Dragon Rulers - Explaining All Banned Main Deck Monsters in YuGiOh [Part 1] 

Almost same for me, except I have played Yu-Gi-Oh before, just not in tournaments and whatnot, just with my friends.

I’ve been playing the games for years.

I started using them to have background noise to sleep on, since I didn't know about the game. Then I started actually getting interested in what it was about and now play the game from time to time lol.

I really like these videos, and I never interacted with any Yugioh-related media in my entire life before RU-vid recommended me these videos. I still know nothing about Yugioh except for what I’m able to extrapolate from these videos, which isn’t a lot.

I stopped playing in 2008 and have no intention to start again, but these are so addicting and I love them

Yeah, that would have been total overkill. I wonder what their names could have been though.

@@succubastard1019 maybe something like darkness dragon ruler of shadows

@@darknessmaster9528 Maybe "Obscurity" a bit more subtle than just darkness, but I don't know.

Yeah they were fast, like very fast

Light and Dark Dragon Rulers would be emergency banned in a heartbeat... they would be far too strong.

They got banned or crippled fast enough that they couldnt get to tier 0. If the babyrulers would have survived the first circle the Rulers would have been tier 0 after Spellbook of Judgement was gone.

@@Y0G0FU notice he said honorary. Their both very much on the same power level as other tier zero decks but were robbed of that by banlists and comin out at the same time

i think rulers vs spellbook was the most iconic battle between two archetypes

more like Tier negative 1

@@nahuelcosta5609 And then there was Evilswarm just stuck in the middle haha

“a dragon in the hand is worth two in the bush” No wait the bush is better.

"My one hand dragon is more valuable then your whole hand "

pardon, what's this reference?

@@xCorvus7x the saying "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush".

@@Greg_Ulmer thanks

Maybe, one of the most common ways to fight dragons in fantasy is with magic or in this case magical items.

Must've been a very confusing experience watching the video.

All you really need to know is that the banlist acts as a way to balance patch the game and rotate out dominant strategies.

I started back in YuGiOh when they were prevalent, even before babies were e-banned back then, and oh boy they were everywhere and were impossible to avoid, and *always* topped

"When everyone's spooky...no one is."

Unless Necrovalley... Except it also pulls shenanigans. >.

Necrovalley still shuts that down

Graveyard used to be scary but now the graveyard has become a second tool belt.

@Grhifen Which really wasn't that unique in the first place, with zombies and Gravekeepers. Though, I suppose it might have allowed for interesting combos of those with machines.

Imaging a light or dark dragon ruler with dragon link or guardragon thunder dragons of last year gives me goosebumps.

Yea if they ever made Light and Dark Dragon Ruler monsters they would never get unbanned will how many amazing and borderline op cards there are of those types.

I guess the idea is that those cards are the kings of their atributes, thus really strong effects and decent stats.

Can we say that Chaos Emperor Dragon was the OG Dragon ruler?

It was not fun this format you would main deck vanity emptyness at 3 in your main deck and would still use this was definitely that number 1 play the top two decks or get wrecked nothing could compete with rulers if any spellbooks rulers has to be the.number one tier 0 deck

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@@loturzelrestaurant sure

Ah yes a man of culture as well Dragons are sick imo, badass look

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It's kind of hilarious, that they were so broken they made a bunch of bad cards good

Makyura

@@sephikong8323 that was unbanned i believe

@@jacobszilagyi284 Don't think so, because it could permit a whole lot of FTK which is a big no no for Konami

@@sephikong8323 It was unbanned because it got an errata

​@@sephikong8323 Makyura got an errata where if it's sent from the Monster Zone to the GY, you can activate 1 Trap Card from the hand that turn. Makyura also has a hard once per turn for this effect as well.

i did to but my love dragons make me love them

Already done

There's speed duel battle city box at the end of the month. I'm gonna go in. Good for 8 to start, each have a starter deck (you can even combine the 2-3 characters for a deck) from speed duel and you got an affordable tournament literally out the box with 4 playmats. Booster packs are 4 cards so I dunno if people like that much.

I always love the fact that evilswarm became a semi competitive deck only because they slightly countered dragon rulers

Well if you gave judgement to any archetype it would be tier 0, so kudos to rulers for being able to stop them. I'm 100% confident that you could have a ojama version of judgment and turn ojamas T0.

Keep in mind, this spell card was probably the most broken card ever made (as a matter of fact, it's the number one card in this guy's video on the best cards in the game), and really, the Spellbook archetype was already pretty powerful, so Spellbook of Judgment just made them incredibly good.

@@bolmo12 That isn't saying much since the Ojama's, despite being the bane of everyone's existence, is actually pretty strong when you look at what they have access to. Even giving them a draw 2 would probably push them into solid Rogue tier, let alone a Spellbook of Judgement.

@@clayxros576 ok then, what about a Spellbook of judgement for Arcana force? Pretty sure it would also be at least tier 1.

In regards to dragon rulers, Konami didn’t think people would make a deck around them. They did think about the fact that the dragon rulers actually worked with each other. They were all suppose to be used to support attribute based decks.

@@ngoyette94 but they added synergy with dragon

Dragons needed some time on the top. The were supporting characters for 2 long.

