Top 10 Cards That Had Other Cards Made To Replace Them (RETRAINS) YuGiOh

in Yu-Gi-Oh they regularly make new cards that are straight up upgraded versions of previous cards in the game, in order to try to make them better, or in some cases in order to make nerfed versions of previously strong cards. In this list will go over 10 cards which have had retrains made of them, starting with some of the nerfed retrains and then going into some of the stronger ones.
-The List-
Intro: (0:00)
10-Tribe infecting virus: (0:20)
9- Substitoad: (2:00)
8- Magician of black chaos: (3:42)
7- Red Dragon Archfiend: (5:56)
6- Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon: (7:39)
5- Black Luster Soldier: (10:31)
4- Rescue cat: (12:28)
3- Thousand eyes restrict: (15:02)
2- Dark magician girl: (17:23)
1- Ultimate Tyranno: (20:00)
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[@jamesgoines4635]

The rescue archetype is so adorable we need more of them.

[@aroperdope]

Yeah. I second that.

[@awesomesauce_3516]

It needs to end up as meta

[@scp0535]

Rescue doggo

[@jamesgoines4635]

Merryda Walczak Rescue Corgi

[@richardthepastamancer6619]

@@awesomesauce_3516 they have been, multiple times, and it wasn't pretty.

[@chikasnotmadjustdisappoint6266]

"Who are you?" "I'm you, but better."

[@C20521]

*stronger

[@ace-trainer-aj]

*unbanned

[@AnimatedIdiotGuide]

Or in the case of #10, "I'm you, but worse."

[@andresvelazquez5922]

*harder

[@calibula95]

Well yes, but actually not.

[@michaelblueknight1268]

It's beautiful how, 20 years later, Blue Eyes White Dragon and its Ultimate fusion are still the strongest non-effect monsters in the game. Kisara is happy

[@navalends8968]

Three-headed and three-pair boobies Kisara.

[@torunsmok5890]

Teeeechnically regular is only the strongest in atk value only. Overall stats, rabidragon beats it

[@Riley_Sanford]

@@torunsmok5890 Would you use Rabidragon

[@milehighgambler]

@@Riley_Sanford nope, you know he wouldnt

[@Riley_Sanford]

@@milehighgambler The only reason someone would, is for an Anime deck, but nobody wants to play Mokubas deck.

[@connor7396]

Guess I must be an old card with a better retrain, because my parents give all the attention to my younger brother

[@OtterFan48]

Connor ...😭

[@revthescatman137]

How old is your brother?

[@afraid2losebalance303]

I think you're just a jealous older brother.

[@bigdaddyjh2002]

@@afraid2losebalance303 Sigh...

[@kinyon2555]

Older brother here.... I felt that

[@dylanwastaken5766]

Cool feature of splitting the KZbin vid into having each card have a time slot

[@birdlover666]

Yea, i didn't know that was an available feature. Love it.

[@joshuawenninger6439]

@@birdlover666 I think it's new as I don't remember ever seeing it before.

[@RK-so1cc]

How do you activate this

[@josephwodarczyk977]

@@RK-so1cc look at the progress bar at the bottom, it should be split into smaller bars.

[@doctorwhouse3881]

It's been on for a few weeks, and I love it.

[@DukeSkylocker]

I'm amazed they haven't done a retrain of Gate Guardian considering how in the anime it was one of the original boss monsters and how much Konami has tried to keep those types of cards relevant. Or at the very least give it some sort of support to make it easier to summon. Heck when they first released xyz monsters I think they really missed a chance to retrain Gate Guardian as one considering how much its anime effects would have made it perfect for an xyz monster (e.g. You can have a monster's attack become 0 but everytime you do that you have to remove an xyz material)

[@mithmoonwalker]

Gate Chaos Guard [Rank 7] [Dark] [Warrior] ?/? 3 level 7 monsters -this card's ATK/DEF is equal to it's materials divided by 2 (e.g: you used neos, odd eyes and stardust (7500/2=3750) -once per turn, detatch 1 XYZ material, the attack of all monsters your opponent controls become 0 -if this card would be destroyed by battle or card effect, detatch 1 XYZ material instead -if this card's materials are a thunder, aqua and spellcaster monsters. this card can attack three times per turn and cannot be targeted for card effects

[@thedarkspirit5084]

Gate Guardian of Chaos Rank 7 / DARK / Warrior 2 or more Level 7 Monsters 3500 ATK / DEF 2000 If this card has materials with original types as Spellcaster, Thunder, or Aqua, then this card can't be destroyed by card effects as long as those materials are on this card. Once per turn: You can detach one material from this card, target one monster your opponent controls, it loses ATK equal to the sent materials ATK. And if the ATK is 0, its effects are negated. (Quick effect): If this card is targeted for an attack, you can detach one material from this card, target the attacking target, its ATK becomes 0 during Damage Calculation only. If this card is destroyed by battle or effect, you can target one lvl 7 Spellcaster, Thunder, or Aqua type monster from your GY: Special Summon it.

