Joey Wheeler's Top 10 WORST Cards (That He Used In The Anime) 

Joey's arc truly embodied the story of many of us back in the day. First, we didn't know what we were doing, and filled our decks with useless garbage, misplaying all the time. But eventually, we learned and adapted... by shoving a Jinzo into our deck and let it carry us.

Kaiba: 'Play your last pathetic card, Yugi.' Yugi: 'My grandpa's deck has no pathetic cards, Kaiba.' Joey: 'Yea!' Yugi: 'He shoved them all into Joey's deck.' Joey: 'Yea!...wait, what?'

One card he used that was completely nerfed was graceful and skull dice. They could've been game winning if they weren't changed to be the result x100.

early yugioh anime rules seemed to work closer to something like dnd than a card game. Spells seemed to largely come from spell caster monsters while warriors used weapons as equipment.

Joey was a great example of a poor dude with junky cards who formed a deck based on the best of what he have, he is something like yusei from season 1

The funny thing is in S4 Metal Red Eyes did have the attack modifier so it was way better then the version we got IRL

Ngl watching Joey make these cards work was where half the enjoyment of the series came from

I think what's weird about Metal Dragon is that technically, Joey didn't really summon it. He just equipped Metal Morph to Red Eyes and it just sort of morphed into Metal Dragon and being more like a weird pseudo card. The same kind of applies to Metal Zoa and Heavy Metal King. Just weird early Yu-Gi-Oh shenanigans.

Legendary fisherman and the whale ritual monster he won from Mako definitely deserved a spot

A funny thing about real life Parasite Paricide; there was one of those which fell into my possession as a kid because someone used it in a duel with my brother and then forgot to ask for it back. Eventually, one of us also lost it in another duel because, yet again, we forgot it was still in the opponent's deck. I like to think kids are still handing around the same copy of Parasite Paracide to this day.

I always found it strange that Jinzo didn't just immediately replace Red-Eyes as Joey's ace the moment he got it. It has the same Attack, requires one less tribute, and has a really good (at the time) effect. Red-Eyes costs double the tribute fodder for the same Attack and zero effect whatsoever.

Im surprised you didn't really harp on the fact that Insect Queen is just a bad fit for Joey's deck for typing reasons. He has no insect support or other insect monsters in general. So he can't even get the most out of its effects and use it as a serious beat stick.

Talking about Joey's bad cards. Joey "Why I oughta! Yugi's gramps taught meh there's no bad cards ya hear!".

Joey didn't even play Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon. He was simply using his vanilla Red-Eyes equipped with Metalmorph.

The amount of times we say "I summon Time Wize'hd" or "Kunaiiiii wi'chains" when in a discord call with my friend because of Joey is great. Just playing a completely separate game and when we're boned and have nowhere to go we pull a anime get out of jail free card with "Time wize'hd" in hope that the heart of the cards, aka, some miracle saves us.

My favorite part of Parasite Paracide is any time a Yugo-tuber uses it they are always confused that it's effect failes when it get attacked onto.

Do Mai Valentine's worst cards! It might be tough though since her's were fairly good. Backrow removal and counter cards like Mirror Wall.

As a reminder, Weevil had to cheat to make his deck work against Joey.

20:51 Idea to improve these cards: _Gearfried The Adamantine Knight_ (EARTH) Level 4 Warrior/Tuner/Effect _This card’s name is always also treated as “Gearfried The Iron Knight. Cannot be destroyed by monsters who’s Level/Rank/Link is 4 or lower. (Quick Effect) You can destroy any card(s) equipped to this card, then increase or decrease this card’s level by up to the number of destroyed cards. Once per turn, you can tribute 1 card from your hand or field: Add 1 card to your hand from your deck or GY that mentions “Gearfried” in its name or effects._ ATK/1800 DEF/1600 _Gearfried Unbound_ Quick-Play Spell _Tribute 1 “Gearfried” monster you control: Special Summon 1 "Gearfried the Master of Arms" from your hand, deck or GY. You can shuffle this card you own that is banished or in the GY into your deck while you control a face-up “Gearfried” monster: Add 1 Equip Spell to your hand from your deck or GY._ _Gearfried the Master of Arms_ (LIGHT) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Warrior/Effect _Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned with "Gearfried Unbound". Can declare additional attacks per battle phase, equal to the number of cards equipped to this card. (Quick Effect) You can shuffle this card from your hand or GY into your deck: Add 1 Spell/Trap that mentions “Gearfried” in its name or effects to your hand from your deck or GY. Each time a card is equipped to this card: Apply 1 of the following effects:_ ⚪️Destroy 1 card your opponent controls. ⚪️Add 1 card that mentions “Equip” in its name or effects to your hand from your deck or GY. ATK/2600 DEF/2200

