My favorite bad card effect is Yado Karu's. It lets you put cards from the grave on the bottom of your deck in literally any order you desire. How thoughtful.
Want to hear the funniest part? Aqua Dragon is actually optimal in Phantasm Spiral because it's the highest ATK level 5 or higher WATER monster you can cheat out with Fists of the Unrivaled Tenyi, beating Humanoid Worm Drake by 50 ATK.
@ThatMan 666: If you are talking about duelists of the roses, then Aqua Dragon is one of the best cards in the game. That said, you can't actually fusion summon it in that game using any of the monsters listed as it's fusion materials, funnily enough
You made a mistake when discussing the trap Malfunction. It doesn’t return the trap to the opponent’s hand, it returns it to the set position, meaning it’s even worse
@@Alb410 probably a bug. Just from you saying it I can already guess the coding error they made ^.^ But the only way that would work in a real game is if you had "Temple of the Kings" in play. That's actually a pretty nice boost for Subterror decks, allowing you to activate "Subterror Final Battle" twice.
But "Solomans Lawbook" in D/D/D is CRAZY instead of gaining lifepoints with the D/D fusion instead of losing them from dark contract cards you can just not gain or lose any lp from the dark contract cards! CRAZY!
There is a great video about a mtg card called "one with nothing" that explains the value of bad cards in a tcg. Even if you dont play magic, it's a very informative video. Video is called "magic's best worst card"
@@zdrident edit: youtube fucked this comment, fixing it in edit, sorry if it spams you OP Long story short, for anyone who doesn't want to watch the video: bad cards can make new players think critically, and lets veteran players think about potential gimmicks that the system technically allows (even if they're bad options). Now, personally, being more cynical I think it's safe to say that a lot of bad cards were clearly never intended to be bad. There are cards that are _clearly_ meant to be bad, but those are different from cards that just happen to be bad. Some designer probably thought to themselves "boy, there are times I wish I could shuffle my deck, or add cards from my hand to my deck" and made a card to do it. Obviously it turned out that those aren't great options, but they were at least designed to fill some presumed need or want. And at the end of the day, if a card is bad then at least it serves as filler and _might_ make someone think deeper about why it's bad.
Larvae moth would've been better if it was automatically summoned if Petit moth was destroyed whilst equipped with the cocoon of evolution and even then it would still be somewhat useless outside of giving you a monster after the previous one was destroyed.
@@doctorsmoothlove That's one way of looking at it. But it's still not a good card, I don't think that needs to be spelled out. Also, something else kind of interesting: in duelists of the roses, you can combine not just Petit Moth, but also this card, Katipillar, Needle Worm (it didn't have any effect in that game), or Acid Crawler to make a monster called "Larva of Moth", which is basically Petit Moth after being equipped with Cacoon of evolution. If it got destroyed, you would have a Larvae Moth summoned by it's effect.
all three cards that need cocoon of evolution should have had that. The Great Moth was summoned in duelist Kingdom that way after all. Not that it would have helped much.
I think Larvae moth exists more for “lore” or “worldbuilding” reasons. If a player pulled Larvae Moth from a booster pack they might think there’s a stronger version and encourage them to buy more packs
Fun fact: in the original mangaversion Larvae Moth was the basecard not Petit Moth. When Konami printed the Mothseriescards they turned Larvae Moth into an evolution to give the series a 2 turn rythm, making Lavae Moth a useless collectorcard in the process.
I always wondered what was up with Petit Moth not being in the manga or anime but it makes sense now if it was a change during the transition of the OCG.
An unnecesary change since in the manga your turn 2 option was Great Moth itself, with PUGM coming out in your 3rd turn. The change to 6 of your turns happened in the anime, probably just to pad out the runtime and Konami just couldn't be bothered to revert them to the still bad but more manageable manga requirements.
@@HoveringAboveMyself The manga requirements weren't any different. When Weevil plays the Cocoon he says that in five turns his monster will evolve to it's ultimate perfect form. A few panels later Yugi thinks that "I'm just wasting my turns" and there's a panel of scenery right after that, which is the usual shorthand for time skipping because nothing is happening. Basically Yugi had no moves until turn 4, and Weevil didn't play any other cards, so there was nothing to show for 3 turns.
@@kyuubinaruto17 The Manga needed 5 turns, the real life card requires 6 of your turns so 11 turns total, If you have the manga at hand (or Yugipedia) you can check it for yourself, all turns are accounted for. T1. Weevil equips cocoon of evolution. T2. Yugi attacks it with Gaia and fails. T3. Weevil says the cocoon doesn't let it play other cards so he passes. 2 turns left. T4. Yugi summons Curse of Dragon, uses Burning Land to destroy the field bonus and then attacks with Gaia again, this time it works but Great Moth comes out. Exactly the same happened in the anime but padded with 6 extra "draw pass" turns where they do nothing.
@@HoveringAboveMyself I guess it all depends on how you want to interpret it. Right after Weevil ends his second turn it shows a panel of the cocoon, followed by Yugi saying he's just "wasting his turns." Then it shows a panel of just scenery before Weevil thinking that there's only two turns left. "Just wasting my turns" followed immediately by a random scenery panel does suggest there could have been a few dead turns in there where neither of them did anything, so it just skipped them. So it could be either one, either five of the Cocoons players turns, or just 5 turns.
I always thought it was pretty cool that you could fuse it with Ancient Brain to make Skull Knight. Never did understand why they made Skull Knight a spellcaster type monster, of all possible things.
Zone Eater was an enemy from Final Fantasy VI. You could kill it, but you're actually supposed to let it eat your party so you can go into its belly and recruit a new member.
Edit: It got errata'd to fix this. Solomon's Lawbook doesn't say skip your "next" SP, just like, skip it in general. Doesn't that mean you no longer have a Standby at all? I'm sure it doesn't work this way but that IS the way it's worded.
Solomon's Lawbook called useless? uhm... Timelords? it can make your Timelord stick for one more turn,which depending on the Timelord it can significantly change the flow of the turn.
Card Shuffle had its own niche utility in Library FTK. Especially since it helped drop your own life points for Life Equalizer purposes, add spell counters, help you draw a different card combined with Convulsion of Nature & Archfiend's Oath (which was also used) and Giant Trunade utility for Library. I argue that this is the best card of the list that is being described.
@@murphmuffin9069 th-cam.com/video/CXTjbNw9Lxk/w-d-xo.html Here's the link to dzeef reacting to it, appropriately called "Spellbook of Judgment is a bad card." He's done quite a few of these bad article reaction videos
I kinda like the thought of a deck that would work with Pyro Clock of Destiny. Sorta like how the Elemental Lords were designed to bring really powerful banned effects into the format by putting them on difficult-to-summon boss monsters, they would have very powerful banned effects, but you have to wait several turns to activate them, but then include ways to speed them up (as in better ways than Pyro Clock of Destiny)
You do actually have to target a card/effect with Pyro Clock of Destiny even though it's worded like it'd apply to all cards/effects with a turn counter Good concept though
Funny thing about Pyro Clock of Destiny is that if it's used on turn 19 of Final Countdown before the end phase, because the turn counter goes up by 1 at each end phase, then it skips to turn 21 nulling it's effect which makes Pyro Clock of Destiny the Gryphon Wing equivalent to the card
I just look it up. Theoretically you could give it to your opponent and then force it into Defense position to activate its effect. HOWEVER, the card says "send ANY number of card". Does that means I could chose no cards? Or do I have to send at least one?
