he played early Heros, which means *a lot* of crappy cards.
Man I hate how much flak Joey gets, I loved his cards back in the day he had unique strategies and interesting monsters, I loved Thousand Dragon it gave Baby Dragon and Time Wizard limelight and 2400 attack was good back then. While he had questionable cards is it fair to compare them to modern day Yu-Gi-Oh? Modern day Yu-Gi-Oh didn't exist during Joey's run. I will always be a fan, he was selfless always putting himself last to be there and loyal. He was sloppy in the beginning but earned the respect of Yu-Gi-Oh, Kaiba, Marik, and Pegasus. C'mon now
17:45 Actually, instead of 50%, your chances of gaining a beneficial effect from the card are more like *30%*, because, while every EVEN number will work for your opponent, rolling a 1️⃣ will cause you to discard a card from your hand. This means that you can only gain a positive outcome from this card by rolling either a 3️⃣ or a 5️⃣. That is DEFINITELY a mostly useless card.
Parasite Paracide needing to survive is still stupid to this day, and I'll stand by it. The very first instance of Konami not knowing how their own game mechanics worked, and it'd only get worse with every if/when card they printed.
I still laugh, once upon a time (a long long time ago) I ran Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon in one of my decks. It was in a Cyberdark deck where I used to send Red-Eyes B Dragon to the graveyard allowing the Cyberdark Dragon to equip Red-Eyes. The tactic was reliant on the fact that I could summon Red-Eyes Dragon as one of the easiest summons I could ask for. These days not only do Cyberdarks have their own dragons, there are easier ways to get Red-Eyes in the graveyard and better monsters to select.
Leogun wasn’t even powercrept from the day it was released… it was powercrept BEFORE it was released. Summoned Skull was already released in SDY before it was an ultra rare in MRD. So… poor Leogun never even stood a chance.
Im loving the best and worst cards a character has used series. Plus adding context from the anime is my favorite part of the videos. I hope to see videos of charcter from GX and 5Ds eventually.
You know the list of cards is going to be dire when a 2400 ATK vanilla fusion monster is considered the second best card on the list. As an aside, the funny thing about Insect Queen is, if I'm not mistaken, Joey never uses it in the manga because of how detrimental its effect is. In fact, Joey is typically a lot more analytical in Battle City, since I recall Tristan asking why he didn't take Mako's Fortress Whale instead of Legendary Fisherman, and Joey pointed out that it'd be worthless without the Ritual card.
We all been in Joey's footsteps. We ere all beginners and noobies didnt know how to make a deck. We only played the cards that looked coolest and cutest. But when we played for years we get better and taking it more serious. And we learn more combos, stradegies and we play with the cards we love. For Joey he enjoy the game a lot. And doesnt matter what card he use, every card have it's value. Joey remind me when I was a kid and my brother taught me everything about Yugioh and I immediately fell in love with the game Its the only game I played and as countless defeats by Bro I did manage to get quick wins from him showing I've been improved. That helped me irl as I got better in school if I just kept trying. That what I love with Yugioh and other shows they help me to build up my life. I dont mind if Joey cards ain't useful, its not what Yugioh is suppose to do tho. Its your mind, your decision and the cards have helped Joey but he improve and use other cards that are useful. Yugi helps him give him Time Wizard which definitely helped Joey a lot through out the whole show. Btw Thousand Dragon if its not strong it still super iconic and one of the first fusion monsters that got introduced and that why its Good. It brings you memories and nostalgia and it can be good in certain situations. Its better than nothing. Its strong as Red Eyes and if you use card right way you can win either way. Hell, ppl make Kuriboh decks and still wins.
I never understood why only parasite paracide needs to survive being attacked. Every other flip monster gets its effect off. I think even morphing jar 2 gets returned to the deck?
If you want some other monsters in your GY then PW can be your guy. I mean there are better options but PW is able to get a monster in your GY during your own battle phase, which might have some niche use
Fun fact: Weevil's rarest card during the Battle City arc was Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth but because it was completely useless to Joey, he took his 2nd rarest card: Insect Queen
Insect Queen...i have a lot of nostalgia for that card, i thought it was cool and tried my best to make a deck out of it. It and Doom Dozer. I wish it would've worked better. Oh well, still a cool card!
At least Doom Dozer was part of a game breaking combo: Use advanced ritual art to summon Demise by dumping two insect warriors from your deck to your gy, use Demise to clear the board and summon Doom Dozer with those two insects. With Megamorph onto Doom Dozer you'll even reach 8000 atk.
Full respect for players like you. That don't listen to the "Meta heads" and "Combo fetishists" and just tries to make YOUR favorite card work even if you'll lose many games trying to. The important thing to remember about Yugioh is with 10,000+ cards, everyone has a favorite for various reasons, like the card art, the character who used it, a favorite anime moment, and honestly, I do like what Insect cards are trying to do, being about a combination of swarming and disruption through manipluation. I'm sure you can win a duel with Insect queen. At least on the playground where people aren't spending all of recess trying to pull off FTKs with Tearlaments and acting like that's what Yugioh's about.
@@MarioMastar if it's a card that loses 99/100 games it's still an absolutely terrible card. You can still like it and play with it but you should at least acknowledge how bad it is.
Gearfried the Swordmaster isn’t deserving of the #3 spot bruh wtf…no way he’s worse that a LV 5 vanilla, dangerous machine, a hyper specific 300 equip card, a LV 7 insect that needs tribute to attack and summons a 100 ATK target in ATK mode, and knights title…
Knught's title is debatable since they are both pretty much equally bad. But in every other case yes he's way too inconsistent AND takes up a slot in your deck.
@@nicolaistuhlmuller8718Same arguments can be said for knights title. Gearfried the Swordmaster at least has a positive effect and better stats unlike Dark Magician Knight
@@TheGreatSalsaMan effect wise the dark magician knight is better than gearfried though. Dark magician knight can destroy something on the spot without any conditions and also works for spells and traps while Gearfried the Swordmaster is a straight up vanilla as long as you don't also have an equip spell in your hand. Basically you need regular Gearfried, Release Restraint AND an equip spell in your hand just to destroy a single monster, which is worse than Dark Magician Knight, who still needs a regular dark magician and knights title but at least destroys either a monster or a spell/trap.
The fact Red Eyes Black Metal Dragon doesn't get the effect of Metalmorph has always baffled me. Like, that sounds like it would make it a pretty neat card for the time if it kept the effect *in addition* to the extra 400 ATK/DEF points it gains with the tribute, but it just doesn't for whatever reason.
