THESE YU-GI-OH! ANIME CARDS CAN NEVER BE PRINTED

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[@juksleo6257]

I love how the manga D/D/D Divine king rage jist casually says "ignore all cards your opponent controls and in their GY". Just ignore them. Your opponent activates anything? Just ignore that.

[@OyVeey]

Nah, the actual text is even cooler. "All monsters your opponent controls, all cards in their Spell/Trap Zones, and all cards in their hand and GY become nonexistent" Become nonexistent, damn that's wild

[@OlgaZuccati]

@@OyVeey you just set fire to their cards

[@ich3730]

card of sanctity is kind of interesting because it shows WHY anime cards are so weird for dramatic effect and story telling. There needs to be an easy way for the protag and/or villain to refill their hand so nobody is bricking 3 turns in a row.

[@xCorvus7x]

It's also fine in fiction because (the author can make) the characters have no conscious idea of card advantage.

[@batayou6819]

It also wasn’t as bad in the manga cause you couldn’t just set your whole hand cause of battle city rules

[@joanaguayoplanell4912]

It was also necessary to make Fusions even remotely worth using given they were an inherent -2 at minimum because OG Polymerization just sucks.

[@marchmelloow]

@@batayou6819 Also, in the manga, you can only activate and set one spell/trap per turn, so Card of Sanctity costs you your one spell activation that turn. So, if you activate it, you can't even activate any of the Spells you drew off it and can only set one of them. Card advantage in the manga was more for the long game than short term, so a hand refill effect is no where near as broken as it would IRL.

[@maxinesenior596]

of course irl someone is gonna combo off with this card, empty their hand just to cast sanctity giving their opponent 1 or 0 cards while refilling to 6 handtraps

[@eringobraugh2485]

I hope at some point they make a version of zarc with the cool border that is just illegal to use in duels like the match winners. I just want it to officially exist and be released.

[@spyro2002]

Good idea, like the egyptian gods

[@Sebastian-tm6hk]

Wouldn't be surprised if they made a special edition for it in Animation Chronicles (the OCG set series that's currently importing anime cards in the real game).

[@r3zaful]

@@Sebastian-tm6hk i mean we have astral language utopia

[@veil579]

tragedy as well

[@ToxicAtom]

@@Sebastian-tm6hk Animation chronicle is just the OCG equivalent of Battles of Legend

[@silent7159]

Card of Safe Return drew you 3 cards instead of 1 in the anime. This is why the artwork has 3 cards

[@coldhardzombiekiller]

Zombie world best world.

[@ryanchase9332]

It also wasn't once per turn. It was really broken.

[@xatuyou8045]

And it doesn’t miss timing.

[@ravaniphoenix5431]

​@@ryanchase9332the nerfed real life version ain't once per turn, either. Why do you think it's banned? If it was only once per turn, it'd be fine.

[@GordieKat]

"This card gains the effect of all DARK Monsters in your GY." That's INSANE.

[@neroneroren6788]

I wanna point some honorable mentions: - Draw Paradox: Your Draw Phase happens in the opponent's turn and viceversa - Gladiator Beast's Assault Fort: If you hate reading don't look this one

[@tempestst_pr0to]

Synchron players would be balling

[@nesspurr6931]

Going back to the Masked HEROs, Dark Law is a fucking vanilla in the manga. What made them decide to give it one of the strongest effects ever printed, on an easily accessible Fusion monster, is beyond me, but boy am I happy about it

[@user-nm1eu1xu1j]

The opposite is true of manga's version of elemental hero inferno, who from chapter 12 onward, could add a spell from your grave to hand when he was destroyed

[@maskofthedragon]

Ivy Bind Castle doesn't even require Preda cards to activate, so it's a direct upgrade of Cold Wave at worst

[@drewwilson9938]

It's mystic mine, royal decree, just desserts, and imperial order. ONE SIDED BY THE WAY!! You can set up a massive board while your opponent can't do anything about it unless they have hand traps. So Imperm is useless, called by is useless, you can still summon but it's not gonna mean much when all they are doing is making what are essentially normal monsters. Yeah the graveyard is still fair game but still. If that card were released then stun decks would everywhere

[@tmoney1487]

Infernity doom slinger had a really weird anime effect, but i loved it. Basically said you cant lose the duel for 3 turns lmao.

[@qreius]

Wasn’t Infernity Zero the one that protects you? (I am not going to factcheck this)

[@tmoney1487]

@@qreius It probably was. I was also too lazy to fact check and just went off memory 😂

[@Crashsitegames]

@@tmoney1487 doom slinger is the one that makes your opponent choose if they want to guess your top deck In response to burn damage, if I recall it's; Monster - burn goes through Spell trap - opponent takes burn + an extra increment of that burn Do not declare, the effect is negated and you take no damage for the rest of the turn I want that card so bad the artwork slaps hard 😂

[@halyoalex8942]

@@qreius It is. It's effect literally states that if your life points equal zero, you don't lose the duel, then has 3 counters, and one is removed each time it's attacked successfully, and once you don't have any left, it's destroyed, so the effect ends and you lose if your LP is still 0.

[@REvoLverj98]

Wasn't there also a card that negated all lose conditions?

