his intellect is far superior and incomprehensible to us mere mortals. we are just pawns in his game

@@coochiehunter5917 Moon Spider logic is truly too much for us mere humans

Maybe because very few decks can make it

There was a time it could have been at the top, key word being "was".

Keyword why here is : Cyber Dragon.

thanks i really tried

First of all we need a Gate Guardian tier because nothing else on this list is bad enough to be on the same tier as it. Then we need a D tier

​@@eugenideddisoh how the tables have turned

there should've been a D and E tier to make the list actually balanced i stead of going from "okay" to "literally the worst thing ever"

was arise heart not released when he made this list?

@@theobserver480 It wasn't.

Rhongomyniad with 4+ materials says hi

@@dantesparda4610 still cant beat over 10k attack

Avramax says "hi there :)"

@@Mango-hx1ulcrystal goat synchro dragon says hi

maybe when konami decides to give the brothers some love again, or run out of ideas for battle city cards

i think that would make the card so much better, like a million times better honestly. It wouldn't be meta or even rogue but still.

@@1TheVelociraptor watch them make legacy cards of them and actually make the gate guardian easier to bring out and better for it with those effects

The shock thing could also inflict half the monster's atk (if it was a monster) to your oponnent's lp

Hi it me from the future

The problem is that Rainbow Neos is at your mom's house

yeah...part of the ranking lies on "how easy it is to bring out" and/or "how splashable is this", you never see rainbow neos outside neos decks (which are different from hero decks), the only protection it has is from neos fusion in the GY, and its effect is only spell speed 1 so it is really bad going 1st which is where the modern meta is at, so realistically the only thing you have is a 4500 beatstick (number which can easily be overcome by accesscode or utopia the lightning for example) that can be protected exactly once and only from destruction, also you need to run a brick in the form of an "ultimate crystal" card, f tier for me

​@@ashikjaman1940what does that mean in this video's context?

​@@CErra310 it means that the video's context is at your mom's house

Not forbidden droplet or dark ruler no more, some of the most used negation cards

Eldlich is more generic zombie support than a true archetype. I wish more people use it that way instead of floodgate decks that win duels but are boring for everyone involved.

It’s carried by floodgate more than its archetype imo.

@@Ragnarok540 tfw zombie world is itself a floodgate

@@seltzer666 yeah, but Zombie World is such a minor floodgate that only very specific strats and decks get locked out by it - otherwise you can still do most generic gameplay mechanics

@@Necroxion I'm personally a fan of eldlich decks that shove in good stuff like cyberse or synchro eldlich, and although branded eldlich isn't really the same (it does run skill drain) it's the only thing I got left

No only that, you can tribute it with Red Layer if it low on materials, make Megaclops with the floating monsters, then make Magnus again with the field spell. Love the deck!

it only immunes to Spell/Trap

@@hazio7574 which is still 2/3 of card effects in the game, and it floodgates monster effects in the combat step. Ultimate Falcon also has 1000 less attack and can't attack multiple times, not does it pierce. Falcon *can* be better but it frequently isn't.

Knightmare unicorn : adios

@@Maruhodo well if you run skill drain...

:)

Well you got it lol

That attack reduction is actually nuts when DPE is used in an actual hero deck. Go figure a card is better when used with it's intended archetype

The Wicked Avatar comes into mind. If it has an actual spell and trap protection instead of its 2 turns lockdown effect, it might have been a really great boss since it can beat over almost every monster (save for Chaos Dyson and some that negate monster effect during battle phase). Konami tried to rectify its nerfed effect from manga by releasing Divine Evolution, but it's just a win more card and not making it easier to summon Avatar.

@@kringe700 give the wickeds the Sacred beast treatment. It's the only way for them to be good and not just be a tie in to gods

@@kringe700 How about a support card for the wicked gods as a whole: Nuvia, scholar of The Wicked Gods DARK Fiend/Tuner/Effect Once per turn you can destroy this card: Add 1 Level 10 monster to your hand from your deck or GY. When your opponent by card effect adds or removes a card from their hand, deck, extra deck, field, or GY, monsters you control gain 200 ATK/DEF. When this card has gained 2400 ATK or DEF by its own effect (Quick Effect), you can tribute summon 1 “Wicked God” Monster from your hand, deck or GY using this card as sole tribute, and if you do that monster gains this cards ATK/DEF and effects. ATK/1600 DEF/1600

