YUGIOH'S TERRIBLE, AWFUL, AND USELESS CARDS

[@MBTYuGiOh]

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[@spaceperson741]

I remember that someone wrote on the Yugioh Wiki Card's Tips for Larvae Moth "If you successfully Summon this card, your opponent might forfeit out of sheer incredulity." and it stuck around for over a year. Definitely one of the most important tips on that wiki.

[@Vapeurss]

If your opponent actually summons Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth via Petite Moth and Cocoon of evolution, you are required by law to concede the game. I can't think of a harder summoning condition in the game than keeping that thing on the field for 6 of YOUR TURNS. That's like turn 13 if you summoned it on turn 1. Even in the early 2000s that would be less plausible than getting out three Gate Guardian pieces and tributing them. Hell, I legitimately summoned Dark Sage once or twice back in the day.

[@HopUpOutDaBed]

@@Vapeurss they couldn't even do petit moth the decency of being able to switch to defense the turn you equip cocoon of evolution, meaning if you normal summon and equip it immediately it it's still stuck to fend for itself at 300ATK until the next turn where you can switch it to DEF. (and 2000 DEF is still decent in old yugioh). I remember summoning PUGM being an achievement in one of the video games, and it was actually harder than almost every other achievement in the game. The only way I could do it was to basically lock down the game and get to a position where my opponent had no cards and no way to attack, and then just wait around to draw what I needed. At that point I was actively going out of my way to not win the game too soon, making the entire combo pointless.

[@bolobre4th]

For like 3 years Yamadron tips were "this card is useless, please don't even consider playing it"

[@chriscrossz3270]

@@HopUpOutDaBed it doesn't even keep its 300 atk, cocoon drops it to 0 when equipped.

[@digitalstatictv]

Actually hilarious comment

[@fanusobscurus]

No, HERE is the craziest part about Gryohon Wing. THEY PUT IT IN THE JOEY AND PEGASUS STARTER DECKS. It was literally deck filler, because Harpies Fearher Duster was a video game promo exclusive. Hell, I'm not even sure if it was even out in English at the time!

[@holowisewolf1688]

More than that, it was one of the super rares! You got a nice, shiny, completely useless Gryphon Wing.

[@fanusobscurus]

Follow up, just checked, and yes, its did release before Harpies in English. Starter Deck Joey and Pegasus came out in March 30th, 2003. Stairway to the Destined Duel, the game Harpies was bundled with in NA, released 2 weeks later. Good luck getting a copy!

[@-DeScruff]

Part of me wonders if they intended for a Mai Starter deck with Harpies Pet Dragon as the UR Boss monster, and Feather Duster as the SR. - But then scrapped it and made those cards videogame exclusives.

[@garfrockbreadtroll]

they might be useless, but the art for these goofy cards almost always goes crazy, and as marge simpson once said "I just think they're neat"

[@UltimaShadowX]

I apologize to the Yubel community for my lack of judgement and expect to see An Unfortunate Report in topping decklists soon.

[@Dw7freak]

New play. Make a Yubel board. Rollback the Unfortunate Report. Megadead.

[@firepuppies4086]

Shoot, I can see some kind of Isolde play with the bamboo swords possibly getting yubel out and burning bamboo sword skipping the main phase 1 coming up.

[@ethankane7854]

Now I kinda want to make a Yubel deck just to try using An Unfortunate Report.

[@jeremyadkins9665]

Wind Effigy is the worst support in the game, in my opinion: it's supposed to act as 2 tributes for the Tribute Summon of a Wind Normal monster. TO THIS DAY, there has not been a printed legal Level 7 or higher Wind Normal monster in the game. They actually had to take one of the Simorgh cards printed in the next set and give it the effect to be treated as a Normal Monster while in the hand, JUST to make Wind Effigy usable.

[@EnergyBurst2]

Hilarious in a sad sorta way.

[@chrisevans5064]

there is that simorgh and a card that cannot be used in a offical duel

[@morganr9825]

So it's just a worse version of Whirlwind Prodigy?

[@michaelmorales1602]

yo wtf

[@justinjakeashton]

That explains the random normal monster clause.

[@johan3116]

who is this TBM

[@thedootlord]

The ballen minecart

[@serenatranspride774]

Tron blue mono

[@eamonnkernahan4183]

Total Breeding Machine

[@justasaiyanfromearth5252]

The Bellend of Maryland

[@Stopaskingwhyandjustreadit]

The bussy, Mark!

[@DuskoftheTwilight]

Flock Together almost looks like something that could enable some weird BS until that absolutely absurd condition at the end.

[@arenbuffaloe6578]

I was reading the effect and was just like , "What Crystal Beast or modern Gate Guardian player has NOT heard of this card, like what!?"... Until the last sentence makes the answer "All of them." Never before have I heard of such a stupid restriction to a card.

[@eugenideddis]

"Wait it sets them as traps? A generic vision hero starter?" ... Nevermind

[@drooprtroopr6969]

It absolutely looks like some card someone on Master Duel would use to make the weirdest replay ever.

[@2112-h2y]

I immediately thought of that replay of someone set up huge revolution BUT

[@Sassaparilla]

@@eugenideddis It also places them as spells, not traps.

