Top 10 Continuous Trap Cards in Yugioh

[@Rhino-n-Chips]

I like how you had to shove a bunch of these together or the entire list would be floodgates that instantly win the game against certain decks.

[@FullOedipus]

Metal reflect slime is the exact reason my first turn is a 12 minute combo that ends on 4 monsters with 3200 atk and 6 negates. Modern yugioh is sooo fun.

[@HazeEmry]

Wait I thought Metal Reflect Smile's art was a dolphin. I've been lied to

[@StereoxAS]

I'm pretty sure reflect metal slime was already there around in 2006

[@PhredLevi]

Also Anti-Spell Fragrance just hard counters pendulum decks because scales can’t be set face down, so they just can’t be played at all.

[@thetotodile7261]

Because fuck pendulum

[@tame1773]

Ohhhhhhhh... oof

[@ColgatetheTogekiss]

Except D/D/D, which can set scales from deck with gilgamesh.

[@turtlesfan44]

Meh it’s annoying but abyss actors have their own built in floodgate cleaner in the form of rise of the abyss king sure I might have to wait a turn but it can’t be responded to if I have a level 7 or higher abyss actor on the field which is incredibly easy to do for abyss actors even without using the pendulum scale

[@Shugunou]

I remember thinking of using it during master rule 3 but then deciding I didn't want to buy any new cards. I could've won so many regionals.

[@kennydarmawan13]

I agree with you on number 10. I'd rather know why an old card has made a legacy for itself than hear an okay card that's got not much to talk about aside from just being good and that's it. In fact, hearing trivia is more fun than hearing power facts.

[@mystictomato9466]

Wholeheartedly agreed. I could listen about old yugioh card trivia for the entire day.

[@Hamboarding]

I was so relieved, when I saw „Royal Oppression“ show up in tandem with „Vanity's Emptiness“. The way you combined the similar floodgates in one spot each was a really good idea for this video!

[@Hamboarding]

Great video!

[@Carlitonsp1]

Important difference between Imperial Order and Anti-Spell fragrance: Anti-Spell fragrance cannot be activated to negate a card that's trying to target it. This makes it slightly more vulnerable and Spell removal.

[@MrCegeb]

Well you activate it in Draw Phase, unless they use Twin Twister, in which case GG

[@Shugunou]

@@MrCegeb Even so, shutting off Pendulums could make it worth it since Endymion and Dinomist are still decent rogue strategies.

[@donaldlivingston75]

Imperial Order was so strong because it turns off the mechanic that usually destroys floodgates - glad you pointed that out.

[@ShiningJudgment666]

It also hard shut down decks that are highly reliant on Spells to start their plays.

[@DigitalxGamer]

I really like this really niche use of Call of the Haunted: Chaining it to ST removal in order to activate a monster's destruction by effect trigger.

[@jacthing1]

Another fun option is using it to summon jinzo. Cause he then immediately negates call of the haunted, and because of that if it's destroyed then he stays on the field

[@Tea_Dawg]

Thought I was the only one to use it like that I also used it to bring back stuff like wildheart

[@MissOaky]

Vanity's Emptiness on the list confirmed. before even watching it

[@alucard4344]

No shit Sherlock

[@isaiahh5181]

This the equivalent of pot of greed being in a top ten most op spell cards video😭

[@sirswagabadha4896]

Love how you ended the video by admitting that it's pretty much all floodgates that are the best continuous traps

[@anonjohn9760]

I think the reason C.T.s are thought of as floodgates is that they're inherently best suited towards that purpose. They are the traditional form of interaction with your opponent on their turn, and their persistent nature lets you maintain their effect unlike one-off activations like Counter Traps or Quick Plays. Sure, you also got cards like Call of the Haunted or Crackdown that serve other functions, but they're in the minority and act like glorified Equip spells for all their functionality. So in the end floodgate effects end up getting printed onto C.T.s because that's were they work best in.

[@animationtv426]

Counter traps?

[@thaddeusgenhelm8979]

CT is, indeed, an awkward initialism when it works for Counter *and* Continuous Traps.

[@babaG819]

Another potential drawback to call of the haunted is that if the monster is removed from the field without being destroyed, it stays on the field blocking a zone.

