How Broken Were Joey Wheeler's Yu-Gi-Oh! Monsters?

[@mezla_]

time wizard is essential in my dark sage turbo deck strategy. that has to be considered . im 0-13 at locals but it's coming together soon.

[@t.j.hampton6483]

Bruh😂😂😂😂

[@olivernguyen1709]

the 1-13 power spike is coming together soon

[@heartman6314]

Time Wizard was in the 2019 duel links world champion's deck believe it or not

[@Emporkommling]

You need to try out Second Coin Toss. It’s super busted in Dark Sage Turbo

[@autobotstarscream765]

If only Dark Sage worked like the anime version: by *whiffing* Time Wizard's effect and destroying your own Dark Magician, since that means you come out ahead either way, by wiping your opponent's board with Time Wizard or turning your DM into a mighty searcher. (To anyone reading this obvious joke thread and thinking of doing this for real: Kaijus, Sphere Mode, and Nibiru are your friends as you need to delete absolutely every walking negate from your opponent's side before even thinking of deploying Time Wizard.)

[@MrTAG-re5ym]

Don’t pretend like Swamp Battleguard isn’t the most broken monster Joey has. If you control it and Lava Battleguard they can’t be destroyed because of the power of friendship!

[@SwoleTommyPickles]

Don’t those very powerful monsters belong to Tristan?

[@delgande]

@@SwoleTommyPickles kinda I think they each owned one or at least Tristan compared hia friendship with Joey to the battleguard cards

[@MrTAG-re5ym]

Lava was Tristan’s, Swamp was Joey’s.

[@CEDL0W]

I remember dueling someone years ago who actually thought this was a thing.

[@datboi9539]

Battle Guards - *Exist* Res Eyes Black Dragon - " I'm about to end these monster's whole careers.

[@paulieswalnut]

Why WOULDN'T someone consider Jinzo to be Joey's? He won his Red Eyes from Rex Raptor in the 1st season too.

[@leonardobianucci6218]

Joey gimick in battle city was that his deck is build from shit from everybody he beated. Like fisherman and insect Queen. Why the hell Joey use them in his deck is a mistery

[@Shadothecat]

But joey made red eyes b dragon his basically developing the archetype

[@Shadothecat]

@@leonardobianucci6218 everyone pretty much use cards they gain from matches

[@crystalxlov3]

Derik Roberts Agree. Even Time Wizard was given by Yugi?

[@leonardobianucci6218]

@@Shadothecat not really. Or did you see yugi using the other dark magician or masked beast. I cant really remember which Ace monster was Rex during the arc. Kaiba is the same. Joey use jinzo. Insect Queen, legebdary fisherman and even insect parasyte. A card he really dont win but he obtain from weebile anyway. The only card that others use after battles are the gods ones that change hands

[@Wholecorpze]

Joey: Draws a garbage card Oh yeah, its all coming together

[@iBenjamin1000]

“Aaaawwww yeeeheahhh it’s aaahhhh comin’ tugethuh”

[@matty9460]

@@iBenjamin1000 "I tribute my gearfried the iron knight to summon, flame swordsman!" Everyone: *joey that's supposed to be in your fusion deck*

[@zozidedodo780]

@@iBenjamin1000 as we say in Brooklyn

[@juliusmagwood6909]

That was funny

[@mathunit1]

It may be garbage to you, but with a little bit of Joey magic, anything garbage can be broken. ;)

[@thefury770able]

Red eyes black dragon also wasn’t originally owned by Joey so I don’t think anyone would have a problem with jinzo

[@asmylia9880]

Wasn't time wizard also yugis card originally?

[@TheWizardMus]

@@asmylia9880 yes, yugi gave it to him before Duelist Kingdom so he could summon Thousand Year Dragon

[@aionicthunder]

Asmylia Wait, that means all of Joey’s “good” cards were from other people. Sounds about right

[@MrMisterJW]

@@aionicthunder to be fair, he earned Jinzo without even using Red-Eyes.

[@craig3536]

I think, Joey won Red Eyes from Rex.

[@crimsonhero3583]

With his incredible luck, Time Wizard was the most broken card in the show.

[@DragonWaffleX]

Hilariously broken lol

[@sinjoh53]

In yugioh duel link , this card see some play with sartorius because he have a skill named master of destiny who allow him to always have head for the first 3 coin toss so you always have a raigeki with him

[@pamoon_]

Remember when Time Wizard backfired on Joey when he dueled Bones lmao

[@saharudin3159]

In the manga that time wizard not monster ..

[@aionicthunder]

Nathan Castro Yep, and it was the only moment when time wizard ever failed to go off

[@Dzeeff]

A lot of you guys seem to think Jinzo cannot be revived with Call of the Haunted. Not only is that play totally valid, it's especially cool because if the CotH gets destroyed the Jinzo will stay because it negates the effects. It's a classic combo that was commonly used back in the day :) *Video made before Dragun of Red-Eyes was released in the TCG, although I don't believe that's a card Joey used anyway

[@tonyquesnell3401]

Ah but did you know that Dragun of Red-eyes will make this video age poorly. Smile

[@alexiswilson2870]

Joey never used Dragun of Red-Eyes, don't worry, Doug.

[@tonyquesnell3401]

I was memeing off of Doug's Twitter fyi

[@seqka711]

Yesterday was my Dad's b-day so my brother and I broke out the old school decks and I actually did revive Jinzo with CotH. My brother didn't believe me when I said Jinzo worked that way.

[@jacobestrada1399]

It's not a card Joey used. However Konami ruled that if you summon Dragun using Red-Eyes Fusion and/or Anaconda then you have to send the original Red-Eyes B. Dragon as material. You cannot use any generic dragon with Red-Eyes Fusion. Which means when Dragun is released Red-Eyes B. Dragon will see a lot of meta play, but only as a Fusion Material. Red-Eyes B. Dragon is currently seeing a lot of play in the OCG because of this. :)

[@Auskaa]

I think this comment is missing "Joey Wheeler is a third rate duelist with a fourth rate deck." - Kaiba

[@Aloyus_Knight]

Who gets by only on luck & plot armor.

