Discarding your entire hand for Berserker Soul isn't that bad of an effect, you just need to DRAW!! MONSTA CARDO!!

Berserker Soul was actually something I sided in Superheavy Samurai decks for some cheesy wins. It's not really that great overall but it's *really* funny to get a win with that.

The history of Rope of Life might have been a bit different from what the video theorizes. Rope of Life debuted in the original manga as one of Marik's cards, without the cost of the entire hand. Rather, it was Makyura the Destructor that had the cost, and Rope of Life was comboed with it. Then, Makyura got into the OCG with the cost removed, which was why when Rope of Life entered the OCG some time later, it got the cost instead so that the combo could play out in the anime (which tend to be more faithful to the OCG) like in the manga.

I had a duel in master duel where a dude used a card that banished his whole hand, on turn 2, to bring out blue eyes. I mirror foced him, and legit he sat there for a few seconds before surrendering. Idk, the topic reminded me of this.

Decisive Armor was actually used a lot as an anti-Lightsworn pick back in the day. Atleast in my area there was still some people mixing lightsworns with tele-DAD and such, so pulling this monster usually lead to an FTK.

Single Purchase could be useful in decks that want to banish their own cards in order to empower their main beater, like Maju or Eater, but said decks already have better options.

8:00 I know this channel is for COMPETITIVE Yugioh but I will say the anime version of Berserker soul that Yami used against Weevil was one of the coolest and coldest finishers in original Yugioh. (I mean Yami kept going after Weevil already lost and basically just a corpse at that point)

I feel bad for ally of justice. Even the good ones don’t see much okay. Kinda wish we get better version of them. Cool artworks

Spell Chronicle was one of Yubel's cards from the anime, and one of those anime-debut cards that should have stayed anime-only. Which is often the case with a lot of anime-debut cards.

From having crappy option of Rocket Arrow Express into ultimate support/boss monster Juggernaut Liebe...Anna, Rata, and Trains deck surely having the good ending 😅

Rocket Arrow Express sounds like a ridiculously overbalanced card: A massive beatstick with a lot of restrictions to prevent the player to abuse it, except said restrictions are so strict they even defeat the point of summoning it in the first place.

I always enjoy even though never played

Here's an idea for a series Fixing Bad Cards Cards that made it onto your Worst Lists get the same treatment as your Forbidden Cards videos.

The only time I've positive success with Rocket Arrow Express is when i used it in Duel Links with Anna, Immediately sunmoned Night Express Knight after that, and folded both into Gustav.

Imagine how good Decisive Armor could've been if it had Non-Dark instead of Light (like Catastor) for the burn effect

Retrain Idea #7 11:51 _The Traveling Gambler_ (DARK) Level 4 Pendulum Scales: 5⬅️➡️0 _Once Per Turn, During either players turn, You can place this from your hand, deck or extra deck into your pendulum zone if either player would toss a coin for a card or effect. Once per turn, During either players turn, You can toss a coin 3 times. If all 3 results are Heads, destroy all monsters or Spells/Traps on your opponent's side of the field. If all 3 results are Tails, destroy all monsters or Spells/Traps on your side of the field._ Spellcaster/Tuner/Effect _This card’s original attribute is always also LIGHT. Once per turn (Quick effect) You can special summon this card from your hand, deck or extra deck if either player would toss a coin for a card or effect. Once per turn (Quick Effect), you can toss a coin 3 times and apply the appropriate effect:_ ●3 Heads: Destroy all monsters or Spells/Traps your opponent controls. ●2 Heads: Discard 1 random card from your opponent's hand. ●1 Head: Destroy 1 card from your hand or field. ●3 Tails: Discard your entire hand. ATK/700 DEF/2000

Retrain idea #9 14:50 _Retaliatory Salvo_ Counter-Trap _If your opponent would destroy by battle or send to the GY (by card effect) a card(s) from your hand or field: you can Discard your entire hand instead, then apply the following effects X the number of cards discarded by this effect:_ ⚪️Destroy 1 monster your opponent controls, then increase your LP by that monster’s ATK or DEF. ⚪️Destroy 1 Spell/Trap your opponent controls, then shuffle 1 card from your GY into your deck. ⚪️Destroy 1 card your opponent controls, then inflict 300 damage to your opponent. _You can only activate 1 “Retaliatory Salvo” per turn._

I always viewed Dicelops as indirect Dark World support 😅 Im surprised you didn't mention that

Rope of Life is another victim of power creep, because it was *everywhere* from what I saw back when it first came out. It was the better Call of the Haunted back when, y'know, the battle phase was a thing instead of just 'the phase where the guy who got to play the game wins'.