[@CrnaStrela]

Could still be a plus because it would've been a target for something like Zephyros the elite to return it to the hand and then set it again

[@babaG819]

@@CrnaStrela truuuuu

[@babaG819]

@@CrnaStrela as someone who only plays blackwing I appreciate this comment lol

[@TimothyGod]

@@babaG819 blackwings are life

[@ImThatSmooth]

@@TimothyGod the fact that black wings are even still a thing is heartwarming lol the nostalgia is real

[@Exiled28]

Shootout to Gravity's Bind, back in the day that card was a nightmare to deal with since most monsters where lvl 4 or above and s/t removal was quite rare, you had to hard draw it not like today that you can just summon a removal from the extra deck.

[@evanbarkman5786]

That was my deck back in the day. I used Gravity Bind, and guys like Swarm of Scarabs and Swarm of Locusts, one destroys Monsters the other destroys S/T cards and they can flip facedown, as well as Des Lacooda who has a similar effect but for drawing cards. I also built my deck to nearly always be able to destroy S/T cards because one person I played against liked to use Wave Motion Cannon and I needed to be able to destroy it when the time came.

[@Exiled28]

Yeah I had a similar experience some guy in my locals was an insect player, DNA surgery + Insect barrier was pretty annoying, there was also a water duelist with Tornado wall + Umi, both of them used gravity bind and Limit Area B, very annoying to face luckily my Jinzo helped me big time in those days, mst and giant trunade where pretty helpful too.

[@deadpool1454]

Used to play Gren Maju and gravity bind. My cousins hated it lol

[@ruyman90]

I remember that call of the haunted had a flaw on design. The card specifies that "when the monster is destroyed, destroy this card" meaning that if you tributed the summoned monster you lock one slot of your spell/trap zone indefinitely until your opponent or yourself destroyed it.

[@Sanctuary666]

But if you managed to return call of the haunted to your hand, you'd keep the monster and get to use it again

[@jon_bone]

Top 10 Equip Spells Top 10 Cards to use with lair of darkness Top 10 cards that tribute your opponent's monsters(s) (kaijus count as one entry) Top 10 cards that can attack directly

[@mudpies7929]

Can’t do the tribute one because besides Kaijus there’s only Santa Claws, Sphere Mode, Volcanic Queen, and Lava Golem I think

[@jon_bone]

@@mudpies7929 There are plenty of tribute cards, they go beyond monsters

[@sakuyabestgirl3418]

This sounds like you're asking to make a lair of darkness otk deck using equip spells...

[@jon_bone]

@@sakuyabestgirl3418 Rikka is an entire archetype about tributing your opponent's monsters

[@RuriMizuno]

@jon_bone Actually, only the archetype's boss monster, Teardrop the Rikka Queen, directly tributes your opponent's monsters. The Rikka archetype uses monster tributes as a core mechanic, certainly, but most of those tributes are your own monsters. The continuous spell Rikka Flurries can force your opponent to tribute a monster, but they get to choose, and the tribute is conducted by them; similarly, the trap card Rikka Sheet can be used to steal an opponent's monster until the End Phase and temporarily change it into a Plant Type monster, thereby allowing the Rikka player to benefit from tribute get said monster -- but at the time of tribute to it, it's under the control of the Rikka player.

[@MarioLopez-xs3vc]

The neat thing about Call of the Haunted is that you can use it to revive something just to trigger its Special Summon effect, then let backrow removal or cards can that tribute traps and/or monsters(True Draco and Vision HEROs can use both to get two mats for a tribute summon) get it off the field so you don't get reamed by an opponent's attack through it later. It also works on Links unlike Back to the Front.

[@Acidonia150reborn]

Great Boost for both effects of Wight Princess too.

[@mfznal-hafidz8592]

you can summon thunderclap skywolf using that card to destroy opponent's monster during their turn as well

[@scythermantis]

The OG was Prisma+Tiger -> Gyzarus Pop itself set Call then Call during opponent's start of battle phase and pop their monsters haha

[@OgreRamProductions]

Top 10 Worst Traps (of any kind, I know you already did counter-traps). Would be interesting since traps are already hindered and generally worse than a spell with the same effect, so it would be cool to see the worst of the worst

[@Kuronosa]

Points to Terrible Deal

[@EternalEmperorofZakuul]

Call from the grave White hole

[@Nomlezz6th5]

Traps are good the problem that they are power creept with the time In the past the number of quick play spells and quick effects were low and not many of them are effective The only cards that can effect in your enemy's turn were traps But you know they power crept over the time with the release of many quick play spells, hand traps and quick effects

[@jacthing1]

@@Nomlezz6th5 we need quick play trap cards I guess lol.