@@francescocasu5015 the effect is optional so there's no way you can force the activation. But if the opponent decides to activate the effect, he needs to return at least 1 card.
I think the idea of larva moth was that you would summon it against cards that destroy the petit moth after 2 turns, then re-equip the cocoon of evolution, however the text boxes back then was much smaller then they are now and that could have led to a scenario where you would have to use a magnifying glass to read it, which is fitting for a insect card, but makes it hard to prove to the opponent what it does. Really wish they had gone more above and beyond with their game mechanics.
The problem with returning garnets with Magical Mallet or Reload over Pot of Generosity, is that its possible to just draw those garnets again, making them even more useless than the Pot. Pot of Generosity puts them in the deck and *guarantees* they'll stay there.
Fair enough, the thing is tho it's hard to argue with sparks actually at least doing something. Most of these cards functionally do nothing, right? But sparks COULD win you the game. It's bad because there are so many better options, but at least it's a positive effect.
2:00 Sorry, I normally don't do this, but I will have to defend Solomon's Lawbook. The Castle of Strombourg has one of the largest maintenance costs in the game of discarding 10 cards from a normally 40 card deck. Sometimes the extra turn you can keep it active from a Solomon's Lawbook or two can be the difference between victory or defeat.
Card shuffle really good because you're opponent could use creature swap to give you a cat of ill omen and then when you flip it face up to see what it is you have to add 1 trap card to the top of your deck and if your spell/trap you can't use it but if card shuffle is there then you can shuffle your deck to put it away from the top
Man, Larvae Moth is bad, but it brings back good memories. I was a little kid, I didn't really understand English and only read the anime, but Larvae Moth was one of the first cards I pulled. Larvae Moth and Star Boy, I remember. I had no idea what to do with these cards, but for a brief moment they made me feel like Yugi Muto, and that was all that mattered.
Imagine if Zone Eater and its expies effects transferred to the monsters they were Tributed/used as Material for. Then they'd become nice little time bombs.
My older brother used to used Goblin out of the frying pan to stop me from mst'ing on his turn. He used it for a few other things too because he knew my deck but I forget what they are now.
Solomon’s Lawbook was cool when Timelords first came out, also back when I first came back into the game. I remember this taught me about using less obvious cards to exploit stuff
well, i must say that swordsman of a distant land is such a cool name card with a terrible effect. i like the idea of a misterious samurai from a unknown land. it gives the mystic the game ever had in the early 2000s. what a waste of potential.
Funnily enough it's actually WORSE than Zone Eater, and that's saying something. You could always just plop Zone Eater in defense mode as bait for your opponent, but Swordsman specifically requires you to attack something with it, and since it's attack is almost nonexistent you're going to take life damage guaranteed to get it's effect off, unless you destroy a token or something, in which case it's effect won't come into play anyway.
@@rudypinheiro4992 Still waiting for that Zone Eater/Swordsman fusion. If it attacks or is attacked, the opponents monster is destroyed at the end of the 9th turn. Why 9? Have to compensate for it's broken effect of being able to get its effect off whether it is the one to attack or the opponent is.
Card Shuffle's artwork seems reminiscent of the character Pandora (Arcana) from the anime, who cheated to put Dark Magician on top of his deck, so basically you playing this card is accusing your opponent of cheating.
Dark Artist would have undoubtedly been a lot better if it had higher defense, like 2k or even 3k tho I know Konami would never do that. Still not a good card, even back in the day, but better
It would've at least been good back in the old days of the game. It would not be good if it was printed that way now. In a weird way, it's effect is kind of like when they used to give high attack point level 4 monsters really bad effects to balance them out, with an old favorite of mine being Thunder Nyan Nyan, whose effect destroyed her if you control a face up monster that is not light attribute.
i appreciate that when you talk about cards like "Zone Eater" you use examples of ways to counteract it with cards that more casual people would know / what may have been an option back then. Like obviously you could easily say "the duel is probably over by then" if you're talking about destruction effects, but instead you use example like sak. armor, mirror force, and reason that' it'll be tribute summoned. nice!
It would be pretty sweet if there was an archetype that gained advantage with a deck shuffle mechanic. Like; when this card is face up on the field and the deck is shuffled, x happens
I could only really see using Solomons lawbox in my dark contract deck. And the purpose of that deck is not to win, but to make sure you don't feel like you won
Goblin out of the frying pan is bad and you could use a better card in basically every single scenario, but the effect can be quite useful against a set quick play spell that was revealed on your turn. Not only does it negate, but they can't play it again because it's your turn, and because it's a counter trap, they can't counter with any other spell speed 2 card. If you were really apt to stop set quick play spells on your turn, then it would be good at doing that. I also forgot to mention that because it goes back to the hand, they don't get graveyard effects either. I'm not defending it, because it's not worth playing, but I hardly think it qualifies as being in the same tier as these other cards.
I still trying to use how Dark Artist to this day can be useful. Zone Eater, you're just hoping to god that your opponent doesn't have anything to kill it before you get the chance to attack with it.
After that intro, I spent more time than I'm willing to admit trying to make a truly unplayable card. I've determined a set of criteria that should make a truly useless card: 1) A Spell with the effect "If this card is in your hand, on the field, or in the GY: The owner of this card loses the duel. If this card is banished: The owner of this card loses the duel. Cards and effects cannot be activated in response to this card's effects". ----A monster could be summoned from the GY and be skill drained, so it must be a Spell/Trap. I think Spell would be worse since there are more ways to set traps from the deck than spells from the deck. ---Spell Speed 4 deals with any way to negste the effect. ---The "on the field" part of the effect should ensure that if you get the card in any way, you lose. ---The "in the GY" ensures that milling the card won't protect you. ---The second effect ensures that banishing it directly from the deck won't protect you. If I did this right, all of this means that the only ways to play the card and not lose are: -Never draw, mill, or banish it. -Set it directly from the deck and get it banished face-down without flipping it face-up -Banish it from the deck face-down. Which is STILL technically usable in conjunction with something like Pot of Desires to do something like give Gren Maju 400 ATK. It's the worst possib.e card for that, but it is still technically useable. Blast.
How dare Dzeeff insult my ace card Tainted Wisdom. 1250 ATK on a Level 3 monster was busted. Slap Sword of Dark Destruction on that bad boy so it goes up to 1650 ATK and can beat over Celtic Guardian and it can't even be stopped by Level Limit. Had all the girls at the lunchtable swooning over me. Big brain card for big brain plays.
I remember when I got into Yugioh with Duel Links a few years ago I thought Goblin Out of the Frying Pan was so good. It’s very similar to the MTG card Remand, but I didn’t fully realize yet that it was way too specific, and that most spells don’t have much or any cost to activate them.
