Why Every Card is Banned in Yu-Gi-Oh

Why are they banned?
├ The Cards
1 0:00 Chicken Game
2 3:14 Mirage of Nightmare
3 6:26 Card of safe Return
4 7:47 Graceful charity
5 9:53 Pot of greed
6 12:12 Delinquent duo
7 15:00 The forceful sentry
8 17:30 Confiscation
9 18:52 Snatch steal
10 22:27 Change of heart
11 25:19 Spellbook of judgment
12 32:03 Mass driver
13 36:15 Last will
14 40:48 Painful choice
15 43:20 That grass looks greener
16 48:30 Heavy storm
17 53:32 Dimension Fusion
18 57:37 Metamorphosis
19 1:01:28 Cold wave
20 1:04:49 Brilliant Fusion
21 1:08:50 Soul charge
22 1:16:04 Giant Trunade
23 1:23:44 Sky Striker mobilize - engage!
24 1:33:18 Kaiser colosseum
25 1:40:34 Butterfly dagger - Elma
26 1:43:09 Premature Burial
27 1:50:43 Smoke Grenade of the Thief
28 1:56:28 Mystic Mine
29 1:59:39 Last turn
30 2:07:42 Time seal
31 2:11:18 Self-destruct button
32 2:14:29 Trap dustshoot
33 2:18:07 Vanity's emptiness
34 2:24:07 Six sense
35 2:28:30 Return From the Different Dimension
36 2:32:16 Ultimate offering
37 2:35:44 Royal oppression
38 2:40:09 Life Equalizer & Magical Explosion
39 2:42:02 Red reboot
40 2:43:11 Firewall dragon
41 2:48:15 Elder entity Norden
42 2:52:37 Ib the world chalice justicar
43 2:55:55 Lavalval chain
44 2:59:16 Wind-up Carrier zenmaity
45 3:02:44 Thunder dragon colossus
46 3:07:13 Ancient fairy dragon
47 3:11:15 M-X-Saber invoker
48 3:15:50 Outer entity Azathot
49 3:20:33 Topologic gumbler dragon
50 3:26:19 The Very Fun Dragon
51 3:30:56 Number S0:utopic zexal
52 3:35:48 Union Carrier
53 3:39:30 Linkross
54 3:42:46 Zoodiac Broadbull
55 3:48:15 Zoodiac drident
56 3:55:12 Guardragon Elpy
57 4:00:42 Guardragon Agarpain
58 4:04:07 Supreme king dragon starving venom
59 4:07:07 Tempest magician
60 4:11:43 number 16: Shock master
61 4:15:07 Number 86: Heroic Champion - Rhongomyniad
62 4:19:15 Summon Sorceress
63 4:24:37 Denglong, First of the yang zing
64 4:30:57 Number 95: Galaxy-eyes dark master dragon
65 4:34:22 Heavymetalfoes Electrumite
66 4:40:55 Tellarknight Ptolemaeus
67 4:45:35 Knightmare goblin
68 4:51:54 Number 42: Galaxy Tomahawk
69 4:55:41 Knightmare mermaid
70 5:04:39 Blaster, Dragon Ruler of Inferno
71 5:15:59 Redox, Dragon Ruler of boulders
72 5:18:44 Tidal, Dragon Ruler of Waterfalls
73 5:20:16 Orcust Harp Horror
74 5:24:29 Fairy tail - snow
75 5:29:07 Eclipse wyvern
76 5:32:03 Samsara lotus
77 5:35:44 Destrudo the Lost dragon's frisson
78 5:40:40 Blackwing - steam the Cloak
79 5:44:23 Glow-up Bulb
80 5:48:05 Jet synchron
81 5:51:26 Mecha phantom beast o-Lion
82 5:56:49 Performage Plushfire
83 6:01:06 The Tyrant Neptune
84 6:05:53 Master Peace, the True Dracoslaying King
85 6:11:28 Phoenixian Cluster Amaryllis
86 6:13:42 Grinder Golem
87 6:17:01 Dandylion
88 6:22:25 Yata-Garasu
89 6:28:20 Level Eater
90 6:32:30 Magical Scientist
91 6:35:23 Subtitoad
92 6:39:27 Ronintoadin
93 6:41:12 Performapal Monkeyboard
94 6:48:16 Lunalight tiger
95 6:52:37 Djinn Releaser of Rituals
96 6:58:03 Cyber Jar
97 7:01:26 Fiber Jar
98 7:04:34 Block Dragon
99 7:10:08 Victory Dragon
100 7:12:26 Spyral Master Plan
101 7:16:27 Blackwing - Gofu the Vague Shadow
102 7:18:42 Majespecter Unicorn - Kirin
103 7:22:42 Fishborg Blaster
104 7:26:07 Mind Master
105 7:28:59 Archnemeses Protos
106 7:33:15 Eva
107 7:36:30 Simorgh, Bird of Sovereignty
108 7:39:51 Imperial Order
109 7:45:41 Crystron Halqifibrax
110 7:47:59 Chaos Ruler, The Magical Dragon
111 7:49:16 Curious, The Lightsworn Dominion
112 7:52:46 Artifact Scythe
113 7:54:43 Barrier Statue of the Stormwinds
114 7:56:05 tearlaments Kitkallos
115 7:58:48 Spright Elf
116 8:01:19 Maxx "C"
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#yugioh #top10 #YGOtop10

[@TheDuelLogs]

Just a note, this is a compilation, but there's also lots of updates added in as well.