[@psychonormal91]

From GX is "Cemetery Change", from when Jaden dueled Chazz in season two. Pay 1000 Life Points to Dark Hole the field. Then, you exchange graveyards with your opponent. If this was legal in a tournament, people would exploit this to steal other players' cards.

[@meathir4921]

There are already legal cards to take opponents’ cards and have them in your hand, and sleeves are mandatory. Would be hassle though, especially if played when players have identical sleeves

[@seamonkeydood4932]

Speaking of season 2 I'm suprised the "White Knight" monsters that Chazz used and the other society of light cards were never printed.

[@SAL-395]

@@seamonkeydood4932 they were but as Phantom beast ( not mecha)

[@majickman]

I don't think that's how it works

[@mateusrp1994]

There was a card Jaden used in the last episode of GX called Code Change, you can choose 1 card, and if it mentions a monster Type in its effect text, you can change it to another type.

[@Andy-ce3ij]

I really liked the artwork on that card

[@davidreyna7410]

Then yugi used this to summon silfer, those anime duels HIT

[@briansilva3344]

They beat Pokemon to it by nearly 20 years.

[@Mia_Mor666]

I'm surprised we didn't see "Pillager" in this: "Look at your opponent's hand, and you can steal one card."

[@Drilbit]

If they were to print it with a hopt on it would it be busted?

[@half_blood]

@@Drilbit It's literally a better Confiscation / Forceful Sentry, of course it would be busted.

[@b1acksteve]

@@Drilbit Considering that trap dust shoot and confiscation are banned a card that just says "Gimme that!" for free wound be banned too

[@JakeLT64]

They’d provably print it like: Look at your opponents hand. Select one card, your opponent may add the selected card to your hand, special summon it to your side of the field, or set it to your field, and if they do, your opponent draws 1 card. You cannot activate the effects of the selected card this turn.

[@Drilbit]

@@JakeLT64 Maybe make it like appointer of the red lotus and have you show your hand as well and make it so that you cant activate that cards effects for the turn.

[@RaidOfStorms]

one of the weirder cards that could never be printed in the TCG is Abyss Invitation, which says that if the opponent takes 500 or less burn damage from an effect other than its own, they take 200 burn the only reason this card cant exist is because of dark room of nightmare, which it would create an infinite loop with to burn your opponent for game the moment they get hit with sparks

[@SourceOfBeing]

It could exist if they added a once per chain clause.

[@weckar]

@@SourceOfBeing They don't chain though, they trigger on resolution.

[@warcriminalyes]

You mean, Trickstars.

[@JonathanMandrake]

@@weckar Then maybe once per card or something like that

[@zeeoh5466]

​@@JonathanMandrake Or just add something like "This effect cannot activate if your opponent has taken X or more damage this turn."

[@maskkid]

In the anime , Utopia Beyond is a generic rank 6 that makes all cards you control unaffected by your opponent's card effects and couldn't be destroyed by battle except with another number. And he has to ability to reduce all monster your opponent's monsters attack points to zero during the battle phase if Utopia ranked up to it. Utopia really went above and Beyond with this upgrade.

[@brendancrowley3085]

Not really dissimilar to what actually exists. Utopia Beyond in the real world has each of those effects (except for the Number protection), and the "attack reduction" effect you mentioned was actually just standard "negate the effects of all face-up cards" (as CXyz Barian had an effect to gain 1K per material).

[@armedweiss5531]

​@@brendancrowley3085 No, that's all completely wrong. Irl Utopia Beyond has no protection to speak of let alone giving all your cards protection. While Numeron Force is a field negate, Utopia Beyond was never summoned off of it in the anime because it's a Rank 6, Utopia is a Rank 4, it's not a "C" monster which is what the irl and anime version of Numeron Force can summon, and Numeron Force only lets you go up 1 rank. And Utopia Beyond doesn't have any negation in its anime effects. In fact in the Yuma vs Astral Duel we see Utopia Beyond reduce Gogogo Golem's ATK to 0 on Astral's first turn.

[@eamonnkernahan2623]

Since we didn't see it in the video, how about Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon? In the anime, it could only be summoned by tributing a Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon equipped with a specific trap card, it gained 400 ATK for each Dragon in grave, and it could negate spells that targeted it by discarding a card. Thank fuck that they made it playable for the IRL print.

[@mateusrp1994]

It actually has 2 Spell negation effects, one that negates spells that target it for free, and one that negates any spell by discarding a card. Neither has a once per turn, not even a soft one. I actually would like a card that gave REDMD its anime effects, he could become a cool boss monster rather than just Romulus second link material.

[@exzyyd392]

Okay but you get to summon it by pulling ghost REBDs from a volcano and fusing them. That's worth it no matter what effect it has

[@thunderstarchampion]

Fun fact about the Drone monsters, they *were* almost printed. They were a part of a OCG poll to determine what cards would get printed from the anime. Instead, we got the Fossil Fusion package.

[@ashikjaman1940]

I wonder what other anime characters don't have their archetypes printed. I know Earth, Windy, and Lightning (all from Vrains lol) don't have their's irl but who else?