With Solomons law book I could be wrong but if you skip the standby phase to pay a maintenance cost of an effect then you don't get the effect. But finally a Solomons law book mention!
Lately I have lamented the dearth of OCG imports in core sets, but seeing that Dark Artist and Swordsman from a Distant Land were both imported in the *same set*, both many years after their release, I can't say I'm too heartbroken that imports have taken a back seat to world premiers
Card Shuffle probably combos best with Convulsion of Nature, since you can always see what you or your opponent will draw so you can try to deny them it.
Pot of Generosity seems like a card made for a meta that doesn't exist. In MTG there is a 1 mana instant called One With Nothing that reads "discard your hand." It actually saw play because there were control decks that forced you to draw tons of cards and played cards that punished you for having lots of cards in hand. I remember hearing that resolving a single One With Nothing gave you a great chance to win, and resolving another could be game, because of how much relief it ended up giving.
Some people's obsessive need to defend bad cards fascinates me. It's cool to find niche applications for obscure cards, but at some point you need to accept that a fair number of cards were bad even ignoring power creep.
I always liked the flavor of Swordsman from a Distand Land's effect since it reminds me of those old samurai movies. Makes me wish there was a retrain that wasn't so slow.
The funny thing is that a couple of cards in this list where great in the often forgotten Duelist of the Roses game. Swordsman was pretty much a Man Eater Bug. Zone Eater changed part of the field to Umi to Power up Water Monsters (That's the main gimmick of Water in the game, but Zone Eater changes in a unique way so that's something) And the best of all. Solomon Lawbook allowed you to play another card that turn. Useful for getting to a important card or just refresh your options.
I can see Goblin as a viable way to counter your opponent's Grave Robber, but that's still too specific. In old school, Grave Robber probably still wasn't good enough to play competitive anyway, and definitely rarely sees play now, if ever, but that is really the only situation I can think to make Goblin out of the Frying Pan good, since it would bounce the spell your opponent plays (namely your own spell) back to your hand instead of theirs.
when dark artist released in the tcg i was really confused because i knew it was "new" (but didn't know it just hadn't been localized till then) and i spent a long time trying to figure out what the use case was supposed to be
I generally agree that Solomon's Law Book is worthless but I think the rulings say that if a card that would activate during a certain standby phase misses that standby phase then the effect is never applied for that card while face up on the field. So Deck Lockdown wouldn't destroy itself, Swords of Concealing Light wouldn't destroy itself, etc.
I was SO MAD when I saw Swordsman From A Distant Land and Dark Artist as OCG imports. They're so awfully BAD that pringting them is a huge waste of trees
It used Pyro Clock, and a trap card that banished a Trap from your GY and it gained that effect, so they could easily skip 6 turns(Don't remember the name).
Trap of Darkness: Normal Trap If your LP is 3000 or less: Pay 1000 LP, then target 1 Normal Trap in your GY, except "Trap of Darkness"; this card's effect becomes that target's activated effect, then banish that target.
@@esoteric7990 That's what I get for putting "Trap Card" instead of Normal Trap. That would only let you skip 5 turns though, and probably would have clashed with Hope from Escape so I'm still not sure that was a thing.
"Play pot of generosity in infernity to lower your hand size" Or just... Any spell or trap, since those can just be set. Unless you really dont want to draw infernity monsters in an infernity deck.
the main problem that makes zone eater be truly unsalvageable is that for it's effect to even start it MUST attack. So you have a 250 atk monster ramming its face into something for you to have a shot at getting rid of it 5 turns later. If it activated by being attacked while still bad it wouldn't be AS bad. That thing attacking could force any trap like mirror force or the like that would affect more than just zone eater.
Suppose you played "exchange" and your opponent took "Raigeki" from your hand. He uses it, but you counter with "Goblin out of the frying pan". You get your raigeki back to your hand since you're the owner of the card
Little did Dzeeff account for my "Zone Eater and 3 Pyro Clock" strategy, allowing me to destroy monsters in just *2* turns! Can't wait to see how the meta'll handle this!
Zone Eater would be cool if they made it so it destroy the ZONE (live up to its name) even after 5 turns its trash compared to the win on turn 2-3 days we live in (sadly) but it at least live up to its name lol
That's your interpretation of turn counter. That card is very acknowledgabley good. I would use it in combination of Wave Motion Cannon so I would do 2000, 3000+ damage in one turn if I played 1 Wave Montion cannon with 2 Pyro Clocks of Destiny, or playing 2 Wave motion cannons and 3 Pyro clocks of destiny if your lucky and do 6000 Life point damage to your opponent instantly. And imagine of you have Cards that kerp bringing Pyro Clock of Destiny back. I personally think Wave Motion Cannon is one of the most intense and amazing cards I the game. The synergy between in and Pyro Clock of Destiny is not be be underestimated. I eould love to get Secret rare versions of those cards.
As memetically bad as Zone Eater is, Swordsman from a Distand Land is unequivocally worse. Zone Eater requires it to be attacked, which is easy with no cost if you just set it in defense mode. SFADL requires YOU to make an attack with it, either getting it killed or running into a defense mode monster. So to just get it's effect off requires you to basically pay a thousand life points or more.
If the card can only be activated once per turn, like Desires, then they can activate it again. If the card can only be used once per turn, though, then they won't be able to activate it again even though the activation was negated.
One actual strange text are the Chimeratechs. They aren't summoned by Fusion Summon, but their special summon does indeed count the cards used to it as Fusion Materials. "The original ATK of this card becomes 1000 x the number of Fusion Materials used for its Special Summon."
does the card pyro clock of destiny count for overtime rules like this "[METHOD 1] When the time limit is reached during a duel (Assuming it's your turn when the time limit is reached) Finish your current turn. Proceed to Extra Duel if the duel is still inconclusive. An Extra Duel consists of 3 turns (starting with your opponent's). The duelist with the most LP at the end of the Extra Duel is the winner. If there is still no winner, proceed to Sudden Death. Notes LP is calculated at the end of the current duelist's turn (LP differences once the time limit has been reached are not counted) When any LP changes take place during Sudden Death, the duelist with more LP at the end of turn will be the winner (also applies when certain card effects involve using LP) Should Extra Turns or Sudden Death still result in a tie, proceed to Method 2 below. [METHOD 2] If the time is reached in between duels with a tied score: Begin an Extra Duel consisting of the following criteria: • Both Duelists begin at 8000 LP; the one to reduce their opponent's LP to 0 first shall be the winner • The Extra Duel will last for 4 turns • The Duelist with the most LP at the end of the 4 turns will be the winner If both duelists still have the same LP at the end of the Extra Duel, proceed to Sudden Death. If any difference between both sides' LP happens at any point in the duel, the one with the most LP will be the winner." like does pyro clock of destiny work in overtime during the limit of 3 turns or 4 turns of an extra duel to end the game quicker?