[@garbotoxin_enthusiast]

I was wrong, you can use Chithonian Alliance with ultimia Tzolken and equip it to a token for big numbers because it checks both fields (along with big bang shot for piercing)

[@yomireal7570]

Bishbalkin moment

[@ramonavancelives]

A lot of cards in “worst cards ever” discussions (particularly ones like Fine, An Unfortunate Report, Pot of Generosity, etc) give a distinct Duchamp’s “Fountain” vibe. They’re obviously bad, have no use case, and everyone involved in designing them knew that, but that’s kind of awesome. It’s like dialogue/an in joke between designers and players that other cards can’t provide. They’re also a hell of a lot more memorable than the worst 1-2 cards in every archetype released in the last 15 years.

[@Flyce_9998]

Flock Together is one of my favorite cards because of that, it's clearly not meant to be an actual playable card, but instead a joke card. Top tier pack filler.

[@ducky36F]

If they’re going to print pack filler in non-draftable sets (aka every yugioh set in the las decade) it might as well be for the memes

[@wanderlustwarrior]

That last sentence of Flock Together is just unhinged.

[@chaos_magician6689]

My favorite one is Pot of Generosity. It shuffles 2 cards from your hand into the deck. It’s a -3. Only deck that can realistically use it is Infernity, and even then Infernity has better ways of emptying the hand.

[@micha-elhorus5799]

Was funny in generaider before supports cause you shuffle the bricks you Need in deck

[@dosbilliam]

@@micha-elhorus5799 Except Magical Mallet does the same thing while just being a -1 since you draw the same number of cards you shuffled back into the deck.

[@michaelmorales1602]

I used it in a Tea Gardner farming deck in Duel Links wayyyyy back in the day xD

[@justinjakeashton]

I've seen it used in super deep draw FTKs to loop specific spells so a literal -3 has more use than the cards in this video.

[@alexloeher8628]

​@micha-elhorus5799 Generaider had on day 1 an in-archetype way of shuffling thr bricks back in Quest. Nobody was playing Pot in Generaiders I promise you

[@jtalkalot19]

Remember, we as a community hate bad cards because they are bad. We hate great cards because they do too much and are not balanced. We hate balanced cards because they don't do enough and are not broken. We just hate yugioh.

[@some2043]

i accerelerated above that i hate the community

[@Downforyears]

I love Watt Grasshopper

[@Azrayel488]

Valid point there

[@jgamez106]

I love white horned dragon and actually being able to use it against strikers a few years ago was fun

[@gregnog8119]

I love Wattgiraffe

[@dragonqueenniisan4122]

Pyro Clock of Destiny had weird implications at my locals where in time you could activate to skip either playing doing anything to force a draw because a turn had passed.

[@xSnowdrift]

Now be prepared to see at least half of these cards in Dueltaining.

[@TheWizardMus]

Flock Together is SO CLOSE to being decent in really specific decks then the restriction required it to be at best a turn 2 card in a mirror

[@Squidtoken]

If it had no restriction, it would be absurdly good. Placing any monster from deck into the backrow is, at this point in the game, basically the same as foolish burial, and potentially even better given that it can also trigger any effect that requires a card to go from field to grave. Definitely didn't need a restriction this harsh but it needed something.

[@TheWizardMus]

@@Squidtoken I just kinda wish it required something like "While you control a Monster as a Continuous Spell Card" or even just the classic "At the Start of Main Phase 1" I don't think it'd be that good generically since unlike Foolish you'd need a 2 card combo to do anything with the Continuous Spell Monster, unless that Monster inherently has a Continous Spell effect, which just means the card is supporting what it's intending. I think it'd be worth experimenting and used but not directly banlist worthy.

[@danielhughes6556]

@@Squidtoken If it didn't have some sort of restriction, I think it would have been insane in snake-eyes. Not that the deck needs more, but the uses would have been insane.

[@Dw7freak]

It's not even good then. There have to be 10 FACE-UP MONSTER CARDS on the field to activate it. There are very few decks that even put monsters in the back row, the only ones off the top of my head being Unions, Snake-Eyes, Vision HEROs, and Centur-Ion. I guess ABC could use it for fusing? Also, does it even count Pendulums? If so, that's 2 in the back row, but you still would need 8 more total to use it turn 1. Is Pend Snake-Eyes or Pend Centur-Ion with Flock Together the next meta!?

[@selectivepontification8766]

It wouldn't just be decent, it would be busted, just look at Union Carrier Flock Together was printed 4 years after Union Carrier by the way so clearly they learned from that whole mess, but then they way overcompensated

[@TrevorAllenMD]

But did you know B.E.S. stands for Bacterian Empire Ships? The more you know.

[@swisschese1323]

No it actually stands for *BEEG* *ENOURMOUS* *SCHLONG*

[@liviousgameplay1755]

No. No you can't just give me "Bacterian" and leave. GET BACK HERE! WHY ARE THEY CALLED THAT! WHY IS THERE AN EMPIRE?

[@Felnal]

@@liviousgameplay1755 The B.E.S. cards are basically just the recurring bosses of the Gradius series; not the first time Konami printed cards based on one of their other IPs. The Bacterian Empire is the main enemy force of the series.

