Marik's Top 10 Most IMPORTANT Cards

[@TheDuelLogs]

Just a note, we might still cover more DM era characters in the future.

[@אביצאלי-כ8ז]

cool

[@Masahane]

As someone who tried a legendary ocean deck back in the day, I'd like a Mako video so I can find out how bad my deck was

[@lucasthehumanity8240]

You should do this for every important character up to vrains

[@Petsinwinter2]

I'm hoping to see top 10 important cards of one-off duelists of each arc, too.

[@אביצאלי-כ8ז]

@@Petsinwinter2 like who?

[@SystemYTP]

Nightmare Steelcage is great if you want to avoid your opponent’s Weather Report

[@tenkenroo]

Truth right there.

[@joshuabittar]

😂

[@Crowbar1225]

What is a Weather Report?

[@rynobehnke8289]

​@@Crowbar1225 a really old Monster Card that I believe destroys swords of revealing light

[@Crowbar1225]

@@rynobehnke8289 Oh

[@brandoncastellano1858]

Hiru busting out his own version of the summoning chant for Ra was unexpected and awesome. Love this channel.

[@Ruby_Eve]

I wanna try it next time I'm gonna bust out Ra

[@Trekkie46]

"Revival Jam represented one of the themes of Marik's deck really well." Me: That Marik is a slimeball? "Immortality" Me: Ugh, so close!

[@LoyalWackGamer]

Jij bent sws Nederlands 😂😂

[@MichaelJones-rz5sw]

15:15 Fun fact: Seto in the manga saved Joey by dropping the key down to him in the water.

[@CrnaStrela]

And he was holding the key long enough and only dropping it once he think it is the limit of his lung. Kaiba is so damn extra if it's about him lmao.

[@DarkEclipse23]

@@CrnaStrela not gonna lie. With how annoying and Hypocritical Joey is/was I would’ve done the same as Kaiba.

[@arthropod-doctor]

​@@DarkEclipse23He's a lot more annoying in the English dub. Katsuya Jonouchi is more honorable than Joey Wheeler.

[@Abysalss]

@@arthropod-doctornah Joey wheeler is way cooler,

[@Drums_of_Liberation]

​@@DarkEclipse23Joey had every right to be the way he was to Kaiba. Why dies everyone just act like Death T never happened or they fact that Kaiba's little psycho brother poisoned him.

[@clydedavis3623]

Joey's interaction with the anime lava golem is why the red eyes archetype fusion spell can only summon the one monster to the field. Lava golem proof if you only have 1 monster!

[@mayborneflower]

I’d like to see Yubel’s cards in light of their recent retrains and modern support.

[@themantyf1116]

"And Yubel's most important card is... themselves."

[@andrianbradley1799]

I want see that too I'm trying build deck on duel links on her

[@archeologism8634]

In MD, before tears got restricted into oblivion, Egyptian god slime and muddragon of the swamp was a fun duo to bring out. Not that it actually protected against things like swordsouls or branded, but it pretty much solved the mirror.

[@Tibainium]

Basically Marik's most important cards are the ones that made his enemies suffer the most

[@TheBonecrusherz]

Considering his deck was created to make his opponent suffer, yes.

[@StareachValcin]

Yami Marik didn't use the immortal phoenix mode against Yami Bakura. He actually used the ability to transfer all of his life points into the Winged Dragon of Ra's attack points.

[@buchiklop110]

In Duel Links, Yami Marik has a Skill that essentially gives him all of Ra's missing abilities, most notably the "Gain the attack of the monsters used to Tribute Summon Ra" effect.

[@Clonekiller66]

I feel like Rex & Weevil should be looked into as well before going to GX. They're fairly important reoccurring characters.

[@nine_tails137]

That would be nice to see. Although I get the feeling those 2 didn't get enough screen time duels to make their own lists?(I'd love to be proven wrong)

[@jj12343211]

Those two and 'important' in the same sentence does not usually happen...

[@TheAzulmagia]

@@nine_tails137 Weevil probably did, but Rex is so much of a jobber with bad cards that I don't even know what youd'd put on his list.

