Top 10 Best Normal Monsters in YuGiOh

Now since normal monsters on their own are kind of bad, and none of their stats really matter very much for them to see play based on their own merits, the way I'll be determining the cards for this list, is simply if they've seen play in competitive meta-decks that have top events, which is a really good unit of measurement for deciding which of these are actually good or not.
-The List-
10- (The 4 Forbidden One Cards) -
9- Blue-eyes White Dragon
8- Galaxy Serpent
7- Chosen by the world Chalice
6- Hunter dragon
5- Megalosmasher X
4- Dragonpit Magician
3- Master Pendulum, the dracoslayer
2- Dark Magician
1- Mystical Shine Ball
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[@ace-trainer-aj]

Sees Blue-Eyes and Dark Magician but not Red-Eyes. Joey must really be a third rate duelist with a fourth rate deck.

[@rleor5694]

Lol

[@jejejulietta1279]

hahahahah

[@Drakorre]

The absence of Garnet kinda surprised me

[@maskkid]

Then Kaiba realizes that both of their aces are everywhere in Duel Links

[@dimityrlefterov4877]

HE is

[@MATomaso]

I'm 24 and haven't played yugioh since i was 13 but still enjoy these videos

[@Doceli-dg3cn]

I'm 19 and came back to yugioh ever since I stopped playing when I was in 7th grade so were kinda on the same boat

[@adamv281]

Same man. I got Legacy of the Duelist on switch and have been having a lot of fun with my buddies. Great way to get back into it

[@Cronoro]

Bruh! Gahahahah we all do

[@realzachfluke1]

Adam V I wholeheartedly agree. I hadn’t played since I was a kid (WELL before even synchro monsters existed), and I stumbled upon this channel a few months ago and it sparked my interest again. So I got the switch game, just like you, and the campaign really helped bring me up to speed with all of the modern rules/summoning mechanics.

[@pedjaperic4147]

I personally don't like it now. Everything OTKs. Last thing I could bare was XYZs.

[@palaceknight8644]

Top 10 worst nerfed versions of good cards? Like, Mystical wind typhoon, which is just worse mystical space typhoon.

[@redblood421]

I like your idea. But because it a trap it can be use in your hand. So like in the pepe format it was a main deck/side deck. Also for like pendulum deck it does help stop anti-spell. But there are cards that were made because of banlist. Like lightning vortex.

[@hc9kt367]

@@redblood421 kinda... but even lightning vortex has its own worse version in the form of Special Hurricane

[@redblood421]

@@hc9kt367 my point was typhoon does have it place unlike the MST card that have to chain link 3. Or the one to pay 500 to destroy a faceup.

[@freman007]

Unending Nightmare. The bane of Pendulum decks.

[@PhuckedUpPhilosophy]

redblood421 are you thinking of Typhoon the trap card/hand trap ? that card is amazing and sees side deck play all the time. OP is talking about the really crappy quick play spell not the amazing handtrap lol

[@yat282]

Idk, Exodia decks "playing solitaire with themselves" seems very much in line with modern yu-gi-oh meta decks

[@Nobody-su9km]

i honestly took that comment of him with a little bit of personal salt from his part cause every single meta deck consists exactly on that, stall your oponent until you reach your win condition and then proceed to win the duel so his comment made 0 to no sense in that regard, i don't honestly feel like exodia is unhealthy in any way.

[@hopelesslydull7588]

@@Nobody-su9km exodia is unhealthy specifically because of the reasons he gave. It's just also true that the current meta of Yu-Gi-Oh is very often really unhealthy.

[@exantiuse497]

His reasoning for why Exodia cards are limited is just flat out wrong. They are limited for lore reasons, since Exodia is supposed to be this legendary monster and there's only one of him so Konami didn't want people to include 3 copies of him in their decks. MAYBE having 3 copies would've been problematic balance wise in the early days of the game (though I don't think so), but definitely not today. In fact even if he was unlimited including 3 copies of each card would be a terrible idea since the individual pieces are dead cards and including 15 dead cards instead of actual useful cards that allow you to draw your combo pieces makes the deck inconsistent to the point of uselessness. Drawing 3+ pieces in your opening hand would not be terrible unlikely and would likely instantly cost you the game. Exodia is absolutely not limited for balance reasons, Exodia decks aren't meta, let alone broken, nor would they be if he was unlimited

[@Nobody-su9km]

@@hopelesslydull7588 judging by that logic the game is unhealthy and therefore pointless, but from a meta perspective that's just yugioh nowadays and his complains are still unjustified within the meta.

[@hopelesslydull7588]

@@Nobody-su9km If my card game I invent tends towards turtling and building strong defenses in a negative way, the game isn't broken and pointless to play just because of that. There are ways to tweak it and try to make other styles of play viable in the meta. If a specific set of cards make it super easy to turtle and build defenses in a truly bad way that by design is unfun to play against, that's broken and shouldn't be played. There's an important difference.