27:25 Ideas to improve MetalMorph and REBMD: _Living Metalmorph_ Trap Card _This card’s name is always also treated as “Metalmorph”. You can discard 1 card to activate this card from your hand, field (face-up or facedown) or GY. You can apply each of the following effects of “Living Metalmorph” once per turn:_ ⚪️Target 1 face-up monster on the field; equip this card to that target. It gains 300 ATK/DEF. If it battles, it gains ATK/DEF equal to half the ATK or DEF (your choice) of the attack target, during damage calculation only. ⚪️ Special Summon this card as an Effect Monster (Machine/Tuner/DARK/Level 1/ATK 300/DEF 300). (This card is also still a Trap.) If this card battles, it gains ATK/DEF equal to half the combined total ATK/DEF of 1 monster on the field. _Red-Eyes Black Iron Dragon_ (DARK) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Machine/Effect _Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must first be Special Summoned (from your Hand, Deck or GY) by Tributing1 "Red-Eyes" monster equipped with "Metalmorph". Cannot be destroyed. If this card battles, it gains ATK and DEF equal to the ATK and DEF of any monster it battles, during the damage step. If this card leaves the field, Special Summon 1 “Red-Eyes” monster from your hand, deck or GY, and add 1 “Metalmorph” card to your hand from your deck or GY._ ATK/2800 DEF/2400

I didn't see these points mentioned in the video or comments, so I'm gonna mention them. 1) Book of Moon saw play because it is a quick-play spell, otherwise it would've been just as bad as Block Attack. 2) Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon is even worse than described in the video because it has to be summoned from the Deck. If you draw it, it is dead in your hand, and you aren't summoning it unless you shuffle it back in the deck with something like Reload or Magical Mallet.

Not sure if it'd count as a "bad card that Joey used", but one of the riskiest Spell Cards he played was "Roulette Spider". Don't even know if it's been released IRL, but I know that it had an even higher risk of backfiring on him than Time Wizard. Joey used that in his first Battle City duel against Espa Roba on the latter's ace monster, Jinzo, where it was spun like a roulette that would only stop when Espa told it to. There were FIVE potential targets. Two of them were the duelists directly while the other three were any of the other monsters on the field, with Espa making a comment in his head that Joey's deck was so lame that he had nothing to lose. Upon ordering Jinzo to stop spinning, it pointed at Espa's only other monster: Reflect Bounder. Both were destroyed because of Reflect Bounder's effect while winning Joey the duel.

Thousand dragon should have gotten a special effect of "aging" enemy monsters, like cutting their attacks in half when summoned.

Leogun has stats that aren’t justifiable for its level, because in the manga at the time monsters typically had much higher levels, because tributing wasn’t a thing yet, and when this card was brought to the actual game, they kept its level, the same even though a lot of other cards of similar power scaling had lower levels now, so they could still be summoned easy since levels mattered more now

I love that Rex is wearing a same jacket as Joey wore at Duelist Kingdom. Maybe Rex got some inspiration from Joey.

The first isnt so much an example of teamwork as its an example of almost nobody ever thinks to look at the card text/stats after its played in the anime

With elma being banned, my other favorite way to abuse gearfried in goat is smoke grenade of the thief and blast with chain

The problem with thousand dragon is that a lot of tactics that could be applied in the manga or anime couldn’t be pulled off in the actual real world card game due to their complexity so simplifying thousand dragon into a fusion monster made sense for the real world game mechanics, but it also made it much Less competitively viable even though the monster still has decent stats

Fun fact: Knight's Title can be used with Destiny Hero Diamond Dude to get a free 2500 beatstick.

