Top Ten Weirdest Yu-Gi-Oh Monster Counterparts

There’s a lot of weird things in early Yu-Gi-Oh that make us say “what were they thinking” looking at how the game has evolved. A handful of early monsters were recolored and repositioned to create “new” monsters. Sometimes they were clearly intended to be related to the monster they were based on, while other times, they were trying to pull the wool over our eyes and hope we didn’t notice some of the differences. We discuss some of the funnier and weirder scenarios that these lookalikes had. Judgment Meter and A.T. from Software Agents TV join me for this video.
Yu-Gi-Oh video game footage provided by A.T. Video edited by MrTopTenList.
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Opening Night by Jason Farnham
Church of 8 Wheels by Otis McDonald

[@seeyaskykid532]

14:24 Dark Elf has a lore because in the older video games, there are no effect monsters. her lore reads in Forbidden Memories from PlayStation 1 "A wicked elf that just loves to engage in battle."

[@TheHoodedGravy]

Kaiser Sea Horse was used by Kaiba, whose given name literally translates as “sea (kai 海) horse (ba 馬),” so that’s why it was the light attribute double tribute monster - it brings out Blue-Eyes easier

[@grizzlythehater]

Black☆Kaiser that’s actually pretty awesome never knew that 👍🏽

[@MarvelousMeister]

It's also a reference to the fact that in Japanese, seahorse “tatsuno-otoshigo” literally means “baby dragon”

[@LegitMan335]

So Kaiba is Seahorse

[@yorib.4014]

@@MarvelousMeister wait! Is this why kingdra in Pokemon is a dragon type? 🤯

[@MarvelousMeister]

@@yorib.4014 yes and why in Fruits Basket the Dragon zodiac turns into a seahorse

[@Kahadi]

I think the funniest part about the last one is that technically speaking, Kuriboh is actually ripping off Wretched Ghost of the Attic. Even if only a few months, its the older card, making Kuriboh a recoloured Wretched Ghost. And as the more popular one that became an archetype and everything, that's just hilarious to me

[@WeaponXSigma]

The copycat became an archtype while the original faded away and classified itself as obsolete.

[@chrishansen1842]

@@WeaponXSigma at least it's not classified as obese

[@GurrenPrime]

That’s assuming Kuriboh didn’t appear in the manga before Wretched Ghost became a card.

[@atromin9323]

@@GurrenPrime I'm pretty sure Kuriboh appeared in the manga first, before the OCG even existed.

[@GurrenPrime]

Atromin that’s what I figured. But I didn’t feel like looking it up to double check.

[@Slayerthecrow]

In early Yugioh there were lot of monsters like these, nowadays if they make a monster like that they had like set of cards to explain the reason of what happened, personally I think that we deserve a Mystical Elf archetype or at least more cards explaining how a party girl like her became Mystical.

[@brianaguilar8283]

They seemed to just recycle card artworks in the past

[@Slayerthecrow]

@@brianaguilar8283 yes, and they are doing it now for Rush duel but with some improvements, just search for the "Gust" trap card and compare the original with the Rush Duel version, is the same artwork with some makeover, the girl in the pole now looks 10 years younger.

[@Acidonia150reborn]

Last card to do this was Alien Mother/Zeta Reticulant. The kings of Lazy are Hieratic Dragon of Hieratic Dragon of Nebthet. There both the same monster art just flipped with a new Background and both from same set and Pseudo Space field spell card that is just a colour inverted Skyscraper field spell card

[@JudgmentMeter]

I, too, want that backstory

[@ARCANEOS51OX]

I'd love a defensive slash direct attack burn damage mystic elf deck I'd play that all day.

[@FrozenAuroras]

How about "Invader of the throne" and " Protecter of the Throne"?😃

[@manepines-megamanhdgamepla9299]

theres a missed opportunity there for sue...

[@TheKpa11]

Or Haniwa and ........I forget the name Or Disk magician and Holograh Or Silver Fang and Wolf

[@matthewkuscienko4616]

@@TheKpa11 Haniwa's counterpart is Rock Spirit (which for some reason is a spellcaster type)

[@alex_flamer267]

Or Dark Gray and Ancient One of the Forest

[@vwin9112]

honestly, if these clones were to actually fight, especially the invader vs. protector of the throne, how do you think it would go down(no help, no assists, free for all).