[@aurafox1]

They really did Joey dirty in the anime. They gave him this whole character arc about wanting to improve his skill by challenging opponents that were stronger than him and then they turned around and gave him a gambling deck making every single one of his "impressive" victories the result of luck.

[@twoscarabsintheswarm9055]

Ikr, it's so saddd

[@sceptile6375]

Aura Fox *heart of the cards

[@renatoramos8834]

Plus the BS on his duel with odion and marik, like having the useless swordsman of landstar, combatant, insect queen and legendary fisherman in his deck.

[@arandomcrusader8822]

@@renatoramos8834 useless Swordsman of Landstar? Bro Swordsman of Landstar is the best card in Yugioh

[@paulgoogol2652]

That's the most ignorant thing I heard today. Joey doesn't rely on luck but oN tHe PoWaH oF fRiEnDsHiP!

[@jdb2002]

People consider Slifer to be Yugi's God card, even though he had to win it as well.

[@lordkars3971]

All god cards are his

[@ryandennison8754]

And Kaiba was given Obelisk by Ishizu. And Marik stole Slifer and Ra to begin with.

[@whiteraven562]

Also, Joey won Red-Eyes Black Dragon from Rex Raptor

[@danieltucker1329]

Following this thought consider that dark magician is considered Yugi's boss card even though he got it from his grandpa. Fandom flips. Also grandpa had the blue eyes white dragon that kaiba stole and ripped because he was afraid of someone else having one.

[@mekklord]

Joey's strat in Duelist Kingdom: Time Wizard Joey's strat in Battle City: Jinzo thats it.

[@cancerstinks1]

And yet he should’ve beaten Marik. What does that say about the show’s villains?

[@RGA301092]

If only Joey could get Jinzo out on the field before Kaiba used Crush Card. He'd have stood a much better chance in the duel.

[@whirlpoolstudio97]

Don't forget the dices

[@psykopandaz]

Season 4: Claw of Hermos.

[@indumatipngtuber2790]

What about the anime version of Skull Dice and Grateful Dice?

[@cba_2442]

You forgot Battle Warrior. He's broken because he uses his BARE HANDS.

[@FireIsTheCIeanser]

Battle Warrior decks are the ultimate counter for Zombies

[@doorbladder5735]

Don't forget Alligator Sword. He can swing with his sword so fast that it's more dan da speed o' sound!

[@fudgelee624]

@@doorbladder5735 when u started typing in joey talk the joey voice just came to me

[@mnorth1351]

Nice.

[@ohfrickitsphil]

@@fudgelee624 That's the actual text on the card btw. No, I am not joking.

[@StarkMaximum]

I like how Dzeeff opens the Jinzo segment talking about how he wasn't even sure if Jinzo was a "Joey monster" because he got it from another duelist when his most iconic monster, Red-Eyes, was ALSO acquired from a duelist he beat (it was Rex Raptor's ace, which was weird because his entire deck was Dinosaurs except for Red-Eyes). Joey is basically Yu-Gi-Oh Mega Man, if you think about it.

[@asmylia9880]

Wasn't time wizard also a Yugi card before duelist kingdom?

[@r4nd0mguy99]

The thing with dinosaurs and dragon may not seem to be as obvious at first glance, but they share the same sign in one of the Japanese ways of writing. I think it was the kanji.

[@Dzeeff]

Yeah, I guess it just goes to show how little I remember from the anime. I didn't even think to look up Red-Eyes' history because everyone knows it's a Joey card lol

[@dairebeare7839]

StarkMaximum rex also used tyrant dragon as a boss monster in s4, I actually like the concept of a dragon as a boss for dinosaurs

[@DrakeKnight99]

Rex also had Serpent Night Dragon before he lost it to what's his name

[@patitoduck123]

Way too broken. His entire deck was OP. Swordsman of Landstar is probably one of the top 5 best monster cards ever printed.

[@patitoduck123]

MegaFriendlyCreeper “Monsters?! Real monsters ?!”

[@r4nd0mguy99]

The funny part of Swordsman of Landstar: It got a reprint as a tuner-monster. I knew the tuner-monster before the actual one because of multiple reasons.

[@UtopiaSutcliff]

Landstar as an archetype is so broken that Konami refused to print Brigadier, Knight and Grappler.

[@Lorens4444]

"whispers" Yes, Joey had a Tuner before Synchros even were in development. Konami didn't know Takahashi made a Tuner so they printed it as a vanila. XD

[@FirstLast-mn4re]

To be fair Anime Graceful dice did kind of make Swordsman of Lanstar kind of good in his deck.

[@bocodamondo]

man, the fusion deck was freaking insane back then...though i wonder why they specifically decided to limit it to the number 15 once they changed it to the extra deck

[@Dzeeff]

If I had to take a guess, it was to match the number of the Side Deck

[@PhoenixDragon90]

I think if they didn’t the extra deck would be stuffed with fusions, synchros, and xyz summons. But don’t know why 15 tho.

[@newquinken]

I guess it's because they knew that other extra deck monsters would inevitably happen and they didn't want people to just have any amount of ALL their extra deck monsters in there, since then WAY too many combos could happen... but I DO wonder why specifically it's 15, I could understand 15 during the Synchro and maybe even Xyz era... but now with Link Monster beings thing, and the fact Link Monsters REALLY focus on having a lot of them, as well as the Pendulum Era strike home the point that you want a little bit of every kind of Extra Deck monster if you can... you'd think they'd increase that limit a bit XD

[@darkthunder2776]

@@newquinken Why 15? 15 is 1/4 the size of the main deck is my only idea.

[@Auron3991]

Heroes and pre-empting Zombie. Heroes game plan back then was toss three copies of every hero they could get their hands on and generally have no penalty for being overly greedy. Zombie was already a powerful engine at the time, so it would be a bit too much to allow them free access to three copies of any synchro they wanted. Probably some I missed, as they may have had things like Chimeritech Fortress already planned, and Cyber Dragon would have been absolutely oppressive with that level of flexibility in addition to being the perfect fodder for just about any non-level five synchro.

