I like how in the anime, Spirit of the Pharaoh was used by an ancient pharaoh whose subjects always let him win, so the fact that his monster is terrible was actually pretty fitting.

I love how even Jaden said “all that set up for a monster with 2500 attack points?” Spirit of the Pharaoh needed more to be a boss monster

So basically... Red Eyes Darkness Dragon is just a worst version of Blue Eyes Shining Dragon. Something tells me that Kaiba was behind its creation in some way.

#1 was so terrible even the anime admitted it when they said they’d just let the pharaoh or whoever that kid was win

Fun fact about Spirit of the Pharaoh, the characters in the anime even admit that it was incredibly bad. The episode its in Jaden duels against the spirit of a deceased pharaoh who claims he was one of the best duelists of his time but as the duel goes on Jaden and the gang start noticing that hey, this kid sucks and his cards are terrible. Its then revealed that all of the Pharaoh's servants let him win because they were afraid of beating him and incurring his wrath.

When i was really little in late elementary school, early middle school there was a pervasive rumor going around my school that some cards had "hidden abilities" and they said that gate guardian retained all the abilities of its individual pieces. I think we just didnt want to admit the card was aweful and wanted it to function like the anime version.

Imagine Chazz vs Yusei and Chazz goes through all the trouble of getting Armed Dragon LV10 out just for Stardust Dragon to negate all his efforts

What's even better about Neos Wiseman is that in Korea, he has a misprint of being a Fusion monster. Lmao

How dare you even mention perfectly ultimate great moth in this list. Everyone knows perfectly ultimate great moth is one of the most powerful monsters in duel monsters, even the anime said so

Here is a challenge: take a shot every time he says “beat stick”

Both Neos Wiseman and Dark Sage are monsters that make me go "Why couldn't you just be a Fusion???"

I have no idea what I’m doing here. I have no idea how I got here. I don’t even play the yugioh tcg. Never watched the anime either. Still enjoyed the video though. I feel like I learned something.

I remember seeing Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon for the first time in a card shop window when I was a kid. My mom bought it for me after i begged her to, and I still run it in my Red-Eyes deck today.

Fun Fact: Spirit of the Pharaoh's shittiness is actually canonically acknowledged in the anime, as it's played by a young pharaoh who is an absolutely terrible duelist, but his servants would always let him win. So the card was likely bad on purpose.

Mushroom Man beats every single Boss easily.

I remember seeing gate guardian in the anime and thinking that it was the coolest shit ever, then finally seeing the card and being like, "dafuq?"

I got the sarkophagus cards once and thought "Wow, that must bring out a powerful monster" No, no it doesn't.

And bad boss monster....almost always have good designs.

I’m actually laughing my ass off I forgot spirit of the pharaoh was a thing I remember wanting to summon it so bad

Phantom of Chaos was actually intended to help summon Armityle, hence their similar names.

I remember when my friend built am armityle deck and went through so much effort to summon it only to get hit by a compulsory evacuation device.

To be fair, Spirit of the Pharaoh was a joke card meant to show how much of a bum that ancient Egyptian dude was.

I know it might be a mediocre beat stick, but I love Red Eyes Darkness Dragon. Though most of that admittedly is because it was my favorite looking card as a kid. Still, I love trying to make it a giant bear stick with lots of dragons in the graveyard and have other affects to protect it like Red Eyes Impact Dragon

I always thought it was dope that Gate Guardian was level 11. Only a few monsters have level 11

I remember using a neos wiseman deck. It was confusing for everyone involved. Even moreso when I somehow won

Such a dramatic music...You almost made me cry. "Why do you suck so much, Gate Guardian?!"

Red Eyes Darkness Dragon was my favorite card and helped me win plenty of duels, of course this was before everyone had a deck that could destroy everything

Spirit of the Pharaoh is a beautiful card though. Remember pulling it WAY back in the AST days... to then just be a pretty binder card forever

We honestly need a re-train of Gate guardian and the pieces as well as search cards/special summon cards/etc. It works with pendulums, but it would be nice to have an archetype based off of the strategy.

Since Konami seems to enjoy doing this, it would be hilarious if they do a retrain of Gate Guardian and then make an archetype out of it with some support cards

Top 10 best monsters with "?" attack

I'm seeing alot of Gx monsters....

I think Spirit of the Pharaoh would've been better if it could special summon as many Zombie-Type monsters from the graveyard for free, ignoring their summoning condition.

I ran a Gate Guardian deck for a very long time before I realized "Sanga of the Thunder" was good enough to base an entire deck around. A light/thunder deck was unusual back then, but it certainly worked! Not a lot of people knew what to make of a two-tribute face-down card.