[@thisisiampie6946]

Jar of generosity takes number 1, like why does it exist

[@xCorvus7x]

Call of the Haunted being a trap card (and as such activatable during your opponent's turn) also allowed for some fun plays, especially during the battle phase.

[@Gebirges]

Just letting you guys know: Halqifibrax gonna be BANNED in Masterduel ❤

[@Citizen_Nappa23]

That's a hit that's of no consequence to me I don't use it.

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

Top 10 "Comeback" cards that are most useful when you're losing/that exist to turn around bad situations

[@melvinshine9841]

Don't know if there's enough cards for a conditional floodgates list. Only one that readily comes to mind is Secret Village of the Spellcasters as that can be a one sided Imperial Order with no maintenance cost. Top 10 Synchro Tuners Top 10 Extra Deck Pendulum Monsters Top 10 Best/Worst Cards That Can Miss Timing Top 10 Worst Continuous Spell Cards Top 10 Honorary Archetype Cards Top 10 Rekindling Targets

[@scottbecker4367]

"With Imperial Order you can shut down spell heavy decks like Floowandereeze." ... I'm rethinking my stance on this card.

[@thisisiampie6946]

Brought ptsd when looking at 4 spells in hand

[@gabegonzalez9733]

You use rivalry to stop your opponent from playing the game. I use it to stop them from kaijuing me. we are not yhe same

[@pumpkingkingoftoons6185]

20:53 ... ngl i think this is the opposite. Vanity's Emptiness is much stronger than oppression in my opinion

[@rif3101]

1. Top 10 cards that "summon to this card points to" 2. Top 10 cards that banned because other cards effect/existence (example: spyral master plan, banned because magician's souls released. Samsara lotus, banned because it can create otk with other cards combo)

[@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor]

For 1: Halqifibrax I'd say that second one goes with the "explaining banned cards" series.

[@AsherX9]

Top 10 Taunting cards (cards that prevent your other cards from being targeted or attacked, and make the opponent target itself instead)

[@Law34prez]

So what I gather as an "old school" player, the key to modern yugioh is preventing your opponent from playing yugioh in any way. Nice. I don't get off on humiliation so I don't get it. Great video regardless

[@CrnaStrela]

Most of those cards are from old school era man, they've been preventing people from playing long time ago.

[@Law34prez]

@@CrnaStrela Im not saying it was just invented, but negates and hand traps certainly weren't key words back then either lol I like all the cards but I also like playing

[@indumatipngtuber2790]

People love masochism.

[@Law34prez]

@@indumatipngtuber2790 Sadism in this case, but I agree nonetheless

[@indumatipngtuber2790]

@@Law34prez Oh no, the floodgates and negates are also a thing that works against the player as well.

[@rolliepollie941]

I feel like summon limit should share the number 1 spot because it also limits summons and can also counts summons while it’s facedown

[@scythermantis]

I agree

[@TimothyGod]

Well it's not that it counts face down also. Just that the wording kinda just affects the player

[@JohnzaloogIII]

Shout out to Royal Decree, which could stop any of the other cards on this list.

[@Lastbornschwab7]

Imperial order being nerfed and still rebanned is such a joke.

[@JackDblade]

Grave of the Super Ancient Organism is a weaker Clearwing Synchro Dragon. If your deck doesn't care about levels and go into xyz or link plays, it really screws with your opponent.

[@freezingcicada6852]

I remember Call of the Haunted was really good in Synchro formats. Mainly Blackwings or Ice barrier synchros able to bounce it back to hand after the target was synchro material.