[@RaidOfStorms]

@@ashikjaman1940 a few G Golems actually are printed iirc

[@ashikjaman1940]

@@RaidOfStorms oh damn, are they any good? I fuckin love Earth so it'd be great if this deck was ok

[@RaidOfStorms]

@@ashikjaman1940 they're pretty damn bad sadly

[@ashikjaman1940]

@@RaidOfStorms feck

[@PhantomDusclops92]

The equip spell Pegasus plays in the VHS duel with Yugi. Equip to a monster, then when the equipped monster attacks another monster the attack is instantly negated but you gain control of the attacked monster and it also becomes the only monster that can be attacked Second take: Dragon Capture Jar, the manga version. Which is a monster with 100 ATK/200 DEF that banishes all Dragons on field when summoned, banishes any other Dragon summoned as long as it's on the field and gains the combined DEF of all the dragons you banished with his effects

[@SetSeth-yl6ke]

Hey so about that Pegasus card in the VHS duel..

[@PhantomDusclops92]

@@SetSeth-yl6ke Yeah I saw that

[@julianadams3710]

A really strong one is Yusei's Insightful Cards of Reversal, it's a trap that when ever your open adds a card to their hand outside of the draw phase you can draw until you have the same number of cards as your opponent. Yusei uses it when Z-One adds a card to his already full hand and his is empty and draws 6 cards, going +5 off of one trap.

[@Switchell2]

Anime Pyramid of Light is hilarious. You can combo it with DNA Surgery to just banish all monsters *as a continuous effect*. And how on earth did Graveyard Rebound not get a mention? Just activate as many Spell/Traps from your GY as a non-OPT (let alone HOPT)?

[@EinDose]

Actually I believe Anime Pyramid specifucally removed Egyptian God Cards. Obviously that needs a pass in problem-solving card text, but it might just remove those cards and there's no way to expand it.

[@selectivepontification8766]

The way Graveyard Rebound was played is that it only allows one Spell/Trap from the graveyard on the turn (which is obviously still absurd with anything that's not HOPT but not ludicrously busted)

[@julekpiotrowski4520]

the anime/manga version of Number 48: Shadow Lich is intrasting since the token it summons have a rank not a level Attribute DARK Type Zombie/Xyz/Effect Rank 3 ATK / DEF 1800 / 0 Xyz Material 2 Level 3 monsters Cannot be destroyed by battle except with "Number" monsters. When this card is attacked, would be destroyed, or would be banished by your opponent's card: Special Summon as many "Phantom Tokens" (Rank 3/ATK 500/DEF 500) as possible instead, then, until the End Phase, hide this card among them, with the same name, ATK and DEF as them. You take no battle damage from battles involving a "Phantom Token". When a "Phantom Token" is destroyed: Inflict damage to your opponent equal to its ATK. Once per turn: You can activate this effect; this card gains ATK equal to the combined ATK of all "Phantom Tokens" you currently control, until the end of this turn.

[@andrejv.2834]

There is 1 impostor among the tokens

[@ashikjaman1940]

Imagine summoning UDF off of this lol

[@pretends2know]

The anime card that always stuck with me that could never be printed is Giant Flood. Noah played it in Virtual World Arc, and yes, the biblical allusion is on purpose. Giant Flood was a spell card that sent all monsters on the Field and in both players hands to the graveyard. I don't think a Dark Hole + Royal Tribute would fly even in this day and age.

[@chucklesdeclown8819]

Wow, imagine the decks that would abuse the f out of that.

[@Akario3]

He also had a dark hole that also banished all monsters in both GYs.

[@NickWuebker]

There was a card that was briefly mentioned in an episode of Zexal that can never be released because it would seriously break the meta and there have been a few videos released on this card but I think it fits the subject of this video. I’m talking about Chaos End Ruler - Ruler of the Beginning and the End. For those wondering the card reads like this: Chaos End Ruler - Ruler of the Beginning and the End LIGHT Level 10 Warrior/ Effect Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must first be Special Summoned (from your hand) by banishing 1 LIGHT Warrior-Type and 1 DARK Fiend Type monster from your Graveyard. When Special Summoned, cards and effects cannot be activated. You can pay 1000 Life Points; banish all cards from your opponent’s hand, field, and Graveyard, then inflict 500 damage to your opponent for each card banished by this effect. Attack/3500 Defense/2000 Just reading this, if this card were ever released it would be banned upon its release. This is pre-errata CED on steroids and would seriously warp the format.

[@weckar]

That summoning condition though... A lot of work for an easily negated wipe.

[@meathir4921]

I’m not entirely sold; how consistently can you see this card AND get its requirements in GY?

[@meathir4921]

@@weckar exactly, we already have World Legacy Scars for example which is arguably easier!

[@NickWuebker]

@@meathir4921 Joseph did a video on this card if your a little unsure about it.

[@meathir4921]

@@NickWuebker It’s just a Dragon Link list… you’re telling me that the best way to set him up at that time is play the already best combo deck at that point of time

[@satellarknightaltair4o90]

Why don’t they print the mammoth graveyard blue eyes ultimate dragon? It will be the perfect superpoly target? Also Konami should release a series of sets maybe called legacy of the forgotten and in this sets they should print anime only cards and that’s it.

