TOP 10: Awful Trash Yugioh Cards

[@MrDraquo]

The saddest thing about "Spirit of the Pharaoh" is that his artwork is actually very good. Too bad you'll never summon the damn thing to see it...🤦

[@belafeldbusch3397]

Would be awesome if we got a whole archetype in that artstyle

[@MrDraquo]

@@belafeldbusch3397 Damn straight. I'm STILL surprised that the Gravekeepers weren't done by the artist who drew this card. I mean, WTF Konami 🤦....?!

[@belafeldbusch3397]

@@MrDraquo HUGE missed opportunity in my view, but Gravekeepers Stil look damn good. Maybe we get a Archetype that is called Pharaonic or something like that, like the guard and the servant Spirit of the Pharaoh summons in the anime. Would be really cool since the Gravekeeper cards belong to the Ishtar Family in the Anime

[@MrDraquo]

@@belafeldbusch3397 I can get behind that idea. At least visually. How the Deck would actually play however, yet remains to be seen...🤔

[@belafeldbusch3397]

@@MrDraquo probably a defend the castle strategy? yoiu have your boss monster the "reborn Spirit of the Pharaoh" and his faithfull servants that protect him, maybe he has a effect where you special summon him by sending 5 normal zombie type monsters from your deck to the grave and set the sarcophacus cards from the deck. maybe shuffle them from the hand back to the deck and draw the same number of cards

[@MorphoComics]

Trash... Trash... TRASH!??? *Yusei triggers intensifies*

[@melffyrabby1009]

USELESS USELESS USELESS!

[@mathunit1]

@@melffyrabby1009 *ORA ORA ORA!*

[@AKiwiBird]

No card is worthless, they all have secret powers waiting to be unleashed

[@sportsninja4353]

You are right

[@damianwolfe613]

Man I forgot which protagonist said this so thanks.

[@nameinvalidLOL69]

4:00 - 4:07 When even Syrus Truesdale disses you, you know you're trash

[@Straswa]

Syrus: "You're more pathetic than I am!"

[@kcuf_ad]

You know you suck when a guy who plays Roid tells you that you suck.

[@ericgabrielalvesdecarvalho3496]

Syrus is annoying as his deck

[@judaiyuki5597]

@@Straswa i am ded

[@bradpollard444]

By the end of GX did Syrus eventually get good? I think he was wearing the Obelisk Blue Coat

[@petersmythe6462]

"On average a Yu-Gi-Oh duel only lasts max 15 turns maybe." Stall decks: "never tell me the odds"

[@sgtmuffinbadger6147]

Hey that's me. 30 minutes

[@joeygula581]

when I was younger and we used to duel everybody always had short duals I always dragged them out they always everyone around me always tried to like kill you but like one or two shots by like views and monsters together I used to just nitpick at people's life points 300 here couple hundred there maybe a big thousand

[@thadjarvis9514]

Lol more like Meta: 2 turns cuz you cant attack on the first turn.

[@kevinmorad2563]

An average duel only lasts 15 turns unless your playing against FC!

[@KertaDrake]

@@joeygula581 But did you go for Sparks for the victory?

[@nkyfong]

Yusei: All cards have value! **Reads Dark Artist** Yusei: *Some* cards have value...

[@jpeck87]

My thinking is dark artist is graveyard fodder or makes triggering an effect that requires a monster be destroyed easier to do

[@nkyfong]

@@jpeck87, were there many of those in older Yu-Gi-Oh? I only got into the game a couple months ago.

[@jpeck87]

@@nkyfong I think so, I used to run a deck with dark armed dragon at the front, 3 dark in GY, exile to destroy an opponents card

[@darkknight5541]

Please, Yusei would use it and pull out a card never seen before or since to make it awesome.

[@VGamingJunkieVT]

It has value as filler in a card pack so you have to buy more to get good ones.

[@bearkid1]

Unfortunate Report: An old Yubel/ Savage Colosseum Strat comes to mind, they are forced to enter their battle phase because of Colosseum, throw in an All out Attack Orders and that's a game win if set up properly.

[@NightcoreBrawler]

Yeah, I was about to say that there are cards out there that Force your opponent to enter the Battle Phase

[@RApollos107]

Yeah definitely if you have a card that forces them into going through their battle phase or lose their monsters can make Unfortunate Report effective, more so when you have a defensive set up that can ruin your opponent's day.

[@nightthunder04]

savage colosseum with sword woman

[@Shantae1188]

For “An Unfortunate Report”, couldn’t using a card that forces your opponent to attack you be good especially if you know that your opponent can’t?

[@user-qd8wn8cg3x]

I prefer battla mania instead of savage col

[@supremevidspro5427]

Perfectly ultimate great moth can actually be summoned out easily now, we have cards like cocoon of ultra evolution and parasite paranoid which summon it ignoring the summoning conditions. So it’s not bad for how you have to summon it anymore.

[@Direk091]

But isn't that just because Ultra Cocoon of Evolution is a good card but UGM is still a bad card itself?

[@fruityliciousk2704]

@@Direk091 i think its always about the cards that can be used with it to determine if a card is good we look for a possible strategy and how viable it is.

[@mnky626]

Usually when people are aware of a way to make a card more usable, but it’s still not very good, they acknowledge that in the video. He didn’t.

[@sirkirby4135]

to be honest... the perfect moth is stilll way better then larvae moth... the little upgrade to petit moth with worse stats then cocoon... and a similar summoning condition (but less turns)... so... perfect ultimate great moth doesn't deserve this place... atleast it gives you a beatstick for its investment

[@justanotherguy7984]

Yeah but after wasting so many resources you're only getting a monster with no protection, no interaction and it only hits hard, next turn is gonna die to everything so the card is still kinda trash, like blue eyes shinning dragon but at least that thing has protection.

