The term 'milling' comes from the Magic the Gathering Card Millstone which is probably the first card with that effect coming out in 1994 but it was only officially keyworded in 2020

Top 10 Fusion Monsters that can Special Summon themselves from the Extra Deck without using Polymerization or any other Fusion Spell/Trap Cards

I remember once getting my entire deck banished by the Inferno Tempest combo. Unfortunately for my opponent, he also banished his entire deck, and I had used Dugares the previous turn to draw cards at the cost of skipping my next draw phase.

Needle worm baby. 5 cards was so big back in the day, especially when gy strategies were not great. Triple needle worm when they didn't have Nobleman of CrossFit was a cool 15 cards. Combined with various stall and control cards it was pretty easy to mill back in ye olden times.

This is the list I've been waiting for. Winning by deck out is my favorite way to win. It's just so funny to me. Plus that Yugi vs Strings duel left a big impact on me.

6:34 I would say milling spells and traps with Digvorzhak is still good, because while you won't be able to destroy cards on the field, sending to the graveyard solemn cards, lightning storms, impermanences and droplets could be equally disarming for the opponent

I was a little surprised to not see Needle Worm on the list. It is easily better than Warm Worm but I guess it hasn't seen the same success in Duel Links

Don't forget that there is a new archetype of quick play spell cards that banish the top cards of your opponents deck.

Soul levy is absolutely amazing, i often mill 30+ cards with it’s effect, paired with skull invitation, it puts a lot of pressure on your opponent, soul levy + skull invitation and that’s it, keep these 2 cards on the field, it’ll passively win you the game, even if they bring a removal card, it’s going to mill at least 6. Soul levy is really amazing as a niche mill card that can combo with a lot of other niche effects.

I have some list suggestions of you don't mind: Top 10 fusion support cards. Top 10 generic pendulum cards. Top 10 "trap" cards. (Cards that seem good at first glance but aren't really that good. Top 10 parody cards. Top 10 special conditions in the games. More Rescue Rabbit, please.

Soul-Absorbing Bone Tower was one of the only 2 cards I've ever physically owned. This was the card that got me into Mayakashi, then Shiranui, then Eldlich, then Vampires, and most recently Zombie World - so essentially this was the card that introduced me into modern Yugioh

I think I'd put Morphing Jar #2 as either first or second for this. It's historically been a key piece of mill strats alongside the other Jars & Needle Worm, and it also helps remove problem monsters from the opponent's field.

Gravekeeper’s Servant will always hold a special place in my heart as part of my first D.D. Deck and also confusing the hell out of my friend who ran Gravekeeper’s (the Archetype)

Ghostrick Skeleton is a favorite mill card of mine. It's slow, and Ghostricks struggle in the modern day game, but it will forever hold a place in my heart.

As a Vampire player, dragon link upsets me as the players in my local area bought The Zombie Vampire out from the shops before I could acquire one myself. Petty, I know, but upsetting nonetheless.

The weird thing about Zombie Vampire is that it actually works in a Rikka deck, because Rikka Sheets takes control of an opponent's monster, so it could be a good way to get rid of a trouble monster if you don't have any more in theme options.

I remember dueling a mill deck, and I was using an only spell and trap deck, for the memes. They gave me the grinder Golem for the tempest play, and got mad when I told them there were 0 monsters In my decklist. They lost later, due to Final Countdown.

Soul Levy's artwork features doom king balerdroch, an important card in the zombie world strategy. I just wish soul levy could work on the player who uses it as well. I guess there's always needle worm nest.

Petition to re-make this list when Mysterune archetype comes out in the TCG. Interested to see how powerful those cards end up being compared to other mill options.

I appreciate the respect for Digvorzhak, maybe my favorite xyz monster that I'd say is only completely ignored because 3 level 5s won't happen in most decks

I was searching yesterday to see if you made this video yet, and now here it is! Thanks for the list!