[@nine_tails137]

@@TheAzulmagia Honestly, the only times I saw those two duel was as follows: Weevil twice against Yugi, and once against Joey, and Rex was twice against Joey. And that's it. Also, I don't recall a lot of "good" dinosaur cards(I use air quotes on that for a reason)

[@TheAzulmagia]

@@nine_tails137 We also see the tail-end of Weevil's duel against Rex. I'd say Weevil at least has some semi-decent cards like Insect Barrier, Multiplication of Ants, Skull-Mark Ladybug, Flying Kamakiri #1, DNA Surgery, etc. Rex has basically nothing.

[@alejandrotevez6302]

Im surprised that he didnt make a Mega Ultra Chicken joke :(

[@ib5131]

We're gonna need Marik & Bakura (competitive/broken) retrains for the culture

[@MasterPeaceTrueGlue-EatingKing]

Egyptian God Slime can also be made by tributing Metal Reflect Slime. I found good use of it in stun decks in MD, especially with Banisher of the Radiance.

[@cyprusmiraque]

I'd love to see a series on ten newer cards that classic characters would use! For example, top 10 modern cards Bandit Keith would use.

[@Kenichi44-v6n]

Orcust

[@cyprusmiraque]

@@Kenichi44-v6n my first instinct was the Gun Dragon archetype woth their coin flip effects

[@Kenichi44-v6n]

@@cyprusmiraque maybe I just said orcust because everyone played him with orcust in duel links

[@cyprusmiraque]

@@Kenichi44-v6n ahhh. Honestly I didn't even know orcust was in duel links yet. I haven't played since the pendulum era, and I just play heroes

[@Kenichi44-v6n]

@@cyprusmiraque it's pretty annoying at the moment. I have 5 months facing orcusts and I'm tired.

[@YuuSHiiiN]

I still remember playground Yugioh times when my friend tried to burn me to 0 LP with Lava Golem and Gravity Bind. I drew a heavy storm the next turn, cleared all his back row, then used his own Lava Golem to attack him directly to win, lol

[@dinosore_rs]

Recess YuGiOh was best YuGiOh. I once used Honest to damage my opponent friend twice in one duel, the second time for game, by Monster Reborn’ing it then using its self bounce effect, after which he just forgot I had it back in my hand and attacked, damaging himself for the loss.

[@dragonstouch1042]

Please tell me at least one of you referenced the heart of the cards when you did that

[@snailracer4082]

15:14 Fun fact: In the manga, *Kaiba* was the one who saved Joey from drowning! The former dropped the key into the water to let the latter free himself. Needless to say, manga Joey has not happy when he discovered who save him. In any case, it is cool to see manga Kaiba acknowledge Joey in a crucial moment!

[@Drums_of_Liberation]

Yeah but only after he toyed with the idea of letting Joey drown despite the fact that Joey has every right to feed feed him and Mokuba concrete for the times they bother tried to murder him in the past.

[@guitarbass22]

#2: Monster Reborn was limited in Duel Monsters (the game within the show), too, which is why Marik could only use 1 copy of it.

[@zerocopy8407]

I was disappointed when I saw how nerfed revival jam was in real life

[@mdudegamer]

I'm very interested in what the top 10 list for Jaden looks like, given his vast arsenal of heroes.

[@ianr.navahuber2195]

12:18 Imagine if they made a Mystic Mine Retrain, based around Malik's Nightmare Steelcage 16:53 If they gave support to Malik's strategy (the one focused on the Slimes to Summon Ra), I wonder if they would get stuff focused on stall and burn damage. Something like for example: adapting Viser Des's effect so you can banished it from hand or GY as a quick effect, to negate a monster's effect, and if you negate a monster's effect on the field (or replace it so its effect becomes "at each end phase, inflict 500 LP of Damage to this card's controller"), that monster becomes unable to attack, change its battle position, or be used for the summon of a fusion, synchro, xyz, link or ritual summon. That way you can mimic , kinda, Malik's playstyle of "torture the opponent slowly" (LP damage), while he assembles the requirements for his egyptian god Maybe say it can only be tributed for the summon of a fiend or a divine-beast's monster's summon (so you can use lava golem or ra's sphere mode) 21:18 The only way I can think of to adap revival jam as a retrain (without) becoming insanly busted would be make a new jam that if it leaves the field by an opponent's card effect or battle, it can summon either a token, or the original revival jam. and that while the retrain is on the GY, you don't need to pay LP for revival jam's revival effect. and if revival jam leaves the field outside battle, you can summon the jam retrain

[@rainbowdragon168]

Makyura’s old effect was really cool since it allowed you to activate traps from your hand when its send to the grave but I guess it was changed because of how powerful of the effect was at the time.