[@bass-dc9175]

A few of the "Positive effect for the enemy" cards could be actually rather neat in a "Mindgame" Archetype. Like an archetype that revolves around playing really shitty cards, but the effect triggers as if it was the enemy activating it. Cold feet becomes a cold wave that requires settup. Unfortunate Report becomes a "You can attack twice" card. Pot of Generosity becomes a Delinquient Duo that requires settup. Or the 50000 IQ move of activating Back to the Wall followed by Sparks for the most BM FTK there is.

[@Carikenja]

Mystical Refpanel can redirect Cold Feet to your opponent. While yes it's a trap card that requires time to setup and is a second card to get the same effect of cold wave it makes it where the effect only applies to your opponent and can happen on their turn. You can do this to Pot of Generosity as well making the cost a second card rather than 1000 LPs.

[@sammeyphammey349]

You ain’t hardleg

[@Crazylegoman3791]

I think that’s good to develop a strategy for the game. I should do that actually with high level monsters with low level attack, but I use them in a bigger scheme.

[@kojirotakamashi]

I used "An Unfortunate Battle Report" in my Yubel Deck, along with Battle Mania. Battle Mania forces all face up monsters to attack mode, and forces them to attack this turn. With only Yubel on my field (Back then), My opponent was forced to throw up to 10 attacks at Yubel, which would reflect damage back to them. Probably won't work well now, but it was so much fun back then.

[@MrGhosta5]

I used that combo in a meme deck with spirit reaper and the magic card that makes the opponent discard the top card of their deck when they attack to mill their deck.

[@TheMalcomrj]

yeah, i came to say this, that was the intended use for "an unfortunate battle report", but people that didnt played yubel at realease wouldnt know

[@Nerobyrne]

Dark Artist was one of the very first cards ever made in the original release in Japan. By the time it got over here in the very first edition of Yugioh, it was already powercrept. By Beaver Warrior.

[@midshipman8654]

was the art updated then? because it doesn’t have the artstyle of a super early yugioh card. looks like something made in 2003+ by how it looks.

[@zersky495]

@@midshipman8654he’s not talking about the the weird 1998 version. Dark Artist was released back in 1999 in Japan, 3 years before in NA. Meaning 3 years worth of card advancements had already taken place. It is an awful effect bc (I’m assuming) it had crazy high defense for its time, back when Hitotsu Me Giant was considered a boss monster, so it’s effects was to somewhat nerf itself

[@boyfriend1161]

Lol

[@MagnakayViolet]

I can imagine the judges walking around a tournament with Card Shuffle and just slapping it down requesting the duelists to shuffle their decks in the middle of a duel.

[@dudono1744]

then another judge stops them the 27th time because they no longer have 300 lp

[@WarmLillie]

Some card are good, some are great other are absolutely godly. While other are just an abomination, trashy, and failures of a card

[@melffyrabby1009]

Yes

[@helios24601]

And then there's Mushroom Man

[@melffyrabby1009]

@@helios24601 yes

[@Carpatouille]

I wish there was some kind of tier of competitive play where you could only play trash cards, just like a Little Cup tier in Pokemon but for Yu-gi-oh, it would be fun.

[@amedoro_the_owl]

Jar of greed

[@marvdick-underwood]

“A duel lasts 15 turns, Max, maybe” *Me: laughs in final countdown*

[@erikburzinski8248]

Used to run a final count down deck. It was quite a good deck actually.

[@sheldonmatthews4807]

I use destiny board and final countdown in one of my main decks. It’s an older deck but still it’s fun

[@boonraksaboonparn4988]

in older era, non competitve duel a 20 turns win is quite tempting to play but 5 turn to eliminate a single monster? it’s not good anywhere

[@thieffee]

Not if you and your opponent brick

[@yoyospaceYT]

Actually ran out of cards to draw once lol

[@BloodrealmX]

Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth can at least do something once you summon it, and there's a support card that lets you straight up summon it ignoring its summoning conditions. _Larvae Moth,_ on the other hand, may be the single worst card in the game since it's barely stronger than Petit Moth.

[@gypdarin1458]

Gate guardian is trash and catapult turtle because cannon soldier and gravity bind.

[@remylarrivee2047]

When talking about Red Eyes Black Metal Dragon...I thought of MetalZoa that is in the exact same boat! You'd be better off leaving Red Eyes and Zoa on the field equipped with Metalmorph for the ATK boost for sure!

[@josephxp96]

Fusionist actually saw competitive play because of instant fusion and its typing for rank 3 MX Saber Invoker.

[@billysiggins2236]

Invoker is Generic

[@josephxp96]

@@billysiggins2236 oh it is, still saw it used for invoker plays 🤣

[@Zetre17]

And if it east its gonna be probably use beast-warrior not beast

[@billysiggins2236]

@@josephxp96 It’s been relevant as an instant fusion target a lot of the time though, you are right, Gouki Format - Dragoness was definetly correct but Fusionist was good in stuff like Karakuri with Redox etc

[@josephxp96]

@@Zetre17 ya I thought for some reason that Invoker needed earth attributes as material.

[@johnhatch3607]

For "An Unfortunate Report", my suggestion is to combo it with the trap card "Staunch Defender", as this could make your opponent basically run head first into your high Def monster several times, thus taking a fair amount of LP damage.

[@EMICIME]

Or savage colleseum

[@midorisetsuna7334]

There is a field spell that states that monsters that can attack must attack or be destroyed, combined with a thorn whip they either lose 1200 atk points for each monster+ life points to keep their monster alive or they sacrifice the monsters only to have to tank the direct damage instead... some balances in between of course but still it becomes a hard choice, and that is the strategy that popped into my head after like 5 seconds of hearing about that card, its a gamle sure but i mean so is cup of aces

[@JapaneseMagician]

and combine it with Battle Mania so your opponent must attack ad has no other choice :D

[@Elefantoche]

You can also use Dark Arena to force all opponent monsters to attack when they are able to (not in defense position, face down or binded by card effects)

[@andergriggs6799]

With Cold Feet, its possible to chain Mystical Rift Panel to it on your opponent's turn to prevent them from using spell or trap cards. However, this combo requires you to happen to have both cards in your hand, because you have you good way to search your deck for either card (at least I think), so it requires some luck to set up.