[@yusufahmed3255]

I hope an engine deck vedio is next I really enjoy this I learn alot from them

[@motxmod]

Your timestamps are off by one entry

[@VakovoSheggorri]

Ohh that's why Change of heart was on here. Understood, keep up the good work!

[@spagoongus140]

Arigato, Logs san

[@marcialhd]

Hiru, some of the times are off in the description and don't match the listed monsters at all.

[@fubu72]

It gets me everytime how he adds a little annex mentioning the date the card was banned on he delivers it like it fucking died on that day

[@netweed09]

It's worse than that, it was a chunk of Our fun.

[@umbrellamuffin]

what I learned from this video as someone who never played yugioh: -Drawing cards is strictly forbidden -Give everything a hard once per turn -LINK monsters were a mistake -The simpler a card is, the more broken it is -The more complicated a card is, the more loopholes you can abuse

[@RinaShinomiyaVal]

Yep. Prison style cards and play enablers/extenders are YGO

[@xyzen9673]

correction drawing cards arent forbidden, its just the absolute BEST effect a card can have in the game

[@Endaleyn]

You also forgot "put crazy restrictions" on!

[@IBRollinPapers]

Exactly

[@finchhawthorne1302]

Pretty much.

[@humanoid251]

Babe wake up! TheDuelLogs released the extended director’s cut of Why It’s Banned with bonus DVD commentary

[@andrewz58]

DuelLogs and chill?

[@Ninjo_]

@@andrewz58 Finally. The perfect +1

[@Dylan-jp9mr]

@@andrewz58 HELL YEAH! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[@TheMightySkeletorLordofPuns]

Honey, I already binged it without you

[@mahtorta2095]

I got the VHS version and ill be the first to tell you, it does not come with the extended commentary... 😢

[@ryanhunt7093]

Despite never playing or watching anything yugioh related I can’t wait for this to be in the background of my entire work shift tomorrow

[@Akechi_The_Phantom_Detective]

Lol hope you enjoyed the background noise.

[@sarttan]

For those of you looking up Pot of Greed and what it does: 9:53.

[@NoLongerNeedThis]

TheDuelLogs in 2070: This card allowed you to automatically win the duel as soon as you activate it, and it could be searched from the deck without restrictions. This card has come off the ban list because it has been powercrept. Only being able to win a duel automatically is pretty meager compared to cards in the modern meta that allow you to combo off of that win and win the next 347 matches, as well as being hand traps that can be activated even if your opponent goes first, so this card doesn't see play anymore.

[@jshtng78]

And in 2070 OCG 90% of the game is cards that are at that level or stronger but the scene is more profitable than ever while the TCG ended official distribution in 2025. Thus proving once and for all why they need to have separate banlists.

[@JoeLikesBlue]

xd I want to play 2070 Yugioh so bad now. Imagine the insanity that would be a modern card if power creep actually continued to ramp up like that.

[@okagron]

It's the year 3000 and the winner of the duel is now determined by whoever screams "I win!" first.

[@CantusTropus]

We're reaching 20XX levels of meme here

[@mahtorta2095]

2070 yugioh is ok, its just riddled with handspells and fieldtraps...

[@ariavachier-lagravech.6910]

8 hours of Mr. Logs explaining cards ASMR to help people sleep. Thanks Mr. Logs

[@BF1_enthusiast]

A man could actually sleep for this xD

[@BF1_enthusiast]

Then again I once saw an ASMR ambient peaceful world war sounds for sleeping video so xD Yeah I searched that up...

[@maphacker6451]

Not gonna lie, i do watch his videos to go sleep.

[@javivazquez2140]

Same

[@javivazquez2140]

His voice is soooooo nice to listen to while getting ready for bed not cause his voice is sleep inducing but cause its so calming. I agree with you THANK YOU Mr.Logs.

[@ddarwinyt]

now explain why every card unbanned is unbanned

[@arzentvm]

100+ hour video

[@decalcomanie123]

“how can we errata this card so it gets banned"

[@Rhiannercakes]

I was feeling pretty lonely yesterday and sometimes when I feel like that I need to listen to people talk about whatever to fall asleep. I ended up choosing this video last night. It's long, has no high pitched sounds, no volume changes and didn't really have any long breaks. Thank you for that. I haven't really interacted with Yu-Gi-Oh beyond the first like two seasons of the anime when it originally aired, but I'll watch this properly some day.

[@LinkoLankao]

just stop being lonely then, go outside make friends 🐱

[@flamvellyt1910]

​@@LinkoLankaoshut up man, it's not that easy for everyone.

[@LinkoLankao]

@@flamvellyt1910 too stupid to go outside ?, ok first step open the door, second walk out easy 🤡

[@asingularlittlefish]

​@@LinkoLankao its like telling an amputee to just grow fucking limbs. yes, it is that hard for some people. everyone is different.