[@benpelczynski6964]

Top 10 cards with useless effects (i.e. cards with really good effects that also have effects that are bad or never used, like how Macro Cosmos lets you summon Helios - The Primordial Sun)

[@spyro2002]

I vote black rose dragon for that list

[@brianaguilar8283]

SprotossP that second effect is for pure plant decks

[@brianaguilar8283]

Macro Cosmos is Helios support

[@Drakorre]

How is that a useless effect?it's literally a free resource

[@spyro2002]

@@brianaguilar8283 duh... And even them don't use it so it still apply

[@toolazyforaname]

“Playing solitare with themselves” 😂😂😂😂

[@toolazyforaname]

Imperial Panther True dat

[@Zhyro00]

@Imperial Panther nope, ygo is still pretty interactive, its just that the power level has gone waaay up, we havent had a coin toss format since full power spyral.

[@fallenshaw5659]

Still even with playing solitare with themselves exodia decks can actually FTW which is arguebly better than OTW

[@Maruhodo]

@@fallenshaw5659 otk ftk you meant 😂

[@samcarpenter7104]

Every 60 seconds in Africa a minute passes.

[@--Moonie--]

You forgot to give an honorable mention to Frog the Jam!

[@CordyMcDonald]

Moonie It’s so powerful that other cards have to specifically restrict its use!

[@GenesicShinZyraelKai]

Top 10 Best Normal Monsters in YuGiOh, except "Frog the Jam"

[@pablomledezma8730]

Slime Toad nowadays

[@willemgloudemans1442]

Except "Frog the Jam"

[@ThatPazuzu]

I still think frog the jam shouldn't have been mentioned in any other frog card text. If you can build a frog deck that really takes advantage of Mr The Jam, you deserve it

[@GunnarWahl]

Giga Gagagigo was a pretty popular normal for a while as it was a 5 star water monster with 2450 attack, and when "A Legendary Ocean" was on the field, he became a 4 star 2650. A pretty damn strong card for no summon requirement.

[@polocatfan]

it now sees play again with the umi support

[@Idkwhoiam1400]

yup i regularly abuse this in yugioh gx duel academy on the gba lmaooo i rarely ever lose to anyone

[@Mekartur]

A little more information: Galaxy Serpent is also used because it can be discarded with Cards of Consonance. Hunter Dragon was used a lot with Cyberdark years ago, for being the strongest level 3 or lower dragon-type monsters. Megalomasher X is actually used a lot in a rogue deck with Phantasm Spirals, even more than in pure Dinosaur decks.

[@mrevilducky]

Counterpoint: Cards of consonance was rarely used in dragon link decks that used Draconet as a starter. Cyberdark decks were garbage That's a fair point about Megalo however.

[@nelsonthen884]

I despise the way normal monsters are treated. ;-; They are the foundation of the game itself, show them some respect;

[@MasterArchfiend]

Even Rush Duels has effect monsters as the boss monsters. The normal monsters are just there to be tribute fodder for you to finish your opponent of with Sevens Road Magician or some other effect monster. The Rush version of Blue-Eyes White Dragon is limited to one per deck so you can't even rely on that for a boss much.

[@ianr.navahuber2195]

@@MasterArchfiend i wish there were borken effects fr support for normal monsters or geminis. like a Gemini monster when once gemini summoned lets you draw 2 or 3 cards. or a field spell that (soft) once per turn lets you draw 2 cards if you have a normal summoned level 7 or higher normal monster

[@MasterArchfiend]

@@ianr.navahuber2195 The Gemini stuff in SR Warrior's Strike was pretty good, but not enough to be competitive and it's already been dropped in favor of the Flame Noble Knight theme to better support the FIRE Warrior cards. Gemini decks have a lot of pretty decent support, like Catalyst Field, but it's just not enough to even make them a slightly decent rouge deck from what I have seen. There was a pretty decent Normal Pendulum deck that used Rescue Rabbit to get a bunch of Xyz plays, but it died with the current Master Rules.

[@jshtng78]

Could you suggest a way to make a normal monster relevant in the game outside of being used as fodder for a summon or supporting effect?

[@Straswa]

Agreed, sad to see Normals so powercreeped nowadays.