[@firepuppies4086]

Actually, the armor loss seems to increase the attack speed. But lower defenses slightly. The higher and lower defense

[@VaunShiz]

And and if you use wow logic he's using a 2 handed spear hense why he's got more attack than the 1 handed and shield holding version

[@BigBisdotdotdot]

"Mystical Elf has a calming blue skin tone while Dark Elf is a sinister red." I was so caught off guard, I thought he was talking about Dark Elf's skin tone and had a mini-crisis that I couldn't tell the difference between red and brown anymore.

[@wh3elson]

Wait what is he referring to? I thought he meant red like Native American skin lol

[@voltagestorm1787]

Wretched ghost of the attic: im not a kuriboh Kuriboh: hello brother

[@LegitMan335]

What about Sagan? Is he related to Kuriboh?

[@TheKpa11]

Wretched ghost of the attic: La the do

[@voltagestorm1787]

@@LegitMan335 He's the deformed cousin

[@LegitMan335]

@@voltagestorm1787 deformed cousin good enough 030

[@voltagestorm1787]

@@LegitMan335 It took a whole year to respond? Lol

[@brandonprater4613]

*Fun Fact:* Hibikime translates to "Noise Woman" *Fun Farce:* Wretched Ghost of the Attic translates to "Haunted Dustbunny" Also, one theme I couldn't help but notice were ALL the turtle monsters like Catapult Turtle, Pyramid Turtle, Crab Turtle, Turtle Tiger... honestly, there are SO many! Also also, this video was great on multiple levels! Well done, y'all! 👏😎

[@brianaguilar8283]

Turtle should be a true archetype.

[@Slayerthecrow]

there was a character in Tag Force 2 that used a Turtle Themed deck, honestly now that Penguins will become a deck I wonder how would be a Turtle Deck

[@JudgmentMeter]

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@DerVasto]

@@Slayerthecrow Maybe Turtles could become the first true "reverse-OTK" archetype? With letting the opponent attack your high DEF monster, and then raising your DEF while putting their ATK to 0 so they end themselves.

[@Slayerthecrow]

@@DerVasto sounds like reptilliane, personally I think that the superheavy samurai style fits the monsters better.

[@FreinareUnimentra]

It annoys me that Mystical Elf is not an Effect Monster. In the “fake Kiaba” duel, it raised Blue-Eyes’s Atk by 800. If you don’t want to make it OP, make it transfer it Atk to another Light Monster till the start of your next turn or when Mystical Elf leaves the field.

[@MrTopTenList]

She really needs a retrain like many of Yugi's other original monsters got (beyond Bubbly Elf). Even Giant Soldier of Stone got a retrain!

[@majinish]

In Dark Duel Stories Mystical Elf has the same effect as in the anime. If you have Blue-Eyes out you can increase its attack by 800.

[@matthewroberts198]

@@MrTopTenList I feel like they kinda did but really changed with Maiden with Eyes of Blue

[@muji8872]

You think +800 atk is op?

[@nullvoid7188]

@@muji8872 in the early days 800+ attack on something could be crippling for an opponent especially on something with 2500 or more attack.

[@miguelmata4557]

Look up the card "Lost World" in it among other things you can find Trakadon and Urabi being really confused about meeting one another cause they're the same monster with a palette swap!

[@adambriton5394]

That's what I like It's like "huh don't I know you"

[@DesperadoJean]

Yh or more like Who da Jurassic World are you

[@JudgmentMeter]

Mystical Elf and Dark Elf are both Queens in my book! Too bad I wasn't prepared for that rousing game of Make Judgment Meter choose. Same goes for the Tsurugi twins and fuzzy ear witches!

[@yu-gh-oi4677]

who would win in a fight Akane or Shampoo?

[@brandonprater4613]

If it helps, may I remind you what happened to Inuyasha when he couldn't decide between 2 identically lovely ladies... he too had an unexpected fall! ✌😂

[@BuLdaHntiWrkshp]

you talked about nipplez z0mg hawt. now do top 60 YuGiOh boobs plz

[@starscreamsniper926]

Love Mystical Elf, She was one of my favorite monsters. I got the Yu-Gi-Oh/Kaiba starter decks combo pack for her, Celtic Elf and Dark Magician. As well as Blue Eyes White Dragon. I also had the Joey Starter deck for Red Eyes Black Dragon.

[@JudgmentMeter]

@@yu-gh-oi4677 Hard to say. Shampoo has colorful battle-maracas and Akane has fire-fists.