[@fuhjrvr7474]

@@LinkoLankaoyour a 🐭🐷🐱 and your family as well lil guy

[@radlee13]

The best part isn't the fantastic updates but instead hearing Mystic Mine get brought up every 10 minutes knowing its fate

[@jpraise6771]

Greetings my friends from beyond and within the grave. In the short time in which we inhabit this world, It would be my honor to offer you a new life with Christ. Let today be the day you begin✝️

[@adamholmes6632]

​@@jpraise6771 what💀

[@gerald216]

​@adamholmes6632 All banned cards go to heaven bro, obviously lol

[@adamholmes6632]

@@gerald216 Nah bro maxx C is going straight to hell

[@gerald216]

@adamholmes6632 Eh I'm bad at the game so I just play in to it lol. Every once in a while it works out

[@spoofy8885]

I imagine the "but in Duel Links" compilation will be twice as long

[@fidelluz2942]

dl has more potential for broken cards, smaller decks and less life points means otks are much more consistent

[@gibran6190]

Duel Links was a mistake

[@LeoGuitarize]

@@gibran6190 you're a mistake

[@residentgrey]

​@@gibran6190 It is all I play and is how I have been learning how to play for the past year or so. The differences are fascinating, as there are also many cards not available at all to play on DL, yet...or may never be, and some play differences involving the mechanics that are curious to me, and could be tweaked.

[@bulbaa2241]

​@@residentgrey my favorite part about duel links is the anime cards that they have added

[@omegacxv8344]

8 hours of Yu-Gi-Oh explanations about why certain cards were a mistake. Well, let's go

[@supersmily5811]

I am here for this journey.

[@sanp3135]

Plus the director's cut with updates!

[@og403]

Ikr I should be done watching it by 9:30-ish tonight, its 1 rn

[@Black_Revue]

I Own or Owned copies of most of these Cards

[@2CHiLLED.]

@@og403 2 more hrs?

[@Ghi102]

I love that some effects can be explained in a single sentence while others require explaining a full archetype and why that archetype was/is overpowered with that card

[@pm146]

You could probably delete exactly 50% of the cards/mechanics and end up with a somewhat healthy game

[@OswaldAurelia]

"Knightmare Mermaid is banned, but to explain why, we first have to talk about parallel universes"

[@coda567]

​​​​​​​​​​@@pm146literally. At the very least - the MASSIVELY extraneous addition of ALL Pendulum and Link mechanics was a doubling and tripling down on a blind sprint into madness. Xyz monsters should never have existed either - that entire generation should have been the fundamental fixing of Ritual monsters - which would have revitalized the soul of the game with mechanics meant to bleed into virtually every Archetype. To me, an original player, Xyz/ Pendulum/Link monsters exist as a blatant waste of what Ritual monsters were meant to be. Extra note: The Union, Gemini, and Spirit subclasses of monsters are underdeveloped as compared to Tuners - Xyz monsters being what they are - could have been called "Link" monsters for a better name, and fundamentally require one of those subclasses (Unions) to be Summoned, which would then develop support for them. They missed all these opportunities in hindsight. Fixed Ritual mechanics could easily incorporate Gemini and Spirit monsters somehow to make them supportable. There's your whole game errata, good god someone make it real and call it the Errata Format so i can play again.

[@adamholmes6632]

The difference between thunder dragon colossus and "draw 2 cards"

[@Blue-jy4rf]

At this point, yugioh matches are just two players staring at each other until one of them gets up and leaves

[@CantusTropus]

Fun fact: the Mirage of Nightmare + Emergency Provisions combo was old enough and well known enough that it was even used in the Duel Monsters anime (in a filler arc, admittedly, but still).

[@chronic-joker]

that combo was used often in gx by jaden.

[@leebulger7112]

Yu-Gi-Oh GX was the first time I seen Mirage of Nightmare and it was one of Jaden's favorite combos.

[@rishmaquilla4954]

Not filler. The gx doesn’t have a manga

[@chronic-joker]

@rishmaquilla4954 when he says filler he means the original yugioh that did have a manga.

[@MrOppaiGaDaisuki]

@@chronic-joker still canon for me since it helps the character development

[@themanwiththepan]

"In a future where decks are so fast, pot of greed might be unbannable for being too slow" Literally delete this card game and start over if it gets to be this point.

[@anannoyedpanda]

The game needs a rework. Limiting special summons and limiting effect monsters in the main deck overall are the best way.

[@laytonjr6601]

the OCG had a no-banlist tournament and the decks that ended up in the top 4 didn't even use Pot of Greed (using only Graceful Charity and Painful Choice) because it doesn't have a graveyard effect so if you don't have it in your hand it's gonna get milled instead of a card that could actually have given you a + in card advantage

[@catfan913]

pot of greed isn't even close to being power crept. the no banlist tournaments featured the most powerful decks in yugioh history, spamming banned cards far more powerful than pot of greed. and we mainly saw pot of greed being cut in tearlament, the most powerful archetype ever to have existed in the game, which definitely doesn't need it and would rather mill cards

[@Endershock1678]

@@catfan913 The thing is Tearlaments can definitely play PoG too, the only reason some don’t is because in that hyper speed meta of a deck that needs to mill, cards like Suliek become garnets, and because in the mirror, pot of greed is still good, but not quite as good value as Havnis or Ash. Pot of Greed caused anti-power creep. It’s so strong, worse version of the card like Sekka’s Light and Pot of Exteavagence see play purely for being a less good PoG.