[@ErrorShot8]

Surprised that I didn't see garnet on here

[@orchidquack]

Michael Garcia agreed

[@luisantonioarrudasoares2257]

In this moment it is completely useless since brilliant is banned, but it should still be there

[@louaidz1929]

Brilliant is banned and he is already in 2 other list duellogs made befor

[@Falzelo]

probably he doesn't want to let Hornet appear too often

[@wolfiehatesgoogle]

Garnet is going through identity crisis because he is no longer a garnet himself

[@Miyaoko_]

*“Megalosmasher X is used in True King Dino”* Phantasm Spiral: *_AM I A JOKE TO YOU?!?!?_*

[@panterelmateracker2887]

3 months later I still see this video and cry

[@NICOCLASH]

I checked out that is no longer possible to cheat out smasher X with the effect of rescue rabbit, to xyz summon into bahamut shark and use its effect to cheat out water type xyz monster directly from the extradeck (but without any xyz material when it's summoned with this method, problem solved with no°75 for example)

[@CrnaStrela]

Does Phantasm Spiral even get into topping at some point?

[@watermellonqwerty9252]

I KNOW!!!

[@darkenopsia]

Ngl phatasm spiral deck is so underrated. I use a hybrid deck made from it with cards i personally mixed it in myself and i reached plat with it

[@thehaloring90]

Seeing Dark Magician become meta feels like I've been transported to another universe

[@justindietz1338]

It's never been Meta.

[@steks6398]

@@justindietz1338 it would if red eyes dark dragoon was here

[@Corrupted]

6:58 OMEGALULsmasher

[@NeonLine]

Rupty hier 😃

[@ObviouslyDeven]

Hä, corrupted schaut Yu-Gi-Oh Meta Videos? Ich bin verwirrt.

[@NeonLine]

@@ObviouslyDeven normal Monster sind im heutigen Yugioh noch Meta? Klingt eher nach oldschool

[@leonardowickman57]

By far, the most beautiful art I've ever seen in the game.

[@sherman614]

I'm 30, and collected Yugioh cards back when they first came out, and I love watching these videos! I haven't played in 15 years, so most of these cards are new to me, and so are a lot of these rules. Funny things over noticed, it seems like most of the cards have a more anime art style, where as the first few series of cards had a much more Magic the gathering art style.

[@jirojhasuo2ndgrandcompany745]

Everything after GX became just bad meta and art wise.

[@jonanderirureta8331]

Old cards had soul and new cards are weeb and coomer bait.

[@iwannaseehowlongyoucanmakethis]

@@jonanderirureta8331 you can't say that when Dark Magician Girl, one of the main OG cards, is both a weeb AND coomer bait.

[@jcnot9712]

8:40 you somehow found a moving background that’s almost identical to that of the card to match.

[@AzelfStan]

Lmao

[@nooneknows3520]

I'm still asking for top ten number cards.

[@historystories5990]

1. Number C101: Silent Honor DARK

[@versutus2699]

A youtube channel named " TheSebto360" uploaded a top 10 number monsters :P

[@Balila_balbal_loki]

number 1 would be number 86...

[@historystories5990]

@@Balila_balbal_loki I'd disagree. Number 86 becomes good in decks that can abuse the card, otherwise it's unlikely you'll get to 5 materials

[@Balila_balbal_loki]

@@historystories5990 There isn't another number card that is viable that is on it's own a win condition except shock master. Even then Shock master stopped 1 type of cards monster, spell or traps you can still play through it in a decent deck evenly matched or any card that tributes it, is a counter measure.However number 86 has no counter play except 1 card that is inherently a brick. When you said it is unlikely to get 5 materials to abuse it that is also not true right now because of new link monsters like union carrier you can with ease get 6 materials using ANY 4 monsters in mr5 and 4 designated extra deck spaces. Which makes the card even more broken than ever before.

[@u-topic4795]

Imagine Your starting hand is 3 mystic shine ball

[@theblackx9429]

As a Herald player ik the feeling.

[@Unknown14151]

U-TOPIC 47 still can summon them tho

[@kjb5128]

White elephant gift, cards from the sky, and celestial transformation

[@Gilgamesh-em6ru]

Kind of surprised PSY-Frame Driver wasn't in this list since it's part of a requirements for a hand trap that see competitive play every once in a while depending on the format.

[@istealthfan58]

People before skipping to number 1: I bet Dark Magician will be at the top, even without Dragun. People skipping to number 1: TheDuelLogs: And at Number 1, we have Mystical Shine Ball

[@CarmsCelestia]

And I love how the prediction didn't come true and Dragun didn't have much of an impact

[@jxrizzle111]

I was looking for neos….I’m baffled he didn’t make the cut

[@Drakorre]

Top 10 spirit monsters since yata aside they have the reputation of being terrible

[@sigurdvickery3523]

Don't forget Amano-Iwato

[@nacl4988]

Amano iwato, and shinobaron rituals

[@brianaguilar8283]

You clearly know nothing about spirit monsters

[@cherrybansx7398]

tsukuyomi, asura priest were meta aratama, nikitama were rogue as r4nk spirit kinka-byo was played in lvl1 decks the pendulum spirits could ftk(though wasnt really viable) and also in ninjas casually

[@mgguerra480]

Don’t underestimate spirits because you might not know how to combo them

[@RobertoWhyyoucare]

Chosen By The World Chalice is also played because you can use Emergency Teleport with it.