[@Emporkommling]

Gearfried the Iron Knight is also the backbone of a Goat Format deck called “Gearfried Control” where you use Smoke Grenade of Thief to rip cards out of the opponent’s hand and Blast with Chain for spot removal.

[@vicentserrano9268]

Damn.

[@RGA301092]

And who could forget that infamous interaction with Butterfly Dagger Elma (and Royal Magical Library)?

[@anorexicshrooms]

To add to this some warrior tool box decks run it since it can be searched with reinforcement of the army, cannot be run over by tsukiyomi and has very high attack for the time period 1800/1600 and cannot be stolen with snatch steal. Not a super popular thing but it does have its niche.

[@JaxOf7]

>117 card extra deck Memory Crusher: "I'm about to end this man's whole career."

[@Greg501-]

Imagine Pot of Extravagance before the ED was capped at 15

[@JaxOf7]

@@Greg501- Drawing 2 cards for no cost? Can't think of any card that does that...

[@DylansLapplandSimping]

@@JaxOf7 Pokemon Trainer Bill, but nothing in YuGiOh.

[@SHADOMEGA7569]

*smacks Table* 11700 damage the sheer luck one must have to have MC in hand going second only for your opponent to brick

[@SleepyTaylor]

Jizno is definitely a joey card, same with red eyes, even if he had to win them to get them.

[@asmylia9880]

Don't forget about time wizard, since he originally got him from Yugi

[@mrdude88]

Yeah, if Konami printed a Joey Tin box with Jinzo in it, then it’s a Joey card.

[@trueblueryu5713]

The real question should be: How broken is Joey Wheeler? If this guy entered the modern era he’d never draw a single garnet and always get the exact hand traps and combo pieces he needs... unless he’s going against a main character

[@Shinigami13133]

So I play super casually, what's a garnet?

[@snaketemplar5851]

@@Shinigami13133 Garnet is a monster card used for brilliant fusion. Garnet is the best card to use with it due to its stats compared to other gem knights. Brilliant fusion requires Garnet to be in your deck to work so drawing it makes brilliant fusion worthless. Normally people only use 1 garnet so the term became drawing a garnet due to how good brilliant fusion was.

[@Kris2005isMine]

Imagine a hypothetical duel between Joey Wheeler and Han Solo, the two luckiest characters in fiction

[@trueblueryu5713]

@@Kris2005isMine I’d put James Bond over Han. Bond survives the most ridiculous Bs largely through a combination of smooth talking and everybody he faces having an ego the size of a continent.

[@dudono1744]

@@Shinigami13133 A garnet is a card you want to be in your deck and nowhere else

[@DrDrao]

How broken were Joey's monsters? No.

[@Kopfballmagnus]

Wow the rare inclusiveNor.

[@toadallynoodle5414]

Except Marauding Captain and Jinzo, kinda.

[@skullservant8486]

I'm surprised he managed to find 10 of em worth at least something I guess

[@DrDrao]

@@toadallynoodle5414 Jinzo, sure, definitely an iconic card. Cap was just the right type and level for a specific purpose.

[@guythat779]

He has swordsman of landstar and jinzo damnit

[@PizzaRatJC]

The legend says if you play swordsman of landstar, in any context, regardless who you play with, dzeef will break into your house and beat you with a sock filled with cards while you sleep

[@Kongumon]

since you brought up Duel Links, Time Wizard was also used back when Desperado Barrel Dragon was big. The skill used in that deck was "your first three coin flips will always be heads. you must have at least 5 cards with coin flip effects to use this skill." so people put in one copy of Time Wizard just to fill up space, and it could occasionally be useful.

[@autobotstarscream765]

>Your first 3 Coin Flips will always be heads *>Time Wizard* Pretty sure he was more than just filler. >:3

[@williamzeo2493]

Yugi: grandchild of a card store owner, can use any card that his grandpa have in the store, Atem is always saving his @$$ because he sucks as a player. Kaiba: rich boy that purchase any card that he wish, abuses the regular players with his expensive cards, but when faced against someone in equal conditions always loses. Joey: the underground hero that plays with any card that he can find because he don't have money to buy the expensive ones, use creativity and luck to cover from this weakness, truly the true hero of the show, Joey represent us all!

[@sakuraryuji01]

funny enough a similar gimmick happened with Yusei as well. in particular his Junk deck. Both Yusei and Joey took value in cards from unusual places.

[@yellowsoy2475]

Preach! Preach! Preach! Joey is the best.

[@IceBlueLugia]

Sakura Ryuji Yeah, it was an interesting take on a similar dynamic, with Yusei, Jack, and Crow

[@FireRising86]

Joey rocks!

[@Dratspider]

Wow you really know nothing about Yugi do you? To start like someone else here said Solomon’s shop is actually quite small and doesn’t even have all the best cards only a few rare ones sprinkled amongst a mass of mediocrity you just need to see the deck that Yugi used in his first duel vs Kaiba to see this. Then there’s where you said that Yugi is an awful duelist without Atem. Do I need to remind you that it was YUGI’S strategy that defeated Pegasus? Sure Atem executed it but it was YUGI’S plan to begin with. Then there’s the fact that he defeated Atem during the shows finale. Finally there’s the millennium puzzle. In case you forgot the puzzle improves the luck of the user proportionate to their skill and Yugi has had a lot of lucky moments that rival Joeys. In other words if you’re gonna summarize a character do it right.

[@CLOWNBOT00]

We never (yet) got a Joey Structure Deck. Try to imagine the chaos.

[@CLOWNBOT00]

@Ro 2 Rex & Weevil, they both had potential. Even more so than Joey because their Decks had consistency and were themed. I agree with you!

[@ethanhowell7472]

There is one in the legendary duelist set. A yugi kaiba and joey deck

[@samuelosborn294]

There definitely use to be a Joey starter deck hell there was even a Pegasus

[@crypticbeast1013]

There actually was a Joey Structure Deck released. Only in Japan though.