[@mithmoonwalker]

@@thedarkspirit5084 good, while i do have a few gripes (especially with the destruction effec) it is a good job

[@thedarkspirit5084]

@@mithmoonwalker I tuned it up a bit... plus I had to come back and fix some errors I made. I didn't realize how much I butchered my writing.

[@mithmoonwalker]

@@thedarkspirit5084 it's brilliant

[@ChaosJesterYT]

How some of the cards reacted to their retrain Substitoad: “You’re weak” Tradetoad: “Im you” __________ Black Luster Soldier: “Who are you?” Multiple Luster Soldiers: “We are you but stronger” __________ Ultimate Tyranno: *Roars angrily* Super Conductor Tyranno: *Roars somberly* Ultimate Conductor Tyranno: *Roars smugly*

[@ANDELE3025]

Blue Eyes: Burst stream of destruction Neo Blue Eyes: Burst stream of destruction, but saves a Blue Eyes Alt Blue Eyes: Burst stream of destruction, but doesnt get nuked afterwards

[@grendelbacani445]

Spiral Serpent: who are you? Phantasm Spiral Dragon: I'm you but with an entire archetype dedicated to me.

[@CrimsonTy]

Ah, I see you're a man of Rythm as well.

[@joanaguayoplanell4912]

Well there is hope for the Tyrannos. As good as Ultimate Conductor Tyranno is, you can only have 3 on the field, and they don't take your normal summon. Just play one of the Evolution Pill cards and bring both alongside them. MUAHAHAHAHAH.

[@janehrahan5116]

Dark magician girl: let's make out Apprentice illusion magician: ok. (What, they are both one ofs that hide in the deck mostly).

[@SuperNaruto147]

I honestly much prefer “retrains” of forbidden cards rather than just nerfing the card. Plus it’s always cool to make up a lore for a retrain

[@PuchuKt]

Konami also prefers them since they get to sell new cards

[@Merilirem]

@@PuchuKt Tell that to Chaos Emperor Dragon. Poor thing will never be the same.

[@jugemujugemu4690]

@@Merilirem even that still got a decent retrain thats better than the errata now though

[@cryuos]

I love how KZbin separates parts of the video when you add timestamps.

[@TheDuelLogs]

Yeah you have to add the timestamps in a specific way for youtube to do that

[@cryuos]

@@TheDuelLogs oh, that's really neat!

[@SupremeQUEEN668]

@@TheDuelLogs how do you even do those timestamps? lol

[@thek838]

Really nice feature means if i ever see Ultimate Falcon i can just skip that one cause well it's pretty obvious what his reasons are but knowing me i will sit here and wait until you explain it again lol

[@eloanpedraza4603]

Top 10 archetypes with the least amount of cards

[@codenamePori]

Iron chain say hi!

[@revthescatman137]

Glacial beast

[@eloanpedraza4603]

@huong ma they actually have a lot of support, like The true name, o the Ra supports cards

[@wyomingptt]

@@revthescatman137in order for it to be considered an archetype it must have a Spell or Trap card that lists its archetypal name in quotation marks and specifically refer to the archetype and not the monster. Like _Add 1 'Glacial Beast' monster from your deck to your hand_ or something like that. I don't think Glacial Beasts have one yet right?

[@plastictrumpet6862]

Skyblaster is easily the smallest archetype as before the Xyz era it was a 1 card archetype and after the Xyz era it was a 2 card archetype

[@andredossantosalonsopereir6009]

What about Mediocre Celtic Guardian? "I'm so mediocre"

[@OMartinez91]

And Sexually Frustrated Celtic Guardian "I'm so frustrat- OH SHIT I'M ON A FUCKING TRAIN!"

[@kishinasura1504]

"I am so whatever he just said"

[@zera3947]

or Agnostic Celtic Guardian?

[@javiersanders5110]

Remember when they tried to make Celtic guardian go with noble knights Yeah me neither

[@DynamiteChannelist]

What about Obnoxious Celtic Poison Butterfly? “I’m so poisonous.”

[@InvaderWeezle]

Weirdly enough in the TCG we got Dark Magician of Chaos *before* Magician of Black Chaos. MoBC wasn't released in the TCG until 2007, despite the card being listed on Dark Magician Girl's effect and she was printed in the TCG all the way back in 2003.

[@crestfallenhussar895]

I never forget Black Luster Soldier. It's my favorite card and I did secure a win with it in the 2022 synchro fest which was pretty cool! Super soldier is better, but OG just looks cooler. Besides it didn't hurt to run one OG in there with the 3 Supers just to increase consistency. He was just as strong with beginning knight and ritual Djinn buffs.

[@crocworks]

Another example, and this one's a trap card: "Drop Off" and "Drastic Drop Off" Drop Off is a NORMAL trap that only makes your opponent discard one card they draw during their normal draw in their draw phase. Drastic Drop Off is a COUNTER trap that makes your opponent discard one card any time they add a card from their deck to their hand including drawing from the draw phase.

