Top Ten Yu-Gi-Oh Monster Card Backstories (Vol. 6)

[@JudgmentMeter]

Dream Mirror girl is a wholesome bean

[@TheKpa11]

She’s going to make a manga out of her dreams

[@Khoobus]

Love your commentary it's cute!

[@JudgmentMeter]

@@Khoobus Thank you!

[@JudgmentMeter]

I am a wholesome bean

[@Averagejon95]

Your commentary is one of the best thing in the videos!

[@M3rtyville]

I would totally want to see the guy confronting the "C" as a seperate monster card. Joe, The Average Guy Level 4 Earth Attribute Warrior/Normal 1200/2200 After a hard work at a Supermarket, this average guy sits in the couch and watches TV. However, when sudden danger arrives at home, he grabs whatever is nearby to defend himself. Newspaper, lid from a pot, TV remote, pepper spray or even a frying pan. Anything goes. If you underestimate him, you are in for a surprise.

[@TheKpa11]

Top quality animation, and epic war imagery of this guy defending his apartment home from the “C” Game of throne levels of strategy and psychological stress, on both sides. Lord of the rings journeying, and general RPG questing to collect items and gather powers. Now we just need NPCs to interact with, the “C” has that covered, but what about the guy

[@rotciv557]

No no, he should be "Joe, The Average "G"" to keep his naming scheme consistent with the "C"

[@FloreyXE]

Joe , not so average guy 1800/1600 Level 4 LIGHT Warrior/effect If an insect monster on the field (quick effect): equip one "glass pot lid shield" and one "newspaper hammer" directly from your hand,deck or graveyard onto this monster

[@M3rtyville]

@@FloreyXE Living Room Field Spell When this card is activated: You can add 1 Average Guy monster from your deck to your hand. All "Average Guy" monsters gain 600 ATK and DEF, your opponent cannot target them with card effects. Once per turn, if a "Average Guy" is summoned, add 1 Equip Card from your deck that mentions "Average Guy" in its card text from your deck or GY to your hand.

[@l.apastore4208]

Its pronounced ‘Neh-pheh-tees’

[@FloreyXE]

Canonically Core destroyer was the inspiration for catastor It's ability to basically melt worm cells was developed further and made into catastor Also catastor's effect to destroy all non-darks instead of only light monsters probably refers to how he scans for anything that's not an ally of justice Also the fabled were actually one of the good guys before betraying the rest of the tribes after worm zero is defeated

[@TheKpa11]

I wonder if Kazuki Takahashi had major roles in these stories. It’s been around since the days of GAGAGIGO. And continued even now, which is pretty crazy.

[@jesuschristthefirstjojo.7565]

Here's a theory with Solemn Strike and Witch's Strike: Solemn Strike is what happened after Witch's Strike. If you watched closely, Solemn or God is actually unfazed by Condemned witch when she tried to strike him with her lightning. Solemn then struck her with his own lightning afterwards. Which is probably why Solemn has the same expression and stance on both Witch's Strike and Solemn Strike as It might've been more of Solemn humoring the Condemned Witch at the moment as opposed to being weakened by her attack.

[@homerman76]

So a bit of a split story where we can see what happens if she won, and the other ending which doesn't change much (not the first set of cards to do the whole split ending lore thing 🤔)

[@jesuschristthefirstjojo.7565]

@@homerman76 I guess the twins who were on Solemn's side is the bad ending where the Condemned Witch was successful with her attack? Or the events of the Darklords corruption (Morningstar becoming his fusion version together with the Condemned Maiden becoming her link version) began after Solemn's lightning struck her? Konami really needs to add more lore to the Darklords.

[@dustyfedora]

@@homerman76 Yeah there’s a lot of split stories in YuGiOh it even happened with one of the Darklord Monsters who actually has his own story that splits into different paths in Zerato who can become a Darklord, Archlord, or the Fiend Monster “Mazera DeVille”

[@Sigismund697]

I noticed that too, Solemn does not seems to care about the attack I even thought the idea was going to be that Solemn has a card further down the story where he's shown beating witch

[@rossjohnstone4689]

I wish the allies of justice got more love. I think they look so good and have some cool lore

[@Kylora2112]

They're quite possibly the single worst archetype ever printed. They'd have to be able to do something outside of Catastor and Cycle Reader being occasionally decent.