2:15 Could you flip Solomon’s lawbook on the draw phase right before the standby phase you intend to use its effects? Like before you drew? Does the draw phase conclude with the card being added to the hand? If you don’t draw you stay in the draw phase? Are you required to move forward?
To be fair, I would still run Tainted Wisdom over Card Shuffle. At least it's still a weak vanilla, meaning it can still do stuff like protect you from an attack or destroy a weak monster. Card Shuffle is pretty useless. Also, Pyro Clock of Destiny actually isn't a bad card for Final Countdown, but only 1 single copy, never any more. It makes the countdown end on your turn rather than your opponent's, basically skipping your opponent's last turn, which is a safer way to deal with their last turn than Waboku/Roar/Swift Scarecrow/whatever.
Swordsman from a Distant Land and Zone Eater as cards have devalued the cardboard that they are printed on...like quite literally a blank card would be worth more.
Malfunction actually doesn't bounce the card. It returns it to its original position which isn't the same as setting so it can still be activated immediately after. It could counter a mirror force for one attack but there are better cards to do that.
Retrain idea: Larval Great Moth Level 2, EARTH Insect/Effect ATK 500/DEF 400 This card's name becomes Petit Moth while face-up on the field. While equipped with Coccoon of Evolution the number of turns it has been equipped is increased by 2
What if they made zone eater and swordsman completely lock the monster too? So you can't tribute, attack, destroy it or use it as summon material (ritual fusion synchro etc.) Effectively locking that space for 5 turns. You could use an equip spell that negates battle damage or something similar to get around the garbage attack and use all the level 1 synergy cards out there to help support it.
Wouldn't card shuffle and convulsion of nature make for a really cool combo since you could ensure perfect draws for yourself and terrible ones for your opponent?
"Pot of Generosity" can help you with some cards that required to be activate in the Main Deck, like "Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon" or "/Assault Mode" monsters that exist pre-"Assault Mode Zero". And yes, it's true that "Pot of Generosity" is a water-down version of "Good Goblin Housekeeping", but hey, it work better late in the game if you want to yank that monster out of your Deck and finish your opponent off to meet and fulfill the condition.
I get that there's a defense for every card in the game, but sometimes it's better to just admit that a card is bad 99% of the time and that the fringe situations where it might be good aren't actually relevant. As I said in the video, there's no reason to play Generosity to shuffle back Garnets when you could just play Magical Mallet instead. That card not only shuffles them back but replaces them with new cards, too :)
@@Dzeeff Actually, Reload and Magical Mallet are bad ideas. There's half chance you would draw back the same cards you shuffled. Just go with "Good Goblin Housekeeping" since it don't shuffled the deck.
Half chance is a pretty big stretch unless you're putting back the same number of cards that you're drawing. If you put back 1 card and have 30 cards in deck you have much lower than a 50% chance to draw the card you put back Although realistically all of these cards we're comparing are pretty terrible lol
@@Dzeeff I was talking about late game. Like when you're at least 5~10 cards remaining in the duel and still not able to slam your opponent's face. Again, I often drew the same cards that I shuffled with those mentioned cards you provided, more than what I wanted for next plans. But again, if you want to see the worse card, ask "Card Trader".
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Imagine being a caterpillar going into a cocoon, excited to come out with wings, and then you're just a caterpillar again.
Literally every person waking up in the morning.
@@nkyfong What?
you should make These "Broken" Combos Don't Actually Work into a series.
Roasting the yugioh wiki tips/trivia pages
What do you mean, Dark Hole/Raigeki + Ground Collapse into Ojama King isn't actually good?
A five card in hand wincon isn't consistent?
No way bro. Nuh-uh. XD
My dad told me that Silver Fang + Raigeki is not a good combo :(
I would love that series
You've made a massive oversight dzeef!! pyro clock of destiny + zone eater is a broken God combo.
I don't think that would work like that. Zone Eater counts end phases, not turns. A "skipped" turn doesn't add an end phase to the count.
@Zero356 r/whoosh
@@Zero-eo8pq Zone Eater says "the End Phase of the 5th turn" so it will work. Swordsman says "The 5th End Phase" so it won't
@@SicDrykEst Well, I stand corrected. New Meta when?
@@Zero-eo8pq heres the decklist:3 clock 3 zone eater 3 chaos max 3 man eater bug 3 pot of greed 25 WHAT
My favorite bad card effect is Yado Karu's. It lets you put cards from the grave on the bottom of your deck in literally any order you desire. How thoughtful.
WOAH! That Convulsion of Nature synergy! Ma'at Yado Karu Convulsion of Nature Turbo Beatdown Tier 0 deck.
Also it's hand. Not grave. Adding from grave to deck isn't too bad. Potentially broken even since it's not once per turn.
Slash draw :/
Yado Karu + Convulsion of Nature = Profit
Zone Eater, a Fusion Material for the almighty Aqua Dragon.
Want to hear the funniest part? Aqua Dragon is actually optimal in Phantasm Spiral because it's the highest ATK level 5 or higher WATER monster you can cheat out with Fists of the Unrivaled Tenyi, beating Humanoid Worm Drake by 50 ATK.
Zone eater outs dragoon, straight up best card
@@lorenzocampici7885 but it doesn't...
@ThatMan 666: If you are talking about duelists of the roses, then Aqua Dragon is one of the best cards in the game. That said, you can't actually fusion summon it in that game using any of the monsters listed as it's fusion materials, funnily enough
3 different materials for a single fusion
What were they thinking?
You made a mistake when discussing the trap Malfunction. It doesn’t return the trap to the opponent’s hand, it returns it to the set position, meaning it’s even worse
Either way, it keeps them from activating the trap that turn
@@Greg501- its much better run other Negate cards
@@Greg501- I remember using malfunction in a game yet the set trap was activated twice?
@@Alb410 probably a bug. Just from you saying it I can already guess the coding error they made ^.^
But the only way that would work in a real game is if you had "Temple of the Kings" in play. That's actually a pretty nice boost for Subterror decks, allowing you to activate "Subterror Final Battle" twice.
No, it's still better, because Traps cannot be activated the turn they are Set, so the opponent still has to wait until their turn to activate it.
The funny thing about Dark Artist is that non-lights from the same OCG set could already run it over
A few days later......
Konami: Hey here's some really broken new zone eater support
That would actually be cool aha
with this field spell, Zone Eater's effect now applies to players
@@SomeGuyFromCrowd I destroy my opponent after five turns?
@@Ridley882 “In 5 turns your opponent just straight up fucking dies. Congratulations Billy, you’re a murderer now 😄”
Eater of Millions is retrain of zone eater
But "Solomans Lawbook" in D/D/D is CRAZY instead of gaining lifepoints with the D/D fusion instead of losing them from dark contract cards you can just not gain or lose any lp from the dark contract cards! CRAZY!
Sometimes we wonder why cards like this even exist...
Pack filler,
Old sht
There is a great video about a mtg card called "one with nothing" that explains the value of bad cards in a tcg. Even if you dont play magic, it's a very informative video. Video is called "magic's best worst card"
@@zdrident edit: youtube fucked this comment, fixing it in edit, sorry if it spams you OP
Long story short, for anyone who doesn't want to watch the video: bad cards can make new players think critically, and lets veteran players think about potential gimmicks that the system technically allows (even if they're bad options).
