@@ASavageEye Elma was banned because of Gearfried. It does not work with woodland sprite and it never did, because it says "send an equip to the GY", while dagger says it must be "destroyed." Even if this wasn't the case, the split via period (which would be a "then" clause in modern text), between the sending and dealing 500 also makes dagger's "when/can" miss timing. The same rule that covers why Sprite doesn't combo with Archfiend of Gilfer either.
@@undeadinside3571 havent played since the light and dark skill got nerfed, all i know is they make skills broken to "encourage anime decks" or some bs 💀
@solfreedom9067 The combo you're thinking of is with gearfried and fire princess if I remember correctly. Elma doesn't work with this because it needs to be be destroyed wearase this card sends it to the grave instead so it wouldn't return to hand
So this card is responsible for all the weird numbers in burn effects in Duel Links. I thought it was native to the format to halve everything, I didn't think it was forced by... Woodland Sprite of all things...
@@dodang_9147 Close. You're increasing potency by 100% because you double it's efficacy! Still, I was never surprised that burn effects would be halved in the game
I was playing when they halved burn damage, it was because burn decks would always find a way into top meta, too consistently, because burn effects were balanced for a game with 8000 LP. So halving them balanced them for 4000Lp
It was also an FTK card IRL, I'm pretty sure the current version of butterfly dagger has been erattaed since then, because if I remember correctly, butterfly dagger used to instantly return itself to the hand, so on sprite it was a 2 card OTK.
Yubel and Wiseman existed before the changes were made to burn damage, so any card that burns released before Zexal world’s release still had their burn damage intact, except Lava Golem
Fun fact about this card. For the manga Zatch bell/Gash bell the author had a contest to draw your own momodo character. One of the many winners drew this card in the same position as the artwork and once it was found out that it was just copied they were disqualified. But you can still see it in the pages of the manga in the bonus section
@@JamaalDaGreatest It came out in 2003 for the first printing so it was during the original run of the manga mbt talks about when it was in duel links in 2018
@@stardust9470 gustav dealing an extra 1000 would not suddenly make trains viable, let alone tier 0. both going first and second, the deck is entirely reliant on opening tech cards to even have a chance of playing against actual meta.
@@SpottedZebra like I said that's one of the reasons I don't play anymore lol to me it's destroyed by the leaf thing because it's being sent to the graveyard lol
@@JohnnyExtremer Destroying and sending are two different things. This sends without destroying, while Dagger needs to be destroyed and hit the GY. It only meets one of those conditions.
@@HazeEmry Duel Links doesn't even have Gift Card for precisely that reason since Bad Reaction to Simochi has been in the game for ages. The combo was Reficule with 2x The Paths of Destiny, which had the burn damage halved but not the life gain, so if your opponent flipped heads on both of them they die instantly. Enter Sartorius' Master of Destiny skill which forces your first three coin toss effects to always come up heads.
@@HazeEmry The main difference is that Reficule is searchable and Paths was added at the same time as Reficule. That being said, Paths is now limited to 1 so easy FTKs are no longer possible either way
To clarify the burn nerf only applied to cards released after the nerf took place with the only exception being Lava Golem because it was the reason for the nerf (not because of Woodland Sprite since it was already neutered due to the banlist while Lava Golem was Marik's ace monster thus wasn't going to be limited).
I initially thought there was an equip spell that just goes back to your hand when it goes to the graveyard (without cost) and they just loop the effect over and over since it's not one per turn
MBT calls himself a Yu-Gi-Oh expert and he doesn't realize that this was part of the legendary 2 cycle loop of equipping this card with butterfly dagger Elma and then it goes to the grave and does 500 damage to your opponent butterfly dagger Elma comes back to your hand you re-equip it and you can keep hitting 500 for each re-equip to otk your opponent. 🤷♂️😏 I affectionately referred to this strategy as: Smokie The Bear Turbo! ☠️🤣😎
This was not discovered within minutes, the YCS champion for duel links at the time brought it to the main stage, and konami immediately limited the card and bamboo cards shortly after. Crazy times
Actually, there was a silly OTK with this card. There was an equip card released in 2005 called Butterfly Dagger Elma which could be returned to your hand when it went from being equipped to your graveyard. 2 card otk.