I did one for Maju Garzett and Archfiends: Archfiend Maju Oblation Fiend/DARK 3000/2000 Level 12 This card's Normal Summon is unaffected by card effects. You can Normal Summon this card without Tributing, but its ATK/DEF is halved. (Quick Effect): You can Special Summon this card from the hand by Tributing all monsters you control or all spells and traps you control. (Quick Effect): Tribute this card; Special Summon all monsters in defense position, or set all spells and traps, Tributed for this card's Summon, but negate their effects for the rest of the turn. This card's ATK is equal to the combined ATK, and its DEF is equal to the combined DEF, of all monsters Tributed for this card's Summon. Once while this card is face up on the field, negate the first effect that would affect it.

@@Necroxion I like it, but you need to clean up the card text a little: _Archfiend Maju Oblation_ (DARK) Level 12 Fiend/effect _This Cards Normal Summon is unaffected by card effects. You can normal summon this card without tributing, but it’s ATK/DEF are halved. (Quick effect) You can special summon this card from your (hand or GY) by tributing all monsters you control OR all spell and trap cards you control. This cards ATK and DEF is equal to the combined ATK and DEF each of all monsters tributed by this effect, and this card cannot be destroyed by opponents card effects per turn X the number of spell/trap cards tributed by this effect. Once while this card is face up on the field, you can negate the first effect that would affect it. ATK/ 3000 DEF/2000

3.5K atk beatstick omni negate free summon on either standby phase and it's "cost" to negate makes it go in to house dragon maid that's a 3K atk beatstick with a pop effect and a slightly weaker standby summon effect. Yeah that's bullshit it's definitely A tier or higher everything else is cap

Shooting Majestic is still the stronger option. Barron + Red Hot + Shooting Majestic and you're golden. Quasar is just an option if you can't pull SM.

I'd say that's a pretty good interpretation of the effects. If it's an XYz monster I'd say to make it so each time it would be destroyed, detach one material from it. If it's a Fusion monster, you have to banish one of it's materials to protect it from destruction.

@@akiraishin7141 It could probably work as a ritual monster too who’s ritual revolves around the three cards as a side option to the normal ritual summon requirements

you target another card, heh, reminds me of patrician of darkness pretty good interpretation, but shouldn't it also destroy? if ya want to, you could make it an Xyz monster and make it explode when it runs out of materials, and detatch a material when it would be destroyed

Maybe make it an XYZ which gains effects for each of the pieces attached to it, so if it loses a material when preventing it's destruction, it loses the associated effect (eg: While this card has Suijin as an XYZ material, it gains the following effect: One per turn you can flip all monsters on the field except this one face down. Cards that are not flipped face down by this effect are destroyed) I think that's the closest to getting an anime accurate version. The other two i suppose is that it attaches them as equips to itself or has the effects whilst they're in the graveyard and you can banish one to prevent destruction.

@@killerjakee5808 All those effects may be cumbersome to put on Gate Guardian itself. How about _This card can also use 1 each of 1 "Sanga of the Thunder", "Kazejin", and "Suijin" as XYZ materials, and if you do this card gains their effects only whilst they are attached to this card. When this card would be destroyed by battle or card effect, you can detach 1 material; it is not destroyed. Once per turn you can banish facedown this card you control on the field without materials to special summon 1 1 "Sanga of the Thunder", "Kazejin", and "Suijin", that are banished or in the GY._ And then you’d have retains for "Sanga of the Thunder", "Kazejin", and "Suijin" that are based off what each component contributed to gate guardian in the anime, I.E; Suijin flood/flips and/or destroys the field, Sanga deflects effects, ect… On top of improved versions of their actual card game effects. _Sanga Of The Storm_ (LIGHT) Level 7 Thunder/Tuner/Effect _This card’s name is also “Sanga Of The Thunder” while in your hand, GY or on the field. You can special or tribute summon this card from your hand or GY by tributing 1 LIGHT Thunder monster you control on the field. WIND Spellcaster and AQUA Water monsters you own require one less tribute to tribute summon while this card is face-up on the field. When this card battles another monster, that monsters ATK/DEF becomes 0. When this card destroys a monster by battle your opponent takes damage equal to that monsters ATK._ ATK/2600 DEF/2200 And then the other two follow the same pattern as above, just swap out relevant keywords here and there and leave the last effect for what will be copied for the XYZ gate guardian.