Now, personally, being more cynical I think it's safe to say that a lot of bad cards were clearly never intended to be bad. There are cards that are _clearly_ meant to be bad, but those are different from cards that just happen to be bad. Some designer probably thought to themselves "boy, there are times I wish I could shuffle my deck, or add cards from my hand to my deck" and made a card to do it. Obviously it turned out that those aren't great options, but they were at least designed to fill some presumed need or want. And at the end of the day, if a card is bad then at least it serves as filler and _might_ make someone think deeper about why it's bad.
@@jamesruth100 thanks for the reply. That perfectly sums it up
Larvae moth would've been better if it was automatically summoned if Petit moth was destroyed whilst equipped with the cocoon of evolution and even then it would still be somewhat useless outside of giving you a monster after the previous one was destroyed.
Larvae Month seems like a precursor to level monsters.
@@doctorsmoothlove That's one way of looking at it. But it's still not a good card, I don't think that needs to be spelled out. Also, something else kind of interesting: in duelists of the roses, you can combine not just Petit Moth, but also this card, Katipillar, Needle Worm (it didn't have any effect in that game), or Acid Crawler to make a monster called "Larva of Moth", which is basically Petit Moth after being equipped with Cacoon of evolution. If it got destroyed, you would have a Larvae Moth summoned by it's effect.
all three cards that need cocoon of evolution should have had that. The Great Moth was summoned in duelist Kingdom that way after all. Not that it would have helped much.
I think Larvae moth exists more for “lore” or “worldbuilding” reasons. If a player pulled Larvae Moth from a booster pack they might think there’s a stronger version and encourage them to buy more packs
If you’re wondering why some of them say “magic card”, you’re not old enough to defend any of these cards.
I remember having arguments whether or not the new despell would destroy magic cards since it had "spell" in the text
@@ivankrylov6270 😂😂😂😂
Magic the gathering doesnt conceded the rigths of the word "Magic" soo they placed spell
@@Eric-py8yy 🍪
@@Eric-py8yy like when Blizzard get sued by wotc for using Balista? Wotc is a predator corporate
Fun fact: in the original mangaversion Larvae Moth was the basecard not Petit Moth.
When Konami printed the Mothseriescards they turned Larvae Moth into an evolution to give the series a 2 turn rythm, making Lavae Moth a useless collectorcard in the process.
I always wondered what was up with Petit Moth not being in the manga or anime but it makes sense now if it was a change during the transition of the OCG.
An unnecesary change since in the manga your turn 2 option was Great Moth itself, with PUGM coming out in your 3rd turn. The change to 6 of your turns happened in the anime, probably just to pad out the runtime and Konami just couldn't be bothered to revert them to the still bad but more manageable manga requirements.
@@HoveringAboveMyself The manga requirements weren't any different. When Weevil plays the Cocoon he says that in five turns his monster will evolve to it's ultimate perfect form. A few panels later Yugi thinks that "I'm just wasting my turns" and there's a panel of scenery right after that, which is the usual shorthand for time skipping because nothing is happening. Basically Yugi had no moves until turn 4, and Weevil didn't play any other cards, so there was nothing to show for 3 turns.
@@kyuubinaruto17 The Manga needed 5 turns, the real life card requires 6 of your turns so 11 turns total, If you have the manga at hand (or Yugipedia) you can check it for yourself, all turns are accounted for.
T1. Weevil equips cocoon of evolution.
T2. Yugi attacks it with Gaia and fails.
T3. Weevil says the cocoon doesn't let it play other cards so he passes. 2 turns left.
T4. Yugi summons Curse of Dragon, uses Burning Land to destroy the field bonus and then attacks with Gaia again, this time it works but Great Moth comes out.
Exactly the same happened in the anime but padded with 6 extra "draw pass" turns where they do nothing.
@@HoveringAboveMyself I guess it all depends on how you want to interpret it. Right after Weevil ends his second turn it shows a panel of the cocoon, followed by Yugi saying he's just "wasting his turns." Then it shows a panel of just scenery before Weevil thinking that there's only two turns left.
"Just wasting my turns" followed immediately by a random scenery panel does suggest there could have been a few dead turns in there where neither of them did anything, so it just skipped them.
So it could be either one, either five of the Cocoons players turns, or just 5 turns.
Tainted Wisdon was one of my favorite old school cards for aesthetic reasons.
I always thought it was pretty cool that you could fuse it with Ancient Brain to make Skull Knight. Never did understand why they made Skull Knight a spellcaster type monster, of all possible things.
@@matthewkuscienko4616 not zombie, not warrior lmao
Zone Eater was an enemy from Final Fantasy VI. You could kill it, but you're actually supposed to let it eat your party so you can go into its belly and recruit a new member.
tainted wisdom is counter to SPYRAL decks duh. It was just so ahead of its time
Edit: It got errata'd to fix this.
Solomon's Lawbook doesn't say skip your "next" SP, just like, skip it in general. Doesn't that mean you no longer have a Standby at all? I'm sure it doesn't work this way but that IS the way it's worded.
Solomon's Lawbook has a printed errata.
It's not a Continuous Trap, so it only works for the one turn.
Dzeff talking about old Yu-Gi-Oh cards makes me wish he'd do another bad Structure Deck review every once in a while
We're overdue for another installment of "worst cards in every structure deck"
Hah, my favorite series, as a non ygo player I love these videos where we look back at bad cards for its historic value
Swordsman from a distant land is great in dullest of the roses, because his effect was that he killed anyone who destroyed him in battle.
I'm convinced many of these bad cards exist purely for the "Duel Puzzle" challenges in Yugioh video games
Solomon's Lawbook called useless? uhm... Timelords?
it can make your Timelord stick for one more turn,which depending on the Timelord it can significantly change the flow of the turn.
Or you can not
Dzeef talking about bad old school cards gives me the feeling that we should see him reviewing terrible old school products
Back in Yata Format, chain Solomon's Lawbook to Mirage Of Nightmare, Broken!!
I think most people did like the guy in the anime and just played Emergency Provisions to sacrifice Mirage after drawing.
@@fakeplaystore7991 yeah that's why Emergency Provisions was limited back in the day.
Pyro Clock of Destiny actually synergizes really well with Zone Eater. Put them together and you have a tier zero deck
Card Shuffle had its own niche utility in Library FTK. Especially since it helped drop your own life points for Life Equalizer purposes, add spell counters, help you draw a different card combined with Convulsion of Nature & Archfiend's Oath (which was also used) and Giant Trunade utility for Library.
I argue that this is the best card of the list that is being described.
Dude, a YuGiOh article said that Spellbook Of Judgement is one of the worst Spellcaster cards out there. Why did you not mention it?
