It still blows my mind every day that Konami printed zeus and just said slap that thing on any xyz

You know these monsters mean serious business when they all have summon animations in Master Duel

I really like that Redoer's effects tie in to Time Thief's theme. The first effect is literally stealing/retrieving an object from your opponent. As for each part of the second effect: - Banishing himself alludes to Redoer escaping the scene when being chased (say, by an S-Force); - Drawing a card alludes to Fast Forwarding time to your "next turn"; - Finally, placing a card on top of the deck alludes to Rewinding time to before your opponent drew it.

Fun fact about barrone is that it is wind attribute meaning the windwitch snow bell and freeze bell can give it battle and card destuction. The more you know.😅😅

I think Chaos Angel deserves an honorable mention. Its generically splashable in a lot of decks, easy to summon, has great stats, pretty decent effects depending on its synchro materials, and it can banish a card any time it's special summoned not just synchro summoned.

Video Idea: Cards that you can play when your deck doesnt need the normal summon (Cards like Lava Golem, the barrier statues, adventure engine, etc)

Firstly, I appreciate you explaining the weaknesses of Apollousa, Bow of the Goddess and Accesscode Talker. Those facts are refreshing after seeing two in your videos for months if not _years._ Secondly, I _love_ the uses of white text to make yellow text stand out as you covered Number F0: Utopic Draco Future! This practice shows how this card's monster-stealing effect is currently unparalleled. May this technique reappear often.

Underworld goddess is insane. Basically a free kaiju + dark ruler no more if you get enough link material on the field

Top 10 "is your archetype unique or all it does is spam a couple of these and call it a day?"

Best top of the year, hands down!!. It's crazy to think that in 2023 powerful cards like Utopia The Lighning are powercrept by this insane bosses. Another awesome video Duel Logs, thanks!

Would love to hear some commentary about types added to the game (e.g. Wyrm, Psychic, Cyberse) and the circumstances: what was the first one, what set, why, etc.

Psychic End punisher kinda deserves an honorable mention imo.

Top ten extra deck monsters with _non-generic_ summoning requirements (like needing multiple named monsters as materials).

1:31 the best think is, it's not even a crash since Borrelsword cannot be destroyed by battle

Barrone de Fleur just does everything, free chicken tenders the card

About half this list has absolutely no business being generic.

Fun fact: All the top 10 cards on the list have a summoning animation in Master Duel.

Remember Fleur archtype? Remember when they release a bunch of weird noble knight horse synchro support for Sherry's deck? Yeah, it would've been nice if the deck got a really good boss monster for their archtype instead...

on my experience acceecode flaw has 1 huge backup tool, summon him using Gatchiri @ignister, its basically a 5300 towers that cannot be nibiru'd. if you using the standard jammer, transcode into accesscode and you have gatchiri in hand, summon accesscode using jammer as the link 2 material then transcode and finally gatchiri, (gatchiri summon itself by targeting the jammer) then when accesscode is summoned, CL1 gatchiri, CL2 Jammer and CL3 Accesscode, basically an unaffected 5300 beater that can attack twice, and destroy at least 2 cards on opponent side

I honestly do not like powerful boss monsters that are generic and splash into every decks that they shouldn't have the spot for unless it's a standalone non-Archetype card like Zeus or Zealantis, I prefer them having the NEED to stay in their Archetype or at least monster type / attribute. Accesscode should have been locked to Code talker or Cyberse decks and Borrel to Rokket decks, something like that. It'd make more diversity to the game where the players have to choose what deck to play what boss monster they want, some decks are even mash all these generic bosses together and seems to have identity crisis.

Half of this list being generic is one of the main reasons why powercreep in this game is getting out of hand. Any new card released will be IMMEDIATELY put to the test to either contest these cards or turbo them out. Some possible easy fixes are modifications to their materials, keeping their splashability to a degree but requiring decks that don't play the archetype to commit more (but Konami would never do these bcs Konami): 1. Borreload Savage Dragon: 1 "Rokket" Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monster(s). 2. Accesscode Talker: 2+ Effect Monsters, including a Cyberse monster. 3. Time Thief Redoer: 2 Level 4 DARK Machine or Psychic monsters.

I'm so glad they made that master rule edit in 2020. If we were still stuck in the original master rule 4, pretty much everything but Link monsters would be forgotten about.

Impressive on how the game has filled with generic extra deck monsters. I think a better design would've been if they were locked to being archetype specific but that's just me.

It's funny that Baronne, a WIND level 10 Synchro monster was released on the same set as Crystal Clear Wing Synchro Dragon, making Speedroid's shiny new boss monster and the set's cover monster dead on arrival.