Retrain idea #2 1:53 _Effect Chronicle_ Continuous Spell _Activate this card by sending your entire hand to the GY; banish 5 cards from your Deck. Each time your opponent activates a card or effect, place 1 Chronicle Counter on this card when that Card/Effect resolves. You can remove 2 Chronicle Counters from this card; your opponent chooses 1 card banished by this card's effect for you to add to your hand. If this face-up card in the Spell & Trap Zone leaves the field: You take 500 damage for each card currently banished by this card's effect._

Decisive Armor is a great side deck option when you consider how many people run Blue-Eyes decks. And since the main deck Blue-Eyes cards are generally between 2500-3000, FTKing a Blue-Eyes player is a legitimate possibility

Berserker Soul is broken as the only Spell/Trap in a Superheavy Sam deck if you wanna OTK

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Ngl, I was actually surprised to see Infernity Sage even appear on this list even at the 10th spot because of how useful it is in the archetype, even if the effect to Discard your hand is the entire effect and offers no benefits, in Infernity it's a good effect in of itself and definitely increases the consistency of the deck as it drastically reduces the likelihood of bricking even if you play just one copy (I personally prefer to have 2 copies of it simply because I really like having it available and I am done having hands with all good monsters but no way to get rid of my hand and hard bricking). In context, it's a really good card (please, I want Archfiend back to 3, I really don't think Infernity is going to be a metagame breaker even with that in the current environment, heck, even if you put both Archfiend and Launcher at 3 I don't think it would be the worst thing in the meta, though I myself admit it probably isn't a very bright idea)

5:43 Retrain idea #4 _Single Bargain_ Quick-Play Spell _If you have 3 or more cards in your hand (other than this card): Banish your entire hand face-up; add 1 card from your Deck to your hand. If you do, apply 1 of the following effects depending on the type of card added to your hand by this effect:_ Monster: You cannot Normal or Special Summon any monsters for the rest of this turn, except cards with that name. Spell/Trap: You cannot activate Spell/Trap cards or effects for the rest of this turn, Except cards with that name.

Oh hey, Single Purchase! I recognize that card cuz it's the one that Yugipedia keeps recommending to use in every strategy to search things, just like Dogu!

As soon as I saw this pop up in my notifications, before i watched it I started thinking “what’s a card that makes you discard your hand just really isn’t very good?” And immediately the first thing I thought of was Rocket Arrow Express…I wasn’t disappointed.

Rocket Arrow Express can be comboed with Amano-Iwato for some suprising lock-down combo. Rocket Arrow Express prevents Amano-Iwato from returning to your hand during the End Phase, so it can stay on the field for your opponent's turn. And, unless I'm mistaken, Amato-Iwato negates Rocket Arrow Express' demerit effect!

Ally of justice decisive armour is an easy game win if you opponent is playing a light deck. Also consider i was one of the earliest synchro monsters. Making it have alot less competition when it fist came out. Its dated now but it was a good synchro option in early yugioh synchro era. Especially since it was one the highest level synchros at the time, with 3300 attack and defense.

13:07 Retrain idea #8 _Diceclops The Destroyer_ Level 4 Machine/Effect _(Quick effect) Once per turn, If either player would roll a Die for a card or effect: You can special summon this card from your hand or deck. Once per turn: You can roll a six-sided die; Apply the result, then increase this cards ATK by 200X the result._ ●1: Look at your opponent's hand, also discard 1 card from their hand. ●2, 3, 4, 5: Discard 1 card, then increase this cards ATK by 200. ●6: Discard your entire hand, then increase this cards ATK by 200X the number of cards discarded. ATK/1800 DEF/200 With THIS, Diceclops can cheat itself put rather easily, meanwhile what would normally be purely negative effects now have the chance to stack into a hefty ATK boost. So I roll the 1 and get to toss a card from my opponents hand… Neat, now it brings me up to 2000 ATK on top of that… _OR_ I flub the roll and toss my entire hand of 6… Bad, but NOW not only do I get 1200 ATK from the Die result, BUT another 1200 from the 6 discards, so I NOW at least can compensate with a 4200 ATK monster masher I didn’t have to do much to get out in the first place.

