Explaining All Banned Trap Cards in YuGiOh [Part 1] - Time Seal 

Konami: Last Turn is a last resort card meant to be activated if you're about to lose the game, which gives you a last chance to win the duel in an epic one on one attack power duel using the strongest monster you and your opponent have in your decks. Yu-Gi-Oh players: lol no

In modern Yugioh Time Seal might as well say, “skip YOUR draw phase by drawing this card”

I'd like to see a historical "why WERE they banned" series in the future, that explains how come certain cards were once banned and what changed that led to them being unbanned.

Imagine activating solemn judgement on Gift card lol

They didn’t “fix” Sinister Serpent; they straight up ruined it.

Self-destruct button fix: you can only activate "self destruct button" once per match If you want to overkill: "you can't have this card in the side deck"

Last turn maybe just needs a clause that negates all other effects while it is being resolved so floodgates don’t work.

How to fix Self destruct button: "can only be activated once per day"

Any way of looping Time Seal could have been used to loop a better card

self destruct might get the only condition in the card text: "Once per match." and prevent looping with the same opponent too much.

I'd like to see an ''errata'd cards'' list in the future but I think that that might be similar to banned cards.

Would "Explaining Duel Links Ban list" be possible for this series?

God I love seeing marshmallon. I'll take any excuse to see that squishy little face

It’s interesting watching these videos from an mtg perspective and seeing how similar card effects are completely different balance-wise between games

I'd love a series where you explain how different engines function, showing all the cards and how theyinteract with each other, the order of operations and stufflike that.

Last Turn Artwork looks like it came out of a jojo anime.

Something you forgot to mention about Time Seal is that your opponent will be able to draw for one draw phase before Time Seal can be activated. That means if someone is afraid of getting hand looped, then locked under time seal, that literally can’t happen. Time Seal sucks

If "just the Potential" to be broken is a Reason to ban a Card, then half the Game would be banned🤣

Easy fix, at least in my mind, for "Last Turn" would be to negate the effects of selected cards, in that way it would function in the intended manner of duking it out. And the strongest monster, attack wise, would be victorious...

Damn, they just unbanned Time seal

The way to fix last turn to make it work the way it should is actually really easy. Just have it negate all monster effects.

In yugioh 5ds duel transer, you're allowed to use 1 forbidden card in your deck, and I ran Last Turn in my Winged Dragon of Ra deck. Get him out and set it off and you've pretty much got the duel won.

I think last turn could get an errata where you can only use it when both players have 1000 or less life points, all monster effects are negated and when a draw would happen your opponent just wins. This would make the fight caused by last turn a pure fight based on attack points

13:24 If Trap Dustshoot required to tribute a monster, then I'll surely play it in my Lair of darkness deck, so that I could potentially tribute my opponent's monsters to also make him lose a card. And let's not forget that is a normal trap, so Lilith would have something else to search

The wording for Last Turn should be “this summon can’t be negated” similar to that of the 3 Egyptian God cards

I think it'd be cool to see a "meta history" series of some sort. Like a set-by-set rundown of what was meta, what got banned, etc.

Great vid, keep up the amazing work❤️❤️

It's Hiru! Holy crap! Love your whole catalog of videos, my man!

16:42 "that's why they don't really print spell/trap cards that prevent special summoning" *laughs in There Can Be Only One*

Huh, i actually didn't know vanity's emptiness was banned. I still have three copies of that and 3 copies of vanity's fiend in my old monarch deck. Granted, i haven't played at a tournament in years but none of my friends have ever pointed out that it was banned.

Neat video! Thanks for uploading!

I haven't played this game since early teens but sir you made this video more than appealing. Gj

time seal is essentially softbanned in the OCG no one runs it because no one can behave themselves and just not use it to force infinite ties to be fair, that card is a mess in general, it really doesn't have any other use other than degeneracy

Last turn should just say something like "your opponents summons any one monster from their deck, ignoring effects that would prevent them from doing do so." And it would work fine.

Great video man!

great channel💞 i hope you talk about a decks rather than just cards

It would be interesting to see a series covering why specific cards go in and out of favor over time in competitive play, like Solemn Strike, D. Barrier, Swords of Concealing Light, literally any Mirror Force, Cosmic Cyclone versus MST versus Twin Twisters, and so on. Just breaking down what made the cards good in the metagame, and what made them less useful at other points.