Considering this is about the anime, I would say that Leogun should not be in the list as the only time it was summoned was before tributes were required so a 1750atk monster that you can just normal summon isn't actually half bad for the time, it just got screwed by the field bonus But honestly, Kaiba is right, Joey actually........really sucks, I like the guy but his deck is awful during the whole run of the series if you count only canon material Joey's best duels were during the Dartz arc, as it was only up to that point that he managed to get a deck with any sort of theme around it, too bad that during the Kaiba Grand Prix he got screwed again by his bricky hand of useless high level cards "But he almost beat Yami Marik"....did he tho? I mean yea you can say that Marik got plot armor because Joey just needed to survive long enough to just declare an attack with Gearfried but really....Marik was obviously toying with him all duel, clearly just wanted to prolong his suffereng during the shadow game as Marik's level of play vs Joey is nowhere near close to everything he prepared against Yugi, yes at the end of the day that hubris could've costed Marik the win but honestly, Joey deserve to be placed above Marik, HELL HE DOESN'T EVEN DESERVE TO BE IN THE FINALS, I'm not trying to sound like Kaiba here, but really, the only reason he beat Odion was because Marik ordered him to stall until he summoned Ra in order to prevent the others from discovering his real identity, Odion had his boss monster ready against a Joey with a literally empty field and yet did nothing for like 3 turns just to wait until he drew Ra and after that, did Joey managed to defeat the fake Ra using the free turns Odion gave him? No, he literally only won because he stood up after getting hit with magic lightning, had the real Ra not gotten angry and attacked Odion there would've been no way for Joey to do anything to win And why was Joey left unable to do anything against Odion and forced to pass for a bunch of turns? Because his deck fucking sucks, the idea of Battle City is to win the opponent's rarerest card and strengthen your own deck, and other than Jinzo, Joey won some of the worst cards out there which of course he had no support for Jinzo at the time is pretty much a staple, even if you don't run any machines it's still a 1 tribute 2400atk monster which allows you to negate all traps thus preventing your opponent from stopping your attacks, the only deck in the DM era which would not like to run Jinzo is ironically the person we just discussed, Odion AND EVEN WITH JINZO JOEY COULDN'T HONESTLY BEAT HIM But Legendary Fisherman? (and supposedly fortress whale but Mako was a dick and didn't give him the ritual spell) a 1 tribute monster with low atk for its requirements and no way for Joey to use his effect And Insect Queen a 2 tribute weak monster with a cost in order to attack (as if he didn't have enough of that with panther warrior) which I think only manages to destroy like 1 or 2 enemy monsters during its whole existance within his deck and every other time is just a dead card in his hand Like, he didn't NEED to add those monsters to his deck, they made it actively worse But honestly, I could maybe forget all that, I could forget how Joey even during the non canon arcs which I already stated are where his best duels and skills are shown, is still shown as an idiot who needs Yugi to constantly save or like in the Grand Prix arc, little Yugi literally has to teach him (THE SEMIFINALIST OF DUEL KINGDOM) how are chain links resolved (maybe this was just for the viewers, but they could've have Yugi teach that to Tristan or Tea, or EVEN BETTER have JOEY be the one who teaches it), I can also forget his over reliance on luck becuase, he has a pretty good track record, I think he only gets legitimately screwed by luck (without the opponent cheating) 1 once in the whole series (but don't quote me on this) I could forgive all that, but what I can't forgive, is the fact that even by the end of the series HE STILL HAS FUCKING BATTLE WARRIOR ON HIS DECK, A FUCKIN USELESS 1000atk warrior who NEVER, EVER, IN THE WHOLE SERIES, DOES ANYTHING, IT IS USELESS 100% OF THE TIME, and he never takes it out of his deck, like if he had no access to better warriors, the most common monster type on the game, it's like if in the ceremonial duel between Atem and Yugi, Atem suddenly summoned fucking BEAVER WARRIOR I fucking hate battle warrior with such a passion, yes, Joey uses weaker monsters than it, like Swordsman of Landstar, but at least he can support SoL with gracefull dice, because in the anime instead of adding attack up to a max of 600 like in the TCG it Multiplies the monsters attack up to six times BUT it can only be used on a monster with 500 or less attack, so SoL is the perfect candidate to benefit from it, no wonder they are pretty much always used together But....in a cruel twist of fate, Battle Warrior is actually too "strong" to be able to benefit from graceful dice, but Battle warrior sucks at being good and sucks and being bad, it literally sucks at sucking, fucking waste of paper or whatever material the cards are made in the anime for Kaiba to be able to bruise people's hands by throwing one at them He is cool dude and good friend but, again, Kaiba had it 100% correct, he is a 3rd rate duelist with a 4th rate deck because indeed his deck is worse than him Fuck Battle Warrior, worst card he ever used, and probably worst card anyone ever used in the DM anime
Baby Dragon has two things going for it. It's a Normal Dragon, so it can be a target for Dragon Shrine, and it can also be used as banish fodder for any of the now limited Dragon Rulers.
Idk why, I thought this was going to be "10 cards he used in his deck during the anime are bad and he probably shouldn't have" not "Cards he used that nowadays sucks but got him out of situations all the time"
This just reminds me why the OG YGO anime was so cool, since before the battle city arc they didn't really have a good grasp on their own rule set and the animators weren't exactly sure how a battle flowed beyond summon monster > attack > Stop once LPs are 0, so they used interesting ways of giving each card special interactions which, if im being honest, led to some pretty bullshit combos (and i loved it). Battle city started to follow the official rules so it allowed everyone to update their deck enough to fit those rules while also keeping their identity.
There was one gamble card I think you missed, worse than dangerous machine. Compensation Mediation. When your opponent declares an attack, they get to pick 2 cards from their GY, then shuffle them in with this card, then you pick one at random. If you pick the card, the battle phase ends. Then the two cards they picked are placed on top of their decks. Your opponent gets any 2 cards back and you get a 1/3 chance to end the battle phase. Awful.
Worst part is that he literally said it in conjunction with the discussion of dangerous machine type 6. So he’s aware of the card existence but didn’t put it on the list for some reason While technically it’s not the worst thing in the world to force your 2 grave cards on the top of your deck as the trap user can anticipate on what the opponent drew, it still is overall a downgrade especially when the opponent is allowed to CHOOSE which one And on top of all that, there’s literally NEGATE ATTACK. WHY USE COMPENSATION MEDIATION WHEN THERES JUST THAT 😭😭😭
12:10 Idea to retrain this card to be better for the modern day: _Insect Empress_ (EARTH) Level 7 Insect/Tuner/Effect _Can be tribute summoned by using 1 insect monster you control as tribute. During either players turn, you can special summon this card (From your hand or GY) by tributing 3 Insect monsters you control, and if you do, you can increase or decrease this card’s original level by up to those tributes combined Levels/Ranks/Links. Gains 200 ATK/DEF for every Incest monster on the field. Your opponent cannot target this card for attacks or card effects while you control another face-up Insect monster. (Quick Effect) You can tribute 1 card from your hand or field: Special Summon one “Insect Praetorian Token” (Insect/Tuner/EARTH/Level 1/ATK 100/DEF 100)._ ATK/2400 DEF/2200
If anime-exclusive cards counted, Compensation Mediation would easily make this list. Granted, it might actually be a somewhat less mediocre card if *you* got to choose which cards were on top of the deck.
The only thing you learn from Joey is: plot armor existe, Yami cheat and people let him go with it... But Joey is treat like the special kid by the writters. His deck have to be one of the worst in the whole series
When Duelist Kingdom was going on I get it because it had some spotlight. It was a random vanilla. One card I couldn’t support Joey using after that was freaking Battle Warrior. Lol. 😂
In theory couldn't you build a deck around Dangerous Machine Type-6 to turn most of it's negatives into positives? Like... you discarding or destroying cards, aren't there decks that could use that? The only one that could be considered a legitimate downside in most all decks is "Your opponent draws one card" But, I feel like somewhere there's some obscure card that would allow you to substitute the opponents draw card effect(s) with Cards of your own choosing. That way you could pretty much sabotage them by giving them worthless monsters they can't do anything with.
Joey's arc truly embodied the story of many of us back in the day.
First, we didn't know what we were doing, and filled our decks with useless garbage, misplaying all the time.
But eventually, we learned and adapted... by shoving a Jinzo into our deck and let it carry us.
Yeah, that's why I feel people need to give Yuma more credit cause Yuma is also a reflection of young duelists getting into the game but being really bad at it and too stubborn to listen to their mentor's advice. Sure Yuma is "annoying" but his story is very relatable to many kids trying to get into the game and while he relies on Astral's advice a lot, his final duel against Astral was a perfect way to genuinely show how much he has grown, relying on his own Gagaga deck and the one Utopia card he was allowed to have to secure a victory. Plus his Zexal morph was super cool even if technically it didn't do anything except act as a "Skill" which would allow him to use the Zexal cards, but his Shining Draw was also a skill anyway and Skills are a thing...in the Speed Duel format. XD
@@MarioMastareh. There's a big difference between these arc types when one is the best friend and the other is the protagonist.
Also, let's just be honest, no other ygo is nearly as well written(character wise) as the actual source material
It was Dark Necrofear for me for a while, but then went to Jinzo like everyone else
I played a lot of one of the video games with this strategy. I don’t remember which one though.
@@ianslee4765 I have to argue that Vrainz is pretty amazing
Kaiba: 'Play your last pathetic card, Yugi.'
Yugi: 'My grandpa's deck has no pathetic cards, Kaiba.'
Joey: 'Yea!'
Yugi: 'He shoved them all into Joey's deck.'
Joey: 'Yea!...wait, what?'
