Do you think he is here? Reading our comments? Ready to duel all of us at once in an epic battle of the fans?

A lot of people don’t realize that “Maxx C” is something in YuGiOh we call a hoser. Hosers are cards that are immensely powerful against a specific strategy but useless against others. In the 2000s, special summoning was indeed a strategy that wasn’t necessarily needed in ALL decks. Today, special summoning is a critical aspect of the game necessary for ALL decks. Therefore, “Maxx C” is a hoser for all strategies. It doesn’t have the weakness of the traditional hoser of being dead in certain matchups. It is too strong of card design and for that reason must be banned.

Could you guys make a video on how to play yugioh in detail in 2017. I used to play in the early 2000 and now there's so many more new rules and cards I never even heard of. It would be super helpful.

that Tokyo emergency P5 soundtrack in the background though... I see you, Paul. a man of culture as well.

I felt like you missed handtraps...

Took me like 10 minutes to notice the P5 music in the background

Holy shit Paul gave me a shoutout!!!

The thing about Paul that makes him so likeable is that he doesn't JUST talk about his experience with cards and combos, he's also consistently demonstrated his ability to see nuance, which is just a good life skill to have IMO

back then the only reason i would not play desires was because of the 80$ price.... now its $5 and i have a playset x)

Do you think the vanillas in Dinorabbit could be retroactively called "Garnets"?

In my opinion, Kaijus are fine, but they should've had a restriction to be a little more gentle to "protect the castle" type of deck (Bujin, for example), because I don't think any of these decks have (without playing random stuff like Mask of Restrict) protection against Kaijus. Something like "If this card is special summoned from your opponent's hand or deck and is now the only monster you control: your opponent cannot attack this turn, except with "Kaiju" monsters. Your opponent cannot activate any cards or effects in response to this effect." seems to be necessary to not just tribute a Bujin Yamato and just proceed to OTK your opponent. It would've also probably mean Interrupted Kaiju Slumber could've stayed at 3, because the eff would, most of the time allow you only to deal a maximum of 1100 damage

I was Maxx "C"'d and I just carried on with my combo, my opponent drew 20 cards, I was using flower cardians

Okay, I’ve resolved Pot of Desires four times in my pendulum magician deck. Only once per game each. I have banished a full play set of Duelist Alliance TWICE, a full play set of Skullcrobat Joker, and both copies of both Time and Star Pendulumgraph. I have always been against the card, and every single time I use it, I hit a vital part of my deck. It has pushed me away from the card, but I have left it in my deck and continue to try using it. But twice I’ve lost purely because I resolved it and banished essential play sets of cards.

People who say Pot of Desires is a neg 9 do not understand hand advantage and what plussing is in this game.

Great video! Continue making great Yugioh content! :)

Ugh.. Kaijus... The bane of my chaos max deck.

I feel you Paul, I honestly hated seeing Gofu being used in other decks outside of Blackwings. Coming from a pure Blackwing player, I'm happy he's home with his brethren even if he "sucks" just glad he's back to the destined spot he belongs to💚

I feel like Heavy Storm and Harpies Feather Duster need to come back. They’re no more or less powerful than Raigeki or Dark Hole and would be a welcome addition in the game for me. Certainly not because I have three copies of each waiting in the wings or anything like that though...

and then lightning storm said imma be the costly heavy storm...

When you play pot of desires and a kid behind you says "oh wow hes playing that -9 card" and you end up winning the duel cause you drew 2 combo pieces you needed. Feels god damn good.

Awesome video bro!!

Damn Paul you uploading late as fuck lol I should be sleeping but here I am on the notification squad watching KZfaq

Is it possible to do another "fan made" card video?? Coz I really enjoyed your previous ones :)

I saw heavy stormed and literally forgot what the hell it did I haven't seen or heard of the card in so long lmfao great video tho keep up the awesome work

The first example is exactly why I kind of question gamma and driver

Jeez Paul, it's still sunny in Atlanta at 2am? 😛

I feel like no matter what happens if a card gets banned or not banned or limited or whatever it may be, people are going to be pissed off about something.