[@Magna_Dragon]

@@Kylora2112 AoJ Quarantine also see some spots in the sidedeck during its time

[@TheKpa11]

It seems the “Jurrac” represent the idea of the dinosaurs having feathers, and they’re made so colorful as well. That’s pretty cool, as before hand, a lot of the Dinos looked rather plain to me. You get crazy cyborg and dark looking exceptions, but mostly you get pretty realistic looking ones.

[@SyxxPunk]

Honestly, I think you should have separate videos for the Duel Terminal stories, one for each part, and then different ones for the World Legacy and the Abyss storylines.

[@Purple_Storm_Rider26]

Now the fire kings have to be in the next back story video 😂😂

[@byrontheusurper6505]

I didn't know that's where the C's are from, I love them!

[@khalifeh22]

Props to you for making your own version of some of the archetype lore that is already explained in master duel.

[@runningoncylinders3829]

That Darklord storyline, woah, that's so wicked. The Condemned Darklord looks very cool in Droplet and on the Link card.

[@Yoshixandir]

I love these cards backstory. Also pretty interesting how the condemned maiden manage to win against god

[@MountainAbyss]

I'd love a video on the whole backstory of the Deul Terminal storyline

[@LegitMan335]

And to think it all started with Sagan and witch of the Black Forest an awesome power couple

[@kingkay1124]

Been watching you for like a year, I think it's time I subscribed to your channel

[@kingkay1124]

Quality vids

[@MrTopTenList]

Thank you! Hope you any backlog the KZbin algorithm hasn't shared with you!

[@thewave-qz9lt]

would've been cool if you also talked about how darklord morningstar AKA lucifer also went against the solemn judgement guy.

[@JudgmentMeter]

Whenever someone mentions "judgment," my ears perk up and I think, "is someone talking about me??"

[@chaosspear0195]

Cant wait till that old guy is printed some day that will never come cause censorship

[@tipoacaso3174]

Solemn Johnson can't seem to catch a break these days

[@eneaemme860]

Good job! It would be nice to see all other archetypes lores in chronological order. Waiting for the naturia/shaddoll/zefra lore ; )

[@Evixyn]

Aww the the air head girl did not return in this video unless that was her around the ten minutes and forty second mark during the dream mirror recall story. The two siblings conversation was adorable. The heavily clash towards the end with the marmales, atlanteans, and fire kings was amazing. I love how majority of the lore was all war focus that interact with one another out side the nefphies ritual archetype.

[@MrTopTenList]

Glad you enjoyed the lore and acting! Judgment Meter has been sick, so she wasn't able to record for the last few videos, be she should be back in full videos by next month since she's recovered

[@Dahaka-rd6tw]

@@MrTopTenList 2:45 I don't know if this is too late to tell but look closely that X-ray machine the guy's holding. its ONE HUGE FREAKING COCKROACH behind that wall/door/whatever! At it seems that its after the guy's blood for harrasing its smaller bros. As you said, that seems to be last part of the story, sooo.. that guy's dead.

[@byrontheusurper6505]

Hand/Matriarch of nephthys is gorgeous!

[@byrontheusurper6505]

I have contact and retaliating "C" irl because of my structure decks, this shit's so fun!

[@markcrawford5810]

No Judgment Meter? 😔

[@MrTopTenList]

Judgment Meter was sick, so she hasn't been able to record recently. She's feeling better now, so she should be back next month. Still, she had enough energy to appear in the entry at 10:40

[@markcrawford5810]

@@MrTopTenList Yes! 😄

[@JudgmentMeter]

@@markcrawford5810 I AM LOVED

[@neogotham2k39]

Here's a idea for next month! Top 10 penguins - Chill Penguin (Mega Man X), penguin cards (Yu-Gi-Oh), Piplup (Pokemon), etc.

[@HistoryandReviews]

Delibird came first

[@M3rtyville]

digimon has penguins too.