I remember going 1st and I set Enemy Controller and a Monster. My opponent played Woodland Sprite and I immediately snatched it which ended their turn.
Would like to point out that burn effects didn’t get nerfed for this actually. It got burned because of Lava golem shadow game stun. This was just dealt with never to be playable again
Woodland Sprite is not once per turn and some equip cards burn the opponent upon being sent to the GY. That's among other things equip cards with GY effects can do, that can be abused by this one card alone.
I remember having played against it. This and cyber angels give me nightmares, i still quit matches if i play against someone with cyber angels especially Dakini
It doesnt even say that sending the spell to the GY is the cost to inflict 500. Ruling should allow you to spam it until you've won, since its also not once per turn
That card is the reason butterfly dagger Elma is also banned. Equip the sprite, sac for burn, dagger returns to hand, equip to sprite, continue cycle until opponents life points reach zero.
False. Dagger could only do 3-piece combos with Gearfried + something else that benefits from infinite spells. Sprite / Dagger was never real because Dagger returns when "destroyed," and Woodland Sprite "sends."
I had this deck in duel links. It was beautiful. People would rather quit the duel if they ever had the chance then risk going through all the otk burning.
As sonone who only a a boomer undering of yigioh and haven't watched this short. 2 guesses 1. The equip spell part synergies well with an equipment based deck like noble knights (IDK I never played them) Or 2. It has an interaction with a than new card that konami didn't want to bam so they banned everything around it instead
Tbh I assumed they hit both it and Elma but actually it wouldn't even work with Elma since it sends to graveyard instead of destroying so Elma's recycle doesn't even proc
It was Elma that got banned, not Sprite. And that was to deal with generating infinite spell counters by having a Gearfried the Iron Knight. It does not return to your hand if Sprite uses it because "send to the graveyard" doesn't meet Elma's condition of being "destroyed."
I mean, I OTK with my Cyber Dragon deck using Zane all the time. His skills plus the Cyber Style can just be brutal when first turn I can whip out Chimeratech Rampage Dragon or Twin Cyber Dragon. I modeled that deck off one I have in real life, and it doesn't have the same effect irl. No broken ass skills. I can't just "HeArT oF tHe CaRDs" my way to victory, though I have actually OTK'd twice and both were in a tournament for TCG. One of those guys even threatened to punch me after the match. He did not even get the chance to actually play, just set a single trap. Which I instantly negated the activation of by sending two proto-cyber dragons to the GY from my deck.
Original reason for banning this card included Gearfried the Iron Knight and Butterfly Dagger - Elma. Have Woodland Sprite and Gearfried on the field. Activate Butterfly Dagger - Elma and attach to Gearfried. Gearfried destroys it, triggers Woodland and triggers Butterfly Dagger's second effect of returning to the hand, all the while reducing your opponent's LP by 500 per action. Rinse and repeat until opponent is dead. First FTK to exist in the TCG.
Hey not to rain on your video parade, but its always been a speculative point in the community (check old GAMFAQs for example on the Tournament Games) that with Sprite, Pixie, Butterfly Dagger, Gearfried, and some loop enablers, that an FTK was doable with Woodland specifically. I know it may be anecdotal at best, but I had tons of friends (by tons I mean like 6) ask me for trades/ copies of Sprite for draw power back in the early Synchro days and they'd use woodland as a play extender to pop valuable equips like Axe of Fools or to get rid of Drakmord stuns, etc using Tailor of The Fickle setups. Its kind of had its time to be baked in the oven. It always had potential, just had the wrong format. If base yugioh was 30 instead of 40 cards, we mightve seen like, Cardcar D Woodland Sprite exodia decks instead of Treasure Panda/ Malice engine for example.
Woodland Sprite is the YOU card of all time. He is supposedly single handedly the reason missing the timing is a thing since him and Archfiend of Gilford were a proto-FTK and I will never forgive him for the damage he has done to the game.
