How GOOD Were the DRAGON RULERS ACTUALLY? - History of the Dragon Rulers in Competitive Yu-Gi-Oh! 

Let's face it these people spamming legend/ classic are just (pre)millenials who depserate need to be part of something

@@eavyeavy2864 yea.... Let's go with that bro.

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+1 for striker vid

The support cards are super good

A big reason is multirole, a continuous spellbook of judgement that SETS your spells instead of searching them, and also the fact that none of their normal and quick-play spells are once per turn, making engage especially killer.

@@harmonizing_spellian They still are earning a few tops in Splight/Tearalaments format in the ocg, despite only 1 Kagari there (Yes that hurts a lot) and no mystic mine. Its like Eldlich where the engine is good and compact enough that its hard to powercreep.

And then I’ll draw one

So we're looking at a chaos dragon on steroid

Chaos ruler?

With chaos emporer dragon being off the ban list with 3 primal seed.... they could release baby and daddy light and dark rulers today and those cards alone would make chaos decks top tier, especially with bystials in the mix im willing to bet they'd be tier 0

Dragon link is already having placements for a while now, so all at 3 would again make them broken I think

Dont underestimate the Foolish Burial effect on Tidal, there is a reason why Foolish is limited. But to be fair, Konami just needs to Limit all the Rulers, see if they're still too broken, and if needed ban them again.

@@MsMiDC You need a water monster for the foolish effect and water decks aren't that great anymore.

@@bl00by_ tbh tempest and blaster could both go to 3 and tidal could go to 1 with zero issue whatsoever

You can tell me if it was a fluke, but I did watch MBT’s Bandless tournament, where he had Tempest at 3, and Blaster and Tidal at 1, and an Adventurer Dragon Link player tech them in. At one point the his field was empty and he only had 2 cards in hand, but because of the dragon rulers he rebuilt his whole field while annihilating his opponent’s. The deck ended up making it to semi-finals of that online tournament, but I think the dragon rulers are still very powerful if too many of them are legal at once.

The thing is it won't take much to break these cards. Just because a fire or water deck isn't top tier right now doesn't mean that they will never be. Tempest is just the worst of the dragon rulers and they deemed only one dragon ruler fine

Blaster can come back

yeah kellen and i are chill

@@StevieBlunderReal awesome

Dragonlink May be able to utilize them.

They are easy to summon bodies that come back every turn, and they are level 7 which synergizes with ze amin or the rose dragon package and gives them access to rank 7s like Voloferniges(basically drident, and is also dark), or odd-eyes rebellion and odd-eyes rebellion overlord for otks or making a 4 material zeus. Wont help at creating longer boards but it will give them amazing recovery and follow up plays. Armed dragon thunder and dragon rulers also go well together but armed dragons are not good enough. Other decks can also utilize the dragon rulers based on the attribute, like mermail in the past used Tidal and with modern decks already being good, if they find a deck to be in, they will pop off.

Generally, people think of old broken cards in the context of the format in which they were popular. If the Rulers were to be unbanned and unlimited today, I strongly believe that they would utilize new cards and archetypes to perform even better than they did in their heyday.

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Yes it is the only archetype in history which has all of it cards forbidden at some point ( even the babies). It technically is the most “hit” archetype in history. Since out of its 24 available Main Deck card (all babies and daddies at 3) 11 are not allowed to be played. So almost 50%

If we wanna go for technecalities, are they a archetype?

You probably mean lithosagym

@@andrejv.2834 Oh I'm dumb

Don't need to imagine now lol

MBT did a masochist banlist cup (where he unbanned over half the cards) and a Dragon Link deck using all of the available Rulers (1 Tidal/Blaster 3 Tempest) had a pretty good showing there, getting to the semi-finals. A highlight was against a Wind-Up deck where even after getting DRNM + Raigeki and left with only two cards in hand, the DLink player was able to use the DRulers to rebuild his whole board and swing for game thanks to Borrelend Dragon. Here's the link with the time-stamp: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kvwQXp9f05w.html

A "pure" ruler build without everything at 3 wouldn't do much But with them at 3 the potential seems to be there, lv 7 combines with hand traps and lv 1 tuners for chaos ruler/baronne/savage, belle is earth, ash is fire, they can easily play adventurer, and can search ravine etc It would take a lot of experimenting to build properly though

They SUCK in todays standards. I play with friends and we do unbanned lists often, i have an OG dragon ruler deck that cannot keep up with really any modern deck at all. Its insane how strong this deck was at the time, but even with full power old lists from 2013 or so... it just doesnt compete. However i think they could be decently strong when combined with dragon link or somthing, which i have been looking into but i just hate using dragon ruler as anything but pure.

@@bobstoner415 I think that’s mostly because it sounds like you’re building them similarly to decklists from their heyday. An optimal modern dragon ruler decklist would probably look almost nothing like one from their format 7 years ago. I’ve seen a few “how does this old broken deck hold up?” style vids and people just copy old tournament decklists without adding any newer, better cards or engines.

@@augustgremaud2738 Thats litterally the entire point. The decklist of old is dead. They suck. Without adding new cards, and being honest even if you do it isnt dragon rulers anymore. We arnt fkin talking about link rulers or synchro rulers or whatever.

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(The) Difference between Rulers and Greed / Charity is that not all decks can play Blaster to its fullest, and Charity might be even more broken nowadays with the plethora of gy effects

I got to play Dark Matter Rulers in Tag Force Special. Extremely fun, completely broken.

Why does drawing 5 or 6 cards or milling up to 4 seems bad to you? Remember that milling cards for many decks isn't a drawback at all

Milling 1-4, or drawing 5-6 is fucking nuts. How do you not care about this? Some decks play freaking Reckless Greed, and believe me if Sixth Sense ever comes back to 3, it will warp the entire format around it.

@@MsMiDC ever heard about the word trap card. you're either trying to play a card that mills 2 out of 3 times in a combo deck so it sucks more ass than psy frame driver as it's not even a monster to do something with OR you're playing it in a trap deck that somehow wants to mill cards and even than if you get the draw 6 if those 6 cards are not hand traps it did literally nothing for you as you either stop the opponent with your other 4 cards in which case you're already winning or you lose on the spot getting otked. non interactive trap cards are dogshit in modern yugioh. even eldlich, the only good trap deck that wants traps in the grave, would rather play more floodgates to completely shut down the opponent compared to a high roll card that only helps next turn.

@@esrohm6460 You set it turn 1, you set up your board of negates stop you opponents turn, then play it your next turn and go for game. It's really simple It's fucking broken

This is peak comedy

I think that should be obvious considering that was Kellen himself talking in the intro.

True

Skill issue

Then uh don't watch it