[@toastyboyo8134]

I didn’t know drastic was a retrain

[@MrVariant]

he only did monsters (should edit title to retrained monsters), good explanation. I was thinking of trap hole with bottomless trap hole, or the mirror force upgrades. Nice to see youtube have sections to go over vid quicker.

[@alexanderrobins7497]

Top ten spell/trap retrains?

[@GigaPhoenix9001]

Maybe not as prominent as most of these but I think Diabolos should have been somewhere on here. It's old version was horribly limited, not being special Summonable, it's tributes for it's summon had to all be dark (level 7, so 2). And all it did, was with 2800 attack and a tiny 1000 defense, was be untributable, and BEFORE your opponent's Draw, you would look at the top card of their deck, and keep it at the front or place it at the bottom. While it's Retrain, Darkest Diabolos was all about Special Summoning itself from your hand or GY, whenever you tributed one of your own monsters. At a higher level of 8 and attack of 3000, and 2000, it tributed one of your own monsters (could tribute itself as it was tributable this time) in order to force your opponent to send a random one of their cards, to the top or bottom of their deck! Making an almost impossible to play card, into a new rogue archetype deck centerpiece with Lair of Darkness, tributing your opponent's and your own monsters. My favorite Deck that actually is a great anti-meta deck that destroys your opponent's hand and field with Virus traps!

[@AxisChurchDevotee]

Still waiting for the Egyptian Gods to get Retrains that give them some of their anime Effects.

[@Schwi02]

Doesn't Egyptian god slime count as a retrain of obelisk

[@wickederebus]

It took 3 card to get just _some_ of Ra's effects. Do we really need a 4rth to get the damn gaining tributed monsters atk effect, and whatever else it had? Maybe make it Summonable by alternatively banish tributing 1 Winged Dragon of Ra monster, except Sphere Mode.

[@rodneyjasmin4800]

@@Schwi02 nope. God slime is the depiction of the scene where yugi attacked marik with obelisk but then used the trap card slime to copy obelisk's stats and then fused with revival slime to be immortal

[@numeron703]

Well, Ra is currently receiving a bunch of support cards giving it its anime/manga effects so I guess we can forget about Retrains

[@elroyjohnson4559]

Ra: allows you to burn the person The community: wait

[@Steele47]

I salute the guy who keep insisting to get this video, whoever he is cuz' i don't remember his username. he showed us that perseverance can get you things. Not bad kid.

[@andrehenniger115]

Actually the original BLS is played in its archetype because the new ritual BLS can only be summoned once per turn for some reason

[@thenexgamer5608]

9:18 you didn’t mention how there’s also a spell card “neutron blast attack” which basically gives blue eyes ultimate dragon the effect of Neo blue eyes ultimate dragon, which makes it just as powerful as neo. Plus blue eyes ultimate dragon you can tribute for blue eyes shining dragon, even if it is a bad card, so there’s another reason that OG blue eyes ultimate is more useful

[@TurkeyFaceX]

Woah, I'm no content creator so this is new to me. I've never seen a video where the timeline of the video is segmented into sections that you can name. I hope other KZbinrs use this feature because its very helpful to a viewer. Thank you for taking the extra time to add this feature to your video!

[@realzachfluke1]

Actually, for Apprentice Illusion Magician, you can add a Dark Magician to your hand regardless of if you special or normal summon it :’>

[@Dw7freak]

I was expecting number one to be Pot of Greed and all its nerfed versions.

[@dusk6159]

Actually accurate. Classic.

[@dusk6159]

Though I was hoping for some type of Neos retrain news, so seeing the dinosaurs and the two Tryannos of them made me happy.

[@Carlitonsp1]

One line of text would have made Apprentice Illusion Magician the best Dark Magician Support. "This card's name becomes "Dark Magician Girl" on the field or GY."

[@ColetheFlame01]

yeah that wouldve been nice, means you can use their quick play nuke without running the actual dark magician girl. but hey, I've gotten her up to 3100 attack before. how? 3 normal dark magician in graveyard...yeah I kinda flooded my board to the point where I had no room to eternal summon dark magician lol.

[@XanKreigor]

Relinquished and it's variations are still some of my favorite cards, they work well even today if played right.

[@spacewizardpip1111]

We can’t ignore the retrain of Endymion Master Magician. Mighty Master of Magic is damn gooood.

[@alexthiessen7454]

Space Wizard Pip I think it added a bit more text

[@spacewizardpip1111]

alex thiessen Just a little

[@Talguy21]

When I was a kid, I played a good amount of Original/GX era Yugioh with my dad, using pretty weak, casual decks. But his deck (which started life as a Yugi structure deck) was basically designed to get the original Black Luster Soldier out quickly, and considering the apex beater in my deck at the time had 2900 ATK, and my only real removal was Trap Hole, if he got BLS out, I basically lost the game immediately, barring specific combos that could edge it out. Considering neither of our decks could special summon basically at all, and any big tribute monster takes a lot of resources anyway, a 3k beater you could get out on your first turn with a good hand was insanely strong. Also why would you play Magician of Black Chaos back then when Black Luster Soldier existed? Archetype support didn't really exist and they have pretty much the same requirement anyway.