Missed a big one here, Needle worm should absolutely be on this list. Classic to boot

12:59 a small detail about Mayakashis is that if the opponent destroys a Mayakashi Extra Deck monster, you can SS another one of the lower level from the GY, and that each has an effect when SS'd from the GY For the purposes of milling, Tsuchigumo mills 5 cards on SS from the GY, IIRC - and this also applies with Mezuki/Book of Life/Monster Reborn/Eldlixir uses

Thanks TheDuelLogs. With the brand new Tearalaments Archetype & Izishu support, this video couldn't have been uploaded in a better timing.

Well there's needle worm that sends the top 5 cards to your opponents deck to the graveyard that's a flip effect

Hearing you talk about Bone Tower was cool because I know you were talking from experience from your Duel logs Duel Logs channel.

I love watching your videos to relax and fall asleep to!

Funny how this video comes at the same time as the synchro event, especially because of Bone tower on the list. I still fell bad for doing FTK Mill with it during the event so many times. ... I shall not apologize, as a certin secret mission needed to be done ... ... even if it makes me look like some evil person to other players.

How about doing "Top 10 Archetypes/Decks that are 1-2 cards away from being competitively viable (at least at locals)"? Like how Volcanics became relatively viable when they got Reload or mostly pure Ice Barriers after they got their new structure deck and they can now actually summon Trishula without having to stall and set up for 2-3 turns. Edit: I don't play competitive yugioh, so I could be completely wrong with my examples.

Top 10 Worst SR/UR Cards in Master Duel

Thank you for making this video, I just started playing again after 15 years, to scratch the nostalgia itch. And the meta game in Master Duel is ridiculous! I’m playing stall, stun & banish tactics to slow the game down back to my basically adolescent skill level lol

Top 10 Card that make Your Deck Toxic Then Toxic Everywhere

Penguin knight vs mill might be the single most powerful counter to a strategy. You don't need to draw or summon penguin knight for it to work just have it in deck with no other cards needed.

Nice, something to watch

This is what I want. This is what I've been waiting for.

Number 11: Voltic Bicorn

I think needle worm is a pretty good mill imo only problem is it's a flip effect. If u draw needle needle worm present card and trickster there's 15-16 cards u just milled on 1 turn

Interesting synergy with soul levy is if you combo it with black garden it forces your opponent to special summon a token to your field, effectively milling 3 on a normal summon, 6 on a special, and giving you tokens for link plays. It can be awkward to work around the attack decrease, and flip summons aren't included, but its definitely at worst stalling your opponent. You can even use pollinosis to use the tokens as a negate akin to solemn judgment without the hefty lp cost.

In the very old school days of Yugioh, some people would play extremely defensive 60 card stall decks with all sorts of cards like the high defense monsters, Needle Worm, Hiro's Shadow Scout, etc and a monster that I believe was called Kirosetai? It was a low attack, low level effect monster with the effect to equip itself to a monster that attacks it and gain Life Points equal to half the equipped monster's attack during your standby phase. It wasn't an INCREDIBLE deck that you couldn't beat, but it was effective and very annoying. Milling cards while regenerating life points to ensure you stall out as long as possible to win by deck out.

Milling is debleating the number of cards in the DECK so any cards that force your opponent to draw is a Mill card. Sure its safer to Mill to the graveyard & even better to remove them from play or Banish as they say today but you don't win by filling your opponent's graveyard with cards, you WIN when your opponent can no longer DRAW. Regardless I'm glad you covered this.

I love how you can tell he made this video cause he's been playing Mill in Master Duel lmao

I used to have a copy of Gravekeeper's Servant back in the day. I lost it, or traded it away, or got stolen or something. I used to love that card. Included it in every elementary school deck I had. Right away good list. Now Top 10 Legend of Blue Eyes Cards (in today's meta)

Lightsworn are an archetype that "mill" your own deck for give more strength to the monsters, and works very good. This is why Lightsworn is one of my favorite archetypes.

Okay analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

I wish Iron Chain archetype were better, milling was kind of their main purpose, but with the lack of support and focus on that strategy, only Iron Chain Dragon was decent.

Just an idea for future video, if you could make a dream deck or top 5 decks, disregarding any limited or ban lists, what would it be?

I would have put Ghostrick Skeleton somewhere on here.... since he mills by banishing the cards face-down to ensure that there is no way your opponent can get any advantage from them.