[@TheDuelLogs]

Its surprisingly not though. None of the decks that use it use that card with it

[@RobertoWhyyoucare]

@@TheDuelLogs Weird. My deck certainly does, and it's helped me out a lot. My deck was also built a fairly long time ago and needs some upgrades, so that's probably the problem. I guess the ability to be E-Tele'd is just a nice bonus.

[@cherrybansx7398]

@@RobertoWhyyoucare imo e tele isnt worth it when you cant use chosen to synch for ib justiciar

[@quangduybui2181]

@@RobertoWhyyoucare if Teleport were released then it could be legit in competitve decks.

[@sushipbestdeck8995]

@@cherrybansx7398 yeah u can read it(ib) and also it's banned now tho

[@SmuggyOcelot]

“Now since normal monsters on their own are kinda bad...” Me: I sUmMoN dARk mAgIciAn aNd aTTaCk yOu DirEctly! Cimooooooo: I summon Left Leg of Exodia and attack you for game?

[@Mendoza-yi6qk]

wait that happened? I started the progression series at the beginning of the synchro era

[@SamnissArandeen]

I'd like to extend an honorable mention to Gunkan Suship Shari, a 2000ATK Normal Monster that is the lynchpin for an entire archetype that's extremely fun to play. Konami had to release a card whose primary effect is to change its own name to "Gunkan Suship Shari" specifically to give you six-of capability!

[@brianaguilar8283]

No Cosmo Queen?

[@MidnightVCoco]

IF AN EXODIA DECK BECOMES REALLY GOOD THEN THERES A PROBLEM WITH THE META GAME. This video aged like fine wine because exodia won a tournament

[@PsclDragonBorn]

Blue Eyes will forever be THE yu-gi-oh! card. This card is more than just a card. It’s childhood, memories, dreams and power. This card is so so much more.

[@mojus2890]

You're delusional. Dark magician is THE yugioh card and you don't know what you're talking about.

[@giovanni385]

"Exodia decks are bad because they consist on playing by yourself" in a card game that now presents 10 minute combo decks that leave unbreakable boards and that your opponent have to, without no exception, play hand traps with the only role of stoping the other player´s combo so they cant play by themselfs. LOL

[@Tapionski]

Exactly lol if your deck is not a FTK it sucks now days.

[@xCorvus7x]

Unbreakable? Can you not still win by simply overpowering them (such as with Gren Maju da Eiza)?

[@giovanni385]

@@xCorvus7x if that was consistent enough to win or even play that way then nobody would play the 10 minute turns decks.

[@xCorvus7x]

@@giovanni385 Fair point. I'm just unfamiliar with these unbreakable fields and not sure whether attack or normal summon negation of some sort is usually included.

[@giovanni385]

@@xCorvus7x yeah, depending of the deck you play against a few negations on the field, a few hand traps and a big boss monsters with protections. It's a Metter of counting if you have enough options to break the board or not, if the opposition deck is "top tier" then you usually don't 🤣

[@tobysmith4551]

Top 10 monsters that deal piercing damage.

[@wickederebus]

I'd bet Exarion Ubiverse gets 10 just because of Goat Control Format

[@wickederebus]

And Chaos MAX gets a spot.

[@arandominternetuser4507]

But people barely play cards in defense position

[@tobysmith4551]

@@arandominternetuser4507 Not the point of my request

[@jurxnator279]

DAMAJI ATTAI RU

[@Kilometers_KPH]

We can all agree that the middle leg of Exodia is the best Normal Monster in all of Yugioh

[@NoThankYou-qr7kz]

I’m making this in card maker now

[@silvertipstudio9622]

Dark magician has never seen competitive play. Blue eyes seen a few spots of competitive play Me:Then why isn't blue eyes in dark magicians spot?

[@mase8705]

Silvertipstudio Ok I was thinking the same thing.

[@fawfulmark2]

It's only because of how dominant Dragun has been in the OCG.

[@tylere3616]

Silvertipstudio Duel Links

[@zyrantkayl]

Dark magician is has lot of hole if you fight different deck you need mix some good card

[@CrnaStrela]

It's not the deck, it's the card itself. Now everyone and their mother put Dark Magician in their deck

[@ProjectNathaniel]

I love the idea that people don't wanna watch someone play solitaire, but are more than happy to all use one of the like, 20 decks that actually get used in the meta, most of which use the exact same cards/monsters/etc and everyone's just racing for them.