[@tareqal-hasan4975]

Pretty sure you can't trap hole a BLS because trap hole only works on normal and flip summons. Ritual summons are a special summon

[@Talguy21]

@@tareqal-hasan4975 Yep. Which means I could have done nothing about it.

[@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

16:55 Wait, this reminds me, don’t “Dark” and “Curse” Necrofear kinda feed into each other’s effects, to the point where it’d make sense to have both on hand if you intend to use one of them? Dark: “Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must first be Special Summoned (from your hand) by banishing 3 Fiend monsters from your GY. During the End Phase, if this card is in your GY because it was destroyed in your Monster Zone by an opponent's card and sent there this turn: Target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls; equip this card to that target. While this card is equipped to a monster by this effect, take control of that monster.” Curse: “Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned by a card effect. You can target 3 of your banished Fiend monsters; Special Summon this card from your hand, and if you do, shuffle those banished monsters into the Deck. During the End Phase, if this card is in the GY because it was destroyed in your Monster Zone by an opponent's card and sent there this turn: Special Summon this card from your GY, then, you can destroy cards your opponent controls, up to the number of face-up Spells/Traps you control with different names. You can only use each effect of "Curse Necrofear" once per turn.”

[@tobysmith4551]

Top 10 monsters that deal piercing damage.

[@MansMan42069]

Number 1: Buster Blader The Dragon Destroyer Swordsman

[@halvarianknight4477]

Chaos Max coming in hot with double piercing

[@danieltentori7523]

Imagine if Borrelsword could deal piercing

[@Drakorre]

Chaos ancient gear giant

[@diamondv7261]

Airknight Parshath

[@behemothbear]

_Top 10 best/worst formerly anime-only cards._

[@juri101]

There are way too many

[@behemothbear]

@@juri101 Isn't that a good reason to make a list? To filter it?

[@bbrodriguez420]

@@behemothbear Well every card at some point was anime or manga only.. So it's just a normal top 10 most powerful/ weakest list.

[@wickederebus]

Also, aside from the number of cards, most of the anime-only/original effects get boosted or nerfed, rarely directly translated. Sure a lot of the modern cards get put into the game accurately, or mostly the same, take Blackwings, Yuma's deck, and Yuya's decks as examples. But a lot of the "used to be anime only" stuff is either 1. Too situational and lack filler to be made. 2. Too difficult to adapt. 3. Too little know and not cared about 4. Written as a plot device item, not an intended physical card. Most of the modern stuff is made with the physical cards already designed and ready, or giving the writers clear limits and a good understanding of the rules and mechanics of the game. Comprehensible effect text is very important. Go read gen 1 / pre-PSCT effects compared to a modern card with a similar effect. Compare :if attacking a monster in face up or face down Defense position, double this cards atk during damage calculation, then inflict the difference between this attacking monster and the targets Defense points as damage to the opponent. To basically Inflict double piercing.

[@thebokchoy6854]

@@bbrodriguez420 not all cards in the tcg and ocg appeared in the anime/manga

[@DN0103]

Wow! I...never knew that regular Ultimate Dragon was played more than Neo or Alternative. I've been playing with Alternative this whole time.

[@MTyranno]

Haven't commented here before, but I just wanna say that I love your content and can't stress enough how important it is that the Yu-Gi-Oh! community has such high production, high quality content thanks to you! I look forward to your uploads, thank you!!

[@meiyagii]

Apprentice Magician can search a Dark Magician when normal *or* special summoned, not just normal summoned.

[@Andromedaa2023]

Also you can tribute from the field to activate the +2000 atk/def on one of your spellcaster monster

[@tho_tho]

A list I'd love to see is actually a top 10 with cards whose mere existence forces all cards from then on to specifically change their text (eg: Frog cards saying their effect excludes "Frog the Jam") or that card that gave your opponent 2 battle phases which made cards say "during each battle phase" instead of "during the battle phase" and so on!

[@ianr.navahuber2195]

In hindsight, one would think the "Rescue" cards would be related to recover cards from GY or banish zone ("rescuing" them) insetad of summoning from deck (Raiding them and going into the offensive, AKA Attaking.) Just saying

[@promisnwekenta9703]

All other cards in the deck bully the targets for those rescue animals.

[@Drakorre]

They Rescue them from the deck?so they can see the field... maybe

[@xCorvus7x]

They rescue _you_ from an empty field (then again, the modern meta is all about swarming, so this might not be the most sensible interpretation, perhaps anymore).