Kinda neglected the main point of vanity's emptiness. It's meant to be played after etabliging your board, before your oponent gets to etablig his, extending first turn advantages to a quite unreasonable degree. You don't really need anymore special summons, if you already got your combo of and this is preventing your oponent from toolboxing any meaningful counter from his extra deck.

watching this as a primarily mtg player ( i played yugioh until link monsters became a thing, as well) is really interesting. Like, there are tons of cards that are basically trap dustshoot but better, thoughtseize, inquisiton of kozilek, duress, despise, getting to see your opponent's hand is a pretty common effect.

Dude I love your content !

I just find your content SO easy to listen to. Great intonation and delivery

Prob the best fix to trap dustshoot: Activate only if both players have 4 or more cards in their hand. This makes it so it's more difficult to go all in on your first turn and then use trap dustshoot. Infact, if you go first, just setting trap dustshoot will put you at your 4 card limit if you don't generate further advantage.

Also, it'd be cool that you return the Best/Worst Cards of each Monster Type top lists, some of them like Psychic, Thunder, Aqua, etc can be very interesting.

To note about Self-Destruct Button and the OCG. While it's not banned in regular play there, it has been banned at tournaments (iirc) and definitely banned at Worlds for much longer than it's been banned in the TCG.

Time seal is an useless card since when you activate it the draw phase is already started and your opponent has already drawn. So it works only on your opponent next draw phase. Drop off it's actually better than it because you can interact immediately towards your opponent's draw, even if there is a chance the card could activate in the GY. And drop off doesn't see any play. Edit: And appointer of the red lotus can be considered in some ways better than trap dustshoot. Against combo decks, if you are going second and your opponent is able to get rid of your board breaking cards like dark ruler no more, a kaiju, evenly match or lightning storm, you don't care if the card will be back at the end of the turn and you wouldn't get any benefit from opponent's hand knowledge since you would be more worried about what's going on on his field.

Playing a Yu-Gi-Oh Progression series thing (like Cimoo & Gage) with a friend and experiencing these cards in real time has been hilarious how did they ever get printed

I would love to see a video talking about historical meta decks. (lightsworn, dragon rulers, dark magician decks, ect.)

I dont play the game at all but still can anticipate what youre about to say about most cards, I probably enjoy too much the content 😅

Ah, Vanity's Emptiness. The bane of my entire existence

Back when I used to play at Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments I was put against a guy that used stall decks every time first round and when he used Last Turn against me I used Minar and the guy went crying because he thought he finally beat me after like 10 attempts. Where I played we would be paired up by age during the 1st round because people running tournaments didn't know what they were doing.

I like your videos also I would like to see TOP 10 DECKS FOR EVERY YEAR FROM 2010 - 2021 or TOP 10 MOST CONSISTENT META DECKS.

Top 10 card effects that override game mechanics. I'd like to see that covered in a video. I would nominate "Darkness Approaches", which can put a monster in face-down attack position.

When he talked about time seal I had an image of a little purple bird in my head...

I always found trap cards to be the most fun in the game, since they are very fun to use to counter an opponent's move, so it feels like you outplayed them. That might be just me but that is how I feel about it.

I remember having Last Turn pulled on me while playing one of the old Yugioh video games. I didn't have a monster strong enough to take out the enemy, so I summoned D.D. Warrior. Probably the most satisfying draw I've experienced in Yugioh.

For lust turn can errata where your selected monster didn't start from the extra deck and negate that monster's effects. Time seal can also have to only be activated during opponent's turn alongside with once per duel. Self-destruct button can have a new kind of restriction : once per match, like once per duel but instead of use the effect once on each duel, button can only be activated once during the entirety of the match. Trap dustshoot can have once per turn and the opponent chooses which monster to return. Vanity's emptiness can have restrictions to can only be activated if you control no special summoned monster and to be destroyed if any card is sent to any gy from anywhere.

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Here's me completely murdering Last Turn. "You can only activate this card during your Opponent's Battle Phase. Target 1 Monster you Control that can be Normal Summoned/Set, negate it's effects, then send all other cards on the field and hand to the gy. Then your opponent chooses 1 Monster in their deck and special summons it ignoring summoning conditions in attack position with it's effects negated and it must attack your selected monster, then whichever player controls a a monster after the damage step(no damage is calculated for this battle) wins the duel, otherwise it's a draw."