Lmao what!? What article was this? 😂
@@murphmuffin9069 th-cam.com/video/CXTjbNw9Lxk/w-d-xo.html
Here's the link to dzeef reacting to it, appropriately called "Spellbook of Judgment is a bad card." He's done quite a few of these bad article reaction videos
I kinda like the thought of a deck that would work with Pyro Clock of Destiny. Sorta like how the Elemental Lords were designed to bring really powerful banned effects into the format by putting them on difficult-to-summon boss monsters, they would have very powerful banned effects, but you have to wait several turns to activate them, but then include ways to speed them up (as in better ways than Pyro Clock of Destiny)
You do actually have to target a card/effect with Pyro Clock of Destiny even though it's worded like it'd apply to all cards/effects with a turn counter
Good concept though
Funny thing about Pyro Clock of Destiny is that if it's used on turn 19 of Final Countdown before the end phase, because the turn counter goes up by 1 at each end phase, then it skips to turn 21 nulling it's effect which makes Pyro Clock of Destiny the Gryphon Wing equivalent to the card
I'M HERE TO SEE YADO KARU!!
Edit : 😭 doesn't that card deserve recognition ?
I just look it up.
Theoretically you could give it to your opponent and then force it into Defense position to activate its effect. HOWEVER, the card says "send ANY number of card".
Does that means I could chose no cards? Or do I have to send at least one?
@@francescocasu5015 the effect is optional so there's no way you can force the activation. But if the opponent decides to activate the effect, he needs to return at least 1 card.
Well, at least it has 1700 defense so it's at least a bit better than the cards in the video. Maybe next episode though
Well, you can use the pyro clock to advance a turn so that Zone Eater will destroy a monster quickly, that's a combo if i ever saw one
Solomons Lawbook took me back!!!😳 I remember opening pharo's servant boosters in middle school. I think it's the set where I bought the most from.
I think the idea of larva moth was that you would summon it against cards that destroy the petit moth after 2 turns, then re-equip the cocoon of evolution, however the text boxes back then was much smaller then they are now and that could have led to a scenario where you would have to use a magnifying glass to read it, which is fitting for a insect card, but makes it hard to prove to the opponent what it does. Really wish they had gone more above and beyond with their game mechanics.
The problem with returning garnets with Magical Mallet or Reload over Pot of Generosity, is that its possible to just draw those garnets again, making them even more useless than the Pot. Pot of Generosity puts them in the deck and *guarantees* they'll stay there.
Funnily enough, Larvae Moth is super good in the Dungeon Dice Monsters video game.
I'm offended mah boi Sparks didn't make the list - 200 points of DIRECT BURN DAMAGE to their life points! 🔥🔥🔥👨🚒
Maybe it has the issue of being boring though; at least the cards you're looking at are *almost* interesting and bad instead of just boring and bad.
Fair enough, the thing is tho it's hard to argue with sparks actually at least doing something. Most of these cards functionally do nothing, right? But sparks COULD win you the game. It's bad because there are so many better options, but at least it's a positive effect.
best card
To be fair Pyro Clock of Destiny is why Final Countdown FTK is possible. Which if nothing else, is just cool.
Final Countdown FTK sounds wrong
2:00 Sorry, I normally don't do this, but I will have to defend Solomon's Lawbook. The Castle of Strombourg has one of the largest maintenance costs in the game of discarding 10 cards from a normally 40 card deck. Sometimes the extra turn you can keep it active from a Solomon's Lawbook or two can be the difference between victory or defeat.
Card shuffle really good because you're opponent could use creature swap to give you a cat of ill omen and then when you flip it face up to see what it is you have to add 1 trap card to the top of your deck and if your spell/trap you can't use it but if card shuffle is there then you can shuffle your deck to put it away from the top
Man, Larvae Moth is bad, but it brings back good memories. I was a little kid, I didn't really understand English and only read the anime, but Larvae Moth was one of the first cards I pulled. Larvae Moth and Star Boy, I remember. I had no idea what to do with these cards, but for a brief moment they made me feel like Yugi Muto, and that was all that mattered.
"No card is truly useless"
Gotta dig real deep in the heart of the cards for these lol.
Imagine if Zone Eater and its expies effects transferred to the monsters they were Tributed/used as Material for. Then they'd become nice little time bombs.
My older brother used to used Goblin out of the frying pan to stop me from mst'ing on his turn. He used it for a few other things too because he knew my deck but I forget what they are now.
Solomon’s Lawbook was cool when Timelords first came out, also back when I first came back into the game. I remember this taught me about using less obvious cards to exploit stuff
well, i must say that swordsman of a distant land is such a cool name card with a terrible effect. i like the idea of a misterious samurai from a unknown land. it gives the mystic the game ever had in the early 2000s. what a waste of potential.
Funnily enough it's actually WORSE than Zone Eater, and that's saying something. You could always just plop Zone Eater in defense mode as bait for your opponent, but Swordsman specifically requires you to attack something with it, and since it's attack is almost nonexistent you're going to take life damage guaranteed to get it's effect off, unless you destroy a token or something, in which case it's effect won't come into play anyway.
@@kyuubinaruto17 i think it would be better if they had turned him in just a normal monster. Unless it could be summoned with some effects around
@@rudypinheiro4992 Still waiting for that Zone Eater/Swordsman fusion. If it attacks or is attacked, the opponents monster is destroyed at the end of the 9th turn. Why 9? Have to compensate for it's broken effect of being able to get its effect off whether it is the one to attack or the opponent is.
Card Shuffle's artwork seems reminiscent of the character Pandora (Arcana) from the anime, who cheated to put Dark Magician on top of his deck, so basically you playing this card is accusing your opponent of cheating.
Dark Artist would have undoubtedly been a lot better if it had higher defense, like 2k or even 3k tho I know Konami would never do that. Still not a good card, even back in the day, but better
It would've at least been good back in the old days of the game. It would not be good if it was printed that way now. In a weird way, it's effect is kind of like when they used to give high attack point level 4 monsters really bad effects to balance them out, with an old favorite of mine being Thunder Nyan Nyan, whose effect destroyed her if you control a face up monster that is not light attribute.
i appreciate that when you talk about cards like "Zone Eater" you use examples of ways to counteract it with cards that more casual people would know / what may have been an option back then.
Like obviously you could easily say "the duel is probably over by then" if you're talking about destruction effects, but instead you use example like sak. armor, mirror force, and reason that' it'll be tribute summoned. nice!
*attacks with Zone Eater*
*opponent mocks you*
You: Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru
*activate 5 Pyro Clock of Destiny*
Opponent: Nani?!
It would be pretty sweet if there was an archetype that gained advantage with a deck shuffle mechanic. Like; when this card is face up on the field and the deck is shuffled, x happens
Solomon's Lawbook is actually fantastic in Timelords decks. It's not close being useless.
I could only really see using Solomons lawbox in my dark contract deck. And the purpose of that deck is not to win, but to make sure you don't feel like you won
Goblin out of the frying pan is bad and you could use a better card in basically every single scenario, but the effect can be quite useful against a set quick play spell that was revealed on your turn. Not only does it negate, but they can't play it again because it's your turn, and because it's a counter trap, they can't counter with any other spell speed 2 card. If you were really apt to stop set quick play spells on your turn, then it would be good at doing that. I also forgot to mention that because it goes back to the hand, they don't get graveyard effects either. I'm not defending it, because it's not worth playing, but I hardly think it qualifies as being in the same tier as these other cards.
