"Once per turn, this card can move to an adjacent unoccupied Monster Card Zone" *Slams table* THAT'S how you know it's going to be a good effect. 😤

Step 1: Tell your opponent to respect columns Step 2: Don't play any column cards Step 3: ?????????????????? Step 4: Play Yu-gi-oh the way Kazuki Takahashi intended

Me as a kid telling my opponent I'm using columns so they keep their zones clear of my set Pyramid of light so I can load my Alien Infiltrator full of equips and smoke him for game.

“Cyberdark Impact. Now this set has aged pretty well” Imagine telling someone that 10 years ago 😂

Columns are an interesting concept and Impermanence proves that it's a viable mechanic. It's just that most of these were bad.

"What's that smell? Oh. It's a box of Cyberdark Impact on fire."

The thing about playing with columns back then, it sounds like you could bluff your opponent by saying “we’re playing with columns” to throw them off. Almost like a transformative side board.

Somewhere out there, a Train enthusiast is STILL hating on Cyberdark Impact

I remember in the 2008 DS game, that you have to pick what zone you play cards if either player had a single card that dealt with columns otherwise you don't pick.

This set is so funny to me. It was so bad that my local dollar tree had TONS that they sold for years for just 1 dollar per pack. I thought the set was garbage but now I realize that I got some pretty decent cards from it lol

What could have been interesting with Blasting Fuse is that people tend to move cards to the center, making this a great surprise for them. What you do is placing this behind you central monster and activate it as soon as they move their cards around. If they would call a judge on you, you just tell the judge that they moved cards around and the fault would be on them for breaking game rules.

I'd be interested in a video on what the actual worst main set is, in terms of number of competitive cards.

As stupid as this sounds, Rampaging Rhynos was the card that almost got me back into Yugioh when I was a kid. My favourite deck before I quit was A Legendary Ocean with things like Gravity Bind and Amphibious Bugroth Mk3 to attack directly, so seeing a level 3 monster that could natively go up to 2k was like 👀. I never ended up player again until TOSS, but I've always had some nostalgia for the dumb column cards that I thought were so cool when I was like 11. Shoutouts to all the kids who grew up with the video games and played by the rules with things like columns because you just didn't realise you could move things about and not be called a cheater.

It's a such a YGO thing that most of this video boils down to "the cards were bad cause people wouldn't follow the rules"

I remember in 2003 having a duel with a co-worker in Starbucks after we closed the store at 2am. We both were shuffling our hands and back row the entire time and I "lost" because we were both under the impression that his Relinquished could continue to randomly chose any of my monsters to equip to it and keep taking my precious Celtic Guardians and WingWeavers each turn. Aaah days gone by. 😁😏😶😑😦😩

Counter-Argument: You DON'T tell your opponent that they need to play with columns, and instead you call the judge on them the second they move a card to get them DQ'd for cheating. Think smarter, kids.

I’d just be telling every opponent to watch their columns and then run like Exodia.

7:05 Storm Shooter: because Konami thought Normal Summoning Möbius for 1 tribute was too cool

Drinking game: take a shot everytime dzeff says "back in the day"

I was just thinking about these column cards and how to use them in today’s modern day game and then voila!

Columns you say? He's Coming MonkaS

Rampaging Rhynos to me sounds like a card you'd play against people who didn't realize you don't HAVE to summon in the middle column first

Now we have busted column cards, like yajiro invader

Today I learned people used to not respect columns.... It was always normal for anyone I ever played with

Reminder that Rata meme'd Links into existence.

Farfa viewers when they see effects to move columns: "monkaW, he's coming"

Just like All Star from Smash Mouth: *And they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming...*

Using an ojama deck with these column-type cards would be interesting to watch.

Back in the day, I actually won a single game on Dueling Network with a Senet Deck. Sure, it was against a forum friend, and sure, we weren't exactly playing competitive decks, but a win with a Senet Deck in the era when the only column cards were those in this video is still awesome. :D Yes, I said Dueling Network. It was that long ago that it hadn't been restarted as Dueling Book yet.

I remember playing Needle Wall and we still didn't care about columns, they just had to sit still for the die roll.

So... since people didn't care if you moved your cards around, what if you just moved Blasting Fuse before activating it? I wonder how people would react to that one xD

I like how columns were integrated into the game. Not only with Imperm and Mekk-Knights, but just with links in general made columns more important to strategy. Then there's also Iron Dragon Tiamaton, and even Appliancers to a certain degree since placement matters for their co-linked/not co-linked effects

I do like how Storm Shooter, as well as Sonic Shooter and especially Swift Birdman Joe, are basically male Harpies.