[@undernukem12]

Where's Shapesnatch? This list is just straight up wrong without it...

[@GatorRay]

He's been destroyed and the one who's shaped was snatched (The victim of the bowtie) was murdered by Rata in cold blood.

[@BmanTheChamp]

He's too good for any list.

[@Tsweeney12584]

He’s off shaping snatches. I mean snatching shapes

[@sandradee4331]

Disappointed Qliphort Scout wasn’t part of the list.

[@judai250]

No mention of Qliphort Scout?! Not even an honorable mention?! That card was so good it was even limited at one point. Something you can’t say about the other two normal pendulum monsters on this list.

[@jarrodduncan9960]

I like to think the cards he puts on-screen before the actual list are honorable mentions, like Garnet and Skull Servant. Scout was up there at one point.

[@jainsgain7789]

Top ten worst fusion monsters

[@louaidz1929]

Every weird fusion monster that you summon it with specific normal monster and it s lvl 6 or higher

[@shawnli4746]

Aqua Dragon is number 1.

[@yamikuramashi083]

Fusionist is supremacy

[@wolfiehatesgoogle]

El Shaddoll Wendigo is a definite high card up there

[@louaidz1929]

@Seto Kaiba 123 nah some player use it in tenyi

[@kirinchecker]

The thing that really surprises me about the dragun of red eyes, is the fact, that there hasn't been a Fusion Monster of Red Eyes and DM before. Like, that should have happened 20 years ago.

[@DeepCDiva]

Top 10 with "This card's name is treated as [different card]"! Btw, kinda sad that Ojamas weren't mentioned. I know they're not the best, but i felt like their support would at least give them an honorable mention.

[@RockinRobert19]

Ojamas are dead. They can't even lock the field anymore....their tokens just get linked away.... more proof that Konami just gives a shit about meta and making money.

[@sagedygert6656]

So because ojamas got power crept as a gimmick deck, konamis greedy? I mean konami does want to make money but that's not why ojamas aren't competitive. They're just an old archetype that got power crept. There's not really anyway to make them competitive today

[@SamnissArandeen]

For me that's Gunkan Suship Aka-Shari (treated as "Gunkan Suship Shari") with its ability to reveal another Shari (or itself!) and instantly Xyz summon any of the Gunkan Extra Deck monsters. Second would be any of the Cyber Dragons.

[@SproingBoing]

Not goin' lie. I thought you were going to slap Garnet onto this list.

[@SourceOfBeing]

Not related to the video, but why are there so many cards with the effect "This card's name is always treated as Umi"?

[@BeeEmpress]

SourceOfBeing Since the original Umi is bad and a lot of cards need Umi to activate effects

[@wickederebus]

Top 10 "treated as Umi" cards?

[@winter945]

@@wickederebus number 10: umi

[@SourceOfBeing]

@@wickederebus I don't think there are 10 cards with that effect

[@sigurdvickery3523]

@@SourceOfBeing Are there even any noteworthy cards, other than Pacifis?

[@georgemeade1254]

I've been away from Yu-Gi-Oh for about 10 years. And I've watched a fair few of videos on this channel (not sure how it got recommended, but one led to many). I can't help but get the feeling the game is no longer about getting strong monsters out to inflict life point damage. Is this what it's like to lose touch with culture?

[@tuliobednarczukpecinemisko5606]

Getting strong monsters on the field is still important to the game.There is more to consider,but nothing too hard to learn.

[@brunolopes2205]

TgaTheme is just faster and way more Special Summon based. The point is still to bring out strong monsters. Tributing sucks

[@wingedbluj1674]

It's kinda just a race for "Who can negate the opponent more"

[@ironmaster6496]

Basically the goal is to NOT let the other player play the game

[@JosephKonrad2001]

I tink that it should be in the video even Phantom Spiral Dragon, it has really good spell cards his archetipe

[@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

14:52 I was just looking up cards to be released, and I saw _this_ upcoming card that seemed to work well with shine ball: _Shatter the Darkness_ Card type Spell Property Continuous Effect types Trigger-like Trigger-like Condition Status Not yet released (OCG) “If you Normal or Special Summon a non-Token Normal Monster(s): You can draw 1 card. When an attack is declared involving your monster listed below and an opponent's monster: You can make your monster gain ATK equal to that opponent's monster's ATK, until the end of this turn. ● Level 5 or higher Normal Monster ● Monster that was Ritual Summoned using a Normal Monster ● Monster that was Fusion, Synchro, or Xyz Summoned using a Normal Monster as material You can only use each effect of "Shatter the Darkness" once per turn.”

[@Sokaras3]

For a video maybe "Top 10 pendulum monsters from each scale" Though i think there are scales from 0 to 13, so it would not be a Top 10. Maybe then simply "Top 10 pendulum monsters"?

