No Hard Once Per Turn: "Allow me to introduce myself"

An honorary mention definitely should be “to sell new cards/products”

"The most effective way to kill your opponent is to burn them to death" I mean, that is true even without overpowered effect damage cards.

I find it ironic that the reason Mirage of Nightmare was banned is the exact same way it was used in GX, i.e. destroying it to avoid its downside.

This top 10 is so good for new players, because they will know what and why a certain mechanic is so strong. This can give new players some degree of knowledge of how the game works and probably even make them can learn the game by themself

The fact Soul Charge was legal as long as it was is just… mind boggling.

it's always interesting seeing lists feature a lot of cards that were dominant from the original yugioh and seeing how they either devolved to the point of being useless or evolved to the point they are even more unstoppable now. it's always fun seeing how evolution of tcgs literally turn the oldest cards into literal paperweights or behemoths of their games

Konami: Hand ripping cards are bad Also Konami: Say hello to Lovely Labrynth By the way, after the disappointment of yesterday's banlist, I would be curious what a banlist made by *you* would look like.

Konami card design steps: Step 1: make a card that is obviously broken Step 2: set it to the highest rarity Step 3: profit! Step 4: ban it Step 5: repeat!

Magical Scientist is so absurd that even with a hard once per turn it probably couldn't come off the banlist

I'm a tad surprised there wasn't like an honorary mention of TG Hyper Librarian regarding the "Draw cards" section. That monster has been limited since the first list after it was printed because a no limit "Draw 1 card whenever a Synchro Summon is performed" was absurdly good, especially in the age of its release when basically everyone ran Synchro Spam decks.

This was one of your best videos so far, well done. What a great topic and great execution by you. Honorable mention to Zenmaighty for hand ripping. The wind up loop left an emotional scar on me 😂

You forgot the true reason for the banlist: to sell more product lol.

Ooh, this is actually super relevant to some stuff I'm writing. It's an article about the Forbidden List, cards that have left it, and cards that likely never can

I feel that searching is another type of consistency hit. That’s really all searching is, and you gave the example yourself (“make the limitation of powerful warriors like Armageddon Knight and Dark Grepher trivial” by giving more consistent access to them). Overall amazing vid, though, this is a super useful resource especially for people who maybe haven’t been around as long or took a break and are just coming back

Card Of Safe return was very useful in my evil zombies deck where i kept bringing back plague spreader zombie whilst also decking the opponent out with soul absorbing bone tower

Im never going to not be pissed about Azathot being banned. I had a whole old god themed deck wasnt using the Phantom Knight rank up because i wanted the other effects too. And about a week before a local qualifying tournament it gets banned. So i pissed people off with Krawlers that no one knew how to defend against because all the Yugitubers said they sucked

Absolutely hated Last Turn… if you activated that while you had Jowgen the Spiritualist on the field you essentially won by default since your opponent couldn’t special summon.

In short, there will be five category in term of ban list: Cards cause ruling confusion/break the game. Cards lengthen the game (including those LP gain in WORLD banlist) Cards cause infinity loops Cards plus for us or minus our opponent Floodgate (including boss monster)

This episode highlights Yugioh's issues with futureproofing, especially regarding new summoning methods. Scapegoat is a perfect example of this. When it was printed, you couldn't use them for tributing, ritual summoning sucked so it could use the leg up and they were irrelevant to fusion summoning. Then as the video said, synchro was implemented and the card was suddenly way more useful.

I literally named out this list and what I thought would be on it. I got most of the list right and even named out the cards featured. Thanks for the great content!

Possibly one of your best Yugioh related video ever Made.

Re: OCG surrender rules, I believe the OCG surrender rules only applied to certain matches, like ones which were live streamed, because of the idea that they don't want streamed matches conceded. This was a point of contention because people complained that players had to play out lost matches on camera, which was boring. I think in most OCG matches you might actually play, conceding is allowed.

Konami introducing an archetype that uses future banned machanics to sell a pack of cards for 6 months: 😊 Konami when old cards become meta, because of the new busted cards: 😮 "Banned!"

