Imagine the entirety of DM but Kaiba plays Qliphort instead. Everyone else has DM decks and Yugi still somehow wins

Blue Eyes Tower Dragon when?

​@Kusanagi-no-Tachi that's what chaos max was supposed to be, but that clearly didn't work out.

@@spagoongus140 Nah Chaos Max is a house not a tower.

​@@ashikjaman1940 Kaiba would be palying full powered pre-Link Rule Qli while Yugi would play Gadget/Geargia and Atem plays Magician girls

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My favorite Exodia retrain (which isn't even part of the Exodia/Forbidden One archetypes)

Yes, but will that unlimited offensive force withstand my book of moon?

Based

He still is 😎

Fuck grapha

Yeah, but ideally, you'd be summoning multiple of it to make Rank 8 bosses like Felgrand Knight, Overlord of Heliopolis, etc. Not actually using the monster itself which, at best, was a Vanilla Blue-Eyes while on the field.

VS Kaiser Varius looks like Cosmic Garou from One Punch Man

Machina ruinforce: did somebody say "retrain of all time?"

@@darklewd9844 Susanoo from Blazblue manages to be closer to Kaiser Varius than Cosmic Garou

The real boss monster in that deck is just flipping TCBOO

by the nature of being based on versus fighting games no single monster can really be called a boss. they are all on equal footing

so its just like dad

Can't tell you the amount of times I've slapped Nova down and proceed to watch the opponent active 5 different monster effects trying to out him. IP into Knightmare unicorn is the most common, but the funniest is when they sorta read Nova and try to out him with accesscode and then get even more confused when it doesn't work.

Lmaoo Crimson Nova is a heck of a beatstick

4:22 BLS is in the thread. Probably just got edited out of the video

CED wasn't much of a boss monster as it was a GUN. You never got to actually see it on the field for a full turn, as the game would already be over by main 2 lol

@@The_Vanni I'd say a card that makes a game-ending impact counts, and the vibes are certainly there (even though you don't get to experience them for long). This is, of course, talking about the original version.

@@xCorvus7x well then, is exodia a boss monster? Lol

@@The_Vanni The idea behind that win condition is that the five pieces combine to form a big dude whose power literally rivals gods, so while none of the pieces fit the bill Exodia himself (?) certainly does; alas, it's not a card, so submitting it would miss the point of the question. (Besides, CED doesn't literally read that you win the game, that was only how the card played out, just as all the other entries here.)

It could probably do okay because nobody would be prepared for it, and Link monsters aren't all king. Plus you can do it in 4 to dodge Space Rock

I wonder what modern Qli support would be like

Bars

Executor feels like one of those cards that fits into a category of "How Konami intended the deck to be played vs how players actually played the deck." Should have just been banish 5 from hand field or grave. Allow duplicates, allow from the hand. But they fucked it up

Towers is affected by link monsters so his power level has gone down significantly

For it’s time, yes, however as others have stated it has been power crept. I don’t even run a single copy in my 2023 Qliphort deck. Not because it’s not strong when you actually get it out, it is, but you have to design your deck entirely around turboing it out turn one which limits the space for floodgates and hand traps that you absolutely need in modern yugioh.

@@calebnarsh8459 Yea in the modern game its shit but like In terms of the entire game historically Towers is the one that set the standard by which all other bosses were judged

​@Taksa Rawdpai yeah master peace is probably the best towers ever ...wait

Just drop a rock on it

Nah, dog. Vampire Vamp mommy is the real boss.

​@@windknife a person of culture I see

Voivode has a softer version of Called By. Getting hit by its negate when using Ash was a surprise.

​@@windknife Why not both? You can always make room for a third, and I don't think they mind sharing. (God this hurt to write about my main)

My most favourite win more cards in the entre game. It's Normal Summon effect is really devastating, especially if you tribute 2 of your opponent's monster with Zombie World and Vampire Sucker's passive. This you really plus in advantage, and even if they have a floating effect, Voivode can just negate it. Unironically my MVP card in the XYZ event.

