I'm sort of imagining how, in YGO, if there was a field spell that would just give you the option of sending your topdeck to the graveyard.

Funny enough, there is a VERY niche use for Primordial Altar: Kyurem VMAX. Kyurem VMAX having the ability Glaciated World where once during your turn, you discard the top card of your deck and if it's a Water Energy, you can attach it to one of your Pokemon. This is a powerful ability if you can pull it off. However, not knowing what card is on the top of your deck is a bit of a gamble. You could lose important Supporters, Items, or Pokemon if you use this ability and a water energy isn't at the top. That's where Primordial Altar comes in. You use it to scout the top of your deck to make sure a Water Energy is on top and if not, either save it in your deck or mill it. Even in a deck that is half Water Energy, having this information can be important to how Kyurem functions.

I cannot believe a centrepiece of one of my first decent decks is here. I played All Night Party with Darkrai EX and Goodnight Babies Hypno so I could use Hypno's ability while keeping Darkrai awake to attack

@6:23 20 damage counters for being burned!? I kid. Great video as always 😁

For #7 Wela Volcano Park I actually did play an Infernape deck back then and what's funny is you didnt even want to use that stadium for the deck. Brooklet hill was often times a better choice in order to help get your Octillery's set up. Scortched Earth was also very useful for extra draw support.

As bad of cards as they are, I would hang the art from Indigo Plateau and All-Night Party on my wall. Great art on those two

Primordial Altar works fine in a Galarian Moltres V deck during the "Path to the Peak" era. It let you get rid of that awful stadium (Galarian Moltres V requires the use of abilities to attach energy from the discard pile) while also allowing you to possibly discard a dark energy in the event that none were in the discard pile. It may not have been a meta-defining deck, but I commonly crushed Mew V Max decks with a Hungry Weezing Deck (Galarian Weezing + Smog Burst Weezing + Zoroark to use 3-6 Weezings throughout the game) powered by Galarian Moltres V on the bench. They could still win with a good first turn hand, which is what Mew V Max revolved around. Not meta-defining but crushed the meta-defining deck...competitive Pokemon TCG is stupid.

Hold up , I used primordial altar in my Kyurem Vmax deck to make sure that the top card was an energy card so I can attach it to Kyurem VMAX

Here’s an idea for a list: The best and/or worst Black Star Promos from each era. (Such as Wizards, Nintendo, DP, HGSS, etc.)

Primordial Altar at #1 is ridiculous. Pokestop is good but it can also destroy you by discarding crucial supporters and Pokémon. It also lets your opponent hail mary his or her way back into the game. Even though Primordial is slow it still lets you thin your deck or get stuff into the discard.

Circhester bath was an easy way to provide a buff to the falinks deck whilst removing path to the peak, providing a -100 debuff in total (4 falinks v each with a 20 damage debuff), plus a cape of toughness which gave +50 hp to other falinks, you play it with the falinks that does 30 damage for each "falinks" named pokemon which included falinks V, so in some games, you start with a 90 hp pokemon, to a single prize basic pokemon with effectively 240 HP.

All Night Party actually sounds like it would be interesting… in a deck with a powerful card that puts itself to sleep. Like, a powerful Snorlax or Slaking card that deals explosive damage/is extremely durable and balanced by its moves putting itself to sleep. Idk if a card like that even exists, but being able to guarantee that sleep won’t be holding back a powerful Pokémon would be great. I can even imagine a “slow start” Regigigas with an ability or something that says it’s always asleep when put into the active zone from the bench or at the start of the game. Lots of cool possibilities, if only the cards existed

Field spells in YGO: 🤑🤑🤑 Stadiums in Pkm: 💀💀💀

i could see primordial altar being maybe useful in roaring moon, if you *really* don't want to gamble. pokestop is WAY better but it could be kinda viable lmao

I feel like All Night Party has the potential to be strong in the future if a we got a strong pokemon with a move that came with a downside similar to most baby pokemon have, where it puts itself to sleep after using it's move. That or we get some ridiculous cards that boost baby pokemon to have like -250 damage reduction

I find this amusing because I used to primordial alter with blisseyV as an accelerant.. if your top deck is an energy discard it and blisseyV attaches it from the discard via it's attack. Top deck isn't helpful you next turn discard it. You can think of it as burning through cards but if your top deck isn't going to be helpful to you next turn.. or is more beneficial in the discards..