[@kylelutes8961]

This gives me sweet nostalgic flashbacks of playing the Yu-Gi-Oh Game Boy Advance games.

[@Goblin_Hands]

Yup, Eternal Duelist Soul and Worldwide Edition. Back then, I had no idea how to get more than 1 of the good cards because the sets almost always gave me trash, just like I had no idea which deck to choose. It turns out it's been updated on the wiki: yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_The_Eternal_Duelist_Soul Spoilers: All 3 starter decks are basically the same (either swapping Mirror Force for Bell of Destruction, or alternating between Raigeki/Snatch Steal/Premature Burial), but the red comes with an 1800 beater, and all 3 come with most other Staples (a 1700 beater, Summoned Skull, and 90% of the good limited S/T staples). The tiny differences don't really matter since all are limited cards that you could enter 8 digit card numbers to get cards you don't own anyways, and all are limited cards relatively easy to get from multiple packs if you feel that is somehow cheating. That being said, limited cards in boosters weren't really valuable as semi or unlimited cards, so you're better off trying to get Trap Holes and Fissures from the Dark Magician Pack (default), CyberStein/Morphing Jar/Penguin Soldier from Garoozies (Tier 3 default-beat each Tier 2 each 3x), Axe of Despair/MST from Relinquished (win 10 Tier 3's), most decent staples from Blue-Millenium Puzzle (win 10 Tier 4's) and secretly grinding against Mako 20 duels to unlock Gemini Elf pack that came with Gemini Elf, Giant Red Seasnake and Graceful Charity (semi), that is until you get the Vorse Raider/Widespread Ruin from the gold Millenium Puzzle pack (beat the November annual tournament, unlock/beat Simon+you get 1 card of each+unlock Truesdale/Solomon, which is the final character in the game!); [Also worth noting, Battle Ox pack that comes with La Jinn, Launcher Spider that comes with 7 Colored Fish, Buster Blader pack that comes with Harpie's Brother/Extermination/Crossout, and Millenium Eye that comes with other staples, but the problem is you'd need to beat Mai, Umbra, Yugi, and Kaiba all 20x Each, so it's not as rewarding, and outside of those Tier 2 1800's OFFER NOTHING BUT TRASH.] Similarly and most frustrating of all, 80% of the other packs are filled with TRASH, even when you'd think they would be good, like the harder to unlock and intentionally confusingly similar in appearance and unlocking method Green Millenium Puzzle pack (beat each Tier 4 each 10x) comes with absolute trash (except unplayable Obelisk), Cyber Harpie doesn't even have Cyber Harpie (beat Tier 1 each 10x), Blue-Eyes Ultimate is has nothing but 10 fusions but no Cyber Stein (Tier 4 default, beat each Tier 3 each 4x), BLS similarly is 16 useless Rituals (beat each Tier 3 each 10x), Blue-Eyes/Exodia (beat Yugi/Joey each 20x) are literally dilluted OCG versions to the default Dark Magician/Red-Eyes packs, Gate Guardian (win 10 Tier 2 Duels) is just as bad as the first packs you unlock, Tiger Axe and Judge Man, which are secretly worse than the default packs Dark Magician/Red-Eyes/Mystical Elf, in fact all of these are essentially worse!!

[@crusixangel9513]

"What's wrong with him" "Nothing hes just trying to be a lovable mascot" .... "He did it wrong" I love her! Lol she made me lol so much this videos!

[@MrTopTenList]

Glad you enjoyed our antics!

[@nobodyimportant5140]

Honorable mention: Green Phantom King and Queen of the Autumn Leaves

[@JudgmentMeter]

Green Heirophant!

[@kota86]

Green Phantom King is one of my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! artworks and I somehow never knew about Queen of Autumn Leaves. Thanks for bringing her to my attention!

[@CmdrVoltaire]

Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon was always a big headscratcher for me. Like, they just used a pallet-swapped version of a completely different monster (a normal one at that) and called it a day.

[@majinish]

Did you know Petit Dragon is part of Five-Headed Dragon? Petit Dragon fuses with Firegrass to become Darkfire Dragon which is one of the heads of Five-Headed Dragon.

[@rishnix]

I did not know that. I didn't know the dragon heads came from other dragons in the game. What are the other 4 heads from?