[@NekoGoth7]

Sorry mate but there is a joey structure deck that's how back in the day you got your scapegoat..... Don't believe me look it up on Google

[@joshuawenninger6439]

7:25 For those wondering, the Pokemon card that Dzeeff is referring to in this section is "Lysandre's Trump Card", which allows both players to shuffle all cards in their discard piles back into their decks.

[@dufort]

There's also an entire deck in GOAT built around Gearfried. It's like a Zoo Hand Control anti-meta deck. Also, Red Eyes did briefly get a chance as a rogue deck this past year. There was a Red Eyes variant of Guardragon that topped a couple regionals before Agarpain got hit

[@urickmann7768]

Yugi=ability to manipulate what card he draws Joey=ability to manipulate luck Kaiba=ability to manipulate $

[@goodguyjosh3142]

This is Joey‘s best monster cards but he played time wizard as a spell lol

[@Namingway248]

the manga intended it to be one but when the game became real they changed a lot

[@t.j.hampton6483]

It was just the first pendulum monster

[@moonsalibi]

@@t.j.hampton6483 I mean, grandfather clocks do have pendulums and time wizard makes babies into the elderly, so your not wrong I guess?

[@NeumanProductions]

When talking about Jinzo...well Time Wizard was given by Yugi, Red-Eyes was won from Rex, most of his identifying cards were not his originally.

[@ballermoody]

If people don't consider cards that are won or given then I'm pretty sure half his deck doesn't count

[@ballermoody]

@Haku infinite He used insect queen and he probably still has the fisherman he probably has it in a side deck or something if the cartoon had side decks

[@ballermoody]

@Haku infinite the only time was against Odion in battle city . Weevil got another one by beating dartz later on .

[@giannispapakrivopoulos5455]

During battle city: yugi has red-eyes black dragon, dark magician and buster blader on the field. Fusion summons dark paladin. Today: yugi fusion summons dragun of red-eyes showing how much stronger he got thanks to joey's friendship

[@TheJaredPunch]

Giannis Papakrivopoulos awesome looking monster by the way

[@TKMagnus]

did he rly summon dark paladin? i dont think so xD facebook.com/ygotcgbr/videos/1316926381848016/

[@samueljackson3512]

Huh?

[@supershadow9933]

TK Magnus yugi only wins by cheating.

[@RGA301092]

@@TKMagnus ...Yes? It's how he beat Kaiba in Battle City.

[@zacharidickinson7571]

I'd honestly like Butterfly Dagger - Elma to get an errata. Give it a hard once per turn to come back to your hand, just so it's Guardian counterpart can be used. I'd generally like to see a return from the Guardian archetype because they did have a unique gimmick.

[@martynkalendar]

You know, Deep-Eyes OTK relies on your opponent being able to consistently destroy Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Joey didn't manage to do that a single time in the entire anime

[@sonairshadowheart254]

He took control of a blue eyes during his battle city duel against Kaiba

[@dcdubzgaming3846]

and he technically destroyed a blue eyes since kaiba crashed into Joey's with his own. joey didnt call the attack but it was his card that destroyed it, even if it was instantly monster reborned

[@cheyguy1211]

First he destroyed a Blue-Eyes, then he special summoned it to his side of the field. Then, Kaiba had to crash another one in. What are you even talking about?

[@cybercoldymcphearson7338]

@@cheyguy1211 I remember that. Kaiba did not take that very well, hah.

[@FelisTerras]

@@cybercoldymcphearson7338 No kidding. Also, Jounouchi is the only opponent in the entire series who ever pulled that stunt on Kaiba. Period.

[@bluhmer1990]

Here's the thing, judging how broken an anime character's cards are is different because card effects in the anime can be quite different than in the real game. For example the Egyptian Gods are even more broken in the anime as they can just straight up bust through mirror force.

[@diophantine6677]

So can E HERO Wildheart

[@zeaferjones1404]

The most broken anime card besides Curse of Anubis was Joey's Grave Robber because he could take any magic card his opponent used on him and not sacrifice life points. Also he used it as a reverse monster reborn against Odion and actually summoned Jinzo after he put it in Odion's grave yard.

[@newquinken]

The reason Joey had Jinzo was because when he battled Espa Roba, the guy who has Jinzo first, it was during the Battle City Arc, and basically the battle City tournament had a thing where whenver you defeat someone, they have to give you their rarest card, which is why Joey ALSO had Insect Queen from Weevile Underwood, and the Legendary Fisherman from Mako Tsunami

[@mnorth1351]

"I'll show 'em all that Joey Wheeler's no amateur!" *Summons Swordsman of Landstar*

[@celestial_illusions]

Jinzo may not be from joey originally, but neither was red eyes

[@asmylia9880]

And neither was time wizard

[@OutlawOtaku]

Here's how to make Red Eyes a decent deck: Konami needs to stop associating the strategy with Joey's random cluster of unsynergetic cards and make it more of a Dragon centric deck strategy like what Fubuki had in GX.

[@mathunit1]

Or you know, just play Dragun of Red-Eyes. :P

[@autobotstarscream765]

In other words, stop making Joey cards and go back to making Atticus cards like REDMD.

[@nikolasota4162]

or you know be abusable by the link Predaplant to used Red-eyes Fusion to get Dragun of Red-eyes, gilti-gearfried (super poly target)

[@jsb6975.ah.crapbaskets]

