It's because of a problematic artifact of the game that existed prior to the Yugioh most of the world knows. Originally, Duel Monsters was extremely RP heavy in what is now called Season 0 of Yugioh. So, even if they are lower attack, putting them in the right circumstance ensures they can be stronger. This is actually what inspired the wackiness in the Duelist Kingdom arc, where the literal environment determined what the dueling field was like. and originally? Rather than getting like a 10% increase, it was 50% increase, so a rock monster like Sand Stone would be a 2050/2400 monster in a wasteland with a weird roleplay effect instead of an ass level 5 monster with 1300/1600 stats.

@@ab14967 this

@@ab14967 what was the original point for the level stars? Those were across the board so we still lucked out a 2500 6 star and a 1800 4 star. Those few examples overrode the Atk standard so weaker monsters started out really weak and not the norm Atk strength of the game.

@@alfredgomez3128 funny enough before tributes existed it was simply the rarity of cards, which is why blue eyes is level 8 and why dark magician is level 7 and Summoned Skull is level 6. Summoned Skull was much much better than Dark Magician in the actual game but back then due to its card interactions and higher defense Dark Magician was better and thus rarer.

@@alfredgomez3128 If we're going with originally? Probably not for any reason that would be featuring game balance. Atem being the KING of Games was a literal title. He was the king of all games, and the original season had him deal with opponents in a variety of games, some of which were literal gambling. The card game we all know today was likely something the author made up on the spot and be used for one time like the other "monster of the week" antagonists, so he just made random cards, put relative context for power with level and stats, then went with it, using roleplay to compensate for weaker cards that become strong with that in mind... then the popularity of THAT arc where they introduced it blew up, and slowly became the main focus, which is why the relative powers of the cards now are much more standardized than the first set, which was all over the place. For a watsonian/in-story reason? More powerful cards are rarer (there are only 4 Blue Eyes White Dragon cards ever printed in their world, for example), so weaker/lower rank cards are put in as budget options when they can't get the ones they want, or even not ever able to in some cases.

Great Maju Garzett and the other majus were actually meant for stall not beatdown, and with the right back row material, you can also burn opponents as well. I called them attack position walls, because they were hard to get around offensively and staunch defender, or rare gold Armor forced opponents to attack them.

@@brandoncampbell7274 Blowing them up is more fun.

Hahahahhaa Magic Cylindering all that damage back to the opponent for game: good times!! 🤣🤣

Lmao

Imagine destroying garzett with pre errata ring of destruction. Enter tournaments with the sole goal of causing tie games lol

There are surprisingly few monsters that can trade favorably against BEWD for quite a long time in junior format.

What is Junior Journey?

@@garcardosotan6172 One of MBTs new series

@@garcardosotan6172 Fun

It was before DNA surgery, which he used in season 5 with his insect barrier. I made someone quit by doing that combo too, it was great, lol.

it felt like every villain just straight up cheated lol

@@magicwindow6682 If everyones doing it thats just how the game works lol.

@@magicwindow6682 i mean same atem aka Yami make bullshit up like ss2 monster reborn or fusing mammoth graveyard to ultimate blue eyes for passive stat decrease,Jaden have a very specific card that only use if that specific monster on the field which only show like 1 episode and never seen again,Yusei is actually the only one that rarely cheated since he basically otk shit opponent and actually have to do combo for actual opponent, Yuma isn't even a human and Playmaker is a protagonist that exist

@@13thKingMu okay Living Arrow is a bullshit card and I'm here for the cool mechanic. Maybe just something like banish one zombie monster from the GY and discard Polymerization to change the type of monster to zombie type, make it lose ATK equal to the ATK of the monster banished, effects negated, cannot be used as material or be tributed, cannot be destroyed, can't attack or block attacks, and if the ATK hits 0 it's sent to the GY. A bit busted? Maybe. Idk. Edit: also by battle city rules if you set spells before playing then you're allowed to activate them as SS2, oh and during your battle phase you can use them as SS2. It's tricky