Now that you're older, try looking at those two cards more carefully. Might notice why everybody who did that was accidentally cheating with a "combo" that didn't actually work.
@@SpottedZebra they both got banned before the first tourney anyways. Depending on who you played with it was fine. People still play atlantis warrior to search a legendary ocean when umi works in that deck
@@natcole5981 History says otherwise. Game been around about 5 years before the first time it had a banned list in addition to the limited to 1 list. Happened in 2004 to address the fact that every deck would include the same 25 too-good-to-not-use limited cards before even beginning to make any decisions. Dagger went on it a year later in 2005 when the release of spell counter effects created the first way for there to be some purpose in playing Dagger infinitely off of Gearfried the Iron Knight. Sprite has never been on the list because of Dagger not really working with it, and the "missing the timing" rule that applies to optional triggers made sure it didn't work with the likes of Archfiend of Gilfer either.
That card got banned in 2005 and never came back, so that couldn't be the case even if that "combo" actually worked. Elma says "when this is destroyed," Sprite says "send to the graveyard." That's two different things so it doesn't count. (What got Elma banned at this time was plays made possible by Gearfried the Iron Knight.)
I was reading watch bell one day and in the extra pages there was a mamodo design competition one of the featured designs that didn't really manage to get to the high spots but was notable for the author was plagiarized from this card
I built that Woodland Sprite Bamboo FTK deck on my Duel Links account and let my buddy play with it all the way to King of Games even though he didn't play Duel Links just a former TCG player lol
Hmm non once per turn burn effect
There is definitely no otk involved here
Nope
None at all
Aaand it doesn't use butterfly dagger elma
@@mattrs1I was literally thinking Elma
@@dougneon9550 Yup, Elma makes this a busted OTK and it is probably why Elma will NEVER come off the ban list.
@@ASavageEye Elma was banned because of Gearfried. It does not work with woodland sprite and it never did, because it says "send an equip to the GY", while dagger says it must be "destroyed." Even if this wasn't the case, the split via period (which would be a "then" clause in modern text), between the sending and dealing 500 also makes dagger's "when/can" miss timing. The same rule that covers why Sprite doesn't combo with Archfiend of Gilfer either.
@@SpottedZebra You could have just said it does not work instead of showing off. Not everyone eats, sleeps and breathes YuGiOh!
DUEL STANDBY MENTIONED 🗣🗣🗣 WHAT THE FVCK IS A BALANCED SKILL ⁉️
Definitely not the broken shiranui one
I deleted the game because of the modern skills
Rather have duel standby than new exclusive deck's skill
@@undeadinside3571 havent played since the light and dark skill got nerfed, all i know is they make skills broken to "encourage anime decks" or some bs 💀
Shiranui was even broken without skills. I made KOG for the first time ever WHILE Grass was still a legal card and I didn‘t even use it!
The fact that a skill existed that said “fuck it. Play normal yugioh” and it was too good is so funny to me
sword of deapseated would work too well with this card.
The moment I saw the card: this is a Duel Links thing
The moment I read the effect I knew this was going to be a cannon soilder thing.
If I remember right it also had an otk with butterfly dagger Elma.
@@solfreedom9067sadly no. Butterfly dagger elma doesn't combo with it
The moment people saw this card if I failed a otk with this build they would leave the game. 😂
@solfreedom9067 The combo you're thinking of is with gearfried and fire princess if I remember correctly. Elma doesn't work with this because it needs to be be destroyed wearase this card sends it to the grave instead so it wouldn't return to hand
So this card is responsible for all the weird numbers in burn effects in Duel Links. I thought it was native to the format to halve everything, I didn't think it was forced by... Woodland Sprite of all things...
It was actually because of lava golem, not woodland sprite. But honestly, it would've come anyway the moment they released trickstar.
@@Ind3xPlus sounds like over-sight. if you halve the health of a player, your increasing every burn deck's potency by 50%.