Honestly, I've only ever watched the anime, so I'm not sure how much my two cents are worth on the subject, but here are some card ideas I've thought of: *Red-Eyes Rocketeer* _(Warrior/Effect/ATK: 1500/DEF: 1300)_ Level 4 Target one monster on the field, that monster loses 500 ATK while "Red-Eyes Rocketeer" is on the field. Also, if this card is equipped to a Red-Eyes monster, that monster can no longer be destroyed by battle. If equipped to "Red-Eyes Black Dragon", you can sacrifice that monster to special summon one "Red-Eyes Lightning Dragon" from the extra deck. *Red-Eyes Lightning Dragon* _(Warrior/Fusion/Effect/ATK: 2800/DEF: 1400)_ Level 8 _1 Level 5+ Red-Eyes monster and 1 Warrior monster_ Must be special summoned by fusing one level 5 or higher Red-Eyes monster and one Warrior monster, or by sacrificing a "Red-Eyes Black Dragon" equipped with "Red-Eyes Rocketeer". Once per turn: If you send three Red-Eyes monsters from your hand, field, or deck to the graveyard, destroy all monsters your opponent controls. *Red-Eyes Parasite* _(Insect/Effect/ATK: 500/DEF: 300)_ Level 2 Select one monster your opponent controls, that monster can no longer attack while "Red-Eyes Parasite" is on the field. Also, if this card is equipped to a "Red-Eyes Black Dragon", sacrifice that monster to special summon one "Red-Eyes Black Carapace Dragon" from the extra deck. *Red-Eyes Black Carapace Dragon* _(Insect/Fusion/Effect/ATK: 2200/DEF: 2400)_ Level 7 _1 Level 5+ Red-Eyes monster and 1 Insect monster_ Must be special summoned by fusing one level 5 or higher Red-Eyes monster with one Insect monster, or by sacrificing a "Red-Eyes Black Dragon" equipped with "Red-Eyes Parasite" and cannot be summoned by other ways. Whenever it destroys an opponent's monster by battle, replace that opponent's monster with a "Red-Eyes Parasite" token, if one of these tokens leaves the field, your opponent loses 500 life points. Also, Red-Eyes Black Carapace Dragon gains 200 ATK for every "Red-Eyes Parasite" token on your opponent's field. *Red-Eyes Machine Menace* _(Machine/Effect/ATK: 600/DEF: 1400)_ Level 3 Once summoned, this monster can attack the opponent directly. If equipped to a Red-Eyes monster, sacrifice that monster and deal damage to the opponent equal to the equipped monster's original ATK points. If this card is equipped to "Red-Eyes Black Dragon", you can sacrifice that monster to special summon one "Red-Eyes Psycho Dragon" from your extra deck. *Red-Eyes Psycho Dragon* _(Machine/Fusion/Effect/ATK: 2400/DEF: 1500)_ Level 6 _1 Level 5+ Red-Eyes monster and 1 Machine monster_ Must be special summoned by fusing one level 5 or higher Red-Eyes monster and one Machine monster, or by sacrificing a "Red-Eyes Black Dragon" equipped with "Red-Eyes Machine Menace" and cannot be summoned by other ways. Effect changes based on method of summoning: if summoned by fusing one level 5 or higher Red-Eyes monster and 1 Machine monster, negate all traps your opponent controls. If summoned by sacrificing a "Red-Eyes Black Dragon" equipped with "Red-Eyes Machine Menace": negate all spells your opponent controls. *Red-Eyes Grave Desecrater* _(Zombie/Effect/ATK: 500/DEF: 300)_ Level 1 If sent to the graveyard, pay 1000 life points to special summon this monster back onto the field. If equipped to a Red-Eyes monster, all monsters the equipped monster sends to the graveyard are banished instead. *Red-Eyes Blazing Vengeance Dragon* _(Winged Beast/Effect/ATK: ?/DEF: ?)_ Level 10 Must be summoned from the hand by banishing three or more Red-Eyes monsters from your graveyard. Once summoned its ATK and DEF points become the combined ATK and DEF points of the Red-Eyes monsters banished to summon it. If an opponent activates a card effect, send one Red-Eyes monster from your field, hand, or deck to the graveyard: negate the activation, and if you do: destroy that card. If you banish one Red-Eyes monster: destroy all monsters on your opponent's side of the field. Pay any amount of life points, this card deals damage to the opponent equal to the life points given. *Red-Eyes Convergence* Spell If all monsters you control are Red-Eyes monsters, deal damage to your opponent equal to half the combined ATK of all your monsters. *Red-Eyes Annihilation* Continuous Trap Destroy all Red-Eyes monsters your opponent controls, then deal damage to your opponent equal to a quarter of the destroyed monster's ATK points. *Red-Eyes Reformation* Field Spell As long as this spell is active, all face-up monsters on the field are considered "Red-Eyes" monsters.

[@TheSteve5154]

I know this video is mostly focused on monsters, but Joey had the most broken card in history, both anime original ones and in real life. It was used in a filler arc of the 5th season, and I think it was called roll of destiny or dice of fate or something like that. Basically you roll a die, and draw that many cards. At worst, it’s a better upstart goblin. At best, you get an entire starting hands worth of cards for free.

[@HRCFre4k]

"Everyone´s favourite top 10 channel Watchmojo" Oh I can feel the sarcasm.

[@HasselHoffman-im5he]

Next: How broken were Joey’s Spell and Trap cards?

[@memeswithcringe1624]

Very. He played Scapegoat, Giant Trunade and Premature Burial.

[@marcosolivarria9770]

Red-Eyes is about to see a whole lot of Meta play in the TCG thanks to Dragun of Red-Eyes and Predaplant Verte Anaconda, in the OCG they're essentially the new Full Orcust Combo meme.

[@MrMarinus18]

6:30 Also very importantly it's 2400 atk was a very real threat and could blast through pretty much anything your opponent could put on the field. Royal degree didn't actually threaten your opponent and you could still lose with it on the field.

[@christophertomes6777]

Btw some of joeys iconic cards weren’t t his. Red eyes he won in season one duel from rex, and time wizard was given to him by yugi

[@sonairshadowheart254]

He also traded for most of his spells and traps on the boat to duelist kingdom

[@klondikelegitski675]

Good thing Joey didnt think to use Man Eater Bug beatdown on the show, because he wouldve went undefeated.

[@fabioribeiro4627]

To be honest, I'd be laughing if he actually set it face-down and then destroyed Blue-eyes ultimate dragon with it. Kaiba would be traumatized for months.

[@FelisTerras]

@@fabioribeiro4627 Yeah, look how he reacted when Jounouchi pulled BEWD on his side of the field. Kaiba looked like he was going to have a stroke and nuke Domino for being Jou's birth town.^^'

[@TwistedBOLT]

"Call of the haunted can bring back Jinzo" I had to check the rulings and you're right. Jinzo won't kill himself after he is summoned this way. Interesting.