[@canadacaden3266]

And honestly, lots of better targets for Refpanel. Imagine dropping it on a Pot of Desires.

[@midshipman8654]

tbf, if you are making a deck around inflicting effects that are ment for you to your opponent, it may be more justifiable. idk if its a thing, but im thinking in the line of nurse burn where you have cards that increase your opponents life points, but also have cards that change life gain to life damage.

[@sazuna4024]

I know this here is years and months old. I would still like to have a question answered in this regard: If I activate Cold Feet on my turn and I would try to activate a card that inflicts that effect on the opponent would the effect of Cold Feet not negate my card that wants to reflect it on my opponent? Or specifically in this case here does the effect of Refpanel activate before Cold Feet can lock off my ability to use spells and traps? I believe it is not a quick spell card. But a trap. And with I believe I mean I know.... It would not activate since I can't use it. Can I use a reaction spell or trap to reflect its effect on my opponent? I mean if my monster had an effect that says effects that are used on a player are used on the other player instead or something like that then yes. THAT would work. But Refpanel would not be able to be used on Cold Feet right? @@midshipman8654

[@thewanderingmistnull2451]

If Cold Feet targets, Mystical Refpanel could definitely reflect it, because Refpanel would be higher in the chain, so its effect would go off.

[@sazuna4024]

Hm. Interesting. Thanks alot. Chaining effects are a bit let's say complex in YuGiOh I musst say. Not that I don't understand it but still... After all these are effects that technically cancel each other.@@thewanderingmistnull2451

[@Reqqles]

Actually briefly ran a copy of fusionist in my fusion deck (yes, that long ago), because at the time metamorphosis (yes, -that- long ago) still ran rampant and an easy play was to take control of an opponent's monster and then metamorphosis it into a fusion monster you'd get to keep. Mind, I never actually summoned fusionist in this way, but having a lv3 target didn't hurt lol EDIT: As for Dark Artist: I think they weren't trying to go for a neat effect to exploit, but rather just giving it a weakness like it's a pokemon or something lol

[@AaronHayes2901]

surely pot of generosity can be used in infernity decks

[@freyathedragon899]

True, but you’d want a lot of Infernities in your Graveyard so you could recycle them for Extra Deck plays with the Infernity Launcher, Mirage, and other revival cards. Generosity is only good for Archfiend, and not even that, since Archfiend’s effect can proc from being summoned from the GY.

[@AaronHayes2901]

@@freyathedragon899 yeah but pot of generosity is still better than some cards that arent on this list

[@freyathedragon899]

@@AaronHayes2901 I’m just talking in terms of Infernity decks.

[@AaronHayes2901]

@@freyathedragon899 fair enough

[@andrewkgsmith]

I was thinking itd be pretty great for when I draw Wulf or Felis the Lightsworns

[@WillHerrmann]

There’s also “Counter Counter”, which negates and destroys a Counter Trap. The problem? The original printing was a regular Trap Card (Spell Speed 2), which can never be activated in response to a Counter Trap (Spell Speed 3). It was at least errataed though.

[@SakuraAvalon]

lol That was a printing error. It would still be officially treated as a Counter Trap, even before the fixed version was release. Just like the original printing of Neo Daedalus was missing its Summoning Condition.

[@_Vengeance_]

Actually, according to the official rules that wouldn't be a problem. After all, the rules state that when a card's effect conflicts with the rules, the card takes precedence. So if a Spell Speed 2 card cannot be activated unless it can chain to a Spell Speed 3 card, it can. Not that it matters in misprinted Counter Counter's case of course, since you must always treat a card as what it's intended to be rather than whatever misprint (or old version) you have.

[@SakuraAvalon]

@@_Vengeance_ Those rule books are out of date. And generally meant basic exceptions to the rules. Regardless of what a card says, it can't go against the rules, unless Konami gives the go ahead. Counter Counter was a misprint. If it had meant to have been a regular Trap card, you would not be able to use it as Spell Speed 3. Just like cards that say 'Ignore the Summoning Condition', cannot ignore the Summoning condition if the card wasn't properly Summoned first.

[@_Vengeance_]

@@SakuraAvalon Actually, the "ignore the Summoning conditions"-part exactly shows what I mean: there are cards that bypass the "needs to be Summoned properly"-restriction, like A Wild Monster Appears and Dark Summoning Beast because otherwise their effects wouldn't work properly. That's no different from a Spell Speed 2 card that wouldn't work properly if it wouldn't be able to be chained to a Spell Speed 3 card.

[@jesuspinto9805]

There's a considerable amount of cards whose effects go agaisnt the basic rules of the game, that's why Konami has stated since atleast 2015 with the realease of pendulum monsters that the effects of the cards take priority against the rules of the game. Example of this are cards that "ignore summoning conditions", or cards like Macro Cosmos, Dimensional Fissure. Or archtypes with effects like the Crystal Beast monsters.

[@pufnbal1744]

I remember seeing so many zone eaters when I was a kid opening packs. While I will defiantly forget the name, I will always remember that image of it.

[@AGuyWhoComments2]

“An Unfortunate Report” could potentially work with something like “Savage Colosseum”, given the right set up of course 😅

[@r3zaful]

Or you can just play gusto

[@javonhollman5597]

Assuming it does not get negated or poped.

[@garc7127]

Any form of Yubel+Battle Mania+An Unfortunate Report+Raregold Armor

[@NespeCoaching]

I mean sure given the right set up, but that's the point, you need so much set up to make it good that it's on this list

[@NespeCoaching]

Pretty pointless argument really, you've basically just said "an unfortunate report wouldn't be bad if it wasn't bad"

[@maliit0827]

The good thing about “Unfortunate Report” is if your playing a blue eyes deck, and you got “Maiden with the Eyes Of Blue” out on the field and if they attack, then you can summon a “Blue Eyes White Dragon” and if they attack again you can summon a blue eyes AGAIN.

[@giulianopisciottano8302]

Nope maiden is a hard once per turn meaning even if they attack it 2 times it will only negate the attack once

[@kevinmorad2563]

Both effects of Maiden are once a turn both targeting and attack to summon!