...how did they not think to build a stronger Metalmorph effect into Metal Red-Eyes.

Even as a young child. I never could understand why red eyes black metal is worse then just keeping red eyes with the metalmorph equip. It makes no sense why it has no special effect.

What perfect timing. The new Flame Swordsman cards come out today.

Yugi: Joey you can’t make a deck with just monster cards. Gong Strong: Am I a joke to you?

15:31 needed to remind that Johnson thinks Joey is burden to Yugi even though the reason Joey is struggling middle of the duel against him is because he Actually rigged the result of his gamble cards

Ahm, a small point of view eith block attack and book of moon, bavk in the day, flip effects where more predominant and monster effects not so much, so it was more common to find problematic to put a face down rather than a face up defense monster card

But but but I can use Block Attack on your Berserk Gorilla causing it to auto blow itself up!

I love all the lil bits of positivity and good lessons you include in these videos! ^-^ They’re very helpful.

Still don’t know how panther warrior wasn’t on this list

Idea to make this card more FUN: _Dangerous Machine Type-7_ Continuous Spell _If a Die is rolled: You can activate this card from your hand or GY during either players turn. During the beginning of each Phase: The Turn Player can Roll a six-sided die and apply the result. The controlling player of this card can reroll the result once per Phase._ ● 1: Discard 1 card. ● 2: Your opponent discards 1 card. ● 3: Draw 1 card. ● 4: Your opponent draws 1 card. ● 5: Destroy 1 card your opponent controls. ● 6: Destroy 1 card you control.

Funny idea, inprove some of joey worse cards by retraining them into support for his other archetypes or fusing them together. A fusion of Legendary Fisherman and Insect Queen would be funny. A Red-Eyes Black Jinzo would be terrifying. Or a Leogun retrain that acts as a mount/union for Flame Swordsman.

*Updated retrain of baby dragon, thousand dragon, plus time wizard with their animated card game effects into real life TCG/OCG will definitely be worth it for joey wheeler deck arsenal.*

Dangerous Machine Type-6 could potentially be useful in a Dark World deck, as now it's basically a 2/3 chance of getting a benefitial effect (only negatives being your opponent draws one card or the card is destroyed)....but it still has the downside of waiting two whole turns to actually have it activate.

While it's interesting to learn his weakest cards by modern day standards it would have been even more interesting to compare his deck to the cards of the time as well, maybe a future video idea?

Please do Top 10 archetypes with multiple different extra deck monster (must have more than 2 because almost all of the archetypes in the game received a link monster !)

As Soon As Pendelum Got In To Duel Links! That Was The Day Duel Links Died RIP Duel Links I Will Miss You!

Talking about Lily, i remember when i was playing yugioh gx in nds..she pump her attack to 3000, so i give her magic cylinder..aah how nostalgic..😂

To be fair early on a lot of really good cards in early anime we’re considered very rare even something like negate attack so the gambling was a more common way to get effect like those

Comparing how duelling in the anime works with their TCG counterparts is a bit unfair. Basically the Extra Deck would have needed a limit of 30 cards and the additional type "Evolved Monster", because a Ton of Monsters were evolutions that spawned, when you used certain cards on certain monsters. They never had to draw those cards, making the "Evolution Monsters" way stronger.

Why not make "Magic Metal" retrains of the monsters that can be special summoned by tributing the right monster with an equip card(s) and then re-equip the "Magic Metal" monster with an equip card that was previously attached.

I never understood why only parasite paracide needs to survive being attacked. Every other flip monster gets its effect off. I think even morphing jar 2 gets returned to the deck?

Im loving the best and worst cards a character has used series. Plus adding context from the anime is my favorite part of the videos. I hope to see videos of charcter from GX and 5Ds eventually.

video idea you might have already done: "Top 10 Yugioh Monsters that are fusions without being Fusion Monsters." Stuff like how Arise-Heart is a merger of all of the Visas, Heavymetalfoes Electrumite is a fusion of Gold and Silver, Full Armored Utopic Ray Lancer is Utopia Ray wearing the Black Ray Lancer armor, etc.