Tbh most of yugi’s cards are trash
"FREAKING MUSHROOM MAN!" XD
@@Samagachi That's true. Yugi had a lot tricks that needed two or more specific cards (for example "Multiply" x "Kuriboh" or "Magical Cylinder" x "Dark Magician"/"Dark Magician Girl") without any plan on how to draw them somewhat consistently. Combo extender? Searcher? He don't even know what this mean. All of his duel relied heavily on luck... I mean heart of the cards XD But that's still better than his best pall, Joey Wheeler. He needed an exactly card and a lucky dice roll XD IRL it would be a miracle if those two would one anything XD
@@pierogitozycie8426 magical cylinder has NEVER required dark magician...nice try though
@DrakusWolfChild I think magic cylinder did need dark magician in the anime though. Same with the magic hat trap card if I remember right
One card he used that was completely nerfed was graceful and skull dice. They could've been game winning if they weren't changed to be the result x100.
Yes, BUT xD you would need a calculator from time to time and count your life points to the last didget xD
That’s 2 cards actually
Yeah but in the anime they could only be used on monsters with less than 500 pts hence why he ran stuff like swordsman of landstar
Skull dice was a real mvp that allowed Joey to overcome many high atk monsters like the great moth
True, but skull dice could've been used on anything and anything above a 2 could completely wipe out even the most peowerful monsters@@DarthABBA
Ngl watching Joey make these cards work was where half the enjoyment of the series came from
I like the earlier anime because the lack of established rules make it more unpredictable
@@EssexAggiegrad2011 I don't. For me it was laughable that Yugi won almost every duel in Duel Kingdom by making some bullcrap and saying it out loud with confidence in his voice XD I remember that as a child I was wondering what are the rules of this game? And how do you determine what would happen next? Because it was looking like story a telling RPG without GM. Does the computer somehow calculate the outcome of polymerizating monsters that are fused for the first time? If so, how did Yug know exactly what would Mammoth Cemetery do with Blue-Eyes? Because Kaiba had no clue...
Yeah the mammoth arrow fusion killing the blue eyes was a bit much, and i usually dont mind the lack of rules in that arc but that was just egregious @pierogitozycie8426
early yugioh anime rules seemed to work closer to something like dnd than a card game. Spells seemed to largely come from spell caster monsters while warriors used weapons as equipment.
There's an obscure fan format in Magic the Gathering called Kangaroo Court in which rather than follow the rules as written on the card, you RP reasons for the cards to work as per your own descriptions. Naturally this requires another player to act as a judge.
Duelist Kingdom especially reminded me of that.
It was based off the original manga where Yugi would get possessed by the Pharaoh who was the "King of Games" as in purely shadow games. Yugi would get put into a brutal life or death situation and the Pharaoh would take over and play an evil game against the opponent as their punishment. One of those happened to be duel monsters and it took off.
@RuneTrips You know the real stuff! Lol I'm still trying to figure-out the manga
@@RuneTrips Yeah, back when Kaiba had green hair. Also why the rules changed so much and why the first video games had random ass rules. I remember one of them where you could stack monsters on top of each other to fuse them.
@@RuneTripsYeah, early manga Yugi was literally out here laying judgement on people like an actual Egyptian god of death.
I think what's weird about Metal Dragon is that technically, Joey didn't really summon it. He just equipped Metal Morph to Red Eyes and it just sort of morphed into Metal Dragon and being more like a weird pseudo card. The same kind of applies to Metal Zoa and Heavy Metal King. Just weird early Yu-Gi-Oh shenanigans.
Same thing with Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon. In the manga Kaiba remarks that he can't draw a card to possibly help him stop Yugi's combo because he still technically has 5. Two regular, and the 3 Blue Eyes. BEUD isn't technically a card, hence why Kaiba can resurrect a Blue-Eyes once one of it's heads is cut off.
Is Just a token in original anime , not a real card
Well in the original anime the IRL game didn’t have all the fleshed out rules that it does now which is how in the OG anime characters can do weird shit like fuse spell and monster cards or age monsters into more powerful ones
@@jamesonweimann4720😂 Bro i went back to watch this show and my hraun would nearly pop with the levels of bs plays or turn arounds in the season 1 tournaments
Probably the best way to think of Metal Morph's anime effect, is as an equip spell that changes a monster to machine type and gives it a small attack buff. With the Anime holograms just applying a visual change to represent this.
Joey was a great example of a poor dude with junky cards who formed a deck based on the best of what he have, he is something like yusei from season 1
Yusei is an example of a good player making the most of what he had, but Yusei is an adult and acts like how an adult player forced to play the game to survive would likely play the game. It's interesting because it's what makes 5Ds so good when you're older and can appreciate the story it's trying to tell. Thus even though the characters are total opposite in maturity, people who relate to Yusei could look back at Joey and smile thinking "Man I wonder if I played my old deck now how good I'd be? Maybe there was a strat I just overlooked back then?" Sounds like a good time for a memory lane duel. I personally found out I REALLY Love Rex's dino cards a lot cause I just love dinosaurs.
That's exactly the issue of why Joey's cards are so bad. His lack of strategy and initial non-inclusion of any spell/trap cards is from inexperience, but his bad cards are from lack of money. In the manga it's shown that the dad he lives with is a drunk and in debt when he got onto a (rigged to lose) game show to win some money.
Since he doesn't have the cash for the good cards, he has to rely on gamble cards or cards with a harsh cost to get the same great effects that people like Kaiba get for free.
Yusei at least had good extra deck cards, Joey had nothing
Joey was the everyman like us. His deck was cheap and mostly filled with monsters that looked cool. As he developed and learned his deck evolved to reflect that in more trap cards and stronger monsters.
What about that guy gx, I think it was aster phoenix? In his debut episode he used a bunch of random cards for his first duel.
A funny thing about real life Parasite Paricide; there was one of those which fell into my possession as a kid because someone used it in a duel with my brother and then forgot to ask for it back. Eventually, one of us also lost it in another duel because, yet again, we forgot it was still in the opponent's deck.
I like to think kids are still handing around the same copy of Parasite Paracide to this day.
I always feel like any cards that have the effect of being given to your opponent would result in accidently trading cards. I mean heck, Monster Reborn lets you steal a card from your opponent's graveyard and I can imagine players may have forgotten to change back when using them for an extra deck summon and putting the card in thier own graveyard, or Xyz and forgetting about the overlay units. XD Thank goodness for virtualization keeping our cards and rules intact.
Same, but with my rotting brain's low attention span sometimes i find traptrix monsters in my albaz deck😅
@@MarioMastar Don't most players have sleeves on their cards? Unless you and your opponent are using the exact same sleeves it feels like this wouldn't happen now because as soon as you turn the deck over you'll see a completely different pattern/color.
@@kyuubinaruto17 nowadays, yea, but back when a lot of those cards were still newer and in widespread use, most of us were kids and card sleeves weren't even a consideration.
@@MarioMastarto be fair, on the first one, once the monster summoned by reborn dies it goes to the Owners graveyard not the controllers, though I can easily see that happening anyway back in the day. Also, when XYZ first came out that happened alot at the local school group that played.
Legendary fisherman and the whale ritual monster he won from Mako definitely deserved a spot
It always surprised me that Joey got the whale when Mako actually had a better monster in his deck that was a simple 2400 atk lv6 monster. And back then that statline for 1 tribute was actually pretty decent (or at least better than a ritual monster he can't summon anyway).
I still can't get over Mako not giving Joey the Ritual Spell needed to summon Fortress Whale?!
Cause without it, Fortress Whale is just a dead card in your deck.
@altermann1991
Jinzo could be a decent temporary boss monster if only because he's the most "general use" monster out of the four Joey earned during Battle City.
@@clownplayer7265 Well can ya blame him for using it? Jinzo shuts down one 3rd of the entire game, and is a descent beatstick.
pretty sure Joey never used fortress whale ever and legendary fisherman isn't anywhere near as bad when compared to these other cards.
The funny thing is in S4 Metal Red Eyes did have the attack modifier so it was way better then the version we got IRL
That's because he didn't make it red-eyes black metal dragon so he could keep the second effect
Nah that was just red eyes b dragon equipped with metal morph lol
Keep in mind that in the anime there is no difference between REBMD and and Red eyes equipped with Metal morph as Joey is never seen playing the actual card both times he’s used it. Also back when Joey first used it against Keith the LP value was 2000 and if Red eyes had its attack modifier it would depleted Keith’s LPs when he attack Barrel Dragon and that would’ve been too anti climactic for an anime duel
@@novamaster9645 I agree, the real life cards(that should be extra deck cards) that FORM in duelist kingdom should honestly just not be included as "worst cards" for the characters.
