Top 25 Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards That Defined The Playground Meta |

[@wyattdupre2721]

Good yugioh article?

[@cleanseroftheworld]

And it was written by leaked Therion support!

[@mslabo102s2]

It's Hard Drive

[@AceTrainerLupi]

This is what happens when you hire actual people who play the game and are capable of making jokes instead of asking ChatGPT to do the work. But it's also more expensive, hence articles like this are rarity nowadays.

[@elin111]

The article neglects to mention that all those kids were playing with 89-card decks and obviously they were unsleeved.

[@brunozoller4087]

With 8 copies of RotA inside

[@miguelmata6883]

My playground had people just spamming equip spells and 1700+ beststicks, so imagine our faces when a kid from another school metagame'd us so hard with Tailor of the Fickle and Collected Power 😂

[@HyperWhale286]

Patrician of Darkness was the most funniest card for me as a kid. That one idea that came into my mind was redirect my cousin's attack into a direct attack for my advantage, and he was like: no that's cheating. We had an argument that lasted forever, all thanks to this mf

[@VixYW]

I remember someone in school using that card to redirect a stone soldier attack into the moon equip card. That kid became a legend.

[@DuncanHarbison]

I remember people using dark master, i put magic cylinder and 3 draining shield in my deck. Infinite attack vs infinite life got very philosophical for 10 year olds playing yugioh

[@MinumS09]

Duncan where is my jinzo?

[@Apocralyph]

That Silver Fang combo tutorial is actualy really useful. You want to summon your monster before using Raigeki to play around Torrential.

[@KayneAung]

WTH,that’s like the best yugioh article I have ever seen in years lmao. Every single one of them always hurt my brain so bad.

[@snow8398]

I remember going to summer camp and having to create a banlist with my friends because some guy was rocking marshmallon + marshmallon glasses That combo was crazy

[@DuncanHarbison]

The best combo i knew back then was spirit barrier + astral barrier, i played a single copy of each

[@koidayo]

Give me back my Jinzo, Duncan

[@WaltonGFilm]

​@@koidayo UNDERRATED AF!! x,D

[@9clawtiger]

Equip cards are the big one. Malevolent Nuzzler, Axe of Despair, etc... My first level up was Warrior Toolbox with Marauding Captain attack lock.

[@paulieswalnut]

I'll never forget a coworker back in 2003 who thought "When control switches" meant simply summoning Ameba and passing turn would trigger it's burn effect. 😂

[@AngelofHell1311]

Ordeal by a Traveler was the best card at our playground 😅

[@hawkticus_duel_shack]

To answer your question about Mr. Volcano, i used him, alongside the other one tribute Fire vanilla Twin Fire Dragon or whatever his name was cuz i got the Fire deck as a kid and they outted the 2k walls. Plus they were on theme and i thought they looked cool Edit: We in the US got his head with Dark Duel Stories

[@hikaritsumi2123]

Not sure if that was good or not but it's genuine, not some AI crap and also give me a good laugh

[@HyperWhale286]

Like the Neos writer

[@SkyFireYZ]

Looks real considering a maxx C complaint at 3:33

[@iewad8761]

Destiny Hero Defender was legit the best card. Massive def and decks your opponent out.

[@animefreak2438]

When i was young , I used to banish a light and a dark to summon Chaos sorcerer from my deck because it didn’t specify where I had to summon it from.

[@mattbaltimore7195]

7:20 LowTierPatrician........ 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Chris-jw8vm]

I had level 4 16,500 atk monster. Was a misprint. Wish I'd had the chance to play it but I was just collecting by then.

[@larhyperhair]

No one ever beat my strategy of summoning a bunch of high attack elemental heroes and then summoning ELEMENTAL HERO LADY HEAT and just burning my opponent out every end phase

[@larhyperhair]

In this same vein when I read the text on Elemental recharge I lost my MIND. You're telling me I gain 1000 LP FOR EVERY E HERO?

[@AceTrainerLupi]

One that I was using an awful lot on Dueling Network and in old Yugioh Game Boy Advance games, when I was getting into Yugioh was Kinetic Soldier (nowadays known as Cipher Soldier for some reason). He was pretty much the most powerful monster I had for the strategy I developed without netdecking as a 13 years old boy. Level 3, so played nicely under Gravity Bind and Level Limit - Area B, Warrior decks were pretty common among opponents I encountered and synergized with DNA Surgery, basically making him a 3350 beatstick. Once, one of my friends organized and judged (as the person who knew the most about the game) a tournament for people from our Pokemon forum and he was called multiple times by my opponents, because this card was just unfair and they never heard of anything like this (it was prohibited to talk about people's decks with someone who hasn't played against them yet, so the reaction was almost always the same).