Not to mention a whole bunch of setup to get it at least a little over 4K ATK with dna surgery and your opponent to fill up their side with monster. At this rate you'd be better off playing obelisk or cyber stein+blue eyes ultimate who requires little to no setup at all to get a 4K beatstick

I actually loled of that

@TheRapper10000 By people you mean Joey from the Power of Chaos games? Cause I never heard of people making an insect barrier deck and using Insect Queen, because they're probably better off playing vanilla level 7 or something like Barrel Dragon

@TheRapper10000 that's like only for incredibly specific use which is still fun on the ds format. Plus the insect queen looks cool bc she looks like she jumped out of the bugs life

@@totalwartimelapses6359 I played from starter deck kaiba until the ancient gear set and casual players at the time loved that combo. Not competitive at the time obviously

If that effect was its true effect, that would he pretty good. Not amazing, but pretty decent

I could totally se a card with a similar effect being good in today's metagame, especially with Link Monsters.

hard same. what a guy.

Mine was Beaver Warrior :)

After my cosmo queen and dark magician were stolen sword hunter was my best card until I got xyz dragon cannon. My favorite combo was to use United we stand on sword hunter and then just start hacking away at the opponents field as it would beat over most monsters.

Hyozanryu for me. While it wasn't amongst my very first cards, I got it very early on. And somehow it's place in my heart grew after some scoundrel stole my Mirror Force back then. It's been almost 20 years and I'm still salty about that.

@@mrcx6142 yeah it sucks when your best cards get stolen, funny enough, after my Cosmo Queen was stolen I found a blues eyes shining dragon on the ground. I eventually got a blue eyes ultimate dragon and found a way to cheat it out of the fusion deck making it my best card but it wasn't all that easy to get out.

Yes it is. Problem solved.

lavals need a link so bad.

Lavaval chain got mentioned in a few lists too

@@BlindOracle00 This would do nothing. They need an actual way to swarm the field, and to make use of all the monsters they banish. The deck barely has any synergy, except "Banish your fire monsters to do mediocre stuff".

IMO, Laval need a way to make play without relying on drawing rekindling. Set-up the GY is not that hard and people, specifically the OCG, did find a few creative way to set-up. Problem is our deck lives and dies by Rekindling. New support will either need to help the deck not relying on so much rekindling and/or double down on rekindling by letting us getting easier access to it (which will result in rekindling in f&l again)

@@catisreckless4647 Well it depends. If the link monster's effect was something like you can special summon as many of your banished lavals as possible but restricts you to only special summoning lavals while face up or something then I think that would probably do it for them. Especially if the effect was not a once per turn. I don't even think it would be that broken since the laval synchros are not that powerful.

He mitigated the suck by cheating out summon requirements for his bugs.

there an field to set out wacth battle city joey struggle

A lot of Weevil's insect cards sucked. It's no wonder he cheated so frequently.

@@nine_tails137 parasite parasict insect barrier 😅

@@tommydurning9762 Yeah, but he snuck that card into Joey's deck though under-handed tactics, instead of using the actual card's effect. Also, it's called Parasite Paracide.

Ok this is actually kinda cool

Dark designator can also do that without paying LP although it only reveals their Deck :)

So the entire Kaiju archetype

I mean it is creative but incredibly bad.

@@nnnp634 I mean knowing an entire enemy deck makes using cards that need to be properly informed to work _much_ stronger, and cards that let you look at _just_ their hand have been banned before. How many other cards in the game let you look an an opponents entire deck, let alone also their hand, and with an ultimately acceptable cost of 1000 LP?

You know there were easy way around tributing even back then right? Monster reborn, level conversion lab etc. Ring any bells?