There are a few ways to change which zone these cards are moved to, and some of them are actually decent cards. Magical Hats is 1 example most players may have never thought of. Not only could you change its location of the card, but you could also either get your floating effects of cards or get spells and traps in the grave that need to be there to use effects. And of course, you also have a chance to protect your monster as intended upon the cards creation. Before posting this, I did look up rulings on Magical Hats and have seen that there arent any involving monsters in the Extra Zone, nor are there any errata to adjust the text to the new rules. Hats has been 1 of my favorite cards since it was first released because I saw just how good it could be. So if anybody has new rulings or errata, please share as I would love to know so I can see about building a strategy that can use the card for support

Not going to lie, for the longest time, I thought you had to use your columns in a specific order. I didn't know you had an option as to where to place cards.

Hi, i recently found this playlist and i'm really enjoying it. Have you ever tought to show card texts that were bad translated in other languages? For italian cards, Wind Up Shark from ORCS and Swift Scarecrow from STBL are just few examples

Maybe columns decks coudl have done somthing if only the monsters could move to any unused minster zone instead of only the ones right next to them

I've only gone to a locals tournament like 8 times back when I was a teenager, and I've never seen someone play an in-between card like Dzeef explains. Guess I was lucky.

damn. bulk duel was great

Fun fact: Storm Shooter doesn't target. So it can get around those pesky "this card can't be targeted" effects.

Not sure if you've already covered it, but two cards I've had multiple issues with are Staunch Defender (I know how it works now, but at the time... oooooooo) and Cat's Ear Tribe since its attack modifying affect was weird

Konami should have released like 10-20 cards that used columns in this set. That would increase their popularity and likely their viability by a lot so you wouldn’t need to have the awkward “oh I’m playing with columns” conversation. Since they would have been more normalized.

I haven't played in some time, it was back in those days. But I specifically remember not moving your cards around being a big rule. I played in little card shops where we won booster packs as prizes. I remember quite a few kids being disqualified for moving their cards around.

Blasting Fuse is great for an Unchained VS Mekk Knight matchup. Clearly that is its best use case.

Storm Shooter was one of my outs to Jinzo back in the day. Just summon it and equip it with something and good bye Jinzo lol

Storm shooter was only good in a ninjitsu transformation deck. It was one of my old school deck for repeated bounce back which was really funny and fun 🤣

I really like the bulk challenges. Using random cards like that it’s really fun :)

I did run storm shooter in a Harpie deck at one point. Swapped it for swift birdman joe but then realized running 3 harpies hunting ground already gave me enough back row pops

Broken line is my go to column omni negate first turn. Always works lol

Still waiting for Row mechanic

I guess you could say that cyberdark impact wasnt very… impactful

Ahh how I miss the old Yugioh

Thanks reading these stupid effects cheers me up 🤣 Wait don't I have that card in my deck 😦

As a MtG player, columns in he old days kind of remind me of Miracle. Miracle maid you draw your first card for turn in a very specific way, or else you wouldn't get the effect, so you gave away information to your opponent. It's a weird situation where mechanics are effected by the physical realities of play.

Mindgame in the past: tell them they need to care about columns while playing a deck that doesn't actually care about columns. They'll spend multiple turns playing around nothing

Not sure of other peoples areas but I've been playing since 2003 and here in Toronto Canada I've almost never seen players shift cards once on the field. They might shift them a little is space was limited but they still kept things lined up, never looking like Stonehenge like in your video. Rampaging Rhynos was a nice addition to my Pest Control (Earth toolbox) deck back then, along with injection Fairy Lilly and Ancient Gear Engineer they made a trio of troubleshooting battle phase tricks.

Keep the nostalgia coming

I used to think support cards would eventually be released that made those lame cards OP cards (like Ojama Trio)

Unpopular opinion but I wish so bad that the column cards had been really strong & become a staple part of the game. Yugioh really struggled with having a real identity for so long & it eventually coalesced around the extra deck & I think a version of yugioh where columns had become super important early on would've been so much cooler

You should do a series where you talk bout cards that when released had no purpose and people thought were trash but later became a very important staple to whatever deck applies

Storm Shooter is unfortunately they only thing i could find for a generic level 7 winged-beast monster. Wanted to make decks that were old school-ish but winged beast and pyro didnt have any good monsters that were level 7 or 8 normal, ever released. So as such, I was forced to have to get a few of these. I wish we had more normal monsters just to experiment strategies with TBH. I personally like the concept of decks needing a normal monster to function in some way, but the game definitely evolved away from that.

Storm Shooter seems like it could be an interesting Simorgh Link target, if you aren’t already going for Mist Valley Apex Avian. MAYBE. Free bounce sounds like it may be interesting

Why would I have to announce that my opponent have to follow a RULE before the match? Why can't I just tell him off when he tries to move around cards mid match? They are breaking the rules, after all?