[@SethJV]

Even today this effect would be broken af. Traps are balanced around the fact that they need to be set before being activated, meaning that traps tend to have better effects than spells.

[@rainbowdragon168]

@@SethJV Yeah that’s true

[@Amsel_616]

Mill it then play 3 Housegobling Housekeeper and Reckless Greed from hand.

[@stevenceja4706]

​@TsubasaAmsel2120 Theoretically with its pre-erata you'd be able to activate red reboot without having to pay half your life points, infinite impermanence to get its full effect without setting it first, and it would also single handedly fix the problem with Witch's strike

[@CrnaStrela]

Oh god you go imagine that in lab deck. Discard makyura with stove and suddenly all your traps on hand is live which include continuous traps.

[@Hamond1989]

Love you doing the modified the chant

[@Ethonra]

While my favorite thing about Marik is how he brought the insanity to the show, it is a shame he focused more on torturing to death his foes instead of out-dueling them. He is my second favorite Yu-Gi-Oh villian ever, his and Ra's English Version themes are so very good. Despite all that, he is beaten out by Yubel, my absolute favorite. Years ago in Nightmare Troubadour, I Dueled Marik countless times until he gave me The Winged Dragon Ra. That was so fun getting to summon amd use it...I miss that game... Lastly looking forward to Jaden's, Jesse's, and Yubel's videos.

[@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

24:17 Idea for some Ra support, because with half a decks worth of individual cards behind it it’s a shame only sphere mode sees consistent play: _Disciple Of The Sun_ (LIGHT) Level 3 Spellcaster/Effect _Once per turn, (Quick Effect): If you activate a card or effect that mentions “The Winged Dragon of Ra” in it’s name or text; You can special summon this card this card from your hand or GY. You gain LP equal to any increase or decrease in your opponent’s LP. Once per turn (Quick Effect): You can either tribute 3 cards from your hand or field OR reveal 1 DIVINE monster in your hand: Add 1 card from your deck or GY to your hand that mentions “The Winged Dragon Of Ra” in it’s name or text, then Apply the following effects until the end phase of your next turn:_ ⚪️You can normal summon/set twice per turn, not just once. ⚪️You can normal summon/set monsters with 1 less tribute. ⚪️Monsters you control with 3000 or more total ATK/DEF count as 3 tributes for the normal summon of your level 10 monsters. ATK/1500 DEF/1500

[@StrifeSoul990]

I will forever love that Marik had zero respect for Joey and so he wanted to make him hurt and suffer but Joey would have won if he was able to declare an attack because you never underestimate your opponent

[@matteste]

Regarding the ban on burn cards, from what I remember, it seemed more to be a case of all pure burn cards being banned for some reason rather than them being powerful. My guess is that Kaiba thought they encouraged boring play.

[@Warrior_of_Fire]

I don't know if it's because he thought they would cause boring play, but yes, all pure burn cards were banned in Battle City. It's also an interesting note that even if they weren't, one additional Battle City rule would have kept players from just spamming the same burn card if they managed to get all three copies in hand at once, as Kaiba placed a hard once per turn on all spells (i.e. you could still activate multiple spells in one turn, but they must all have different names).

[@Drums_of_Liberation]

At least it's something other than Kaiba slapping his unhealthy dragon fetish in your face constantly lol

[@mystery8820]

Good guess... but the real reason was because of the safety reasons. Experiencing pain from direct attacks is okay, but because Duel Disks are still being tested in this tourney, they haven't worked out the kinks on burn cards. The burn aftereffects can last past the actual game where it can he scarring. Hence why burn cards are illegal in the tourney.

[@CloudSephirothZack]

To be fair, I know they were not as big as the ones covered but I would say that Mako Tsunami and Weevil Underwood had interesting cards too for a top like this one, Rex Raptor a bit less, though, but maybe...?