But that is what I'm saying, that ISNT the red eyes black metal dragon card. That's red eyes effected by metalmorph
This definitely was a case of the OCG/TCG trying to explain away the anime. When it was used in Duelist Kingdom on Zoa and Red Eyes it turned then into machines and gave them a 400 atk boost but didn't give them the boost of gaining half the target's atk points. However, later on, Metalmorph would be used in the same way as it's actual card effect, so they tried to explain that inconsistency by basically saying "well it's because Joey and Bandit Keith actually used that card to summon Red Eyes B Metal Dragon and Metal Zoa respectively, even though it would make no sense why anyone would do that."
Talking about Joey's bad cards.
Joey "Why I oughta! Yugi's gramps taught meh there's no bad cards ya hear!".
💀
"There's no bad cards in GRANDPA'S deck" Emphasis on Solomon's, Joey was on his own. XD
It would be Yusei of 5Ds who believed that every card had value. Didn't mean he was saying they were good, just they had a use in the hands of a good duelist (and proceeded to prove that in his epic duel against Tanner where he used a deck filled with mostly detrimental cards and won through really outside the box tactics...all by just looking at the cards as they were splattered on the floor. Yusei is the GOAT though.)
“Brooklyn Rage!!”
@@legalam
"I don't wanna be a furry"
@@MarioMastar Also was proven by Team Taiyo holding their own against Team 5Ds with shitty low lvl normal monsters and absolutely ancient trap cards.
The amount of times we say "I summon Time Wize'hd" or "Kunaiiiii wi'chains" when in a discord call with my friend because of Joey is great. Just playing a completely separate game and when we're boned and have nowhere to go we pull a anime get out of jail free card with "Time wize'hd" in hope that the heart of the cards, aka, some miracle saves us.
"Baby dreeeagon! In atteck mode! Hey, cmon Yugez, let's win dis duel!"
His bs NY accent was a treat
Im surprised you didn't really harp on the fact that Insect Queen is just a bad fit for Joey's deck for typing reasons. He has no insect support or other insect monsters in general. So he can't even get the most out of its effects and use it as a serious beat stick.
He probably felt he didn't have to do so given that he talked about the way it was played by Weevil. That, and I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Joey doesn't use insect monsters at all
I think it's telling he NEVER summoned it in the manga. In the duel with Odion his third monster was Baby Dragon. The anime just threw in Insect Queen to show his growth with all the high level duelists he beat.
It might have actually been useful with parasite given that it would change his monsters into insects which in turn would boost Insect Queens attack all on its own and then he could tribute it for an attack once it was no longer useful and Joey had better cards to make plays with, or if he flipped it and put it into his opponents deck it would hurt them while giving more insects to boost his Queens attack.
Of course with Joey being an idiot that sort of play wouldn't pan out ever.
Insect Queen though is just bad in general. Weavil basically had to build his entire deck and cheat just to make it useful. There's a reason no one plays it.
@@thefanwithoutaface8105 😂 Yo what if someone really did slip a parasite card in someone's deck just to be a douche about it.
I always found it strange that Jinzo didn't just immediately replace Red-Eyes as Joey's ace the moment he got it. It has the same Attack, requires one less tribute, and has a really good (at the time) effect. Red-Eyes costs double the tribute fodder for the same Attack and zero effect whatsoever.
Honestly it kinda did. At the beginning of season 2 Joey lost red eyes to the rare hunter and then yugi after all. It was in filler arcs where he started using it again.
Dragons are more marketable than a bald cyborg
But you're missing the POTENTIAL of Red-Eyes!
@@youngoptimus14 Except that potential was very rarely explored in the anime since most Red Eyes Support didn't come out until after the OG anime ended.
Otherwise Joey's options consisted of Red Eyes, Dragon Nails, Meta Morph, and Lord of the Red. Not to mention Joey rarely used most of the Red Eyes support he did have outside of filler arcs.
He kind of did during BC, and even after I think he actually used Jinzo WAY more even when he got Red Eyes back
Joey didn't even play Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon. He was simply using his vanilla Red-Eyes equipped with Metalmorph.
20:51 Idea to improve these cards:
_Gearfried The Adamantine Knight_ (EARTH)
Level 4
Warrior/Tuner/Effect
_This card’s name is always also treated as “Gearfried The Iron Knight. Cannot be destroyed by monsters who’s Level/Rank/Link is 4 or lower. (Quick Effect) You can destroy any card(s) equipped to this card, then increase or decrease this card’s level by up to the number of destroyed cards. Once per turn, you can tribute 1 card from your hand or field: Add 1 card to your hand from your deck or GY that mentions “Gearfried” in its name or effects._
ATK/1800 DEF/1600
_Gearfried Unbound_
Quick-Play Spell
_Tribute 1 “Gearfried” monster you control: Special Summon 1 "Gearfried the Master of Arms" from your hand, deck or GY. You can shuffle this card you own that is banished or in the GY into your deck while you control a face-up “Gearfried” monster: Add 1 Equip Spell to your hand from your deck or GY._
_Gearfried the Master of Arms_ (LIGHT)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Warrior/Effect
_Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned with "Gearfried Unbound". Can declare additional attacks per battle phase, equal to the number of cards equipped to this card. (Quick Effect) You can shuffle this card from your hand or GY into your deck: Add 1 Spell/Trap that mentions “Gearfried” in its name or effects to your hand from your deck or GY. Each time a card is equipped to this card: Apply 1 of the following effects:_
⚪️Destroy 1 card your opponent controls.
⚪️Add 1 card that mentions “Equip” in its name or effects to your hand from your deck or GY.
ATK/2600 DEF/2200
Not sure if it'd count as a "bad card that Joey used", but one of the riskiest Spell Cards he played was "Roulette Spider". Don't even know if it's been released IRL, but I know that it had an even higher risk of backfiring on him than Time Wizard. Joey used that in his first Battle City duel against Espa Roba on the latter's ace monster, Jinzo, where it was spun like a roulette that would only stop when Espa told it to. There were FIVE potential targets. Two of them were the duelists directly while the other three were any of the other monsters on the field, with Espa making a comment in his head that Joey's deck was so lame that he had nothing to lose. Upon ordering Jinzo to stop spinning, it pointed at Espa's only other monster: Reflect Bounder. Both were destroyed because of Reflect Bounder's effect while winning Joey the duel.
It actually does exist in the real game and is about as random and dangerous as its anime counterpart.
I love that Rex is wearing a same jacket as Joey wore at Duelist Kingdom. Maybe Rex got some inspiration from Joey.
27:25 Ideas to improve MetalMorph and REBMD:
_Living Metalmorph_
Trap Card
_This card’s name is always also treated as “Metalmorph”. You can discard 1 card to activate this card from your hand, field (face-up or facedown) or GY. You can apply each of the following effects of “Living Metalmorph” once per turn:_
⚪️Target 1 face-up monster on the field; equip this card to that target. It gains 300 ATK/DEF. If it battles, it gains ATK/DEF equal to half the ATK or DEF (your choice) of the attack target, during damage calculation only.
⚪️ Special Summon this card as an Effect Monster (Machine/Tuner/DARK/Level 1/ATK 300/DEF 300). (This card is also still a Trap.) If this card battles, it gains ATK/DEF equal to half the combined total ATK/DEF of 1 monster on the field.
_Red-Eyes Black Iron Dragon_ (DARK)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Machine/Effect
_Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must first be Special Summoned (from your Hand, Deck or GY) by Tributing1 "Red-Eyes" monster equipped with "Metalmorph". Cannot be destroyed. If this card battles, it gains ATK and DEF equal to the ATK and DEF of any monster it battles, during the damage step. If this card leaves the field, Special Summon 1 “Red-Eyes” monster from your hand, deck or GY, and add 1 “Metalmorph” card to your hand from your deck or GY._
ATK/2800 DEF/2400
Do Mai Valentine's worst cards! It might be tough though since her's were fairly good. Backrow removal and counter cards like Mirror Wall.
she had not one but TWO Feather Dusters
My favorite part of Parasite Paracide is any time a Yugo-tuber uses it they are always confused that it's effect failes when it get attacked onto.