@@dodang_9147 Close. You're increasing potency by 100% because you double it's efficacy! Still, I was never surprised that burn effects would be halved in the game
I was playing when they halved burn damage, it was because burn decks would always find a way into top meta, too consistently, because burn effects were balanced for a game with 8000 LP. So halving them balanced them for 4000Lp
@@dodang_9147 100% ^^; but yeah.
I honestly love- (not facing against it)
how there are certain Decks and FTKs that can only exist in Duel Links.
Shooting Star Dragon is a *very* consistent FTK with Yusei's Shooting Star Road skill
@@zdelrod829huh
It was also an FTK card IRL, I'm pretty sure the current version of butterfly dagger has been erattaed since then, because if I remember correctly, butterfly dagger used to instantly return itself to the hand, so on sprite it was a 2 card OTK.
@@zdelrod829shooting star otk is still around? Last I played 3 years ago it was like brand new, is it still the same list and skill?
@@TheWackyWorkbench It's changed slightly list wise, with the addition of Assault Synchron into DL.
Effect damage got halved
Neos Wiseman & the Yubel cards: *sure about that, budd?* 😂
All new cards and Lava Golem.
Yubel and Wiseman existed before the changes were made to burn damage, so any card that burns released before Zexal world’s release still had their burn damage intact, except Lava Golem
But that also murdered trickstar, which is honestly a good thing.
@@Ind3xPlus Trickstar can still FTK tho of u cant interrupt them
@@FSKyurem its not like they couldnt change that at all.
I mean, they errata'd Ancient Fairy Dragon aswell, so
Fun fact about this card. For the manga Zatch bell/Gash bell the author had a contest to draw your own momodo character. One of the many winners drew this card in the same position as the artwork and once it was found out that it was just copied they were disqualified. But you can still see it in the pages of the manga in the bonus section
This had to have been for the sequel manga then because the original would've been over by the time this card came out.
@@JamaalDaGreatest It came out in 2003 for the first printing so it was during the original run of the manga mbt talks about when it was in duel links in 2018
This card is strong and esoteric to Destiny Draw in Duelist of the Roses though.
2100/2100 and gains 2500 when battling Fiends.
Best Yu-Gi-Oh game ever made.
Makes sense, Gustav dealing 2k in DL would be ridiculous.
Gustav into Liebe would make Trains an actual tier 0 deck if that was the case
Isn't Anna a 0% win rate in the anime, though?
@nicholasfarrell5981 not if you count tag duels but otherwise yes for sure
@@stardust9470 gustav dealing an extra 1000 would not suddenly make trains viable, let alone tier 0. both going first and second, the deck is entirely reliant on opening tech cards to even have a chance of playing against actual meta.
I spent a lotta time in therapy trying to forget this format
Imagine butterfly dagger up in this bih lol
Butterfly Dagger has to be destroyed. This sends. The interaction doesn't work.
@@Mickymicmikethis is why I don't play anymore lol that wording even though dagger also says sent to the graveyard.
@@JohnnyExtremer But it doesn't say JUST that. It says "when this card is destroyed and sent to the graveyard." Nothing ambiguous about it whatsoever.
@@SpottedZebra like I said that's one of the reasons I don't play anymore lol to me it's destroyed by the leaf thing because it's being sent to the graveyard lol
@@JohnnyExtremer Destroying and sending are two different things. This sends without destroying, while Dagger needs to be destroyed and hit the GY. It only meets one of those conditions.
"...Yugioh duel links is a half gatcha half yugioh simulator..."
So its 3/4ths of a gatcha simulator.
We also just had to ban Darklord Nurse Reficule for similar reasons
it barely survived 1 month before they killed her
Gift Card dealing 3/4 of your lp is absolutely fiiine. God, some cards just aren't printed with speed duel format in mind huh
@@HazeEmry Duel Links doesn't even have Gift Card for precisely that reason since Bad Reaction to Simochi has been in the game for ages.
The combo was Reficule with 2x The Paths of Destiny, which had the burn damage halved but not the life gain, so if your opponent flipped heads on both of them they die instantly. Enter Sartorius' Master of Destiny skill which forces your first three coin toss effects to always come up heads.