Junk Speeder made going into Quasar way easier, although now there's Blazar which is arguably better.

Yeah, Junk Speeder basically lets you get whatever non-archetype or Synchron syncho you want and much more.

@@juultoo Junk Speeder was great for getting the turners I needed but I think the choke point for me was getting the remaining non-tuners on field. It honestly might have just been inexperience with the deck or just bad deck building because that was the first full synchro deck I tried.

Ah, back in our time we had mega busted card like level eater which made everything so much easier.

It seems like a good side option against slower decks or going 2nd and pair it with DRNM and hope they don't have a hand trap. Or...maybe Winged Dragon of Ra Sphere Mode would be easier?

I think if there was a way to guarantee more LS in the GY instead of by random, maybe it'd be good. It isn't searchable by Melody, but was very nice when Eclipse Wyvern was legal. The Judgment/Punishment Dragon support sadly is quite lacking. There needs to be a field Spell or some card that can add a LS from the deck to the hand, and if you have 4+ LS in your GY and/or Banished, add 1 level 8 Dragon from your deck to your hand. (Banish this card to add 1 LS from your GY/Banished to your hand).

Unizombie is a boss monster

S Tier makes some kind of sense to me. ABC and Guru is somehow above Dragoon, DPE, Ultimateness, Mechaba, Winda, etc even though it's barely relevant again because of Therions. Guru control? I will say Colossus is OP for being splashable in Prank-Kids, but should probably come off the banlist and probably A class. It has a devasting effect, but is very similar to Dark Law, being useless going 2nd compared to something like Dragoon, which I don't know how it isn't up there with Zeus, but is still good enough to win games by itself and has protection.

Pretty strange you would retrain Summoned Skull to being Skull Servant Support (doing so also links Red-Eyes and DM to Skull Servants...it seems pretty strange to introduce into another bricky deck). It's missing a summoning condition regardless...being another level 6 isn't helping either deck much. I guess you can go into Ultimaya Tzolkin since it is strangely a tuner. It's so random, that I can see Konami doing this.

@@Goblin_Hands There’s logic in it, I swear: It started off with some wordplay…. _Summoned_ *Skull,* *Skull* _Servant…_ Throw in the “Archfiend” keyword and make its name count as its inspiring cards and this one card gains a diverse amount of intersecting support… Which is important since it has a retuned “Inferno Reckless Summon” built in. So it could tribute itself to summon more itself, “Summoned Skull”s and skull servants from the hand, and practically the entire “wight” archetype from the GY. And to top it off it’d be a _high level tuner_ in multiple archetypes that really don’t have too many tuners in general, so it could be used in a generous amount of Synchro plays. And of course it counts as a “Skull Servant” in the GY, so that’s another 3000 ATK for “King of the skull servants”, from a card that could tribute itself to get it out of the GY in a pinch. It’s purposely a bit random and chaotic to tap into as much potential as I could think of. I _did_ just read a couple of typos though, so I’ll fix those up quick

as he should

Superheavies just don’t do enough to justify ditching spell/trap support

@@uuh4yj43 @Holy Punch Leaf 😢

isn’t Virtual World’s boss monster just VFD

@@genesisera8364 Eh, kinda. He's not as clear a win conditions as many people think. It's more like VW has multiple boss monsters for the occasion. Cause Final Sigma can almost win you games on its own. The same can be true of VFD, but his lack of protection, and limitation to one copy, means you need more than just him to really put up a fight.

I've played Winda. If your opponent has no negates it can be good, but I find Winda being destroyed pretty quickly more often than not. Most people know to get rid of it quickly.

winda only having 2200atk is its biggest downside. you can just run over it befor making your plays and there are many boss monsters that can hit the field with only a single summon.

Yeah these don't seem very well thought out

Sheou is great, but only if your opponent is stupid and doesn't Imperm/Widow Anchor her in Draw Phase. I really wish dragonmaids had a permanent source of targeting protection, Welcome's floating effect is garbage.

I earlier found out you can even BattlePhase Transform Chamber into Sheou when she was properly brought out and is now in your GY.

@@mateusrp1994 true, welcome's float sucks, the damage increase is alright though Tbf they have to have those kid of outs to do that kinda thing, not everyone's running sky striker, and if they have imperm they probably would have used it before Sheou

@@NoraNoita I do that if Sheou gets Kaiju'ed. It rarely happens though.