[@ianr.navahuber2195]

22:12 Is kinda funny how this card, even in the anime, was an staple, yet Malik was the first one to make the most of it 24:11 Unexpected chant 26:46 It is kinda ironic that Ra's most used way of play is mimicking Lava Golem's effect. the only thing missing is Sphere Mode inflicting Effect damage (or worse, making you Pay LP)

[@arutemu39]

Lava Golem is actually stronger in the Anime. You need only 6 activations to reduce 4000 LP to 0 with 700 damage, but it takes 8 activations to reduce 8000 LP to 0 with 1000 damage.

[@sandvicheatfresh]

how to counter mariks shadow games "you feel the pain/damage your monsters take": play a machine deck or a deck that revolves around inanimate objects

[@somerandomfan2096]

Ideas For Top 10s Videos Top 10 Gaia Cards, Buster Blader Cards, Ancient Gear Cards, Cyber Dragon Cards, Ojama Cards, Junk Cards, Synchron Cards, Stardust Cards, Synchro Warrior Cards and Red Dragon Archfiend Cards

[@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

16:28 idea for an equip-focused retrain of this card: _Viser Malice_ Level 4 Fiend/Effect _(Quick Effect) If a monster is summoned face-up: You can equip this card to the summoned monster. Monsters equipped with this card cannot attack, and have their effects negated. During the end of every phase, the ATK/DEF of monsters’s equipped with this card is decreased by 200. If the equipped monster’s ATK or DEF is 0 during the end phase; banish it, then return this card to your hand._ ATK/500 DEF/1200

[@emreekinci4258]

Love how he did the summoning chant of Ra like reading an essay

[@acaldwell64]

Duel Logs version of the Winged Dragon of Ra chant was everything.

[@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

0:39 Idea for an Zera The Mant retrain: _Zera Archfiend_ (DARK) Level 8 Fiend/Ritual/Effect _You can ritual summon this card with “Contract with the Abyss”. If this card is ritual summoned: You can add 1 “Zera” card to your hand (from your field, deck or GY). “Zera” monsters you control cannot be destroyed by battle or card effects while this card is face-up on the field. If a “Zera” monster you control destroys a monster by battle or inflicts battle damage; You can either add to your hand or send to your GY (from your deck) 1 Warrior, Fiend, Fairy or Zombie monster._ ATK/2800 DEF/2300

[@MrMarios3000]

Yes please we need Zera support, he is my favorite ritual ever since the anime aired in TV, along with The Masked Beast

[@Sasuke416]

Gotta give you props for your version of the Ra chant! Very clever!

[@ScrambledAndBenedict]

Holy heck, that little picture of Strings in the corner at 11:28? That's what the burrito sees when it's in my microwave hahaha

[@Luna-Starfrost]

"For the most part, Marik dominated the 3rd rate duelist." Wow, speaking of Lava Golem, the burn ... xD

[@sokdowz2]

From 3:02 to 3:45 literally felt like an ad and I was waiting for you to say "this video is sponser by"

[@scotts.7497]

Excellent design in incorporating a DuelingLogs Ra Chant into the video. I would love to see you cover some of Bastion Massawa's cards from the Yugioh GX Series.

[@roamingnyiad]

Quite the interesting variety of monsters picked for this list, even if #1 wasn't very surprising. I'm just surprised Zera the Mant made #10, considering Marik never directly used the card at all NOR was he shown owning it at any point. Since Marik is likely the last DM-era character to have truly iconic cards, moving onto GX-era chars makes the most sense to me. Maybe start with Jaden if you're going to do that.

[@nine_tails137]

So, I guess we're skipping minor duelists like Weevil Underwood, Rex Raptor, Maiko Tsunami, Bones, and Bandit Kieth?

[@phillipwhite7850]

Yeah I think if you are including zera-tribute to the doomed or raigeki should make this list

[@RenlinkMorales]

would be cool Konami give marik some upgrade cards and they are illusion type monster since Marik has that eye symbol forehead both pegasus and Marik have in common the illusion eye

[@Deathmare235]

The illusion eye is the basics millennium symbol, even the ring and puzzle have it

[@D-Havoc]

Marik's monsters range from Fiend to Aqua. Not really Illusion type.

[@gravekeepersven82]

That would be peagasus

[@JoyBoy0606]

That chant was fantastic

[@DanTheMan8819]

Love the idea of ranking the top 10 most important cards for characters. I would love to see top 10's for characters from GX and 5D's, if you get the chance.