It's really interesting going from Magic the gathering to pokemon. I had Pokemon cards before I ever knew of magic, but I learned to play Magic first I never looked back after 30 years, but lately the game has been suffering so I jumped over to Pokemon and it's great! On one hand you get screwed less often as you don't have to use economics besides powering up your Pokemon with energies. However, on the other hand when you don't have economics beyond energies people can disrupt your strategies far easier. Imagine there's a such thing as leaving yourself wide open. In Pokemon is not really a such thing. There's no interruption during opponent's turns and anybody can stop mostly anything with any trainer card

NOOO I played Primordial Altar unironically last rotation 😭 Basically there wasn't an other great stadium that fit the deck (too many supporters for Pokéstop btw) so it was there to remove opponent's stadium cards. I ran Radiant Greninja and used the stadium's effect before drawing cards with their ability. It gave that tiny extra bit of consistency to the deck.

NGL, seeing Lake Boundary hurt a little since it was pretty popular back when I used to play… man that was ages ago.

I challenge this one. Even thought it's niche, it's pretty much only way to do the following: - Use Orangurus private wisdom -ability to force water energy card on top of the deck (what you have searched via capacious bucket style card) - Use primordial altar to discard it - What powers up Melony to fast charge your V-pokemon. This also pretty much quarantees that your stadium doesn't help the opponent (which pretty much tells how bad this stadium overally is thought) But I used this strategy to power up my Vikavolt V and locking my opponent down as early as turn one when going second.

Not Mr unironically playing 1 copy of primordial altar in rotom v star

I actually used all night party stadium for my deck which had the breakpoint hypno i think with the ability to make bothe pokemon asleep heal with all night party and then switch the stadium with teleport room gothitelle which made you opponents active pokemon asleep which was nice

We need a top 10 best stadiums

Magnetic field from Flashfire is probably worse than most of these.

Huh. All night party could work well with the Snorlax that puts itself to sleep in current standard

I used to play Twist Mountain when it was first introduced. There were plenty of good stadiums, but none helped my deck. So I played Twist Mountain simply to remove opposing stadiums. I also tried to make a deck with the mentioned Archeops and it wasn't too good since few decks relied on evolutions 😢 it was meant to counter Darkrai EX decks that relied on Hydreigon, and the less common "ZekEels" decks, but even that didn't work enough. Poor Twist Mountain, you tried to be a good card

Back in the day all night party was used with hypno and darkrai ex for huge damage super easily

Rn Im using Altar on my roaring moon deck in tgc live. Pokestop has thrown away many game winning cards for me in the past. That said, I'm looking forward to change my main deck...

Primordial alter would be fantastic in a black MTG deck. Too bad it’s been made for the wrong game.

Couldn't Indigo Plateau be exploited to setup 2 KOs by replacing it when your opponent's Legend was at 30 or less HP? That sounds like the worst defensive effect ever.

God am I glad we never got a viable Twist Mountain - we were saved from the dark timeline where Archeops becomes easy to get in play

I recall a team Rocket stadium card that had you have to flip a coin when you attack and if tails you took 10 damage. This was also pretty garbage.

primordial altar slapped in castform decks

argh. due to the limit of 4 of a card name in your deck, you cannot make an entire psyduck and golduck deck (psydeck) based around that one stadium. wait. does slowpoke and psyduck count as a psyduck card?

i looove putting 20 damage counters on my burned pokemon

What kept Undersea Ruins from being on the list?

Ok I may be wrong but Primordial altar is a very good card. Primordial altar could very easily work well in a deck that needs to run through the deck very fast. You could very easily primordial altar to get rid of a useless card on top and get through your deck even faster. Broken card? No WAY better than every card on this list and I was shocked to see it on here? Absolutely

Lugia Vstar ran Primordial altar with Oranguru primate wisdom to discard archeops from hand so altar shouldnt be no.1

6:30 20 damage counters lol

What about cards putting themselves to sleep luke Snorlax? He might benefit from All Night Party.

So, regarding Primordial Alter. I discovered it right after coming back from playing a ton of Yu-Gi-Oh. So... I maaaybe massively over valued it, and anything else that let me mill myself. Turns out, not so good in Pokemon. Whoooops.

Damn when I clicked on the video I was SOOOO confident that Lake Boundary would be number 1. I'm only on #9 can't wait to see what else is fucking terrible

Are you gonna have the voiceover person with the pretty voice back anymore?

Primordial isn't thaaaaatt baddddd now cmon

what's guzma?

Top 10 metal pokemon?