[@CriAleMar]

They have an OCG set called Animation Chronicle where they print anime-only cards. We get it in the TCG as Battles of Legend sets

[@spartan4613]

Battles of legend is basically this every year. Frequently debut what were previously anime only cards

[@kauanjos3199]

"Ultimate blue eyes + spell card"

[@JakeLT64]

The way I see them bringing this to the TCG would be by printing an effect monster like “decaying mammoth graveyard” with a quick effect to equip itself to an opponents monster, negate its effect, and reduce its attack by 1200 per turn

[@kichiroumitsurugi4363]

@JakeLT Living Arrow Target 1 monster your opponent controls; equip 1 Level 3 or lower Normal Monster from your hand or Deck to it. Each Standby Phase, while that equipped monster is on the field, it loses ATK equal to the ATK of the monster it is equipped with, and if it becomes 0, destroy it.

[@gamewatcher2712]

I also have 2 more for this: Shooting quasar dragon: in the anime it could attack once for every monster used for the synchro summon and not once for every non tuner. Life stream dragon: has the additional effect to once per turn make all level 7 or 8 dragon synchro monsters you control either level 1 or 2

[@douglasnewdell]

Life Stream Dragon should totally have that last effect. I dont care if it's broken make that piece of shit somewhat playable.

[@Mernom]

Quasar also had some weird type of effect negation that doesn't negate the whole effect. I think it could be worded as 'when this card battles an opponents monster, negate any effect that would prevent its destruction by battle.'

[@joanaguayoplanell4912]

@@douglasnewdell wouldn't be broken at all. Many, MANY other Syncro Tuner monsters can change their level or the level of another monster, and they all are at best mediocre. Quasar the extra attack wouldn't have ever mattered since summoning one of those bad boys was already a GG.

[@chimpmasterflex]

I know Card of sanctity was way more common's, but Kaiba's card of demise is so much more broken. Draw 5 cards, then in 5 turns discard it, as if that'll ever happen (I know it did once in the anime)

[@joanaguayoplanell4912]

The brokeness crown definitely goes to Graveyard Rebound. Allows you to use spells from the GY for the rest of the turn. And it doesn't banish the reused spells.

[@kyuubinaruto17]

The only time he had to do the discard was in the movie. Lucky for Yugi his piercer monster was discarded right when Yugi put a Watapon on the field.

[@romram7984]

Or the fact crush card virus destroyed every monster in your hand, on the field, and in your deck with higher attack than 1500 and sent them to the graveyard. Plus virus canon which from what i remember was pretty broken in the anime for the time. I almost was going to say exchange of spirit but apparently that's just it's effect and not something anime exclusive

[@kyuubinaruto17]

@@romram7984 Yeah. For no cost just force your opponent to discard 10 spell cards from their deck. In certain decks which want spells in the grave people could use Mystic Refpanel to reflect the effect back at themselves, or just to deck thin since the target chooses the discards.

[@xatuyou8045]

It was draw until you have 5 cards in hand and you only had to discard cards drawn by the effect.

[@Debatra.]

This didn't even cover the cards that are just plain weird. Like the one Para and Dox used to turn the duel into a maze. And then they fused a monster into the walls so it could attack without "moving". And then Yugi played a card that let him switch the positions of two monsters in the maze (which I guess could be useful for redirecting an attack?).

[@Omnicrom]

They printed literally all of those cards though, they just have totally different effects...

[@Mernom]

The duel kingdom season of ygo doesn't count. Players could do literally whatever back then. There were no real rules to fall back on.

[@Omnicrom]

@@Mernom Like I said, they printed all those cards with totally different effects.

[@notimportant493]

One really funny anime card is Evil 1 which was a trap used by Vector. What it is meant to do is when is prevent your monsters from being destroyed and losing a game by reducing your lp to 1 instead of taking damage and making the monster you control immune to battle destruction. But due to wording on the card being "battle damage taken". If your opponent would have been the one to take battle damage. It instead drops their lp to 1 instead. And just to top it off you can send it to the gy to destroy a card

[@stegomasaurus6737]

Zigfried also has Nibelung's Treasure, which activates any spell from the deck and then draws you 5 cards.

[@dancostello4872]

Slight nitpick: it wasn't _any_ Spell because it only let you activate 'Nibelung's Ring' (which is good enough in its own right) and specifically from your Deck at that, but obviously it's still totally worth running the garnet considering the broken bit is getting to draw 5 cards.

[@armedweiss5531]

​@@dancostello4872 The funny thing about that is that Nibelung's Ring is a Fiendish Chain that I think also prevented the equipped monster from being tributed. Nibelung's Treasure is basically a better anime Card of Demise because it lets you Fiendish Chain an opponent's monster and THEN go +4 for no cost

[@blahmaster6k]

Here's one that didn't make it in: Speed Spell - Summon Close. Quick-play spell Send 1 card from your hand to the graveyard and draw 1 card. Your opponent cannot special summon this turn.

[@petiteexplication6249]

If it was a trap card that said your opponent draw 1 card but cannot special summon this turn would it be okay ?

[@blahmaster6k]

@@petiteexplication6249 no idea. The brokenness of this card is that not only can you use it to make your opponent unable to play for a turn, but you can also use it on your own turn in response to something like a nibiru. And that's even without the draw effect. And if it didn't draw you a card it couldn't even be stopped by ash blossom. So making it a trap might help but it's still really insane going first, probably better than trap dustshoot as a going first side deck card.

[@ChoccyMilk1940]

@@petiteexplication6249 No

[@JzanderN]

I think in the anime it just prevents special summoning, and first half is something added when they added the card to the games.

