I like how you had to shove a bunch of these together or the entire list would be floodgates that instantly win the game against certain decks.

Also Anti-Spell Fragrance just hard counters pendulum decks because scales can’t be set face down, so they just can’t be played at all.

I agree with you on number 10. I'd rather know why an old card has made a legacy for itself than hear an okay card that's got not much to talk about aside from just being good and that's it. In fact, hearing trivia is more fun than hearing power facts.

Imperial Order was so strong because it turns off the mechanic that usually destroys floodgates - glad you pointed that out.

I was so relieved, when I saw „Royal Oppression“ show up in tandem with „Vanity's Emptiness“. The way you combined the similar floodgates in one spot each was a really good idea for this video!

Important difference between Imperial Order and Anti-Spell fragrance: Anti-Spell fragrance cannot be activated to negate a card that's trying to target it. This makes it slightly more vulnerable and Spell removal.

I really like this really niche use of Call of the Haunted: Chaining it to ST removal in order to activate a monster's destruction by effect trigger.

I remember that call of the haunted had a flaw on design. The card specifies that "when the monster is destroyed, destroy this card" meaning that if you tributed the summoned monster you lock one slot of your spell/trap zone indefinitely until your opponent or yourself destroyed it.

I think the reason C.T.s are thought of as floodgates is that they're inherently best suited towards that purpose. They are the traditional form of interaction with your opponent on their turn, and their persistent nature lets you maintain their effect unlike one-off activations like Counter Traps or Quick Plays. Sure, you also got cards like Call of the Haunted or Crackdown that serve other functions, but they're in the minority and act like glorified Equip spells for all their functionality. So in the end floodgate effects end up getting printed onto C.T.s because that's were they work best in.

Shootout to Gravity's Bind, back in the day that card was a nightmare to deal with since most monsters where lvl 4 or above and s/t removal was quite rare, you had to hard draw it not like today that you can just summon a removal from the extra deck.

Vanity's Emptiness on the list confirmed. before even watching it

Another potential drawback to call of the haunted is that if the monster is removed from the field without being destroyed, it stays on the field blocking a zone.

Love how you ended the video by admitting that it's pretty much all floodgates that are the best continuous traps

The neat thing about Call of the Haunted is that you can use it to revive something just to trigger its Special Summon effect, then let backrow removal or cards can that tribute traps and/or monsters(True Draco and Vision HEROs can use both to get two mats for a tribute summon) get it off the field so you don't get reamed by an opponent's attack through it later. It also works on Links unlike Back to the Front.

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Call of the Haunted being a trap card (and as such activatable during your opponent's turn) also allowed for some fun plays, especially during the battle phase.

Right on time for my lunch break too. Ty duel logs 💪🏼

Top 10 Worst Traps (of any kind, I know you already did counter-traps). Would be interesting since traps are already hindered and generally worse than a spell with the same effect, so it would be cool to see the worst of the worst

I remember Call of the Haunted was really good in Synchro formats. Mainly Blackwings or Ice barrier synchros able to bounce it back to hand after the target was synchro material.

1. Top 10 cards that "summon to this card points to" 2. Top 10 cards that banned because other cards effect/existence (example: spyral master plan, banned because magician's souls released. Samsara lotus, banned because it can create otk with other cards combo)

Metal Reflect Slime was also useful for easy level 10 on the field for XYZ that needed them, plus being Aqua/Water gave it some more interactions with decks that used those. For Call of the Haunted, an issue I often have with that card that never gets mentioned is that the card leaves the field ONLY if the monster is destroyed or the trap is destroyed, so if it gets used as material or whatnot, the card stays there taking up space on the field, which can be annoying in decks that use lots of the backrow for cards that stay there. Sure you could return it to the hand and reuse it, but all good cards that let you do that are banned or a pain to pull off consistently. But while not all continuous traps are floodgates, here are lots that could have been included, most of which belonging to the same series of cards! Tyrant's Tirade is a card very similar to Skill Drain, but requires two tributes instead of LP cost and blocks hand effects as well, even if it only works on effects that "activate" rather than always active ones, which can be incredibly strong if you can provide the tributes. Then you have Tyrant's Throes, which does require normal monsters as tribute to activate, but completely blocks both special and normal summons of effect monsters, leaving only flip summons, which can completely screw the vast majority of decks over, while the cost isn't that hard to pull off in some decks (eg: Venus with Shine Balls on Fairy decks). Finally, for floodgate, you have By Order of the Emperor, which can let you block normal summon effects and works great with Appropriate or can be used on Slifer/King Tiger Wanghu to get lots of draws every time! However, there's non-floodgate continuous traps that are very strong, Tyrant's Temper for example protects you from your own floodgate traps for just one tribute (including turning Royal Oppression into a "negate the opponent constantly" card with no downside), while Imperial Custom can protect your other continuous traps easily if using lots of floodgates and whatnot at once.