I still trying to use how Dark Artist to this day can be useful. Zone Eater, you're just hoping to god that your opponent doesn't have anything to kill it before you get the chance to attack with it.
After that intro, I spent more time than I'm willing to admit trying to make a truly unplayable card. I've determined a set of criteria that should make a truly useless card:
1) A Spell with the effect "If this card is in your hand, on the field, or in the GY: The owner of this card loses the duel. If this card is banished: The owner of this card loses the duel. Cards and effects cannot be activated in response to this card's effects".
----A monster could be summoned from the GY and be skill drained, so it must be a Spell/Trap. I think Spell would be worse since there are more ways to set traps from the deck than spells from the deck.
---Spell Speed 4 deals with any way to negste the effect.
---The "on the field" part of the effect should ensure that if you get the card in any way, you lose.
---The "in the GY" ensures that milling the card won't protect you.
---The second effect ensures that banishing it directly from the deck won't protect you.
If I did this right, all of this means that the only ways to play the card and not lose are:
-Never draw, mill, or banish it.
-Set it directly from the deck and get it banished face-down without flipping it face-up
-Banish it from the deck face-down.
Which is STILL technically usable in conjunction with something like Pot of Desires to do something like give Gren Maju 400 ATK. It's the worst possib.e card for that, but it is still technically useable. Blast.
How dare Dzeeff insult my ace card Tainted Wisdom. 1250 ATK on a Level 3 monster was busted. Slap Sword of Dark Destruction on that bad boy so it goes up to 1650 ATK and can beat over Celtic Guardian and it can't even be stopped by Level Limit. Had all the girls at the lunchtable swooning over me.
Big brain card for big brain plays.
When Dzeeff creates a video about terrible effects !!
Me : Doug ... you need to include Marine Neos in the video 🤣
I remember when I got into Yugioh with Duel Links a few years ago I thought Goblin Out of the Frying Pan was so good. It’s very similar to the MTG card Remand, but I didn’t fully realize yet that it was way too specific, and that most spells don’t have much or any cost to activate them.
Do I play yugioh, no. Do I watch every single one of these videos, your godamn right I do.
With Solomons law book I could be wrong but if you skip the standby phase to pay a maintenance cost of an effect then you don't get the effect. But finally a Solomons law book mention!
Lately I have lamented the dearth of OCG imports in core sets, but seeing that Dark Artist and Swordsman from a Distant Land were both imported in the *same set*, both many years after their release, I can't say I'm too heartbroken that imports have taken a back seat to world premiers
Dito Electrode :)
Card Shuffle probably combos best with Convulsion of Nature, since you can always see what you or your opponent will draw so you can try to deny them it.
Pot of Generosity seems like a card made for a meta that doesn't exist.
In MTG there is a 1 mana instant called One With Nothing that reads "discard your hand." It actually saw play because there were control decks that forced you to draw tons of cards and played cards that punished you for having lots of cards in hand. I remember hearing that resolving a single One With Nothing gave you a great chance to win, and resolving another could be game, because of how much relief it ended up giving.
Infernity is probably the closest that we'll get.
Thank you so much for bringing up Solomon’s lawbook, I have a super old print of the card and wasn’t too sure how it functioned
Some people's obsessive need to defend bad cards fascinates me. It's cool to find niche applications for obscure cards, but at some point you need to accept that a fair number of cards were bad even ignoring power creep.
Hey look, tainted wisdom makes skull knight, and we all know skull Knight is the best fusion monster
Swordsman From A Distant Land has a mad sick artwork tho
I always liked the flavor of Swordsman from a Distand Land's effect since it reminds me of those old samurai movies. Makes me wish there was a retrain that wasn't so slow.
The funny thing is that a couple of cards in this list where great in the often forgotten Duelist of the Roses game.
Swordsman was pretty much a Man Eater Bug.
Zone Eater changed part of the field to Umi to Power up Water Monsters (That's the main gimmick of Water in the game, but Zone Eater changes in a unique way so that's something)
And the best of all. Solomon Lawbook allowed you to play another card that turn. Useful for getting to a important card or just refresh your options.
I can see Goblin as a viable way to counter your opponent's Grave Robber, but that's still too specific. In old school, Grave Robber probably still wasn't good enough to play competitive anyway, and definitely rarely sees play now, if ever, but that is really the only situation I can think to make Goblin out of the Frying Pan good, since it would bounce the spell your opponent plays (namely your own spell) back to your hand instead of theirs.
when dark artist released in the tcg i was really confused because i knew it was "new" (but didn't know it just hadn't been localized till then) and i spent a long time trying to figure out what the use case was supposed to be
I generally agree that Solomon's Law Book is worthless but I think the rulings say that if a card that would activate during a certain standby phase misses that standby phase then the effect is never applied for that card while face up on the field. So Deck Lockdown wouldn't destroy itself, Swords of Concealing Light wouldn't destroy itself, etc.
I was SO MAD when I saw Swordsman From A Distant Land and Dark Artist as OCG imports. They're so awfully BAD that pringting them is a huge waste of trees
The only thing I like about "Dark Artist" is it's card art...It looks really cool.
That's about it XD
I swore there was a Final Countdown deck that topped in like...2013 or 2014 that played Pyro Clock, but I can't search TCGPlayer anymore sadly.
It used Pyro Clock, and a trap card that banished a Trap from your GY and it gained that effect, so they could easily skip 6 turns(Don't remember the name).
@@baconcatsizzle There isn't a Trap card with that effect, so you're probably thinking of Junk Collector and that wasn't out until 2018.
Trap of Darkness:
Normal Trap
If your LP is 3000 or less: Pay 1000 LP, then target 1 Normal Trap in your GY, except "Trap of Darkness"; this card's effect becomes that target's activated effect, then banish that target.
@@esoteric7990 That's what I get for putting "Trap Card" instead of Normal Trap.
That would only let you skip 5 turns though, and probably would have clashed with Hope from Escape so I'm still not sure that was a thing.
@@lamiaprincess6371 Unless they also ran a neg in Emergency Provisions
Dark Artist deserved 2200 DEF for that downside to make sense on an older card.
"Play pot of generosity in infernity to lower your hand size"
Or just... Any spell or trap, since those can just be set. Unless you really dont want to draw infernity monsters in an infernity deck.
the main problem that makes zone eater be truly unsalvageable is that for it's effect to even start it MUST attack. So you have a 250 atk monster ramming its face into something for you to have a shot at getting rid of it 5 turns later. If it activated by being attacked while still bad it wouldn't be AS bad. That thing attacking could force any trap like mirror force or the like that would affect more than just zone eater.
Suppose you played "exchange" and your opponent took "Raigeki" from your hand. He uses it, but you counter with "Goblin out of the frying pan". You get your raigeki back to your hand since you're the owner of the card
Little did Dzeeff account for my "Zone Eater and 3 Pyro Clock" strategy, allowing me to destroy monsters in just *2* turns! Can't wait to see how the meta'll handle this!