It's a shame that some of this list has a strong sense of "Cards that happen to have mill on them." More than "Cards for winning by mill.". Shows how few options the mechanic has.

I used to run a Ghostrick Mill deck that hat decent success. I understand Skeleton technically banishes but it’s definitely the same goal. It’s definitely a stall-style mill but I found it quite effective considering the speed of yugioh makes milling nominally effective.

Zombie Vampire not being called Dracula will never cease to baffle me. You OWN Castlevania, Konami.

number 89: Diablosis the mind hacker has a super cool effect that I really want to try to make work but I don’t have the deck building skills to do so. But I have one in my danger orcust deck because both of those engines have very easy to summon level 7 cards that I can use to summon it. I don’t use it often but it’s kinda nice to banish someone’s Zeus and then banish more cards from their deck.

To get Delg the Dark Monarch to the field easily, use cards like Monster Reborn if you put it in the graveyard. And then there's always Cost Down to lower its level by 2.

Shoutout to the new Ishizu support for bringing another mill strategy to the game, I'm having a lot of fun with those cards.

Digvorzhak is unironically probably one of the strongest xyz in Links rn, with how it's easy to get out thanks to Chronomallys

Top 10 archetypes/cards that bypass part of their normal summoning conditions. For example: Megalith monsters functioning as ritual spells, Contact Fusion decks like XYZ and Neo-spacian, Gishki Shadow & Vision and Ritual Raven being able to be the entire material for ritual summons of a specific attribute, etc.

Duel logs is the best youtuber to watch while eating

Top 10 Neos Alius-like cards. Effect monsters that see plays for everything else (type, attribute, level, etc) except their effect. Probably limit entries that are just super poly targets since there's already a video about that.

Never I dreamed that TDL gonna say nyannyan in my entire lifespan, but here I am.

I don't know what deck i faced on Dueling Nexus but this player was nuts with his mill deck. Probably could take it to a reigions or ycs and top tbh. His turn had more than half my graveyard into the deck. No mystic mine and everything; i didn't recognize any of the cards they used either. One kind of look like a dark world card or some shit but yeah. Cleaned me out with just mill cards but more spells and traps than anything. I think it was one of those good stuff decks; the creative "built from the ground up" centered around a theme a player though up rather than established named archetypes. Like Dragon Link or BASED but for milling instead.

Soul absorbing bone tower and mayakashi once milled over 25 cards from My deck in Master duel however. I was running a synchro deck that used junk and stardust monsters. By summoning Stardust assult warrior I was able to summon my junk Blader from my graveyard . Then I banished every junk monster I had in my grave causing Blader to have over 6500 attack. I won

Inferno Tempest did see play in some Gren Maju Da Eiza decks as a way to pretty much guarantee an OTK.

I think its sad that where Yugioh has gone as a game. I'm old school as hell. I really don't care for synchros or XYZs but I can understand them. I have never really played people in person these days or online because of all the new junk today. The pendulum crap ruined it for me. I still daydream that Blue Eyes or Exodia decks are key.

I've never run a mill deck but I do run a ghostrick deck and I like to have 1 ghostrick skeleton because I love to see people's reaction to it. I once banished 5 of a friend's cards face down all at once and they went "WHAT" so loud lol

Mayakashi mill is just a very fun degenerate deck, I LOVE IT.

Man I used to have a full mill deck when way back when the format was much slower. I used spear cretins on freaking Needle Worm and Trickstar reincarnation chained with Side effects.

I experimenting Delg in DM deck because it can be special summoned by magician navigation. Also banishing monster during opponent's turn is quite nice, tho. Since this card cannot attack during the turn it was summoned so it's not disadvantage.

Was surprised that ghost trick skeleton didn't make it

Speaking of Gravekeeper's Servant, I played against someone using it during the Synchro festival in Master Duel a few days ago. I won, because they bricked and only got one jar, but it was definitely interesting to see. It tempts me to include it in a deck someday.

Top 10 Goblin cards (must include Goblin in the text and have a picture of a goblin as well. Can be monsters, spells or traps)

I'd wish to see a top 10 Rank-Up XYZ monsters (or CXYZ/Number C). Even though XYZs aren't as good as they once were, it still is one of my favorite mechanics.