[@AldoHacha]

Nice one, hope to see a continuation of this list

[@moresothanyou]

Finally, top 10 retrain must be requested at every duel logs video

[@chaoselpaladini]

correction: apprentice magician can add dm on special summon too

[@LionHeartSamy]

And can use its on-battle effect on field as well

[@jys5219]

People say I'm lazy for not making content. I have a job and stuff to take care at my grandpas and my house. I have a life and I'm not going to spend it getting mad at those people so I'm taking the rest of the week off. Idk how long I can do this when people like that put me down

[@Sirmichaeltheblackknight3563]

@@jys5219 sorry to hear that mate. Hope your doing better and I wish you the best of luck in the future. Don’t let anyone put you down. Just ignore them and move on. You have better things to do with your time then waste it on them. Plus they only want attention so the best thing to do is to not give them that.

[@shadotarot]

Finally!!! Have been asking DL for this list since forever. 😂 Also, no shoutout for Retrained Celtic Guardian? The term was created based on the mistranslation of that card. 😄 Now prepare for a top 10 powercrept cards in YGO. 😊

[@crushsnake]

Good to see there is more people watching your videos that are subscribing to the channel. Great work!

[@frozenbinarystudio]

Nice! I wanted this one for a long time!!!

[@xp77254]

18:04 Normal or Special summon, adds a copy of Dark Magician to your hand

[@GJ-uf6om]

Top 10 Spell & Trap that can avoid destruction/prevent being destroyed

[@staurosmenexes7295]

Hot red dragon archfiend cries in the corner, forgotten

[@Deathmare235]

It’s not a retrain

[@Schwi02]

It kinda is cause it's a better version of the original lol

[@kyuubinaruto17]

I've never watched the anime, so I don't know how the effects compare between the anime and card game, but I wonder if it would see more play if it had it's manga effect. Once per turn it can destroy every other monster on the field, and it has to destroy at least one monster or else it can't attack. It's certainly more useful than just hitting on defense monsters.

[@number-qx1kw]

@@Deathmare235 it is a retrain It has the same exact name as the original except they added hot in the beginning of it name It has the same stats as the original And has a similar effect for destroying monster

[@bortduels]

Apprentice Illusion Magician can bring Dark Magician to your hand if Special Summoned as well.

[@HarpieKing]

That new sections feature to split the cards is slick

[@NeroAngelo616]

Interestingly Ultimate Conductor is actually an amalgamation of three previous rexes. The unsung hero and the coolest in my opinion being IOC's Black Tyranno. The undertones of its appearance also tell the tale showing how far dinosaurs have trialed. You can see the three areas amalgamated into the attribute breakthrough tyrant. 1 - Ultimate (Red musculature and joint spikes) - Attacking all monsters your opponent controls. 2 - Super Conductor (Metallic plates and purple orbs charged) - 1000 LP infliction. 3 - Black - (Main body shape and armour scale colour, best shown having the most accurate shape of the skull that is closest to Black Tyranno and T. rex in general) - Controlling opponents monsters to defence position. The way I see dinosaurs behave is an ecosystem of powerful creatures that help each other when the going gets tough, akin to nature. Which is interesting as to how they can work as a whole for an archetype compared to others. Also thanks to your generous scans! Rex Raptor had a badass name but sadly that's about it. Which, unfortunately, is what one could have said about dinosaurs introduced by him, the creatures that everyone loves but metaphorically were not depicted the right way with a weak ass pussy. Imagine an archetype solely about Raptors or even Tyrannosaurs??!?

[@xCorvus7x]

„help each other when the going gets tough“ POV: You're Babycerasaurus. _Souleating Oviraptor is about to kill you_

[@OtterFan48]

Thanks for the timestamps in the description

[@dezel536]

I didn't recognize it before but like that the video shows when you talk about each card. It really is nice to see how long you talk about each topic

[@josehurtado5584]

17:54 also don't forget Magi Magi Magician Gal and Palladium Oracle Mana

[@Megamanlanprime]

I’m surprised that Hot Red Dragon Archfiend wasn’t mentioned because it’s also a retrain of RDA. It’s not as good as Scarlight but it is a retrain

[@alexYu-gi-oh]

It's not a retrain, it's Jack's boss monster from the manga so it wasn't made after Red Dragon Archfiend. Also it have 2000 DEF which is lower than the DEF of RDA

[@Megamanlanprime]

Alex Yu-gi-oh! Actually Hot Red is a retrain in the same way that Scarlight is a retrain. (Note: Arc-V doesn’t give any implication the original RDA exists in their universe) but for the purposes of the game, both Hot Red and Scarlight were created with the intention of replacing the original RDA and make them more powerful.

[@ColetheFlame01]

thats cause thats all the Manga only. it was already around during Red Dragon Archfiend's time. all the signers have a Manga counterpart dragon. Yusei has Stardust Spark Dragon, Jack has Hot Red Dragon Archfiend, Akiza has Black Rose Moonlight Dragon, Leo has Power Tool Mecha Dragon, and Luna has Ancient Pixie dragon, oddly enough being a dark instead of a light attribute.