[@neogotham2k39]

@@M3rtyville Penguinmon

[@byrontheusurper6505]

I had no clue allies of justice were made against worms, I just learned of worms today! Also omg I didn't know ice barrier was involved in this, that's so cool! We rlly need a game or show based on all this lore, it's so cool, I wanna play as the ice barrier general leading my army into battle sgainst an unknown threat!

[@byrontheusurper6505]

YESS DREAM MIRRORS I LOVE THEM! They're so fun in master duel!

[@Deadlift4chips]

My favorite duel story is probably from one of my first duels. Can only imagine if I could remember them all.

[@KazekageMizuri]

It's been a good number of years since I came to this channel. It's good to be back

[@MrTopTenList]

Welcome back! Hope you enjoy the backlog of videos we've uploaded over the years!

[@HedgieDaUmbrehog]

Im beyond happy that you put the Atlantean/Mermail/Fire Kings at the top. To this day I run a modified Fire King/Hazy Flame engine that synergies near perfectly with each other. And tho it was stolen long ago, I ran Mermail/Atlantean back then, with a few weather enhancements in the side deck. Fire Kings need a lot more love given to them, as well as the Hazy Flames, because they are just so amazing and I love them so 😍

[@wanderlustwarrior]

I really like the design of the Nepthys cards! I guess I missed when so many were made!

[@ThunderWarriorZX]

I used to play a Genex deck, with some support from all those archetype including the ally, worm, jurassic, and flamevil. Never knew all those cards had a backstory with each other. They all came out during the 5ds era.

[@Mboone1994]

Happy to see this video was basically top ten Duel Terminal lore because I've never been able to parse out how the storylines go

[@Slayerthecrow]

Condemned Darklord look like she's going to make some moves in the dance floor. Is 2022 and we still don't know if Sangan would come out of prison.

[@andrewowens4421]

I'm sure Sangan has already served his time. He really needs a good lawyer to get him out.

[@zexelmonsterousity]

I love jurracs and to finally know they have an arc in duel terminal I'm so happy!

[@johanstenfelt1206]

Hm, say, here’s an idea for a Video, Top 10 Yu-Gi-Oh Monster Card Backstory Adaptations that you would like to see, what do you think. Also, did you ever cover the World Legacy?

[@byrontheusurper6505]

I love the freed army so much!

[@kaloncpu57]

This is a great series

[@jksanrio]

I really like the pacing of this video!!! No cohosts needed, just straight up Yugioh!!!

[@wellyprasetyo10]

Amazing story! thank you .... please cover Branded Despia/Dogmatika backstory next

[@nu--13]

Thank you for giving my favorite monsters the genexs. I appreciate you alot.

[@harrypsfoodreviews9661]

@JudgementMeter is your perfect cohost. I no joke search for any videos you do with her in them. You have very complementary voices. Keep up the good work

[@mustafaoh9866]

We need the despia albaz sowrdsoul lore

[@Khoobus]

Love this series!

[@josephmorellas3503]

Someone could make a movie about these backstorys

[@Jairaam007]

A yugioh duel monster story of duel monster factions making allies and fighting each other in epic battles would be so cool. Think fire emblem but replace the medieval warriors and settings with fantastical monsters and locations instead. Someone at Konami needs to make a manga about this idea. Hell you could make it like the Chaotic Now or Never series where duel monsters exist in their own world and humans enter their world to scan monsters or artifacts to put into their decks. That would be dope.

[@LegitMan335]

Starting with Sagan and Witch of the Black Forest, the best romantic comedy for 2023

[@hydrasfang]

What about the possible connection between Warrior Dai Grepher, Dark Blade, and Underworld Fighter Balmung?

[@TheRichmaster24]

I really love how you link these together

[@JudgmentMeter]

MTTL is so smart

[@TakeruTakashi]

I dont wanna be "Ahn, actually..." guy, but according to the lore in Master Duel, Cerulean isnt actually the evil but os fighting some unnamed evil and then conductor goes and brings back its more powerful version we see in the link form. I dont know if it is the ACTUAL lore (if there is such a thing) but it paints Cerulean as an underpowered version of the OG Phoenix.