[@trappyboi8678]

Giant Trunade to get the CoH back, set it in case jinzo gets destroyed. It was a pretty nasty early yu-gi-oh combo.

[@RetroMaticGamer]

After Butterfly Dagger Elma got banned, Gearfried the Iron Knight was also used with Smoke Grenade of the Thief to strip cards out of your opponent’s hand. Seems janky by today’s standards, but back then it was a pretty successful rogue tech.

[@Gleyveon]

Actually time wizard has been used a lot in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel links. In Duel links there is a skill let always let's you toss heads for the first 3 coin flips of the duel.

[@Dzeeff]

This is a video from the TCG perspective.

[@Gleyveon]

@@Dzeeff right

[@pineco2578]

Swordsman of Landstar made sense in an anime context. Graceful Dice's anime effect was it multiplies the attack of a monster with 500 or less attack so Joey would gamble getting a 6 on swordsman of landstar to get a 3000 attack beatstick right away.

[@dancorneanu9144]

And he had a card to bring out 3 of his buddies. That means is tribute fodder.

[@payne9682]

They start getting relevance only after Konami reprints them with Red-Eyes in their name... Day 316 of waiting for new Volcanic support to arrive

[@kbkksh91]

I really feel so bad for you. Almost a whole year buddy.

[@juanig4198]

Youre like the joe ninja of yugioh

[@payne9682]

@@juanig4198 Sneaky and always on the look-out.

[@juanig4198]

@@payne9682 like the volcanic support sjjsj

[@Psychospacecow]

Red-Eyes Volcanic Slicer you say?

[@Reqqles]

ahhh red-eyes black dragon and metamorphosis. that takes me back. I had a fun deck built around the dark hex-sealed fusion and red-eyes. using stuff like cannon soldier, last will and cyber jar to get mons out quickly, fuse them with hex and start dropping fusions. this was in the last format where cyber jar was still allowed at 1 per deck.

[@generaldreagonlps6889]

The only broken thing about Joey is his luck.

[@arthurc0m_h]

It’s not luck It’s joey’s magic! Also he is a very good duelist With garbage cards he could be the third best duelist in duel monsters

[@yourfriendlymemedeliverygu7493]

time wizard only landed on skull twice in the series

[@szabok1999]

@@arthurc0m_h Yes, because of luck.

[@ryandennison8754]

@@yourfriendlymemedeliverygu7493 didn’t it only land on skull once, (against Bonz ironically)? I thought it landed on time warp 6 out of 7 times.

[@TheZipperDragon]

8:00 I used a similar card in Lightsworn called Localized Tornado. It's a trap that resets the grave, & hand/field (cant remember which) of both players.

[@finnianfanning3136]

Dragun of Red Eyes is about Red Eyes some play though.

[@conortk5676]

If Jinzo didn't count as a Joey card then neither would Red Eyes and none of the Egyptian Gods or even Dark Magician could be conisdered Yugi cards

[@mekklord]

They were broken for sure. As in, a twig you snap in half with ease.

[@Kahadi]

One thing to consider regarding Joey and how good his cards are (may have been more pertinent to WatchMojo than here) is that he had a lot of cards that were just plain better in the anime. The best example I can think of is Time Wizard, whom could turn Baby Dragon into Thousand Dragon without a fusion summon while also disabling the opponent's monsters. In the TCG, the closest you can do is call the coin flip, destroy their monsters, then use Polymerization to bring out Thousand Dragon, losing Time Wizard in the process.

[@autobotstarscream765]

He literally played Time Wizard in a Spell/Trap Zone for that Thousand Dragon effect!

[@Kahadi]

@@autobotstarscream765 exactly, something you can't do normally. Thus making it more powerful in the anime than in the TCG

[@duckyjellomana4316]

Dzeef: Red eyes doesn’t have any competitive success. Dragun of Red eye: Well... about that. Seriously Though, I play OCG and this guy is tearing everything apart.

[@blenderowl6495]

I see that your a man that skips the intro

[@totallynotzokix11_mc21]

Joey didn't have Dragun of Red eye. He only had Red-Eyes. Red-Eyes is only good with support.

[@ShibuyasBeat]

If people had a problem with jinzo they also need to put red-eyes in the same situation

[@octaviashadows6711]

The most broken part of Joey's deck was his luck.

[@ConstanceMists]

Gearfried also saw play in a few different control decks during goat format, more so in the revival era than historically. Blast w/ chain and smoke grenade of the thief were used w/ fried’s effect to control the hand and board of the opponent. Fried also cant be snatch steal’d and is an 1800 body thats searchable off of ROTA which is at 2 in the format and the warrior engine is pretty solid in the format in general so it has a great use there. One of my fav decks to play in the format tbh

[@Keyguin]

I audibly laughed when I read the title

[@ammarpasalic509]

Another competitive point in time for Jinzo specifically; a World Chalice player won a YCS event using Jinzo as a tech by using Transmodify on World Legacy - World Chalice. I know this isn't a general competitive indicator for the card, but it is more recent than Jinzo's stint on the ban list so I figured I'd bring it up.

[@MrGshinobi]

Red-eyes is about to see a massive boost in competitive play with duel overlord

[@nikolasota4162]

lets not forget about Gilti-gearfried being a superpoly target

[@yugiohdeloestepr]

In Speed Duels, Gearfried the Iron Knight is used in the top tier decks of today's format because of the meta revolving around Parasite Paranoid and Cocoon of Ultra Evolution Skill which means Gearfried can't be touched by your opponent's Paranoid in order to activate Cocoon, but also because you can equip your own Paranoid and have it self destruct in order to summon Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth from your hand. As for Time Wizard, it used to be in the top tier decks of Speed Duels due to the skill It's My Lucky Day which lets you manipulate the RNG once per duel (people ran Time Wizard and Dicephoons). This was back in Summer of 2019. Claw of Hermos was good in the context of the anime, but also if the card were released back in old school yugioh, it would've been pretty decent enough to see play imo. At least when Red Eyes was part of the Duel Links metagame, some people ran a copy of Claw of Hermos in order to boost a monster to over 5k ATK so at least in Duel Links it saw some competitive play. The other monster that saw play within a metagame was Cyber Harpie Lady (he played it in Noah's arc) which saw play in the early days of Duel Links when Harpie Lady was part of the meta. Copycat might've seen play in the Relinquished days of Speed Duels (prior to Sonic Bird), but idk to what extent. All I can say is, in the context of the anime, this card was pretty insane and if it were released in the old school TCG with the anime effect, it would've seen play in the meta. Great video btw.