[@Megamanlanprime]

@@ColetheFlame01 Yea, I know that. Although calling Scarlight a retrain and Hot Red not a retrain is just strange as both Arc-V and the 5D’s manga imply the originals don’t exist in their timelines. Although specifically looking at the game exclusively, it’s hard to say that Hot Red isn’t a RDA retrain (especially considering that you can argue that Scarlight almost feels more like a retrain Hot Red then the original)

[@ColetheFlame01]

@@Megamanlanprime you have to look at the anime and manga as essentially seperate timelines, I never watched ARC V so I dont know about Scarlight, also the Crimson Dragon's role in the anime solidifies this, in the anime, its the leader of the Signer Dragons and exists to defeat the Dark Signers and their Earthbound Immortals, but in the manga its known as Ultimaya Tzolkin and is the enemy of the Signer Dragons who were created to imprison the evil dragon. so yeah, the anime and manga are insanely different, so making the manga cards be called retrains is not true really in that sense. more of just either better or in some cases (stardust/stardust spark) worse effects than the anime alternatives.

[@forbiddenspatula4243]

I like that idea at the end. Top 10 cards that are a combination retrain of older cards.

[@DevelonLP]

what is that nice video bar that shows every step of the top 10? thats really cool

[@Magician2086]

There's also "Darkest Diabolos, Lord of the Lair" which replaces "Diabolos, King of the Abyss" and is a much better card.

[@MansMan42069]

People forget that Ultimate Conductor Tyranno deals the burn damage FIRST. Then IF you do, send the target to the GY. The 1000 damage is mandatory in order for the target to be sent. So even if there was an effect that stops monsters from leaving the field, UCT will still burn the opponent.

[@Goblin_Hands]

Even Tokens too... Even if "Ultimate Conductor Tyranno" attacks a Defense Position Token, you can activate its effect that inflicts 1000 damage to your opponent and sends the attacked monster to the Graveyard. In that case, after inflicting 1000 damage to your opponent, the "Jurraegg Token" disappears instead of being sent to the Graveyard.

[@tjubox17]

I really enjoyed this video. Thanks man.

[@clark987878]

Been binge watching you today. Just got a new sub!

[@vishmaster09]

I expected pot of greed to be here. The most iconic card had a lot of nerfed versions

[@sonicun9907]

I think it’s debatable if apprentice allure magician is a retrain of dark magician girl, I think it’s honestly a whole different thing, there are waaaaaaaay too many differences in design

[@pandogstudios1512]

She's like Ebon Illusion Magician's "Dark Magician Girl"

[@Merilirem]

I just wish they would make a Chaos Magician Girl already.

[@MrToon1994]

The Toon archetype. Is a retrain of the original monsters, with a toon spin off, which also has a retrain to his own main archetypal card "Toon World" in the form of "Toon Kingdom".

[@Sheikah_Architect]

I love this channel. I don't play cards anymore so I really enjoy this types of videos Especially the fact that they tiny effect text is enlarged on the screen.

[@Slayerthecrow]

I like nerf retrains more that nerfed cards, some people consider this filler but is better than reprint a banned card with their original effect changed and ruined.

[@joanaguayoplanell4912]

I agree Erratas should only be used to BUFF cards if anything. The only nerf erratas I say are okay are inclusion of the once per turn restrictions (wich in my opinion should just be the default rule for every effect on every card) and to account newer summoning mechanics (ex things like token summoning cards that became broken with link monsters)

[@dontenglish4822]

9:55 when you realize that everyone has forgotten about 5 headed dragon

[@ColetheFlame01]

ummmm no, 5 headed dragon has an effect. it cant be destroyed by battle or maybe effect I dont remember exactly, by any attribute except I think dark and divine? I dont recall but it has an effect so unrivaled tenyi cant summon it off its floating effect sadly.

[@xCorvus7x]

@@ColetheFlame01 Wasn't it light and divine? Pretty sure there's one head each for exactly the other five (which is why Mirage Knight works against it).

[@ColetheFlame01]

@@xCorvus7x couldve sworn it was light already

[@xCorvus7x]

Ironic. Five headed Dragon _has_ an effect: it must be fusion summoned and can't be destroyed by battle with a Wind, Water, Wire, Earth, or Dark monster. (not the greatest effect given its 5000 Atk; might be mostly for plot reasons, I think this is the same effect as the one it had in the anime, where it was eventually slain by Mirage Knight, a light monster)

[@PaladinThunder02]

Amazing vid mate, I almost subbed

[@williamwoods2536]

One retrain that most people may not know is uni-zombie. It used to be a vanilla monster called three legged zombie

[@johnroberts6377]

Do top 10 Red-Eyes Cards!!!