On topic of Heavy Storm, coming from someone who hasn't played competitively since late 2015 (I think that's when Kozmo started showing up, I know for sure I was using Odd-Eyes Magician), is it the fact that it's destruction or that all backrow is gone that brings the controversy? If it's destruction, then Giant Trunade is an option, as it just bounces back. But knowing me, I'd only use it to end games that turn, so that might be it. I definitely agree that it's super sacky, especially as someone that hates facing a big backrow. But I still would like to see these cards come back, if not then a retrained version of them, like a "Medium Storm", destroying x amount of backrow on both sides of the field, or preventing the turn player from attacking that turn. Localized Trunade is coming in Extreme Force hitting only set backrow, so maybe that addresses an issue. Probably not the whole issue if continuous spells/traps are a bigger issue. Again, haven't really played since Kozmo days so my opinion doesn't hold weight. Just curious as all.

Hello, do you know what MAXX "C" is based on, I am referring to the concept of the monster, it is some sparkly little orbs between and below furniture.

The thumbnail is amazing xD

I liked when Heavy Storm was around because it made think about what to set or not set because my opponent could possible have one in hand.

I run a 48 card build of vendreads where I use 2 pot of desires and I find it to be really helpful for a few reasons, first, omega can return anything it banishes to the grave, secondly, vendreads do a lot of banishing what with the ritual spell, the effects of the ritual monsters granted by revenants and hound horde, slayers effect, chimera effect, nights effect ect. basically there's a lot of banishing on both sides. I also run 2 necroface which has prevented me from decking out before and allowed me to win

I feel like Heavy storm should be limited at best in my opinion

I feel that Pot of Desires is a good card in the right deck. Soul Absorption, Necroface, Gren Maju Da Eiza are cards that complement it. Anything else, I'll probably just stick with Pot of Greed (cus I don't play tournaments).

You owe me a phone, I broke it over that pot of desires spot! J/K keep making great content! Like most draw cards. It go's with what it go's with.

heavy storm imo is just too good for synergy with newer or even future decks that plus from backrow removal, feather duster can come back at 1 imo, some decks play no backrow so it won't even be played in some formats outside of side & there are multiple outs to side in vs it if your deck is all backrow & those outs also out twin twister

I actually think pot of desires is balanced. I've never used it, but I have played against deck that run 3, and sometimes when people look at the cards they lost, they just surrendered the duel on the spot, because too many of their important cards were lost. Just some food for thought.

I was suprized not to see Zoodiac anything on your list. Pot of desires and other banish face down still have the ever so useful weakness of necro face.

You can still technically pendulum summon even if Dimensional Barrier is played. It's just that you can't special summon pendulum monsters and most pendulum themed decks play all pendulums. You can still pendulum summon normal and effect monsters that aren't pendulum monsters though even if Dimensional Barrier is used to negate pendulum effects. So if there's something similar like Damage Juggler in the future that is just an effect monster that helps pendulums, they could still pendulum summon it to xyz with a normal summoned Skullcrobat.

Here i am only just getting the notification when apparently the vid has been out for 6 hours. I was ready to be hyped for notification squad but nvm i guess ;(

2:30 in the morning #notificationsquad

i love the music in the backgrounds didnt know you guys were a fan of persona persona 5 is my goty

I don't know if you guys noticed it, but at the start of each ... take? The sound is heavily distorted and compressed. I've heard that was a common issue with Samsung Galaxy S7 phones, maybe it's persistent with more recent models... I think letting the phone record for a bit before start talking would solve that, then you can just cut the part where the sound is still adjusting

My opponnent dared to flip dimensonal barrier on my Rokket-Seyfert deck the other day, then I proceed to borreLEND his/her career.

I've got an interesting idea for a card, if your opponent would tribute a monster for an effect or a summon, you get to choose which monster they tribute

I kinda want heavy storm and feather duster back, but I wasn’t around when they were legal so idk if I should want them back.

