The Worst Yu-Gi-Oh! Card in Every Structure Deck (Part 4)

[@freman007]

Joey Wheeler would play a card like Dicephoon.

[@Nylspider]

Jason Clark Yep

[@lrumramatia4787]

i want a joey wheeler structure deck..XD

[@wheelotime2581]

I dare you to make a "worst cards in every structure decks" deck and duel with it lol

[@b0td]

Vu Hai Long that's MY idea!

[@blindtreeman8052]

Vu Hai Long. Like how rata did that with the war of the worthless

[@masontrimby6417]

Yes please

[@bearyboy9088]

"This can really combo with your chewbone" Dying

[@drearydoll6305]

how desperate must someone be to use a worst axe of despair?

[@fdthqwerty]

Approximately as desperate D/D players are for an archetypal link monster

[@alessioinglese4534]

crystron needle fiber might as well be an archetypal link monster. It´s extremly generic sp summons a lamia,

[@bonelesstoast539]

Axe of despair tributes for cost so technically you can use it with lair of darkness so people will go screaming for it so anyone can be desperate enough

[@KyunaCookies]

@@fdthqwerty ding down guess what they're getting

[@marklowery863]

I like axe of despair..

[@gavinerickson9392]

You shouldn't make fun of Joey Wheeler's spell and trap removal.

[@lordmewthree7989]

Your a third rate dueliest with a fourth rate deck

[@burger5853]

caleb carithers wow that’s mean

[@HybridAngelZero]

Mystic Box is a victim of Konami's mad tirade of the 2000s to butcher almost every card from the original manga

[@b0td]

YES NOW I CAN FINISH MY DECK

[@CKarasu13]

The AI in Duel Links uses Mystic Box with its Spirit monsters to some effect. It’s more annoying than anything else, though. So hey, that’s...something.

[@amethonys8494]

Dicephoon doesn't target. I mean the card still sucks, but it DOES have an "upside" to MST.

[@SiriusNegen]

even though I only joined the channel a few weeks ago, you still made my year a lot better. everyone has problems in their life, but you made mine a bit better. thank you for that and keep doing what you do best: make good YuGiOh content

[@Jirachibi25]

Oh! I got some SICK combo where I give my opponent my Chaos Max Dragon and then Magic Cylinder it! And then i realize it cant be targeted and cry And then I realize im playing Magic Cylinder and Magic Box so im prob a scrub and cry more

[@thaddeusgenhelm8979]

You were so close! You just needed to be playing Dimension Wall instead of Magic Cylinder, because not only does it not target, but instead of stopping the battle it just give your opponent the battle damage!... Does that mean it inflicts the double piercing to your opponent? Why yes, actually, yes it does. Does that actually mean that's a good play? Why no, no it doesn't.

[@mengatasuzume334]

Dicephoon is interesting. It doesn't target, so it could be a funny tech choice against spyral just to chain to Sleeper and target Gear last resort (and if you're lucky even the field Resort) if you want to main something less specific than Shattering Arrow.

[@Joe24248]

“Premature Return” with “Chew Bone” best combo play

[@azizh9276]

Now try doing "Best cards in every structure deck"

[@zeroshows]

Hey dzeef! I really enjoy your structure deck series and am looking forward to your coverage of the newer decks. For me it is very insightful to hear your opinion on these decks.

[@TheEpicMuffinBox]

"Premature return it can combo with your Chewbone" I was dying with laughter.

[@ZeroZerock]

Premature return does actually have synergy with the cyberse link deck. A lot of the cyberse monsters in the deck have effects when banished.

[@inkognitonoori9486]

prematuure Return seems usable in Shiranui-Decks because they want to banish their monsters to activate their effects and recycle them. Some of them give you card advantage like banning one card of the opponent or recycle up to two banished monsters. If it would be a spell card it would be basically a staple, but they put it inn the wrong deck.

[@lordfritzropero3666]

"Wow, this can really combo with your chewbone!"

[@Spyko-]

*are ya dissin' my Ameba+Mystic Box combo ?!* joke aside, im quite surprise they still put card that are just that bad in recent structure deck, especially considering how good structure decks have become

[@nakofan]

i did run that deck back in the day box was new n creature swap

[@TheTrueLeafless]

Probably to make players buy at least some additional packs to replace the bad cards.

[@minerrockerz1335]

I'm so excited for the "What went wrong in 2018?" video.