[@apocrypha5363]

Magical Labyrinth is so awful that I kinda adore it. It's an equip spell that can only be attached to Labyrinth Wall, has NO EFFECT when attached to Labyrinth Wall, and then you can tribute it and Labyrinth Wall to summon from the deck (and only the deck! Not the hand!) Wall Shadow. A 1600/3000 monster with no effect, but that can't be summoned by any other means. So... You tribute a monster to summon Labyrinth Wall, attach Magical Labyrinth to it, then tribute it to get a monster that you have to PRAY you didn't draw, and the upside is... A Labyrinth Wall that has a relatively low Attack stat, but that you're probably still going to keep in Defence mode anyway...

[@thecompareablezombie]

Imagine if it got a retrain form(if it didn't get one already)

[@BrandonSwinney-j2v]

@@thecompareablezombie there weren't any for magical labyrinth, but there were 2 retrains of wall shadow. One was Labyrinth Wall Shadow, a field spell that (among other things) lets you destroy a monster your opponent controls with less than 1600 atk at the start of their battle phase. The other is Shadow Ghoul of the Labyrinth (since in the anime and manga, wall shadow was a fusion of labyrinth wall and shadow ghoul). Shadow Ghoul lets you discard it to add a "labyrinth wall" card to your hand, and while you control a labyrinth wall card, you can banish ghoul from your graveyard to destroy an opponent's battling monster.

[@ShayyTV]

the even more annoying thing about the anti cards like anti-raigeki and white hole is that they didn't print an anti-card for heavy storm, which genuinely might've actually seen play in goat/edison backrow heavy decks since HS is in almost every serious deck (ex: pacman runs solemn judgement, lots of edison decks run starlight road for HS exactly) but they decided to stop printing them right before getting to it

[@imperiallegionnaire8344]

My pick is the Ocean's Keeper series. Ocean's Keeper searches Cranium Fish or Thousand Eyes Jellyfish on battle destruction but both of those cards need to tribute Ocean's Keeper to summon. This wouldn't even too bad if any their other effects weren't so painfully mid.

[@MikeMozzaro]

The one that always comes to my mind in terms of how absolutely hilarious it is, is "Dark Artist." It's a Level 3 Dark Feind, 700/1400 ATK/DEF, and its effect is "If this card is attacked by a LIGHT monster, it's defense is halved during Damage calculation". The wiki even outright says "this is one of the few cards in the game whose effect is actively detrimental" The absolute 'best' part though? This card was released in the TCG in 2014's Legacy of the Valient.

[@aidanobrien5591]

Okay, I have to push back against that Illusion monster being here. I'm not gonna pretend it's a GREAT card or like it's the next big meta threat, but it doesn't do LITERALLY NOTHING like some of the other cards on this list. And let's be real, in the modern era, it's not hard to cheat a Level 10 monster onto the field, and in exchange you get what is still a relatively rare effect (recurring banished monsters).

[@cardboardrobothead]

the same set also printed a normal trap (Sinful Spoils Subdual) that just summons a lvl5 or higher illusion from deck. and chimera both foolish's and revives one every turn. it's fine.

[@nyurgh1139]

Yeah, but this is 2024, where cards with multiple effects are expected to synergize with themselves to see play.

[@jgamez106]

@@nyurgh1139this does have synergy, it’s not amazing but still better then literally nothing

[@RNGHater]

The problem with the card is that it is not ALSO treated as a machine card. That alone would make EM/Trains able to play under shifter or alongside it. Just Urgent Schedule and link it off for a free lvl 10 that can also revive the other card banished, now with their effects intact. If only...

[@ianbraun271]

@@RNGHater Can fix that with Clockwork Night. Just sayin

[@hawkticus_history_corner]

Wow, no mention of Cold Feet? That card's entire effect is pure downside with no possible upside. Like, even Pot of Generosity can at least put back a garnet and that's a stretch for a positive, but Cold Feet has *no upside*

[@eugenideddis]

Unfortunate Report seems to be the "ironic inversion" card that's included. You could also throw in the Humble Sentry and a couple other meme cards

[@eIIedritch]

i think the difference with cold feet is that you KNOW why it’s bad, it’s just cold wave but it only affects you it’s an objectively terrible card with no use case, but it’s made to be that, and made to poke fun at an incredibly busted old card

[@Pulstar232]

IIRC you can mystical refpanel cold feet.

[@Gilphon]

Night Flight. Bounce your own monster, and then neither player can activate the returned monster's effect for the rest of the turn. I think the idea is that you're supposed to bounce something you stole form your opponent, but that sure is a lot of extra steps for Compulse

[@dannygomez6196]

Actually that doesn't sound too bad if you use it for mirror matches, but doesn't really make sense considering most good decks will have ways to interrupt your opponents plays anyways, or you could just add hand traps like every other deck.

[@grihaspoormachine]

Ns ashblos, flight it, profit Plus you can dodge skill drain, imprem and veiler with it

[@SpatialGrievance]

Night flight is the goat for getting 100 signature summons in Duel Links to unlock Ace monster playmats. Also, it's negative effect doesn't work on ED monsters, so they can still activate effects when resummoned.

[@AsterDXZ]

Lil-la Rap It’s a Live Twin support card, WITHOUT LIVE TWIN IN THE NAME AND IT ONLY WORKS ONCE A TURN AND ITS AT UR

[@ciscoortega9789]

The art goes hard tho!