[@alijabbar5794]

Another great video as always !

[@eW91dHViZSBpcyBjZW5zb3JzaGlw]

bro that last story with poseidra could be a arc of YGO onto itself. holy fuck so much twists and turns i was literally just sitting at my desk with my chin on my palm! 11/10 MrTopTenList! and hi JudgeMeter! (best girl)

[@matthewdodd1262]

Nice Judgement Meter cameo

[@MrTopTenList]

I like when she gets to do a bit of character acting

[@Tahanok2]

I don't understand why Konami doesn't give us an anime of the whole Duel Terminal story

[@angelmoreno3576]

Because they only doing a sky striker manga

[@frankwest5388]

I would rather have a video game crossover like Disneys Kingdomhearts

[@byrontheusurper6505]

Damn witch's strike's kinda craz

[@VictorHernandez-nj2lo]

Top 10 decks based on other properties super quant: based on power rangers kaiju: based on the godzilla series danger: based on cryptids entity: based on H.P. Lovecraft creatures frightfur: based on 5 nights at freddys series A-Z machines: based the power ranger zords & megazords dragonmaid: based on the anime of the same name

[@byrontheusurper6505]

NOO ABYSSLINE SHE WAS SO PRETTY

[@KuroOokami167]

I wonder if manga or spin-off anime of these tales wouldn't sell. Might interest me in something Yu-Gi-Oh! again, not that I mean that negatively. I just mean that I don't care much for things beyond the OG series and cards, but that's very much just my personal taste more than anything. However, this card lore is way cool, and something I'm really getting into! I love this! This makes me wanna go get a pack or two for fun and old times. Honestly, I'd love to see these stories animated or read about them. I think Konami and Yu-Gi-Oh! could really have something here, not only as stories but also as ways to get more interest going. And they could link it back to dueling by opening each episode on players starting a game and then after whatever arc they cover or battle they could exit from the world to the duel mat or duel disks and show the duelists reacting to the outcome, but they'd just be the framing device/advertisement for the game while the real story is covered by the cards. That's what I'd do anyway if I were the company. However, I'm more than happy to settle with KZbinrs presenting the lore. This is fun, so thanks!

[@IndexInvestingWithCole]

Top 10 yugioh video baby!

[@OmnicidalClown1992]

Please tell me the next Yu-Gi-Oh Countdown will be the Top 10 Yu-Gi-Oh Monsters with Weird/Nonsensical Typings. I have been waiting so long for that countdown to happen.

[@randomcatname7792]

So Fire Kraken gets #1 then?

[@OmnicidalClown1992]

@@randomcatname7792 I was thinking of a Three-Way Tie between the cards Oppressed People, People Running About, and United Resistance.

[@lindseybrown5648]

Judgment Meter is the best part of these vids!

[@JudgmentMeter]

Aw, thank you!

[@theother1s220]

Is it possible to do a more detailed backstory on the Shaddoll archetype as a whole? Doesn’t seem like there is a lot of info on why they fight, how they came to be, or what the deal with construct and winda are.

[@iceydicey77]

Contact C is basically the ending as its stated that cockroaches could carry disease and bite you which is why people are scared of them

[@Xaiff]

Heck yeah. This series is keeping me happy 😂

[@Aupsic-hh5sy]

I would have never thought the Allies and Mermails stories were so mixed up and convoluted.

[@mairain6443]

I see the Witch's strike story line as the one which affects warrior Zera story. If she fails then Zera can become an Archlord If she wins then Zera can become an Darklord Or if they strike each other down then the Sanctuary in the sky starts to Corrupt leading to it becoming Pandemonium that leads to the Archfiends and Zera Transforming to DeVille

[@eugenideddis]

Some of Catastor got used to make Nekroz of Catastor, but I don’t remember if that was pre- or post- Evilswarm

[@dequanthompson6658]

So what your saying is...we gotta deal with phantasm spiral BS in game because of the Atlanteans? That's it! Time to go fishing!