[@clownplayer7265]

"You can often beat expensive meta with cheap cards." Team Taiyou from 5D also tried something like that in-universe.

[@gamer-san8923]

As a kid, I've always thought that Marik was the end boss of the anime. He's so evil and sadistic that he really scared me.

[@LordRumshi]

Marik’s personal deck certainly reflected his twisted desire to make his opponents suffer, when he brought forth a shadow duel, ie Lava Golem burning the opponent with damage, plasma eel electrocuting his opponent’s monster, and of course whenever the Winged Dragon of Ra was summoned to use phoenix mode to defeat his opponent in one feel swoop. Along with Revival Jam/Egyptian god slime+jam defender and nightmare steel cage to stall so Marik could summon an Egyptian god card to the field.

[@Nougatbars]

Yo. That custom summoning chant for the Winged Dragon of Ra was awesome!

[@Netherwolf6100]

I guess for GX, the big ones are Judai/Jaden, Yubel, Cyrus, Alexis, Chazz, Ed/Astor, Jessie, Zane, Darkness, and Sartorius are the ones that come to mind.

[@Dominator150395]

22:34 I can't believe that there's a Yu-Gi-Oh character with the _unique_ ability to read the card text. This anime really was ahead of its time.

[@Auriorium]

Ah Lava Golem, the "Wait you can do that" interaction with Return from the Different Dimension. Yes my 2 lava golems that I used to summon Dark Necrofear are on my side of the board and attacking you.

[@StardustSynchron]

Just started the video, but I'm going to guess Sphere Mode is #1

[@StardustSynchron]

He's definitely my favorite next to Kaiba for the OG series:)

[@Erictime4fun]

OK using the Egyptian god chant for your number one pic is absolutely hilarious. Thank you.

[@jasv49]

Maybe could've also mentioned another TCG form of Ra, a pretty cool take on its anime phoenix form - Immortal Phoenix: ATK 4000 / DEF 4000 Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned by its own effect. If "The Winged Dragon of Ra" is sent from the field to your GY while this card is in your GY: Special Summon this card. Cards and effects cannot be activated in response to this effect's activation. This card is unaffected by other cards' effects. You can pay 1000 LP; send 1 monster on the field to the GY. Once per turn, during the End Phase: Send this card to the GY, and if you do, Special Summon 1 "The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode" from your hand, Deck, or GY, ignoring its Summoning conditions.

[@yamitommy4015]

Love your version of Ra's Summoning Chant lol.

[@rexorchid9745]

Yami Marik's play style in a nutshell: Yami Marik: Screw you in particular, this is PERSONAL. Opponent: What do you mean? I just met you 10 seconds ago for this duel.

[@nosfonader8792]

What made Lava Golem a true threat was it's burn damage combos. LG delt 1000 points per turn and people loved using one or two Nightmare Wheel cards on it. Nightmare Wheel deals 500 burn damage per turn so two dealt 1000 points. Doing this delt 2000 burn damage per turn and could potentially win you the game. That combo was a menace to deal with back in the day. I doubt it would work at all these days.

[@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

18:53 Idea for a “Revival Jam” Retrain: _Revival Slime_ (WATER) Level 4 Aqua/Effect _If this card is banished or sent to the GY by an opponent’s card or effect: You can pay 1000 LP; Special Summon it in Defense position next phase. Once per turn (Quick Effect): You can shuffle this card that is banished or in your GY into your deck: add to your hand or special summon 1 “Slime”, “Jam” or DIVINE monster from your GY._ ATK/500 DEF/1500

[@voltingmaster5458]

Love the way you introduced #1.

[@kwalityhunter]

We need a Zane video, after all cyber dragon is objectively the most kick ass archetype as declared by god.

[@coherentramblings7326]

“The fact that it doesn’t have an effect makes it ineffective-“ Fair enough

[@jeandarkaov7171]

Some more Top 10 ideas (but I'm not sure if it's already been done): -Best cards from bad archetypes -Worst cards from good archetypes -Best Scale 0 Pendulum Cards (one list each all the way to Scale 13, if possible, since you have made lists for monsters with Levels, Ranks, and Link Ratings) Oh, and this might be too much, but what about the entire Duel Terminal lore for The Unknown Side of Yu-Gi-Oh? That very long story covered a lot of archetypes (unlike the Visas, Closed World, and World Legacy storylines) and I enjoyed reading all of it in Yugipedia

[@SorenDaein]

Interesting idea to paraphrase the "Winged Dragon of Ra" chant when going into the card itself. The original chant recited by the Pharoah Atem is "Almighty protector of the Sun and Sky, I beg of thee please heed my cry. Transform thyself from Orb of Light and bring me victory in this fight. I beseech thee, grace our humble game, but first I shall call out thy name, Winged Dragon of Ra!"