[@cancerstinks1]

It’s so ironic that Konami keeps releasing Dark Magician legacy support to make the archetype better when it’s used in good decks to make them better while DM continues to be ignored.

[@awesomebirdwatching6831]

It's a good thing that SPYRAL master plan got banned

[@awesomebirdwatching6831]

It's a good thing that SPYRAL master plan got banned

[@hermimonk2748]

A video about combined monsters, as you mentioned while discussing Ultimate Conductor Tyrano would be really cool!

[@Goblin_Hands]

Excluding Fusion, there's probably not too many (Gate Guardian is basically fusion too). Are you looking for something like Apprentice Illusion Magician? It's like DMG stats mixed with The Tricky effect, but doesn't really look like a hybrid but more of a Egyptian DMG in purple. Or maybe Exodia Incarnate being a mix/retrain of Necross but looking like the original? Skull Archfiend of Lightning/Red-Eyes Archfiend...though it's more of a retrain/alt version...Blue-Eyes Chaos Dragon or Alternative Ultimate (wait, a fusion)? What about non-monsters, like Red-Eyes cards with Metalmorph, like B. Metal (wait, they spell it out for the longer name that's about as old...and BEWD is longer and older, wtf), Flare Metal or Darkness Metal? Or Maybe Toon World or Malefic monsters? Or Eye of Timaeus...though that's basically a Contact Fusion with a Spell...Cyber Harpie or Harpie's Pet Baby Dragon? Or...King of the Swamp (of Beast King and Fusion Sage). I'm thinking of old stuff of course, there's also Odd-Eyes that has merged with everything. Would be a good video seeing as non fusions seem to be hard to come up with.

[@Goblin_Hands]

Nekroz?

[@leethomasbennett2805]

Really enjoy your videos 🤓 thank you 🙏

[@mateusrp1994]

Top 10 Signature Attack cards!

[@Schwi02]

#1 FIST OF FATE

[@adamtaurusragnathebloodedg8407]

#2 Blaze Cannon

[@codyholley]

Spiral flame strike

[@SupremeQUEEN668]

Ultimate photon stream!

[@paulkiddie8466]

I can't believe Dark Armed Dragon & Armed Dragon Lv 7 didn't make the list

[@lasarousi]

Tribe infecting virus was my engine on my beat up deck back in 2002. I already used my graveyard as my second hand.

[@HazeEmry]

I'm so glad my baby Rescue Cat got themselves some friends! Haven't played for years and popped off SO HARD when I saw Rescue Cat

[@wyomingptt]

Pretty sure you get the Dark Magician search upon either Normal _or_ Special Summoning Apprentice Illusion Magician right? Also, I thought it was at least a solid two of in DM decks even before Souls.

[@Goblin_Hands]

I still like it since it helps summon Verte Anaconda in the deck that seems to struggle putting bodies on the field.

[@wolfiehatesgoogle]

Some honorable mentions: Desperado Barrel Dragon Metamorphosised Insect Queen Evil HERO Adusted Gold and literally every other retrain besides Ancient Gear Golem - Ultimate Pound because it is a horrid card

[@adamtaurusragnathebloodedg8407]

Ultimate-pound sounds like Mechanized sex between two old Gears

[@kikbakndrelax1]

Good stuff man

[@honeyham6788]

I love this new segementation thing in the video

[@Ultimate23Dragon]

Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon is my all-time favorite monster _(You can _*_literally_*_ tell by my username),_ so I'm always looking for ways to improve my Blue-Eyes Ultimate deck... That trap card you mentioned will definitely help because I know some people who use Lightning Storm! >:D

[@edschramm6757]

ive messed around with ultimate dragon decks once or twice. i hadn't heard of alternative, but beating through with Neo blue eyes is really good too. personally i found i favor the Magician Girls (Spear-headed by Quintet Magician), but still. Alternative ult would actually be a bit of an issue for one of my control lists, which survives off of Yubel. i would be able to slow you down, and get some pretty nasty chip damage in through ultimate nightmare's effect, but because i can't destroy it, it would eventually cause my wall to crumble.

[@photonman0018]

Dishonorable mention to ancient gear golem ultimate pound for basically doing nothing for it's archtype. Day83 of waiting for New photon support.

[@marlonm1596]

Great Video!

[@adriannaranjo4397]

It's a good thing the Captain General faced Tzeentch with pre-erata Rescue Cat or else he never would've been able to beat their Magical Explosion + Morphing Jar otk

[@tiraXpyrrha]

But Little Kitten had the Emperor's protection and believed in the Spleen of the Cards.

[@wyomingptt]

"Blue-Eyes might be the most supported archetype in the game, although Dark Magician is probably close" *_Blackwings_*_ has entered the chat_

[@sekhyhybrid6701]

Tribe-Infecting Virus has another unrelated Retrain, but with a similiar effect: Archnemeses Eschatos. (Which is a significantly better version of Tribe-Infecting Virus.)

[@DJMouthwash]

Thats not a retrain. It's just a monster with a similar effect.