[@genexlord3385]

wdym no competitive cards? he had pot of greed :)

[@gaaraofthefunk265]

House plants had pot of greed in the original series.

[@r4nd0mguy99]

Everybody had Pot of Greed in the anime. And then, there's Jaden/Judai...The anime-effect of Bubbleman was a special-summonable Pot of Greed and he also still used the actual one!

[@genexlord3385]

you all know i was joking right? dont be morons please

[@langletprolet8378]

@@genexlord3385 Nobody here thinks that you weren't joking.

[@robe.d.7027]

@@genexlord3385 why the random moron insult?

[@TheEmeraldboy100]

The Pokemon card that was mentioned at 7:20 was "Lysandre's Trump Card", which has the effect for each player to shuffle their Discard Pile (graveyard) into their respective deck.

[@TheWizardMus]

Thank you

[@RedVelvetUnderground333]

He uses swordsman of landstar, unironically

[@ryandennison8754]

"He deserves everything he gets." *One embarrassing loss later* Joey: "I can't believe I beat you with Swordsman of Landstar!" Yami: "Stop ruining Yugioh Joey!" :'(

[@cherryb0ng]

for anyone interested he is talking about a slowking with the ability to put the opponent's front row pokemon on the top of the deck after a coin flip, at least in the OCG of pokemon. In the TCG, however the translation was incorrect and implied that if you had a bunch of slowking's in your bench and the effect could stack, meaning more coinflips, meaning an almost guarantee against your opponent being helpless and drawing the same card every turn.

[@Mudkip971]

What about Lord of the Red? It's the best card in Joey's deck.

[@twizYGO]

Literally the best starter deck out of the first original 4 in terms of utility. Joey had the absolute guu. Literally sangan into big eye was the best synergy out of all of them. 🤷🏻‍♂️ it’s a proud day you may a dzeef video and are in it for over 2 minutes 🤣😉

[@StellariaEclipse]

*Looking at the comments* Alright Dzeef, time for a "Commenter's don't understand Call of the Haunted"

[@jamesgilmore7659]

Joey always had a gambling Motif his most used cards were either gotten through gambling like jinzo and red eyes or had dice based effects

[@Vinicius-Bigode]

Weirdly enough, Time Wizard could be played as a spell card in the anime... First Pendulum monster ever?!

[@chendror872]

No because in the DM anime it wasn't a monster and a spell it was just a spell (and please don't r/wooosh me I know it's a joke I'm not stupid)

[@autobotstarscream765]

Nope, more like Crystal Beasts, Toy Soldier, and whatnot. :3

[@TheFr0z3nF0x]

A great strategy with jinzo back in the day was marading captain, dna surgery, amplifier and spell canceller. Amplifier can not be negated by other effects and allows you to use traps while jinzo is equiped with it. Then you activate dna surgery make all monsters warriors and summon 2 marauding captains. It's hard to pull off but had support cards to make it easier. Nowadays it's practically impossible due to all the ways of destroying cards easily.

[@Trascist]

Jinzo is as much of a Joey card as Red Eyes B. Dragon is

[@autobotstarscream765]

Or less, because Atticus exists.

[@Bluecho4]

That bit about Fiber Jar reminds me of a really old card in Magic: The Gathering. The card was Shaharazad, whose effect was making the players stop the game they were playing, take whatever cards they had in their decks at that moment, and use those cards to play an entire OTHER game of Magic. Only when _that_ game concluded could the original one continue. It's a card that makes you play a Magic game INSIDE another Magic game. As you can no doubt guess, it came out really early in the game's lifespan, and it was banned not too long after.

[@lightning0938]

If I had that I would play the max 4 copies in the hopes of a scoop because my opponent is too mad about game 1 being 4 separate games of magic

[@Colouroutofspace4]

Joeys deck was heavily luck based with a lot of coin flip effects and dice rolls.

[@OneDreams54]

Fiberjar: "it basically resets the entire duel except for the life points and banished pile". It also doesn't reset the cards in the extra-deck, so if there are face-up pendulums in it, they stay there too. Makes me wonder if some deck that revolves around banishing or pendulums could try to exploit it to some extent if it was unbanned... ?

[@Dratspider]

It would be very inconsistent but I think it would be very fun to see work as your opponent watches you fully reset all but half their deck cause you banished it.

[@nunocarvalho6671]

Time wizard was also part of a meta strategy on duel links, cause raigeki on legs is cool, and it can be searched by the new barrel dragon

[@asmylia9880]

You didn't wanted time wizard even in a Desperado deck...in neither the pure Desperado, DesperadoNeos or the DesperadoCyberDarkNeos.

[@nunocarvalho6671]

@@asmylia9880 I see you didnt play the deck or against it, after worlds, everyone using time wizard, cause it was amazing, and any version besides the pure one is bad

[@Serevern]

It was only used because you needed 5 different coin flipping cards to activate the skill (it's been nerfed to 7 now), and time wizard was one of the less bad ones. Still, it was dropped quite soon in favor of better coin flipping cards.

[@nunocarvalho6671]

@@Serevern no, exactly the opposite, it was kept cause a raigeki is a raigeki and is better then the other crap, some other stuff was ran before they went for the pure and time wizard came to stay

[@Serevern]

@@nunocarvalho6671 time wizard was only run until counter trap Desperado came out, where it got replaced by ms. judge and was never used again until the skill nerf. This last build was much better than pure desperado, where you really only had the boss monster and the spider to win the game.