I could see last turn being errata'd to where it adds "monsters summoned by this effect have its effects negated"

i literally watched hours of this and I never even played the game at all.

Story time with the Duel Logs...

Another thing to add to time seal: Two players can, in theory, make a match go on forever with traptrix-like cards in a mirror match.

I feel like the spirit of Last Turn is to reduce everything to one dramatic, final showdown. In the name of errating it to serve that purpose, I feel like all effects should be negated when it's activated (think Skill Drain) and the opponent should get to pull from deck or extra deck. If the spirit is for a last man standing fight, make it the activator's monster against the strongest thing the opponent hasn't had destroyed yet, and go off attack power and nothing else. Dunno if that would get the card unbanned, again, I'm just trying to get the card to what feels like its intended purpose.

I think a video(s) covering formerly banned cards which are now off the banlist (maybe separating cards back at 1-2 from the ones that are fully back at 3) would be interesting, to see how their strength played out at the time, but is now less oppressive in the current meta.

How to fix Vanity's Emptiness: "This card can only be activated at the beginning of your turn." Thus, is you want to deny your opponent special summons, you HAVE to go through a turn of it yourself. On top of that, the negative effect is actually negative for said turn, instead of an easy "deactivate this card whenever you want".

I think explanations of archetypes would be cool. Not ratings it which cards were used away from the deck, but detailing what the intended goal is the archetype is.

Vanitys emptiness could be fixed by changing its destruction to be caused when any card leaves the feild thus making it more interactive and a less powerful floodgate

the best decks for each type of monster. its enough to make multiple videos since there are alot of monster types

Time Seal can come back to three because it's too slow. No one is coming to a tournament with Time Seal turbo.

How to fix Last Turn: - Word it so that the card from the opponent's deck is simply played, not summoned (and ignoring any summoning conditions by proxy) - (Edited) Negate all other card effects during this card's resolution and for the remainder of the turn. This negation overrides all other card effects without exception. Either would bypass the summon lock from Last Turn's effect. And negating card effects would help prevent a lot of the potential draw situations as a result of using a monster that can't be destroyed by battle. Since the card effect itself declares the win state during resolution, most other card effects aren't going to be a huge difference in that battle. EDIT: I had to change the effect negation due to how many cards could just be used from the GY now, and attempting to future-proof the effect. It will not only stop continuous effects like protection from cheesing the battle, it would also stop Main Phase 2 problems like using a GY effect to pull up another card capable of destroying the lone monster and otherwise changing the outcome of Last Turn's lingering effect.

The monster list will be crazy! :D

When this series is finished, how about videos on the history of certain archetypes, going over when they got critical new cards that impacted their competitive use and when/why they stopped seeing play ("Competitive History of Blue-Eyes decks")? While most fall into something basic and boring like "meh till it got support" and "good, then power crept/banned to irrelevance", there's deck types like Blue-Eyes, Exodia, Cyber Dragon, Chaos, Thunder Dragon, Zombie and Synchro/Xyz spam (those last two aren't strictly "archetypes" but close enough or this) that have had on and off use and saw use as engines outside of pure decks. You talking about the game's history has always been some of your best content. Also worth noting that one of the anime cards that let you not die from Self-Destruct Button, Infernity Zero, does appear as a usable card in Tag Force 5 onward. Thing is, it requires taking damage to special summon it (or sending it to the graveyard so Phantom of Chaos can copy it) before playing Self Destruct Button, which means you can't just lop off your life points to use it from nowhere. At least one anime-only card that was usable in Tag Force got printed years latter (Zushin), so Infernity Zero *might*, eventually, get printed for the real game.

Time Seal has to be the worst banned trap card. No reason for it to be banned really

Easy fix for Last Turn to make it able to be unbanned: Have it negate the effect of the monster you chose

something to note about time seal, is that it doesnt do anything until the opponent's second turn after you set it. since the first time you can activate it is during the opponent's draw phase it wont skip that one. they still get an entire turn before you can even make use of it

im kinda happy that DDD got mentioned even if just as an example how to negate a banned card to make it more broken, especialy as i used Siegfrid in some similiar fashions to get rid of negative effects on Cards that i just dont use during my turn but have to stick around to work DDD gets mentioned far to rarely sadly do to its unfortunate release window back in the day

Cards that you can activate only if you have 1000 Lp or less.