[@jxjunk]

Master of pendulum was my second structure deck

[@thaddeusgenhelm8979]

Use Mystic Box to give your opponent a face down Hiro's Shadow Scout! Or Fire Sorcerer! Or... Well okay I may have specifically made a deck around Reverse-Reuse and also used Mystic Box as part of my bag of tricks. And the deck might have been awful. Just maybe. Oh, and the correct answer for Chaos Max, in terms of "traps that damage your opponent for them attacking" is Dimension Wall. It doesn't target and will even reflect the double piercing damage. And is generally speaking bad. Like Magic Cylinder. But then I live my life playing bad decks so I'm in the know here.

[@GTdba]

Aah, nostalgia. I used to play during the very first Generation with a deceiving Maju based deck. Basically my strategy was to keep getting my defense scrub monsters killed and sent to the graveyard. In due time, I used a Spell card or an effect monster to remove them from the Game, then summoned Gren Maju Da Eiza, who collected 400 Atk and Def from each of them, sometimes reaching a whopping 30k. What a gamble it was...any card that inflicted damage for each discarded monster could have defeated me in a single turn ( ex. Graverobber's retribution, If I remember correctly?) but boy was it fun to annoy people!

[@blixbySE]

Wouldn't you need to have 50 monsters removed from play to even reach 20k?

[@destroyerx-0755]

every time dzeeff says deck play chaos max

[@lordmewthree7989]

But i cant play chaos maxx

[@ab14967]

If Machine King had a "discard a monster" function rather than a tribute, I imagine this would actually have the chance of being used. And I think premature return was a joke card.

[@mrsharpie7899]

Which actually makes it more upsetting that they put it in a "tournament ready" deck

[@GeneralNickles]

I don't know about within that structure deck, but d.d. Sprite is actually fairly decent in general. It has some cool interaction with ami-no iwata. Since spirits don't return to the hand if they aren't on the field you can banish iwata until your opponents standby phase and then it returns and they can't activate monster effects. It's also useful to clear your extra zone so you can continue summoning extra deck monsters without having to actually lose the first one. And the monster would return to the main monster zone, so that's cool I guess. Helps synchro decks a lot. But, arguably, farfa accomplishes the same things, and it doesn't have to stay on the field to do it, but Sprite is also a tuner.

[@generalnerdery7144]

I haven't seen the list but I think dd sprite was in there to regain an on summon effect

[@metleon]

Another thing about Dicephoon is that if you hit the 5 but there's only 1 other S/T card on the field, you don't get anything.

[@user-qd6tl6dv4p]

Mystic box and Number 30 Acid Golem Of Destruction. Best combo ever.

[@tamathemaid7171]

Is it sad that I used to run Mystic Box in my DMs to proc Mahad’s effect?

[@Kairos_Akuma]

When I see Dicephoon... I thought .. Could you Build a whole "Gambling Deck"? xD where everything or nearly everything has to have some kind of chance .-.

[@sidestory6550]

I think chewbone is USA exclusive in the deck because I m European, I buyed 3 deck in English and no one had it 🤔

[@farkasmactavish]

I like using Mystic Box with Griggle. :>

[@jordan3802]

I recall flute of summoning dragon seeing some play back in 2002-2006

[@chataclysm2112]

Yeah, he most likely didn't play during that time because especially in 02-03, Flute of Summoning Dragon was a pretty good card - you could get both it and Lord of D. in the Kaiba starter and it was honestly pretty good because it wasn't that easy to special summon a bunch of stuff way back when.

[@HaydenX]

I won a tournament in 2002 with a Flute into double Blue-Eyes after a Raigeki.

[@hellominna4784]

What about the worst card in the Pendulum Evolution struct... oh wait nvm.

[@BussyDestroyerTrue]

But its still a holo'ed out Tier 1 deck..WE OUT HERE BOYZ

[@Medbread]

*Fox Fire*

[@chompyzilla]

I remember a game back in middle school where one guy had a deck with decoy dragon. He put the hieratic lv8 normal monster in the grave then summon the decoy. What happens when you attack, is that your attack gets redirected to the revived hieratic, which dies because 0/0 stats, and it’s not once per turn, so your attacks mean nothing until you draw removal, which everyone’s decks didn’t have a lot of outside mirror force.