@@selectivepontification8766 then there's literally no difference between it existing in there and not. Love the balancing decision
@@HazeEmry The main difference is that Reficule is searchable and Paths was added at the same time as Reficule. That being said, Paths is now limited to 1 so easy FTKs are no longer possible either way
"how did a card this bad make it to the bank list"
Oh boy, here I go OTKing again!
To clarify the burn nerf only applied to cards released after the nerf took place with the only exception being Lava Golem because it was the reason for the nerf (not because of Woodland Sprite since it was already neutered due to the banlist while Lava Golem was Marik's ace monster thus wasn't going to be limited).
I initially thought there was an equip spell that just goes back to your hand when it goes to the graveyard (without cost) and they just loop the effect over and over since it's not one per turn
New short? POGCHAMP
New short? POGCHAMP
Butterfly dagger -elma was also a combo piece with this before it got banned...
It's like an optional lower stat Geirfried that can inflict miniscule amounts of damage
MBT calls himself a Yu-Gi-Oh expert and he doesn't realize that this was part of the legendary 2 cycle loop of equipping this card with
butterfly dagger Elma and then it goes to the grave and does 500 damage to your opponent butterfly dagger Elma comes back to your hand you re-equip it and you can keep hitting 500 for each re-equip to otk your opponent.
🤷♂️😏
I affectionately referred to this strategy as:
Smokie The Bear Turbo!
☠️🤣😎
From an MTG standpoint in Pauper Format, get Boggled or Infected(Voltron) etc, the one two smack ah u sir 🤝 nice beakdown
Butterfly dagger Alma: looks like 3th rate duelists are back on the menu boys
I made a strategy in regular yugioh back in the day. Woodland sprite + Butterfly dagger= GG
Batterfly dagger Elma : not again 😂😂😂
I love that Little guy design, the illustration is fantastic.
This was not discovered within minutes, the YCS champion for duel links at the time brought it to the main stage, and konami immediately limited the card and bamboo cards shortly after. Crazy times
Good lord. This was an ABYSMAL format! It was actually realy funny. Old DL had quite the number of coin flip metas. Haha
This plus Butterfly Dagger - Elma would be a nightmare
That was never a true combo. Dagger returns when "destroyed." Woodland Sprite "sends."
That loop is beyond perfect
I just imagine Horn of The Unicorn wrecking havoc there.
The moment you showed the card and I yelled BAMBOO
o yes.
the very first loop in the game.
wooden sprite and first printed butterfly dagger spell card.
was a crazy one turn kill combo 😂
Woodland sprite + butterfly dagger elima best true og combo back in the day
Hang on. Hear me out.
Black pendant, dark room of nightmare, butterfly dagger elma.
Old school burn strategy.
oh yeah, I was there when that happened. I also stumbled upon the OTK without realizing other people discovered this at the same time.
Actually, there was a silly OTK with this card. There was an equip card released in 2005 called Butterfly Dagger Elma which could be returned to your hand when it went from being equipped to your graveyard. 2 card otk.
Non once per turn burn effects are always a great idea :)
I remember going 1st and I set Enemy Controller and a Monster.
My opponent played Woodland Sprite and I immediately snatched it which ended their turn.
Would like to point out that burn effects didn’t get nerfed for this actually. It got burned because of Lava golem shadow game stun. This was just dealt with never to be playable again
if the words "equipped to thie card" was replaced by "on your side of the field" adventure would go crazy
I really liked this card as a kid because of the art, so I'm glad my little buddy got to stand in the sun if only for a fleeting brilliant moment.
Woodland Sprite is not once per turn and some equip cards burn the opponent upon being sent to the GY. That's among other things equip cards with GY effects can do, that can be abused by this one card alone.
I saw that card & I had a feeling someone was going to find a way to abuse it.
And, well........
you coulda just said 6 years and not "over half a decade" such a poet
It also saw limited play in the butterfly exodia deck as a second win condition.