[@ashikjaman1940]

@@petiteexplication6249 New Trickstar meta lol

[@jaredtrujillo4491]

Do another one of these, with 20 years of anime cards to go though you can milk this concept for another 3-4 videos easy.

[@tyranitararmaldo]

Honestly yes. Hell, do anime-only archetypes to mix it up.

[@AllHailToTypeSun]

My favorite is card of last will. if the attack of a monster changes: draw up to 5 cards. They printed a nerfed version, but it was still busted so they made it illegal instead

[@xatuyou8045]

When are you going to activate it? Unless you’re playing against reptillianes it seems impossible to trigger.

[@pretends2know]

@@xatuyou8045 Card of Last Will doesn’t care who reduces the ATK, the card just cares that it happened.

[@xatuyou8045]

@@pretends2know it has to specifically be to 0. The card would not see play if it was legal.

[@mwedreitheshadow]

I'm kind of surprised that Gladiator Beast's Assault Fort didn't make it in, just for the sheer "what the fuck is this?!" factor of the card.

[@four-en-tee]

Konami should print Roll of Fate, but specifically make it a Poker Knights card and make it a once per turn. They need the advantage if they're playing Slifer.

[@godzilla1335]

No. It’s a Joey card. So they need to give us the Landstar archetype and make Roll of Fate support that.

[@ashikjaman1940]

Make it a Flame Swordsman card lol

[@armedweiss5531]

@@godzilla1335 Make it Red-Eyes Support and have it so you can only summon Red-Eyes monsters the turn you activate it

[@tivednagol9127]

@@armedweiss5531 Can't it be a generic card? I don't want to use it if it supports an archetype.

[@deadlineuniverse3189]

Cards of desperation is a Tearlaments card. Getting 3 fusion summon triggers, ip to 2 trap recourse triggers, special summon reino heart and what else you have in deck.

[@ButWhyMe...]

Thanks, I wanted to make a good tearlament to play against a friend's custom deck lol

[@namelessscarf]

It is a Skull Servant card. It even has a Skull Servant in the art.

[@JadaKaiser]

Yeah the anime and manga have fucking insane cards or cards that make 0 sense. "Crucify a black magic user to the cross" is my personal favorite. Glad to see my life's work be a good topic for this!

[@chibigohan925]

But can you believe Moronic Butt Tron didn't mention any of the anime versions of Gladiator Beasts, especially Tamer Editor and Andabata??? Also, I've seen multiple comments bring up Assault Fort! Will you smack some sense into him?? (I've tried on multiple occasions and it hasn't worked for me yet!)

[@vincevodka9679]

From all the anime cards, Infernity Zero is the funniest After reaching your life points to 0, you can discard your entire hand to special summon Zero, just to let you continue playing with 0 LP, but with the catch of putting Death Counters after getting 500 damage. Getting 3 sends Zero to graveyard and lose. Or that's how I interpret/remember it.

[@THEGRUMPTRUCK]

Interesting tidbit, Card of Sanctity's anime effect was reprinted on The Revived Sky God, a trap used to bring out Slifer from the grave. During the Pharoah's final turn, Yugi played Card of Sanctity to allow him and the Pharoah each to draw six. This was to save his Silent Magician, allowing her to grow to 3500 attack and stop both Dark Magician and Dark Magician girl, after the Pharoah preserved the last of his life points with Magicians unite. Of the six cards, one that the Pharoah drew was Monster Reborn, specifically targeting the slifer in his graveyard, whereupon the effects of the anime Card of sanctity (Both draw until six cards in hand) and the user summons slifer, were the pharoah's final turn in the anime before his defeat.the

[@ouroboros_1355]

my favorite anime cards are the ones played in 5DS, Sad Story I think they were called, they were 3 continuous spell cards that while on the field, you saw cards your opponent drew on their DP, and if they were of the appropiate type they were shuffled into the deck(if you had all three any card would get shuffled)

[@shadexvii3975]

This is four months old, but they actually brought in the D/D/D/D guy

[@PhantomDusclops92]

I'm re-reading the manga and OH GOD I FORGOT THAT ONE CARD. In the manga version of the Battle City Yugi vs Bakura duel, Bakura plays a spell card that if it existed in real life would be like banned instantly. It's called Deja Vu and basically it NEGATES YOUR OPPONENT'S LAST TURN RETROACTIVELY, ignoring any kind of timing.

[@thatguyfx6311]

I’m shocked no one mentioned the Egyptian gods, Ra alone had like 20 different bullshit effects in the anime and all 3 Gods would definitely be meta defining if they had the anime effects

[@kichiroumitsurugi4363]

Except not really. They'd suffer from the same problems they suffer now - they're big bunguses with loads of protection but also ungodly hard to summon and keep on field

[@misirtere9836]

literally at the start, the explicit point of this list is cards that NEVER got a real print, not even one that's clearly much weaker. I mean, he still put manga Stratos in the video, so not even he stuck with that rule, but the point stands.

[@thatguyfx6311]

@@misirtere9836 his own example of the idea is card of sanctity, a card that was super strong in the anime, and then later got a real print with a weaker effect That sounds a lot like the Egyptian gods

[@luminous3558]

The egyptian gods are still awful in the anime. Tributing 3 monsters for a monster that is just worse arrival cyberse but needs to be hard drawn is just bad.