[@CD-Gaming]

For fun, I used to make Character Deck Recipes on Tag Force! I did one each for Yugi, Atem, Joey, Kaiba, Jaden, Aster and Chazz! Now, I will eventually get round to Yusei and Jack, but the rules were simple: literally ANY card that chosen Duelist has, has had, has used or has ever possessed is valid for inclusion, but only one copy with the exception of Polymerisation and cards that person is KNOWN for having multiple copies of (i.e. Kaiba's Blue-Eyes White Dragon or Zane's Cyber Dragon)! I never even considered Magic Box for either the Yugi OR Atem Deck... Or Flute in Kaiba's for that matter... Fun side note: that little stipulation about any card being valid is why the Yugi and Atem Decks have a Blue-Eyes and Red-Eyes in the Side Deck (Blue-Eyes cuz for Duelist Kingdom he used Solomon's Deck and he was the first person we see who owned a Blue-Eyes, this was before Kaiba got his hands on his first one, Red-Eyes cuz he had one twice)! It's also why Ra is in Jaden's and Stardust will be in Jack's and Akiza's! They're fun little builds!

[@bernardobarbalat5156]

I know I’m late but fun fact: flute of summoning dragon was a meta card in the first format of the game

[@FPrimusUnicron]

after seeing a group of vyour videos i must ask, then why dont you label ALL TRAP CARDS BAD? NOTE: i know these video are about structure decks and all, but almost all your videos feature some kind of "this is bad because is a trap card..."

[@Trascist]

“We Try to Fix Dicephoon” Law of Fives - Field Spell All dice rolls land on 5 while this card is face up in the Field Zone.

[@ChazWalser]

With Lair of Darkness coming out next month I am stoked but unsure if it’s categorized as a good, decent, or bad deck, though with some of the cards might save it from being a bad deck and the boss card being pretty OP is awesome to

[@noahtackett6264]

Fun fact, there's a trap that's essentially magic cylinder that doesn't target. It's dimension barrier or something like that. It just makes your opponent take all battle damage you would have taken Also, machine king 3000 BC OTK sounds awesome lol

[@GreycatRademenes]

I just want to put here less as a prove that said card is good and more that were ways to use a deck build around these cards in a successful way. I used to play a Decoy Dragon Deck and actually managed to top 8 two or 3 times in October/November 2007 (Perfect Circle, Zombies, Gadgets...). However the reason I won was because *I had flexible win condition.* Decoy Dragons effect never resolved unless someone attacked a monster I set and I activated *Staunch Defender* (of which little were aware at the time). Most of the time it allowed me to stall a turn or 2 for me to gather reasources such as Heavy Storm, Dragons Mirror, Future Fusion, Dimension Fusion in any combination. While it was relatively slow format, access to Future Fusion and Trade Ins made my deck relatively fast. Again I'm not trying to prove that Decoy Dragon is some sort of top tier or verstile card, not to mention I knew people will adjust soon as well as Glads were coming soon, but that it allowed me to learn how to smarter and the value to versitle deck. After that I switched to Red Eyes Darkness and Dark Counterparts.

[@2pointSummer]

I mean Decoy Dragon even has the name that telegraphs what you wanna do

[@beowulf8878]

I'd like to see a tournament with these structure decks, to see witch is the worst of the bunch. Not really to see witch is the best, cause comparing marik's deck with the dino deck is not really fair :p

[@phoebebinder4426]

Beowulf its already been done

[@DrCoolGuy88]

Witch

[@sdsd1801]

Premature Return has all the references to the D.D series and more, but it really should've at least been a spell

[@kiyoslovermangxakieungao8955]

But you can use Mystic Box to destroy your opponents Blue Eyes and give them a Kuriboh. And then get beat down by a fur ball.

[@FlareSherbetNatsu]

But with recover you only had 3 extra deck monsters to your oppponents 15 LOL, also in the anime DD Sprite wasn’t even a tuner JUST IMAGINE

[@LukesYuGiOhChannel]

Have a happy new year.

[@seppi8633]

You cant actually use UCT's effect on Tokens since they can't be face-down.. at least that's what I've heard

[@CKarasu13]

Seppi I believe you are correct. Spiral Phantasm token with Sea Stealth Attack up is a nightmare for UCT to deal with.

[@Dzeeff]

+Seppi Im talking about the damage effect. The monsters come out in defense position

[@pablogomezmartinez9962]

I'm pretty sure the card is there to be used with survival's end, not with UCT. So they attack into it, 3 tokens come out (if there is actually enough space for them) and then you use survivals end to summon 3 level 4 or lower dinos from deck.

[@buttersstotch172]

I played 3 copies of "premature return" in my Kuriboh Deck, but i have to admit that it is not a strong one to begin with.

[@TheTrueLeafless]

I am thankful for this video because it reminded me of Snipe Hunter, which I actually played a decade ago in my D.D.-deck.