[@winter945]

Laughs in in pepe

[@M3G4T3RR4]

There’s only one card in the game with scale 13, I believe. There are many with scales below that, there are even a few scale 0s, but for 13 I believe only goes to a single monster, who also happens to not be very good.

[@midnightthoughts2422]

@@M3G4T3RR4 yes, gate infinity's restriction is very bad, a pendulum deck can't afford not being able to pendulum summon, and that restriction is stupid since it's deck can't even abuse the fact that he's a scale 13 because Z-ARC can't be special summoned except by fusion. So why bother making him a scale 13 when you could make him a scale 9 with a less restrictive restriction like "you can only pendulum summon dark pendulum monsters" and keep the other effects that allow you to search materials for Z-ARC

[@M3G4T3RR4]

『Midnight Thoughts』 I feel like they kept the high scale for marketing purposes but the restriction is seriously stupid

[@Sokaras3]

@@M3G4T3RR4 oh i see. To be honest never dived into pendulum cards too much so know little about them. That is why I thougth video about them be cool

[@pallettown3358]

I know it’s old, but I fully expected to see summoned skull on here, I mean it’s still such a good lvl 6 beater with 2500 attk that is pretty easy to summon, but I digress.

[@dwx6618]

When you remember how happy you were to get 5 pieces of Exodia on;y to remember later on it was 2 right arms and 3 left legs...

[@MAstaCheez]

eheheheheh, sunseed genius loci is now a thing

[@nightreyn3603]

I’m sad I didn’t see alexandrite dragon, granted I know it’s not that good or played often I just really like the card

[@magma90]

Night Reyn same

[@RockinRobert19]

I like him in Blue Eyes or a Normal Light deck

[@Hypershell]

Well, it is the main reason to play a bunny rabbit in a dragon deck, that's saying something.

[@itzend204]

Where elemental hero Neos

[@Jack_Rakan]

"Exodia decks being good means there's a problem with the meta because the user is playing Solitaire." You say that as if the meta ISN'T the guy going first playing Solitaire and the guy going second being disappointed he didn't win the coin toss so he could be the one playing Solitaire, because by going second, he somehow has to burn trough 3-4 negates before can actually start to play the game.

[@Mike-xh2vm]

The meta is already solitaire as you say.

[@davidwilli5542]

Agree

[@skeletonwar4445]

Imagine being wrong for a whole year

[@Glyjerify]

as relaxing as listening to these videos is, they remind me why i dont like actually playing yugioh xD

[@nicholascarpenter952]

Like magic the gathering its become way to complex and they keep banning any good cards..the few comps I have played in were cool as they didnt follow tourney rules and let you play whatever you felt like.

[@wolfiehatesgoogle]

honestly flamvell guard could have been at least an honorable mention for how much he used to see play in synchro and dragon decks in the past.

[@Cetra29]

Exodia: Everyone plays solitaire. Funny. From what I have seen Yugioh has become solitaire anyway.

[@JackgarPrime]

I think using "Is Exodia viable?" is a good barometer of the health of the game's balance.

[@bobowon5450]

the only thing that makes exodia balanced is when the game is played how it was originally meant to be. By kids on a school yard who maybe get one pack of cards a month if they're lucky and have far from optimized decks.

[@thebob5284]

@@bobowon5450 This works with every meta deck btw

[@LORDBahaa]

💕👍 make more videos

[@zachschmitt3654]

So Dragun of red eyes isn’t an officially released card yet?

[@YoucanNotadvance1]

Great content! Hoping you will do a dinosaur archetype video in the future.

[@dracometeors3010]

Dude, i just remade my Dinosmasher deck... JUST recently...

[@YoucanNotadvance1]

Hahah same here! Man.. dinos need more love!

[@dracometeors3010]

Yeah i love Dinos. I was very supprised how well they actually still are. I got Laggia, Dolkka, Ultimate Conductor and Lythosagym out First Turn. Sad that Jurrac or Evol are definitly not great at their own. So you actually just play a Toolbox outta Dinos.

[@dbomba]

Shiny Black C lets you go plus 3 too with Giant Ballpark and can be a disruption thanks to Gokipole and all the generical insect support. Also Gem-Knight Garnet which was so used that it forged a slang term in Yugi by itself

[@jikuuzi6760]

Absolutely. My favorite use of ballpark is it's play with tenyi decks since they love having 1 or more non-effect monsters on the field.

[@Alexifeu]

I play exodia and I got smashed by an bluer eyes white dragon deck just now cuz I had bad cards in my hand

[@MasterArchfiend]

Blue-Eyes has been consistently good and getting better in Duel Links as most of its best support has been added. I get why because it and Dark Magician have legacy status, but it's still a bit odd to go into ranked duels and see so many variants of the same deck even after all of the archetypes they've added. Especially with DSOD Kaiba having some really awesome skills for the different playstyles Blue-Eyes has.