[@Endershock1678]

@@anannoyedpanda Idk if that would help. The strongest decks aren’t the ones that summon 20 times, it’s the ones that can do their job with 3-4 summons as to play below Nibiru.

[@RickRaptor105]

Finally a video sufficiently explaining what Pot of Greed does and why it's banned

[@derekbutts2660]

THATS WHAT IT DO YUGI

[@Roy5556]

Roll my dice

[@GeorgeMonet]

But it doesn't do what the video says it does. The person making the video got it wrong. It very clearly only allows drawing 2 cards from the top of the deck. Claiming otherwise is being intentionally disengenuous.

[@mlevins2973]

"draw two cards, inflict 10,000 damage to your opponent probably sounds pretty broken if youve not played for a while, but remember we now have deck traps like 'no u' which reflect any cards effect and 'ring of magnetism 2.0' which allows you to reselect the referees target during the "win stage""

[@walugusgrudenburg3068]

Draw two cards? Nah that's pot of greed, too powerful. Needs an errata to make it only do 10,000 damage for free. Drawing 2 cards would just be too powerful.

[@dragonsswarm1987]

Ends with Maxx "C"? That's absolutely perfect.

[@dragonsswarm1987]

Bookmark: 1:11:28

[@chAlicesx]

Mark: 04:00

[@dewott3754]

This series got me into competitive Yu-Gi-Oh, I had only ever played casually and watched the anime, this is the first time I heard about what was actually going on the meta game and made me learn so much about Yu-Gi-Oh's competitive history and what makes a card good

[@monk3110]

I bought the Pegasus starter deck from the first line of them and a few booster packs and had fun with friends. Thought to come back and I’m just so overwhelmed lol

[@amrkadry5176]

After years of calling it the most broken card of all time, seeing TheDuelLogs compare Spellbook of Judgement to Ojamagic makes me feel old

[@nodeberiaestaraqui93]

So much water has went under the bridge and powercreep is a bitch

[@bauuhmasquerade459]

I'm going to say this I find this comment hilarious as it shows just how much power creep exists

[@Elfking94]

Wow a full blown list that covers an entire 8 hour shift. That is work and dedication brother

[@BazedLi]

It's incredibly sad how hard Link monsters broke this game to a point it doesnt even pretend to resemble the YuGiOh of old or even of like 7 years ago. I mean look at that ban list. How many cards are on there simply because of the broken link mechanic? Everybody thought pendulums were a stupid idea, and imo they were, but at least you could theoretically balance (pardon the pun) the mechanic by adjusting the scales on the cards you release or making the cards more or less useful as scales.

[@E1666000]

30 minutes of work: 8 and a half hour explanations about a game I don't even play:

[@CocTheElf]

Problem with Upstart Goblin and Chicken Game is that decks are so consistent now, they'd rather play better cards than a draw 1.

[@breadpower]

deckthinning

[@DawnofRoxas101]

@@breadpower Upstart and chicken game are legal in master duel and not being played

[@JoeLikesBlue]

@@breadpower You don’t need to deck thin if every card is good

[@ziggystardust1973]

They only seem good in sky strikers now, at least upstart for filling the grave with spells. And I have no idea if modern sky strikers even plays it

[@micha-elhorus5799]

Chicken game helps a lot rogue brick decks IF you can get rid of It

[@Number47ftw]

It's so unfortunate to know that in 8 Whole hours composed by multiple videos, He still couldn't explain what pot of greed does

[@theshadowking9626]

?

[@Number47ftw]

​@@theshadowking9626 Oh it was nothing lol. I just like to say "Balls"

[@Number47ftw]

@@theshadowking9626 Also, Do you know where the Pot of greed meme comes from?

[@theshadowking9626]

@@Number47ftw Yes, it's because of the fact that every time a character in the anime activated The card they always said this was pot of greed this card allows me to draw 2 cards from my deck..... A super drawn out explanation for a card that only has 2 words on it So the joke is that the car is super complicated because it describes so much of disciplination even though it's so simple

[@Number47ftw]

@@theshadowking9626 Oooooh- LMAO, Then i think that i really enjoy this Gag, Ngl. Thanks for the information fam

[@mr.badger3950]

I really appreciate the small sections added after the card explanations on some of them from the original video to give more context for today. It reminds me of how some marathon airing of shows on TV would put text boxes in the corner to add more context to things while also adding to the original. I'm sure this will be a great video

[@ArmyofThalia]