One thing worth noting about time wizard is that against Yugi's boss monster the Dark Magician it backfired on Joey.

4:24 I used a dragon fusion deck back in the beginning of duel links, and because I had a few fusion substitute cards, I had a baby dragon slotted in my deck specifically for Thousand Dragon. I thought it was clever, but looking back, I think I'd have been better off with a good back row card lol.

Insect Queen...i have a lot of nostalgia for that card, i thought it was cool and tried my best to make a deck out of it. It and Doom Dozer. I wish it would've worked better. Oh well, still a cool card!

Do a "Top 10 Hello Fresh meals and what Elemental Hero it would be"

I still laugh, once upon a time (a long long time ago) I ran Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon in one of my decks. It was in a Cyberdark deck where I used to send Red-Eyes B Dragon to the graveyard allowing the Cyberdark Dragon to equip Red-Eyes. The tactic was reliant on the fact that I could summon Red-Eyes Dragon as one of the easiest summons I could ask for. These days not only do Cyberdarks have their own dragons, there are easier ways to get Red-Eyes in the graveyard and better monsters to select.

Leogun was great in Reshef of destruction aka an insanely hard GBA game

Hello, can you do a video about all cards that can remove the facedown banished cards away from their banished zone if there any , i only know necroface can do that.

It would be cool to see a list of the worst cards used by Yusaku in Yugioh Vrains, since he had some interesting ones.

I feel like you would want both block attack and book of moon in your deck in case you're going against someone using flip monsters,for example shaddolls

7:06 obligatory "reel 'em in, Axe Raidah!"

If the knight's title had been relased now days it's effect would to tribute a speallcaster monster to summon a warrior monster with the same attribute and level, and it still would see play, would be really fun to use.

Whaaat! You have sponsors now?! Congratz man

This is an excellent video. It made me appreciate Joey even more.

I feel like Fairy Box should also be considered, because not only is it a gambling card, it's also a gambling card that has a maintenance cost just to keep it around. Plus, since it only really works in the Battle Phase, it can be played around quite easily like other Battle Phase-exclusive cards

When talking about Leogun, dude forgot that Pendulum Summoning was a thing, unless he's talking about before Pendulums were a thing

I feel like you should’ve mentioned that Dark Sage actually does work the way it does in the anime with the thousand dragon part just for trivia /shrug

I really wish they would’ve done something with the baby dragon line like outside of Time wizard. I thought that thousand dragon could be retrained and so could alligator sword dragon.