[@ziggystardust1973]

Depends on when you were in the playground. There's people who used Accescode, probably. When I was dueling in school playground we were using early synchros. I personally was using Trident Dragion and Montage Dragon (I cheated to always have high level discards)

[@Ruggi21]

for us in italy ( people born in 2003-2008) ive been in very different places playing and everywhere you went utopic future was THE boss monster and the objective, mainly because everyone thought he was immune from card effects

[@adriangutierrez7686]

When yugioh came out, I was in 7th grade, but I remember I sometimes played afterschool with elementary kids. I remember sometimes playing and trading stuff like rude Kaiser for La Jinn or battle ox. That was in 2003-04, so cards like Scrap iron scarecrow and Marshmallon didn't exist. I never saw elementary or middle school kids play yugioh after 2006. Ever, sadly. We did continue to play with one friend long after everyone else abandoned ship.

[@FearedKamil]

Legend still has it that Duncan still never gave back that Jinzo.

[@TheFizio]

2:45 the Dark Emperor structure deck had BOTH💀 along with dimensional fissure and Gren Maju

[@RunicSigils]

I started collecting when MRD was the new release so my first three Exodia pieces were from trading a Spellbinding Circle (1e) for the head, left arm, and left leg (all also 1e). The dude knew their value at the time so I have no idea why he wanted a Spellbinding Circle so badly but I wasn't going to say no considering how much MRL I had already bought meaning it wasn't my only copy. Also, I don't know why that thing says The Fiend Megacyber was 2004 in the TCG. PSV released at the end of 2002 and that was it's debut, not Dark Beginning. It was called Dark Beginning because it was a reprint set featuring the beginning sets with PSV being the fourth. It was even a tournament pack reprint like a year prior to Dark Beginning.

[@koraptenshi8709]

MR VOLCANO WOW ! One of my favorite old cards! And all those "darkfire soldiers". Scrap iron scarecrow was not in my playground deck as an '95 kid that time and on elementay school we were playing most normal monsters, and yugi-kaiba-joey focused cards plus all of us were chasing the dark magician-blue eyes- red eyes-exodia-egyptian god cards as we didnt know english. However and primary school the above cards were introduced to us and i made a DARK focused deck (maju garzett, mega fiend cyber, reptilliane medusa) and instinctively was going into tele dad without knowing the meta(with destiny heroes, rainbow dark dragon, dad etc). I was just looking the cards and thinking "oh my god, they are so badass and broken".

[@vampman87]

Dian Keto was good at the very beginning, but she got power crept by Poison of the Old Man, who have you 1200 points OR could burn your opponent for 800, AND it was a quick play so you could do it on your opponent's turn.

[@goldenarmour7975]

I'm a bit younger, so the cards I remember are a bit different, even if some of these are all-time classics, but I'm sure some will relate. For us, it was Garunix. The amount of ruling mistakes we made with this card, omg. We thought you could foolish it and trigger it off kirin. We thought discarding and tributing also worked. This card was so broken at our playground that everyone just rocked a fire king starter deck at some point.

[@andreatorriglia8010]

back to when i was a kid a friend of mine activated prohibition and declared: "i prohibit you from drawing" and of course i fucking lost that duel

[@kitsunewarlock]

Guardian Sphinx made one of my friends quit the game.

[@son_of_the_heavymetal1142]

I still remeber a former friend of mine that used to have a Galaxy Eyes Dragon card but he traded it for a Dragon card he could not even summon only because it had 4katk. The playground era

[@alanclarck1996]

Heavy storm was in the red eyes starter deck and I think zombie one so not the first first but early structure decks yes

[@michaelmorales1602]

Dummy Golem was the most OP card in my circle. We didn't realize that Dummy Golem had to survive battle in order to swap itself over, so it was just a permanent Change of Heart for any monster that kills it xD

[@MrIsleNFair]

DNA surgery + Insect Barrier was also the strat on Joey The Passion PC game at 2 stars difficulty. 20 turns just to draw the out MST, aah my first mystic mine

[@minasamir2954]

the "Infinite card" was so accurate. my friend back then used it to draw his entire deck!