[@__-be1gk]

it's also a vtuber rap

[@ivancastro5940]

Isnt it an N in MD?

[@AlphaSquadZero]

The only main deck card that allows you to properly summon an ED evil-twin monster without using a evil/live-twin monster

[@theflaminglizard5166]

Jam Breeding Machine is an anime import. It's use case was generating free stuff for a tribute summon. In the anime the summon restriction is just not there. The machine will only SD if marik summons a "Non-Jam" monster. Marik also has Revival Jam on side of the field. He is using staling card to get 3 tokens and summon slifer. Also yes, this means that JBM is an archetype card, at least in the anime. The card was simply overnerfed when ported to the IRL game. Revival Jam's anime eff is something like "If this card is sent to the GY because it was destroyed by battle or card effect, you can special summon it from your GY."

[@BrandonSwinney-j2v]

yeah, Revival Jam also revived immediately after it was destroyed, which made it pretty much a better marshmallon because you can still use card effects to get rid of marshmallon (I chose marshmallon in particular because of marshmallon glasses being an equivalent to jam defender). The only counters to anime revival jam (aside from the loop that Yugi did) is piercing damage or tributing the jam.

[@henrymaler8678]

I have wracked my brain for YEARS trying to think of a use case for Pot of Generosity and have never come close to finding one.

[@LarsisLP]

It does occasionally crop up in the most ridiculous youtube combo decks playing 25 hard garnets that make the game unplayable when they are in your opening hand.

[@jmurray1110]

Garnets, infernity, weird bulkshit strategies that don’t make sense, deck dedicated to playing as many pot adjacent cards possible because what would happen if you just shoved them all in there win con be damned

[@eugenideddis]

​@@LarsisLPMBTs Skyfire list is a favorite. Half the deck was just to put garnets back

[@m0002856]

See, but my opinion here is that card is just supposed to be bad on purpose as a joke. I think the idea behind this twitter thread was to discuss bad cards that weren’t supposed to be bad but they just don’t… do anything.

[@LiveTwinReaction]

60card Angel of Mischief ftk uses pot of generosity, reload, magical mallet But on the other hand, why tf would you play 60 card Angel of Mischief ftk when the Lyrilusc version is just way better lol

[@a1rg3ar31]

The entire Ursarctic archetype could be put in here, because holy F, it has to be in the top 5 for most poorly designed archetype in the game, along with Arcana Force, Guardians, BES, and Ally of Justice.

[@LazurBeemz]

Ursarctic dogwalks those other archetypes, let's be real. The fact that it can easily summon a few big bodies, if nothing else, already puts it leagues ahead of whatever Ally of Justice is supposed to be doing.

[@FakeHeroFang]

The worst part about Ursarctic is that they just made it a skill drain turbo deck in compensation for it being garbage, and reinforced that playstyle with support cards. You can still lose to this dogshit when the stars align, but only because you're not really playing the game at that point.

[@xatuyou8045]

Probably the best thing ursarctic can do on your opponent's turn requires you to draw 2 ursarctics and exactly hop-ear squadron to make shenshen.

[@bigbobbybutters7562]

T - otal B - owel M - ultistrike Dragon Dragias

[@SomniaCE]

Reading Flock Together feels like having a stroke but damn do those birds have that shit on

[@Legacy_of_Yata-Garasu]

Here’s my pick: Chronically Mayan Machine Gets treated as 2 tributes for a machine monster, all machine monsters in its archetype are level 4 or lower and there’s no level 7 or higher monsters either.

[@TheWizardMus]

It's for the Gimmick Puppet Tag Duel, unironically.

[@Adderflail]

Chronically Mayan is crazy 😂

[@spicymemes7458]

I think Wind Effigy was another one

[@Legacy_of_Yata-Garasu]

@@spicymemes7458 I honestly completely forgot that card even existed.

[@nathanielbass771]

it could be used in regular tribute machine decks, but yeah, it's weird to be part of that archetype.

[@shuttlecrossing7084]

There's always Elemental Hero Neo Bubbleman and Guardian Elma, both cards that literally can't be summoned because the cards that are required to be played in order to summon them are banned. Guardian Elma has been unsummonable for 20 years.

[@Phan211]

Jam Breeding Machine could have been ban worth in 2006-2007 Monarchs if you could normal summon a monster that turn. Sadly that never happened.

[@logicallgaming]

Solomon's Lawbook. A card so bad you've probably never heard of it.

[@LazurBeemz]

Lady Panther is my pick. "Tribute this face-up card to return 1 of your monsters destroyed as a result of battle during this turn to the top of your Deck." Note that it's not a quick effect - the use case for this is if you have Lady Panther and another monster on the field, and you attack with your other monster, and your opponent uses a battle trick to raise their monster's atk so you lose the battle, then you can tribute Lady Panther in MP2 to stack your deck with the other monster. Not revive it, not add it to hand, but stack it on top of the deck.

[@greggels86]

Return of the doomed also.

[@aliesterus1.023]

3:09 Black Garden probably. But this would certainly be one of the most jank Black Garden brew if anyone were to try to make this combo work.