[@edgar1990ish]

Can I suggest a top 10 cards that parody another Yugioh cards? You know like the toon monsters or the doodle dinosaur monsters that were recently release

[@HopUpOutDaBed]

no royal decree? That saw way more play than Metal Reflect Slime ever did if we're talking legacy formats

[@TheRealDriftClan]

Macro cosmos is also great I think, most meta decks rely on cards in the graveyard to activate effects so getting banished can shut a lot down

[@BezimiennyMarcel]

Top 10 Most Hated Cards in Yugioh?

[@Chizzardd]

Love your vids bro could you do a „top 10 monster effects that let you draw cards“ video

[@Piggly8w8]

16:49 can someone tell me why this is true, yet Double Summon isn’t a top tier staple card?

[@rovend9913]

Robbin' goblin Best trap card i used to win at yugioh gx ps2 tag force

[@lucascostadacruz3215]

12:05 if it's monsters that weren't affected by skill draw card effects it becomes useless against them

[@boy19901]

I think should include wall of revealing light for a highlight or sth. i know it not really good but it been abused left and right

[@TWLSpark]

Probably because the only thing people abused of it was the LP payment, so it probably could fit a different kind of top.

[@SloopYGO]

"skill drain was initially placed on the banlist alongside vanity's emptiness" and it should have stayed there

[@Citizen_Nappa23]

Nah with all the monster effect heavy spam decks it needs to be allowed, maybe limited to 2 per deck but not banned.

[@howieewalt1322]

Call of the haunted is kind of annoying. In the two Legacy of the Duelist YGO games, sometimes the card will stay on the field despite the monster being removed. Effectively just taking up a spell-zone slot. I would imagine the games would have the rulings pretty correct, so I wonder why/when this happens.

[@JoshTesdale]

Because you don't read n jus assume everything works the way you perceive it

[@zeganzoma7608]

A fun fact about Bad Reaction to Simochi and the Nurse Burn deck in general: If you have D/D/D Oracle King D'arc out on the field while BRtS and Darklord Nurse are also on the field, you actually still GAIN Lp with stuff like Giftcard because (for some strange ruling reason) D'arc supersede the other 2, making her the best monster/card to play against Nurse Burn. I only know this because it happened to me in Master Duel and my opponent let me bring out D'arc after nearly killing me and trying to flex on me or something.

[@jacthing1]

Lol. I bet they were *Pissed*

[@abuhassan8849]

I think Summon Limit, Mistake, There Cann Be Only One & even Lose 1 Turn are easily way better continuous trap cards unlike other cards TheDuelLogs.

[@CrnaStrela]

Summon limit and there can only be one are together with rivalry spot. Mistake probably warrant 10th spot but he wants to talk about Metal Reflect Slime, and Lose 1 turn is just skill drain with extra step.

[@fisyx]

An trap I think deserves an honourable mention: Psy-Frame Overload. Once per turn, target and banish any card on the field face down by banishing a psyframe monster from your hand or field which means they're never going to see that card again. Lets you convert useless framegears in hand into interruption, can remove monsters from your own field, and non-once per turn searches any archetype card after being sent to the graveyard. Combing with Psy-Framelord Omega means free searches every opponent's standby phase. Plus lots of psychic support allows you to recover the cards banished for cost and reuse them. Somewhat archetype specific but very powerful. With gamma being in lots of decks it's something to consider as it lets you use the grammas after the first one for something.

[@thisisiampie6946]

Actually in sprite you can easily search Gamma and make lamda making the Gamma live and making it become an interrupt after negating

[@thedragonauthority]

I still run a Nurse Burn deck and have improved it greatly from its old build. Ring of Destruction and Mahaama the Fairy Dragon, for example, make great additions to the deck.

[@captainmunchlax4808]

I feel like you could unban ultimate offering without giving it a once per turn, BUT it would come with a bigger life point cost(maybe 2000 per normal summon)AND the restriction that the cards that were normal summoned are banished if they leave the field, instead of going to the graveyard

[@jacthing1]

I wonder if it would get used if the cost was 8000 life points. Was originally gonna suggest maybe 4000. That way if you have a way to gain life points somehow. Then you get to use it twice.

[@captainmunchlax4808]

@@jacthing1 no, because then you just lose instantly. If it was 4000 it would just be a worse double summon, however if it was 2000 life points it has potential to be still good, without being broken.