Special Summon lost the meaning about being Special as years passes

Mind Crush was also a fairly annoying hand rip tech in during goat since good hand traps were slowly making their way into the game and searchers were everywhere, you sometimes never went through a game without searching for a key card for your deck only for you to lose it. Worst case if they knew what you were playing they would just take a guess if you didn't search for anything specific, they would assume the card you need is already in your hand and sometimes be right, worst case they guess wrong and get to see your hand. For special summoning, Cyber-stein is kind of a good example of why we can have nice things, Komani did try to limit to 1, only for sprite, tearlement and super heavy samurais to be perfectly ok to pay 5k of their life points to bring out the Last Warrior from Another Planet just to have another way to flood gate. If it wasn't that then they would find other ways to abuse it so the end result is that Stein is much too degenerate to ever exist without an errata to make it virtually unplayable.

while on the subject of banned cards here is a suggestion: Top 10 cards with the most ban/limited list changes (like sky striker).

Just wanna say I feel like "once per turn" effects should be called semi-limited effects and "hard once per turn" should be called limited effects. Once per duel can stay like that because it's pretty rare.

18:57 Idea for a counter card to players adding to many cards to their hand: _Accumulation of Greed_ (EARTH) Level 1 Rock/Tuner/Effect _(Quick Effect) You can normal summon/set this card from your hand if your opponent adds to their hand or excavates any number of cards. Unaffected by the effects of cards from your opponent’s hand. Each time your opponent adds to their hand or excavates a card, increase this cards ATK/DEF by 500, and place 1 Greed Counter on it. (Quick Effect) You can apply each of the following effects of “Accumulation of Greed” once per turn:_ ⚪️Increase your LP by equal to all Greed Counters on the field X1000. ⚪️Transfer 4 Greed Counters from this card onto a card on the field: That card’s effects are negated while it has any Greed counters on it. ⚪️Remove 4 Greed Counters from this card: Shuffle 1 card that is banished or the the GY into it’s owners deck. ATK/0 DEF/0

It's funny how much less the OCG cares about draw power than the TCG, probably because of how ridiculous something like Maxx "C" is compared to almost any other draw card, assuming you're blinding second against the average summon combo deck. Or can rebuild off a single card, preventing those same decks from going second against any of them that manages to go first without first getting hit by it.

Love these videos! I usually watch them while I am eating, so maybe a top 10 food-based cards?

Good video Logs. Hope you feel better soon. Lily, great editing as usual.

I hate the whole consistency hit as a form of balance because it doesn't address the problem of a deck being basically unstoppable if u don't start with hand traps opening turn. I feel that hitting the insane number of end board generic negates/interrupts is the better way to go.

This is my fave video from this channel in a while

Unexpected boost in power of an older card in a newer deck. Often times this is the fault of the newer card, but it falls into being “too new” to hit. I like seeing cards move off their bans and limits, sometimes just needs errata, don’t get me started on the just errata it hopt club.

It's hard not to hate this game for three reasons. The first is that they make new game features/cards that can't play because of older cards, and rather than simply redesigning those new individual features/cards before release so that they don't conflict with older cards they ban the older cards. The second reason I've grown to despise this game is that if something says you can return two monsters to their owner's hands when it is flipped I've noticed a lot of people like to say that face-down cards don't flip and are are simply removed from the field. There was nothing in the first few generations of the game that clearly established that was the case. I don't know if that has since changed. This would be related to Penguin Soldier's effect. Now according to newer cards like Penguin Brave, you can't target face down cards with any sort of effect. Now, if a card is face down and hit with an effect the result one would expect is that card would be flipped because how else can the players determine if it has any effects to use in response. Penguin Brave can counter that but it suggests that cards can, in theory, respond to effects. This is where I introduce my third and last dislike of the game, the players. This collective group of morons will always try to cheat by misinterpreting the rules so that whatever you use can't be applied to them and because the rules include so many vague concepts and new weird features a lot of the judges for this situation don't seem to be familiar with it so the judges just assume that these flip cards can't be activated due to effects of other cards.

Wow. Nice Idea! Also smooth präsentation.

Honorable mentions goes to Wind-Up Hunter for being able to rip your hand on turn 1.

You forgot the biggest corporate of all, money! They have been many times that cards get limited or banned just stop people from playing it to forced them to buy new cards.

17:02 "So as long as there were more than three turns in a game" is just. So depressing.

Top 10 cards better in real life than in the anime/manga

Number one: to sell new product

I can’t believe Konami has the audacity to make cards that can be “Once per chain” those should definitely not exist. One per turn should be standard across the board.