@@Aloyus_Knight I played with my friends in primary school for 3 months. Then we moved on

I remember having sword hunter in my deck and I thought it was so cool having the card that Joey used in a one off battle! luckily I only played with my brother and friends so we only played with our "casual" handmade decks haha

@@tylerdurden8270 I remember taking all the "good" (preferred) cards out of my stockpile, and then bringing the rest to my friend at school, When everyone else would go out and play at recess, we'd put our desks together and challenge each other to a duel xD

I think the whole point of the card is to resolve viruses. But obviously not worth the resources

Now look at Simorgh, has the exact same summoning conditions (it needs Wind tributes instead of Dark), but all it does is inflict 1000 burn to *both* players during the End Phase. And the effect can be entirely negated just by having 2 spells or traps on the field

This draw controlling effect isn't good in YuGiOh where cards can mean so much. In Magic the gathering, that effect is way more of an issue as you can force bricking a lot easier. Though when I think about it Diabolos would be an expensive card that couldn't be cheated in even there.

Ink 8⁸y8y

Most of the original Structure Deck boss monster have the restriction of not being able to be Special summoned and if allowed..just under specifically conditions. Up until SD 10 more or less (being the only exception the boss monster in SD Dinosaur Rage)

But she is so bad that the retrain version is the best target of that legacy support

@@user-ashborn16 she’s still a target for the support, that’s something

@@brianaguilar8283 Technically any insect type, even Great Poseidon and Deadscythe Harvester, and both are in this video too.

I believe Cockroach Knight was intended to be used as a combo with Insect Queen since it returns to the top of your deck whenever it gets destroyed so you can keep sacrificing it over and over.

@@jacksonteller3973 except it eats your draw phase. Now you can tribute Black Ptera instead

Yeah. Could be useful but not much.

@@Prince_Eva_Huepow Never said it was useful, its just really funny

Facts id be interested to see a synchro retrain… with some level of protection..like idk for ex: it can’t be targeted by card effects during the battle phrase maybe.

retrained version should can able to use his victims effects or boost himself depends on their element

@@Qvmmy Maybe gains protection depending on the type of monster he's equipped with? Like can't be targeted by effects when equipped with an extra deck monster or something?

@@bellystraw as long as its something cool yet not broken, it's okay

@@Qvmmy I feel like him having busted effects would be ok if he gained them through attacking and destroying monsters. That's a big prerequisite for an effect in modern yugioh

We all know ABC Dragon is #1

@@alphabrother6823 the pure amount of advantage glad beast can get with their fusion thats cheats cards out of the extra deck is close for #1 too I feel

Thunder dragon colossus and rainbow neos inbound

@@sleachim2251 yeah but the way DL makes his lists, it’s about competitive success which ABCs have more than Glad beasts

Dark Law, if it wasn't on the internal ban list, would be pretty high up. Masked Hero Anki would probably see a place due to Duel Links.

I thought that was Swordsman of Landstar!

It’s Jeff Goldblum

Its the mighty Kuriboh

was tin 🤗gift for 14$just but 6 pack 6 dollars

@@billding6032 Jeff goldblum? That's one of the most powerful cards in duel monsters!

That's actually an interesting application.

@@cyberend1863 Then again you can do that with _any_ card that hands over your monsters to your opponent, but at least this gives moon something going for it.

Horray for Numerounius FINALLY being released in the TCG!

I mean if you attack Basilisk with Numerounius you've probably already won the duel through battle damage but okay

@@selectivepontification8766 Actually it looks like the playable version of C1000 doesn’t have a native 10,000 ATK like it’s anime version. It’s at ?, so technically that leaves it at 0 ATK/DEF. This should work.

Not just tribute fodder, but *replacements* for a tribute cost you'd pay for another card. Meaning you can just eat opponent's cards in a non-targeting, non-destruction way. Tributing a monster using LoD ignores SO many types of protection that it's actually hilariously useful.

Lair of Viruses. Pretty fun

Speaking of Darklord, I wonder why Marie the Fallen One was renamed Darklord Marie? I learned that recently and it blew my mind. I used to play Marie the Fallen One when I was a kid (2000/2001). -SirHonor

@@KnightlyBrosGaming in the ocg the name is datenshi mari. Datenshi is the japanese name of darklords (datenshi= fallen angel) Its another problem of misstranslation again with the tcg like frog the jam.