This is the bad thing about today's boss monsters. They're generic to the point where meta decks can use them, decreasing deck diversity. Back then, monsters like Cyber End Dragon were ACTUAL boss monsters because they were often used within a deck of their own or related archetype, or related to their types in general. Top of that, they're more rewarding to use when boss monsters are used in their "home" decks (like Savage Dragon to Rokkets).

Incredible list. Honorary mention for our man bagooska

I really liked this concept, and I like how you went into more detail with each of these choices, giving example interactions for each card rather than talking about them purely in the abstract, but I think you missed the mark on the actual list contents, primarily by putting other cards here in place of Underworld Goddess. Underworld Goddess (White Woman Jumpscare) should have made this list, honestly above Avramax, simply because it's a Kaiju in your ED that also has a permanent monster negate effect on summon, protection against the premiere forms of interaction, and if made with I:P Masquerena, can interrupt an opponent's plays and then also be undestroyable, forcing the use of either tribute removal, target non-destruction removal, or targeting effect negation, all of which are relatively rare except for the last, but in the modern metagame, targeting effect negation is mostly just InfImp or [your archetype here]'s archetype-specific targeting negate trap card if it even has one, and maybe that one Runick card that negates monster effects (although Runick is losing favor in every format over time), so in other words, it's something you can play around and anticipate since InfImp isn't coming out of the hand in response to White Woman Jumpscare since summoned specifically to help break established boards, meaning InfImp will have to be set first and thus telegraphed. It also has some admittedly matchup-specific negation against summons (any deck that doesn't summon from the GY doesn't care about White Woman Jumpscare all that much) which is a nice little perk. IMO it's nearly an auto-include in any deck that also wants to make I:P Masquerena, and along with Avramax forms a duo of perfect choices for using her as material-do you want a towers in Avramax, or do you want a board breaker in Underworld Goddess? Of course, the latter is better in more situations, and she's also easier to summon most of the time since she can be made with materials summoned from anywhere, not just the ED, hence why she should have been above him. Though, I think both of these cards are not as great of generic boss monsters as Apollousa is tbh, even though she can be baited and then beaten over, Apollousa's ability to negate anywhere from 2-4 monster effects (or even more if you have attack increasing effects in your deck!) over her time spent on the board is insane. Though once she's down to 1600 ATK she is kind of no longer a boss monster anymore, but still, an amazing card and way better than both the White Woman Jumpscare and Avram's umpteenth form. Also Time Thief Redoer is not suitable for this list IMO: while it is generic in the way it's made, it's very limited in which kind of decks can make good use of it. Even when I was playing Tear Ishizu I found that Redoer wasn't even my best choice for a Rank 4 most of the time, it was either Bagooska because I was losing and needed to stall to draw an out, or it was Abyss Dweller because I was setting up my turn 1 board. (Honestly, those two monsters are better overall than Redoer, but they're just shy in ATK power to be considered boss monsters, so I get why they wouldn't make this list.) If you really feel strongly that Redoer belongs on the list, then Underworld Goddess would have to edge out Borrelsword Dragon, which tbh also doesn't feel like it belongs on the list since there are so many fantastic generic ED monsters that do more than just threaten an OTK in the upcoming BP, but the argument you provided for its inclusion did make sense to me and its presence _does_ force a preemptive response whenever it shows up, whereas Redoer is kind of just whatever, he's not a real threat on board he's just a pesky fly who isn't a boss by himself, he's more like your real boss' sidekick. And if we're talking about value generated for as many decks as possible, Acesscode is better than Baronne simply because more decks can make links plus its effects being spell speed 4 make it so that if you don't have a way to negate it on an open game state, your ass is grass. Baronne is definitely great in any deck that can make a level 10 synchro and you're right that it's good both going 1st and 2nd, but it's not as generic as Accesscode simply because, unlike Accesscode, it's inaccessible to the majority of decks. Still, it's accessible to enough decks and amazing enough that I think it should have made #2, with Accesscode as #1. I'm just nitpicking with this one tbh. I only wrote all this up because I thought this video was good and interesting moreso than most of your other videos.

Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS - Sky Thunder wins having the coolest name.

How about top 10 cards that would be broken in other archetypes. Ie. cards like Ojama Red (Summons 4 archetype monsters when Normal summoned with no restrictions whatsoever) or Snake Rain (Discard to foolish 4 monsters with no restrictions either)

Every extra monster has no business being generic. Making every extra deck work only inside there archtypes would fix almost every issue with the banlist

Baronne de Fleur would've been a lot more fair if it actually required Fleur Synchron as the tuner (like Chevalier de Fleur). It would still fit into the Fleur archetype but probably wouldn't have ended up everywhere.