I find it really funny that you bring up consistency when talking about Touching Grass cuz in Magic, we have a card called Yorion, Sky Nomad which can be played in the sideboard and if you meet the restriction of having 80 cards in your deck (mtg decks start at 60) then you can pay 3 mana to bring it directly into your hand. And that cost of 3 mana used to be 0 on release before Wizards of the Coast errata'd the card and the other Companions. And even with the errata, the card still sees tons of play because playing more cards means you can run a full playset of cards you would otherwise would've had to shave down on copies. It was so good that it had to be banned in Modern (format of cards from like 2004-present) because of how consistent it's decks were there

[@Firestar4041]

Growing up with yugioh, i have found its... devolve into madness, a very interesting study. The way cards interact now verses early yugioh, and how easy it is to get every single card in your deck onto the field How drawing cards went from pretty handy, to akin to hitting the mother-load of endless food, water, and gold And in the comparisons to other games like Magic, where same combo-centric focus, but feeling much less, abused(?) (as far as i know, yugioh is the only card game that has gotten to the point of undoing the purpose of its zones. Graveyards, banished, hands, and even the deck)

[@sephikong8323]

Oh boy, the whole series in one sitting does actually sound like a fun challenge

[@DarzieP]

I like that the timestamp in the description for Maxx C just cuts to Logs saying "bonkers"

[@woofdagawd]

The Pot of Greed update sounds like a warning of some possible dystopian future lol.

[@primedialga]

Well, we first have to figure out what it does. i hope by then we have a duel academy and we can study the pot there

[@shis1988]

​@@primedialga I'd get a PhD in dueling

[@thegreatcanadianlumberjack5307]

​@@primedialga Pot of greed allows you to draw 2 cards with no restrictions at all. So many possibilities to make the game deeply unfair and i am glad it is banned. It basically gives a +1 card advantage for free. I have not Played Yu-gi-oh since 2010 but i remember Pot of greed before it was banned.

[@jayfourd9333]

@@thegreatcanadianlumberjack5307 okay but what does it do?

[@thegreatcanadianlumberjack5307]

@@jayfourd9333 once played it allows you to draw 2 cards from your deck With No restrictions. Unlike Pot of Avarice for example that requires you to Shuffle 5 cards from the Graveyard back into your deck before you can Draw 2 (Another Card that used to be banned) or Pot of Dichotomy that requires you to Shuffle 3 monsters with diffrent types back into your deck to Draw two cards.

[@bauuhmasquerade459]

Gotta say as someone who didn't play the game for 10 years your videos really helped me get my interest back into the game and even though I don't go to physical tournaments mainly due to a lack of finances. I highly enjoy how you explain everything to those who are new to the game and thanks to your videos I was able to teach a friend of mine how to play and he highly enjoys the game. Also the card I hate most on the ban list is Fiber Jar as I had that one friend who played it in literally every game we did and I still have a special place of hate for that card to this day. Also as a note this is my 4th time watching this video in its entirety in a single sitting when I type this out.

[@stllr_]

thank you for having an entire segment of the video explaining how pendulum summons work. i played a bunch of forbidden memories when i was younger, and did some recess format stuff, but i was out of it by Zexal despite having a pretty strong passive interest my whole childhood. I grew up and got quite good at hearthstone (rank 3), but was basically permanently taunted by Synchro, Pendulum, Link, and XYZ monsters because I just could not find out how they worked LMAO. that part snapped my attention when I had this video on in the background and I'm super super appreciative of it.

[@novaanverdiano7589]

8 1/2 hours video? Insanely powerful. That'll take me a few sessions.

[@caesarazealad]

I don't play YuGiOh or any other TCG but I love these videos, thank you so much for compiling this into one video it's a godsend!

[@Ralloris]

Honestly, Graceful Charity would have to be something like "draw 1 card, banish 2" to ever be considered for unbanning. The meta has gotten that graveyard inclusive.

[@BlackRabbitWonderland]

lol it would have to be face down too or couldn't floo just abuse it

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

​@@BlackRabbitWonderland Place on the bottom of the deck?

[@LycorisOni]

Honestly if it sported a harsh cost like no special summoning for the turn and instead of discard any two cards and was 2 of the 3 cards you drew and instead of discard was banish face down. It still might be op since it digs 3 out lets you pick 1. But who knows.

[@nodeberiaestaraqui93]

Floo, Thunder Dragons and Orcusts say hi

[@Emperor.H]

Thunder dragons would absolutely love that card

[@gaIIowsCaIibrator]

Draw 1 card, lose 2 fingers

[@Radman1889]

Banned for giving too much advantage

[@deadworldinfamy]

So basically Inscryption, lost a tooth and deal one point of damage

[@maximodubs4189]

Terezi Pirope?

[@kevinpeixes3735]

​@@maximodubs4189 Roxy Lalonde?

[@breawycker]

OP because once you activate it enough you don't have anymore fingers to lose it has no downside

[@KooperMKW]

Me explaining watching an 8 hour video: No Fr though this is a lot of depth 👍

[@garfrockbreadtroll]

cant wait to watch this in one go instead of studying

[@coins_png]

I'll watch it with you in one go instead of working Edit: the video is stuck on loading. I'm taking this as a sign

[@anannoyedpanda]

Finals for you homie?