[@Utopiaworld24]

@@rishnix the only one that bears any resemblance to another card is the fire head, so I'd argue they are just random heads and one coincidentally looks like ol flamey boi

[@marianfranklin8959]

Kaiser Sea Horse is the double light sacrifice monster, because in Japanese Mythology a sea horse becomes a dragon after 1000 years. Kiba's ace monster is the Blue Eyes White Dragon, a light attributed dragon monster.

[@trueblueryu5713]

I still believe Tri Horned Dragon has something to do with Zera the mant, where maybe it was the husk that Zera inhabited: -Same color -Roughly the same pose -Similar head shape -Not a stretch to assume they’re the same size -Same level -Almost the same stats -Tri Horned is considered an “unworthy” dragon, so maybe it willingly chose to be inhabited, or it was killed and had its body inhabited.

[@TheKpa11]

50 more attack than Zera oddly though. Slightly stronger

[@TheKpa11]

Emperor DarK Tri horned dragon oddly enough was a ritual kind of monster too for some reason

[@brianaguilar8283]

Where does the Warrior of Zera lore fit into this?

[@trueblueryu5713]

Brian Aguilar Like I said, Tri Horn’s body might have been inhabited by the warrior of Zera and Ryu-Kishin powered, who most people also believe is involved in the lore. I admittedly can’t prove this by any stretch, but similar to how the attic ghost on this list looks very similar to Kuriboh but doesn’t have any lore relation, it’s just something that’s always been in my mind.

[@crono276]

@@brianaguilar8283 There are a few videos of his lore. Basically he has the potential to become Zera the Mant, Mazera Deville, Darklord Zerato, or Angel of Zera.

[@taitofans2686]

notice how Dark Elf and Holy elfs atk and defense stats perfectly mirror each others....

[@admcgregor2006]

That's Mystical Elf's Japanese name.

[@taitofans2686]

@@admcgregor2006 Japanese is my first language, thats the name I am familiar with.

[@HeartAino193]

Wow! Mentioning palette swaps like that might certainly make us think of making a top 10 list of fighting game palette swaps one day because palette swaps in fighting games are among the coolest concepts to have in various forms of modern media...

[@jinkisaragifan6357]

Top 10 barney

[@SteelTheTemplarius]

Yeah. That´s because when first appearing in the manga, the card game was not only a reference of Magic: The Gathering, but also to Dungeons & Dragons. That is also the reason why, when first appearing in the manga, the game was named Dragons & Wizards. That also is the reason of the wierd rules seen in the Duelist Kingdom saga of the anime. The rules we now know and love would not be settled until the Battle City arc in both the anime and the manga. But, returning to the point, in the beginning the game have a lot of RPG elements. And one of the most common tropes in RPGs, specially japanese ones, is the Underground Monkey trope: Enemies in advanced parts of the game that are recolors of weaker enemies. In part because designing new enemies is kinda hard. In part because RPGs games for consoles have limited memory space.

[@christiansager4574]

“Strip tease.” The hell does your internet history look like?

[@Kirbyroth]

maybe ghost of the attic is a kuriboh ghost maybe from Atem's Deck after being blasted by blue eyes one to many

[@sunniorlater]

I feel like I resonate most with the wretched ghost of the attic, because like them, people I meet for the first time always tell me I look like someone that’s more talented than me. The audacity... maybe I’ll start throwing him in my deck and just plain out summoning him randomly to lure people into a false sense of security. What if all the monsters that look similar are just from different dimensions?

[@DragoonMS]

Basic Insect x Invader from the Darkness: Invader's Fiend type (Demon type in Japan) probably means that Basic Insect basically got hit by some Raid and went to hell.

[@dracometeors3010]

2 of my favorite monsters

[@twintyro]

Lmao!!

[@m.v.gonzalez5575]

Or basic insect got chuunibyou

[@_Vengeance_]

The most annoying part of Invader from Another Dimension is the 950 ATK. It has double the level of Basic Insect, double the defense, aaaaand... almost double the ATK, just arbitrarily the minimum amount possible lower (unless you include PaniK's math-nightmares).

[@MiguelRPD]

Hey leave my twin headed chicken legs alone. That sucker alone helped us beat Yu-Gi-Oh Forbidden Memories (PS1) !

[@brandonaughtman9091]

Here is an idea! A list cover Monster Location Cards?! As in monster cards that are not true monsters: Labyrinth Wall and Temple of Skulls as an example.