[@dnd1016]

pretty late but this holds up Neko Mane King was used as Anti Tearizu because Neko Mane King stopped their field mid combo and the one Penguin monster could turn it making it into a gamble for the Tear player. Mushroom Man #2 was used to… block Kashtira since they all relied on summoning with their own effects and were all too high to be summoned normally.

[@Ramona122003]

It should be noted that Meteor of Destruction had no LF cost. It was a free 1000 burn card in tournament with 4000 LP. It was banned in Battle City since Kaiba banned all cards that could inflict damage directly or destroy a monster.

[@maxium0899]

A fun April Fool's Day video would be the return of this series staring Tristan

[@joeygathe5453]

Skipped left arm offering 🤔

[@DeathTheKid4]

Yessss so you're not stopping at Duel Monsters. GX will be so hype.

[@scottsocia7828]

Egyptian God Slime actually works really well in tear and becomes a massive problem when you have to out it first to deal with the other cards

[@Sweetlesishere]

6:28 but it's a warrior card...?

[@Warrior_of_Fire]

A good thing to note regarding Meteor of Destruction (as well as other spells that just burn the opponent) in the anime is that it was banned by Kaiba BECAUSE is was a direct burn card. Sure, there's the side effect that allows you to force an opponent's monster to attack you, but aside from Joey using that to force a tie to save Yugi, why would you EVER use that second effect? The only reason other burn cards were legal is due to reasons such as Lava Golem getting summoned to the opponent's field (and being directly comparable to Blue-Eyes and Black Luster Soldier stat-wise), thus allowing them to use it against you if you don't have any protection.

[@Meanlucario]

It only makes sense to depict stall burn through a sadist like Merik. Also, if I remember the sub correctly, Seto banned burned cards because they were unsportmen to use moreso than they were strong.

[@shadotarot]

I was so hyped for Makyurya being off the banlist; it was one heck of a handtrap... But then they errata'd it into a field-to-gy effect O_O

[@clownplayer7265]

Certainly lost its competitive edge. Though he could be somewhat usable in a niche Link strategy.

[@thestaubmob6877]

"He wasnt acting like his usual self" Kieth: ø_ø ' '

[@TheRatW1zard]

I'd love to see one of these kind of videos for The Chazz

[@muhammadrizki2696]

Since Millenium Rod Replica is now being sold, I wonder if we finally can play with Shadow Game rule and use these cards for competitive

[@exoticbutters2781]

TheDuelLogs: Makyura was just a small part of Marik's fiend army. Makyura: but I'm a warrior 👁👄👁

[@nikolasdenicola2005]

Egyptian god slime is such a cool card, that whole rage of ra set was pretty awesome

[@themil0823]

When this series started i thought that you'd get to Jack be the time the new structure deck comes but now I'm not sure if that video will come before December

[@havok9525]

What about top 5 or 10 of the strongest decks if you could use banned cards Great vid as always logs, I know you loved role-playing as Marik chanting at the end lmao

[@shermanater13]

I love these videos they're awesome I hope you put them in a stand alone playlist

[@777omegaxis]

Loved the chant for the top 1

[@Matt_Omega_95]

A play I do against lava Golem is, they bring it out, play creature swap and give it to them. It then really depends on damage nullifiers like magic cylinder and other cards

[@Abdulkicksass454]

Ok aside from the list, the chant was pretty dope.

[@williamdrum9899]

Now that I think about it, would Makyura still be fair if you could activate more than one trap but it couldn't have the same name as one you activated this turn?

[@Varooooooom]

Doubt it. Makyura once got me an unofficial 0TK (I won on my opponent’s first turn; Card Destruction triggered it) in an Exodia turbo deck back in 2008, because of all of the draw traps in my deck. I assume there have been more printed since then.