[@Sorapie]

Wouldn't re-cover always be active against actual decks in this case because structure decks don't run 15 cards in their extra deck?

[@Darthvegeta8000]

Back when I played as a youngling... 15+ years ago I loved the flute. I just had went pure Dragon with flute, Lord of D. etc. Worked well in a casual scene. Yu Gi Oh nowadays seems a bit odd. Like graveyard being the 2nd hand. Traps being less and less useful. All these other types like synchro and pendulum. Clearly A LOT of time passed :p

[@andreivaldez2929]

Flute was always inconsistent and generally bad. As new ways to special summon were introduced it got even worse. And casual play is always different than competitive play: casuals don't know what they're doing while competitive players know what they're doing and are trying their hardest to win. You can't really compare the two.

[@cheesebuger13]

Will you continue this series with future structure decks?

[@Dzeeff]

Paul Corbett Assuming I'm still doing KZbin in a few years, yes. But I'd want to wait until at least six new Structures came out

[@cheesebuger13]

Take your time

[@Nylspider]

Proud Ogre is awesome! D/D is my main deck!

[@DeisFortuna]

There is one place I could see machine king being useful. That's in an out of the box mirror match of it's structure deck.

[@omeganexuskensai6848]

There was one use for magical box... if memory serves, there was an old card, like within one of the first sets, where if your enemy took control of it, they took like 2k burn dmg. Not enough to spare it from being bad, but it did have a use

[@andreivaldez2929]

It's Ameba and a 2 card, unsearchable combo with no other synergy with each other is not good. Defending something by coming up with a convoluted, situational scenario just demonstrates how bad it is.

[@lancerguy3667]

D/d’s try to have cards that are effective in multiple different ways, so you could theoretically see multiple D/d decks each with their own win condition and ace monsters. Flexibility is a good thing, but the ones who specialize in modulating attack and defense points are the worst by far

[@matteococco4259]

Wait... so what's the deal with the "Wave of light" structure deck? It is a western release of "Surge of Radiance"? Or is it different?

[@hoppyman11]

That's funny, when I was a kid I had this combo where I'd use Mystic Box to give them an attack position scapegoat sheep token. It was super not-optimal, but it was casuals, anything flew.

[@edelweiss9467]

You could use Mystic Box to give your enemy a Morphing Jar to discard your Jackpots! It's the perfect combo. :^)

[@eclypx3628]

Premature Return is good for Shiranui decks since Shiranui monsters have banished effects. If you banish Spiritmaster, you pop a face up card your opponent controls. You banish Samurai, you add a Shiranui monster from your grave to hand. If you banish Solitaire, you SS a banished zombie monster or up to two if Synthesis is on the field. You need nothing if you banish Spectralsword and there's no need to banish Spectralsword since its graveyard eff makes you get Level 6, 8, or 10 Shiranui synchro monsters out.

[@anthonmartin5496]

You can do a combo with mystic box IF you have a spirit monster then you destroy one of your opponents monsters are destroyed and the spirit monster just go back to your hand

[@mrmagpie3637]

All I have to say to the dicephoon choice. Dark Master Zorks effect

[@hpaul7124]

With premature return you can banish balancer lord or dot scaper for a special summon

[@fusionscape_]

interesting thing about re-cover, with only 3 cards in the extra deck initially, at a tournament your opponent probably has 5+ more extra deck cards than you! unless you have 8 pendulum monsters in there and your opponent didn't use any extra deck monsters on their turn, it's likely going to be able to go off :o happy new year!

[@_______________00]

Dicephoon destroys 5/6 of a spell/trap card and you get 333.3 damage on average so it really is bad. Just wanted to check mathematically because if it would destroy more then one s/t on average it would maybe be better then an mst.

[@angrythechameleon2854]

For premature return if you already have a black stego banished you can banish a different dino in your hand to have a free fd 2000 def monster when your using a dino deck

[@Dzeeff]

+Angry Thechameleon Okay so that's not very good, but more importantly Premature Return came with the Cyberse structure, not the Dino one

[@Apophis9056]

Angry Thechameleon Couldn’t you also summon back a high level monster that you banished with Premature Return, since you have to banish a card first?

[@Yugiohdeckmaster41]

you get on the machine king trap you dont tribute him you tribute another machine he gains said atk tell end phase which means end phase your left with 1 less monster and a 1000 atk trap monster in atk

[@matteomigliore1477]

Do the starter decks too ❤❤

[@kiyoslovermangxakieungao8955]

Matteo Migliore Thats not really fair since Starter Decks are made for ppl who just started playing the game, so they are very basic and usually full of bad cards.