[@MrTopTenList]

This is really creative! I've noticed some reoccurring locations when I've covered monster backstories, like the Soul Absorbing Bone Tower in Red Eyes' backstory

[@lancercool1992]

Sea serpent and sea horses are related in Japanese culture, refer to how seadra evolves into kingdra. It would still make more sense if Sea Dragon Soldier of Darkness were a dark monster instead of water.

[@m0002856]

You know what's really funny... I was watching this list with my girlfriend sitting next to me. She didn't recognize a single one of these cards UNTIL... Kuriboh LOL. Instantly validated your point about the number 1 spot being well known IMMEDIATELY.

[@ElementalArcher]

Wow, even Mystical Elf?

[@neogotham2k395]

Top 10 heroic thieves - Phantom Thieves (Persona 5), Ant Man / Scott Lang (MCU), Sly Cooper (Sly Cooper), etc.

[@mismismism]

The translation messiness of Princess of Tsurugi reminds me of Fushioh Richie, gotta love the weird half translation chaos of early Yugioh.

[@itfigurescomics6704]

Honestly, Dark Elf was better off being the Fusion and not "Kamion Wizard" XD Also, they were better off recoloring "Twin-Headed Fire Dragon"--just change the word "Fire" to "Thunder" and make it a Fusion! XD

[@karanbaru4325]

Andres reccomended I liked very much. Thank you. Used to be an old school Yu-Gi-Oh OCG player up until 2005 / 2006. This was very nostalgic.

[@samusai]

The Mortal Kombat references to YGO I thought I never see the day. I'm sold on this channel. That and your co-host is adorable with her commentary.

[@MrTopTenList]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! I make fighting game videos pretty regularly, so there's plenty more MK discussion planned for the future!

[@kingknightisbestknight7398]

Hasn't anything to do with the Video but it would be neat if we got a Ancient Gear equivilant of the Dark magician Girl: Ancient Gear Girl

[@ARCANEOS51OX]

Now I want a wall shadow fusion retrain along with new labyrinth wall and shadow ghoul support and a new ritual gate guardian as a boss monster because level 11 is even now so underused and a ritual would be cool to sack one vanilla gate to get something actually useful and with new ritual support I think this new deck would be sick.

[@MrTopTenList]

A new Gate Guardian would be awesome! With all the retrains of early boss monsters, a new special summon style Gate Guardian with an actual effect would we welcome. Maybe even have an effect like in the anime where each piece was a different unit that had to be destroyed.

[@ARCANEOS51OX]

@@MrTopTenList you replied to my retro deck idea, I've said for years since I first got the first printing of gate guardian that this is the hill I'll die on and you sir have made my year

[@iBenjamin1000]

I'm thinking gate guardian could either be retrained as a fusion or xyz monster since xyz summoning is very reminiscent of the way you stack the three pieces to make one body. Either way, good news here is that other people want gate guardian arcgetype too, I'd say it's on the higher end of duel monsters era cards that could get modern support, along side valon's armor cards.

[@The13thElysium]

Hibikime is a counterpart to Sonic Maid - Sonic Maid's lore states she uses sound to her advantage, wielding a scythe like a musical note! Cool video! you should totally do another list as there are so many counterparts! :D

[@TheEel228]

Pit Full of Snakes: what is that AWFUL SOUND??!

[@bryansingersingsasillysong5388]

An anime chick getting plowed.

[@samsunglg6671]

I used to play Dark Elf with Megamorph, easy wins.

[@terrysyvertson9205]

twin-headed thunder dragon design was fixed in the anime but the real life card was never changed after the anime fixed the design

[@TheKpa11]

That’s pretty insane. I actually originally thought the mouth on the neck was a coy way of getting a “Twin head”

[@alex_flamer267]

@@TheKpa11 like most of these counterparts, I think it's just lazy card design on the developer's parts, regardless of name context or logical stats.

[@fallenangel6214]

This was a very funny video, I knew about half of these counterparts. Also poor judgement meter, she's too adorable for the snake pit

[@JudgmentMeter]

[@davinator1212]

This is a fun list idea. And I also agree Wall Shadow is a relic of early Yu-Gi-Oh's missed opportunities.

[@MrTopTenList]

Glad you enjoyed it! There's so much I love about early Yu-Gi-Oh that I feel could work in today's game if they weren't afraid of making things too OP back in the day.

[@WeslleyCavalcanti]

In Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories, you can fuse Mystical Elf (and any other "elf" monster and Celtic Guardian) with Spellcaster-type monsters (mainly monsters with Mercury as their standard Guardian Star and Castle Of Dark Illusion) to form Dark Elf. Maybe Mystical Elf messed up with some dark arts and became the Dark version of herself.