They'rem main deck so not cheating at all.

with a minimal amount of effort that card becomes 6+ negates, it definitely deserves a mention

@@ericwallace1484 what 💀 With Eva around, yeah. Today you’re lucky if you get to 4 negates with drytron and only the perfection

@@Kloudd21 You'd be shocked how easy it is to get to multiple negates still, before I switched to Chaos Max build (Dyna Mondo is a hell of a card) I was playing a build focused on mostly Perfection. Alpha + Zeta with some other name in hand as fodder leads to Perfection with 2 guaranteed fairies in hand not counting any you draw in your opening/during your turn, 3 mat Apo, I:P, Beatrice and Idaten (there to go into Dyna Mondo with I:P if necessary).

@@mauwus4322 deck list please and thank you 🙏

Witchcrafters were meta in duel links but then again lots of things have been. Although they also won an unlimited tournament there so that is a stand out achievement for the deck.

I'm trying to make a Witchcrafter deck in MD

@@crunchy687 Yeah, I feel like the main point of duel links is to give decks that didn't get much play a time to shine. The main funny thing though is Witchcrafters released in paper in 2019 and were put in Duel Links, a way lower power version of the game, in 2020 LOL.

Witchcrafters are my main deck and Verre is absolutely one of the best boss monsters in the game. I think she's one of the best-designed Yu-Gi-Oh cards in general: a powerful negate that actually requires strategy within the archetype (which card to discard, when to discard, etc). Not only that, but the battle effect is hilarious. I completed the "When your opponent's monster attacks, your opponent takes damage" secret mission JUST from people crashing into Verre.

@@MoskalMedia People not reading verres battle effect and killing themselves gives me life honestly LOL. I agree though, she's fair for a skill drain on legs in that it's only a single burst of negate - so you have to save it for big threats or key combo pieces which makes it much more scary to use.

Elaborate

Not Marshmallon?

Superheavy samurai stealth ninja: you're right, we cannot, but how about i attack you directly instead? *Twice*

Cydra: .......

He's...still pretty strong Having said that, we can skip straight to unlimiting him

Didn't MBT do that during one of his big "unban" tournaments? Although I think that the consensus wound up being that, rather than Masterpeace being the issue, it was him unbanning like half the draw spells.

@@DoctorOaks some pretty cancerous boardstates can definitely surround master peace tho. Like skill drain

@@DoctorOaks more like the master peace win con is floodgate that ppl unprepared, the draw engine make the deck way too strong that it should be

Yeah me too honestly

Someone did, MBT just skipped over it.

It's not really a cubic boss though is it, it's just its own thing

​@@manjackson2772but he sort of is A cubic boss. Sure Trinity is THE boss but Crimson is the actual good boss monster in the deck. And thats the one people build the decks around so id say ye hes the main boss monster of Cubics

I remember seeing Crimson Nova mentioned in the thread, but it didn't make the final cut of the video it seems.

Every single "Can't believe X didn't come up" comes up. They just get edited out, even if Joseph does goes into detail and has relevant comments about them, as it was the case for Crimson Nova during the stream.

Yes, their a negate, a revive. Sadly the archetype is mediocre and plays rely on normal Aleister.

I dont think the big dragons count, the boss monster of dragonmaids is sheou and/or house, the big dragon versions arent the win condition of the deck

Citadel and Ruinforce being discard cost, gy recursion, and game closers: *RUMDIDDLY-DUM-DUM*

Yeah, the reality is that there's more main deck boss monsters than people actually give credit to, it's just that they hyperfocus on the flashy extra deck spam decks and think the whole game is like that when the reality is that there's a huge variety of strategies.