Hey Duel Logs, I'd like to thank you for all of the hard work and effort you out into these extremely varied and interesting videos. Your editors are cool too 👍

0:17 Retrain idea #1 _Arch-Infernity Sage_ (DARK) Level 2 Fiend/Tuner/Effect _(Quick Effect): While this card is in your hand or on your field, You can discard your entire hand, and if you do you can activate 1 of the following effects:_ ⚪️Special Summon 1 “Infernity” monster from your deck who’s level is equal to or lower then the number of cards discarded. ⚪️Set 1 “Infernity” spell/trap card from your deck. ⚪️Increase either your LP OR the ATK/DEF of 1 “Infernity” monster you control by 250 for each card discarded. _If this card is sent to the GY: You can send 1 "Infernity" monster from your Deck to the GY. You must have no cards in your hand to activate and to resolve this effect. You can only use each effect of "Infernity Sage" once per turn._ ATK/400 DEF/800

Berserker Soul was commonly used in Superheavy Samurai for a while. The deck thrives on a lack of other card types, and can consistently satisfy the requirements for Berserker Soul to be live. It even has multiple means of achieving near exact 1500 direct damage with Stealth Ninja, and is capable of extending that 4000 LP ceiling to 6800 by equipping Soulhorns. SHS is by no means a good deck, and being Monster Effect heavy is even more a detriment nowadays, but it's very fun to resolve while not being the deck's only wincon

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I used to use Spell Chronicle in my Witchcrafter/Tearlament builds since it'd make milling non-Witchcrafter cards and copies of Patronus a bit more consistent. Greatly reduced the chances of those wet fart mills.

I can see full salvo being useful for cards that enjoy being discarded from card effects (cough tear cough cough), like infernity or fabled, but then again, it’s a trap card and most archetypes like that don’t burn anyways.

I think Rope of Life was somewhat viable when it came out, since destroying monsters by card effect wasn't that common back then. Also I know this is nowhere near viable, but one use for Rocket Arrow Express is to Special Summon it, then immediately tribute it for Great Maju Garzett for a 10k atk beater.

I remember that train being strong in the anime and op in school Yu GI oh. Most of my classmates had base utopia as their boss monster and maybe blue eyes, most couldn't even get over a 5000 body

Would Rocket Arrow Express be okay if the opponent activated skill drain? Since it’s effects would be negated on the field, that would be the only time it would be worth playing, but it’s a big if.

Fun fact infernity sage actually slots into dark world decks incredibly well as the discard effect is an effect not a cost. It also combos insanely well with baronne de fluer so you can cycle fleur's negate effect back online. Sage might only discard but for the new dw engine that's all it needs to do. The added synergy of it being fiend also means when you're done with recycling baronne you can banish it for gates.

Child me pulling Rope of Life from a pack, “well it’s a holo so it must be good and now I better play it in my deck”

Spell Chronicle is actually godlike in Metaphys. In Master Duel, A single lvl 4 monster on the field and an activatable Spell Chronicle can leave you with a potential turn 1 end board with all of the following: - Baronne de Fleur - Geomathmech Final Sigma - Chaos Ruler - Clear Wing Synchro Dragon - potentially one of your continuous spell/traps such as Metaphys Dimension - banish zone set up with a couple Metaphys monsters - possible Necroface activations if you get lucky with Chaos Ruler You basically do your play as normal, activate Spell Chronicle and banish all of the different Swordsoul traps, Metaphys Ascension, Swordsoul Emergence. The traps will give you up to 3 lvl4 tuner tokens when banished. Use those to go into mad Synchro summons. Can even out a tough boss monster with Metaphys Horus. All this and you usually end with at least 2 cards in hand due to Chaos Ruler and Ascension.

There is a counter collector card, called Counter Cleaner, that can make Spell Chronicle completely resolve that turn.

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Honorable mention...infernal incinerator. 2000+ atk tribute plus discard hand for a 2800 beat stick that gains 200 atk for each opponent monster and -500 atk for other monsters you control. Least most of the cards on the list could use its skill immediately, but that thing was a brick unless you go at least -2 and your hand.

Berserker Soul kinda pops off in Superheavy Samurai decks ngl

Berserker Soul is used in a lot of Superheavy Samurai deck since the deck is only playing monster card.

I had 2 video ideas for a short while now. I don't know if there are enough cards for each topic, but I shall post them anyway. 1. Cards that rewrite card effects (not copying, like for instance Phantom of Chaos, but rather Malefic Territory). 2. Cards that directly lower the viability of their own archetype, like Chimeratech Fortress Dragon, or a card that's supposed to support other cards, like Helios, the Primordial Sun does with Macro Cosmos, but it only renders Macro Cosmos to be negated by Solemn Warning, even without Helios in your deck.