[@sedangabsurd]

No red eyes?

[@charliewalsh5678]

I love your video even i dont play YGO anymore , thank you so much for making these.

[@hakimdhaou]

The main Problem with a Exodia Deck is the fact, it kills not TOO overbalanced Draw Card's the INSTANT it get's even a little bit of Meta relevancy😂

[@stormerbuzz352]

I'm shocked Red Eyes isn't on the list as it has a shit ton of support

[@MaggieCandy999]

Yay Mystical Shine Ball is #1! 🙌🏻 I have three copies of this card in my deck along with Agent of Creation-Venus. When I have all three Shine Balls on the field, I like to use Photon Booster to give them all 2000 ATK; and if I happen to have Solar Ray set face down on the field then my opponent is in for a world of hurt. 😁

[@fernandoalvarezrazo8782]

Video idea: top cards that allows you to extra normal summon/set monster(s)

[@mestre12]

Pretty sure sherapinite would make on the list, because brilliant fusion.

[@MrPurppleMonkey]

The legendary exodia incarnate is crying :O

[@rodrigoolvera1742]

duelog! checkout the D.D. custom support one dude sent you on twitter! looks awsome and makes gemini and d.d. work great! :)

[@wickederebus]

Okay, but why combine Gemini and D.D.? It would make more sense to just focus on the D.D. banish/removal gimmick instead of trying to make them support Geminis

[@rodrigoolvera1742]

Wicked Erebus actually that males sense xd ill comment that

[@promisnwekenta9703]

Also making the D.D into a archetype is dumb and ruins the design.

[@rodrigoolvera1742]

Promis Nwekenta i dont get why would it ruin the design xd.

[@promisnwekenta9703]

@@rodrigoolvera1742 look at d.d cards. They arent meant to be an archetype, the judt focus around banished cards. No "add a "D.D" monster or spell trap" bs, not everything is supposed to be an coherent archetype.

[@nonifuji1566]

Doing my boy Shiny Black "C" Squadder so damn dirty but I love you DuelLogs/Hiru

[@NICOCLASH]

I expected Qliphort Scout in this top, which some of my friends, consider him "the" normal pendulum monster

[@user-un8jx8yo7z]

Has to be one of the strongest technically normal monsters period.

[@Diabl0Mask]

What about Frog the Jam, Beaver Warrior, and Shapesnatch?

[@ApprenticeNick]

I was expecting Summoned Skull here, just because of how much it controlled the game in the GOAT format.

[@keshersygo]

no one played Summoned Skull in 2005 or even 2003. why play Summoned Skull when you can play Jinzo

[@ApprenticeNick]

@@keshersygo You could play Summoned Skull to beat over a Jinzo. IDK haha the video is about normal monsters which saw a lot of play, and SS used to be a big card.

[@MrSkullMerchant]

Summoned skull would destroy jinzo? Lol i get what you mean though

[@showtvbest]

Summoned skull never saw play in goat format just look at any goat decklist it saw play in 2002 for one format but never ever after that

[@ApprenticeNick]

@@showtvbest So I've been told!

[@Nilaikx]

I think you're picking on Exodia decks, drawing your entire deck to find an insta-win set of cards and not letting your opponent play the game is pretty common these days

[@DarkDragon2344]

I'm so sorry your Kuriboh Stall deck dies to two disruptions, but as it turns out good decks can actually play the game against other good decks as long as they get a turn 2. That's the problem with Exodia and every other FTK, if it works there is no turn 2.

[@sigurdvickery3523]

Lmao this is only the case when you're playing table 500 decks vs. meta

[@princequincy5421]

Would an Exodia deck really play 3 copies of every piece of exodia? 12 normal monsters sounds really bricky. I mean sure the Exodia support would make it less bricky but, yeah.

[@LilGian1]

I think harpie lady needs an honourable mention! She was the OG! At the time she was a huge moment in the anime when she first debuted in Mai Valentine’s deck because she had an endless supply of support spells and traps ! Till this day harpie lady gets support cards for it. Might not be meta or as popular as it was but the OG harpie lady started it all!

[@syrelian]

The thing is, the OG Harpie Lady has NEVER seen play, because Harpie Lady 1 exists, even before we got the more recent waves of things that count as Harpie Lady on field(not deck though, HL1 is still the Egotist target)

[@jojo-ln7zd]

Megalosmasher X is one of my favorite cards ever printed. It has great artwork and is free from the downright stupid level of bureaucratic level of card effects that plagues other cool looking monster that just get used to search of bring other cards out.