[@InvaderWeezle]

Whoa, I never noticed that Kaiser Sea Horse and Sea Serpent Warrior of Darkness were counterparts to each other. Also I suspect the reason why it's the LIGHT two-tribute support monster is to make it essentially indirect Blue-Eyes support, because the kanji in Kaiba's name (海 馬) can translate to "Sea" and "Horse" respectively, so it's a nod to Kaiba to have a seahorse monster be the one that can bring out Blue-Eyes with one tribute.

[@thebookbandit5830]

also it's 7:44 Kaiser Sea Horse was the first double tributer. also it's effect is based on a Japanese myth about how if a seahorse lives for 1,000 years, it will become a dragon.

[@InvaderWeezle]

@@thebookbandit5830 Good point! That's even better evidence of Kaiser Sea Horse being basically intended as Blue-Eyes support.

[@JudgmentMeter]

@@thebookbandit5830 Neat!

[@alex_flamer267]

Lol all of this is so fitting. Interesting trivia!

[@HighPriestFuneral]

@@thebookbandit5830 I guess that's the came case in Pokemon where Horsea can eventually become the dragon-type Kingdra. I never knew that.

[@therandominfochannel6619]

I want crazy staff man to be a real card now lol.

[@MrTopTenList]

Dark Magician's always gotten a lot of support, so who knows? Maybe one day

[@mnementh2000]

Some of these counterpartr cards I had never caught onto. However, Mystical Elf and Dark Elf were the two that I knew of since Dark Elf came out. Same with Wretched Ghost and Kuriboh.

[@tatsukileease188]

hey MTTL just have to say that I appreciate you and software Agents channel. you guys talk about all kinds of cool gaming topics and have introduced me to neat games I didn't know about.

[@rishnix]

You tricked me! I thought for sure you were setting up the #1 spot for the Skull Servant. Just you wait until their King hears about this.

[@MrTopTenList]

At least I got points with the Kuriboh King!

[@batspidey7611]

You make very good videos. I especially enjoy your fighting game videos.

[@JudgmentMeter]

MTTL is very creative

[@ivankehayov]

I love that video! Can't wait for part two, since there are plenty of these monsters and I always find it as thrilling as you do how similar they are to each other and how different, at the same time! Also, love the version that the elfs are sisters, and I would say the witches might also be, or it's just the goddess that... you know - met the Curtain.

[@leonardolim8976]

If you ask me I think mystical elf and dark elf shud have a effect fusion monster. Their attack and defense is 2800. Effect. A fusion summon must be conducted by the fusion materials above. This card gains 200 at for every spellcasters on the field, hand and graveyard. Spellcaster type monsters cannot be destroyed by battle, also its unaffected by your opponents card effect. Pay 2000 lp to attack

[@trishaishot462]

I like how you are giving people who have lower subs some attention GJ

[@rebelhyperion1741]

Judgement Meter should voice Isabelle from Animal Crossing.

[@SoftwareAgentsTV]

it's good to be back!

[@joshuanoon5658]

I have been waiting for this video for a while. Thank you guys.

[@JudgmentMeter]

You're welcome

[@SoftwareAgentsTV]

22:04 22:05 very very sly I liked the Thunder Dragon engagement the best.

[@herman-phillipkleingeld2578]

I like your editing, your script and the intersections with and by your guests. Super refreshing content right here! Subbed

[@MrTopTenList]

Thank you!

[@JudgmentMeter]

This is a wholesome channel

[@herman-phillipkleingeld2578]

SIMP!

[@KamenRaiden]

That chick was annoying and trying too hard

[@Carlitonsp1]

Since Kazuki Takahashi is a huge fan of RPGs and DnD, I wouldn't be surprised if these were intended to be similar. Like Blue Slim > Red Slime > Silver Slime.

[@grimeyshred]

amazing vid i love these type of in depth analysis on old cards and artwork

[@MrTopTenList]

Thanks! We plan on doing more in the future like we did with the fusion video and this one!

[@ayjay579]

This channel has a bit of a Drumsy vibe and I’m all for it.

[@flochforster88]

Wow the effort put into these video... Phenomenal work. Well done! Looking forward to more :D

[@MrTopTenList]

Thank you!