I laughed so hard when you continuously emphasized "Level 2 Normal Monsters" about the Spirit of the Pharaoh's effect. lel

Damn dude this is one of the best series ever, I love them so much, it's so freaking interesting, some random day I smoked a joint and thought it would be so interesting if there existed a video about the worst yugioh monsters, cause they are a lot, and thank God someone does such kind of videos. Big love man

Gate Guardian was so bad, he could not attack any of his pieces that created him because their effects were stronger then him haha. I remember in the old days of ygo I would use Gate Guardian as fusion material for UFOroid Fighter. Fuse him with UFOroid using Power Bond

You know, if Gate Guardian was released today, I'm betting that we can use each of its components effect....once per turn.

I love how Machina Force is a boss monster in a structure deck and the instructions of the deck don't even tell you it's something you want to bring out

Funnily enough I managed to beat one of the Yugioh video games where you had to battle the 3 meklord characters in a row because I was down to the last card in my deck and managed to summon Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon and it had like 7000 attack or something 😂

You forgot one boss monster The one that rules them all... The one that manipulates everything in the shadow... The one that may even takes your form right now... *Shapesnatch*

The thing I HATE THE MOST for every boss monster is the "cannot be special summoned by other ways" that's the worst! Okay,even if its so hard to summon but then you summon it and it gets destroyed and its done. Just adding one fucking word would make any boss monster so much better. FIRST. That's the word because like it first must be special summoned by this condition would be acceptable because then even if it gets destroyed you can then special summon it from the grave but NOOO they had make it only a certain way.

pre-synchro yugioh was the peak for me after that it just kept getting too fast and just about timing, tehcnicalities, and having massive combo effects rather than long game. Duels end too fast now and there's not the same spirit to the game anymore as it did when it started

Funny thing about spirit of the pharaoh, in the anime they explicitly acknowledge the card is terrible. It was quite literally designed to be bad

Divine Neos is aesthetically confusing as hell

Great list! You had me scared when I saw Flying Fortress Skyfire in the op I was feeling a little mad when I saw it :P

I fucking love how crisp and smooth YOUR voice in particular is. Helps me sleep and relax. I love these videos

When even the anime version of a card is as bad as it’s normal version, that’s when you *know* it’s bad.

Really like that you didn’t mess around with an intro and got right into the video!

I am starting to see a pattern of Konami ruining anime cards when adapting them to the real life game.

Fun video! Thanks for uploading!

the new fusion monster that brings out wiseman as his floating effect makes wiseman actually decent

This video is beautiful! I really love the new theme and style!

Helios Trice Megistus in the anime revived itself whenever it was destroyed, even if it was banished, and the destruction could be by bttle or card effect.

My guess on what card would of been first place; I was thinking "Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon" because of its in game and real life facts. BESD couldnt be summoned because there wasn't "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon" in the game card yet. BEUD didnt get printed for, I think, for another two years.

I used the original Dragon structure deck back in the day, with the only modification being my Armed Dragon LV7. It was VERY easy to get out, with the help of Masked Dragon. And it was also a very good card.

I like that you talk about boss monsters no one probably never heard of.

thank you for mentioning wiseman. been trying many strategies and have to say that he needs to be a fusion monster in order to actually be useful and not ruin the deck

I've always loved Gate Guardian. He always had an amazing design. I wish he would get a retrain. However, in heroclix, Gate Guardian is a STUPIDLY powerful one man army, with a myriad of the best powers and abilities

I totally hear (and agree) with what you’re saying about gate guardian but my god does that card still hold a special place in my heart, the nostalgia man

i still love the Armed Dragon line, even if LV10 is a pain to bring out

It's sad that Astro Mekanikle got in that list. I used to love using this card back in the day, since i used to run a Meklord theme deck. I never liked to follow the meta of the game, always tried to use my cretivity with decks.

Him talking about the Sacred Beasts: "Hard to summon monsters" New Sacred Beasts Support: ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT

it still to this day hurt me to see armed dragon lv 10 on this list. atleast we got the thunder armed dragons now

Yeah Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon is kind of a useless addition to the Red-Eyes Archetype at this point, but I still like it for a number of reasons. 1. It was Atticus Rhodes' ace monster, or more accurately it was Nightshroud’s ace monster, and Nightshroud is freaking awesome. 2. It's an upgraded version of my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! Card, Red-Eyes B. Dragon, and I like that it serves as a Red-Eyes counterpart to Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon, having the same ATK and DEF as the original Dragon of their respective archetypes, being 2 levels higher than those original dragons, and sharing similar naming schemes and both having the effect of gaining 300 ATK for each Dragon in your grave. 3. It also led to us getting Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon, which is a really good card for any dragon deck (even though I don't really like REDMD's artwork)

You know, if they do a retrain of Gate Guardian, they should make it a Rank7 XYZ Monster where it can only be summoned WITH the materials of normal Gate Guardian, but has to use it's xyz material to use the Effect of it's lower material, and it can only attack up to the number of XYZ material it has. Fusion wont work, but probably should have invented Contact Fusion in the first place. The worse part of Early Yugioh Monsters is that so long as you understand the concepts behind their powers and abilities, they're great monsters, but good luck explaining the concepts in an Effect so that Refs can make the same call every time.