[@dragonmaster613]

Dark Artist could trigger effects that activate when a stat change occurs. Also Reverse Trap doubles the Defense, tricking your opponent into attacking (or bait for Mirror Force).

[@dbt4869]

I don't know about that that sounds like a massive stretch

[@darkknight5541]

No, no it won't. Reverse Trap only works on addition and subtraction, not multiplication or division.

[@HvPsnlitenw4991]

If there’s a way to set “an unfortunate report” on your opponent’s field and force activate it with “bait doll”, then it will be useful.

[@arienmartinez5025]

Omg I’ve been reading that meme wrong this entire time! I’ve been reading it as a person mistakenly believing that two different pictures are the same and not as a person showing the same picture twice in order to fool another

[@nyxied3187]

"I activate my trap card, trash card virus now all your cards are trash"

[@jameslucrative2054]

This could work in duel links for the hearthstone effect of like turning opponent's cards into these sorta cards randomly

[@goliath1179]

In Marik’s duel with Joey, he had a card effect that made it so every time Joey entered his battle phase he would randomly lose a card in his hand. Number 6 would be a good way for Joey to lose two random cards.

[@matthewdavis9437]

Wrong. Number 6 doesn't force the player to enter the battle phase. It's optional and the opponent can just end their turn.

[@thehorrorhound6575]

It wad helpoemer and I’ve used it before in legacy if the duelist. It’s a 5 star fiend with 2,000 attack so it’s useful in early stages of the duel. If it’s ever destroyed by battle with one of your opponents monsters then they must discard 1 card from their hand randomly at every end phase of their turn. Pretty useful if they run out of cards in their hand

[@reddragon7762]

@@matthewdavis9437 do u phases not still pass when ending turn, or does it skip? i havnt played in a while and my brain has MTG phases in mind. phases there even if i draw and end turn, the main phase 1, combat, main phase 2, pre-end phase and endphase still happen.

[@pingaspearce9403]

@@reddragon7762 draw phase, stand by phase, MP1, and the end phase can't be skipped The battle phase can be skipped You can skip your battle phase straight to the end phase if your in MP1

[@UmbraX1]

I can see pot of generosity having use in an infernoid deck since their whole gimmick is to play with no cards in hand

[@chrismiller3548]

You could combine Cold feet with mystical refpanel to turn it into a cold wave

[@chendror872]

Or just use cold wave

[@chrismiller3548]

@@chendror872 cold wave is banned though

[@chendror872]

@@chrismiller3548 you really only need to follow the ban list If you play ina tournament

[@r3zaful]

Give it to you opponent with moon coins and hope your opponent missclick

[@tobi-xo3if]

@@chendror872 They're banned for a reason, they're cheap cards

[@MC-xq9md]

No "the humble sentry"? It's one card less than pot of generosity but you reveal you hand as well

[@shis1988]

I honestly don't know why he put joke cards but didn't add that one. With that considered I think the old specific counters are worse (anti-raigeki, gryphon wing, call of the dark).

[@DinTheVex]

Revealing your hand isnt always as bad as a neg 3 always is. Theres plenty of situations where your opponent cant do anything about what your hand has anyway, and with the speed of ygo theres a good chance that by the time they could do anything your hand has changed. Hell, Garnets in the hand are worth more than neg 3 because at least then theres a 1/≤7 chance the cards like Confiscation target the garnet.

[@brianaguilar8283]

@@shis1988 they at least have positive effects, not Humble Sentry

[@brianaguilar8283]

@@DinTheVex so you’re perfectly okay with just showing your hand and going minus 2 for no reason? You’re actually defending Humble Sentry?

[@OrcistCleaver]

@@brianaguilar8283 You could use it to bait a new strategy from your opponent while your real plan is on the field already and the hands just a distraction

[@Mudkip971]

The only use Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon has now a days is a gimmick where using Red-Eyes Insight to send it to the graveyard and later use it as a ritual cost for Red-Eyes Transmigration to summon Lord of the Red, seeing as Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon is a level 10 Red-Eyes monster.

[@sebarsht12]

The only use Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon had, was being a stepping-stone for Konami when designing Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon

[@kdfksfkldsklfkldsff]

@@sebarsht12 😅🤣 but before then it was useless

[@RockinRobert19]

Red Eyes Black Metal Dragon in a Lair Of Darkness deck is the way to go. So many combos and opinions in that deck that prove how underrated REBMD is.

[@alexphotiou3607]

11:00 the trap would probably work with cards like Evil Hero Malicious Fiend, Volcanic Doomfire or Powered Crawler, where all cards your opponents control must attack the monster.

[@chaoskizawa2018]

Oh shit u right that works perfectly

[@geran4473]

But they would just be destroyed like that in the first battle phase. What difference does the second battle phase make.

[@inter9104]

@@geran4473 Cards that can’t be destroyed by battle can be forced to attack again and damage the opponent even further. Stuff like Dark Resonator, Marshmallon, etc. That depends entirely on whether your opponent is running those cards to begin with though.

[@johnpratts2856]

For #3 Red Eyes Black Metal Dragon still had the Metalmorph effect in the anime. Making it actually useful.

[@RabblesTheBinx]

yeah, but it wasn't an actual card in the anime, it was just what Joey called REBD equipped with Metalmorph (you can see in the show that Metalmorph stays on the field and it still gets buffs meant for Dragon monsters). In the real world, it's better to just keep regular Red-Eyes equipped with the trap.

[@voidwalker3591]

TGSAnime: Fusionist is trash tier Dzeef: This article is wrong!

[@hazelieee]

To be fair, it does see competitive play...

[@shis1988]

@@hazelieee it does?! WHAT?!

[@BigHoffa]

@@shis1988 it’s been a good instant fusion target in past formats

[@Realblack_m0nster]

@@BigHoffa That's interesting. Why would someone use an instant fusion on this?