[@pedropaulopassospereiraoli2668]

this video it's strangely pleasant to watch

[@michaelaburns734]

Relationship between Magician's Valkyria and Dark Magician Girl I wanted to know.

[@MrTopTenList]

Since they're not in the weird category, I didn't consider them, but Magician's Valkyria seems like an older or upgraded form of Dark Magician Girl, so perhaps it's what happens to her after the backstory I discussed in my 3rd Yugioh Backstory video.

[@benjamincuevas9627]

Class change.

[@jdrmanmusiqking]

@@MrTopTenList Magician's Valkyria is weaker that DMG so she would have to be either younger or a completely different monster. As a DM player whos seens these cards alot over the last 15 years, i strongly believe Valkyria is unofficially the first "Magician Girl" monster years before the Fruit gang showed up. But a part of me still believes Valkyria is the younger version of DMG after she's been reincarnated from her past life as Apprentice Illusion Magician. Its just that DM has no such counterpart so still gotta lean towards not being the same

[@brycetatum8458]

I always assumed it was something along the lines that Magicians Valkyrie was a younger version of DMG, she upgraded to DMG as an apprentice to Dark Magician before finally graduating into Magi Magi Magician Gal. There may be others in between but that's how I look at it from the basics. Then after Dark Magician Girl, I assume Apprentice Illusion Magician becomes the second apprentice.

[@Acidonia150reborn]

9:27 In the game Duelist of the Roses on PS2 Shadow Ghoul can walk into Labyrinth Wall Terrain and changes into Wall Shadow. 19:10 Both have arms near the upper mouth in Duelist of the Roses on PS2 so there's 3 versions of this card. Also you needed the Thunder one to pretty much beat Forbidden Memories on PS1.

[@bryansingersingsasillysong5388]

Spirit of the Harp and Muse-A

[@LegitMan335]

Muse-A

[@leonardolim8976]

7:10 I bet that's gonna be in the familiar possessed structure deck

[@danielramsey6141]

Yep. Back then, nothing but Palette swaps :)

[@VictorHernandez-nj2lo]

Yugioh joke: Wat is the singer the weeknd's fav yugioh card? Starboy

[@leonardolim8976]

Isn't archfiend of airmot a mascot for Aussa the earth charmer? Not only that fire fox is hiita Gagagigo is Eria And what yugioh monster is the green fox in Wynn

[@DerVasto]

It's "Petit Dragon", a level 2 normal monster with 700 ATK. So it fits in the thematic. Edit: Also, the first Eria doesn't already have Gagagigo, it's his first child-form, Gigobyte.

[@leonardolim8976]

Bob is back, now with more saltwater it's still gagagigo the 1850 BEATSTICK. The 1850 BEATSTICK eria has gagagigo

[@terumikami5831]

Meda-Bat for Dharc the Dark Charmer

[@popo237]

Ah, Bubbly Elf is not a pop idol. She is a reference to party going women in the Japanese bubble economy era. Additionally, she is friends with Karen the Ganguro Swordmistress. Good luck explaining that one to the international community,

[@thelastbakura9603]

Thunder Kid’s real counterpart is Pikachu

[@TheKpa11]

Which is funny cause Pikachu has many counterparts in Pokémon cause they made that a thing

[@youtuberandoms8237]

Is there really a Frog the Jame otk?

[@_petraaraujo]

Don't forget La moon and Dark witch

[@thebookbandit5830]

1:33 thunder kid is called Eleckids in Japan

[@negetivex3333]

#1 made me think of how lucky we are that we were never haunted by Casper the Wretched Ghost

[@MrTopTenList]

His uncle whose only trait was having bad breath was pretty wretched

[@dragonspring5932]

I like how judgement matters like so that's the scratching in my attic, uh yeah it's always going to be a some type of rodent or a ghost trying to kill you there's no middle ground.

[@JudgmentMeter]

Go big or go home

[@yosammyg2765]

I've never heard of a lot of these cards. This one was pretty good. Nice job

[@MrTopTenList]

Thanks!

[@sudoku3830]

That "CRAZY STAFF MAN" joke fucking killed me holy crap... good one!!!!

[@omerozel4716]

I never noticed the witch and the goddess beeing color swaps

[@brianaguilar8283]

They have the same third eye and feathers

[@alex_flamer267]

Me neither! All these counterparts were just weird in general. I

[@zaleost]

I remember noticing that the two of them were pretty similar once I paid attention to the design. But was never certain since I never bothered to look at the two cards together.