My buddy John who got me back into Yugioh after almost 15 years of not playing gave me his Parasite Paracide saying it was his best card and he put it in all of his decks. I'm pretty sure he has no idea how the card even works tho. 🤣
Yugi: Joey you can’t make a deck with just monster cards.
Gong Strong: Am I a joke to you?
gong strong : real man fight without spell and trap
Yami/Atem: _Draw! Monster Card!_
I didn't see these points mentioned in the video or comments, so I'm gonna mention them.
1) Book of Moon saw play because it is a quick-play spell, otherwise it would've been just as bad as Block Attack.
2) Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon is even worse than described in the video because it has to be summoned from the Deck. If you draw it, it is dead in your hand, and you aren't summoning it unless you shuffle it back in the deck with something like Reload or Magical Mallet.
Book of moon can be used on your OWN cards
That way you can farm a flip effect or attack n activate to switch into the defense position
Block attack affecting ONLY the opponent is why it's bad
Even as a young child. I never could understand why red eyes black metal is worse then just keeping red eyes with the metalmorph equip. It makes no sense why it has no special effect.
A lot of cards are deliberately made bad to be pack filler or for the sake of an anime moment. Despite how careful Konami is about ensuring the cards are balanced (within thier own archetype at least), it's clear some cards are better than others, but a LOT of early game cards were simply terrible even for the time. Even as a kid most of us knew what metal morph on it's own does, the ONLY benefit to getting Metal Dragon out is you could tank a 2700 opponent but...that's literally it. and you're likely going to run it over with Red eyes anyway unless it has some protection or a potential equip destruction. So nich of a situation I could only see it happening in the earliest Yugioh.
Leogun has stats that aren’t justifiable for its level, because in the manga at the time monsters typically had much higher levels, because tributing wasn’t a thing yet, and when this card was brought to the actual game, they kept its level, the same even though a lot of other cards of similar power scaling had lower levels now, so they could still be summoned easy since levels mattered more now
It’s also worth noting is that Leogun actually has good stats for Duelist kingdom where tribute summoning wasn’t required. And especially in comparison to the rest of Joey’s deck.
It’s also odd he owns it in the first place as a lot of Joey’s card choices was because he was poor. Leogun would be his lucky break in canon.
@@bijuutamer729 He didn't own Leogun in the manga, the anime basically added it for "turn padding". Joey surprisingly had many high atk monsters by Duelist Kingdom standards, Flame Swordsman, Giltia, Battle Steer and Garoozis are up there with the best or second best monsters from pros like Mako, Rex and Mai.
15:31 needed to remind that Johnson thinks Joey is burden to Yugi even though the reason Joey is struggling middle of the duel against him is because he Actually rigged the result of his gamble cards
The problem with thousand dragon is that a lot of tactics that could be applied in the manga or anime couldn’t be pulled off in the actual real world card game due to their complexity so simplifying thousand dragon into a fusion monster made sense for the real world game mechanics, but it also made it much Less competitively viable even though the monster still has decent stats
Actually, they could have translated it perfectly to the real life card game...that's what Dark Sage is. Er, this might actually be a case where the real life version is an improvement over the anime.
@@kyklous3657 Might have just been that they wanted to make Joey's structure deck revolve more around fusions or Dark Sage was designed as a card later on and they were willing to make its summoning more complicated.
Thousand dragon should have gotten a special effect of "aging" enemy monsters, like cutting their attacks in half when summoned.
I wished Tine Wizard did that because that would have great but also made it pretty OP so only getting that with the time magic to age up Baby Dragon would be about right.
It just came out too early in the game. Honestly I don't think the games rules were even in effect in that ark.
Honestly Thousand Dragon should get a retrain.
Fun fact: Knight's Title can be used with Destiny Hero Diamond Dude to get a free 2500 beatstick.
But you have to run a pretty bad brick in Dark Magician Knight, plus, it's delayed.
What perfect timing. The new Flame Swordsman cards come out today.
That new Swordsman fusion monster is a beast of a card. Combined with the other support cards and the new fusion spell it can do some serious damage, even win the duel outright if your opponent cannot stop it. I have already built a deck around it and whilst it is a bit slow, the payoff is well worth it. My only complaint with the new set is that Bonfire only works specifically with Pyro monsters and not Fire monsters so it is mostly useless to Flame Swordsman. Had it worked with Fire monsters then Swordsman would have been unstoppably fast.
Idea to make this card more FUN:
_Dangerous Machine Type-7_
Continuous Spell
_If a Die is rolled: You can activate this card from your hand or GY during either players turn. During the beginning of each Phase: The Turn Player can Roll a six-sided die and apply the result. The controlling player of this card can reroll the result once per Phase._
● 1: Discard 1 card.
● 2: Your opponent discards 1 card.
● 3: Draw 1 card.
● 4: Your opponent draws 1 card.
● 5: Destroy 1 card your opponent controls.
● 6: Destroy 1 card you control.
That would make the card genuinely interesting. Being able to activate the effect from the hand or graveyard to always have a risky dice roll to gain or lose advantage. That sounds perfectly in the heart of Yugioh, than the whole "Big play or lose it all" that most gamble cards do. Since the biggest problem with the original is that you have to protect it...for the chance of giving your opponent some benefit. Even if the card wouldn't be "good", it'd still be a lot more fun to play for casual games, rather than a complete waste of a draw.
In conclusion: 90% of Joey cards are useless due to power creep
If by power creep you mean 2004 yugioh, because all of those cards were garbage when they came out too.
I love all the lil bits of positivity and good lessons you include in these videos! ^-^ They’re very helpful.
I do appreciate Duel Logs trying to express the best way to use a card EVEN in the modern day instead of just dismissing it as inferior at face value. He always explains the strategy around it and how to use it if it happens to be your favorite card, but why you likely wouldn't see it used in serious duels. That and I REALLY appreciate him mentioning Duel Links a lot more, as it's a lot more casual friendly and has it's own meta so a card that's terrible in the TCG may be one of the best cards in Duel Links due to the pace and power level and that's the way us Duel Links players recognize the cards. (Link monsters aren't nearly as powerful in Duel Links due to the powerlevel of the cards released so far and the limited board space. Most of them are either attack modifiers, or archetype specific and a lot of the loops are impossible in Duel links due to key cards missing from the game entirely.)
@@MarioMastar I agree 110%! :D It adds a lot of fun and endearment to his videos.
With elma being banned, my other favorite way to abuse gearfried in goat is smoke grenade of the thief and blast with chain
The first isnt so much an example of teamwork as its an example of almost nobody ever thinks to look at the card text/stats after its played in the anime
That happens an infuriating number of times. When these characters BUILT THE DECK and forgot what thier own cards do. I kind of get the opponent may have cards and they likely can't read what the opponent uses given the nature of the battle field, but that was used as a plot point in Arc-V where players genuinely kept their cards a secret and would only reveal the effects AFTER the moment came up. IIRC Yuri was the king of doing that given how ridiculous his anime-only field spell was. It kind of legitimized when Yami Yugi would just make up rules as he went in the Duelist Kingdom era.
The cards in the anime have no text.
@@darkdragon7210 Pretty sure they have text in the Japanese version - English dubs have to remove it for legal reasons.
While it's interesting to learn his weakest cards by modern day standards it would have been even more interesting to compare his deck to the cards of the time as well, maybe a future video idea?
Funny idea, inprove some of joey worse cards by retraining them into support for his other archetypes or fusing them together.
A fusion of Legendary Fisherman and Insect Queen would be funny.
A Red-Eyes Black Jinzo would be terrifying.
Or a Leogun retrain that acts as a mount/union for Flame Swordsman.
...how did they not think to build a stronger Metalmorph effect into Metal Red-Eyes.
They didn't want to give it two effects.
*Updated retrain of baby dragon, thousand dragon, plus time wizard with their animated card game effects into real life TCG/OCG will definitely be worth it for joey wheeler deck arsenal.*
I love that your backgrounds for 3D parts is just the arena from forbidden memories when umi is in play, so cool.