9:50 that just makes me think the TCG players are bigger trolls than OCG Players. or maybe it is the difference between time periods

I would always run the self destruct button on reversal quiz otk as plan B if the OTK fails as it works well with the lifepoint swap scenario

About Drop Off and Mystic Mine, you can chain that MST to the activation of Drop Off

Yes, the infamous time seal loop that almost no one ever used even when the game was slow enough to warrant it. Time seal is a bad card, inherently. Takes 2 turns for a MAYBE positive situation assuming the current state of the metagame doesn't result in a 5+ monster board with 10 million negates and a replenished 5 card hand on top of it. Card is a joke in modern yugioh and would be fine at 3 just like the slightly better Yata Garasu, who is in spite being better than Time Seal, still total trash

Can you do a top insect type monsters?

As a suggestion, you could compare banned cards to the errata version to see if they were overly nerfed.

Ooh, I bet after you explain the banlist in the tcg, explaining the ban list of duel links would be fun

Time seal could easily come back to three the card is just garbage

Last turn fix; Negate your/all monsters effect this turn. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Something of just like a card of the day/week where you talk about cards you have something interesting to say about potential combos, its art, its story, its history, or how terrible/great it is could be fun

Trap Dustshoot (errata) Activate only if both you and your opponent have each 4 or more cards in your hands. Look at your opponent's hand, then choose 1 Monster Card from their hand and shuffle it into the deck. You can only activate 1 "Trap Dustshoot" per turn. There you go, the classic errata into uselessness.

Errota Last Turn to add, “Tell the end of the duel all effect’s of effect monsters effects are Negated” (it is ending after this card effect ends)

4:10 just make it so that the effects of the targeted monster is negated

Even with the change you describe, Last Turn can still be cheesed by use of Sangan (summons a monster upon destruction). Removing all monster effects would be a better fix.

The question of if a card can be unbanned is an interesting one. It depends on how you want to shape the meta of Yugioh ultimately. I think effects like Trap Dustshoot would be integral to slowing down the meta of Yugioh, being able to force the opponent to discard key cards is what keeps combo decks under control in other games like MtG or Hearthstone. Reducing the consistency of decks through effects like these forces the players to value resource management more in the deckbuilding phase because they need to account for discard effects and devise alternative plans. Maybe Trap Dustshoot isn't the perfect card to embody that idea but it's a fun thought experiment to imagine what would be needed to reign in the explosive early game plays of the current meta and metas of the few previous years

I think they changed time seal so that it removed itself from play facedown, that would solve the problem the best. That way you could use it once per card with no way of looping.

A decent errata or added cost for Vanity’s Emptiness would be “You must control no special summoned monsters in order to activate and resolve this card.” You can also make it to where both players can destroy the card by activating a upstart goblin or terraforming to destroy the trap. Just an idea to throw around seeing how special summoning and combo decks have become triumphant so would love to see this card make a healthy return.

a suggestion for future video series - a guide to yugioh past, where you look at all the past formats of yugioh giving brief overviews of the decks strategies and rulings of all yugiohs past formats

Me seeing Last Turn: "Oh yeah, you could do that thing with Winged Dragon of Ra so you have 100 LP left and then your opponent would attack into it which would be cool" Yu-Gi-Oh players: "Just don't let them Special Summon lol" :(

Time seal could be unbanned if they added, *"This card is removed from play once it's effect has been resolved"* There are only three cards that allow trap cards to be returned, Infernoid Tierra, Psy Lord Omega and Paleozoic Leanchoilia

I think Last Turn can be brought back if they errata it to negate all monster effects too so it actually is a final battle between monsters. The main issue with last turn is the fact monster effects were still in play.

I'd say a way to balance trap dustshoot is to make it so you have to do the same thing, so you have to have 4 or more cards in hand as well, reveal your hand and your opponent gets to pick a monster to send back to your deck as well. That would balance it so that both players have knowledge of their opponents cards, and as a trap card activated on your opponents turn, they would be in a better position to play around any negates you might have in your hand.

Cards that allows the players to summon their entire deck on first turn: Konami: -That's cool! They keep the flow of the meta game and keep it interesting! Vanity's Emptiness exists: Konami: Oh no! We have to ban this monstrosity! Without special summons there's no meta game and no profit of selling cards!!