[@ForrestHadrin]

I remember as a kid buying either dark beginning 1 or dark legends and getting all the exodia limbs but could never pack the head.

[@H4R14N]

When I was 7 we didn’t know the rules so we just played out of our imagination, my neighbor who btw had 25 cards in his deck used to play jam breeding machine. He said that whenever you destroyed a token the token would just get duplicated, just like a droplet of water . It made so much sense to us that we went along with it. That card was the most broken card at the time for us

[@Mt.Berry-o7]

Mr. Volcano was one of the cards I played the most when I was a wee lad, It's a card I remember strangely vividly.

[@Metaknight145]

To be fair to mister volcano, getting above 2000 is a really important statline in a limited format where you're stuck with mostly commons and no reliable playsets. 2000 Walls can be really annoying without removal.

[@crazycubanjr]

Spirit reaper! Sad it didn’t make the list!!

[@Diabl0Mask]

My ultimate combo back then was "Heart of Clear Water" + "Ring of Magnetism", I also used burn cards like "Chain Energy" and "Toll", ended up losing half the time because of them 😂

[@yourdad6236]

I remember my friend having Patrician and when I went to end my turn he tried to force me to attack and I just said "no"

[@task_failer8223]

Farfa not being able to read half the article and just skipping through them is kinda disappointing ngl

[@takuzorue]

that exchange effect had me crackin up 🤣 cuz it really did happen back then

[@sladevalen]

Wheres maha vailo and twin headed thunder dragon? Those were the cards that made my childhood

[@chimmyinfernape9189]

Not a single card but when I was in high school like 2012ish there was a yugioh club at school and a whole deck I made got the ban hammer because everyone hated it. Ojama synchro. Basically you turboed into ojama knight and king to lock all monsters and while doing that you used a combination of rescue rabbit and junk synchro to cheat out the extra ojamas out of the deck and then revive to use for medium level synchros and rank 2xyzs. It was so nasty of a lock back then everyone said we are refusing to duel if you even so much as bring the deck

[@comicfan3133]

I can feel the nostalgia, our Meta was heavily ruled by traps like mirror force and it ´s variations, magic cylinders, draining shields and even Sakuretsu Armor. with this Jinzo was also a top contender for the monsters. other than these Battle Traps we focused our decks on attack modification, and monster removal. good old times, where one card could change anything. but even as kids we didn´t like pendulums and banned it on the playground. and the bending of the rules was also an experience. like Synchro summon, what do you mean the levels need to add up. the card clearly says one tuner and one non tuner monster, so let me summon my stardust dragon with this scapegoat token and my junk Synchron. and before you obviously summond penguin soldier back from the gy but in face down defence, because Junk synchron doesn´t specify this. and because it´s face down the effects aren´t negated. and always in battle, bounce penguin soldier himself and an opponent monster.

[@goldendarius]

Before I was "the gimmick puppet guy", I was the "ritual spam guy" in my playground (which was on a private beach). Pre-xyz era it was always the pre-errata relinquished effect carrying me (I also played chackra because it looked cool) and when xyz cards began popping around I made it my mission to build the best "anti-xyz" deck because 10 yo me liked being a dick

[@MrBthomp]

Blast with chain, kunai with chain and sword and shield always made it into my decks.

[@Aryzo]

Wetlands submarine frog was like the most op thing my 8 year old brain could think of

[@chaosjoey123]

To be honest I still want to play convulsion of nature. Konamis gotta hurry up and add it to master duel!

[@chrisoliver7124]

Black man eating shark

[@joshwestrate4097]

I was king of games on my playground….. until I lost to Crab Turtle. I still haven’t recovered.

[@RaidOfStorms]

the fact that this article came from the hard drive is even funnier because thats a satire site

[@VixYW]

I remember a friend that had a fake spell card that would just outright win the game. No joke, the text was exactly "When you activate this card, you win the duel". We fought so bad over it that our friendship ended right there and then.

[@OnlyLiarGameFan]

Loses to solemn.

[@VixYW]

@@OnlyLiarGameFan Funny enough, it does. XD

[@carnelian5118]

Satellite Cannon and The Calculator are two i remember playing when i was a kid, shit was crazy

[@Camelotsmoon]

7:05 LOOOL. Man, I wish I had that card as a kid, that card would've been so damn funny.