The only major use for Rocket Arrow Express is sending it to the graveyard and using it with Berserker Crush on Kuriboh, making it a 5k beatstick

Phantasmal Martyrs is intended to be used to get you tribute material for Raviel... But requires you to send your entire hand to the GY. And it summons 0 ATK tokens in ATK position even though most token generators don't do that. And it requires having Hamon or Uria on board first, so before you even get the chance to lose your entire hand you need to send 3 continuous Spells or Traps to the GY. "oh but you can make blue card" just run scapegoat

Retrain idea #5 7:59 _Berserker Mania_ Quick-Play Spell _If a monster attacks and inflicts 1500 or less battle damage to either player: Shuffle your entire hand into your deck (min. 1); excavate the top card of your Deck, and if it is a Monster Card, send it to your GY, and if you do that, that monster must attack again in a row, then repeat this effect until you excavate a non-Monster Card. If a non-Monster Card is excavated, place it on the top of your Deck. You can only activate 1 "Berserker Mania" per turn._

i mean i wouldnt say its remotely consistent because, as you say, you can only play 1 copy, but superheavy samurai, being the ultimate monster mash deck, can play berserker soul. they even have a low attack synchro that can attack directly to trigger the requirement too

Sometimes, some of the cards could work if you already happen to have a bad hand, but that's not saying that you should if the effects they give you don't justify the hand cost. And before any asshat says something to go against what I'm saying, here's the deal: Yu-gi-oh is NOT a perfect game, and sometimes you're going to cards that you don't need or can't use right away, regardless how you structure your deck. But I wouldn't mind spending my whole hand IF the card's effect makes up for it. It's very rare that you'll have to discard the entire hand because there's nothing saying that you can't place cards facedown before you discard anything.

A fine list as always, but i REALLY expected one card in it and you missed it, look up infernal incinerator, it was used in the yu gi oh gx anime by chazz, and although the list is actually really good, i would have put infernal incinerator in the place of diceclops, because of all the cards that you put in the list, it is the only one that does not "require" the discard or send of your whole hand to the GY. Still, great list, keep up the good work.

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The fact that Anna didn't blow up straight away in any of her duels is a stupendous miracle.

They may as well change the text on Rocket Arrow Express to "Special Summon this card, then pray it sticks around until your next turn because it's all you have now".

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Huh, I wonder now if Berserker Soul could get some resurgence with the new Volcanic Suport, a monster-heavy burn deck

Fun fact on single purchase the best target is morphing jar when playing empty jar granted now a days with ash and imperm not so much but jar played almost 30 spells and 6 cards that could flip the jar only reason. It didn't take off in peak jar format iirc is because the deck took a hit from the 2013 banlist that split the format

Rope of life is good in Tag Force with Cat's Ear Tribe because the A.I does not know how the effect of Cat's Ear Tribe works so it just crashes it's monsters into it.

3:30 Never heard of a Yugioh pump and dump scam before

I was thinking Final Destiny should get an (dis)honorable mention. It "kind of" fits the theme of the video.

Decisive Armor was one of the three synchros that you got from the blank card in Over the Nexus before taking on the Yliaster in the WRGP. The other two being Trishula and Trident Dragun. I have absolutely no idea what they were thinking, especially since none of the Meklord cards they used were LIGHT, so it was just a random beatstick synchro monster for taking on an anti-synchro team. The other two were leagues better, but honestly…you can just cheese all of the WRGP duels using an Exodia deck since your hand remains the same as the teams swap out duelists. That means that you basically win the whole thing and just need to go through the cutscenes. I honestly pray for Over the Nexus to get remade since it is my favorite YGO game of all time and I hope that they have the common sense to make the blank cards better. Trishula is literally the only one you’ll be running if you didn’t already own it and don’t plan to run Exodia or a Fusion deck.

Kinda wish Phantom Hand was an honorable mention. Doesn't dump your hand to the grave, or require the hand dump per se, it reads "Once per turn, if you control a face-up "Infernity" monster(s), banish your whole hand face-down until your next standby phase."

1. Go first, set Full Salvo, pass 2. Opponent's turn, activate Maxx C from hand, opponent can't negate 3. Opponent goes, alright, "I'll accept the Maxx C challenge and try to deck him out" 4. You draw until 40 cards in hand and 0 cards in deck 5. Activate Full Salvo 6. ????????? 7. PROFIT!!

Gambler of legend has become a meme for me and a buddy of mine almost every time I do the 3 coin flips I get one heads and he just kills himself with a coin toss haha

Infernity archfiend never ceases to amaze me in how nutty of a top deck it is.

Single Purchase with Cyber Dragon cards would call on the original name since they only change their name once on the field on in the GY. Still doesn't work for them because the most you'll get out of it is an additional material for a fusion, but still can't summon the fusion monster.

i just now realized berserker soul draws up to 8 cards because that's how many are drawn in the anime scene

Ah decisive armor, a trip down memory lane for everyone that played ygh world championship 2011.