All of those monsters are the reason I cannot build any deck anymore, I HAVE to build a deck that can at least surpass these cards AND handtraps. It's true that they made some decks viable, but in the end, they're all the same end board that came in different ways.

As a video idea for an episode of the Unknown Side of Yugioh how about you do one talking about the Chronomoly archetype where you discuss the various artifacts in it? Personally I’m not the biggest history fan but that would honestly seem like a very interesting topic for that series and also very enjoyable video to watch~ Thank you for always providing amazing videos to watch Duel Logs! There always very enjoyable to watch! Keep up the great work! I hope you and all that are reading this has a great day! Stay safe all!

I like how it's stated that the best bosses aren't usually the big ticket names for anime, But if you count including a card as ways to get around one he mentioned 5 big ticket names in the anime.

I find physic end punisher one I'd put on the list. Master duel during the synchro event I had a blast summoning him and making my ash give a beat stick with my wyrm deck. Mekk knight is funny as everytime I duel it I find a way to use it for fusion it's hilarious

It's interesting that to a new yugioh player who plays master duel, you can generally tell if a card is good because it has a summon cut-in. Bonus points if it's arbitrarily UR. All these have summon cut-ins, don't know about rarity though.

Neat, how about making a top 10 list of the best in archetype searchers spell cards next? maybe leaving Engage out just to make it less predictable.

From 2011 onwards the best synchro monster I could always count on was Shooting Quasar Dragon. It was such huge beat stick and an awesome Boss monster

Avramax is my go to Masquerena target in Mathmech because of his protection effects alongside IP and drawing out opponents' attacks towards him... and if I get Nayuta equipped on him on a follow-up turn, hello OTK!

Notice how none of these include ritual fusion or pendulums. This tells me exactly what are the best vs worst summoning mechanics in Yu-Gi-Oh.

Fusion should get a list. MirrorJade IceBlade Dragon and Destiny Hero Phoenix Enforce are just same of the hardest cards to destroy since they have quick effect to destroy and remove cards.

To add on to Accesscode Talker. Since you can respond to Accesscodes on summon effect to gain attack points and the fact it targets the link monster it wants to gain attack from you can D.D. Crow or called by the targeted link monster. This prevents Accesscode from gaining attack points possibly preventing your opponent from wiping your life points that turn.

While most of these were expected, I also expected to see at least one fusion like either Starving Venom, DPE or Dragoon.

i've literally never heard anyone say "zeus pilot" until this very moment in history.

17:26 Thank you for clarifying this ruling! I was trying to search it up while the card was being described since I've heard the card text a few times before.

Worth noting another benefit of Baronne over Savage is Savage straight up doesn't have a negate until its on summon effect resolves. Savage still loses to something like Torrential or Nib because it needs to remove a counter to negate and doesn't get them until afterwards.

I despise every single one here for how much it warps the format along itself. Their existance alone turns most of the deckz into ,,summon z monster from extra deck turbo"

Not that it's any good particularly, but I do remember the Gaia Knight synchro being super popular back in the day when I was a kid simply due to its attack (and yeah, I know Goyo pre-errata was better in every way, but weirdly enough I never encountered it)

Still wild how we went from Crystal Wing to Baronne. Question now is what will be the next Synchro to replace Baronne?

You know the powercreep of the late Link era has been bad when Borrelsword of all things barely even makes into the list yet would have been in the upper half a few years ago

I agree with Baronne, for the rest I'd do 2. Zeus 3. Apollousa 4. Accesscode 5.Borreload Savage. I agree with the picks, but I think this order is better.

How about a Top 10 for climbing tools (as in climbing with monsters). You mentioned Accel Stardust Dragon and IP, but there’s also Galaxy Tomahawk and other monsters people might wanna know.

Great another top 10 bosses monsters I have been waiting for long while

This is basically a list of the biggest legal problem cards in the game. Generic extra deck monsters makes endboards way more boring

There are so much more Monsters worth mentioning. The nightmares, verte anaconda, needlefiber, (although they are banned) borrelload dragon, the topologics, bagooska and so on...