So Paul, what do you think of Kaiser Coliseum??? Honest opinion lol

List of my cards in my fun play Banned Deck people hate and are so bad they will never unban them including Harpie's Feather Duster, Pot of Greed, Graceful Charity, Fiber Jar, Self-Destruct Button and Witch of the Black Forest as some of my warm fuzzy favorites.

evenly matched sounds pretty good for the game i really can't be bothered playing yugioh anymore since the entire strat is "summon your entire deck turn 1 or lose" lol

I havent used pot of desires yet but from what i have seen its a -9 if I'm honest what if you banish all of one of your combo pieces... what if you banish 10 good cards and the next 2 cards are crap... its a risk card and it doesnt seem worth it

Jar of desires (trap) banish the top 5 cards of your deck (either face-up or face-down) draw 1 card. If this is the only card you control while you have less than 2. Cards in your hand draw 2 cards instead.

you can run lapis, for linkuriboh

The controversy that I experienced was the trickstar reincarnation with droll and lock bird combo.

I want an Evenly Matched reprint because that card is super expensive, and I can definitely see the value in a card like that.

Out of curiosity if you could create a new archetype what would be their name and effects the rule is you have to mention atleast 1 spell 1 main deck monster and 1 extra deck monster

Also pot of desires is a good card for return banished cards to the deck/field decks

Pot of desires is one of the best and well thought out cards so far.

I agree with most of these, for me I can't stand single cards that can destroy multiple ones barring a few monster effect ones.

Painful greed. Pay 2000 lp draw 2 cards you can only activate 1 painful greed per duel

You should do an updated list cause some of these cards have been banned like Maxx C

I remember the controversies over some of these cards. Also *Deep inhale. Whispers* Late night aps squaaaaaaddddd!

I'm surprised that malevolant catastrophe isn't banned as well since it's basically the trap version of heavy storm

I know it's not related to this video, but team APS and Yugioh nation can I get some advice?! My 8 year old is currently learning to play, and I am trying to support his new hobby. What are the staple cards that I should be buying him that will be useful for deck building? I have not been able to find very recent information on recommended staple cards to buy up. Maybe this could be a video idea team APS. He is currently playing with a version of the Dino Smasher budget deck that we built from watching a team APS video. My boy and I love learning from your videos team APS! We are also one magician's navigation away from fininally completing his dark magician girl main deck that we have building.

the volume jump at 7:05 holy s*! xD

OMG he brought back the team aps intro

I think max C is a great card (design wise) it was Konami’s way of trying to slow down the turbo special summon race that it is.

In my opinion people who get mad about it are the people who can't figure out how to get past a card

I've never felt more terrified when someone draws and immediately enters battle phase

Surprised vanity's emptiness didn't make the list. Anytime that gets brought up at my locals the room devolves into arguing

Pot of (something, maybe The Forbidden) Shuffles 2 banished cars in the deck or graveyard then draw one card. You can only activate one "Pot of The Forbidden" per turn.

Pot of Desires is to draw power as Time Wizard is to field whipping. It's clearly a Joey card: It's a gamble.

I dont personally like Pot of Desires. I know the math, I know that some people like it, but dropping 1/4 of my deck for 2 cards? I dont like those odds.

HEavy Storm was FUCKING healthy for the game. Back in the day, when heavy storm was at 2 then 1...ppl played more conservative. It was more of “sum monster, set 1 or 2 backrow and pass” in fear of getting heavy storm if you set 2 or more. Heavy Storm is auto win against Paleo and many other backrow reliant decks.

If heavy storm comes back I will cry because I just built a weatherly deck

That persona music 👀

i just want a card of demise reprint

What's the whole thing with the sea turtle Kaiju? Surely it sucks cause you must have kaiju counters whatever they are to use its negation ability?

Pot of desires is good in certain decks, decks like ddd can play it cause they play multiple copies of almost everything. Decks like frightfur can't play it well cause if they loose some combo peaces, they just loose the duel.

Wouldn’t Elemental HERO Stratos also be on a list of this? I can’t remember a good conversation were someone said Stratos should be ban while I think it shouldn’t be banned.

If you banish a monster face down does that mean it doesn't count ? Like that cards effects wouldn't be valid (assuming it activates from Banished grave)

I wish Heavy Storm would come back to being at 1.