[@garfrockbreadtroll]

@@anannoyedpanda yep

[@DannySmithson]

This is an impressive amount of explanation, kudos to you

[@DoctorFalchion]

I didn't realize you'd finished the series. Congratulations! Also thank you for going the extra mile to make corrections and updates.

[@Nikkiflausch]

You may be able to balance Graceful Charity while keeping the intended effect by making you discard 4, or even 5, cards. At that point you‘ll be discarding more than is convenient, which finally balances the card advantage.

[@basty_gaming5750]

TEAR: Nope! 7:56:05

[@icareabouttheworld7038]

yea no that gives decks that utilize the GY too much advantage.

[@Joshua12450]

Honestly, if the game ever gets so fast the point where pot of greed's unconditional free +1 card advantage Is too slow, it's probably time to start a new standard format.

[@demonrat278]

The updates on this are great. He should do that for other really big/popular top tens. It’d be fun.

[@ZanbonSen]

Adding updates is so appreciated. Thank you so much.

[@TaikunZ]

It's hilarious how around the 5-6 hour mark, most of the conditions for "How can this card be unbanned" involve "If they ban Crystron Halqifibrax". Well-deserved ban. I hope it staying Forbidden means an upcoming mass errata of popular generic Extra Deck monsters in the future, which includes Accesscode Talker.

[@Lulu-ew7oh]

I doubt it and access code isn’t that hard to out

[@TaikunZ]

@@Lulu-ew7oh It's not the issue of it being hard to out. It's an issue of decks that are over-reliant on generic ED monsters to do anything, and robbing archetypes of identities by all of them ending on the same generic endboard of any combination of Appolousa/Accesscode/Baronne/Zeus.

[@nodeberiaestaraqui93]

​@@TaikunZ I never knew that all Branded. Kashtira and Purrely ended on Baronne, Apollousa and Accesscode at the same time, lmao.

[@TaikunZ]

@@nodeberiaestaraqui93 disingenuous strawman. Have the reading comprehension to see that I wrote "any combination of" and try again with a better comment.

[@NeonRaveHuskey]

I dont play any ccg games and i was never really into the anime but i just had to see why this 8 hour video had 1 million views. Extremely high production quality with simple and informative explanations.

[@gil1934]

I really just want to see a tournament where all banned cards are allowed and watch the chaos ensue

[@HazhMcMoor]

Ocg sometimes runs that. Zodiac wins once, tearlaments wins once

[@tsbworld]

I thought conceptually this had to be a longer video but 8 and a half hours was not the number in my head

[@arthuramante6640]

8 and a half hours is not enough tbh.

[@tsbworld]

@@arthuramante6640 you are correct lol

[@BloodDarkPearl]

I recommend adding a current date to the title of this video so that people know it's "current" then shamelessly reupload it in entirety (+one or two new/removed cards) when banned list updates. Get that bread, king.

[@TheDuelLogs]

Yeah I'll go back and date it once a new ban list drops

[@HarveyDangerLurker]

​@@TheDuelLogs soon...

[@OFSheep]

That no ban list tournament sounds like a dystopia version of yugioh, if a card with no drawbacks and only advantage like pot of greed isn't played because it has to be your turn to play it.

[@picasso2559]

*tRuE Dr4c0 noises*

[@CrnaStrela]

It's also because drawing is less useful than searching, why would you want to draw 2 random cards when you can just use half of your deck via one card starter? It is going to be good ash bait I guess.

[@Endershock1678]

@@CrnaStrela Because decks are so consistent nowadays, draw 2 usually will end up getting you a searcher anyways, on top of a board breaker or hand trap.

[@grammysworld5449]

That " Of course not" on questioning can Delinquent Duo be unbanned is still the most hilarious part of this video

[@cool2984]

I like how for nearly the whole video the reason is just "It lets you draw cards so it's banned"

[@pablossjui]

it's really brave for you to post this during banlist season

[@chiconico9738]

I love these little updates you put for some of the cards here. Hearing about cards in this list that are unbanned and seeing the power creep of today is bonkers.

[@kontentaidee]

Graceful Charity could only ever be playable as a Legend card in Rush Duel like Pot of Greed (which it is). Rush duel has had a metric butt-ton of discard effects and return from graveyard effects from earlier on, due to the discard effects being a core strategy to ensure you draw as many cards as possible per turn. It also has the early ace monsters with "discard from deck" effects which makes the recycling all the more imperative.

[@ninjaswordtothehead]

This is the content youtube was made for. I don't even play Yu-Gi-Oh, but I did watch it way back when when I'd have a day off and smoked out in front of the TV. A blue white eye dragon (name is almost assuredly wrong) was the big deal, I think, it was a long time ago.

[@EmrysMerlin8807]

@1:04:37 Here's a thought- Cold Wave: Quick-play Spell: This card can only be used during the start of your opponent's Main Phase 1. Until the end your next turn, you and your opponent cannot play or Set and Spell or Trap Cards. Until the end of your next turn, your opponent's monsters are unaffected by the effects of your monsters.