[@ethanhopper2467]

I think the only good deck that would maybe play ultimate offering in its current state is Floowandereeze. With the speed of modern yugioh, setting a trap that really doesn’t have utility until turn 3 isn’t where you want to be.

[@captainmunchlax4808]

@@ethanhopper2467 idk generic extra normal summons is pretty good even if slow

[@salvadorsanchez5057]

call of the haunted and other revival traps see play in kozmo decks, since you can revive a dark destroyer or sliprider to proc their destruction effects

[@Ohnonoki]

Shaddoll schism not making the list is a bit disappointing. I know you mentioned it, but holy shit that card is what made that deck busted. Not construct, not winda, not shaddoll fusion. It was schism enabling you to do everything about with resources you couldn't normally access, especially at the time in the game. Schism is one of the best continous spells in the game, no contest.

[@Justin-dl3ti]

Alternative: Top 10 Continuous Eldlich players only hope.

[@vguy488]

Ahh, old school Yugi was the bomb. So many hours spent imagining strategies before there even was a limited/forbidden list. What you could pull off in those days was legendary. I left the game well over 10 years ago due to rising card costs which meant that you had to sink in some serious coin to even stand a chance in tournaments, not to mention the whole shift from xyz to pendulum and beyond felt really overwhelming at the time. I wonder if maybe I should give it another chance, if only to diversify my hobby pool a little. Cheers!

[@MarioLopez-xs3vc]

Just one extra normal summon or set per turn is still kinda nutty, and Ultimate Offering also works on the opponent's Battle Phase as a potential form of interruption. It would be interesting to see it as a way to play around special summon floodgates if both were legal simultaneously though, and would make Maxx "C" a lot less devastating of a card for some decks to deal with. This really does seem like the kind of situation where one existing without the other makes things too swingy.

[@zazaincognito8499]

I feel like a cool honorable mention would have been Unending Nightmare, been thinking about how versatile it is.

[@Omniroc]

What about Summon Limit. While not as strong as Vanity's it is a great counter to combo decks. Especially if you have a control or pendulum deck. Pendulum summoning counts as 1 summon.

[@jacobpiol5946]

I remember when I was younger I had ultimate offering in my deck for the playground and with friends, but I read it and was like "Thats good but, 500 life points PER SUMMON?" So I was super hesitant to use its effect.

[@teafollet5361]

Metal reflect slime was a good card to use Metamorphosis on. Since its level is 10, you could grab Ultimate cydra (which was relevant at the time)

[@ShiningJudgment666]

Metamorphosis was banned when Metal Reflect Slime hit the TCG.

[@Sora-GrandCross]

Ultimate offering gear gadgets is just worse Flunder smh i say we unban it

[@ladyriethegoldendelmo5441]

good list but imperial order should be one because not only is it banned and I doubt it will get off unless a big nerf. 2nd most decks dont really use traps and if they do well... its only like hand traps, negates, or waking dragon or reboot. besides those... most decks dont use traps. so if u fought against decks that only uses monsters and spells. and u had that and u had cards to prevent tributes or like prevent monster effects u pretty much win. but at the same time we need it unbanned so we dont have to worry anout massive spells all the time

[@l.billard218]

Old yugioh is the best yugioh. They need to release an original format.

[@JoshTesdale]

After GX yugioh died

[@halo3boy1]

The fact Egyptian god slime has an animation in MD and not the gods themselves says alot about Komoney thought processes.

[@JuIioBarriga]

Love to see so many old cards in the top

[@StormKidProductions]

Top 10 Floodgates that aren't obvious Floodgates (for example, Masq prevents you from activating any effects if you have less than 600 LP)

[@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

16:21 How about a more “balanced” version of this card to retain as much power as posssible while keeping it from being banned. _Divine Offering_ Continuous Trap Card _During their turn, either Player can normal summon/set 1 monster, then they pay LP equal to the summoned monsters combined ATK/DEF after this effect resolves. Players cannot special summon the turn they activate this effect. Players who normal summon/set 3 monsters in a single turn while this card is face-up on the field can add 1 Divine-Beast or level 10 “Wicked” monster to their hand from their deck._

[@CrnaStrela]

Great, now you just created a Floowandreeze + Slifer support

[@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

@@CrnaStrela I mean I didn’t want to do a once per turn because that’s so overused these days, so I A: make it so BOTH players benefit from it equally, B: They pay LP equal to the combined ATK/DEF any extra monsters they normals summon (so unless they keep to monsters that are equal to or under a grand stat total of 500 you pay more for each summon.) and C: if players DO use extra normal summons they can’t use special summoning that turn, which all but locks out special summon only monsters (extra deck, ritual monsters, various main deck boss monsters, a good chunk of card effects, etc…). The god card/wicked god thing was a fun idea I thought would mesh well with this.