I played Berserker Soul in Superheavy Samurai ^^

Decisive armor was hilarious in duel links when Blue Eyes was meta there, catch them with it in their hand and its an easy 3k burn

Spell Chronicle's whole thing iirc is to complete the wedding iconography of Yubel and Jaden's duel in season 3, itvwas the Scroll then Glow Up bulb was the roses etc etc.

Surprised he didn't at least mention the famous scene from the Anime where "Yami" pulled off Berserker Soul "Draw Monsto Cardo!"

Give Rocket Arrow Express a try in Master Duel during the events. It’s not a game changer but it seems to through people off.

I had a fun deck long ago that uses Rocket Arrow Express and Great Maju Garzett. Immediate 10k monster

I remember summoning decisive armor using a scrap deck in duel links. I used the last effect on my opponent as he was using blue eyes. It was satisfying but he quits right before resolving😂

For gambler card? Was thinking either a one coin toss heads destroy one card. If two head coins destroy all monsters or three heads take control one of their monsters

No shot you through so much shade at a sealed showdown MVP

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Super heavy samurai can use berserker soul as a meme-esque finisher. It ain't good, it ain't consistent but it's very funny when it resolves.

Seems like a bit of a pattern that a lot of the higher spots in a lot of "worst x things in yugioh" usually have gamble cards as some of the top bosses there.

Wow, just realized that Rocket Arrow Express is like The Tyrant Neptune in a way. Just like Neptune, it earns top spots on several of your lists. But unlike Neptune, it only appears on "worst of" lists, like the worst maintanance costs and this video.

There is one thing u can do with rocket arrow express I think you're forgetting. For what it's worth u can great maju garzett it for a big beater two card combo lol...

15:56 Retrain Idea #10 _Rocket Arrow Express: All Expenses Paid To PAIN_ (EARTH) Level 10 Machine/Effect _Can only be Normal Summoned/Set or Special Summoned (from your hand or GY) by controlling no cards, and cannot be Summoned/Set by other ways. You cannot attack the turn you Summon this card. This card’s attacks cannot be negated or responded to, and if it attacks and destroys an opponent’s monster by battle, draw 1 card. While this card is on the field, must discard 1 card each time your would activate other cards or the effects of other cards, or Summon or Set a card._ ATK/5000 DEF/0

I learned the hard way that maintenance costs cannot be negated once by trying to bypass Rocket Arrow Express's effects with Double Headed Anger Knuckle. Worst mistake I ever made playing Master Duel

Gambler of Legend: So... No head? *discards your entire hand*

Call me stupid but could you bypass the upkeep and summoning sickness from Rocket Arrow Express if your opponent has skill drain active?

I tried to use full Salvo in a floowandereeze deck before. Since the banished cards constantly add themselves back to your hand once you have a whole bunch of cards and have knocked your opponents life points down a bit you can full Salvo for game lol. Super gimmicky but it was funny when it worked

>worst cards that discard your hand >first entry is infernity sage Yeah no the card is legitimately great even if it's just a one of for the deck. I don't know who decided on this list but they need to do more research. It literally sets up multiple Trishula summons and at least 2 Infernity Barrier searches. Sure the combo loses to hand traps but what rogue deck doesn't get gatekept by hand traps in modern YGO?

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To be fair, Rocket Arrow Express gives me the vibes it's a bad card on purpose, kind of like Armor Exe is.

I still think that rocket is a little bit better than full salvo because of it's possibility that was mentioned. I mean, at least if resolved (rocket arrow to normal summon night express knight to dora), it is still a formidable play. Of course, there are more superior alternatives, but at least it has extension potential. And the maintenance cost does not take place directly so, that's that. It will be dead hand past turn 1 tho. While full salvo has very low potential to close out the game in a really unlikely scenario. Well, yeah

Infernity DOES look fun damn!

if Rocket Arrow Express had a mandatory maintenance cost instead of an optional one, it would be a great card to Creature Swap to your opponent. Possibly the BEST card. But that's about the best thing I can think to do with this card. Other than to Tribute Summon Great Maju Garzett with it.

On your comment about Diceclops you forgot about dice reroll. Not huge, but I thought it was worth a mention

8:20 - wow, anime effect was waaaaay better that that :( 16:18 - so just Book of the Moon + any monster with ATK >0 and that card is gone :D

Rocket Arrow express is so bad that even by giving it to your opponent like is done with Ra disciple for example does nothing because its effect is not mandatory

7:55 Duro! Monsta cardo!!!