[@dragon-id5uj]

I can explain Kaiser Sea Horse actually! it's a pun of sorts; Seto Kaiba uses Blue-Eyes White Dragon, right? So he needs it to be light attribute. But the word "kaiba" means "seahorse". Thus they made his dude specifically represent the character that uses it.

[@edwardlara4271]

Awesome video! As a collector of OCG Series 1 Yugioh (pre-Eye of Anubis stamp) there are sooo many of these out there and a reason why i wanted to collect them

[@MrTopTenList]

Thanks! I collected starting at the beginning of the TCG releases, but whenever they sold the OCG set or I picked up one of those player guides that had pictures of the OCG-only monsters, I was really intrigued in their origins. I love how experimental the old artwork got.

[@princeaphan8274]

I hope Judgement Meter didn't suffer too much from the snake pit.

[@JudgmentMeter]

Someone cares!!!

[@DerVasto]

@@JudgmentMeter Would be weird if noone would tho

[@mikebottomlesspitdunham2954]

2:43 I'd give them both a hug

[@admcgregor2006]

Unless they give you 1000 volts in return...

[@TheKpa11]

I like how you mirror the backgrounds. Mirroring is one of my favorite filters

[@davidtorres5500]

First.... When do you make a Top Ten of Indians/Indigenous/natives in Fighting Games? I rememeber: Nightwolf (MK), Rick Strowd (Fatal Fury Real Bout 2), Thunder (Killer Instinct), T- Hawk (Super Street Fighter), White Buffalo (Power Instinct), Michelle/Julia (Tekken), Mudman (Wolrd Héroes), and Tam Tam (Samurái Shodown).

[@rndmpinkiepie64]

Mystical Sand is my favorite card because of the pun. I'm sad its never been released in the TCG

[@andyeisenacher]

Nice also I wish I can get the Wretched Ghost of the Attic card Plus how about the Summoned Skull and Skull Archfiend of Lighting they are the weirdest counterpart cards

[@kota86]

I might be wrong about this, but I think Skull Archfiend of Lightning just *is* Summoned Skull. More of a retrain than a counterpart or color-swap.

[@gavinl1565]

Loved the game show part was funny. Thank you for thatm

[@MrTopTenList]

Glad you liked it! That was one of my favorite bits to do!

[@theentity5201]

Thunder kid was actually originally named "kaminarikozu"

[@dracometeors3010]

In germany it was 'Kaminarikozu the Thunder Kid'...

[@matthewkuscienko4616]

I kind of wish they kept the original name, kaminarikozu sounds cooler than thunder kid.

[@theentity5201]

@@matthewkuscienko4616 me too, konami did something similar with occillio hero #2 changing it to "Wattkid" to make it part of the "watt" archetype for some strange reason. A vanilla in an effect only archetype is a bit of a non starter. Even of you go to the effort of using your spells and traps on it to make it stronger, it's still pretty misplaced as the only vanilla. Why it looks like oscillio hero #1 is now a weird one, its weaker too.

[@KinjiroTheThunder]

@@dracometeors3010 so wait...it was called "Thunder Kid the Thunder Kid"?

[@frankzappa6698]

the color change means the other is a "shiny" version haha

[@fnafsummoners5679]

I love How Kuriboh was at one point seen as just a cute puff ball we all wanted, and now he has his own archtype!

[@equinox3861]

I love that game in the intro it was my first yugioh game and it was awesome.

[@carlossegovia77]

It was a funny top. I was wondering if you can make the same type of top but with Digimons? Since there are many cases of the same digimon with different colors and levels.

[@colinbrown3170]

Dark valkiria and dunames dark witch .

[@formyulself6638]

but thats just a dark counterpart

[@KinjiroTheThunder]

@@formyulself6638 a counterpart is a counterpart nonetheless in my book

[@TheHenrytouchdown]

Don't disrespect my man Twin-headed Thunder dragon. That bitch got me through Forbidden Memories.

[@tatsukinomiya]

F for Obsese Marlot :(

[@manepines-megamanhdgamepla9299]

Really really good video. just really fun., and the best part is ou don't need to be a YuGioH expert to Understand everything. I could show it to some of my casual YGO fans from back and the day and they got laughs out of it., If the production values were a little bit better it would be a masterpeice.

[@thtcurlyhairtho]

Scythe song note... *flashbacks to Demyx from KH2* DANCE WATER DANCE