@@ghostsherpard623 more like censorship. They changed the whole type of "angels" to "fairies" in TCG

@@johnapple6646 im not writting about name censorship from ocg to tcg, just tcg messing arround with their "traduction" is like harpie's brother change to sky scout or frog the jam. Tcg always ruin original names and not because censorship

Pretty much all neos fusion except rainbow neos having solid artwork with crap effect.

@@the13thjoker i mean marine Neos and Air Neos having decent effect,it just their summon requirements are not worth for their effect

Super vehicroid stealth union..

Machina force

@@the13thjoker Grand Neos literally yeets cards off the field, lol.

And the anteater is eating ants.

The person who had to translate it in the German version also did not understand the name at all. It's just called "Anteating ant" without any mention of the anteater.

Seeing someone give credit to Duellogs guy for his pronunciation is pretty hilarious.

so you deck lack structure 😐

@@tommydurning9762 Because I built a Deck around a bad card? That's the most fun way to build a Deck!

@@kirarakidohara1423 i build an deck around an level 4 dinosaur my strategi next year got bammed

Nah.

Or you could just use amazoness archer and ftk

@@xatuyou8045 Personally I prefer to use a combination of 1 to 3 Saryuja Skull Dread, maybe Daigusto Emeral, maybe PSY-Framelord Omega, maybe Ferocious Flame Swordsman (as a generic materials Link-2 Warrior), 1 to 3 Toon Table of Contents and Toon Cannon Soldier to go for an FTK; though I can see the appeal of using Isolde to get Amazoness Archer from the deck, I tend to use her effect to bring out a Tuner from the deck instead. (As an aside - Infernoble Arms don't go amiss in Bushido Counter turbo if you are playing Mizuho and Shinai.)

Royal Oppression was already carving a pretty solid space for itself by that point--either as a staple in stun decks, or a means of screwing over your opponent after you were done making plays. Vayu just pushed it into "lmao" territory.

Handsniping effects are much more potent in YGO compared to a near useless peeking effect. The opponent loses card advantage in the 1st example while the 2nd is a do-nothing effect. The retrain actually saw competitive play to boot. Darkest Diabolos handsnipes and has anti-Kaiju/Lava Golem/Sphere protection which handy for a boss monster. For the original Diabolos, its just a weak peeking effect. Which does nothing. Doesnt advance the game state, doesnt break boards. Just peeks.

The effect is good, it's just the cost for the card that's not appealing. As an mtg card it would kinda be a creature that takes 7 swamp mana to summon (with a 7/6 body), specifically forbids any sort of summoning it except by playing it from your hand for its exact mana cost and can't be tributed (despite being the boss of an archetype that's all about tributing high powered dark monsters). It's just waaaaaay to resource intensive, limited to dark only and there's barely any way to cheat it out. And it's super easy to get rid of. And for that the effect really isn't worth it. Jace is cheap to summon and it actually gains something from that effect too.

Or it’s could be a Lv 5 maju garzett retrain Its Effect could be Its original is Atk an Def Is equal to the sum total of atk and def points of the monster used for its tribute summoned. It also gains the attribute an type of the tribute summoned monster in addition to it still retaining its own fiend+ dark type.

@@jayclearmen411 well that can only be useful for a specific type. Or maybe the name is treated as the tributed monster. That would be a better use

The card that i like the most purely by name is Interplanetarypurplythorny dragon

But what would the actual advantage be? You're losing out on a spell card (and a potentially strong insect you could've summoned instead) only for a bit of battle damage, and you can neither search Half Shut nor make that much out of it if you don't have that beetle.

Floowanderreze and ba

I predict the Neo Spacian fusions.

Malefics

Maybe crystal beasts?