[@BigHoffa]

@@Realblack_m0nster Because it’s an earth, you can use it to make a Naturia Beast or Barkion. It could also just be used for rank 3 xyz plays.

[@twoscarabsintheswarm9055]

1: mokuba, didn't even have 0 attack or defence, didnt even have the boxes in the anime

[@thecoolestprinz885]

And always got easily kidnap over and over again

[@annedrieck7316]

Mokuba is pretty badass in season zero

[@williamdrum9899]

When Weevil threw Yugi's exodia cards overboard he actually did Yugi a favor. Those cards may have won him his duel against Kaiba but they would have clogged his hand up throughout Duelist Kingdom

[@AndyBrixton999]

Yeah, instead Yugi clogged his hand with Winged Dragon Guardian of the Fortress lol

[@binhanh296]

With Number 6: An Unfortunate Report, it can somehow go well with Gladiator Beast with the help of Gladiator Naumachia with the effect that "your opponent must attack if able".

[@NovaBugDrayosix]

So, funny thing about the Spirit of the Pharaoh that I noticed and was talking about with friends, it's actually 1 card away from being meta relevant if you think about it. This might sound crazy, but if you read the effect it's somewhat true. The effect "when this card is Special Summoned, you can Special Summon up to 4 level 2 or lower Zombie-Type Normal Monsters from your GY" would technically trigger anytime it's special summoned, regardless of how it's Special Summoned. Of course this doesn't seem relevant because it can only be Special Summoned in 1 way...........except if something said "Ignoring summoning conditions". I could see a future where they print a zombie link monster that says "When this card is Link Summoned, Special Summon 1 Zombie-Type monster from your deck or graveyard, ignoring summoning conditions. You can only use this effect once per turn". IF something like that got printed on a reasonably easy to summon Link Monster, it would be able to summon Spirit of the Pharaoh straight from the deck, and trigger it's special summon effect, allowing you to get 4 level 2 and lower normal zombies from your graveyard to your field to extend Link Plays. In addition, if you play Zombie World, then the monsters in the graveyard don't even have to be Zombies, just Level 2 and Lower normal monsters would do. Skull Servants anyone? IN addition, consider that cards like Tri-wight, and Painful Decision exist in the game, as more support for mass amounts of low level normal spam. I could see a zombie world deck that has, let's say, the low level cyberse normal monsters in grave due to their combo plays, and then just summons the Link that summons Spirit of the Pharaoh, summons those Cyberse back, and keeps going. Since remember, it does say UP TO 4, doesn't have to be 4, so if you have only a few cyberse normals in grave it still works as a combo/play extender. Of course it would require Zombie World for those Cyberse to be summonable off of Spirit, but I could very easily see some zombie combo archtype comming out in the future that uses this in their main deck as a play extender, and having a link that says "Special Summon a zombie type from deck or grave ignoring restrictions" *chuckles*

[@JT-ih2rx]

That card isn’t even trash I’ve used it in my tournament zombie deck a while back when it was first introduced and it saved me one time it’s a very good card

[@NovaBugDrayosix]

@@JT-ih2rx I mean back in the time period maybe, but nowadays it's trash.

[@yoshikun6068]

#8, Fusionist seen competitive play as instant Fusion target

[@nicholasdaniel2778]

Hey, my Swordsman From a Distant Land claim made it in a video! Lets go!

[@melffyrabby1009]

Ayeee

[@SourceOfBeing]

10) They were made early into Yu-Gi-Oh's life when the game was slower so they were probably testing the effect to see to balance it but they erred too far on the side of caution. They were first printed for the OCG in 1999 I believe.

[@melffyrabby1009]

It’s still modernly trash

[@Bezaliel13]

@@melffyrabby1009 Zone Eater is a material for Aqua Dragon at *least.*

[@brutalnobody5240]

@@Bezaliel13 a fat 2k beater

[@Bezaliel13]

@@brutalnobody5240 But that is Zone Eater's advantage over the Swordsman, the only card in this list low enough to be beaten by ZE.

[@NathanWubs]

Even in the OCG a lot of cards were trash, they just were in your deck, as you we waiting for more money to buy better cards.

[@PANICBLADE]

Always thought it would be really cool if Fusionist had an effect where the fusion materials special summon themselves WITH the card itself. That'd be pretty cool and get 3 monsters on the field before you normal summon. Not very good monsters but still, could be useful, especially back when it was introduced.

[@brycecai4700]

The reason for dark artist being so bad is because in the early days, a level 4 monster with 1400 defense is considered to be high (where the hitosumi giant’s 1200 atk was the highest for level 4 monsters), so it need to have a negative effect for your opponent to beat over it, but nowadays…it just aged very badly

[@cutecombo8496]

Fusionist has seen success as an instant fusion target

[@williamdrum9899]

It's hilarious how a card I even thought was bad with my limited game knowledge has a use

[@johan2453]

You can use "An unfortunate report" with Yubel or one of its evolution and it will double the damages to your opponent

[@johng.pitsakis5626]

He can still save it by skipping the BP

[@yugiohfan7906]

@@johng.pitsakis5626 but battle mania or savage colosseum with yubel and an unfortunate report can be useful

[@joliet_jake743]

The only time I have found "Pot of Generosity" even a little bit useful was when I was running a Red Dragon Archfeind/assault mode deck. If RDA/assault mode was drawn he couldn't be played and as my ace that made it worthless in the hand as it had to be summoned from the deck. I would use Pot of Generosity to get him back in the deck. Then I got the card that allows you to summon assault mode from the hand (the name of that card is escaping me at this time)

[@petercross1879]

Assult mode has a spell that shuffles an assult mode monster into your deck to let you draw 2

[@craigyeah1052]

Playing a red eyes deck with red eyes metal dragon was fun, and always nice when I pulled it off... but man having that brick in my hand always felt so horrible. #6 Could be great in a situation where you can get the effect to apply to yourself. Obviously having two battle phases is incredibly powerful, so it would make sense for it to be balanced by needing a convoluted set up to get it to bounce back to you or be played on your opponent's side.

