THESE YU-GI-OH! CARDS MIGHT BE AWFUL, BUT I HATE THEM ANYWAY! 

Konami giving new support comes in one of three forms: 1. The extender that does everything 2. Skill Drain 3. Towers Shout out to Cyberdarks, they got all 3

4:35 I personally like the Junk Speeder combo as it takes just enough time for me to google and listen to the entirety of Clear Mind before I die to a bunch of sparkly dragons and a flower on a horse.

To be fair to dinomorphia the deck needed a skill drain or they just ducking lose

Making monsters with layered interaction or interesting activation timings: konami sleeps Making another unplayable skill drain so based fred finally gets hated out of his LGS: konami real hours

When i was 16 it was the yugioh online thing before they shut down the server. It was this one light sworn player. Boy i never hated a card until he threw judgment dragon down

at 0:10 shoulda had MBT as Mandark a much better fit lmaooo

The "literally anything that isn't meta" dude makes me rationally angry.

I just hate maiden with eyes of blue, listen everyone at my locals played blue eyes in like 2017 and I'm never not going to hate blue eyes in general

Dire definitely earns a W for that Skill Drain song at the end.

Cyber-Stein. If it’s not FTKing, it’s summoning a monster that either negates all spells and traps, or prevents you from summoning.

It's really awesome when decks have multiple of these awesome, fun, and exciting, and cool floodgates, like for example HERO, which has Skill Drain, Macro and IO, which is always fun to see.

Wow what a cool video Joseph

Dire needs to be paid more. Their edits fucking kill me in the best way

MBT, give Dire a raise for that sick post-credits song.

Our based wincon (Ghost Meets Girl - A Masterful Mayakashi Shiranui Saga) ve their horrific floodgate (Ocean Dragon Lord - Kairyu-Shin)

The more I return to the Yu-Gi-Oh rabbit hole, the more I realize I wasn't the only unlucky piece of work that suffered against Garunix. A friend of mine had (still has) the Fire King SD, and consistently beat me down with it for almost a year, until I finally got my hands on some Bottomless. Let's just say that we haven't had many duels since around 4 years ago, and when we do, we make a gentlemen agreement: He doesn't play his SD or Garunix, and I won't play Bottomless.

The thing is, when Skill Drain was banned, it at least made some logical sense to create weaker versions which were locked into archetypes. You can make the argument that it is lazy... and it is, but Konami have done this before where they make cards, which are just archetype versions of banned cards. (See something like Toon's basically having their own version of Snatch Steal). But now that Skill Drain is at three (even if it probably shouldn't be), many of these cards are even more worthless than before. Sure some of them might give their archetypes an advantage, but others are basically just weaker versions of Skill Drain... so why would you play them over Skill Drain.

What makes the Masterful Mayakashi Shiranui Saga even more annoying is that they could've used that card slot help out Shiranui and tie the two archetypes together more. Which Shiranui kinda needs. Maybe something that actually allows them to get their gameplan started properly and also counts as Style Synthesis on the field. You know, so that Solitaire finally has a chance to use his enhanced effect without having to play bad cards.

Quintet Magician feels like a custom card you find off google image searching an archetype its just a big beatstick that clears the board and swings for game but for some reason it couldn't be tributed because everyone and their mothers complained about kaijus in that time period. From then on I had an irrational hatred of Dark magician players

To be fair I'd much rather all floodgates be tied to an archetype than having to deal with generic ones. At least then it's something you have to work up to and maintain instead of just flipping one card. I mean, for example, if Eldlich had an in archetype Skill Drain that only worked while "Eldlich the Golden Lord" was on the field then it'd be much more manageable than normal Skill Drain that's always active.

Konami only has two ways of giving legacy support to rogue/bad/unplayable deckks: 1 - Give the deck some good tools to work with and a unique Boss monster that isnt just "When opponent; Negate and destroy their life" like Ninja, SHS, etc... Or 2 - Just give them a in-engine floodgate like Shiranui, Dinomorphia, and call it a day

I was watching the skill drain thing and immediately thought Harpie’s feather storm. This time it works with hand traps too

2:09 This reminds me of when I taught my best friend to play Yugioh. We were using GOAT-ish decks, but I wanted them to know about special summons, so I threw in a single Cyber Dragon in both of our decks. 10 games. They drew CyDra 9 times. The deck was shuffled properly, I SWEAR. Anyway, fun fact, even though they never got super into the card game (they like the animes which is why they wanted to learn to play) they keep a CyDra in their wallet as a good luck charm.

*suddenly realises King Tiger Wanghu automatically wins against Spright, Runick and mathmech (but then automatically loses to everything else)*

Harpie's Feather Storm is another one of these 'lol have a random floodgate' cards. Winged Beast decks with a wind monster (cough FLOO) gets to blank all monster effects for a turn, and Harpies get to activate it from the hand so you better have Red Reboot bozo. Oh and if you destroy it, they get to search Duster for free, as if it wasn't good enough already.

This thread was probably the most "No one read the prompt" thread of all time

HERO is kind of in that ballpark tbh. At least DPE exists and is way more interesting than Plasma, Dark Law (except the hand banish, that one's fun), and Dark Angel. I hope the upcoming support with the Wingman retrain will be good for making interactive boards that don't die to Raigeki.