I don't even play Yu-Gi-Oh anymore but you have such a good voice andake it so interesting that I watch every time

Don't know if there's enough cards for a conditional floodgates list. Only one that readily comes to mind is Secret Village of the Spellcasters as that can be a one sided Imperial Order with no maintenance cost. Top 10 Synchro Tuners Top 10 Extra Deck Pendulum Monsters Top 10 Best/Worst Cards That Can Miss Timing Top 10 Worst Continuous Spell Cards Top 10 Honorary Archetype Cards Top 10 Rekindling Targets

Ahh, old school Yugi was the bomb. So many hours spent imagining strategies before there even was a limited/forbidden list. What you could pull off in those days was legendary. I left the game well over 10 years ago due to rising card costs which meant that you had to sink in some serious coin to even stand a chance in tournaments, not to mention the whole shift from xyz to pendulum and beyond felt really overwhelming at the time. I wonder if maybe I should give it another chance, if only to diversify my hobby pool a little. Cheers!

I love Eldlich and the chaos the deck causes using so many floodgates!

Macro cosmos is also great I think, most meta decks rely on cards in the graveyard to activate effects so getting banished can shut a lot down

"With Imperial Order you can shut down spell heavy decks like Floowandereeze." ... I'm rethinking my stance on this card.

I just started building a Uria deck so this was perfect timing!!!

Congrats on reaching over 300K subs :D

Wow I’m surprised you hadn’t done a top 10 list of this until now

Nice to see Rivalry of Warlords since I play Zombies. Another neat use for it, although it's more situational, is, if I'm facing an opponent who uses monotype anyway, Rivalry can occasionally work as Shiranui Slash fodder if the opponent only has one card I can destroy, since Slash needs two targets. Again, very rarely happens but it's funny when it does.

An trap I think deserves an honourable mention: Psy-Frame Overload. Once per turn, target and banish any card on the field face down by banishing a psyframe monster from your hand or field which means they're never going to see that card again. Lets you convert useless framegears in hand into interruption, can remove monsters from your own field, and non-once per turn searches any archetype card after being sent to the graveyard. Combing with Psy-Framelord Omega means free searches every opponent's standby phase. Plus lots of psychic support allows you to recover the cards banished for cost and reuse them. Somewhat archetype specific but very powerful. With gamma being in lots of decks it's something to consider as it lets you use the grammas after the first one for something.

I would have added summon limit. Nice list btw, thanks!

Love to see so many old cards in the top

Just one extra normal summon or set per turn is still kinda nutty, and Ultimate Offering also works on the opponent's Battle Phase as a potential form of interruption. It would be interesting to see it as a way to play around special summon floodgates if both were legal simultaneously though, and would make Maxx "C" a lot less devastating of a card for some decks to deal with. This really does seem like the kind of situation where one existing without the other makes things too swingy.

Love your vids bro could you do a „top 10 monster effects that let you draw cards“ video

call of the haunted and other revival traps see play in kozmo decks, since you can revive a dark destroyer or sliprider to proc their destruction effects

Skill Drain is a favourite of Weather Painters too. It can't stop them from bouncing off and onto the field :)

I thought Macro was going to be number 1 or 2. Surprised it did not make the list but at least you mentioned it

I'm really happy for this video, because I just bought true draco

I would like Black Ptera to be mentioned in a list, so a very recyclable effect, it could have been mentioned here easily with cannon soldier and ultimate offering as an OTK; it could also be done with pre errata firewall dragon, though I think it requires 2 Black Ptera. Definitely a card that surprisingly has not been broken yet.