[@LunarWingCloud]

I think you should make videos on the different banlist updates starting at the beginning, and explaining them in depth, that would be really cool

[@wslaxmiddy]

In MTG Thoughtseize is such a strong card and always makes its way into the meta when available in a set. It''s wild that an effect like that was included WITH ANY ability nevermind making your opponent discard a specific card.

[@eduvieira2022]

I play UW control. if my opponent starts with Thoughtseize, I sometimes concede

[@DavidDavidson-wn9to]

Ah yes, my favorite type of content. Eight hours of Yu-Gi-Oh cards.

[@GamblerSilver]

Graceful errata- Swap the wording around to be Discard 2 cards from your hand, then draw 3 cards. It turns it from an effect discard to a draw discard which stops plusing from the discard, if you want to go even further then make it that any card sent to the graveyard can not use their effect that turn. Also following up the the turning the discard from effect to cost it forces you to toss before you see what ya get so that’s also a thing. But would still prob be limited if you can use your monsters effects that turn. Though this is all speculation but I feel like it’s main power came from the tossing as effect is where a majority of its power came from.

[@gsuaveyt]

As someone who has never played yu gi oh, but has played pokemon tcg with easy draw cards like once per turn draw 3 or discard hand draw 7, small effects like picking one card in your opponents hand to remove or drawing like, 1 card being very powerful in yu gi oh is like peering into the abyss and making out the barest outline of a huge incomprehensible beast

[@slavking992]

My paper shredder will beat any deck. Your move

[@APootisBirb]

This guy's paper shredder : It doesn't let you draw 1 card. Unrestricted

[@DugdoesDigging]

the fact this didnt open with pot of greed, which allows me to draw two new cards from my deck! just makes me so sad

[@edwardalyassin7887]

Here's an idea for heavy storm. Both players can destroy as many of their opponents backrow as they want. That keeps the idea of the card the same, but getting rid of your ability to turn off your floodgates.

[@RunicSigils]

It does not at all keep the idea of the card because a heavy storm isn't controllable. You aren't sitting in your house during a thunderstorm thinking oh man I hope a tornado only hits my neighbor's house and then it happens. It has to be everything in the way to be consistent with the theme of the card. You don't need to take floodgates into account for this card. If those cards can't be fixed then they should remain banned and if they can then they should be fixed themselves. A fix for Heavy Storm doesn't need to take those into account whatsoever. Either they are fixable on their own or they aren't regardless of what you do with Heavy Storm. What makes the most sense is to simply not allow the effects of cards destroyed by it to be used that turn. Things that are washed and blown away in a heavy storm shouldn't be usable.

[@Miniskirt29]

Just keep it banned honestly

[@ceral1079]

As someone who played a bunch of TCGs and CCGs but only very little Yu-Gi-Oh I'll never not be amazed by how getting a card advantage if one card is overpowered, but the possibility to get out a 15k ATK monster on the first turn is fair and balanced.

[@coda567]

Because that next card will let you do it again. Seriously Yugioh is broken by its own weight and lack of self repair. Xyz dont incorporate a subclass like Synchros do so they're too easy to use - and Pendulums/Links are just cancer where fixed Ritual mechanics should have been.

[@RinaShinomiyaVal]

15K monster? Does it have protection? If not, trash. YGO doesnt function on mana, the cards themselves are the resource Free plusses matter more. Oh and the game NEVER has had a rotation.

[@Milktube]

There are a million spell, trap, or monster effects that don't care about the stats of your opponents monsters that can make unable to attack, remove, or banish 1 targeted monster extremely easily.

[@Youbombs]

Crazy how many cards that would fix the problem with crazy special summoning every turn just end up banned

[@DominicDorian]

I feel like a way to balance Graceful Charity, would be to make the discard 2 a cost to the card. That way the player can't set up their hand/graveyard as abusively. More importantly, it becomes a monumental risk to run. If it gets Ash Blossomed, you just went -3.

[@inyourwifi]

Or maybe instead of discarding two cards, you banish them face-down. Then any card that you discard or leaves your field also gets banished face-down instead of going to the graveyard for the rest of that turn.

[@charliefazzari6389]

That's brilliant 👏 I always thought graceful charity had a weird order lmao

[@thischannelisajoke6810]

Kazuki Takahashiin in 1997: hmm, I should have my characters play a card game in this chapter

[@Ivwin]

It is 5 am and I am at 4:49:33 ... This is hypnotizing and dangerous!

[@TheReZisTLust]

I haven't played Yugioh since the elemental hero lineup and the kids started hopping on vehicles but I can still go and point in surprise at all the cards I had gotten in my random deck as a kid lol

[@somerandomfan2096]

In A Nutshell - So Game Would Be So Broken/So Game Will Be Fair And Square…Unless New Cards Get Released And Someone Comes Up With Even More Broken Game Winning Strategies

[@anannoyedpanda]

Reasons why duel links is the only version of Yu-Gi-Oh viable unless we get an online rush duel.