[@claytondavis6835]

I’m fairly certain unfortunate report can be used with a Yubel deck and the Field spell that forces you to attack during each battle phase.

[@WarmLillie]

I’m just imagining some trying to use Cold Feet to stop the negative effects on there side of the field? Maybe... Idk Unless you want to battle with cold feet, I mean I’m crazy enough to play but only as a lol, haha that how confident of winning I am that I don’t play cards.

[@melffyrabby1009]

New players:

[@maxcrysdale2376]

I was thinking for the D/D/D deck. You have to pay life points during your standby phase to keep the cards on the field

[@mayhewwright]

I saw Card Shuffle and thought “oh no, a super specific counter to my Flower Stacking” and then saw it was a continuous card haha

[@Dwellis73]

Perfectly Ultimate great moth is so much easier to summon now. Cocoon of ultra evolution can get it out by tributing an incest monster equipped with a spell card. So having it in an inzektor deck with it and cocoon of ultra evolution gets it out super fast.

[@jaythephoenix]

As a masochist, I'd love to see retrains of zone eater/ swordsman. Something like: "Zone Swordsman" (Quick effect): You can discard this card: select one monster zone on your opponent's field. Any monster in that zone gains the following effect: "If this card is tributed or used as Extra Deck Material (for any monster), that monster that used it retains this effect (no matter which zone it is in): When this card is normal summoned or special summoned, take 1000 points of damage. If this card uses its effect, take 1000 damage. If this card leaves the field, take 1000 damage. During the fifth End Phase after this effect is activated, return this monster to the deck and, if you do, your opponent can special summon one "Zone Swordsman" from their graveyard, but skip their next draw phase. Then, negate any effects applied by "Zone Swordsman" for the rest of the duel.

[@gptstudios21]

Where’s part 2 to this? Gate Guardian was a beautiful Boss Monster but to summon it is a hassle and it has no effects👎🏾

[@therealduelist8397]

Yubel the ultimate nightmare walked so that Ultimate conductor Tyranno could run

[@angrybakugo2676]

When even konami says that the card is useless thats when you know there was no point in making it.

[@BaritoneBeard]

For cold feet, since its a quick play spell, couldn't you just use it on your draw step to cancel the effects of something that taxes you heavily on your standby phase? Some "Pay half your life points each standby phase" type of card? Or negate a "If either player summons [some condition] monster do a negative thing"? The card specifically says "use the effects of" in it's text so that makes me think the intended use is a way to avoid taxing yourself on a double-edged-sword type of card.

[@EnderScatto]

Clearly An Unfortunate Report is meant to be used when you have Yubel on the field with Evil Hero Malicious Fiend or whatever that forces the opponents monsters in attack position and to attack, strongest trap in the game

[@midorisetsuna7334]

Cold feet can be used to turn off continuous spells for one turn, the only time i can think that to be a good thing is of you are also playing chain energy, chain energy costs you 500 life points to play any card anywhere, so for the cost of 500 you can turn it off with cold feet and then pull your crazy triple synchro summon for 500 life instead of 4000 life, but theres some food for thought at least

[@alecroberts40]

The reason I can think of for Fusionist is because it was so common, so it was easy for new Yu-Gi-Oh players to fusion summon a monster when Fusion monsters weren't so common.

[@wilFluffball]

It's also a material for rare fish

[@alphamarigi]

Dark artist is a normal summonable level 4 or lower monster. That makes more useful than most of the cards on this list

[@r3zaful]

No Red eyes metal dragon is a staple in lord of the red. Fortunate report is a colloseum.dek staple. Generosity and cold feet? Core cards for giving your opponent card.dek. Dark artist? He is a fiend worst ever type you could have for a level 4 and overshadowed by all level 4 monsters.

[@cyberdsd]

@@r3zaful all the cards you mentioned suck along with those strategies.

[@r3zaful]

@@cyberdsd you do realize that people legit play dark metal dragon at 1 copy to summon lord of the red? And it's a legit good play. I can see that strategy played in duel links Heck even in tcg it's a legit combo. And an unfortunate report is your usual table 500 gimmick.dek and could pull ridiculous and an unfair win, if you watch farfa table 500 you will see weird shit like this. Go play a pure lore friendly archetype only tier 2-3 deck like ghiski without bahamut toad and let me play with colloseum deck with unfortunate report, that's 70% win for colloseum. 7 of these cards belong in troll/annoying decks, that you hate to play against in casual duel, their purpose was to win in the most humiliating ways, like left you with no hand or locking you for the entire game. 1 is literally a combo pieces for a legit strategy. The only card that doesn't have specific purpose here are zone eater/foreign and dark artist

[@cyberdsd]

@@r3zaful who plays lord of the red outside of duels with friends? Red eyes itself as a deck sucks

[@cyberdsd]

@@r3zaful so no,they dont legit play the card.

[@melvinshine9841]

To be fair, you can summon Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth straight from the deck with Cocoon of Ultra Evolution. There are much better insects to special summon from the deck with Cocoon of Ultra Evolution, I'm just saying it's not *total* trash anymore.

[@pokeswapper]

Awesome video 🤗 .... For that deck shuffle card I could only think of it being useful in: Old school yugioh where players have 8000 life point and u hv designed your deck specifically to counter an exodia deck or cards that enabled players to set the top 3 or 5 cards of their deck in any order ...

[@DarkAngelBluejay]

So, it would have been interesting to hear how you'd have improved the cards on this list, as well as a bit of the meta from when they were released. For instance, your first two cards would be VASTLY improved if the number of turns for the effect to happen was reduced. say... 2 turns after the attack. This forces your opponent to do something with that monster fast, or risk losing them.. Maybe forcing them out of their strategy. Also, if I recall one or both of those were almost 1st series cards. Duels back then weren't nearly as fast paced. Nor were the attack and defense values very high on average.

[@Bomberman204]

Um Dark Artist would be perfect for Bakura's "Get three Fiends in the graveyard" Strategy! 😂😂😂

[@senshicoaching]

Fusionist is an instant fusion target for decks that need extenders like beasts or level 3. It's actually a good card. Perfectly ultimate great moth can be cheated out of the deck thanks to a newer spell. Bad cards are not what they seem.