Zubaba General + Gate Guardian = The best and easiest to pull of 5750 Atk Beatstick you'll ever get.

Here from 2023, good thing Konami knows Neos Wiseman was wack so they made Neos Kluger with a slightly better effect, and also allows to special summon wiseman after it leaves the field

6:30 glad you mentioned Prisma

One of the things I like in Yugioh! cards are the artworks (also some cards having that ancient egyptian-like theme). About Spirit of the Pharoah, I would like a updated version and would like to see more cards with ancient egyptian-like theme. I know Gravekeepers, but, it shouldn't be the most representative.

Oh boy can't wait to watch a new video About bad boss monster cards. . . why is the first card my ace growing up?

Ngl I love the artwork of Helios and spirit of the pharaoh, too bad they're such bad cards 😂

But Trice Megistus in the video doesn't even mention the graveyard. Just that if it's destroyed it comes back. And not just "destroyed by battle".

Darkness Dragon is useful in my RE deck because the strongest monster in that deck is 3500 ATK. Some monsters have effects which makes it so that the only possible way of removing it is destroying it. This card could be helpful in some situations. Though I agree it's mostly useless.

Elemental Hero Neos Kluger has practically the same burn effect and is a fusion card that can be fusion summoned with neos fusion. Also on destruction effect it allows for summoning of neos wiseman directly from hand or deck. Which also makes it counter super poly.

I LOVE how you formalize and compare the chaotic canonical Anime effects of the cards😆

Rule of Yu-Gi-Oh. Basically any card that came out in older booster packs, and we're only decent for x number of years before new Yu-Gi-Oh killed any variety.

In defense of Armityle, the sacred beasts are decently easy to get out in a sacred beast deck

I have a question: Helios's effect only says "destroyed". I haven't played YGO in ages, so...does "destroyed" imply that: a) It has to be destroyed by battle and not by card effects? b) It has to be sent to the graveyard for its destruction effect to trigger?

“CONVICT-TON” My man! Love the videos

I JUST REALIZED YOU'RE HIRUMAREDX, I THOUGHT I RECOGNIZED YOUR VOICE! You do Yu-Gi-Oh vids too, that's so cool!

Hey I loved my Red Eyes Darkness Dragon! I used it in my dragon deck... when dragons collide came out... most fun I had. Till I switched over to full Chaos Dragons. But too poor to afford dragon rulers at the time. No Thienen the Great Sphinx.. hi summoning conditions are terrible, and requires a lot of setup to do anything.

couple things about helios trice. 1- its when its destroyed in general 2- you could run it in a deck that banishes only monsters- like dark worlds ( with their field spell), or banifish. 3- you can cheat this into play with certain cards from the fire king arhcetype as it doesnt state it has to be destroyed on the field.

I'd add Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon and Metal Zoa. Both are just beatsticks that require you to tribute a lvl 7 or higher monster with a specific trap card equip to them, a trap card that makes the cards better than their upgraded versions, as Metalmorph increases the equipped monster's attack by half the opponents when it initials a battle on top of a flat 300 increase. The 2 monsters I just mentioned don't have effects except their summoning requirements. Thankfully, both are summoned from the deck, but if you draw one, it's a giant Garnet in your hand, as they can only be special summoned from the deck. Also, they are both machine monsters, so they don't gain any benefits from their non-metal versions' monster type specific support cards. Thankfully, they've both been errataed to say "Must first be special summoned from the deck", so you can special summon them in other ways after.

1 small point against machina force is that you said it can bring back the 4 monsters used to bring it out. Actually it only brings back 3/4. It will not bring back commander Covington whose effect is used to summon him in the first place making that effect a bit worse.

The effect of Helios with the image in the Vido would be really good, as it just needs to be destroyed, the actual card unfortunately is bad.