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

I misheard, it sounded like "Summon a card in Spanish" not "banished". I was VERY confused for a second there.

[@four-en-tee]

I'm surprised that Dire hasnt thought to do "TMNT" with sentence mixing.

[@TheLetterJ0]

My submission was Crimson Sentry: "Tribute this face-up card to return 1 of your monsters destroyed as a result of battle during this turn to the bottom of your Deck." Even when it was printed in 2003, that effect was useless. How often are your monsters being destroyed in your own battle phase to begin with? And if that really was a major concern of yours, The Forgiving Maiden was printed in the same set with a much better version of the same effect.

[@hi-i-am-atan]

the funniest thing about this series of cards is that they're _so_ useless that ude judges gaslit themselves into believing they were more contrived and bizarre than they actually were, just so they could theoretically have _some_ utility. like if you look at the rulings at the time, they say that you can use the effect _before_ any of your monsters actually bite it, and then just choose to apply the effect whenever that turn ala last will but like. nope. they're literally just basic-ass ignition effects that move a card from the gy to somewhere else, but the card has to be _specifically_ a monster destroyed by battle _that turn._ that's it

[@TheLetterJ0]

@@hi-i-am-atan That is funny. I feel like they wouldn't really be any better like that anyway. I think the only situation where you're better off tributing one of them for their effect during MP1 to use later is when your opponent uses Battle Mania, which was printed like five years later.

[@AlphaSquadZero]

It wouldn't be a practical, but in theory you could do some creature swap shenanigans to get powerful flip monsters like MOF back into your deck to be more easily used again.

[@TheLetterJ0]

@@AlphaSquadZero That is something, at least. But even then you are much better off using The Forgiving Maiden to put the MOF directly back in your hand. Maybe there could be some situation with recruiters where it's better to return the monster to the deck, but it still feels like jumping through hoops to pull off a bad play.

[@kylianos3907]

"Oh no, i accidentally normal summoned left leg again, good thing i came prepared this time!"

[@blakemodean7461]

Bahalutiya as a lv7 light dragon has synergy with the Starry Knight theme. It has multiple ways to search bahalutiya, ways to special summon it from hand during the opponent's turn, and recurring tribute material in the form of orbitael

[@potatoexe5410]

It also did funny stuff with Diablosis before that git banned

[@elixir478]

Not to mention it just banishes not banishes face down meaning their hand becomes known to you unlike reincarnation

[@arenbuffaloe6578]

My pick is the Attribute Reptile series, whose WHOLE effects each read: "When this card is destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard, destroy all face-down and non-(Attribute) monsters." Even ignoring the BATTLE-ONLY restriction, do you know their statline? Level 7/2000 ATK/1500 DEF. No Special Summoning condition for each. Reptiles, so no good splash-in Archetype. Stats and an effect that would be mid for a Level 4 at best, and again, need 2 Tributes to get out unless you are that committed to Special Summoning a Level 7 Reptile. WHAT WAS EVEN THE POINT?! ...I didnt even know these guys existed until yesterday...

[@genesisyugioh9405]

Someone should make a deck with all these God awful ass cards and just call it a junkyard

[@unpopularweeb8535]

Junk archetype fans would be mad.

[@therranolleo468]

that would be an insult to Junk as an archytpe, not even they wanted these cards

[@Rairiky]

Now that they mentioned maids: to this day laundry is incomprehensible,her effect is powerful and very generic but what are maids supposed to do with random mills? Also send off is just maddening imagine if emergency could only summon from the hand

[@FakeHeroFang]

The Dragonmaid spell/traps have GY effects and having the dragon forms in there is fine, it's not THAT weird to be fair. It's just not good enough, and the deck has much better things to summon.

[@ablecade1401]

SO, not a meta application by any means, but I could see "an unfortunate report" being used in Mikanko to great effect! Given their entire deal is forcing you to attack them in the battle phase to make you take damage, making them do that TWICE could be really fun. (given its two unskippable phases of damage). Is it the best application in the deck with so many better traps? No. Is it worth running a trap? No. Is it funny? Absolutely yes.

[@clarkkent21eq69]

Pyroclock works for things like "Spell Gear" "You cannot normal summon or set until the end of your next turn"

[@Shadeanarchy7438]

8:28 Lol He Said the AVGN Line its So Funny and I Love it❤️

[@dis9446]

There will be a day when Konami prints a card that forces your opponent to activate one of your cards as their own and all hell will break loose.

[@SoldierSeuss]

Crop Circles, I love the Alien archetype but man this card is an oddity. Simple special summon from deck by sending some fodder to grave but their levels must add up to the special summoned card's. The problem comes from the last sentence where "If you fail to find a monster to Special Summon, you take 2000 damage." but according to the rulings if you don't have an Alien in your deck with an equal level to the sent monsters to special summon then Crop Circles cant be activated. The more I try and think about it the more it confuses me on its existence.

Rulings were different back then. You could intentionally activate cards that can't resolve which is sometimes relevant when replaying older formats like goat control

[@SoldierSeuss]

Im aware. Im also talking just about current, mainline yugioh. Where the negative of the card basically doesn't exist and might as well be removed.