[@ninjafrog6966]

Except dark artist

[@MatijaReby]

To be fair Red Eyes Black Metal Dragon can kinda be used in conjuction with graveyard interaction so for example you bring back the normal Red Eyes to now have 2 big bodies, i think that one isnt quite as bad as the other ones. Dark Artist was probably intended to maybe combo with some card that wants 1000 or lower DEF, but i have no idea what that would be.

[@nightmare3642]

Maybe Crush Card or something? It was probably released at a time where that would make sense.

[@anthonym7322]

Only way Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth won't be considered as bad is if you use the Ultimate Cocoon of Evolution combo. And OMG Cold Feet is one of the ABSOLUTE WORST. They need to cut it out

[@lisagriffin4558]

I like your My Hero Academia shirt TGS Anime. I got a Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Magician Girl shirt on, because anime is my thing as well. I got almost every Yu-Gi-Oh! card there ever was. There is one Egyptian God card that I am missing, Obelisk the Tormentor. He is the final Egyptian God card that I need for my Yu-Gi-Oh! mini binder. It has Yami Yugi on the front of it with Dark Magician himself. And it also has the Yu-Gi-Oh! title on the front and the back. it's very awesome. Sabrina Griffin

[@Lucario1121]

For Great Moth didn't they a year ago release support cards that make summoning Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth much easier?

[@SomeRandomGuyOutHere]

It was even longer ago, but great moth is still not worth as a target of that quick spell, there was a retrain of greath moth as well that was released together with that quick spell, that is muuuuuch better

[@WarmLillie]

Savage Coliseum with unfortunate report maybe? It forces your opponent to attack or else there moster get destroyed and mirror force backrow?

[@melffyrabby1009]

Sigh

[@demetriechurchwell1338]

I'll do you one better salvage Coliseum combine with one of the yubel cards your opponents is forced to attack the Yubel card and deal damage to themselves

[@Zetact_]

There is an obscure “Defense OTK” strategy that involves using a high wall like Stone Statue of the Aztecs with stuff like Fortress Warrior, something like Ojama Tokens, and Staunch Defender to get huge battle damage reflected at the opponent. It isn’t a good deck, but it is a deck. And in that ineffective deck, Unfortunate Report is a potential tech card. It’s not good by any means, but there is a use.

[@Supreme_King_Time]

Why would you play Report with Mirror Force? But your idea to force the opponent to attack could be used with Yubel to deal some damage. And with Report you could do it twice. Still not very good but it would be a way to use Report.

[@MrGhosta5]

cold feet can be used to temporarily disable your continuous spell and trap cards. Like if your running mirror wall/fairy box you can use it to temporarily disable the card so that you don't have to pay to keep fairy box/ mirror wall in play. You could also use it to temporarily disable something like level limit area B or dragon capture jar on your turn letting you use your dragons and high level monsters that turn but after the turn ends all your lockdown cards turn back on.

[@GodBroly]

Cold feet to keep yourself from dying in a ddd deck or give it to your opponent than activate dark designator to force its activation.

[@billykepner4938]

DNA transplant+ opponent playing superheavy samurai as they attack from defense mode. Cutting their defense becomes shrink. Dark artist is now Super niche but applicable now

[@u-topic4795]

apparently someone is taking over TheDuelLogs job of doing the "Top 10 things"

[@marwanmadi8752]

Card shuffle is really useful when playing cards like Dark Magical Cirlcle that allow you to see what cards are coming up in your next few draws. Don't like the cards on top of your deck? Shuffle it!

[@ScarletDeclan]

Ok but there are a million ways to shuffle a deck. Even if sangan is destroyed and it's effect activates you shuffle. So having to pay 300lp for an effect that realistically happens 15 times a turn automatically is pretty goofy

[@bodkimalone]

"your opponent conducts theirs next battle phase twice" yubel decks: "yes....destroy yourselves more with my trap hehehehe" edit: I'm pretty there's a spell or a trap that forces your opponent to attack you

[@glim9879]

Do you mean All-Out Attacks ?

[@bodkimalone]

@@glim9879 maybe,but I think there's also a field spell that does that too

[@glim9879]

@@bodkimalone Ahh Savage Colosseum.

[@bodkimalone]

@@glim9879 yup,indeed.that's the card

[@Lashly273]

There's also Battle Mania

[@demonicteacup1679]

Card shuffle can be useful in conjunction with colloquial of nature. This continuous spell card flips both decks. Now you can see what you and your opponent are going to draw. If you see something you don't want your opponent to have, it can be used. Unlikely however.

[@CD-Gaming]

When you spoke of a card that could return cards to your Deck I thought you meant Exchange! "Couldn't be, though! Excange is a great card for Solemn Wishes or if you're trying to complete Challenges in the games... What's that? Pot of Generosity? Oh, well, carry on then!"

[@unverifiedapk]

Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon isn't as bad as it seems if you're also running Return of the Red-Eyes. With that trap on the field you're sacrificing Metal Morph for the summon of REBMD, then calling REBD right back onto the field. Although losing the effect of Metal Morph probably still isn't worth it, but can be helpful if you're trying to clear a bunch of your opponent's monsters quickly.

[@GatorRay]

Five words. EVERYTHING MADE FOR DUEL LINKS!

[@Agreel]

6:21 Instant Fusion: Allow me to introduce myself.

[@TruthOfZ0]

In the past i had accidentally put Pot of Generosity in my deck and it actually help me lol when my opponent played Exchange and i got a better card from his hand lol it was hilarious and he still remembers that play even 10 years later! xD

[@Ionesboule]

One day they're gonna make a card or an archetype which will have an effect that goes something like "whenever you activate a card's effect, you can apply that effect to your opponent instead", and then all the cards like Unfortunate Report, Pot of Generosity or Cold Feet will all of a sudden make perfect sense. It's been part of the master plan all along.