Ideas for next top 10 cards: Top ten Dragon cards Top ten ancient gear cards Top ten magican cards Top ten fusion cards Top ten archetypes

It's still so wild to me that the ocg just doesn't allow you to surrender even when you've obviously lost.

number 0: konami greed

where is selling new product?

Thanks, excellent video!

I like all the creative ways you came up with to say: sent to the ban list

Victory Dragon is an example of someone at Konami not thinking. There are lot of Joke Cards in Yu-Gi-Oh and most of them have it clearly stated they can not be used in Tournaments. Hell, there are cards that simply just very rare reskins that can't be used in Tournaments for whatever reason. Yet, Victory Dragon is the one card they forgot about. Only thing I can figure is maybe it's a Translation thing.

It’s head scratching why Maxx C is still legal in Masterduel. Whoever designed it must have incriminating evidence against Konami execs.

15:01 how so when if it gained the effect of said monster why would it not also retain the restriction to only use it once per turn?

i recall so many of these cards from playing as a kid back before the banlist was a thing.... was proud as heck of myself for figuring out the yata-lock myself....fuck im old xD

This List was not exactly what I expected to be honest. I thought we see Reasons like "too strong for its time" (like Raigeki or Change of Heart during the early days of Yugioh) or "create infinite Loops" (like Butterfly Dagger Elmer or Wind Up Hunter / Zenmaity). I do agree that many infinite loops going hand in hand with Things on your List though (burn damage, Drawing Cards, Hand Ripping and so on...)

Another reason why Konami ban or limited cards, so they can sell new OP archetypes and alternative cards.

The number 1 reason they ban cards is so people have to buy the next new meta deck because their old one is now useless 😂

If number one isn’t, “Some bigwigs in Konami simply don’t know how the game really works so arbitrarily decides to hit/keep a card on the list” I’m going to stand on the edge of a castle and threaten to jump if you don’t make that number one.

I will be forever mad at them limiting Macro and Fissure solely because they wanted to keep making overpowered GY effects.

I love the delinquent duo and the forceful sentry artwork, it's super iconic

GAZELLE TO 3 BABY LETS GOOO

I think I'm the only one who ever got victory dragons effect off in my area, I played it when I really wanted to have a cig during locals, so victory dragon got me away from the tables for a break. The guy was kinda dumb founded on what happened and needed the players around us to explain, this was like 2005 or 6 though and the card was fresh and the whole surrender cop out wasn't a know strategy against it yet

Another issue could be a Towers monster being too insurmountable for the current power level of the game. With Link Monsters around Apoqliphort Towers isn't as big of an issue anymore but it used to be much harder for people to deal with

I believe fiber jar can come off at 1 like cyber jar can. It doesn't reset LP and it doesn't affect the banished zone at all. A field and grave reset with a 5 draw doesn't have the punch it once had when GY effects banish for cost.

is there a video explaining what combos made cards being banned?

The best Yu-Gi-Oh decks in Yu-Gi-Oh DX video games! Can you make that list please next

I couldnt wait for you to talk about grass looks greener. Getting a grass off in withcrafters/ishizu/tear is almost game winning if you send 20

I want to ask, what is the name of the background song or what is the name of the artist who composed it? Great video, Nerevar

18:08 shoutout to Omega's partner in crime: Trishula. Almost nothing is as painful as watching someone setup a loop with (for example) infernity, summoning trishula 4 or 5 times by bouncing copies back to the extra and then ending on Omega, where during the standby phase, you would rip their top deck out of their hand as well

I see this was recorded before the list came out yesterday...

Another detail on how Special summoning fuels the other reasons on the list is that without being able to special summon over a dozen monsters with ease, cards like Cannon Soldier, Mass Diver, and the like would not be able to get the fuel needed for their burn OTKs.

In my eyes, the number 1 reason that a card is banned isn't for special summoning, but rather for cheating resource requirements. Special summoning is a thing that happens all the time, but monsters are designed to have costs in the forms of cards needed to bring them out, using once per turn things like a normal summon, or variance, so being able to cheat any of those tends to get a card banned. Cards that can summon monsters from deck thus removing variance and card costs? Probably banned. Cards that can loop multiple times thus ignoring once per turn restrictions on monster summoning? Probably banned. Cards that can special summon monsters ignoring their summoning conditions? Probably banned.

