Fun Fact: Every time Crystron Halqifibrax was banned, Spellbook of Judgement was unbanned.

Imagine how nerfed Halqifibrax would be if its materials are restricted to Crystron Monsters.

It is still ridiculous how many cards Konami hit to allow Halq to stay legal as long as it was. Halq should have been a "test for a format then instantly ban" type of card, but instead so many Tuners were hit. I remember the Jet Synchron limit and I was just sitting there thinking "Seriously? We're going this far?"

It's funny how people were debating between whether Halq or Auroradon was the problem, and as soon as Halq was banned in MD, Auroradon combos dissappeared overnight.

"In master duel..." is the new "But in duel links..."

Union carrier was also used in drytron to equip a copy of B-Buster Drake to Herald of Ultimateness from the deck, giving it protection from spell effects (its greatest weakness)

Link 2s have a stacked line-up, that top 5 is nuts

Honorable mentions should include: - Cross Sheep - Hieratic Seal of the Heavenly Spheres - Sky Striker Ace - Zeke - Donner, Dagger Fur Hire - Cherubini, Ebon Angel of the Burning Abyss - Splash Mage - Dharc the Dark Charmer, Gloomy - Tri-Brigade Ferrijit the Barren Blossom

With Union Carrier, you forgot that another reason it was banned was because it was the main tool for a lot of decks being able to use the Buster Lock to completely shut off their opponents Extra Deck turn 1.

The most op part of Masquerena is her alternative artwork... So good that it makes you want to play her even if she's not needed😂

6:28 No mention of the combo with Dragon Buster Destruction Sword, which Union Carrier can equip to a Dark or Dragon monster to lock your opponent out of the Extra deck? Outside of Drytron that must have been the most busted use of Union Carrier before it was banned (at least in Master Duel). Fun fact: monsters equipped by Union Carrier count as being on the field, so Union Carrier can also allow you to activate Primal Seed. Yet another case of off-meta strategies suffering for the sins of the meta decks.

Now I'm curious what the most powerful link 1 monsters are. That could be a good countdown topic

Surprised you didn't mentioned tg into scythe into generic rank 10 synchro. But great video. Also Surprised isolde didn't make the list.

I'm honestly surprised Isolde didn't make the list...

The Hal-Don format in Master Duel still gives me nightmares. Any deck could pivot into it if u stopped their plays.

I've been so caught up on Master Duel's Tear Zero status that I had completely forgotten about Halq. I was sitting here questioning what link 2 could be more broken than Elf 🤣

To this day. Electrumite still doesn't need to be on the banlist

Halq was toxic in pile format, enabling Scythe locks and the Summoning of King Calamity on your opponent’s turn.

I:P to Goddes of Underworld with one of your cards as material is certainly a "imma call my mommy" moment in YGO

Shoutout to Marincess Coral Anemome for arguably being the best Link-2 to use in Water decks

Funnily enough verte doesn't see much play in master duel for months now. Turns out banning celestial was enough to rein it in so that running the DPE package was no longer worth it. Which raises the question: is the problem verte, or is the problem the multitude of fusion spells that use materials from the deck instead

You can't use Verte for Fusion Cards like Fossil Fusion which requires the activated card's name to be Fossil Fusion, sadly. :(

I've been waiting for thos video, needed extra link 2 monsters to tech into my Sprights deck 😊

I really think the difference between halq and the others cards on the list is massive. Halq basically singlehandedly defines every format it's legal in, literally every deck would summon it first chance they got. It's also really funny that halq alongside a few other things made infernobles a incredible powerfull deck for a while but without halq it's basically unplayable lol

So Crystron was made for the era when ED summons were limited to one zone or arrows? Did Konami anticipate they would remove those limitations to non-links? Knowing Konami likely no.

I've been waiting on this topic!

Other honorable mentions: - Dharc, The Dark Charmer Gloomy (and all of link 2 Charmer monsters such as Lumina) - after Halq was banned in the game, link 2 charmers such as this became one of new substitute to Halquifibrax. With effect that can use dark monsters from your opponent’s graveyard to be used against them, a floating effect that can search 1500 ATK monster from your deck and a decent ATK power perfect as a good beatstick, its good to say the likes of this card is kind of a complete package on their own.

Dealing with I:P is such a pain. you hafta predict the possibilities of her quick summoning (surprise white woman or avrakadavramax), but then you would forgot her lingering protection. Worse part? The latter comes when raigeki doesnt break through 😅

Honestly I like all the Hero links Diviser makes using any old school hero stupidly easy Cross is a great extender that turns FD into Plasma + DPE Finally Diviser allows you to add extra monsters to your board and DOESN'T hero lock you

Generic link-2 monsters are what I believe is what is wrong with the game's meta. Strong archetype specific link-2s or those that require one to be a certain type, say Dragon or whatever, can only be slotted in certain decks. Synchros and xyz need careful level manipulation. Strong generic link-3s are a bit harder to get out since... you need 3 materials. And if generic link-2s had positive but mediocre effects, they'd mainly be used for their arrows, or just as a stopping point before another monster. I liked it in the Snychro Era when special summoning in one turn out a bunch of effect monsters with wouldn't do much by itself. If they were the right level, you could make great plays. If they had great effects, you could use them. But without level manipulation (either changing the monster's level on the field, or being careful with levels when deck crafting) or drawing into a spell card, the extra deck was not an option here. I wish they didn't open the bottle on this extra deck power creep.