[@matteomigliore1477]

Xuanhoi Do but it would be fun :)

[@wyomingptt]

They probably put that bad D.D.R. card in the Cyberse structure deck because there's that Cyberse monster that SS itself when it is either destroyed or banished. At least I think it works like that I don't feel like looking it up. Either way still a terrible _combo_ lol..

[@rundyftw]

D.D. Sprite can actually be used if you want to link summon but don’t want to use your stronger monsters to do it

[@hightidekraken]

I have: Wave of Light Seto Kaiba Structure Deck Yugi Moto Structure Deck Dinosmasher

[@AngryWindmill]

Mystic box + Spirit monster (in duel links) works, but then again you have to build a spirit deck to use it..

[@noah3279]

If you destroy chewbone by battle, you're actually getting a link 3 and a +1.

[@failatlife1]

For me, Mystic Box was the epitome of "cards that were awesome in the anime and that broke my heart when I unboxed one in real life and learned how awful the actual effect is."

[@liammcfarlin3923]

So if we were to look at Salamangreat, Endymion, and Shaddoll, what would the worst cards be. Good lord those decks are good.

[@marklowery863]

I hate when people talk about card economy because in most decks that are slapped together on duel night (or duel day), there are 3 copies of the best 10 cards of 1 specific structure deck with filler. So there’s not too much variety in cards or strategy. (High school did that to me) Edit: no I don’t hate the meta.

[@Swolelax]

Cyberse Link I don't think was necessary as a structure deck, though it gave us a bunch of great reprints, it's still only there to release trigate

[@bossman4799]

But that’s when you outwit your opponent by torrential-ing the chewbone tokens ;).

[@poweranimax9031]

D.D Sprite is only in the deck because its a light,fairy,Level 1 for Eva to search

[@VMVXMK2]

Isn't mystic box a card that you use to purposefully send monster so you can do strange combo with them? like with a Sasuke Samurai #3

[@amongus-gc5fj]

we gotta see part 5, trust 🙏

[@lefthandedscout9923]

2:34 I thought Dicephoon was a weird tech choice because it isn't guaranteed to blow anything up and it doesn't target so there's a handful of cards that can negate Twin Twisters and MST that don't work on Dicephoon. That and you could play it, then when your opponent doesn't chain destroy their facedown and if they DO chain destroy their face-up instead.

[@rosewarrior706]

I hear flute is good in speed dueling because of a kiaba skill which gives you the flute if you have D and D if you have Flute

[@dracoblizzard7944]

Part 5 when? Also do a best version Dzeef: Thinks about time

[@dawsonburgess121]

In my experience D.D. Sprite is mainly to support athena and her 600 burn damage effect

[@nakofan]

i used to run amoeba with creature swap and mystic box. would lose half hp from that

[@DerGremlin]

D.D. Sprite would be good if you could use it's effect during your opponents turn

[@TheMightyGiantDad]

But Doug, you forget that I can just special summon chaos max from my graveyard after my opponent destroys my set decoy dragon

[@magnionic1]

I mean I'm pretty sure Mystic Box was used in troll decks that liked giving people Acid Golem, which isn't the worst or most inconsistent strategy if your playing master rule 3 and can summon Bahamut Shark without a link monster... But yeah it's a bad card in basically every other context.

[@javiermartinezlarios5389]

Omg! chaos max and magic cylinder! what a combo!

[@witecatj7700]

Proud Ogre isn't the worst card in the D/D/D deck. I would go with Hope For Escape. You need to have LP lower than your opponent and you pay 1000 LP per card youwant to draw. This is terrible. Sure there are ways this deck could recover from it, but it is too risky for the potential reward and can backfire on you.

[@indumatipngtuber2790]

Hope for Escape is, however, useful for Exodia decks where you trick your opponent into gaining a massive amount of lifepoints and then using Hope for Escape to get Exodia.

[@WildMike48]

While Decoy Dragon is pretty bad, who the fuck is gonna use removal on that crap.

[@spencerlinkous7714]

decoy dragon's face down badness (badness?) can be countered with a position switcher, but that is so situational, just use a revival spell/trap

[@oldspicey6931]

The only thing I could say would work with box is dustons but thats all I can think of

[@dewae1158]

a dzeef video but its only him sniffing

[@xDoctorxFaustusx]

Great. Now you gotten me a stupid idea for Necroface mill with this. Using D.D. Sprite to banish it to make it come back later to do it again! I'm gonna die aren't?