[@guus497]

the timestamp for Mirage of nightmare is wrong in the description and every other timestamp after that aswell. so they all point to the end of the explanation of the card instead of the start

[@TheDuelLogs]

yeah I need to shift them all down 1

[@michaelcarrion1530]

Ah, the ultimate Yu-Gi-Oh ambiance video

[@aidanyoung9133]

Kinda surprised you didn’t add a comment about “the minigame” at the end of Maxx C

[@johntrains1317]

It's crazy how most of the cards that were good were the ones that appeared in the two years I played lol😂

[@WhiteWingedNightmare]

I haven't really been keeping up with Yu Gi Oh, so I can't believe all cards were banned. How do we play now?

[@LuciidDreamz]

So basically every good card we grew up with is banned now lol

[@jeffjagoda1614]

Hot take: I feel like Delinquent Duo could come back based upon what format we are in. Dark Worlds, Dangers and Tearlaments would actually benefit from this effect and the former has actually been getting increasingly stronger in the rogue category. Plus there are so many cards that want to be in the graveyard I feel like it could benefit the opponent more.

[@strength5149]

I'm not trying to get handlooped for 2 by P.U.N.K. GoldPride turn one. You shouldn't ever unban something just because it isnt that good against certain decks.

[@consoleman94]

If you unban a card because it's not good against certain decks, that only incentivizes people to play those certain decks, making a stale format.

[@RashFaustinho]

Too many handtraps even in those format to even remotely consider it

[@thema1622]

52:23 I suggest "At the next upkeep destroy all spell/traps you control and those cards are negated until end of turn" you would still trigger your opponent floating effects like awakening the dragon but not your own floating effects and you wouldn't be able to remove your own floodgates during your turn without a combo that lets you activate it during your opponents turn.

[@Chancedaripper]

3ish weeks later and i finally finished the whole video. Great work with the updates!!

[@demilembias2527]

8 hour thesis on how we know that Konami has never playtested a single card its printed.

[@residentgrey]

Union Carrier could have a restriction where it does the equipping, and on the next turn they could go into another summon, making it insanely useful even with the delay caveat. Set up Flame Administrator before Union Carrier and it becomes 2800 plus any union effect.

[@noneofyourbusiness4133]

Why would you ban pot of greed? Most people can barely draw a house, let alone a full on card!!!

[@benjystrauss2524]

@43:50 Correction the optimal number of cards to play in a Deck is *usually* 40. There are decks that use more. More cards = more diversity, and some decks are consistent enough that the extra cards don't make a significant difference.

[@malcolmdarke5299]

The repetitive "the graveyard is a super-useful resource" theme running through this video is a major difference to Magic the Gathering. MtG does allow players to use the graveyard as a resource (to the point that there's an entire deck archetype based around using the graveyard to get creatures onto the battlefield, Reanimator), but there's also sufficient recognition of graveyard-as-resource by the designers that there are a bunch of cards that exile cards from your opponent's graveyard, as well as a few cards that restrict graveyard interactions that can be used in any deck, such as Grafdigger's Cage. There's also the fact that heavy graveyard interaction is basically locked to black and green for creatures, blue and red for sorceries and instants, white for enchantments and blue for artifacts, which heavily restricts the utility of dropping cards into your graveyard. MtG does still have solid graveyard and discard interaction effects, to the point that a card called One with Nothing, that has the effect "Discard your hand", is actually possible to build decks around, but dumping cards into the graveyard is nowhere near as potent as it is in YGO.

[@jml6263]

It blows my mind how often cards would be totally fine if they were just given a once per turn clause and yet Konami still seems unable to do it 75% of the time

[@Culebrunch]

Pro duelists when a card has a draw effect: 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@pszsmile3271]

I don't even know how to play Yu-Gi-Oh

[@yuumijungle548]

funfact as a kid i bought one single spell ruler pack and pulled ultra rare Delinquent Duo, since it wasnt a flashy monster i thought it was bad and traded it away, i was so bad xD

[@MadMothz]

One thing to note about Last Will. When the card was released, it was assumed that you could special summon more than one monster if you sent multiple monsters to the graveyard. This caused a degenerate FTK with cannon soldier back in the early days of the OCG. They erratad it later on so that you can only use the effect once, however it still was a massive headache for judges.

[@plux6623]

New Master Rule: Hard Once per Turn on all Card names. That would fix so many cards.

[@mortwastaken]

I know Jack shit about yugioh but this video is gonna knock me to sleep quick

[@ricardopjproductions]

Zoodiac barrage isn't on the list despite been banned

[@TheDuelLogs]

It is in there, but only in the drident update section.

[@HI42YT]

As a pokemon tcg player who knows nothing about how to play Yu-Gi-Oh but still watches videos like these, i find it absolutely funny how game breaking drawing 1 card is

[@breawycker]

Deliquent Duo was a part of a combo called the Trinity which was delinquent duo, confiscation, and forceful sentry which if you had all three in your hand then you could force your opponent to start with one card if you went first. Theres another Trinity which is duo, pot of greed, and graceful charity which were three cards that gave you massive card advantage if you use all three

[@easysquisher1799]

wait this ain't world of warcraft

[@stefankecina]

I'm confused as well lol he sounds like hirumaredx