Zone Eater would be cool if they made it so it destroy the ZONE (live up to its name) even after 5 turns its trash compared to the win on turn 2-3 days we live in (sadly) but it at least live up to its name lol
That's your interpretation of turn counter. That card is very acknowledgabley good. I would use it in combination of Wave Motion Cannon so I would do 2000, 3000+ damage in one turn if I played 1 Wave Montion cannon with 2 Pyro Clocks of Destiny, or playing 2 Wave motion cannons and 3 Pyro clocks of destiny if your lucky and do 6000 Life point damage to your opponent instantly. And imagine of you have Cards that kerp bringing Pyro Clock of Destiny back. I personally think Wave Motion Cannon is one of the most intense and amazing cards I the game. The synergy between in and Pyro Clock of Destiny is not be be underestimated. I eould love to get Secret rare versions of those cards.
As memetically bad as Zone Eater is, Swordsman from a Distand Land is unequivocally worse. Zone Eater requires it to be attacked, which is easy with no cost if you just set it in defense mode. SFADL requires YOU to make an attack with it, either getting it killed or running into a defense mode monster. So to just get it's effect off requires you to basically pay a thousand life points or more.
Goblin out of the Frying pan doesn't stop "once per turn" cards from being played again (as was implied) because it negates activation.
A similar ruling with Great Shogun Shien and card activation negation.
it actually depends on if the card says "activate" or "use"
If the card can only be activated once per turn, like Desires, then they can activate it again.
If the card can only be used once per turn, though, then they won't be able to activate it again even though the activation was negated.
At least Pyro Clock could have a niche in a moth build, decreasing the turns needed to get Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth.
Solomon's Lawbook would be really good with Mirage of Nightmare but you're better off just using an MST to pop it before your next stand by phase.
One actual strange text are the Chimeratechs. They aren't summoned by Fusion Summon, but their special summon does indeed count the cards used to it as Fusion Materials.
"The original ATK of this card becomes 1000 x the number of Fusion Materials used for its Special Summon."
does the card pyro clock of destiny count for overtime rules like this "[METHOD 1] When the time limit is reached during a duel
(Assuming it's your turn when the time limit is reached)
Finish your current turn.
Proceed to Extra Duel if the duel is still inconclusive.
An Extra Duel consists of 3 turns (starting with your opponent's).
The duelist with the most LP at the end of the Extra Duel is the winner.
If there is still no winner, proceed to Sudden Death.
Notes
LP is calculated at the end of the current duelist's turn (LP differences once the time limit has been reached are not counted)
When any LP changes take place during Sudden Death, the duelist with more LP at the end of turn will be the winner (also applies when certain card effects involve using LP)
Should Extra Turns or Sudden Death still result in a tie, proceed to Method 2 below.
[METHOD 2] If the time is reached in between duels with a tied score:
Begin an Extra Duel consisting of the following criteria:
• Both Duelists begin at 8000 LP; the one to reduce their opponent's LP to 0 first shall be the winner
• The Extra Duel will last for 4 turns
• The Duelist with the most LP at the end of the 4 turns will be the winner
If both duelists still have the same LP at the end of the Extra Duel, proceed to Sudden Death.
If any difference between both sides' LP happens at any point in the duel, the one with the most LP will be the winner." like does pyro clock of destiny work in overtime during the limit of 3 turns or 4 turns of an extra duel to end the game quicker?
2:15 Could you flip Solomon’s lawbook on the draw phase right before the standby phase you intend to use its effects? Like before you drew? Does the draw phase conclude with the card being added to the hand? If you don’t draw you stay in the draw phase? Are you required to move forward?
If you want a card to lower your hand size, play Cheerful Coffin, at least it goes to the GY
In the early days I used it to trigger dark world effects 😂
Best "Tour Guide Targets" for the next video now that we roasted Dark Artist.
I've used Solomon's Lawbook in my Golden Castle of Stromberg deck.
Ah, Solomon's Lawbook. A weirdly specific trap card that I actually used in a really stupid combo in a deck with other crappy cards
To be fair, I would still run Tainted Wisdom over Card Shuffle. At least it's still a weak vanilla, meaning it can still do stuff like protect you from an attack or destroy a weak monster. Card Shuffle is pretty useless.
Also, Pyro Clock of Destiny actually isn't a bad card for Final Countdown, but only 1 single copy, never any more. It makes the countdown end on your turn rather than your opponent's, basically skipping your opponent's last turn, which is a safer way to deal with their last turn than Waboku/Roar/Swift Scarecrow/whatever.
Swordsman from a Distant Land and Zone Eater as cards have devalued the cardboard that they are printed on...like quite literally a blank card would be worth more.
Malfunction actually doesn't bounce the card. It returns it to its original position which isn't the same as setting so it can still be activated immediately after. It could counter a mirror force for one attack but there are better cards to do that.
Retrain idea: Larval Great Moth
Level 2, EARTH
Insect/Effect
ATK 500/DEF 400
This card's name becomes Petit Moth while face-up on the field. While equipped with Coccoon of Evolution the number of turns it has been equipped is increased by 2
What if they made zone eater and swordsman completely lock the monster too? So you can't tribute, attack, destroy it or use it as summon material (ritual fusion synchro etc.) Effectively locking that space for 5 turns. You could use an equip spell that negates battle damage or something similar to get around the garbage attack and use all the level 1 synergy cards out there to help support it.
Wouldn't card shuffle and convulsion of nature make for a really cool combo since you could ensure perfect draws for yourself and terrible ones for your opponent?
"Pot of Generosity" can help you with some cards that required to be activate in the Main Deck, like "Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon" or "/Assault Mode" monsters that exist pre-"Assault Mode Zero".
And yes, it's true that "Pot of Generosity" is a water-down version of "Good Goblin Housekeeping", but hey, it work better late in the game if you want to yank that monster out of your Deck and finish your opponent off to meet and fulfill the condition.
I get that there's a defense for every card in the game, but sometimes it's better to just admit that a card is bad 99% of the time and that the fringe situations where it might be good aren't actually relevant.
As I said in the video, there's no reason to play Generosity to shuffle back Garnets when you could just play Magical Mallet instead. That card not only shuffles them back but replaces them with new cards, too :)
@@Dzeeff Actually, Reload and Magical Mallet are bad ideas. There's half chance you would draw back the same cards you shuffled. Just go with "Good Goblin Housekeeping" since it don't shuffled the deck.
Half chance is a pretty big stretch unless you're putting back the same number of cards that you're drawing. If you put back 1 card and have 30 cards in deck you have much lower than a 50% chance to draw the card you put back
Although realistically all of these cards we're comparing are pretty terrible lol
@@Dzeeff I was talking about late game. Like when you're at least 5~10 cards remaining in the duel and still not able to slam your opponent's face.
Again, I often drew the same cards that I shuffled with those mentioned cards you provided, more than what I wanted for next plans.
But again, if you want to see the worse card, ask "Card Trader".