Considering this is about the anime, I would say that Leogun should not be in the list as the only time it was summoned was before tributes were required so a 1750atk monster that you can just normal summon isn't actually half bad for the time, it just got screwed by the field bonus But honestly, Kaiba is right, Joey actually........really sucks, I like the guy but his deck is awful during the whole run of the series if you count only canon material Joey's best duels were during the Dartz arc, as it was only up to that point that he managed to get a deck with any sort of theme around it, too bad that during the Kaiba Grand Prix he got screwed again by his bricky hand of useless high level cards "But he almost beat Yami Marik"....did he tho? I mean yea you can say that Marik got plot armor because Joey just needed to survive long enough to just declare an attack with Gearfried but really....Marik was obviously toying with him all duel, clearly just wanted to prolong his suffereng during the shadow game as Marik's level of play vs Joey is nowhere near close to everything he prepared against Yugi, yes at the end of the day that hubris could've costed Marik the win but honestly, Joey deserve to be placed above Marik, HELL HE DOESN'T EVEN DESERVE TO BE IN THE FINALS, I'm not trying to sound like Kaiba here, but really, the only reason he beat Odion was because Marik ordered him to stall until he summoned Ra in order to prevent the others from discovering his real identity, Odion had his boss monster ready against a Joey with a literally empty field and yet did nothing for like 3 turns just to wait until he drew Ra and after that, did Joey managed to defeat the fake Ra using the free turns Odion gave him? No, he literally only won because he stood up after getting hit with magic lightning, had the real Ra not gotten angry and attacked Odion there would've been no way for Joey to do anything to win And why was Joey left unable to do anything against Odion and forced to pass for a bunch of turns? Because his deck fucking sucks, the idea of Battle City is to win the opponent's rarerest card and strengthen your own deck, and other than Jinzo, Joey won some of the worst cards out there which of course he had no support for Jinzo at the time is pretty much a staple, even if you don't run any machines it's still a 1 tribute 2400atk monster which allows you to negate all traps thus preventing your opponent from stopping your attacks, the only deck in the DM era which would not like to run Jinzo is ironically the person we just discussed, Odion AND EVEN WITH JINZO JOEY COULDN'T HONESTLY BEAT HIM But Legendary Fisherman? (and supposedly fortress whale but Mako was a dick and didn't give him the ritual spell) a 1 tribute monster with low atk for its requirements and no way for Joey to use his effect And Insect Queen a 2 tribute weak monster with a cost in order to attack (as if he didn't have enough of that with panther warrior) which I think only manages to destroy like 1 or 2 enemy monsters during its whole existance within his deck and every other time is just a dead card in his hand Like, he didn't NEED to add those monsters to his deck, they made it actively worse But honestly, I could maybe forget all that, I could forget how Joey even during the non canon arcs which I already stated are where his best duels and skills are shown, is still shown as an idiot who needs Yugi to constantly save or like in the Grand Prix arc, little Yugi literally has to teach him (THE SEMIFINALIST OF DUEL KINGDOM) how are chain links resolved (maybe this was just for the viewers, but they could've have Yugi teach that to Tristan or Tea, or EVEN BETTER have JOEY be the one who teaches it), I can also forget his over reliance on luck becuase, he has a pretty good track record, I think he only gets legitimately screwed by luck (without the opponent cheating) 1 once in the whole series (but don't quote me on this) I could forgive all that, but what I can't forgive, is the fact that even by the end of the series HE STILL HAS FUCKING BATTLE WARRIOR ON HIS DECK, A FUCKIN USELESS 1000atk warrior who NEVER, EVER, IN THE WHOLE SERIES, DOES ANYTHING, IT IS USELESS 100% OF THE TIME, and he never takes it out of his deck, like if he had no access to better warriors, the most common monster type on the game, it's like if in the ceremonial duel between Atem and Yugi, Atem suddenly summoned fucking BEAVER WARRIOR I fucking hate battle warrior with such a passion, yes, Joey uses weaker monsters than it, like Swordsman of Landstar, but at least he can support SoL with gracefull dice, because in the anime instead of adding attack up to a max of 600 like in the TCG it Multiplies the monsters attack up to six times BUT it can only be used on a monster with 500 or less attack, so SoL is the perfect candidate to benefit from it, no wonder they are pretty much always used together But....in a cruel twist of fate, Battle Warrior is actually too "strong" to be able to benefit from graceful dice, but Battle warrior sucks at being good and sucks and being bad, it literally sucks at sucking, fucking waste of paper or whatever material the cards are made in the anime for Kaiba to be able to bruise people's hands by throwing one at them He is cool dude and good friend but, again, Kaiba had it 100% correct, he is a 3rd rate duelist with a 4th rate deck because indeed his deck is worse than him Fuck Battle Warrior, worst card he ever used, and probably worst card anyone ever used in the DM anime

The fact Red Eyes Black Metal Dragon doesn't get the effect of Metalmorph has always baffled me. Like, that sounds like it would make it a pretty neat card for the time if it kept the effect *in addition* to the extra 400 ATK/DEF points it gains with the tribute, but it just doesn't for whatever reason.

I run parasite infestation in my weevil deck on duel links and it consistently works properly in pve duels but for some reason in pvp duels when they draw it, they just take burn damage and never summon it. It must be glitched to allow them to say no to its summon. So bad

Do you think you can cover Yuya’s deck and Zarc’s deck as well please do a top cards list for Yuya, Yuto , Yugo , Yuri and Zarc.