[@stevenrhodes8338]

I feel lucky I sold my 30 or so imperial orders from when I was a kid in 2018 for 10 a pop

[@nX-EmraKuL]

Surprised to not see Macro on the list, understand that u were limiting the floodgates lineup, but that one is something else (even though not many decks can play that)

[@ACE_77]

If you are a new player and u watch this video u'll feel like eldlich is the terror of all being with all the floodgates lmao, which is true lmao

[@Sun_Downer]

Could you please not use that graphic effect at the beginning of the video, it makes it impossible to read the quick card examples you show. :)

[@vincentwiliamphilips]

top 10 two card combo

[@nanya524]

Ah yes, Anti-Spell Fragrance. I combined that with Dark Simorgh back in the day, since there wasn't a ton of monsters that could deal with a 2700 beater (that could come back) and not being able to use spells, it was really silly.

[@AZ-rl7pg]

How did Sea Stealth Attack not make the list? It's probably one of the most powerful traps ever printed. Not only does it automatically destroy anything that battles your level 5+ water monsters but it can also prevent all of your face-up spell/traps from being destroyed too. It's basically a win con for any Umi based deck.

[@olehart5850]

Also, if you have a way to give your opponent a monster and make it the only monster on their field (kaijus, sphere mode, ojama trio, etc...) you can use rivalry of the warlord or gozen match to lock them into a potentially useless type and stop them from playing until they remove the floodgate or the monsters.

[@Sammechu]

Shaddoll Schism! Love that card

[@15codys]

I love Eldlich and the chaos the deck causes using so many floodgates!

[@ab14967]

This ultimately wouldn't change how the card is played, but it would be funny for Imperial Order to be errata'd so that there is no destruction clause. Unless the card gets destroyed, they are playing chicken with a continuous life point siphon that WILL kill them if they just let it sit on their board.

[@ethanhopper2467]

There are a few cards that I think should have made it on over the bottom couple on this list, notably the True Draco continuous traps and SPYRAL Mission - Rescue. Both have been significant pieces of tier 1/tier 0 decks.

[@seighnobos]

I would like Black Ptera to be mentioned in a list, so a very recyclable effect, it could have been mentioned here easily with cannon soldier and ultimate offering as an OTK; it could also be done with pre errata firewall dragon, though I think it requires 2 Black Ptera. Definitely a card that surprisingly has not been broken yet.

[@YohananYGO]

I don't like to see old cards , list should be about current game tbh

[@lucascostadacruz3215]

0:05 my favorite

[@hecatombx6025]

Sadly the top 3 Is kinda obvious: Vanity, IO, oppresion

[@LeStachyPoro]

Idea for the next video: Top 10 Lingering Effects

[@lucascostadacruz3215]

14:35 even so, it did no good to have changed the spelling of that letter most of the time. players hate this card

[@ShyRanger]

Nice to see Rivalry of Warlords since I play Zombies. Another neat use for it, although it's more situational, is, if I'm facing an opponent who uses monotype anyway, Rivalry can occasionally work as Shiranui Slash fodder if the opponent only has one card I can destroy, since Slash needs two targets. Again, very rarely happens but it's funny when it does.

[@oracle9_tann472]

I run an (almost pure) Traptrix deck, and Anti-Spell Fragrance goes a long way. Lord of Heavenly Prison basically gives you 100% backrow protection well it's revealed from the hand, so I normally don't even summon it unless I have a second one. It's pretty much my biggest combo to shut down spell-heavy decks. Let them set their important, combo-playing spell cards, then just destroy them.

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

Top 10 Cards that are hard to use but will probably win the duek for you alone if you can manage to just get it out?