I feel like summon limit should share the number 1 spot because it also limits summons and can also counts summons while it’s facedown

I feel like a cool honorable mention would have been Unending Nightmare, been thinking about how versatile it is.

I still run a Nurse Burn deck and have improved it greatly from its old build. Ring of Destruction and Mahaama the Fairy Dragon, for example, make great additions to the deck.

0:20 Mr. Logs stuttering saying defense position is cute CUTE!!!!

Top 10 Taunting cards (cards that prevent your other cards from being targeted or attacked, and make the opponent target itself instead)

A fun fact about Bad Reaction to Simochi and the Nurse Burn deck in general: If you have D/D/D Oracle King D'arc out on the field while BRtS and Darklord Nurse are also on the field, you actually still GAIN Lp with stuff like Giftcard because (for some strange ruling reason) D'arc supersede the other 2, making her the best monster/card to play against Nurse Burn. I only know this because it happened to me in Master Duel and my opponent let me bring out D'arc after nearly killing me and trying to flex on me or something.

Top 10 "Comeback" cards that are most useful when you're losing/that exist to turn around bad situations

I used to love having IO and SD on the field at the same time. Easy instant scoops when you’re running Altergeists.

Anti-spell Fragrance MY BELOVED 💕 Single-handedly helped me win more than 70% of my match-ups against Spellbooks when they first came out. Taught me a single tech card can cripple an entire deck. That deck also got a decent win rate against dragon rulers funnily enough. Miss my Anti-spell / dark simorgh / advanced ritual art deck.

Also, if you have a way to give your opponent a monster and make it the only monster on their field (kaijus, sphere mode, ojama trio, etc...) you can use rivalry of the warlord or gozen match to lock them into a potentially useless type and stop them from playing until they remove the floodgate or the monsters.

plz make a vid about best one card combo best removes from play and best cards out of new master dual packs every new pack. longtime fan keep up the great content

So what I gather as an "old school" player, the key to modern yugioh is preventing your opponent from playing yugioh in any way. Nice. I don't get off on humiliation so I don't get it. Great video regardless

I can't believe this list has never been done 🤯

I have five of these cards on your list you made.

Shaddoll Schism! Love that card

It was a surprise not to see Mistake in the list.

10:55 I used this letter a lot but today I changed my mind about this letter

Big shout-out to ordeal of a traveller, the playground stomper. It's also one of the more complex cards we used to play correctly unlike things like scrap iron scarecrow.

There are a few cards that I think should have made it on over the bottom couple on this list, notably the True Draco continuous traps and SPYRAL Mission - Rescue. Both have been significant pieces of tier 1/tier 0 decks.

i cant believe it took this long for this somewhat of a simple category of cards lol. I kinda thought this was done already

One benefit anti-spell fragrance has over imperial order is that it prevents the activation of spells instead of negating them meaning it can stop your opponent from playing Pendulum cards since Pendulum cards cannot be set in the Pendulum zone.

12:05 if it's monsters that weren't affected by skill draw card effects it becomes useless against them

Idea for a series of videos but top ten most iconic cards of each Protaganist. I think we can all guess their top spots but the other 9 would make for good lists

i'd love to see you do 10 Worst Continuous Traps as well.

I am not giving up!! Top 10 duel terminal cards!

I love Nurse Burn so love that include

I know they're not competitive really anymore on a meta level, but my Kozmos love their Call of the Haunted

In a Master Duel BO1 format, floodgates are super strong, i mainly play branded despia and the decks only out to Skill Drain is, guardian chimera + comedy to send it to GY.

Summon limit is my favorite floodgate that no one says they hate, even if it stops combo decks and even stun decks like floowanderezee completely. Since other floodgates are being semi limited in master duel it will probably get more attention.

I remember when I was younger I had ultimate offering in my deck for the playground and with friends, but I read it and was like "Thats good but, 500 life points PER SUMMON?" So I was super hesitant to use its effect.