Parasite Paracide needing to survive is still stupid to this day, and I'll stand by it. The very first instance of Konami not knowing how their own game mechanics worked, and it'd only get worse with every if/when card they printed.

time wizard would be way cooler if he really could do that effect, and kinda change the whole board

I would love for them to retrain Thousand Dragon as a Main Deck monster like they did with Light End Dragon and Dark End Dragon from the GX manga

I think it would have been cool if they applied the same effect from time wizard to thousand dragon where if he is fusion summoned all monsters your opponent controls would be destroyed

We all been in Joey's footsteps. We ere all beginners and noobies didnt know how to make a deck. We only played the cards that looked coolest and cutest. But when we played for years we get better and taking it more serious. And we learn more combos, stradegies and we play with the cards we love. For Joey he enjoy the game a lot. And doesnt matter what card he use, every card have it's value. Joey remind me when I was a kid and my brother taught me everything about Yugioh and I immediately fell in love with the game Its the only game I played and as countless defeats by Bro I did manage to get quick wins from him showing I've been improved. That helped me irl as I got better in school if I just kept trying. That what I love with Yugioh and other shows they help me to build up my life. I dont mind if Joey cards ain't useful, its not what Yugioh is suppose to do tho. Its your mind, your decision and the cards have helped Joey but he improve and use other cards that are useful. Yugi helps him give him Time Wizard which definitely helped Joey a lot through out the whole show. Btw Thousand Dragon if its not strong it still super iconic and one of the first fusion monsters that got introduced and that why its Good. It brings you memories and nostalgia and it can be good in certain situations. Its better than nothing. Its strong as Red Eyes and if you use card right way you can win either way. Hell, ppl make Kuriboh decks and still wins.

4:32 Ok… This one has actually been bothering me on how to improve it, but I think I have an angle now: _Time Wizard’s Dragon_ (LIGHT) Level 7 Dragon/Fusion/Tuner/Effect “Time Wizard” OR 1 Spellcaster monster + “Hundred Dragon” OR 1 Dragon monster _This card that is face-up on the field or in the GY is also WIND-Attribute. If this card is fusion summoned: You can special summon 1 Fusion Monster from your Extra deck that mentions “The Claw of Hermos” in its effects, ignoring its summoning conditions. Once per turn (Quick Effect): You can have this card gain or lose Levels equal to the number of cards you control, and if you do, it gains 200 ATK/DEF for each Level gained or lost. These changes last until the end of this turn. You can shuffle 1 card from your hand, deck or GY into your deck (Quick Effect): Toss a coin and call it. If you call it right, destroy 1 card on the field. If you call it wrong, Your opponent can destroy 1 card on the field, except this card._ ATK/2500 DEF/2400

I am shocked that you didn’t count on Joeys, legendary fisherman because that along with the insect queen, I know it didn’t really have a reason to be in his deck

It's crazy how different the comments on these anime videos are compared to the usual vids

0:30 Simple fix for this one: Make it a Quickplay Spell so that it can actually stop an attack during your opponent’s turn.

In theory couldn't you build a deck around Dangerous Machine Type-6 to turn most of it's negatives into positives? Like... you discarding or destroying cards, aren't there decks that could use that? The only one that could be considered a legitimate downside in most all decks is "Your opponent draws one card" But, I feel like somewhere there's some obscure card that would allow you to substitute the opponents draw card effect(s) with Cards of your own choosing. That way you could pretty much sabotage them by giving them worthless monsters they can't do anything with.

In modern yugioh I feel Release restraint would be more synergy. Equip to a warrior monster. If this card is destroyed by the effect of Gearfried, summon swordmaster from the hand or deck. Then it's searchable as an equip card.

special mention on metalmorph: he actually used it correctly against rex still calling it black metal dragon but not using the actual bmd card, instead opting to keep metalmorph equipped so it can gain the beatover effect.

there is one use in the tcg for Black Metal Dragon: In Champion's Pack 1, if you are playing draft, it's the best non-ritual monster ritual material to summon Zera The Mant or Magician of black chaos. Also, you'll be forced to play the card if you're using standard deck sizes anyways.