I'd love to see one about spinning next

Surprised Diablosis the Mind Hacker didn't make the list. The ability to banish cards face-down is incredibly powerful and it even mills more the more cards are banished face-down. Its biggest downside is its Rank because trying to make a Rank 7 in a mill deck is really difficult.

I think warm worm is the larva of blazewing butterfly

Let's give some love to Needle Worm. Yes, it's a flip effect, but this effer was a killer back in the early days of the game

Please do Top 10 fusion monsters that can only be brought out by polymerization

Using necroface in metaphys is so satisfying when you get rid of your opponents main combo starters

Morphing Jar deserves an honorable mention for its use in Empty Jar mill decks.

Similar video idea if u havent done it do mill your own deck with the theme in mind to easily summon a boss monster. For example sticking magical merchant into a spell caster heavy deck to easily bring out the extremely powerful board wiper quintet Magician

needle worm is old school but deserves an honorable mention simply because so few things mill. it's a flip but it does 5. i'm pretty sure a jar also directly mills, i think it's dimension jar.

It would be fun if you went over different archetypes and their strategies, main cards, how to counter them, ect. Not a ranking, just general information on the different meta archetypes in YuGiOh

Did anyone else notice soul absorbing bone tower was in the background for soul levy before he put them side by side?

Augh! I'm torn! I want to talk about another milling card, but I don't want to explain its potential because I want to play it for myself first!

No Number 89 Diabolosis the Mind Hacker on the list? It kinda bad, because it's effect can't activate if your opponent doesn't have enough cards in the deck, but the effect is very cool as far as design goes. It punishes pot cards that banish face down, and it's an extra deck monster, so you don't need to build the deck around it or set up for it, you can just keep it as an option if the opponent uses a pot card.

Calling my boy warm worm on the list as an honorable mention at least before i watch the video

Used to run mill decks and would have cards that banish them so my opponent cants use them. My best was using Exchange of the Spirits then using Hand Destruction. Another were the Needle Worms. Met someone who used Mill + Endymion to get spell cards back. Everyone remember the Dark Synchro Blood Mefist, loved his effect in the anime.

Zombie Vampire... REALLY! The Undead Vampire sounded badass as fuck, and them they localize as just Zombie Vampire...

i was halfway hoping to see ghostrick skeleton on this list

I liked playing Gravekeepers Servant with Vampire Kingdom so their attack stacked my grave and popped their attacking monster.

mill hasn't been viable for such a long time, even casually, and honestly I miss it. there hasn't been a strategy that's felt quite like it ever since. The newly announced Mysterune cards that all banish cards from the top of your opponents deck rather than sending them to the grave gives me hope though, maybe this new form of banishing mill might become something that exists outside of that one specific archtype. woe betide anyone who tries to play that strategy against a thunder dragon player though.

God Necroface was my favorite card in my banish deck back then

a suggestion for a list: top 10 cards that are the most expensive

Gravekeepers Servant has a second benefit in some of the video games AI Manipulation, the AI will always destroy floodgates before any face down spell and traps or monsters, and Gravekeepers Servant is considered a floodgate, meaning it's prime AI bait especially in older games where MST is limited

My Ghostrick skeleton is offended by not being on this list

Ghostrick Skeleton, got that win condition several times

inferno tempest combo after golem banned：going second，kaiju ur opponent‘s negate monster，normal summon ash blossom，battle phase take 3000dmg，inferno tempest，chain 3 necro face and chain 4 nennen，if u got lucky thats four times necro face effect and then u got a high chance of milling all cards ur opponent have in deck. its still fun but less consistent than before

You should do a top 10 on cards with very limited (or no) synergy with its own deck or a top 10 on bad (or niche) cards from good archetypes that saw competitive play at some point.

Love your videos m8 I would like to see Top 10 cards with burn damage effects. (Spells or monsters or combined)

As someone who’s plat in Duel links from ONLY playing soul absorbing bone tower. I can say that card is fun as fuck

Top Extra Deck Monsters that use different types of Extra Deck Monsters as material. Including alternate summoning conditions.

Did not think that card would be number one. O_o!