[@hellcopterts8895]

Fiber Jar worked very well with all the virus cards. My favorite combo was to set up Fusilier Dragon and used it as a sacrifice to pop Epidemic Virus. Fiber Jar resets the game... but the effects of Epidemic Virus still lingers, removing all traps/spells from his new hand.

[@nathanstetson8144]

Dragun of red eyes is currently a top strategy in the OCG, so we'll have to see how it does here

[@finnishnin]

The Gearfried and Dagger Elma combo can also be used with Spell Absorption to restore your life points to however much you want, effectively giving you infinite life points. Add in Magical Citadel of Endimyoin(that’s not spelled right) and Blast Magician or any other Spellcaster dependent on Spell counters and you have a pretty viable control and destruction deck.

[@TypetwoAbsolute]

Legacy of the Duelist any time you have to reverse duel as Wheeler *The Dark Souls of card game battles*

[@DRAGONSWRATH87]

I dreaded any joey fight

[@frankdamsy9715]

Red-Eyes isn't a competitive strategy.... yet. It will be once we get Dragun, not necessarily as it's own deck but as the best play you can do with Anaconda in most decks.

[@YohananYGO]

All decks

[@YohananYGO]

I really see this combo everytime I play online

[@frankdamsy9715]

@@YohananYGO summon MK Blue, search, summon Alister, search invocation, make anaconda, make mechaba, make dragun with anaconda, gg

[@nicholasdevilliers6753]

Me: Call of the haunted Jinzo to revive Jinzo. Jinzo: time to commit sepuku

[@lightning0938]

You do know jinzo negates the blow up effect from call right?

[@bandalodyugitube]

The pokemon card mentioned was Lysandres Trump card. Im gonna go into detail about it. What it did was shuffle all cards in both players discard piles back into their deck, except for any copies of Lysandres Trump Card. This card is a supporter card, which can be returned from discard to hand with VS Seeker, an item card of which returned supporter cards to hand fron discard pile. This creates a loop of which eliminates the deck out win condition, killed multiple deck strategy (mainly Night March and Flareon plasma), and made seismitoad ex/shaymin ex a tier 0 deck That is why it was emergency banned.

[@TheJaredPunch]

Somebody be watching WatchMojo too much. I should know

[@vicentserrano9268]

Only yugioh.

[@TheJaredPunch]

Vicent Serrano I know that

[@motaniusnex4888]

I aktually use Gearfried in one of my Goat-Decks as inspired by a few Warrior-Toolbox Lists from back in the day. In that Format he has three distinkt advantages: 1. He is searchable by ROTA, a circumstance that has made every Lv. 4 or lower Worrior Monster better throughout the entirety of Yugioh. 2. He can't be stolen by Snatchsteal, whitch is always an option for the opponent to swing the game around. 3. If you equip him with Chain explosion you get a spellspeed 2, in terms of cardadvantage neutral crush, which is incredibly powerfull in Goat. All in all I like that guy, but not gonna lie, he doesn't stay 'till after siding.

[@joeytmog8267]

bruh

[@zorochii]

Yugi gave Time Wizard to Joey, Espa Roba gave Jinzo, Rex Raptor gave him Red Eyes Black Dragon... It was kind of a trope that Joey became a better duelist from what he learnt and got from his rivals.

[@MythsMana]

Best synergy with time wizard is with a dragon card. It basically stays when a card effect would deal damage to a player it heals instead. Get your best cards out with a time wizard and either heal a ton or destroy all your opponents monsters. Its neat

[@GrumpyTy34er]

I have Time Wizard in my old school Exodia deck. Always as a high risk, high reward style card. When playing against other old school players, I also use Astral Barrier and Spirit Barrier which should allow all attacks to attack me directly for zero damage.

[@TrueNomadSkies]

Time Wizard was an interesting Apprentice Magician tech as well. Probably where I remember it best outside of the anime. It gave you a potential Raigeki play, and then after being tributed you had a light and dark in your graveyard for chaos stuff, Apprentice itself being the dark. I can't remember if this saw any real tops, but it was played somewhat frequently in apprentice monarch decks locally (in both cities I've lived), and meme wise is probably even more notable than Red-Eyes or Jinzo even though both of those saw lots of tournament play and support.

[@SpectralSuperSonic]

Joey actually had The Fiend Megacyber in his deck during that filler arc between Battle City and Battle City Finals, which was fairly decent for putting up a beater when the opponent has too many monsters, and could be Special Summoned for free. Also a Dark and a Warrior monster, which had a decent amount of beater support back then, with a respectable 2200 ATK, I'd say it was one of his better, but heavily underused cards.

[@HaydenX]

Flame Swordsman also has a potential future shot if there's a need for level 5 fire and/or warrior monsters as it's an Instant Fusion target. As an IF target, it can never be completely discounted as a bad card unless a strictly better card with the same attribute and type is printed. Like...if they were to release a card called "Analytical Flame Swordsman" that was exactly the same in all ways except it draws you a card when Fusion Summoned, Flame Swordsman has real competitive potential.

[@zenon9504]

You forgot to mention Jinzo has 1500 defense points, meaning it was searchable with Witch of the Black Forest. Another reason why it was so popular and powerful back in the day.

[@TrizzCarter]

I havent seen Marauding Captain in so long. I used to play Marauding captain with Command Knight and the A. Force. Wow.. Nostalgia Overload

[@shen.daniel]

It recent OCG games, Red-eyes Black Dragon has seen constantly competitively play thanks to Dragun of Red-eyes. Hurray (?

[@nikolasota4162]

also the Predaplant link... so its a god why

[@LamunesADV]

I think the Legendary Fisherman saw some plays during Legendary Ocean/Catapult Turtle kinda decks from the early days.

[@josueespinosolano6974]

Yo. Last year I built classic anime characters decks to play with my friends and for collection purposes. I included cards from the original to walking the dragons. Joey's deck is the stronger for several reasons: 1- don't have a lot of tribute summon monsters, 2- even tho a lot of cards are luck based, more often than not they will represent a very powerful threat to the opponent, like fairy box. 3- hermos is the most versatile dragon in terms of fusion summoning with him hahaha