That's because he's a part main deck boss monster Honestly most people view him as : "oh yeah, earth machine has a judgement now"

I just fucked up a Runick player with double Jet Dragon, it's actually really OP, they kept trying to destroy my cards and couldn't, it really helps that nobody respects Blue Eyes players enough to read their cards.

@@DaDualityofMan yep very true i play blue eyes in like 3 different ways blue eyes dogmatika blue eyes syncrocat and a dragonlink version too its just fun what you can do with good old blue eyes love this archtype

I really hate Jet Dragon, haha. As a Blue-Eyes fan I love it, but playing against it in Master Duel is such a nightmare. I lost a duel with my Marincess deck because I misread the card (thought it only bounced monsters!) and they bounced my Battle Ocean in the battle phase. Devastating!

@@MoskalMedia I hate Marincess because you guys take forever, a funny game I had against Marincess was I spent all the time watching them combo off into the boss monster only to Skill Drain and Successor Soul it and my Jet Dragon

@@DaDualityofMan Haha yeah we really do take forever. I accidentally lost a long duel against a Hero player last night in Master Duel because I hit the time limit! Oops. I'm impressed you pulled off an awesome Successor Soul move! I'm glad I didn't have to go through an experience like that, haha

Flodgate lord or vanilla?

@@idosarts_and_krafts Floodgate lord of course

@@sacrilegiousboi117 I figured

Soo not only is lightpulsar a card with no archetype but if you include lightpulsar in chaos it works as an engine card and not as a boss monster. I mean you say it set up for redmd which is obviously a maindeck bossmonster. But lets stay with chaos monsters. Why wouldnt you bring up Chaos emperor dragon or chaos dragon levianeer? Dude your name is chaos magician how about Dark magician of chaos another one.

Abyss actors, Solfachords, dinomist. There's soo many but the thing is pendulum just isn't that good apart from Endymion pendulum is sort of seen as the weakest mechanic

I've been getting into playing Solfachords lately, and they're very different from the boring old too often seen [Endymion Magical Beast] and [Odd-Eyes Pendulum Magician] decks. Those two just vomit their hands, 1/2 the main deck, and a good portion of their Extra onto the field turn 1 to end on typical boring boards of multiple negates. Solfachords play Pendulum in a much more control style. Using Pendulum as an actual summoning mechanic to create infinite materials over multiple turns, while being back row light enough to be able to play other control things like Torrential or Solemns or And The Band Played On. The fact Solfachords can somewhat easily make a full 6 mat Arrival @Ignister is just icing on the cake. (the main deck Solfachords are the elemental attributes, several other pend staples like Darkwurm/Gate Zero/Astrograph/Beyond are Dark, and the Solfachord link 2 and ME-PSY-YA are Light; I also have Zefra Metaltron for an easy link 3 with three down arrows that also happens to be Light) I also happen to enjoy the fact they don't share levels (thus exclude XYZ), have no in archetype Tuner (thus exclude Synchros), and no in archetype fusion effect (thus exclude Fusions). They hinge on Pendulums and Links exclusively, and I happen to enjoy that far more than most other decks that are just "spam materials to make the same bunch of overpowered completely generic ED monsters every other deck makes."

@@LadyTsunade777 I play abyss actors. I love them for the simple fact that stealing monsters is my favorite gimmick. My first ever deck was a dark Necrofear deck and it uhh wasn't very good I loved using fiends and tried to play D/D/D but it just felt too stale. Abyss actors having soo many fun gimmicks with evil heel reducing attack, comic relief stealing cards, Superstar wiping the field with abyss scripts it was probably the most fun I've ever had with the deck.

​@@Honest_Mids_Mashereven compared to ritual? I know ritual has had more meta destroying archetypes come out of it but thats mostly because those cards were poorly balanced and designed. Ritual as a mechanic is way weaker than pendulum

@@EXFrost IMO at this point with how many good generic ritual engines/support cards they have I'm actually thinking it's in a better spot. It's definitely on par with rituals though in terms of strength.