[@7sonicmario]

FINALLY. THE GENED LORE.

[@Lacerta47]

Unfortunately, part of the Nephthys story is wrong. Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys is a god who is worshiped in a country. When the land was attacked by a powerful monster, the Cerulean Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys was summoned but was too weak against the monster (that are you seeing in the Last Hope of Nephthys). The Disciple of Nephthys was the last Hope and had the power to awakening Nephthys, the sacred Flame to safe the land.

[@MrTopTenList]

Ah, I see. I always interpreted it as the threat because its strength was weak, so it was unruly, like a disobedient Pokémon, but I see how they meant it as being too weak to take on an unnamed threat. I guess the next card they need to print is "Destroyer of Nephthys" or something like that to give a face to the creature that the Phoenix couldn't initially defeat

[@Lacerta47]

@@MrTopTenList "Destroyer of Nephthys" would be a great card. btw, you can play the story in Master Duel.

[@Forgottenseeker]

For. The C monsters there is a monster card that seems to be like a final form of the C monsters. Also if you deduct life points in a order from solemn cards you can see that it all adds up to 8000. With shows that god doesn't have infinite power.

[@swhawk]

Does the TellarKnights' story go anywhere after the Shaddoll and Zephra/Infernoid storylines? It's been forever since TellarKnights have gotten any new support, while other archtypes from that time have gotten recent new cards (like Shaddoll), so it just makes me wonder what happened to the TellarKnights in the lore...

[@sarthakarora3212]

They all died. Actually some are alive but the entire lore is them getting rocked

[@Khanmanlol]

If you haven't talk about it already, I'd love to see a backstories video for Eldlich the Golden Lord.

[@MrSamuria]

Not sure if your the person I talked to, but when are you gonna do that Koaki's/ Kaiju story, Im just curious

[@MrTopTenList]

I remember your suggestion! This video was in production at the time, but Kaijus are noted as one of many archetypes to look into for the next one!

[@byrontheusurper6505]

So the braclet acts like karma in boruto

[@wanderlustwarrior]

Appreciated the DOCTOR BEES!!! reference.

[@MrTopTenList]

Glad to see DOCTOR BEES has remained relevant after all these years!

[@badanimedubs4kids745]

Can you make a video about the dangerous of Unchecked Late staga Captilizism? a 10 person round robin with 9 of your other friends. Your mom, judgment Meter, A.T. Gonzalez, Michelle Baker, Emilly P, Coregan, Sam Numark, Professor Oates... PICK SOME

[@DivineDragonFelgrand]

Aldo for Dream Mirror, I so believe you could have looked at the Story up on Master Duel, since they have an interesting story their

[@Winterfang]

The Atlantean story is so sick. You never see the people from Atlantis as evil in media

[@enderborn6860]

damn all these monsters here with badass stories

[@brandonscott5544]

Mr.toptenlist Great yugioh monster card backstory @

[@mhassall9484]

Wait so we're just going to say Catastor story ends with Golem and ignore the Nekroz of Catastor who is literally a dragon using Catastor as a weapon

[@david95ms]

Al of the species died, then a tribe of humans and dragon men (probably descendants of the ice barrier tribe and fish men respectively) surge and collect the remnants of monsters that fought the old battle and used their parts as armours, with the help of rituals they practice using mirrors, probably the same rituals left behind by the gishki & ice barrier tribe, they managed to momentarily fuse with the armours and, one the sideline, the priestess Sophia find two cores of light and dark, that grand her too much power turning her into a goddess losing all human apperance and unable to handle it destroys everything restarting the cycle of life on the land once again and... Idk about the rest. I only play duel links

[@MrTopTenList]

I honestly didn't even know about that card and I think it's so cool looking. It may just be an Evilswarm Golem scenario where we see it, where it doesn't explain how he got in this position, but it confirms his remnants are hanging out somewhere. Still a nice looking card and perhaps a deeper look at this Nekroz monster would be good for a future video!

[@chrisshorten4406]

Oh my goodness, I'm so glad Abysslinde made it out alive! How dare Poseidra try to murder such a lovely Merfolk! (Also, I love Dream Mirrors and I wish they were more viable.)