20:53 ... ngl i think this is the opposite. Vanity's Emptiness is much stronger than oppression in my opinion

I remember being really scared of Luna in Tag Force because bad reaction. And then I started using prime material dragon (damage is turned to healing, the end result was always whatever happened second. So if the opponent has actual effect damage, it would be damage, as prime would heal and BRS would turn to damage and heals were heals.)

How did Sea Stealth Attack not make the list? It's probably one of the most powerful traps ever printed. Not only does it automatically destroy anything that battles your level 5+ water monsters but it can also prevent all of your face-up spell/traps from being destroyed too. It's basically a win con for any Umi based deck.

These vids always show off powerful cards

Metal reflect slime was a good card to use Metamorphosis on. Since its level is 10, you could grab Ultimate cydra (which was relevant at the time)

Ooh! Another video about floodgates.

I feel like you could unban ultimate offering without giving it a once per turn, BUT it would come with a bigger life point cost(maybe 2000 per normal summon)AND the restriction that the cards that were normal summoned are banished if they leave the field, instead of going to the graveyard

Summon Limit is an even better vanity's emptiness if you time it at their second summon , stops even floowandereeze

The fact Egyptian god slime has an animation in MD and not the gods themselves says alot about Komoney thought processes.

Would have liked to see Macrocosmos here. Central card of my first ever IRL deck and a fun floodgate-

Last week some basically killed me with a quadruple flood gate of synchro zone, there can only be one, gozen match and rivalry of the warlords

0:18 I’m thinking of a fun way to make this more relevant to today: _Slime Infestation_ Counter trap _Once per turn, When your opponent removes a “Slime” or “Jam monster” from the field, you can activate any number of “Metal Reflect Slime”’s from your hand or deck, and if they do they cannot be removed from the field by the same way the prior removed card was while on the field._

Weather painter fairies also benefit from skill drain since they banish themselves for cost and it resolves while they are off the board.

I used to run Bad Reaction with Eye of Truth and Ominous Fortunetelling.

For older cards I'm surprised Gravity Bind wasent added its on of the OG original floodgates.

I think you could (partially) fix both spots at 1. by requiring you to have no monsters on the field to play them. This would prevent you from setting up a board before using them

Ah yes, Anti-Spell Fragrance. I combined that with Dark Simorgh back in the day, since there wasn't a ton of monsters that could deal with a 2700 beater (that could come back) and not being able to use spells, it was really silly.

Back in the old day I use Ultimate Offering to spam out monster to tribute for Obelisk. Those were the day.

Shout out to Royal Decree, which could stop any of the other cards on this list.

I think the reason Imperial Order got Errata'd wasn't because of the optional cost of paying LP (pretty sure it was still a mandatory cost pre-errata, since it doesn't say "you may" nor "if you don't"). It's because, back in the day, "Magic Card" refered to both Spells *and* Traps, so Imperial shut down all backrow including Traps, whereas nowadays it only shuts down Spells.

Before eldrag era i have 3 copy of vanity empetiness. I read the effect, its quite impress for my self that this card was 1$ per copy while i think early that this card just floatgate opponent not me because how easy to get ride this card even back then before eldrag release, MTS already 3 copy and heavy storm legit limit card. After the announce of eldrag i assume this will be a tier zero with spellbook, i buy a copy of vanity empetiness as much as i can and hopefully this card get noticed in big event, and one month i already had 12 copy of vanity empetiness, the price raise up to 30$ that day, and i sell them all, good feeling that 12$ became 360$ hahaha

Dude I got an idea for a video. Do a Top 10 Best Commons. Like cards that were ORIGINALLY printed in their ORIGINAL SET as common cards, but saw frequent competitive play

Idea for top 10 . Top most powerful fusions that changed the meta

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I think should include wall of revealing light for a highlight or sth. i know it not really good but it been abused left and right

I might try crackdown. Snatch a jade or bait the griffin is always nice

Kinda surprised it took this long

As a Superheavy Samurai player if I see Skill Drain hit the field that's an immediate scoop because that card prevents me from doing anything since my entire deck is monster effects

Time Pendulumgraph is my favorite continous trap. Also dodges protection, non targeting on 2nd send. Its literally a custom card.