Gate Guardian support is all I ask for...like this! Labyrinth Maze Field Spell This card cannot be targeted by your opponent's card effects. Any monsters summoned have their effects negated until the end of the turn, and are placed in the next empty monster Zone closest to their owner's Field Spell Zone, and can only attack monsters in the same column. Both players can only use each of the following effects of "Labyrinth Maze" once per turn: ●Move 1 monster you control to an adjacent Monster Zone, then, if your opponent controls more monsters than you, you can move 1 monster you control to an additional adjacent Monster Zone. ●Discard 1 card; add 1 level 7 Monster from your deck or GY to your hand, and if you do, you can Special Summon "Labyrinth Tank" from your Extra Deck, and/or add 1 "Labyrinth" card from your Deck to your hand. Hidden Powers of the Labyrinth Continuous Trap You can only control 1 "Gate Guardian". When an attack is declared, or a card effect is activated while you control "Gate Guardian", you can discard "Sanga of the Thunder", "Suijin", or "Kazejin", to negate that attack or effect. Once per turn, you can reveal "Sanga of the Thunder", "Suijin", and "Kazejin" to Special Summon "Gate Guardian" from your hand, deck, or GY, ignoring summoning conditions, and if you do, it is unaffected by your opponent's card effects and cannot be tributed (even if this card leaves the field.) Once per turn, if a face-up "Labyrinth" card would be destroyed by your opponent's card effect, you can add 1 "Sanga of the Thunder", "Suijin", "Kazejin" or "Riyoku" from your Deck to your hand instead. Dungeon Trap in the Labyrinth Normal Trap Activate as many effects as possible up to the number of other face-up "Labyrinth" cards on the field: ●Special Summon 1 "Monster Tamer" from your hand, Deck, or GY, then take control of 1 monster your opponent controls until "Monster Tamer" leaves the field. ●Send 1 "Dungeon Worm" from your hand or Deck to the GY and Banish 1 monster on the field. ●Banish 1 "Jirai Gumo" from your Deck or GY and Destroy 1 monster on the field and inflict damage to your opponent equal to it's ATK. If a monster(s) on your opponent's side of the field moves to a different monster zone, except the turn you activated this card: you can add this card from your GY to your hand. You can only activate 1 "Dungeon Trap in the Labyrinth" per turn. Magical Labyrinth: Wall Shadow Quick Play Spell Rearrange your opponent's monsters in their monster zones as you see fit, then, if you control a "Labyrinth" card, Special Summon 1 "Wall Shadow" from your Hand or Deck, ignoring summoning conditions, also, it cannot be destroyed by battle, and any monster that battles it is sent to the GY after Damage Calculation. You can banish this card from your GY to move "Wall Shadow" to any unoccupied monster Zone on your side of the field. You can only use each effect of "Magical Labyrinth: Wall Shadow" once per turn. Sounds like fun, no?

A friend of mine ran gate guardian by itself as material for the UFORoid Fighter fusion as Gate Guardian was the highest atk warrior type at the time.

Personally, Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon should have get the spot of Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon... As he's harder to summon with the exact same effect (+ a Targeting protection). Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon is still a good power card for Red-Eyes in the middle/end of the duel to get the finishing blow. And its synergy with the Lair of Darkness (and Red-Eyes archetype synergy with the Viruses) cards (Ahrima searches it and Diabolos can ss itself thanks to Darkness Dragon tributing as cost a DARK Monster. Duke Shade can also recovers it), makes it easy to build a decent deck centered around Darkness Dragon that can do stuff (and be horrible to face). Blue-Eyes Shining however... Even he (she ?) is searchable by Melody of the Awakening Dragon, Bingo Machine GO! GO! and Priestress with Eyes of Blue (who will using it anyway ?), you need to run Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon in the Extra Deck. You need to put more efforts in the summon of BESD than REDD for having the same monster.

4:22 Pfft, I'll show you a big beat stick...

The Duel Links function of Gate Guardian is one of the best LD farming decks you can make, as its not easy to get over it while you set up the Vassal/Union Attack combo

Conclution...E HERO Prizma is efficient.

Hi I don't play or know any of the rules in Yu-Gi-Oh, nor am I remotely interested in playing in the future, but I genuinely enjoy your content. Looking forward to what else you got in store :)

Exodia necross is trash too btw

I once played against a Gren Maju deck at locals where someone had banished a bunch of their cards face down as you do and then comboed into Trice Megistus. Needless to say, my fear from facing an apparent Gren Maju deck quickly turned to pity when they started trying to count the monsters among their face down cards to calculate Megistus's attack

Red eyes darkness,was a card atticus rhodes used when he was consumed by darkness,cause nobody had a card like lightning vortex,... people had trouble that he could get it out so quickly and it fit the theme of”the darkness era”

You mentioned Darkness Dragon, but don't forget the original RE Black Metal Dragon

"Armityle is the biggest beat stick in the game." Me: (laughs in King of Skull Servant)

My personal head-canon is that there was a mix-up between the effect of the Pharaoh and some random low level zombie support pack-filler and now there exists some level 4 monster forgotten by the presses that had text "If you successfully summon this card you win the game"

Meklord Astro Mekanikle sounds like a really good card for those situations where attacking the opponent would be the last thing you ever did.