[@xCorvus7x]

@@luminous3558 By now. When they were released it was perfectly fine to wait two turns for a Gold Sarcophagus. Edit: preparing three tributes and consolidating your position also took some time anyway, so the two turns wouldn't have been wasted - doubly so if the payoff was a monster basically immune to everything once it hits the field.

[@davidcardona9243]

I'd say the tomato field spell, that made you eat a real tomato to attack, is also something Yugioh players might need

[@alagosplode]

Close. It makes you draw a random vegetable from a sack and eat that to attack. Yuma just kept drawing tomatoes and hated them too much to go through with it.

[@davidcardona9243]

@@alagosplode all the produce in the sack were tomato hybrids, so no matter what he pulled it would always be a tomato mixed with something else

[@esoteric7990]

Nobody mentioned Big Return lol Quick-Play Target 1 card you control; activate its "once per turn" effect once again this turn.

[@itsaname3986]

Ah yes, Golden Castle making your opponent pay it's maintenance cost is the funniest thing.

[@dormagio]

The monkey’s paw wish came true.

[@blastmole299]

One of the dumbest and weirdest card that's only in the anime is Utopia Rising, it summons regular Utopia, gains all the effects of your XYZ monsters on the field if it's activated by detaching it's material(s). Copying a card effect is always broken in YuGiOh, but multiple cards at once, and it's not once per turn (the trap) can give you some weird but very broken plays.

[@asmcint]

Y'know, there's one anime-only archetype I'd love to see get printed: C/C. The whole idea of looping through multiple summoning mechanics in the battle phase while *copying* the opponent's monsters for materials was really cool and I want that in the actual game.

[@Mernom]

Any strat that depends on your opponent to do something is fundamentally limited.

[@asmcint]

@@Mernom And? I'm not saying it'd be any kind of meta or even rogue threat, it would JUST be cool. I would play it for shits and giggles, and it would be fun to do so.

[@chucklesdeclown8819]

@@asmcint isn't that the archetype that kind of weird quiet kid carried around in arc-v? I'm down, why not? My wish is for the new order cards to come out, they just look cool and I love how weird of an interaction they would have with rank up magics and etc. Tbh I just like the archetype because I like the cards different arts.

[@asmcint]

@@chucklesdeclown8819 Yep, that's the one.

[@marcomagana8329]

Spell Sanctuary is by far the most powerful card ever made. I think Yugi activates Card of Sanctity as a Quick Play.

[@nopunchman]

he activates it off of spell textbook, which is normally a quick-play

[@yaakovsteinberg4128]

There is a card that comes really close to it. alter of restoration. It’s essentially a better version of: monster reincarnation, trap recycle, and spell reproduction; it has practically no cost: remove from play the top two cards of your deck. Add 1 card from your graveyard to your hand!

[@MarioLopez-xs3vc]

Man, I still want the Drones to come out as an archetype already, I think the next OCG set is gonna be machine heavy so that might be their chance.

[@wheelchairplayer2862]

2:08 those unexpected edits crack me up everytime. really makes me appreciate this editing style

[@moonlight2870]

My favorite anime only card that can never be printed us the amazoness cage field spell. It has the effect of each player paying 100 life points AND THEN THEY START FIST FIGHTING, LOSING 100 LIFEPOINTS FOR EVERY PUNCH THEY TAKE.

[@somebody3436]

I just realize “Gold sarcophagus” in the anime is basically “ Cross-out designator” irl.

[@pretends2know]

There’s a minor difference because Yugi banished monster reborn facedown, then revealed it later. Honestly, even with that difference, Gold Sarcophagus would work in today’s game.

[@kaleina_mk]

im surprised no one showed more manga cards like the "fuse cards in your extra deck to make a fusion monster" or "draw 2, dump everything in your deck to the graveyard, also it pairs with this card that lets you activate spells and traps from the gy"

[@JB-bc2ry]

6:10 This is wrong, it was actually the card user's brother Zeigfried who did the hacking, and he intentionally threw the game when he realized the card was hacked cause he felt it was unfair for Yugi

[@lilsunny7399]

actually no. He was going to throw but yugi said "Nah fam, keep playing your best." And then yugi OTKed him with Dark Magician, Necromancy and Diffusion Wave Motion

[@watusagamer]

Colorless king of dark world. A wonderful dream...

[@tatsuyakaiyo416]

Ojama delta thunder is one of the first things that come to mind, wonder if it's here

[@yusheitslv100]

8:11 we should at least get this in a Lost Art Collection. Ruling: If you play it, it's functionally the same as the normal printing. It just looks cooler.

[@midcoregamer7625]

Partner Change. It can only be used in tag duels, it switches control of PLAYERS, and it can be negated by at least one of your opponents choosing to not let it resolve.

[@Ragnarok540]

Call of the hunted in the very first season is the funniest card, is a trap but they activate it as a spell, special summons all monsters previously destroyed by battle, they become zombies and can't be destroyed... Let's say they nerfed it a little bit.

[@lilsunny7399]

So this isn't super broken but Destiny HERO - Dreadmaster in the anime applied its entire effect on summon in any way, tribute, clock tower or even special summoned without clock tower prison. That means when you summon dreadmaster, in any way at all. You wipe all your non D-HERO monsters then reborn 2 D-HEROes.