[@zachpeterson4094]

I really enjoyed the video of cards which tell stories. Another one like that would be awesome. Or maybe card art that includes other cards in the artwork

[@kralik394]

IIRC, there was something about Gaia becoming BLS or something.

[@Sammechu]

Love your videos!

[@vm141789]

6:39 That card doesn't exist, but I now totally want Starlight Red Dragon Archfiend. I bet it's OP.

[@oxiclean4x]

You still pronounce Archfiend wrong >:C. There's no eh in between Arch and fiend, so it's not Arch-eh-fiend

[@autobotstarscream765]

Love the username, Fluffal Nation rise up. 😎👍 Cute pfp, is that the All Fiction guy?

[@oxiclean4x]

@@autobotstarscream765 yes, that is Kumagawa, the best character in Medaka Box

[@Prince_Eva_Huepow]

And saying Starlight instead of Scarlight.

[@promisnwekenta9703]

And misreading effects....Illusion magician searches on special as well...

[@autobotstarscream765]

@@promisnwekenta9703 And the card she searches is one that people actually ran once Dragoon hit, so even when Red-Eyes Fusion inevitably gets the hit for being a gigantic cancer enabler, the Souls and Dragoon Yugi-style DM splash meta will march on until power creep eventually passes even them or they get banhammered harder than expected...

[@mr.zendar885]

Correction for apprentice illusion Magician You can add Dark Magician to you hand if she is normal OR special summoned.

[@Chaos706]

I’m adding one to the list. Exodia necross it was upgraded to incarnate. Necross was made to be a monster only able to be defeated by attacking your graveyard but from it’s hard summon condition and only needing to remove one piece to destroy it. It was worthless. Incarnate fixes all of those problems. It’s easy to summon as you only to sacrifice one exodia piece to special summon it and the exodia piece can even be set in defense mode to do it. It has 1000 atk for each piece in the grave which will max at 5k if not on unlimited so you need to remove them from the grave to beat over it. Also it’s immune to all other card effects so it has the protection that necross never had. It’s last effect is a double edged sword where at the end phase you have to bounce an exodia piece from your grave to your hand so on one hand your building exodia on the other hand it loses 1k atk. Then using obliterate you can easily send exodia pieces to the grave I order to fuel it’s power and making the effect of obliterate reusable sense an exodia card is added to your hand.

[@TallMist]

"Archefiend" "Starlight" My god.

[@wilkobadberg5272]

The last time he pronounced it "Archefiend", people gave him a lot of Commentarys to "corrected" him. This time he only said it "false" once... I am pretty sure he does that on purpose 😂

[@zore5872]

Its my first time watching any of your videos and i like it. I guess a suggestion would be ( if you haven't done it already) Would be ten cards that could use a buff/nerf errat to be played again And ten cards that could be use a retrain.

[@WhimsicottFanatic]

The timestamp split feature is pretty neato Can't wait for KZbin to eventually remove it like they always do with neato features, like annotations and submitting response videos to other videos

[@StereoxAS]

Whoa is that brand new timestamp feature or what? Cool man

[@ondank]

My favourite retrain was sky scourge norleras. I made two actually decent decks around it. One which used zombie engines to spam out despair from the dark/zombie master ect after using phantom of chaos to steal its effect. But the other, was just full of level 8 dark monsters as trade in/allure bait, would get norleras into the grave and then use stuff like dark creator to summon them out or Dark Armed Dragon. It was shockingly consistent at doing this first turn. Obviously I never summoned Norleras but it was so obscure and CED had been banned for so long when I was doing this, that no one ever expected it. Good times.

[@richardpe5446]

Would love to see the video you described near the end, the retrained combination cards, like tyranno!

[@bakedcity857]

Not sure if the timestamp thing is new but its amazing!

[@someguy9405]

black luster soldier will never be forgoten on my end because it was one of the first 4 yu-gi-oh cards ive ever owned and i still use it till this day

[@MasterArchfiend]

I use BLS in Duel Links, but that's it and I love ritual monsters so that speaks to how much they need to improve the summoning method. You know it is cumbersome when people who like it barely do so.

[@ExeloMinish]

I know most people won't like that answer, but that's basically what Synchro is. Same basic principle (special summoning based around tributing monsters by adding up their levels) but you don't need to draw a specific ritual spell AND the boss you want to summon anymore. The spell was shoved up one of the mats's butt and the big boss is now accessible at any time.

[@exodia_apophis4133]

Rescue Rabbit and cat are used in modern Gladiator Beast (mainly to go into Test Panther and to contribute to Miracle contact the other Gladiator beast fusion monsters).

[@aereon_gaming]

You said Rescue Rabbit instead of Rescue Cat when explaining Rescue Cat, great video!

[@dillonthevillon3719]

Super conductor tyranno has a special place in my heart, since when I played yu gi oh as a kid I used dinosaur decks and it was my favorite card :)