Could you do a top 10 list of cards that get other cards banned or limited but not itself?

Some respect for my girl(s) Isolde, giving even more generic-ish support to the most plentiful type in the game

Whoa, a double feature; top 10 Link 2’s AND top 5 Link 2’s that should never have been printed.

One video idea that might be fun is TOP 10 BEST ERRATAS. Like cards that got better with their new effects

Halq was crazy, I got to use it on Master Duel. Cards like this is why konami needs to lock archetypes behinds their own support. I get the idea of creativity but we’re not in a “let’s all make creative decks” era. Most of the players will hard net deck if it better chances of topping

Hey @TheDuelLogs, in the next "Explaining XXX Quickly and Easily" world be cool if you talked about Vernusylph, it's all the buzz at Master Duel right now and it's a somewhat complicated engine as well

Top 10 Cards that went from Banlist to Bargain Bin.

1:57 I love how Rhongo has to run from the right side of the screen to the left in seconds, what a champ

Out of all of these I can give the (slight) benefit of the doubt to Konami for thinking they weren’t TOO broken on release. Except for Agrapain and Verte. Verte is virtually ED cyber-stein and Agrapain is dragon-locked Cyber-Stein that can also go into Synchros, xyz, and links. Cyber-Stein, the card that they had to have an emergency banlist for

The Knightmare monsters are fair since they're -1's for generic removal (which is more investment than 101 or Castel or Tornado Dragon). The floodgate you're destroying is FAR more unfair than a generic way to pop it. Union Carrier would have been perfectly fine if it required a UNION monster, and Electrumite can easily come back to 1.

Wait, Spright Elf has targeting protection!? I've been using it for ages and only now did I learn this! Holy shit, that's another level of power creep, the ability is good, and it was still able to use it without knowing the effect ever existed.

I only use Predaplant Verte Anaconda of those, but not for regular Fusions. I copy Super Polymerisation with it and con Use Verte + the Monster i just gave the Dark Attribute to, to Break oponents boards and get rid of very annoying Monsters.

Love I:P & Isolde. Those two have been clutch for me over the years

And Now..we have Little Knight that banishes a card when made and can banish as a quick effect too during opponents turn 😅

I was also thinking about Dharc, Dagda and Cherubini to be on this list but not sure if they would be higher that any card already on it.

Link 2s can be pretty busted on their effects, Masquerena is one of my main go to Link 2s in Code Talker and Mathmech decks alongside Splash Mage, Cyberse Wicckid and Update Jammer.

Ip masquerena with recovery to field is terrifying. Modernly you could use her in a deck that could turbo out the likes of Unchained abomination, protectcode talker and firewall dragon singularity among others. Bearing in mind all of these big monsters can go hand in hand with eachother and will all be immune to card effect destruction thanks to masquerena. With protectcode out the other two will be all but untouchable by any means.(Targeting, destruction,battle and banishment.(because of targeting block.))

honorable mentions to isolde and cherrubini, they along side the halq were the horseman of the apocalypse of link era in yugioh

Also have to give it to Isolde for being incredibly powerful since its release

I hate that Knightmare Phoenix's art doesn't match the link arrows

Seeing some of the most broken monsters on here and Knightmare Goblin barely making it into the top 5 just shows how insanely different the game has gotten since link monsters were introduced

The 10 Segments of "How is that this low!?" Followed by "Nah you right" made me realize just how insane link 2s are

I haven't played Yu-Gi-Oh since the very early beginning but I like to just heard this guy talk and zone out while looking at the pretty card art LOL

Super surprised you brought up union carrier without talking about the buster lock

When you realize more then half this list is on the banlist.

Gotta love the captions on this video. Apparently the greatest link card is Christian Hockey Firebacks😂

I'd say only very recently has the Master Duel banlist even taken into account the fact that it's supposed to be for a BO1 format

I'm surprised how fast Konami caught on that Elf was so powerful and banned it before banning a bunch of generic level 2's like with Halq.

Theres a mistake with union carrier. The text and what you say doesnt match the card. The card sayd from the deck. I was really confused by the description you were giving it until i realized that mistake.

Union carrier+savage borreload dragon+buster blader in adamancipator. Extra deck lock+omninegate...

Could you do the top 10 best winged-beast support cards in yugioh? My favorite Link-2 monster is Raidraptor - Wise Strix

greetings from mexico!! i love your videos, i never play yugioh, since im an adult i dont have the time or money to do so, but i love pretending i do, and i use your videos to go to sleep almost daily

Top 10 special summon only monsters that interact with other kinds special summon only monsters (Like a LINK that supports fusions, or an Xyz that that supports rituals, and etc etc…)

Having duel logs talk about crystron again is sure a pleasure.