Dangerous Machine Type-6 could potentially be useful in a Dark World deck, as now it's basically a 2/3 chance of getting a benefitial effect (only negatives being your opponent draws one card or the card is destroyed)....but it still has the downside of waiting two whole turns to actually have it activate.
Ahm, a small point of view eith block attack and book of moon, bavk in the day, flip effects where more predominant and monster effects not so much, so it was more common to find problematic to put a face down rather than a face up defense monster card
Joey was easily the best natural duelist in the entire series. He took what was at most a mid tier deck and beat some of the best duelists in the world. He even had Marick beat and was the first person to go toe to toe with the winged dragon of ra and also defeat it.
As Soon As Pendelum Got In To Duel Links! That Was The Day Duel Links Died RIP Duel Links I Will Miss You!
Cry
Duel links is still alive and just as popular. Pendulum decks aren’t in the top competitive spots either. Yugioh won’t always be caveman Yugioh forever
@@Diego5151999 I thought that was the whole point of duel links, to be caveman yugioh
@@williamdrum9899 at inception it was but they can’t stay that way forever. Duel links is a market strategy for Konami. Bringing in newer cards and play styles keeps the game running and money flowing as people spend their money on main boxes to get the best cards
I love Red Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon, an extremely powerful card is a combination of Red Eyes Darkness Dragon, a bad card, and Red Eyes Metal Dragon, a terrible card
video idea you might have already done: "Top 10 Yugioh Monsters that are fusions without being Fusion Monsters."
Stuff like how Arise-Heart is a merger of all of the Visas, Heavymetalfoes Electrumite is a fusion of Gold and Silver, Full Armored Utopic Ray Lancer is Utopia Ray wearing the Black Ray Lancer armor, etc.
But but but I can use Block Attack on your Berserk Gorilla causing it to auto blow itself up!
Not to mention getting rid of that pesky spirit reaper.
I miss Yugioh Cross duel.... Block attack was a nice card there due to the mechanics of that game. Really is a shame it didn't last long but it was painfully slow paced.
0:30 Simple fix for this one: Make it a Quickplay Spell so that it can actually stop an attack during your opponent’s turn.
But in duel links .....
I mean just play Enemy Controller
@@Personaroseit probably has a use in formats before controller is legal
Have its effect be "During the Battle Phase, change all Attack Position monsters your opponent controls to face-up Defense Position" in addition to being Quickplay, and it's now not dogwater tier in even old school Yugioh; being a side-grade to Enemy Controller (non-targeting and affects your enemy's entire field at the cost of only being usable in the Battle Phase + not having EC's entire second effect) rather than a direct downgrade.
Of course, you then have to buff cards like Earthquake and the like, but they're _also_ dogwater tier, so that's completely fine to me.
@@Personarosecame here to say this 😂
I think Joey was my favorite duelist to watch of the main cast in the original specifically because of how he would use these mediocre and bad cards in creative ways.
I know it's functionally no different from how Atem would draw exactly what he needs when he needed it, but he would almost always draw a good card and then use it like a good card, It was just more interesting to see Joey draw a bad card but find a good way to use it.
As a reminder, Weevil had to cheat to make his deck work against Joey.
No he didn’t he just thought he had too. He was so used to cheating he just “played it safe” and did so. We know he was a solid duelist in tournaments playing fair.
15:00 I can retrain this and Dark Magician Knight to become more worthwhile:
_Magician’s Knighting_
Quick-Play Spell
_Tribute 1 face-up “Magician” Monster from your Momster or Pendulum Zones: Special Summon 1 “Dark Magician - Gallant Knight” from your hand, deck or GY, then apply 1 of the following effects depending on the zone you tributed from for this effect:_
Monster Zone: Add 1 Monster to your hand (from your deck or GY) that mentions “Magician” in its name or effects.
Pendulum Zone: Add 1 Spell/Trap card to your hand (From your deck or GY) that mentions “Magician” in its name or effects.
_Dark Magician - Gallant Knight_ (DARK)
Level 7
Spellcaster/Tuner/Effect
_Cannot be normal summoned/set. Must be special summoned by the effect of “Magician’s Knighting”. If this card is special summoned: You can change this card’s original type to Warrior. (Quick Effect) You can shuffle this card from your hand or GY: Add 1 “Magician’s Knighting” and 1 “Magician” monster to your hand from your deck or GY. (Quick Effect) You can tribute 1 card from your hand or field: Apply 1 of the following effects depending on that tribute’s card type:_
Monster: Special Summon (face-up or facedown) 1 Level 4 or lower “Magician” monster from your hand or deck.
Spell: Place 1 level/rank 4 or lower Pendulum monster from your hand, deck, monster zones, GY or face-up from your extra deck into your pendulum zones.
Trap: Either (From your hand, deck or GY) set 1 Trap Card OR Equip 1 Equip Spell to a face-up Monster on the field.
_You can only activate each effect of “Dark Magician - Gallant Knight” once per turn._
ATK/2500 DED/2100
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I feel like Fairy Box should also be considered, because not only is it a gambling card, it's also a gambling card that has a maintenance cost just to keep it around. Plus, since it only really works in the Battle Phase, it can be played around quite easily like other Battle Phase-exclusive cards
Fairy Box was actually pretty good when it came out. Its main advantage is that it's your opponent who has to gamble, and more often than not they simply wouldn't attack because the risk was too high, potentially stalling for a lot of turns and baiting out removal.
Earned my sub bringing back nostalgic feels. Love your vids
4:24 I used a dragon fusion deck back in the beginning of duel links, and because I had a few fusion substitute cards, I had a baby dragon slotted in my deck specifically for Thousand Dragon. I thought it was clever, but looking back, I think I'd have been better off with a good back row card lol.
Hey man, the Joey Wheeler Deck was my starter deck, so it has to have been the best one. Red eyes black dragon was so cool!
Comparing how duelling in the anime works with their TCG counterparts is a bit unfair. Basically the Extra Deck would have needed a limit of 30 cards and the additional type "Evolved Monster", because a Ton of Monsters were evolutions that spawned, when you used certain cards on certain monsters. They never had to draw those cards, making the "Evolution Monsters" way stronger.
Talking about Lily, i remember when i was playing yugioh gx in nds..she pump her attack to 3000, so i give her magic cylinder..aah how nostalgic..😂
That is intelligent as heck
4:32 Ok… This one has actually been bothering me on how to improve it, but I think I have an angle now:
_Time Wizard’s Dragon_ (LIGHT)
Level 7
Dragon/Fusion/Tuner/Effect
“Time Wizard” OR 1 Spellcaster monster + “Hundred Dragon” OR 1 Dragon monster
_This card that is face-up on the field or in the GY is also WIND-Attribute. If this card is fusion summoned: You can special summon 1 Fusion Monster from your Extra deck that mentions “The Claw of Hermos” in its effects, ignoring its summoning conditions. Once per turn (Quick Effect): You can have this card gain or lose Levels equal to the number of cards you control, and if you do, it gains 200 ATK/DEF for each Level gained or lost. These changes last until the end of this turn. You can shuffle 1 card from your hand, deck or GY into your deck (Quick Effect): Toss a coin and call it. If you call it right, destroy 1 card on the field. If you call it wrong, Your opponent can destroy 1 card on the field, except this card._
ATK/2500 DEF/2400
7:06 obligatory "reel 'em in, Axe Raidah!"
time wizard would be way cooler if he really could do that effect, and kinda change the whole board
Thousand dragon is a relatively lackluster fusion monster, compared to the newer fusion monsters that have come along, it came in handy for Joey in duelist kingdom. When Joey was able to get both baby dragon and time wizard together on the field and that time wizard’s staff didn’t land on a skull, causing him to lose all monsters on his side of the field and take damage.
I have never seen such an abrupt transition to a hellofresh ad ever before and I realize now that I prefer this over being bamboozled by a misdirect
To be fair early on a lot of really good cards in early anime we’re considered very rare even something like negate attack so the gambling was a more common way to get effect like those
Please do Top 10 archetypes with multiple different extra deck monster (must have more than 2 because almost all of the archetypes in the game received a link monster !)
Why not make "Magic Metal" retrains of the monsters that can be special summoned by tributing the right monster with an equip card(s) and then re-equip the "Magic Metal" monster with an equip card that was previously attached.