Agreed

There are like 14 cards that need a ban anyway.

where is my Steelswarm Caucasus then

He ranks arrival at the end. It was F tier lol

He's looking out for you. Access code out here wreaking havoc

@@jonathanwilson5831 that’s why I run a copy or two of dark honest or booster strix :)

Activate its card effect on your turn and your oppent can't activate card effects for the rest of that turn which allows you to set up a field and beat down your opponent

@@TheLunatrick yes very true but i like falcon to still have a material for end phase atk point lowerings

@@dairyjake you activate falcons effect at the beginning of your main phase 1 and it will lower their attack and prevent card effects

Nah bro, play a little master duel or ygo Omega. It seems easy to just plop cards down but knowing when to activate a card and when to save it takes quite a bit of practice. Not to mention recognizing combos and making decent plays without a combo is difficult

That's a good question. Lots of patience, and also... Knowing when to activate Ash Blossom is one facet, but that includes knowledge of knowing every deck's weakness by knowing how they play by playing them. It's also about being able to maximize card advantage, which can help: it is usually better to use your negate on a HOPT effect that was summoned using 2 monsters than negate a Spell, etc, but there are exceptions. There are times when you are low on resources, but knowing exactly which cards and plays you still have available is critical, such as GY effects of dragons like Chaos Ruler or Spiral Serpent can help in grind games, which is generally a good way to tell (if you can out grind your opponent in a mirror match). Another is being able to order your plays; usually there is an optimal way to order your plays, when it comes to starting combos or surgically breaking boards, you want to save you best cards for last, that way when your first effects get negated, you have follow-up plays, and this usually comes with being able to play around Ash Blossom by organizing simultaneously activated effects on the chain so your opponent can only negate the last one. Being able to break boards without giving up is a skill in itself, but with the time rules, you are sometime better off giving yourself more time in the following duel than trying too hard. Deck building is a huge one. You want to have a balance between having enough starters, as few bricks as possible or necessary, and cards that hurt your opponent (hand traps, etc), and also being able to choose the best side deck that counters the most amount of current decks (not every deck can use "There Can Be Only One" or "Zombie World," but these are both great against many decks like Floowandereeze). It's about being able to win as many games with good decks that help you think (decks too difficult will cause you to lose more, but make you much more knowledgeable on card interactions) There are many powerful decks that are easy to pilot, and you can win a lot of games, but you will stop growing if you use the same helmet deck, so a balance between thinking and winning is important. Ideally, you want to be able to pilot any deck and be able to win, but that requires everything I just said. If you know how to beat every deck, you can use whichever deck you find powerful (that players struggle against or have no idea how to play against) and win with the element of confusion.

Trinity is such an overkill card it's just funny. If only it wasn't so hard to bring out

You forget it can OTK. If your opponent has exactly 2 monsters with stats equal to 5000 or higher, you win. Even 1 3000 or 4000 it can steal games, or if they paid any LP you don't even have to attack. The burn effect is it's most unique and iconic effect, so ignoring it is disengenuous. You say DPE is repeatable, but so is Dragoon, except you get 2 pops, burn, and negation, rather than just 1 quick pop. If you can't out it immediately, it gets even stronger. The Draw 2 effect DPE comes with requires no cards in hand, and is only usable on the next turn, and it overall comes with the same bricks but you are limited to 2 spells to summon it, whereas Dragoon you have 6 if you count Insight. All you need is a way to negate DPE after you get popped. Monster negation isn't impossible to come by: Crystal Wing, Savage, Apoloussa, Photon Lord, Dragoon, Solemn Strike, or if you negate it's field effect, you can do anything other than destroy it (Zeus, IDP, Kaiju, many of Dragoon's weaknesses). I think they are more even than you think. Dragoon has slightly more downsides but has a lot of strengths. The main thing DPE has going for it is it's fluidity. You can pop your own cards and stick it in nearly any deck, though not really without Verte.

@@Goblin_Hands Accesscode outs Dragoon, just as easy as any other towers in the format. Without Verte, Dragoon is one Negate on the play, most decks can play through one negate. You can top off all your plays with fusion destiny and not lock out earlier plays. On paper yes Dragoon is the better card... but my point still stands, that Dragoon doesn't live in a vacuum, Red Eyes Fusion is a strong card but it has a huge restriction.

For me Doomking is a lot more annoying than Eldilich himself.