Imagine an errata slapped a "Cannot be used as Link Material the turn it is Link Summoned." on Halq

I’m trying to think of the card TheDuelLogs has talked about the most and at this point I definitely think it’s Halq

Also don’t forget Sprind can send Iblee to the Graveyard to force your opponent only link summoning from Extra Deck.

Idk why verte was banned, they could have just made an errata so that your opponent takes no damage that turn unless the effects used to summon a predaplant monster. When all these ppl where running dragoons, that was back when I was playing a monster mash fun deck and I was running kaiju's, dangers, and super poly so when I was against someone relying on dragoon id just tribute theirs, and make my own along with avramax or super poly and spam summon a bunch of other beat sticks :)

Just to let you know, when you were reading the effect of Union Carrier; not only did you say "from the hand or GY" the yellow text read the same way as well; which kind of makes things very confusing if new players are just listening to the audio in the background or if they just didnt actually know the card; since you then go on to describe how targets were equipped from the deck (which is what actually happened)

14:42 in addition to those two monsters. There were also other budget options like Hope Harbinger if your going first and need a negate for spell cards and block a monster attack, if your going second and need to pop some cards of the field then summon some random Galaxy Eyes Xyz monster to go full armor and Cipher to destroy 2 cards, or just summon something like void ogre dragon or clear wing. Not hte best choice but if needed other options, i would go for it.

I like how MD is finally considered as new format and not OCG lite anymore.

Generic Extra Deck monsters are some of modern Yu-Gi-Oh!'s biggest mistakes in card design. No surprise that most if not all of the Top 10 here have awfully generic requirements to summon and the very reason why they are there in the first place. Which also includes cards like Accesscode Talker, Baronne, and Zeus. I hope that with some of them staying in the banlist (especially Halq) is a sign that Konami has in mind to errata their requirements to their Types or Archetypes only.

i think what killed halq ultimately is the same thing that killed the dragon rulers, with all of them except wind still being banned for now in the tcg. when the dragon rulers were at their most terrifying, what made them really bad is literally everyone had easy access to them via their tins. with halq, anyone that really wanted one just needed to pick up like 3 boxes of ghosts from the past 2 or buy it for like a buck on tcgplayer. like the dragon rulers halq was always really strong but konami finally saw just how good it is by giving literally any old player that wanted one really easy and cheap ways to get it so basically everyone had them.

Keep up the good work, absolutely love your content. ❤🎉

I’m a bit disappointed that SPYral double helix didn’t get at least an honorable mention. It was a card that helped SPYral be a tier 0 deck, though it wasn’t the only card that made SPYral great.

What made union carrier super op was dragon buster destruction sword. You can lock out your opponent's extra deck insanely easily.

I get Link 2 monsters are probably the best combo extenders in the game, yet it's still bewildering to me how many of them turned out to be so absurdly broken. When a single card existing leads to the ban of more than 10 other cards, you know the game designers made a mistake. I presume we'll never see Halquifibrax out of the ban list, unless it receives a massive errata. All of that being said: Electrumite should absolutely come back to the TCG in Limited form. Pendulum decks in Master Duel were at Rogue tier before the arrival of Sprights and Tearlaments and now they aren't even that.

Just hear me out: if you banned Phoenix, we'd have justification for banning so many floodgates while allowing weaker floodgates to finally see play again. It would do a lot to curb powercreep and make the metagame much easier for Konami to manage.

Now we need a link 2 that make our monster non banishable xD

Hol up here, is this an alt account of mana logs? I love your other stuff hyped for this

Hieratic seal. For dragon decks you can basically do whatever you want with it.

slight mishap with union carrier, you said (and the video lists) that it's from the hand or graveyard, where it's from the hand or deck

It is my stance that they should errata all the archetype specific ones. If you make the materials for halq two chrystrons and for verte two predaplants etc, the archetypes get their best cards back and the meta doesn’t care

Knightmare Cerberus might be better if it allowed you to target the EMZ as well and maybe even could destroy any monster.

I wish Simorghs had a Link 1 or 2. Mainly 2.

Special mention to Cherubini and Avendread Savior, they send stuff to the graveyard as cost so the opponent can't even negate them...

I didn't realize so many good link 2 monsters existed.

What are the top 10 best low level and low attack monsters in Yu-Gi-Oh

RIP union carrier. made cyberdarks too stronk, had to nerf.

4:11 you said that you can equip a monster from your hand or gy but it is from your hand or Deck which makes union carrier hit the ban list

Finally but I was hoping for Best link monsters not link rating monsters

Very surprising that Predaplant Verte Anaconda didn't make it to the list considering how horrifying it was.

8:58 Don't do that... don't give me hope

4:13 script and edit mistake- duel log says "hand or GRAVEYARD" when it should be hand or DECK (text on screen also says GY)

You should do another top 10 cards that aren’t broken bc of their archetype. So like more cards liek crystal bond or the subterror link monster

Spyral Double Helix alone made a deck tier 0 and get 29 of top 32 spots at its first ycs

Using Halq to draw out Geomathmech Magma would be nice. You get to pop two with it.

I think I suggested this topic!

i was expecting isolde to be on the list

Top 10 monsters with under 1000 atk that have an original atk value and an effect so no normal monsters and no hand traps.