[@otoshigami4465]

Hey these card are absolutely stronger than Egyptian god's ,you just need a heavy investment an IQ over 200 and a lot of insanity for adding these to deck

[@Set2Seth]

Am i brain dead for trying to cram spirit of the pharoah to a wight deck? Reasons why: instant lyriscus xyz and potential 13 31 loop. Yes you heard me right

[@halobat64]

You know what matey let me know how that goes I'm legitimately curious to see if you can make it work even if it's just once or twice that's better than zero

[@Set2Seth]

@@halobat64 So I tried it out, having an AI to play against. Somehow...It works. I was able to get out the King multiple times thanks to this deck somehow. I'm genuinely disturbed how this worked

[@Set2Seth]

I also learned that if you play 2 of the first sarcophagus, you can turbo out the second and third card relatively quick, Soooo...There's that

[@SuperLucky7]

I'd add Metal Zoa in next to Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon since it's exactly the same, but with Zoa instead.

[@RockinRobert19]

You and the guy in this KZbin video are noobs at the game. Puting Metal Zoa or Red Eyes Black Metal Dragon in a Lair Of Darkness deck as a secret tec is a ingenious Idea not many realize.

[@DracoSafarius]

@@RockinRobert19 Cards having straight up ass conditions that can be worked around in one specific scenario doesn't make people noobs for still thinking they suck

[@RockinRobert19]

@@DracoSafarius What do you mean by one specific scenario? Other than being a beatstick that special summons Diablos Lord Of The Lair right next to him from hand or graveyard for a mean field that is instant rank 8 XYZ also, and Red Eyes Black Metal Dragon can be equipped with Black Metal Dragon or Red Eyes Black Sword Dragon fusion monster or any equip spell in Yu-Gi-Oh, or be Limiter Removal for a 4,800, to 9.600 to 19.200atk and if you Megamorth him first he can be 9.600 to 19.200 to 38.400Atk OTK monster! Also he is great material in the hand or draw power with Allure Of Darkness or Trade In, or is perfect and searchable summoning fuel for any level 8 ritual monster in Yu-Gi-Oh in your hand, and if he is in your graveyard, he is fuel for Greedy Venom Dragon's sake. When you read and look at and think about this comment you realize how many noobs are out there thinking that he is one of the top 10 worst out of thousands of cards.

[@RockinRobert19]

@@DracoSafarius Also another thing I almost forgot about Red Eyes Black Metal Dragon, he is excellent tribute food for all the virus trap cards. Like Grinning Grave, Eradicator Epidemic, Full Force and Deck Devastation. You can equip him with Red Eyes Fang With Chain like all equip spells or equip monsters in Yu-Gi-Oh too

[@DracoSafarius]

@@RockinRobert19 You do realize you're mentioning all fairly specific scenarios other than Diablos right? This is just relying on one specific card out of the whole deck (or two, one to combo off of it) rather than the deck itself being usable.

[@escapezafate]

You could always use Card Trader. Once per turn, during your Standby Phase: You can shuffle 1 card from your hand into the Deck; draw 1 card.

[@ericb3157]

reminds me of a silly scene in the manga "yu-gi-oh R", where someone used several "graceful charity" cards in a row, which let him "draw 3 then discard 2." THEN he player a weird card called "armament reincarnation" the made all "weapon" and "armor" cards in his graveyard turn into monsters that had 500 attack and 500 def PLUS their effect. FIVE monsters appeared. THEN he played a card that made ALL his monster gain attack+def of 500 TIMES THE NUMBER OF OTHER MONSTERS OF THE SAME TYPE ON HIS FIELD. so he then had 5 monster EACH with at least 2500 attack AND special abilities. and one had an ability that reduced the enemy's monster's attack during battle... GAME OVER.

[@pedroaugust254]

12:10 that card is actually good,if you want to avoid a cards effect that you have,like a Mirage of nightmare,that has some type of payment that you can use this card to "negate it. Specially if such drawback only occured in your turn.

[@NazgulianKing]

You could use pot of generosity to return wulf, lightsworn beast to your deck since you can’t summon him unless he is sent from the deck to the graveyard

[@mog-myownbestfriend]

Name the price I'll have to pay to ensure that you never, ever say "bin juice" again

[@yokaidokena3659]

I literally lmao and gagged in the same moment!

[@lspuria8440]

#1: Swordsmen of landstar.

[@MasterJunior93]

Don't you dare! Swordsman of Landstar is still a top tier card. Combine it with Red Eyes Black Dragon Sword, it's highly powerful! Also it is the ultimate flex against your opponents. Can you imagine beating them with Swordsman of Landstar? That'll ruin their whole careers.

[@AlienBros]

Mushroom Man.

[@aaronluisdelacruz4212]

Have you read a manga called "Wizard's souls"? Its a good card game manga. I highly recommend it Edit: An Unfortunate Report can be a good card if your playing a Yubel Deck supported by Battle Mania or Savage Colosseum that forces your opponent to attack with can ruin their day if properly set up.

[@GSSAGE7]

Pot of Generosity would probably work a lot better if it let you draw cards too, like Reload.

[@boredfangerrude]

I've used Card Shuffle on occasion to shuffle my own deck when RNG has decided to laugh at me. Sadly, it's about 50/50 whether or not it helps but has helped and my opponents tend to try to get rid of it ASAP when they notice what I'm doing.

[@UmbreonsRus]

It’s funny because “Swordsman From a Distant Land” is actually very good in Yu-Gi-Oh! Falsebound Kingdom. While it’s attack strength is still pretty trash it can get a fudge ton of action points very quickly so people shove a lot of healing items on to it and let it do the chip damage to finish off the almost dead enemies without wasting their more powerful attacks on them.

[@thelivinglegend2611]

Yu gi oh is still around?

[@Spurgte]

Ya

[@JustJak2]

16:20 i won with pot generosity because i had 5 cards in hand and 1 in deck so i played it to get extra 2 turns and i won

[@ΠαναγιωτηςΔορλης]

theres a field spell that makes your opponet to attack. so if you have something like a yubel you could get some value out of it