Same could be asked about a lot of the early game cards like Yata or CED

Same, i actually have all 4 tins as well as blaster, burner, tempest and lightning

I have the inferno dragon ruler tin, and never new how scary those cards were till I sold all of my cards

"not hard-once-per-turn (and not even once-per-chain) special summon from the Graveyard with a cost that is easily fulfilled by most meta decks and can on top of that be used as a decent disruption every time it is revived? Of course this card is fair!"

And snow was unlimited in OCG almost at the time it was banned in Tcg

@@majordukem Competative minded players tend to think anything that doesn't hard counter their deck is fine for the game, gladly stomping any and every deck they come across just for the "practice cause this is a new build". Asking them what should or shouldn't be banned is always a bad idea cause they'll only ever pick cards that specifically counter their deck. In Force of Will that was fairly common even before the game jumped the shark, where comp players would mill around in casual or new player lobbies and go full force. It legit took me a full year to learn how to build a deck because they only ever suggested busted cards with no context on the deck surrounding it. And at that point I was playing an inconsistent but fun meme deck that somehow occasionally stomped the meta decks, much to their utter shock. YuGiOh is almost all comp minded people, so asking anyone if a card should be banned will usually be answered with "Nah it's fine just play X or Y", ignoring the context of the deck the other person is trying to play.

@@clayxros576 Competitively minded people are different from actual people with competitive success.

I once lost to a Lightsworn player because of snow. I cleared the field, got 4 monsters (pre link area) on the field and wanted to attack for game. He was able to revive snow 2 times during my turn, flipped my monsters with disruption face down and used it to swallow the 2 other attacks. Then he banished giant rex with Snow and somehow won. F”k that card

Blaster is my second favorite Dragon ruler next to Tempest. If they were to ever unban any of the other dragon rulers I'd say it would be him since alot of cards nowadays have protection from destruction effects, have trigger effects that activate when they're destroyed or have protection from being targeted in general.

Too bad DN was shut down.. do you know of a similar site where to play online?

Nope, it should be mistake He intends to say if you return it to hand then the hand effect can be used again

@@jofx4051 no, he’s right. All the Dragons have the effect “During your opponent’s end phase If this card was special summoned return it to the hand”

And just the first one takes 10 minutes, well, it also mentions other Dragon Rulers, but still...

@@ace-trainer-aj ;p;

and the fourth one spent 4 years before being unbanned, but still limited to 1 copy

*technically* not an archetype

Yeah but knowing konami, they will still make broken cards and go lol forgot soft once per turns were broken.

Not every card can be fixed with a hopt

@@matteo964 Never said they could.

Many HOPT cards are banned such as Dragon Rulers, Judgment Spellbook, Kirin, etc etc etc

@@jofx4051 Again, never said they would fix everything.

yh but it wouldn't matter since they were always used for big eye and that machine card. They were annoying af to counter back in the day

@Callum Coughlin my exact words were i like the series not once did I say this video in particular

Funny enough, yugioh duel links has a system like this but the tcg doesnt

@@williamdrum9899 no it's very different.

so basically, each card, in likely addition to some other conditions(say, make every effect that effects your own cards specify [attribute] dragons, and some drawbacks to using them), having them all say "this card cannot be in your deck alongside any other "dragon rulers" cards"?

@@anonymousoff-brand7538 I would make it an official announcement on the website similar to the limited/restricted list that you cannot include more than 1 of any of the listed cards in your deck: And then it would list the four dragon rulers. They could also do this with A bunch of 2-card FTKs like “you can’t include mass driver and substitoad” on the same deck as an example to free up space. Or Samsara lotus because lool loops

@@MomijiHVods honestly, that'd probably be a lot more work to do(and keep up with), than just directly adding it to the cards in quesion.

Throw Trishula in there, and people would leave the building left and right.

Same exact story with me. No idea and I got the structure deck. I even play tested wyvern and it never felt strong for me. Still the structure deck was super cool.

@@magicmanscott40k yes, one of my favorites.

Probably splitting them up for variation, might get tiring for him and us if he did all the spells the all traps and all monsters

@@thimbletoe yea he did say that lol. so he can choose to even quit this channel for good. he doesnt have to work hard for all of us lol

And you probably don't know what crazy shit is going out now

that sucked

to be fair, it and pre-errata Chaos Emperor where the ones who created the forbidden list

unbanned at 3 with no changes now

Nah, it’s still a lot of bodies. I’d say making it hard once per turn would be better

1 word: HOPT

To be fair, Pot of Greed would be broken today, given everything that players are ready to do in order to draw two cards.

Yu-Gi-Oh players would sell their organs to draw 2 cards so Pot of Greed is still great

Agreed

The rest have been powercrept what?? Imagine dagon ruler in every single dragon deck. They can come back MAYBE at 1, and that's probably only for tidal and blaster

Tidal cant come back due to its foolish burial effect, Blaster could come back since hes the worst dragon ruler

@@Chadfill8348 honestly tempest is worse than blaster since wind is a terrible attribute.

@Alex Bergie earth Dragon Ruler. The one that special summon from the GY

They will never make good pyro cards because of rekindling

He was specifically covering main deck monsters. Dark Matter is coming in the extradeck vid.

Ahhh i like to see the world burn as well.

Honestly, I'd love to see a format that bans FTK and infinites, but let's everything else run wild. So people can step back, watch the tier 0 decks return, and let them battle. Just to see what happens.

Ah I as well want more reasons to hate 2020