10 months later: 2 of these cards turned out too be too broken for competitive play and they ARE polarizing. Maxx C is banned and every banlist people want it to come off and Master Peace is banned and everyone is happy with that.

I personally hate pot of desires, but all my decks are combo decks that can’t afford to lose key cards. I guess I can imagine it being good in decks that don’t care as much about searching for stuff (I play Mermails and Madoches). I just wish we had Avarice back D:

I don't hate pot of desires but with my main deck it would be detrimental. I do mostly deck searching anyway.

Pot of Desires is amazing! Whoever says otherwise hasn't tried it, doesn't understand when to use it, or used it in the wrong decks. Yes, sometimes it doesn't work in your favor, but that's one out of 10 duels.

Waiting for the deck that pretty much requires pot of desires. Like an archetype that banishes like how lightsworns sends cards to the grave like no tomorrow.

This is How you should do thumbnails for Top 10 or Top 5 videos, not including half the list in the thumbnail. Makes me want to actually watch the video!

i wonder what happen if they give one monster 3k atk and def and then say this card is unaffected by card effect and can not be tributed

I friend of mine uses 3 copies of Pot of Desires. 3!!! When I found that that out I was like, WTF!!! I mean, it did help his Chaos Zone really well, (it nearly dicked me over, nearly) still it was.... Wow, just wow, in my opinion.

1.Brilliant i used to run it in my ls deck but the one copy of garnet was cancer and i used to open with it more than the 3 copies of BF so i removed it same thing with harpies pet dragon because now in link era you cant really recycle it with queen dragun djinn the 2 extra dead copies of bf you can easily get rid off with lumina/TT/monk/monster reincarnation etc 2. grass was another card i used to run in my 60 cards ls deck but i eventually removed it when it got to 1 becuase theres no really point of it if you dont get it early with 60 cards chances that you are gonna get a floppy hand are much higher 3. COD never played that the cost is too high just like ties i dont like card that skip your bp or dont let you summon 4. im glad this card is banned qlis were the reason i quit ygo back when bendulums came out for about 1-2 years but i made a return eventually 5. kaijus are ok i dont hate them but i also wont ever run them i dont mind if my mon gets kaijued im just not the type of person to run something that has no synergy with the deck/ or can turn out to be a potential dead draw 6. maxx c i like but again i dont run it fight me but it can also be a dead draw and i also love when someone chains it and i take the challenge lol 7.WHO RUNS THAT SHIT WHEN THERE IS STRIKE AT 3 AND WARNING AT 1 if anything judgment should be also at 1 it doesnt even stops links so yeah m k 8. dont mind heavy at all no problem with it when theres heavy theres also starlight road plus sometimes you get bonus effs when your spells/traps are popped like hysteric party or artifacts so i dont mind heavy at all 9. evenly matched again who will run that with strike at 3 and warning at 1 with the game being so fast it will be pure luck if you even survive after the BP to activate this card lmao grinder golem gg you tried better luck next time 10. most stupid card in the game +2 -10 run it if you want it only runs in gren maju decks even if you draw 2 what are the chances that you wont be banishing the other cards you need or draw 2 useful cards ill never run it unless maju

Speaking of Pot of Desires, it helps jump start the Metaphys deck.

Is that Persona 5 music in the background??

I play Gravekeepers or Toons a lot so I love getting Max C'd because it's just a waste of space in their deck lol.

#LateNightSquad

I really want Harpie's Feather duster to be at 1 like raigeki

Anti Fun Fragrance will always be “controversial” to me It just becomes an auto win against not only pendulum decks, but almost every deck just auto loses to the card It checks pendulums sure but post MR4 is it really fair to have so many anti pendulum cards at 3?

Please, we all know heavy storm is banned because of the game changing format destroying combo that we saw Dr Crowler use... When he heavy stormed his 2 statue of the wicked to use them to summon Gear Golem! Lol

Going on ona hunch and im calling desires at 1

7:06 I'm getting flashbacks to SQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAD

I got +22 off of Spyrals with Maxx "C" which changed my opinion on it. Giving +22 to a pendulum player turn 1 is suicide