[@supersmashseandx1991]

I feel like i saw on the wiki that some of the genex were based on mega man characters, but i can really only see it on 2 or 3

[@AbolishedEmu]

Needs more judgement meter!!

[@stephen7862]

With the Mermail lore being explained, I wonder where that puts Ocean-Dragon Lord Neo Daedalus on their hierarchy, as in, If Abyssgaius is the king, does that make Neo-Daedalus their Overlord/ emperor...Deity? Yugioh lore is so fascinating, unfortunately though, RIP Kazuki Takahashi.

[@marklafrancis253]

I’d love a lore or story of E Hero Neos, my favorite card.

[@NobleWinters15]

I think that the demons in "forbidden droplet" are holding Nasten down so the condemned darklord can put the droplet on him

[@blackjacksetzer7748]

14:24 yugioh storytelling in a nutshell

[@TheKpa11]

Bittersweet

[@Supersmallchibiwolf]

Interesting I love Yu-Ghi-Oh and this was great. Cool video. ^_^

[@insanemakaioshin]

X-Saber, Flamvell, Mist Valley, Ice Barrier, Genex & Jurrac Alliance.

[@epicriku9162]

The fire kings got tired of the Atlantans and teamed up with the snake eyes and diabellstar, which led to one of the most toxic formats of all time

[@thugsfunny7594]

Fun fact did you know that "Emissary From Pandemonium" is the evil version of "Behemoth The King Of All Animals"

[@aerenntyne1099]

are you sure the atlanteans attacked the mermails and turned into their army in a whim??, i think it's another story here....remember, there is a card called neptabyss, atlantean prince who looks like a younger version of abyssgaios....this is what i think that happened: the atlanteans were normal people that lived underwater, but they became corrupted and neptabyss transformed into tridon (and probably some old atlanteans also turned into the foul sea creatures), then became stronger with time becoming Poseidra, while some survivors that escaped the corruption became the mermails (or maybe they were all mermails before the curse? idk, neptabyss doesn't look like it was a mermail) but after a long battle against the spiral serpent and the fire kings, the mermails finally became able to break the curse and transform poseidra into abyssgaios. You can see that the lower half of abyssgaios is the same as poseidra.

[@DXChosa]

Oooh i have that Mermail Deck, I'm confused why it has some Atlantean Cards in it. All those i see in here are on my Deck so nice to see it had a story behind it

[@JudgmentMeter]

The stories are my favorite

[@josephmorellas3503]

Please do top 10 wierdest pendulums next

[@JuanGomez-ke5py]

The dragon Knight pendulum monsters she have the ability to power up vanilla monsters

[@Sigismund697]

The Dream Mirror story reminds me of Little Nemo

[@peggingthestallion6365]

Does celctic guardian have a backstory 😊

[@RedDragonForce2]

I’m curious to learn more about Vylons!

[@VictorHernandez-nj2lo]

Machina sorta sounds like máquina, the spanish word for machine

[@eggsack]

Dope vid New sub 👋

[@MrTopTenList]

Thank you!

[@projectD1S]

It'd be cool if we got alt art of the C cards from the squadder's perspective

[@MrTopTenList]

I'd love some more info on the Squadder! He's a staple of Giant Ballpark decks, so they have some reason to reprint him

[@DivineDragonFelgrand]

Devotee is Hand after the time skip, refreshed by her having double ATK the then Hand herself

[@MrTopTenList]

That makes sense why I couldn't tell if the Matriarch or Devotee was on the link monster. I guess the Hand is all 3 monsters.

[@DivineDragonFelgrand]

@@MrTopTenList no the hand is just devotee only

[@partyrock4144]

It should be noted that lost sanctuary is a card

[@jerfuhrer2581]

Man, yugioh used to have so much lore and bakcstories to the archetypes. I suppose they still might, but it's not as easy to piece together like the 2006-2014 era was

[@mardshima2070]

Actually its easier now since the cards are now either within a single archetype or linked by one specific card or series like "Fallen of Albaz" and "World Legacy".