[@CrnaStrela]

No, there are better traps these days and ability to turn them into essentially spell is going to be game breakingly strong. Imagine getting droll locked on first turn or grave digger trap hole'd or that suddenly your solemn in hand allowed you to play through multiple hand traps. Traps gotten too much support already, they shouldn't get more.

[@williamdrum9899]

@@CrnaStrela Weird, traps seem to occupy this limbo of "they're too slow except they're not"

[@michaelrizka]

Back then, you can fusion summon Egyptian God Slime using Tear name into a link zone Spight Elf points to, it will protect your entire monster zone from being targeted which is quite OP in the Tear version that I piloted

[@Y0sh1no5am]

First Yugi hands Exodia to Weevil, and now he handing his puzzle to Bandit Keith. Yami Yugi should just had interfered and stopped Yugi for being such a fool. Soon he going give out his Slifer to a strange guy in an alley. Or wait he let Weevil and Rex steal all the millennium items. o3o and he also let his Egyptian god cards to get stolen as well. He just keep on getting stolen.

[@Robbbbinator]

Yes looking forward for the GX characters. Do Jaden, Amnael, Bastion and Syrus of course :D

[@DamianQualshy]

In Duel Links I liked to use Lava Golem + Mask of the Accursed Unfortunately people easily either got rid of the equip or tributed the golem 💀

[@CD-Gaming]

I run Metal Reflect Slime & Egyptian God Slime in both my Sacred Beast and King Tiger Decks on Master Duel, the former also in real life! In the case of the former, I use it as an additional means to get Continuous Traps into the Graveyard to power up Uria, but in both cases it's to get out a 3000 ATK monster who not only has destruction protection, but also redirects attacks, mainly away from the kitty (and if you can think of a better reason, I'd love to hear it!)! I also run Sphere Mode in my Kaiju Deck, alongside Lava Golem, I don't think I need to explain the thinking there, but I also run one Ra, cuz he'll be sticking around with 4000 ATK! I mean, hey, I've done something right, that Deck got me up to Platinum, so! Twice! (That said, Godzilla is pretty much the reason I got into the whole Japanese Monster stuff in the first place, such as Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokémon, so... And I have a playset of a lot of the Kaiju cards in real life!)

[@RobertLydonReviews]

Your version of Ra’s chant i truly hope go down in Yugioh’s history 😂

[@ardianhesa4340]

The joey vs yugi battle was so weird for me because in the manga Kaiba was the one that cheekily saved him by dropping the key into the water lel

[@ryohei9027]

Gx next, the hype is real ! That's when i discovered yugioh and honestly there's so many interesting characters that needs to have a list like this. This is hands down the coolest era of yugioh imo. So many different themes, a more casual setup with twists that went a bit too far sometimes, so many cool designs ... And most importantly, crystal beasts ! :D

[@invencible373875559]

there are stil some character in the original yugioh but yeah, gx is next

[@nine_tails137]

@@invencible373875559 My only guess for not including them, is due to lack of screen time? Still, it would be nice to see Weevil, Rex, Maiko, Bones, and Kieth get their own lists.

[@aadipdip1326]

ah nostalgic... last time my brother still played yugioh she used "Card of Safe Return" along with "Dark Word".... it was hell...

[@aznpikachu215]

Maybe include the other duelists as well, Weevil, Rex, Ishizu, Rafael, etc.

[@pelotosho1049]

Really would love to see Tea's best cards 👀

[@edyoung2621]

Number one either shining friendship or dark magician girl

[@RedMage8BT]

Same, she was my first Duel Links avatar and I always liked how she used cute fairies in a game full of fierce monsters and spellcasters

[@Doceli-dg3cn]

I say shining friendship personally although dark magician girl is perfect for Téa

[@nine_tails137]

Since you'll be moving on to GX, I guess that means minor characters like Weevil Underwood, Rex Raptor, Maiko Tsunami, Bones, and Bandit Kieth don't have enough content for their own top 10 lists? As for Marik's cards, I was really upset that Revival Jam got a life point cost to bring it back, where as the anime version had no cost. Also, I prefer pre-errata Makyura, since the new effect feels too restricted.

[@dreametching4052]

In duel links, lava golem has been nerfed a bit. I use it a lot and the burn effect these days is only 500 damage. Pair that with owners seal and you have a 3000atk beat stick that the opponent paid for (though you pay 500 life per turn)