[@The_One_And_Only_PudgyPenguinx]

Why was bonfire mentioned with Mr Volcano? He can't get searched off that

[@fadeleaf845]

Share the Pain is funny because it's also one of the few cards able to clear a Rhongolock

[@Niitroxyde]

This was a very funny article, props to the writer.

[@burning__karma]

Hard Drive is peak

[@SkyFireYZ]

3:33 Even the article writer is complaining about maxx C

[@__-be1gk]

Stardust was unbeatable when I was younger. I am convinced the guy who used it (who was way older than us) was cheating somehow, like saying it could come back no matter how it was destroyed or that it was an omni-negate, but I distinctly remember that he would just turbo out Stardust and the rest of us just basically stopped playing the game. Literally! We stopped playing the game and played Magic instead. It does me proud that multiple Blaze of Destruction cards made it on here, that was my favourite deck, I thought using it made me a genius.

[@Zetact_]

It's weird that there isn't an example of a "high rarity or promo card that is big but bad" like Dark Magician Knight or Tri-Horned Dragon. Especially with the anime's treatment of "rare card = strong card" and just general "kid logic" dictating that a rare or otherwise exclusive card SHOULD be powerful, it's very "playground Yugioh" to build a deck specifically throwing as much shiny cardboard in there even if it's not good. Well, I don't mind that - it gives some extra soul.

[@kaiser371]

The Hard Times and Hard Drive do great articles

[@moosengame3254]

For me it was Labyrinth tank. You know that shit was in the main. You know I be normal summoning it.

[@maikatiemuj2706]

LMAO I Remember as a kid I finally collected mint copies of the egyptian god cards and quit the game after,giving them to my friend who was like 2-3 years younger than me. Then after a year or so he said soem kids robbed him for them lmao

[@yogsothoth915]

Holy crap i love Mr Volcano

[@I3rutalI3rian]

Duncan!

[@DubsRewatcher]

It's crazy to me that people don't know about Hard Drive

[@bijuutamer729]

Tbf The playground has a lot of fake cards circulating which could explain the Exodia pieces.

[@cosmiccynic2757]

My friend had an obviously fake card depicting all 3 gods.

[@hazamax2139]

I can confirm I was an exodia cheater. My cousin teached be how to stack them and I just did it like 3-5 cards before/after the previous duel so it wasn't obvious. It worked 100% times of the 60~% times because god I was awful at it.

[@spiegelknee-da-girls7309]

Evil rabbai 😂, ironic considering yu gu oh has A lot of Egyptian references .

[@RunicSigils]

What's ironic about that? You don't believe the mythology that they were Egyptian slaves do you?

[@spiegelknee-da-girls7309]

@@RunicSigils Mythology, are you retarded ? The Bible is full of historical references and accounts of civilizations that are dead now or incarnated into different ethnicities. The Jews are semites after all they were nomadic otherwise why are they so many around the world from different ethnicities but all follow similar practices. Get out of here you wet moldy blanket!

[@veryfrozen3271]

Evil rabbi omg i need that Yu-Gi-Oh card 😂😂 Anyone whos red the taImud knows thats accurate as heck

[@Shiptoast0]

Now that's a banger

[@TuffLP]

Hard Drive is a goated satire magazine. Also goated for giving one of the biggest ratios in Twitter history to Elon Musk himself.

[@amiami8569]

Its the 1st good Yugioh article so of course Farfa would skip reading most of its text

[@ducky36F]

How did you get Exodia? They're called fake cards Farfa 😆

[@NutLump]

All zombies dont die MST negates Wtf is a tribute summon Toon world actually protected your toons

[@daltronius]

Tbf it is a "trading card game" and exchange is kinda like a trade to a 6 yo

[@samwikiy8514]

Hard Drive is great

[@OpticLOLJKS16]

It's Hard Drive so of course it is a good article, it wasn't written by an AI.

[@ducky36F]

Scrap Iron Scarecrow? Zoomer a*** card. Where's Waboku at?

[@TheBeardgasm]

Nah Black Cat wirh White Tail was CRACKED. We all thought flip effects happen first so youd attack into one and it would flip, return itself along with your shit and GG. Literal Mystic Mine - penguin soldier could never