At least we got Red Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon to compensate 🔥

U also should of mentioned that book of moon has other utility as it is not just a card that can be used on your turn but your opponents turn if set first as well as it is not only useful on your opponents monsters as book of moon has a history of use in flip effect decks.

9:44 That's a reaction if I've ever seen one! 😂

Flame swordsman coming back with one of the biggest fucking bangs you've ever seen.

joey got a lot of redeyes cards, i am sure without him gerfrid swordmaster would have been joeys ace card or gilford teh lightning

I have never seen such an abrupt transition to a hellofresh ad ever before and I realize now that I prefer this over being bamboozled by a misdirect

15:00 I can retrain this and Dark Magician Knight to become more worthwhile: _Magician’s Knighting_ Quick-Play Spell _Tribute 1 face-up “Magician” Monster from your Momster or Pendulum Zones: Special Summon 1 “Dark Magician - Gallant Knight” from your hand, deck or GY, then apply 1 of the following effects depending on the zone you tributed from for this effect:_ Monster Zone: Add 1 Monster to your hand (from your deck or GY) that mentions “Magician” in its name or effects. Pendulum Zone: Add 1 Spell/Trap card to your hand (From your deck or GY) that mentions “Magician” in its name or effects. _Dark Magician - Gallant Knight_ (DARK) Level 7 Spellcaster/Tuner/Effect _Cannot be normal summoned/set. Must be special summoned by the effect of “Magician’s Knighting”. If this card is special summoned: You can change this card’s original type to Warrior. (Quick Effect) You can shuffle this card from your hand or GY: Add 1 “Magician’s Knighting” and 1 “Magician” monster to your hand from your deck or GY. (Quick Effect) You can tribute 1 card from your hand or field: Apply 1 of the following effects depending on that tribute’s card type:_ Monster: Special Summon (face-up or facedown) 1 Level 4 or lower “Magician” monster from your hand or deck. Spell: Place 1 level/rank 4 or lower Pendulum monster from your hand, deck, monster zones, GY or face-up from your extra deck into your pendulum zones. Trap: Either (From your hand, deck or GY) set 1 Trap Card OR Equip 1 Equip Spell to a face-up Monster on the field. _You can only activate each effect of “Dark Magician - Gallant Knight” once per turn._ ATK/2500 DED/2100

Leogun slander! That boy was a beast in early game reshief of destruction.

Honestly, I liked the fact that Dangerous machine isn't once per turn. Having 3 of them, is such a fun deck to play as a troll/gimmick deck. Also, i wonder what Konami was thinking when they printed Red-Eyes black metal dragon. I honestly wish they would give it an Errata.

I’m surprised that Compensation Mediation wasn’t even mentioned in the list Not only is that card basically a luck chance card just to negate an attack But whether or not you get the benefit, your opponent gets to have 2 cards from their grave and back to the Top of the deck. So while you would know that the card they’ll draw as it’s in the graveyard prior, it’s still more of a benefit for the opponent than the user. At best you get lucky and end the battle phase. Worse case, you still get attacked, your opponent gets to keep 2 cards from the grave to the deck, and there’s literally negate attack if you want an attack removal trap card

If only Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon ( and also Metalzoa ) inherit Metalmorph's effect, it'll much better. Their design are so cool but the cards are, unfortunately, very bad 😞

Normally don't take comment on Duel Logs' pronunciation, but i'll take the bait just this once; Hearing him take a stab at 'Des Volstgalph' was impressive

I am here to come to Gearfried's defense and state that: of all of the monsters shown during that era hes the one who matches Joey's true strategy the most. He is absolutely a dominating force. With Metalmorph and Kunai with chain he basically could tack on: "Destroy 1 monster your opponent controls" onto trap equips that were already reversing the tide of battle Add in that the monster needed is easily searchable with Rota and was fairly large and useful and you have a deck to easily dominate duel monsters. He was a good card, his spell for summoning was just rough

i hate that red eyes black metal dragon always tops these lists cuz when i was a kid i meant to trade a red eyes from the joey starter deck for one, but i accidentally traded a 1st ed LOB red eyes i pulled for it, and didn't realize until it was too late. 20 years later i still cant live that one down.