[@jankrajewski3122]

Fun fact: we all know that the petit moth + cocoon of evolution evolutions are bad, but did you know that all of them were somehow even worse in the manga where while cocoon of evolution is on the field you cannot play any cards

[@omegaelement]

Double Battle Phase is good in hyper specific situations, usually involving Final Attack Orders. Only decks off the top of my head that really benefit from this though are Reptilianne (if you drop all enemy monsters to 0 attack and have Serpent Suppression active) and Lyrilusc (get Assembled Nightingale on board, then Recital Starling, put the extra attack on Nightingale from Starling's effect, opponents turn use Nightingales effect to protect from battle destruction and life point damage, and then something to force battle target Recital).

[@maxmuller6791]

Jam breeding machine was used in duel links as you were able to give a set to your opponent without them knowing what it was thus them screwing themselves over if they got a lil too curious

[@DarkeLourd]

The Water BES was level 5 and had an effect that could actually do something, albeit minor (switch an opponent's attack position monster to defense), and was like the third strongest level 5 Water monster at the time, so it could have had some utility in A Legendary Ocean decks of its time.

[@zdelrod829]

Fun Fact: Despite being a bricky and low-power archetype, Laval has a few Level 1 Pyro targets, giving the archetype some Snake-Eye synergy.

[@thecompareablezombie]

It's okay, not many people need to know that. It would be nice if Laval are not hit by the ban list. Tbf they did get support which didn't push it to ban or limit worthy status.

[@Firehawk376]

So Jam Breeding Machine technically doesn't stop tribute summoning. Maybe. Depends on the judge, probably.

[@SkyFireYZ]

Playground rules state that Pyro Clock of Destiny gives you another turn

[@TiagoODuelista]

I find cute how the illusion effect is probably a ref to Duelist of the roses, as he revives after being destroyed by battle in that game.

[@illdoittomorrow2368]

To this day I still wonder how you can normal summon boar soldier, even though it destroys itself on normal summon. According to the card, you can only summon this card with a flip summon. Edit: nvm, they errata'd it.

[@Dw7freak]

Here's an oldy. Solomon's Lawbook. A normal trap that makes you skip your next Standby Phase. As it released back in Pharaoh's Servant, the obvious synergy is to use it to dodge maintenance costs on cards like IO and Mirror Wall. There's only two problems with that. IO wasn't mandatory yet, all the other maintenance cost cards at the time kinda sucked, and Life Points don't matter except the last one. It also just does nothing if it's not being used for that reason. I guess nowadays you could use it with Mystical Refpanel to make the opponent's DPE fizzle, or for yourself to avoid Lava Golem damage. The card's trash.

[@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

3:21 I mean that doesn’t sound BAD strictly… Especially the battle effect, since this card effectively can’t be destroyed by battle anyway, so crashing it to get that special summon could be worthwhile.

[@DrAiPatch]

I had an idea long ago about a Archtype that revolved around the turn count ..... the higher the turn count the better your cards effects gets....... sadly this idea died went most games started ending by turn 3.

[@blakeroni155]

technically that DOES exist, because fortune lady's. but sadly its not the total turn count, its just the turns that have passed since the specific fortune lady card has been summoned

[@marchmelloow]

I have no idea why they gave Jam Breeding Machine, a card that was used in the anime/manga to get tribute fodder for gods, a summon restriction. Even worse, the anime/manga made the card go to the grave after you summoned anything instead, which was insanely good because the manga only had 5 total zones (there weren't any distinction between Monster Zones and Spells/Traps Zones), so you would _want_ to lose the card after a tribute summon for more space on board.

[@colossaldonut5190]

The even more confusing part about Jam Breeding Machine is that it was used in the anime in a Slifer the Sky Dragon deck and didn't have the summoning restrictions there because, y'know, it was kinda made to summon a monster. Why does it have it now? When we knew the card was gonna suck balls anyway?

[@marchmelloow]

What's weirder is the card instead left the field if you summoned another monster, which was actually a _positive_ for the card. Especially in the manga, where there were only 5 total zones in the game (Marik's combo revolved around getting 5 specific cards, so he really needed JBM off the field for his combo to work).

[@metalmariomega]

The problem with Sweet Roommaid is that Foolish Return exists, and even that barely gets used when you have things like Called by the Grave, D.D. Crow and now Spell Card: Monster Reborn as alternatives that essentially either do the same thing faster or more effectively. But hey, collectible cards don't have to be useful as long as they have nice art, and this at least has that going for it.

[@Mangoscats]

I was just watching your pack filler video? The timing gods bless me

[@mastermind42ful]

theres a vanilla Golgoil who's flavor text says it emerged from a dimensional rift, ur supposed to Tribute summon it and then once a turn bring back one of your monsters while DimFis is on the field and it keeps coming back

[@nellewoodruff6337]

That Cybenetic quickplay that doubles a machine but banishes it before you can even attack with it

[@arenbuffaloe6578]

Cybernetic Zone. Awesome anime moment (that technically shouldn't even be possible, but shh...), TERRIBLE use case ANYWHERE ELSE.

[@Aozame]

I don't know why Larvae Moth isn't the card that starts the Great Moth chain (iirc, it's even used that way in the anime). Its design is clearly supposed to be the caterpillar form of Great Moth, but then they just throw Petit Moth in there for some reason.