Really, the majority of Joey's cards were lousy, even back in the day, and most of wins were the result of dumb luck, not skill.
DuelLogs didn't even mention that Red-Eyes Black Metal can only be summoned from the deck, making it a garbage Garnet on top of everything else. Judai has to have a Top 10 Worst list at some point since he played early Heros, which means *a lot* of crappy cards.
This is an excellent video. It made me appreciate Joey even more.
9:44 That's a reaction if I've ever seen one! 😂
Man I hate how much flak Joey gets, I loved his cards back in the day he had unique strategies and interesting monsters, I loved Thousand Dragon it gave Baby Dragon and Time Wizard limelight and 2400 attack was good back then. While he had questionable cards is it fair to compare them to modern day Yu-Gi-Oh? Modern day Yu-Gi-Oh didn't exist during Joey's run. I will always be a fan, he was selfless always putting himself last to be there and loyal. He was sloppy in the beginning but earned the respect of Yu-Gi-Oh, Kaiba, Marik, and Pegasus. C'mon now
Pegasus said Joey was the 3rd best duelist of all time on GX.
Why compare them to modern yugioh? The first set already had summoned skull at 2500 atk, and that one didn't need 3 specific cards to be brought out.
17:45 Actually, instead of 50%, your chances of gaining a beneficial effect from the card are more like *30%*, because, while every EVEN number will work for your opponent, rolling a 1️⃣ will cause you to discard a card from your hand. This means that you can only gain a positive outcome from this card by rolling either a 3️⃣ or a 5️⃣.
That is DEFINITELY a mostly useless card.
Parasite Paracide needing to survive is still stupid to this day, and I'll stand by it. The very first instance of Konami not knowing how their own game mechanics worked, and it'd only get worse with every if/when card they printed.
bro really had a deck with more bricks than actual useful cards, but somehow it works so it works
I still laugh, once upon a time (a long long time ago) I ran Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon in one of my decks. It was in a Cyberdark deck where I used to send Red-Eyes B Dragon to the graveyard allowing the Cyberdark Dragon to equip Red-Eyes. The tactic was reliant on the fact that I could summon Red-Eyes Dragon as one of the easiest summons I could ask for. These days not only do Cyberdarks have their own dragons, there are easier ways to get Red-Eyes in the graveyard and better monsters to select.
Leogun wasn’t even powercrept from the day it was released… it was powercrept BEFORE it was released. Summoned Skull was already released in SDY before it was an ultra rare in MRD. So… poor Leogun never even stood a chance.
Im loving the best and worst cards a character has used series. Plus adding context from the anime is my favorite part of the videos. I hope to see videos of charcter from GX and 5Ds eventually.
You know the list of cards is going to be dire when a 2400 ATK vanilla fusion monster is considered the second best card on the list. As an aside, the funny thing about Insect Queen is, if I'm not mistaken, Joey never uses it in the manga because of how detrimental its effect is. In fact, Joey is typically a lot more analytical in Battle City, since I recall Tristan asking why he didn't take Mako's Fortress Whale instead of Legendary Fisherman, and Joey pointed out that it'd be worthless without the Ritual card.
I think that was Great Moth you're thinking of. Fortress Whale wasn't a ritual in the manga, just a normal monster.
@@TheBlockerNator My memories of the manga and anime got conflated. That talk about the Fortress Whale was from the Japanese sub of the anime.
We all been in Joey's footsteps. We ere all beginners and noobies didnt know how to make a deck. We only played the cards that looked coolest and cutest. But when we played for years we get better and taking it more serious. And we learn more combos, stradegies and we play with the cards we love. For Joey he enjoy the game a lot. And doesnt matter what card he use, every card have it's value. Joey remind me when I was a kid and my brother taught me everything about Yugioh and I immediately fell in love with the game Its the only game I played and as countless defeats by Bro I did manage to get quick wins from him showing I've been improved. That helped me irl as I got better in school if I just kept trying. That what I love with Yugioh and other shows they help me to build up my life.
I dont mind if Joey cards ain't useful, its not what Yugioh is suppose to do tho. Its your mind, your decision and the cards have helped Joey but he improve and use other cards that are useful. Yugi helps him give him Time Wizard which definitely helped Joey a lot through out the whole show. Btw Thousand Dragon if its not strong it still super iconic and one of the first fusion monsters that got introduced and that why its Good. It brings you memories and nostalgia and it can be good in certain situations. Its better than nothing. Its strong as Red Eyes and if you use card right way you can win either way. Hell, ppl make Kuriboh decks and still wins.
I never understood why only parasite paracide needs to survive being attacked. Every other flip monster gets its effect off. I think even morphing jar 2 gets returned to the deck?
Do a "Top 10 Hello Fresh meals and what Elemental Hero it would be"
It’s really interesting to see how the TCG adapts really strong cards from the anime.
Still don’t know how panther warrior wasn’t on this list
If you want some other monsters in your GY then PW can be your guy. I mean there are better options but PW is able to get a monster in your GY during your own battle phase, which might have some niche use
Fun fact: Weevil's rarest card during the Battle City arc was Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth but because it was completely useless to Joey, he took his 2nd rarest card: Insect Queen
Insect Queen...i have a lot of nostalgia for that card, i thought it was cool and tried my best to make a deck out of it. It and Doom Dozer. I wish it would've worked better.
Oh well, still a cool card!
At least Doom Dozer was part of a game breaking combo: Use advanced ritual art to summon Demise by dumping two insect warriors from your deck to your gy, use Demise to clear the board and summon Doom Dozer with those two insects. With Megamorph onto Doom Dozer you'll even reach 8000 atk.
Full respect for players like you. That don't listen to the "Meta heads" and "Combo fetishists" and just tries to make YOUR favorite card work even if you'll lose many games trying to. The important thing to remember about Yugioh is with 10,000+ cards, everyone has a favorite for various reasons, like the card art, the character who used it, a favorite anime moment, and honestly, I do like what Insect cards are trying to do, being about a combination of swarming and disruption through manipluation. I'm sure you can win a duel with Insect queen. At least on the playground where people aren't spending all of recess trying to pull off FTKs with Tearlaments and acting like that's what Yugioh's about.
@@MarioMastar if it's a card that loses 99/100 games it's still an absolutely terrible card. You can still like it and play with it but you should at least acknowledge how bad it is.
Gearfried the Swordmaster isn’t deserving of the #3 spot bruh wtf…no way he’s worse that a LV 5 vanilla, dangerous machine, a hyper specific 300 equip card, a LV 7 insect that needs tribute to attack and summons a 100 ATK target in ATK mode, and knights title…
Knught's title is debatable since they are both pretty much equally bad. But in every other case yes he's way too inconsistent AND takes up a slot in your deck.
@@nicolaistuhlmuller8718Same arguments can be said for knights title. Gearfried the Swordmaster at least has a positive effect and better stats unlike Dark Magician Knight
@@TheGreatSalsaMan effect wise the dark magician knight is better than gearfried though. Dark magician knight can destroy something on the spot without any conditions and also works for spells and traps while Gearfried the Swordmaster is a straight up vanilla as long as you don't also have an equip spell in your hand. Basically you need regular Gearfried, Release Restraint AND an equip spell in your hand just to destroy a single monster, which is worse than Dark Magician Knight, who still needs a regular dark magician and knights title but at least destroys either a monster or a spell/trap.
The fact Red Eyes Black Metal Dragon doesn't get the effect of Metalmorph has always baffled me. Like, that sounds like it would make it a pretty neat card for the time if it kept the effect *in addition* to the extra 400 ATK/DEF points it gains with the tribute, but it just doesn't for whatever reason.