Searchers are essentially at their worst just a -1 to the deck size. And if you can select the card you take, which you usually can, you're doubling your draw chances for that card as you can either draw it or it's searcher.

I really like the background music. Did you make it yourself?

I would have also said because the card didn't have a hard once per turn...many cards that are broken/abused could be fixed to some degree by simply giving them a hard once per turn

Topic idea: skills that can be brought in from other games like magic the gathering etc and skills that you can learn in Yu-Gi-Oh and can be crossed over into other games, like magic?

Thanks!

I think you should do list about the most broken yugioh cards of each year

I thought kashtira's best spell is that one that can sp summ different kashtira name from the deck?

Bastion is very strong npc in legacy of the duelist mainly due to lv eater With it, he can swarm his field despite not using link monsters

I don't exactly blame older cards for being too strong. When the meta and format changed to pendulums Yu-Gi-Oh! was never the same. Back in the day Exodia OTK decks were everyone's bane as they had to sit there and wait for the opponent to kill you for minutes. This is quite similar how links and pendulums ruined yugioh's game health. Sitting and waiting for your opponent to eat through 20 cards for 3 negates isn't healthy for the game. The amount of special summoning the game has now is just too much for my liking which is why i run fossil dyna stun taking things back to the old days. Mabey Mystic mine took that ideology a bit too far but at least it made burn decks viable again.

I'm surprised that Tearlaments weren't ruined by the fact that they share a line of text in common with Shaddolls. Basically due to this line of text, if you used polymerization to fusion summon using tearlaments monsters as fusion materials you could conduct up to two additional fusion summons because of the tearlaments monsters you sent to the gy by polymerization. Effectively giving you a one card, three extra deck summon combo in polymerization which in by the way is a multi method searchable spell.

I’ve thought if they wanted Victory Dragon to be legal and playable, that it would be pretty obvious they would rule you cannot concede once Victory Dragon hits the field.

Top 10 Main Deck Boss Monsters

Quick effect removal attached to monsters. Drident, Kirin, masterpiece, arise heart

I kinda wish Yugioh would release all the weird cards (10) from the bannlist for a format to see what happens.

out of all the list here I think magical scientist has the highest chance to get unbanned and see play if they just did once per a turn. as for the other cards here or on the banned list not sure. and for heavy storm could be like cant special summon the turn u use the card. or if u use the card first then u cant special summon for this turn. and for snatch steal mabe get 10k lp for enemy player per a turn and cant attack besides with a control monster. and the fusion one the one u pay 2000 lp to special summon as many banished monster as possible. I say 7999 lp and u have to win on that turn otherwise u lose.

Chicken Game is back at 1. 2024 is already wild

when had the canon soldier ever been banned or limited?

Every card should be legal, that way Konami would have to put real thought on the design process, instead of winging it.

What's with victory dragon effect? If it attack and opponent' health become 0, you win the match? Isn't that obvious?

What does pot of greed do?

Funnily enough, the reason Last Turn is banned, is not that it's complicated to resolve, but for the same reason as Self-Destruct Button: it's far too easy to cause and loop draws to drag out matches with it.

Hate the game always happy to learn about it though

I hate that flood gates get banned cuz it means the game will never slow down or allow for control play. Instead we get draw your busted combo

I miss Mind Master... When first wave Psychics came out, I made Psychics my thing because it was a new type. I collected every Psychic card as it came out, so that I could make so many new Psychic decks. One I made was REALLY good and it actually used Mass Driver to do a cool burn loop. Then, because of an Exodia deck, Mind Master got banned. The ONE card that made Psychics work because the point was they were supposed to be centered around the master. Psychics were never the same again, they didn't try to make them better or at least errata Mind Master, and they just fell off. I feel like Phychics got dropped for Cyberse because they just didn't know what to do with Psychics anymore after the Mind Master ban. They came out as stand-alone cards after that or the type was just slapped onto monsters that had NOTHING to do with the concept of what Psychic monsters were known for.

I love Charity and Pot!!

Wait ive never heard of a stron GefTK before? Is that a special FTK? How do you pull off a stron GefTK?

Wild!

22:50: And my Main Monster, Junk Synchron!

Playing trap cards from the hand with Makyura.