Figured it would Barrone. I recently pulled the card from the Maze of Memory box and I wasnt expecting it. I was trying to make a Gate Guardian deck, now I’m trying to figure out a way or two to fit her into the deck. Thank goodness I pulled her because her price on TCGPlayer is nuts 😅

I think it’s important to realise that drident is not the problem with zoos. For their time, drident providing on-demand removal(essentially) was an incredibly strong effect, and with consistency that zoos hold to this day. However, in todays meta-game(much more power-crept,) link monsters can provide the same things with generic archetype cards(freeing up tons of other slots for other techs/extra deck monsters). Drident is not banned in master duel for a reason, it’s not very good. However, that’s not to say that the *other* zoos should not stay banned. Cards like broadbull and ratpier are easily abusable in modern combo decks because they are not once per turn. Decks would be able to abuse these cards to spam a ton of bodies with 0 locks with only 1 card, with drident as a cherry on top or fail-safe, should you brick on the other 4 cards in your hand, trying to play past disruption. Pre-links, cards that could spam bodies were more common since less decks had a practical use for them. Todays meta game changes that entirely, which is also the reason spyrals instantly became one of the best archetypes ever printed.

Yu-Gi-Oh Vrains definitely gave us some good cards

if the cards of this list were banned or at least gor restricted to their own archetypes the games would've been waay much more balanced

Alt title, list of what should you craft in Master duel

Apollousa with Baron in pendulum decks is irritating to deal with and that's why I run them always with Borreload.

I feel like UDF especially is too big of a pain. Being able to negate and permanently steal opponents monsters without targeting them is just annoying. This way even if you manage to prevent targeting of your monsters, it won't work against this guy. Additionally the protection effects of not being able to be destroyed by battle or card effects is just too much for such a generic card.

1:05 Gren Maju: Hold my beer.

Accesscode about to find itself on Logs's blacklist

The Video is great and your voice is just amazing. But one small mistake: Access Code doesn’t target!!! That’s also a reason why it’s so good

Borrelsword doesnt crash with 6-Material Arrival (Borrelsword cant be destroyed by battle, so it actually kinda wins the battle)

i am so happy he pronounced baronne correctly.

Baron shouldn‘t be generic

Great list, haven't played YGO in a while(around the time MD released) but I just find it hilarious that Borrelsword is refered to as "clunky in modern YGO" even though links were the last big mechanic the normal game got.

Can you make a Top 10 List, that somehow includes every Firewall Dragon? Kinda wanna see that. (Obviously you couldn‘t do „Top 10 Firewall Dragon monsters“, because that would only include 4 cards and even „Top 10 Firewall cards“ would be only 9 cards, 8 if you don‘t include the trap card Firewall). Can you do it or can you not? :)

16:27 Ms(?) Lily saving TDL face, consider giving her a raise.

I'm not sold of Time Thief Redoer being a great boss. It's a great utility monster I'll grant that. But unless you have trap monsters or are playing against a deck full of backrow, it hardly qualifies as a boss monster. Being able to save your cards from banish, get extra draws, or force your opponent to waste negates, is a good thing, but this doesn't make a boss monster. It can only stuff if it has a trap.

These types of cards are the Reason why ALL YGO DECKS ACTUALLY PLAY THE SAME STRATEGY ... even if YGO players don't know/admit to it

Unchained abomination for an honourable mention. 2+ monsters, including a link monster, being more generic in modern game states than Avramax while still accessing an Avramax style summon combo. Its three trigger effects can prevent most of the rest of this list from even being summoned by removing their materials from the board almost as quickly as they could be deployed. First-Third summoning of Abomination via an I:p masquerena strategy can afford it's owner complete control of the opponent's play state by picking apart their board on it's set up or by their own interactions with any number of cards or ending their turn. At this point in a duel it also has very few common weaknesses unlike some other members of this list, for example infinite impermanence would have to be played from hand to be a valid counter other than that dark ruler no more or effect veiler. Tokens can also be used as link material for this monster, so this mighty link-4 can be made using a single copy of scapegoat at an opportune moment, then turning two tokens into I:p masquerena something very few members of the list can achieve.

🧿-dea for another generic boss monster, and an “Eyes-Restrict” one at that: _Xyz-aulted Eyes-Restrict_ (DARK) Rank 1 Spellcatser/Xyz/Effect 5+ level 1 monsters _You can also Xyz this card using 2+ monsters you control that have other cards equipped or attached to them, and if you do, attach all their equipped/attached cards to this card. Gains ATK/DEF equal to the ATK/DEF of all cards attached to it as material. If this card would removed from the field (By battle or card effects), or it’s attacks or effects negated, you can detach 1 material from this card instead. (Quick effect) You can activate each of the following effects once per turn, and if you do, this card cannot attack this turn: ⚪️You can target 1 card on the field; attach that target, and all cards equipped/attached to it, to this card as material. ⚪️Ritual summon any 1 Ritual monster (from your hand, deck or GY): You must also detach materials from this card equal to or greater then that card’s level. If that monster ritual summoned by this effect would leave the field; attach it to this card instead.⚪️If your opponent would normal summon/set or special summon any number of cards while using any number of cards as tributes or materials: Detach 2 materials from this card; Negate the summon, then attach to this card either all the cards that would have been summoned/set OR all the cards that would have been tributes/materials for those summon(s)/set(s)._ ATK/0 DEF/0