[@darrenbarlow2354]

You missed the extra monster zone card from vrains that gives you 3 extra monster zones and other stuff. I remember seeing it and thinking that would be a way to play pendulum lol

[@JzanderN]

I'm surprised how many cards were from later series. I thought that there would be more powerful ones in the earlier series (DM, GX and maybe 5D's) when they were still figuring the game out compared to later series that started becoming a lot closer to actual dueling, though still with some anime original cards/effects. But I guess being more recent means they'd have more of an impact in modern Yu-Gi-Oh if they were printed as is.

[@munchrai6396]

I really wish the Numeron backrow was real. I love the numeron cards but instant OTK off of Kajus is just really boring. I wish that we got a card that could use Number xyz as material that wasn't nearly as broken as Zexal. I got a lot of mileage out of time thief Numeron with it being able to reload xyz monsters and it leaving the field on command. Do like the NumeRa version though

[@six-eyes4727]

Anyone remember the MASKED KNIGHT cards? They were featured prominently in the DS World Championship games, playable in Tag Force, Duel Links snuck them in, and they were even prominent in WHEELIE BREAKERS FOR THE WII but were never printed. Never printed.

[@cpMetis]

Maji-gire Panda (or something like that) is one of the most fucked up cards, and I think came from Chumley's dad too. It is a panda with a horrifying face kicking over a table..... and in the original there were two more pandas, like his wife and child, scared in the background. Like it was a violent drunk dad.

[@Phyrrus]

That Card does actually exist in the Tcg

[@babysinclairfan]

In the anime, number 99 could destroy all monsters except itself, then burn the opponent for the combined attack of its materials. Keep in mind that number 99 can also revive monsters, so this could add up really quickly. The real-life card removed the burn effect altogether while negating the effects of the summoned monster. The tradeoff was that it had a far easier summoning condition

[@astroshareni]

What about the God Cards from the show that have like 15 different effents, especially Ra?

[@andrejv.2834]

Unsearchable main deck tribute summon monsters that still lose to the usual chalice/droplet/drnm/mine Not really playable

[@unknownmj1699]

Its insanely searchable wdm?

[@andrejv.2834]

@@unknownmj1699 what competent deck can search them Outside of slifer the other two are vanillas who'll only get run over by accesscode or psychic end punisher so it's not like they're worth playing anyway

[@astroshareni]

@@andrejv.2834 This video is about cards that cannot be printed, it doesn't matter if they would be good or not.

[@kichiroumitsurugi4363]

@@andrejv.2834 Chalice wouldn't work, since all of them have targeting protection in the anime, afaik

[@olvynchuru1663]

Isn't Ivy Bind Castle worded in such a way that if you didn't control any Predaplant monsters, you'd never have to destroy the card because the "Target 1 Predaplant monster you control;" effect would fizzle?

[@bolobre4th]

I remember a floodgate called Whiteout from Pearson's duel with Crow in the anime. Negates all effects of monsters that target cards in the hand, gy or field. I'd love to have that.

[@canadiandynamite5834]

Paradox Draw is a funny spell card because it literally just swaps your draw phase with your opponent's draw phase.

[@JerryBeansMan]

To be sure, Yugi's confession to Joey was certainly earth-shattering, but I feel 4kids was truly shaken to its foundations during the Battle City arc when Tristan Taylor said "jet fuel can't melt steel beams"

[@JerryBeansMan]

@MBT YUGIOH4 ON 𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐌👈 omg it's the real MBT!! show me that progrussy RIGHT NOW

[@IrrelevantOaf]

This series will never get old.

[@giuli766]

For a minute i thought this was a JCGodot's video, then i realized that this was a new one

[@giuli766]

@MBT YUGIOH4 ON 𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐌👈 is this a scam? Lol

[@Sebastian-tm6hk]

Bonfire is one of those cards I really want to get printed, just to see what restrictions they'd slap onto it. Does an Ash Blossom ROTA sound good enough?

[@mfznal-hafidz8592]

Isn't Ash Blossom a zombie monster? Bonfire only search pyro monster, if I recall

[@owenpickles4486]

@@mfznal-hafidz8592 It was ROTA for FIRE, rather than Pyro

[@mfznal-hafidz8592]

@@owenpickles4486 ok, thanks for correction. Despite related with FIRE, I remember this from Yu-Gi-Oh GX but it was not Axel/Austin who used this, it was Fonda/Ayukawa-sensei the one that uses anti-heal deck (nurse burn). She used this card to search burning algae.

[@babrad]

​@@mfznal-hafidz8592I found a Konami employee after all those years!!! Bonfire is made exactly as you said it would.

[@themonarchserupt4051]

i also have some favourites traitor fog, when your opponent specials, take control of 1 of those monsters (perm trap) forceful deal; when your oppoennt summons a monster, pay half your lp, tribute all your monsters and take control of your opponents monsters orichalcos gigas just returns an infinite of times per turn from your own graveyard and gets 500 atk each time at the cost of your next draw and this turns battle phase the number 69 heraldry crest is a skilldrain while it absord the other monsters effects + it has the anime numeron shenanigans chaos end ruler just deletes all your opponents cards and deals 500 dmg for each numbers evaille into gimmick puppet leo is a 1 card ftk

[@peepeevs]

First card I thought about was Card of Sancitity, yes... Second one I thought of though was Spell Sanctuary.. Imagine just searching any Spell from your deck for free and then turning all Normal Spells into quick-plays.