Considering this is about the anime, I would say that Leogun should not be in the list as the only time it was summoned was before tributes were required so a 1750atk monster that you can just normal summon isn't actually half bad for the time, it just got screwed by the field bonus
But honestly, Kaiba is right, Joey actually........really sucks, I like the guy but his deck is awful during the whole run of the series if you count only canon material
Joey's best duels were during the Dartz arc, as it was only up to that point that he managed to get a deck with any sort of theme around it, too bad that during the Kaiba Grand Prix he got screwed again by his bricky hand of useless high level cards
"But he almost beat Yami Marik"....did he tho? I mean yea you can say that Marik got plot armor because Joey just needed to survive long enough to just declare an attack with Gearfried but really....Marik was obviously toying with him all duel, clearly just wanted to prolong his suffereng during the shadow game as Marik's level of play vs Joey is nowhere near close to everything he prepared against Yugi, yes at the end of the day that hubris could've costed Marik the win but honestly, Joey deserve to be placed above Marik, HELL HE DOESN'T EVEN DESERVE TO BE IN THE FINALS, I'm not trying to sound like Kaiba here, but really, the only reason he beat Odion was because Marik ordered him to stall until he summoned Ra in order to prevent the others from discovering his real identity, Odion had his boss monster ready against a Joey with a literally empty field and yet did nothing for like 3 turns just to wait until he drew Ra and after that, did Joey managed to defeat the fake Ra using the free turns Odion gave him? No, he literally only won because he stood up after getting hit with magic lightning, had the real Ra not gotten angry and attacked Odion there would've been no way for Joey to do anything to win
And why was Joey left unable to do anything against Odion and forced to pass for a bunch of turns? Because his deck fucking sucks, the idea of Battle City is to win the opponent's rarerest card and strengthen your own deck, and other than Jinzo, Joey won some of the worst cards out there which of course he had no support for
Jinzo at the time is pretty much a staple, even if you don't run any machines it's still a 1 tribute 2400atk monster which allows you to negate all traps thus preventing your opponent from stopping your attacks, the only deck in the DM era which would not like to run Jinzo is ironically the person we just discussed, Odion AND EVEN WITH JINZO JOEY COULDN'T HONESTLY BEAT HIM
But Legendary Fisherman? (and supposedly fortress whale but Mako was a dick and didn't give him the ritual spell) a 1 tribute monster with low atk for its requirements and no way for Joey to use his effect
And Insect Queen a 2 tribute weak monster with a cost in order to attack (as if he didn't have enough of that with panther warrior) which I think only manages to destroy like 1 or 2 enemy monsters during its whole existance within his deck and every other time is just a dead card in his hand
Like, he didn't NEED to add those monsters to his deck, they made it actively worse
But honestly, I could maybe forget all that, I could forget how Joey even during the non canon arcs which I already stated are where his best duels and skills are shown, is still shown as an idiot who needs Yugi to constantly save or like in the Grand Prix arc, little Yugi literally has to teach him (THE SEMIFINALIST OF DUEL KINGDOM) how are chain links resolved (maybe this was just for the viewers, but they could've have Yugi teach that to Tristan or Tea, or EVEN BETTER have JOEY be the one who teaches it), I can also forget his over reliance on luck becuase, he has a pretty good track record, I think he only gets legitimately screwed by luck (without the opponent cheating) 1 once in the whole series (but don't quote me on this)
I could forgive all that, but what I can't forgive, is the fact that even by the end of the series HE STILL HAS FUCKING BATTLE WARRIOR ON HIS DECK, A FUCKIN USELESS 1000atk warrior who NEVER, EVER, IN THE WHOLE SERIES, DOES ANYTHING, IT IS USELESS 100% OF THE TIME, and he never takes it out of his deck, like if he had no access to better warriors, the most common monster type on the game, it's like if in the ceremonial duel between Atem and Yugi, Atem suddenly summoned fucking BEAVER WARRIOR
I fucking hate battle warrior with such a passion, yes, Joey uses weaker monsters than it, like Swordsman of Landstar, but at least he can support SoL with gracefull dice, because in the anime instead of adding attack up to a max of 600 like in the TCG it Multiplies the monsters attack up to six times BUT it can only be used on a monster with 500 or less attack, so SoL is the perfect candidate to benefit from it, no wonder they are pretty much always used together
But....in a cruel twist of fate, Battle Warrior is actually too "strong" to be able to benefit from graceful dice, but Battle warrior sucks at being good and sucks and being bad, it literally sucks at sucking, fucking waste of paper or whatever material the cards are made in the anime for Kaiba to be able to bruise people's hands by throwing one at them
He is cool dude and good friend but, again, Kaiba had it 100% correct, he is a 3rd rate duelist with a 4th rate deck because indeed his deck is worse than him
Fuck Battle Warrior, worst card he ever used, and probably worst card anyone ever used in the DM anime
We wanted the king of games! Not the king of lame, the king of the cards! Not the king of the cods!
It would be cool to see a list of the worst cards used by Yusaku in Yugioh Vrains, since he had some interesting ones.
Baby Dragon has two things going for it. It's a Normal Dragon, so it can be a target for Dragon Shrine, and it can also be used as banish fodder for any of the now limited Dragon Rulers.
Idk why, I thought this was going to be "10 cards he used in his deck during the anime are bad and he probably shouldn't have" not "Cards he used that nowadays sucks but got him out of situations all the time"
But the former is exactly what it is. All of those cards sucked back then too, not just today.
This just reminds me why the OG YGO anime was so cool, since before the battle city arc they didn't really have a good grasp on their own rule set and the animators weren't exactly sure how a battle flowed beyond summon monster > attack > Stop once LPs are 0, so they used interesting ways of giving each card special interactions which, if im being honest, led to some pretty bullshit combos (and i loved it). Battle city started to follow the official rules so it allowed everyone to update their deck enough to fit those rules while also keeping their identity.
There was one gamble card I think you missed, worse than dangerous machine.
Compensation Mediation.
When your opponent declares an attack, they get to pick 2 cards from their GY, then shuffle them in with this card, then you pick one at random. If you pick the card, the battle phase ends. Then the two cards they picked are placed on top of their decks.
Your opponent gets any 2 cards back and you get a 1/3 chance to end the battle phase. Awful.
Worst part is that he literally said it in conjunction with the discussion of dangerous machine type 6. So he’s aware of the card existence but didn’t put it on the list for some reason
While technically it’s not the worst thing in the world to force your 2 grave cards on the top of your deck as the trap user can anticipate on what the opponent drew, it still is overall a downgrade especially when the opponent is allowed to CHOOSE which one
And on top of all that, there’s literally NEGATE ATTACK. WHY USE COMPENSATION MEDIATION WHEN THERES JUST THAT 😭😭😭
12:10 Idea to retrain this card to be better for the modern day:
_Insect Empress_ (EARTH)
Level 7
Insect/Tuner/Effect
_Can be tribute summoned by using 1 insect monster you control as tribute. During either players turn, you can special summon this card (From your hand or GY) by tributing 3 Insect monsters you control, and if you do, you can increase or decrease this card’s original level by up to those tributes combined Levels/Ranks/Links. Gains 200 ATK/DEF for every Incest monster on the field. Your opponent cannot target this card for attacks or card effects while you control another face-up Insect monster. (Quick Effect) You can tribute 1 card from your hand or field: Special Summon one “Insect Praetorian Token” (Insect/Tuner/EARTH/Level 1/ATK 100/DEF 100)._
ATK/2400 DEF/2200
Man, INCEST monsters. Konami would never export that to the west uncensored.
On a more serious note though, why is it a Tuner?
"Incest monster"
If anime-exclusive cards counted, Compensation Mediation would easily make this list. Granted, it might actually be a somewhat less mediocre card if *you* got to choose which cards were on top of the deck.
The only thing you learn from Joey is: plot armor existe, Yami cheat and people let him go with it... But Joey is treat like the special kid by the writters.
His deck have to be one of the worst in the whole series
Do you think you can cover Yuya’s deck and Zarc’s deck as well please do a top cards list for Yuya, Yuto , Yugo , Yuri and Zarc.
When Duelist Kingdom was going on I get it because it had some spotlight. It was a random vanilla. One card I couldn’t support Joey using after that was freaking Battle Warrior. Lol. 😂
In theory couldn't you build a deck around Dangerous Machine Type-6 to turn most of it's negatives into positives?
Like... you discarding or destroying cards, aren't there decks that could use that? The only one that could be considered a legitimate downside in most all decks is "Your opponent draws one card" But, I feel like somewhere there's some obscure card that would allow you to substitute the opponents draw card effect(s) with Cards of your own choosing. That way you could pretty much sabotage them by giving them worthless monsters they can't do anything with.
it works with archfiend and Pandemonium
Loved the "hidden" effects of the cards, even they arent effect monster at all in the anime xD