[@petrie911]

Ultimate offering already sounded good. Then he pointed out it wasn't once per turn. Good lord.

[@lucascostadacruz3215]

10:55 I used this letter a lot but today I changed my mind about this letter

[@Richard-Ford]

So I've only recently come back to yugioh thanks to MD, but I have a lot of fun just trying various types of decks. I've even started buying the odd pack of real cards, even though I have nowhere locally to even play with other people. I pulled the continuous trap card Imperial Iron Wall the other day. Why is this card not considered good? The effect is simply "Neither player can banish cards". That just sounds really strong against a lot of deck types, such as Eldlitch, Swordsoul, Virtual World....Floo?, as well as a number of staples such as the adventure token engine, called by, and several "pot of" cards. Oh, and meme decks like Gran Maju, or DD Dynamite. Is it just the fact that it's not quite generic enough, or is there some kind of difference in rulings that I'm not getting?

[@757gamerguy2]

Dude I got an idea for a video. Do a Top 10 Best Commons. Like cards that were ORIGINALLY printed in their ORIGINAL SET as common cards, but saw frequent competitive play

[@rodriguebrvd1993]

You're overestimating Ultimate Offering by a lot. A lot of old school players do actually. Tbh I can't see any modern decks where you would like to play it nowadays. It is just too slow, on top of being unsearchable. For most common strategies, it being a trap card is just too slow : you won't be able to use it for your turn 1 combo. And what decks would be interested to normal summon multiple times during the opponent BATTLE PHASE ? Not to mention your opponent may just skip it btw if he knows you're playing this. So the card would actually probably only be live by turn 3 when its effect is not useful anymore (and easily negated as a continuous trap). So you would have to play a strategy that actually relies on this card to win (like the Athena Honest combo you mentionned), which would be really bad because the card is unsearchable. So really, the card could come out the banlist just fine. Its like when people were afraid of unbanning Pot of Avarice : yes the card looks scary on paper because multiple additional Normal Summon seems crazy, but the fact that it is a trap and the phases you are allowed to activate it are really restrictive would make it a bad card by today standards.

[@ImThatSmooth]

The whole video I’m telling myself “royal oppression has to be number 1 right?”, and there it was I miss tele dad days, the game was fast but it wasn’t Uber fast like it is now, and it was very diverse RO got banned because of that deck, I was playing Little City (3 skill drains 3 royal oppression with a whole bunch of e hero vanilla beat sticks) and I remember how busted royal oppression was Literally won my first tournament because of that card

[@legendarycollection7184]

Before eldrag era i have 3 copy of vanity empetiness. I read the effect, its quite impress for my self that this card was 1$ per copy while i think early that this card just floatgate opponent not me because how easy to get ride this card even back then before eldrag release, MTS already 3 copy and heavy storm legit limit card. After the announce of eldrag i assume this will be a tier zero with spellbook, i buy a copy of vanity empetiness as much as i can and hopefully this card get noticed in big event, and one month i already had 12 copy of vanity empetiness, the price raise up to 30$ that day, and i sell them all, good feeling that 12$ became 360$ hahaha

[@Gebirges]

Honestly Imperial Order is fine. It's just players dislike having to run decks at not full power and instead have to think about their deck and deck balance to hinder cards like this or any other floodgate.

[@enlongjones2394]

Rivalry of Warlords is infuriating because it still applies even if the summon you want to do would remove all the monsters from your side of the field before you summon anything. And yes, I know that’s the official ruling. Still hate it.

[@jhsrt985]

1month after I saw your "blue eyes cards we need in duelmasters" video Konami released them and I just found out during your life stream 2 days ago when u were using blue-eyes jet. I picked the worst time to stop playing4. Tldr u showed me I fkd up

[@Montracht]

In a Master Duel BO1 format, floodgates are super strong, i mainly play branded despia and the decks only out to Skill Drain is, guardian chimera + comedy to send it to GY.

[@jonribeiro266]

How does Jinzo work with Skill Drain?

[@18nightc322]

It depends on which were set first. If the skill drain was already on the field it drains jinzos skill

[@starwarzfan71]

Last week some basically killed me with a quadruple flood gate of synchro zone, there can only be one, gozen match and rivalry of the warlords