[@Nerozard]

2:04 I feel so fucking called out.

[@ashikjaman1940]

The quick Dire roast was my favorite part of the video ngl

[@noodle_cat9719]

I can't believe that "Zero Gravitation" wasn't mentioned. It was a trap card used by Reiji in the ARC-V Manga, and its effect reads as follows: "You may determine the target of an opponent's monster's attack. On this turn, treat both players' decks as one deck."

[@markoriceijansantos9844]

That "Card of Desperation" seems good. You can create a decent otk deck for Chaos Necromancer using that card.

[@ValunarTonix]

The commandrone stuff should be a fullfledged archetype just to counter the negate meta

[@UltimateBurstLP]

We need a part 2 to this there are so many anime cards that are just insane

[@mr.platypusgaming]

I love the "banish all monsters in your deck" card. This isn't floo nitro, this is floo hyperdrive. SEARCH ALL THE MONSTERS

[@ChromiumDome411]

Didn’t even know that a Colorless Dark World card even existed. And now I want it so badly.

[@discountjudai3251]

Oh there was a card that Judai/ jaden played in the show called effect shut which would negate any monster effect and destroy it im pretty sure. Just a straight up better called by

[@heartlessphantom1242]

Mine got buried lmao The card I thought of was Fallout. The only appearance this card had was post-duel in the Pyramid of Light movie. It showed up for a second and it had this text: "You can only activate this card when you Special Summon a monster. Increase the ATK and DEF of that monster by 4000 points. You cannot conduct your Draw Phase, Main Phase, and Battle Phase for the next 5 turns." Just make a really big monster and skip your next 5 turns. Amazing.

[@PinClockFuntime]

How would you possibly benefit from this? Just have Big Monster?

[@heartlessphantom1242]

@@PinClockFuntime It's honestly just another funny way to OTK someone. All about the hilarity of having a big number and punching your opponent with it and at that point, the fun 5 turn skip just doesn't matter

[@xhero66]

I think you should do a series with these types of cards.YGOPRO has the anime version of the cards.

[@Krazeera]

Celebration of creation trap card. When your opponent special summons a monster, it is now the end phase of the turn.

[@shwedoo-6035]

PHANTOM KNIGHTS OF POSSESSION It wouldn't be anything special but would help so much with making raging dragon.

[@Matthias-pj6th]

Friendly Update for you all: "Colorless Chaos King of Dark World" has officially been announced!

[@jefi1298]

Oh god the drunk archetype is unlocking memories i didn't realize i have wow

[@thesun5275]

"send the rest of the deck to the grave" I mean, last ditch effort but holy hell that can be strong as fuck

[@TheFourthBlackReaper]

Now I’m gonna make an anime only card version of progression series just to break Hundred-Eyes Dragon in a Red-Eyes deck.

[@stardustspeedway4232]

The clorless, king of dark world aged well

[@zapdite9410]

"Breathing stream Pog" got me

[@UshiUshiKakuThe2nd]

One card not mentioned in the video is the anime version of Tuning. Not only did it mill cards equal to the Level of the monster added to hand (instead of just 1), but it also allowed to you add ANY Tuner. I get why the latter was changed, but as a resident Synchron enthusiast, I cannot appropriately express how much I would have loved to mill 3 when adding Junk Synchron. The only reason I can think of as to why they changed it is because, at the time Tuning was printed in Starstrike Blast, Lightsworns were still relatively playable and probably would have run this just to get their mills going.

[@Powerman293]

Could you imagine Tear running that version of Tuning just for the mill effect. They play a singular Quickdraw synchron just to mill 5.

[@UshiUshiKakuThe2nd]

Hard to say definitively, but I highly doubt Tear would run this "alternate-reality" version of Tuning, especially given that the deck has nothing to gain from the Synchron monsters themselves. Tear already has much better ways of starting off their mills.

[@TrueBlueMcgoo]

I can't believe the original Card of Demise wasn't mentioned. That card is beyond busted

[@supertombrother1988]

In the first season of the anime there was a card played by bandit Keith called the pillager. It let you see your opponent's hand and take one card from it to add to your own hand. You could basically screw anyone over by taking their one of staple and using it yourself. I don't know how broken it would be if it got released today though.

[@timmyreobed5043]

Darkness Outsider searches through the opponents DECK, steals a monster from it, and Specials it to your side of the field. And it's searchable by another anime card, Darkness Necroslime. But hey, at least it has a cost. Shuffling itself into the opponents deck and making ypu discard. The latter being potentially beneficial and the former giving the opponent essentially a 1-in-30 something chance to draw it.

[@micahheller6212]

I love how underworld circle is just kinda... a magic card... nobody uses most of the printings of it, but theres one that costs 0 mana (like this one) that was just one of the strongest cards in the game for a while. (i was thinking living death but maybe thats too different an effect, we have a lot of "once per turn get soemthing out of your yard cards, and a lot of "if it goes back exile it" cards, but the living death is the symmetrical version)