[@polocatfan]

uh. unfortunate report is seeing meta play in Yubel..... EDIT: isn't baha good in starry night?

[@rosehawkins8701]

So, The Grand Radience at 6:39 is a level 7 Light Dragon, making it a target for the Starry Knight cards, which can special this guy out upwards of 2-3 times in 1 of your opponent's main phases. It's just a small use case, barely noticeable. But one that I leveraged over my friend group for about 2 months.

[@ianbraun271]

Flock Together: Based on the text, it does count cards on both sides of the field. It's not as outrageous, but still requires a goodly bit of setup. Maybe a tech piece for Crystal Beasts.

[@CaptinSpyke]

For the bit on Sweet Roommaid, there are two other cases of this happening that piss me off. Stars Align Across the Milky Way, a Ritual support Trap card with Shinobird art and Shinobird relevant effects, the grave effect in particular being able to ritual summon during your opponent's turn and spin a bunch of their cards... but it was not archetypal. And this card was iirc released randomly on its own between the first wave of Shinobirds and the AGOV stuff, the latter of which has the field spell which searches this card explicitly. CLEARLY this was supposed to be an archetype card all along and they just... named it wrong as a prank? Apply everything I said above to Million-Century Ice Prison but for Icejades, and without the new wave of support that searches it. Which also makes me very nervous Konami will center whatever the next Icejade cards are around this turnskip effect instead of printing good cards, but what else can we expect at this point?

[@drowsyCoffee]

For me, i think the biggest example is Dark Spirit Art Greed. Like, at base, having essentially Allure of Darkness, except as a Trap, and requiring the Dark Monster to be on field to work is already an ass card that would be forever doomed to exist only within limited aaa formats like Prog n shit. But then they added "oh yeah btw your opponent can *reveal* (not even fucking discard) a spell card to negate the effect". Why. Like, even if it were a discard it would be the world's middest Spiritual Art Aoi ever, given lack of hand knowledge and optional nature. But a fuckign reveal??? Literally what is the point, it isnt like you'd be able to achieve anything impressive after jumping through that massive hoop/downside

[@driftwisp2797]

"Tribute a mon to draw two cards" at fast speed is good because you can use it to get rid of a mon that was about to die anyway and just draw two for free. It's just that "Trap card that draws two cards" isn't nearly as playable now as it was ten years ago.

[@malasadaslover3671]

I did 1 thing and 1 only thing with Pyro Clock... Set 3 Pyro Clock, Activate 2 Wave Motion Cannon, Summon Shining Angel, Crash Shining Angel to Special Summon Satellite Cannon, End Phase and activate all Pyro Clocks on opponent DP/BP/EP I was a very young Duelist and thought I was very clever. Did this in like... 2008?

[@JABRIEL251]

I'll go to bat for Megabillis. Yeah, it's slower than it should be and Ursarctic isn't a tier 0 mega threat, but its name is Ursarctic and its banish effect does come up often (if you actually play the deck). So I don't think it really should be here. That's only if you look at the effect in a vacuum.

[@sunnyhvar1992]

While An Unfortunate Report may have resolved a single digit number of times ever, it does have a pretty big legacy, alongside one other card - every monster that attacks twice, attacks twice "during each battle phase this turn" because of exactly two cards that allow you to have multiple

[@benpelczynski6964]

The original Earthbound Immortals are all ass, but as far as I’m concerned Earthbound Immortal Cusillu takes the cake for “worst card ever”. It can't be targeted for attacks, but its effect only activates when it would be destroyed by battle, so you're supposed to, what, run into an opponent's monster with more than 2800 attack??? And to require a tribute for that effect just makes this thing beyond worthless

[@Felnal]

What makes it even more baffling is that Cusillu's effect does technically result in more "damage" if the opponent had more than 5600 LP since it halves their LP, so you can see some reasoning behind it. The thing is that it still takes 3 attacks from Cusillu will end the game, regardless of whether its effect gets used.

[@thesacredlobo]

I think someone built a meme deck where they could active pyro clock of destiny multiple times on their first turn in order to FTK with Final Countdown, but I can't imagine that deck being particularly consistent in actual play.

[@EnergyBurst2]

To be fair Pyro Clock does look really eye catching so I can see why people have been trying to think of a way to make it useful.

[@Billy_Wyatt]

That intro though. Besides didn't know there were that many useless cards.

[@Dz73zxxx]

I have tried B.E.S in MD when terraforming was legal. Honestly, a quick-spell to use the counters as a card removal is what they need to level up their aggressiveness

[@Ghazest]

Its painful not being able to participate in the twitter threads anymore 😞

[@arenbuffaloe6578]

What happened? He's done with them?

[@Ghazest]

@@arenbuffaloe6578 No. I am from Brazil and twitter was killed here

[@eugenideddis]

​​@@GhazestHa, suffer (Twitter that is) Wish MBT would give alternate submission methods

[@ectotide]

@@Ghazest where were you when phone ring "twitter is kil" "no."