Like every monster from LOB

@@horribleville yes for sure but even in later sets at least in duel links they love to give you useless cards. Plus when you unlock new duelists their decks are all useless trash vanilla monsters with one decent rare.

They always have. Even a lot of the rare cards back in the day were complete trash. When 1800 for a level 4 was considered good, any normal monster that was level 4 or less with less than 1800 attack was automatically trash. I'd love to have a look into how some of these cards are designed because as a kid I was convinced they made like 50% or more of the cards in every set unusable garbage to suck kids of their allowance as they bought endless booster packs in search of Jinzo or whatever. It's one thing I appreciate about Magic: The Gathering. There's very few monsters who can JUST attack with no other keywords/effects and even the seemingly bad cards can still be decent in the right decks. There's no deck in Yu-gi-oh where a level 3 monster with 700 attack and no effects is useful. It's just worthless. The early days of Yu-gi-oh were truly a lawless wasteland.

@@FreddyChoppins yes I completely agree.yugioh seems like a total cash grab with it's imbalance, power creep, and no man's cost system. I'm surprised it's so successful. I only like it due to nostalgia from anime. Overall I prefer magic the gathering but I am looking forward to Yu-Gi-Oh Cross Duels. It adopts a more hearthstone style of gameplay and has a 8 turn limit so no annoying control matches that last an hour like in Yu-Gi-Oh and hearthstone. And the deck master/commander gimmick with leveling up your cards sounds fun. And the weak cards are useful now at least when using a specific deck master that relies on low level monsters.

To be honest, he's little more than a cheater that has to use dirty tactics to get some advantage, and gets defeated anyway. At least Insect Queen is a bit easier to bring out than, say, Great Moth or its Perfectly Ultimate counterpart.

I mean it WAS pretty good in the source material especially for when it was around. I even made a deck with the real version of it back in the day. Wasn't good but it functioned.

Number 1: The winged dragon of Rah-Sphere mode

@@SomeRandomGuyOutHere It'on the list not because of its summoning ra effect

Spellbook of Judgement has to somehow be on that list in some way

Better to put Gaia then since it has less attack or Slot Machine which has only 2000 ATK despite being a level seven monster

Future fusion :(

Destiny HERO Disk Commander Crush Card Virus Witch of the Black Forest Brain Control The list goes on

Duelist of the roses

Yeah, but AF is certified ass

It's technically monsters that don't have archetypal support that inherently revolves around special summoning them. AF is mostly about just flipping coins to get good effects, with the two notable cards that facilitate getting high level monsters out. Something like BEWD, while it normally requires 2 tributes, the archetype is notable for facilitating getting it on the field

Also they really don't help much in summoning it. The Lovers is literally a worse Kaiser Seahorse and The Empress is just on its own level of bad.

maybe if they do another retrain of insect queen that had the old restriction, but was much stronger in its health and ability. like maybe when it destroys a enemy monster by battle, it equips the card and can sacrifice the equip to create a set number of insect tokens to the field based on the monster tributed(1/2 level or rank minimum 1). maybe call it something like Voracious Insect Queen. maybe make it a fusion using insect queen(or a high level insect monster) and 1 insect monster, using a card maybe called metamorphic fusion(which might also have the effect of being able to be banished from grave to special summon 1 high level insect monster by tributing a lower level insect monster on the field.) also speaking of monsters eating monsters, where is the rest of the fairy tale deck(golden castle in this case). why have we still got no forest wolf, red hood, huntsman, thorn princess etc.

@@jonathanphillips3052 Honestly, I was thinking just some cannibalistically bestial monsters, like Dinosaurs, having it.

@@Bezaliel13 yeah. reptiles, certain fiends, beasts, and the like. monsters that could eat something on your board to attack, but to help balance out the need to tribute to attack, maybe have it with incredibly high attack values for their stat. like a level 6 with 3000 attack, or a level 8 with 3600 attack. ones where you get more out than you put in.

@@jonathanphillips3052 Indeed, for it would be nicer than more negates for a board of them. Give a cost that balances out the spam.