I remember having played against it. This and cyber angels give me nightmares, i still quit matches if i play against someone with cyber angels especially Dakini
Imagine just getting into Duel Links and getting wrecked by this on the regular
Its crazy to think duel links came out around half a decade ago, i guess this is what it feel like to be old
Dam getting yughio in my shorts is a warm welcome time to duel 😂
I am now only going to refer to relannas twin moons as the Miyazaki t bag
Woodland Sprite + Butterfly Dagger Elma = BOOM
It doesnt even say that sending the spell to the GY is the cost to inflict 500. Ruling should allow you to spam it until you've won, since its also not once per turn
I aint gonna lie I fw woodland sprite design that pose makes it go hard
That card is the reason butterfly dagger Elma is also banned.
Equip the sprite, sac for burn, dagger returns to hand, equip to sprite, continue cycle until opponents life points reach zero.
False. Dagger could only do 3-piece combos with Gearfried + something else that benefits from infinite spells. Sprite / Dagger was never real because Dagger returns when "destroyed," and Woodland Sprite "sends."
I used to play at that time, and never got the chance to play that combo...it was already banned as soon as I knew of the existence of that...
I had this deck in duel links. It was beautiful. People would rather quit the duel if they ever had the chance then risk going through all the otk burning.
I've wanted an entire plant archetype based around that card for over a decade.
As sonone who only a a boomer undering of yigioh and haven't watched this short. 2 guesses
1. The equip spell part synergies well with an equipment based deck like noble knights (IDK I never played them)
Or
2. It has an interaction with a than new card that konami didn't want to bam so they banned everything around it instead
Thanks for explaining! I was wondering this
I'd heard that Anzu Burn was a high-tier deck in Duel Links but never actually bothered to sit down and build it.
Casual looking at Sprite: What a waste of a card
Veterans: How fast can we get this card banned?
Tbh I assumed they hit both it and Elma but actually it wouldn't even work with Elma since it sends to graveyard instead of destroying so Elma's recycle doesn't even proc
They had Genex controller (Level 3 Vanilla Tuner) on the ban list because of Crystron interactions. GENEX COMTROLLER.
This actually made the banlist when the banlist FIRST became a thing because of it's interaction with Butterfly Daggger Elma.
It was Elma that got banned, not Sprite. And that was to deal with generating infinite spell counters by having a Gearfried the Iron Knight. It does not return to your hand if Sprite uses it because "send to the graveyard" doesn't meet Elma's condition of being "destroyed."
I remember playing at the time like… Konami you really banned the wrong card
Shit traumatized me back in my duel links day
I mean, I OTK with my Cyber Dragon deck using Zane all the time. His skills plus the Cyber Style can just be brutal when first turn I can whip out Chimeratech Rampage Dragon or Twin Cyber Dragon. I modeled that deck off one I have in real life, and it doesn't have the same effect irl. No broken ass skills. I can't just "HeArT oF tHe CaRDs" my way to victory, though I have actually OTK'd twice and both were in a tournament for TCG. One of those guys even threatened to punch me after the match. He did not even get the chance to actually play, just set a single trap. Which I instantly negated the activation of by sending two proto-cyber dragons to the GY from my deck.
Actually woodland sprite was released one set before the bamboo swords, which enabled the ftk
It was also used it some "Guardian" decks before the Butterfly Dagger was Banned
Was wondering why that card is limited/banned in duel links when I started playing the game. Thanks for the info
"no play ever" someone tell bro about butterfly dagger elma
I had this card in Japanese as a kid from one of those Card and Fake Tattoo vending machines. Never knew what it said lol
Original reason for banning this card included Gearfried the Iron Knight and Butterfly Dagger - Elma. Have Woodland Sprite and Gearfried on the field. Activate Butterfly Dagger - Elma and attach to Gearfried. Gearfried destroys it, triggers Woodland and triggers Butterfly Dagger's second effect of returning to the hand, all the while reducing your opponent's LP by 500 per action. Rinse and repeat until opponent is dead. First FTK to exist in the TCG.
nah once i read burn without once per turn I knew exactly where this is going
Hey not to rain on your video parade, but its always been a speculative point in the community (check old GAMFAQs for example on the Tournament Games) that with Sprite, Pixie, Butterfly Dagger, Gearfried, and some loop enablers, that an FTK was doable with Woodland specifically. I know it may be anecdotal at best, but I had tons of friends (by tons I mean like 6) ask me for trades/ copies of Sprite for draw power back in the early Synchro days and they'd use woodland as a play extender to pop valuable equips like Axe of Fools or to get rid of Drakmord stuns, etc using Tailor of The Fickle setups.