[@Straven93]

They only downside is see

[@TnPGmbH]

The Link5 Tri-Brigade comes to my mind. I was hoping so much for a link 1 or a spellcard that would help the deck if your normal summon got veilered but instead it got a useless unsummonable link 5

[@williamdavis1194]

4:50 During the old end of match rules, back when it was 3 turns after the timer, people at my locals sided Pyro Clock for one specific duelist who always went into time. Not sure if that's technically how it was supposed to work, but that's how we used it.

[@erlanddrow7950]

Thank you for zooming in on the text Dire :)

[@Dyllon2012]

Lol, I actually used Megabilis in a Crooked Cook deck. It just so happens to be the tuner with the highest attack for use with Battle Tuned. By no means good, but it was definitely playable and you’d end up with a behemoth monster unaffected by other card effects.

[@HopeP0H]

smh jam breeding machine was obviously guardian sphinx support… wait you can’t flip summon either?

[@bongerman42069]

I think Holding Arms is one of the most underrated monster cards ever printed. It basically acts at the same spell speed as an equipped spell and it can shut down an opponent's omni negate like Baronne/ect. I've used this card in my stall deck with Exodia Necross stall deck focused on Obliterate trap and when you have a full back row of traps and floodgates it can't be set as back row by sinful spoils Snake Eye and can't be destroyed by Yubel and when Gravity Bind is active Yubel can't even reactivate and I won locals 2 times with a Jank pile where my only out was back row and DPE fusion destiny even without Verte being legal. Sadly loses to shifter unless they blow up back row Waking the Dragon and I stop special summons with Last Warrior from another planet...

[@Pershath08]

I remember thinking pyro clock of destiny would work in a toon deck so they can attack the turn they are summoned, but then it was explained to me that it jumps the turn count, not the function of the turn. Was sooo pissed lol.

[@MiyaoMeow588]

WAIT A MINUTE I played Mucus Yolk in some old games, im very certain that it still gains attack if it attacks in those games. Despite it not really making senss

[@eepy7764]

Somehow, Mucus Yolk carried the 60 card pile I ran in Nightmare Troubadour

[@teafollet5361]

My favorite example of a terrible card effect is Yado Karu. As a kid I loved his artwork and thought his effect was too advanced for my game knowledge at the time…

[@horae6528]

haven't watched yet, second effect of deskbot jet. why would you choose to pop a FACE-UP card instead of special summoning from deck? especially when it costs you a card you control in order to use the effect... just get 009 or 001 for the otk (even 008 works), or 002 for a search.

[@thedootlord]

Ah yes my favorite youtuber The Ballen Minecart

[@garfrockbreadtroll]

Emissary from the House of Wax is my nomminee for that position

[@MysticKenji2]

(very) niche chimera support

[@wjamesmci]

My favourite useless card is Solomons lawbook Which is a normal trap card that's says Skip the standby phase of your next turn Yes you can use it to skip standby phase costs but surely if you skip the cost you don't get the effect. Right? Plus it's a Solomon card which are known for being the best in the game except for this

[@hexi9595]

You still get the effects. The SP never happened so the card stays up without issue.

[@Straven93]

Prime example of this being useful the old school archfiends that has mandatory lp cost in the standby

[@wjamesmci]

@@hexi9595 ahhh that's interesting

[@wjamesmci]

@@Straven93 yeah anytime I bring up this card people say its useful in Archfiends

[@Straven93]

@@wjamesmci literally the only best use case

[@trueblueryu5713]

He calls Larvae Moth Imperfect Cell, but it’s more like a defective Saibaman.

[@MrPrzemistrz]

An Unfortunate Report may be useless, but it had a huge impact on the entire game. It made hundreds of other cards necessary to specify "during EACH Battle Phase of this turn"

[@antman7673]

Golgoil basically is a monster, that revives one monster from GY or banishment, when it or another illusion or machine battles. Also when itself gets banished by an opponents card, it comes back. Also there is a sinful spoils card, that summons level 5 or higher illusions from deck. So this is a different and maybe better version of call of the haunted. Not bad.

[@olvynchuru1663]

There is actually an easy way to summon Golgoil: Sinful Spoils Subdual can Special Summon it from the deck. And while Golgoil is certainly not an amazing card, it isn't NEARLY as bad as some of the other cards mentioned here. Its ability to Monster Reborn something every turn is pretty cool. One potential use for Ursarctic Megabilis is that it's one of the few level 8 tuners in the game. So you could use it to summon Bishbaalkin. Maybe it's not the best way to summon Bishbaalkin, but that is a use for it. Regarding B.E.S. monsters, the level 9 one (B.E.S. Blaster Cannon Core) is pretty good in a rank 9 deck. Machina Metalcruncher is a 1-card rank 9 when going second if you Normal Summon it and add B.E.S. Blaster Cannon Core to your hand.

[@happycamperds9917]

Snake-eyes damned dragon makes flock together actually have an insanely powerful effect. The only issue is that outside of bishbalkan there's still no good way to activate it.

[@spicymemes7458]

Hatsugai because I thought it was going to be Gift Card #7-9 for Nurse Burn, but your opponent can choose not to gain LP, thus making it completely worthless in that regard, but even if they did, it gives you one of their cards so there is no incentive. They can get burned for 3K and lose one of their cards to you, possibly picking up one of their handtraps or board breakers in the process, or they can just say no. Big balls on Konami also making this card a UR in Master Duel just to add insult to injury (no pun intended)