Idk why that zodaic would be on this list. Never seen it be used genericly. As well as utopia the lightning should have been mentioned low on this list. A lot of decks that can easily makes rank 4 xyz usually run one utopia engine. Helps avoid battle effects and will beat over avaremax. Btw top ten warrior support cards and warrior type monsters list please?

Love the generic use videos! One video idea: good generic tech to throw into rogue decks

This may be a controversial take but: All these cards need banning (or erratas to make them more difficult/require architype material, to summon. They make end boards very predictable and boring.

Here's an idea for a future video: Top 10 Most Powerful Monsters. Not the best, not the most efficient, just the ones that, if you manage to go through the effort to slam them onto the field, provide the most impactful effects. Let's just do a celebration of dumb, impractical playground hype machines which never had a chance to shine in a competitive setting! I would also love to see such a video on the MTG channel!

Can't say I agree with F0, Draco future in the list. It's strong but far to difficult to summon with it needing 3 ED slots to summon which is and far more space then what most non xyz decks can or should commit to.

Honorable mentions should have included Mudragon of the Swamp. How many times was a game lost because it was prey to Super Polymerization?

Accesscode should've been "2+effect monsters including a Code Talker monster"

They could errata all of these like Goyo Guardian. Add a specific attribute or type to one of the materials. Just don't spam Dark or Warrior, lmao

Dugares should have been there. He is just so incredibly versatile and useful in basically every circumstance.

Alternate Titles: -Top 10 Monsters That Ruin The Extra Deck -Top 10 Monsters That Ruin Legacy Support

when I die i want him to narrate my top 10 accolades

Would be cool to see a top 10 worst/best cards that need garnets!

The only good thing for the monsters on this list is most of them can be dealt with with board breakers rather easily, except for Baronne, Savage, and Avramax

there were already many great suggestions in the comments, maybe predaplant dragostapelia since it was an absolute staple in tear decks and is still played in many decks that can play superpoly(although not as much as garura and maybe not as much as starving venom fusion dragon)

It might be worth arguing that it wasn't just the hit to recital that killed bird alone but also the hit to Simorgh. If it had just been recital the deck could have limped on with Sylvan princessprite. With Simorgh and recital hit the get couldn't get out the Omni negate /barrier statue which made it much weaker Also adding the new Bystial synchro. Level 10, generic, and has 3500 atk which means even if your opponent plays through it plenty of traditional boss monsters can't beat over it

Swordsoul chengying should have been here imo. He has singled handedly won me a lot of duels because his destruction protection, banish ability and ability to decrease other atlk while raising his own.

I think Bagooska is one of the superior generic extra deck monsters and you didnt mention it, also i kinda disagree that talker is on the second place, i think it should be at the very top of that list, otherwise it wouldnt be the most used extra deck monster :D

If an Extra Deck monster needs to be summoned in an unusual way, even if that monster is used as a staple, it is not generic. AA-ZEUS, UDF, and Drident are summoned outside of their standard procedure, while Avramax requires you to use Extra Deck monsters as material.

Generic boss monsters like these were a mistake. They should've been in-series only.

Top ten carss with reminder text, possibly? (Stuff like Harpies and Summoned Skull.)

Borrelsword imo should be higher, when it released it provided so many decks with ez otk lines. The game became much faster thanks to it, sure it was power crept by accesscode but show my homie some love

Redoer is definitely a gamble card that works too good.

Fyi, all the monster in the list have summoning animation in MD. Means if opponent special summon this boss monster and your have no answer to it. Your probably have to receive big L unless your have answer to this boss monster especially forbidden droplet and dark ruler no more.

Logs: *Calls F0 "UDF"* Me: Number F0: United Dairy Farmers

Rongomaniad had to get banned it was so good, a floodgate, the ability to destroy your opponents' cards, and destruction protection, VFD, Azathough, and Utopic Zexal was powerful floodgates, and Dragoon is practically indestructible once it hits the board and can pop opponent's cards twice per turn, plus a negate.