Its kind of had its time to be baked in the oven. It always had potential, just had the wrong format. If base yugioh was 30 instead of 40 cards, we mightve seen like, Cardcar D Woodland Sprite exodia decks instead of Treasure Panda/ Malice engine for example.
Used to run this as child in my schoolyard decks, just because of the art.
Woodland Sprite is the YOU card of all time. He is supposedly single handedly the reason missing the timing is a thing since him and Archfiend of Gilford were a proto-FTK and I will never forgive him for the damage he has done to the game.
Woodland sprite was the very first broken card. Right out the gates woodland sprite and butterfly daggwr elma was exodia
Now that you're older, try looking at those two cards more carefully. Might notice why everybody who did that was accidentally cheating with a "combo" that didn't actually work.
@@SpottedZebra they both got banned before the first tourney anyways. Depending on who you played with it was fine. People still play atlantis warrior to search a legendary ocean when umi works in that deck
@@natcole5981 History says otherwise. Game been around about 5 years before the first time it had a banned list in addition to the limited to 1 list.
Happened in 2004 to address the fact that every deck would include the same 25 too-good-to-not-use limited cards before even beginning to make any decisions.
Dagger went on it a year later in 2005 when the release of spell counter effects created the first way for there to be some purpose in playing Dagger infinitely off of Gearfried the Iron Knight.
Sprite has never been on the list because of Dagger not really working with it, and the "missing the timing" rule that applies to optional triggers made sure it didn't work with the likes of Archfiend of Gilfer either.
So THAT'S why all burn cards got their effects halved.
So THAT'S why they nerfef burn damage!
I wasnt following the meta at the time so i had no idea.
Used to have this card back when ygo released. I used the card with butterfly dagger for instant two card combo OTK.
ah yes the "But in Duel Links" moment
I like the art work. Very creative
Basically Speed duel first draw Exodia XD
Funny how the burn nerf also applies to Self Burn damage. Seeing Performage Trick Clown only burning the user for 250 damage is hilarious.
The art on this card makes me wish YuGiOh credited their artists
Ok, I paused it right away and I feel like this has to be some butterfly dagger elma shit
That card got banned in 2005 and never came back, so that couldn't be the case even if that "combo" actually worked. Elma says "when this is destroyed," Sprite says "send to the graveyard." That's two different things so it doesn't count.
(What got Elma banned at this time was plays made possible by Gearfried the Iron Knight.)
Woodland sprite was released earlier than the Bamboo Swords. Therefore the real culprit is Bamboo swords and the Format
When I was young I had this guy. Thought he looked so cool just chillin there
I'd argue that it very nearly got put on the list outside of duel links over Butterfly Dagger Elma shenanigans
I was reading watch bell one day and in the extra pages there was a mamodo design competition one of the featured designs that didn't really manage to get to the high spots but was notable for the author was plagiarized from this card
This card had 2100 attack on a level 3 on the ps2 Duelist of the Roses.
Honestly i would have liked they keep it that way in Duel Links forever. Broken Bamboo Sword is so bad, it's kind of funny how it found a home.
Imagine if this strategy actually worked in the real card game.
Love duel links only issue is they halved burn damage except DDD spells/traps that still burn the full 1000
All self damage is still full. Everything else is halved... except for yubel stuff
Woodland sprite+ butterfly dagger elma= Banned card
imagine if butterfly dagger elma was unbanned that would make this 10x easier
I built that Woodland Sprite Bamboo FTK deck on my Duel Links account and let my buddy play with it all the way to King of Games even though he didn't play Duel Links just a former TCG player lol
That was my favorite card when I was a kid. I never even bothered to read the effect I just thought it looked cute.