[@malexthegreat]

Love these videos

[@maxjf1]

Skull servant is also a great card in servant decks. He isn't normally summoned but it's very important for combos. Also, there is a magic card that gives him 900 atk for each monster with same name in graveyard, reaching 14k+, and there is other card that allows him to direct attack bc he is lvl 1

[@Wanttofanta]

All of your videos make me appreciate Magic so much more. There’s so many convoluted rules in this game than there are on MTG.

[@ShamankingZuty]

I haven't played Yugioh since GX and even then it was just the GBA game. I think I may have had a deck way way back in the day though. So I barely understood fusion cards, but then you show synchros and I'm confused. Then you show these blue monster cards with arrows on them and I'm completely lost. Next you show a monster that's also a spell card and I'm even more lost. Still an enjoyable video. Normal monsters I understand completely.

[@sprinklebeard2359]

I was so shocked Summon Skull was not listed or mentioned her

[@PhevieWonder]

“Exodia hasn’t seen play in 4 years.” Exodia, 3 years after this video came out being used to win 2 games in a best of 3: “Allow me to introduce myself”

[@VariumOwl]

The sad piano music is hands down the best part of these videos

[@ShadowCommanderOne]

Make a video on removing/canceling the ban list from the game, what would the game look like if there was no list. Would the game balance it self out with people playing different type of decks, weak decks become strong and strong become the weak. Or would everyone be playing one type of degenerate deck?

[@wintel6272]

i smell lots of ftk

[@toondude78]

Many Yugitubers have addressed this but, yes, it would be very degenerate. You would actually see three pot of greeds in every deck

[@sigurdvickery3523]

The thing is, low tier decks like Red-Eyes, DM etc. still wouldn't be any better compared to the rest of the game. Sure, you could play a whole bunch of stupidly broken cards, but so could every meta deck. The catch is, you would be super reliant on drawing said broken cards, whereas the meta strategies can easily compete without them. Stuff like PoG being unbanned would almost definitely help the meta decks more than whatever casual strategy you can think of.

[@ksad96]

Exodia ftk all around sounds about right but I can imagine way easier ftks being just as common

[@whiz8569]

Outside of the really old cards, I love these flavor texts.

[@PhuckedUpPhilosophy]

Qliphort Scout ! it’s so good every soft OPT card that searches or has a pendulum effect that adds or revives is referred to as a qliphort scout (lunalight tiger etc)

[@CrimsonKobaNakirigumi]

Megalosmasher is also an staple card in Phantasm Spiral decks

[@giovanniorellana2200]

AKA Top 10 Vanilla monsters XD

[@malexthegreat]

That is exactly right

[@TheChill001]

Duellogs: Exodia decks aren't good cuz it's basically playing solitaire Me: aren't all metas currently nothing but solitaire?

[@mikiekool]

I always liked Terrorking Salmon in a legendary ocean deck. A normal summon 2600 atk monster was nothing to shake a finger at back in the day

[@rosegundom]

Extrapolation, exodia decks are the worst to play against because they basically play solitaire with themself... I.e basically every meta deck in recent years...

[@a1ysium907]

I see no difference between exodia decks and modern meta decks. Yu-Gi-Oh literally became solitaire 1v1

[@SSKJ64]

Shine Ball + Venus could be used as really good tribute fodder, be it for Dark Magician + Dark Magician Girl, two Blue-Eyes, Xyz Summoning a Rank 2, or summoning a god card.

[@internetmovieguy]

I would say phantasm spiral dragon but you put it in that preview thing so I assume you know. Mekk knights have a great normal monster.

[@watermellonqwerty9252]

I think getting acknowledged isn't enough, he deserved to be on the list!

[@akumayoxiruma]

Why isn't Qliphort Scout on this list? Paying 800LP to search out any Qli card once per turn is a really good effect.

[@blockxor8788]

I notice that Odd-eyes Arc Pendulum Dragon isn't anywhere to be found....

[@MrDontaye07]

I was just thinking bout that

[@omarmohamed546]

I agree that exodia isn't competitive played but I have one card to get rid of him easily which is trickstar reincarnation which banish all cards your opponent have in his hand and if you do while he had one part of exodia I will be a pain to get it back

[@skeletonwar4445]

I wouldn't count Pendulum monsters as normal monsters since they have a, ya know, Pendulum effect.

[@burner555]

Yeah but Pendulum effects are *Spell* effects not *Monster* effects

[@First8116]

Here in 2023, an exodia deck was 4-0 after day one of a YCS. Crazy how shit changes.

[@JusticeHeroXSupreme]

Chosen can also be summoned by emergency teleport.

[@TheDuelLogs]

It can, but none of the decks that use it also use Emergency Teleport. I made sure to check because I thought that might be why its used more but nope.

[@JusticeHeroXSupreme]

TheDuelLogs Strange, but whatever works for them...