Storm shooter was a level 7 for wind effigy, in concept phase it was probably pitched as a lvl 6, just like dark end dragon and light end dragon being originally effect monsters but later turned into synchro monsters

"an adjacent (horizontal) unoccupied Monster Card Zone." So, prior to the errata one could move a monster to the opponent's side of the field. Would that give the opponent control of your monster or would it temporarily rob them of one of their monster zones? If the latter I think the power of column monsters may've been underestimated.

pretty nice that this video came out days after pak topped with a deck playing broken line, a column based negate

rampaging rhynos would be amazing in cardfight 😂

Columns would be cool in a Chess-like Labyrinth Wall synerio, but this game lasts 2 turns give or take.

3:19 In other words, Konami hated people with OCD and decided to plague them with column cards

I never moved my cards around in the first place and once these cards came out, during sanctioned matches, I made sure my opponent didn't either even though I didn't play card with column mechanics, since I always hated people just moving stuff around all the time. LOL I also made sure I placed cards in a way to minimize any potential damage from Blasting Fuse, just in case, and I was secretly hoping to see someone that I played having it (never did).

It's funny because none of the games cares about columns prior to MR4 either. They just spawned things in a zone without letting you pick.

I have never ever in my life seen Storm Shooter lmao, I've been playing since day 1, what an absolute misfire of a card Konami...

Revently learned that despite all the often unexcesary editing, konami released a card named lucifer. No sir

Rampaging Rhynos I used by Ulti in a pure beast warrior deck. Its got pretty good stats for a level 3 beast warrior so had some uses still has a bad mechanic it had though.

Saddest thing about Senet Switch is how it was more useful as a Maiden with Eyes of Blue trigger than for its actual effect. Not that it was particularly good for that purpose either because that's not much of a pay-off for running an otherwise completely dead card, but it was a niche that saw some low-level play at least.

Coming to this video after a yugioh hiatus, the idea that columns actually apparently matter now blows my mind and sounds like a headache to keep track of

So, I've thought about Senet Switch a lot, and I don't believe the cards main purpose was to actually move monsters. Given Cyberdark Impact's gimmick was effects happening on high chain links, the points of Senet Switch was to provide an consistent Chain link one with an effect so worthless the opponent would not want to try and destroy it, or needing to burn an extra card every turn. It's still bad though.

Yes back in the day we did shift cards to keep the field neet before placement of cards mattered, barbaric

1:50 VRAINSSSS!! XD

I was wondering why I never saw any of these cards. I just realized it's because I played almost exclusively the video games that they released for consoles, and they just never included these. Makes sense too. For one, they are pretty bad and not a lot of people liked them, but you'd have to reprogram entire sections of the game to even be able to include them. When you don't have a lot of ROM space to begin with, then cutting them out is just the smart move.

The only place where these cards had a chance was in the video games where the game automatically places your cards in the zones in the same preprogrammed order. But even then no one would use Storm Shooter, because better monsters and Compulsory Evacuation Device exist.

Having played competitively from 2004 to 2014, I never once saw a player move their cards out of their initial column. Was this an actual thing that happened?

Rampaging Rhynos seems like it would've been good with Ground Collapse

Ironic: when we played ygo back in school, one of us had a gorz (it was meta back then), but it was not op because he always had to tell that we have to declare our attack orders :) (when we had game we always made the "i attack with all of them, thats game"-move).

Look who's back

I dont know when ground collapse came out or ojama king but they were cards with collum requirement that are pretty old

This did matter with regards to know information.

I definitely think you had something with the bulk challenge it just didn't seem to be popular seeing over dueling book. I think that it might be worth considering when non-virtual tournaments start back up to maybe bring a few packs of them and one night play a game with them casually while chatting about other stuff as well.

I never played with anyone who shifted their cards after setting them. Also while not columns ground collapse took away monster zones. Anyone who played legit never moved their cards

The thumbnail looks like the next-to-final boss on Zelda II: The Adventure of Link.

Column cards are now good to unlink your monsters to opponent's link monsters...

What? I never heard of players not following columns in early days Yugioh lol that’s insane

There were already stronger Direct Attack monsters than Alien Infiltrator, so the card would have found more use, if it had more ATK, also it's easier to have a strong big monster and just direct attack the opponent with Shooting Star Bow (and Reverse Trap)

People are silly, Senet Switch's original intention was to move Monsterst o Monster Card Zones, it shouldn't have needed an errata. But then this is a game that purposefully made text MORE confusing and claimed that it was clarifying text, that Dark World nonsense brrr.

I like this title so much lol

>column cards thank you for the nostalgia

Columns were a really interesting idea, pity the originals weren't any good. Still a fun idea

4:44 been hoping for a Rhynos Archetype for a while Heck, I probably wrote up one! ... I need my PC back to life Q_Q

Bulk was great but it was poorly promoted and until the last one the thumbnails did not explain what happened. Also usually the sellers are going to sell a lot of similar cards so it is mostly a mirror match. I'm really looking forward another series from you.

Oh right, on that note, does storm shooter target? Kinda thought it's a neat removal for my simorgh deck... ...I meant the main deck has simorgh cards too