Yugioh players really can't read. He asked for cards which sucked and people are saying Junk Speeder and Shenshen

Surprised nobody said Dark Law, considering it should be the poster child of taking a bad deck that should be interesting and giving them a floodgate. But for some reason Hero players like to pretend the deck isnt a floodgate pile

I love how konami card designers sit at a table, take the next deck that needs support, flip a coin and on heads they just print a skill drain as support... But hey, at least my fur hire and springans got nice support even on tails

Verre and the Nordic trap aren't Skill Drain, they are more like Dark Ruler. They aren't continuosly active, they only blank effects once

3:00 i absolutely love mayakashis artwork and lore but i absolutely hate how the only way to play them and be even slightly viable is always the boring thing possible like turn skip turbo or bone tower mill

I will not stand for the Junk Speeder slander! Instead I will sit for it because our combos take too long and it would hurt standing for that long.

There are also the Psyframes and Kaijus as archetypes, trash but so annoying.

Konami on their way to find more methods of creating skill drain again. I hate what dinomorphia became after rexterm was introduced. First time I saw dinomorphia, I actually liked the deck and it was kinda fun to use(specially using casually with friends, since there won't be any floodgate bs)... And then they just "yep floodgate" for no reason, for a deck that could've been more interesting than just floodgate turbo

Okay, we’re gonna need a recording of “Skill Drain by MBT” as a ringtone, a stream alert, something. That’s too damn catchy not to reuse and listen to all damn day, no joke.

All Konami hears is: Give Rogue Decks more archetypal Foodgates.

2:42 Ouch, that hurts MBT! It's unfortunate to hear my Top 8 at YCS Chicago and Top 16 ARGCS Championship in 2014 have been forgotten at this point.

Feels good being an Exosister player, where as a rogue deck my only floodgates are _completely turning off the graveyard_ (for the turn) and not archetype Skill Drain / TCBOO / Warlords. Also, Exosister support was _phenomenal._ A new starter/extender in Malfa, new fun strong interaction in Returnia, and a new boss monster that offers very unique and cool interaction _that doesn't have any floodgate or negate on it._ Seriously, Magnifica being able to quick effect rank down into one of its materials is some of the coolest XYZ shit I've ever seen, and it turns on the lower rank Exosister XYZ effects to boot since they are being "properly" XYZ summoned with an Exosister material, along with it being an XYZ that requires two other XYZ of a different rank as materials to summon. I've always liked XYZ, especially ones that do weird things with it. Exosisters and Madolche are a couple of my fav archetypes, and I'm super excited to try out Purery. (especially because Purery Leap is a trap version of Magnifica's effect, letting you spell speed 2 rank up _or down_ your Purery XYZs)

When you have to make it to 8 minutes so you just turn MBT into 'music'

I will not stand for this fire king slander!!

Mekk-Knight in Duel Links. It was SO BAD to deal with them due to their EASY way to add them in any Deck, mainly Cyberse Decks and had that Continuous Trap that negates Spell Cards before it was limit to 1. Every time I see them or Galaxy-Eyes, I just can't help but surrender because there's no point. HONESTLY... I have more fun dealing with Salamangreat more than Mekk-Knights.

Tbf to Dinomorphia, what else would you give it that would be impactful enough and keep you from dying at low lp other than a skill drain. I play Dinomorphia and HATE rexterm because I wish Kent was the boss monster and got support to help her but I understand their thought process when making it. Also, Witchcrafter doesn’t count because it’s a skill drain that was out from the beginning unlike a lot of other skill drains that came in the future

Nebra disk is definite stockholm syndrome for me as chronomaly player with all of its restriction. I really got the end of the stick to have MF konami printing a somewhat merciful stratos on their "fuck stratos" period. But still, a stratos, praise konami!

Misc is so goddamn boring "Oh, so you have nibiru? No you don't! Time to watch my 10 minute youtube combo for 18 negates!"

2:28 Gotta love yugioh, this did not age well.

“Anything non meta I hate having to figure out an entire archetype on the fly” ok that’s fair um have you consider uh fuck you! 😂😂😂

2:45 that statement aged REALLY bad

6:04 I remember all the 30 card decks that would open their ONE copy of that and ONE copy of Red-Eyes Fusion

I think this is a good sign of what Konami's real motto is: "We play backrow, deal with it."

I'm going to cry when Muskets get support in 30 years and it ends up being a fucking reskin of Harpies' Feather Storm or some shit instead of something that lets them not brick every 3 minutes/lets them not die to a single quick effect pop. Because that's just what I want for the deck I picked up out of a deep hatred for floodgates: a lingering fucking floodgate.

"I hate non-meta because I can't read" every meta player ever

Orcust, all of it. Especially when knightmare got released. It was the same shit every single game. Make galatea with any fucking 2 monsters, set crescendo, set your hand of 4 floodgates and watch as they "win through skill" On a related note fuck the entirety of toss format :)

As a passionate rogue player (and a generaider one at times). Thank you for that 4:03

07:22 couldn't agree more

MBT: "Even the Mayakashi players don't want this." Yes we do, it's the only way to bring the opponent's deck almost as far down on the power scale as Mayakashis.

I understand bishbalkin creates a lot of FTK’s HOWEVER…. Punk musket bishbalkin pls I need to see more of that deck it’s so based.

My favorite skill drain they gave a rogue archetype is icejade. First they gave it half of a skill drain, which was kind of cool for breaking boards. Then they gave it the other half. Why did you split it into two????? Also Svalnn is just a one time board-wide negate, not a continuous effect ;)

For me, it's 100% Eternal soul and Dark Magician the Dragon Knight I came back to the game in 2017ish and I remember every other game I played on Dueling book was VS Dark Magician

Misc is my gripe, but besides that infernoble ftk just feels more unbeatable than tear 0. And even if they go second they still otk you.

why did the buster blader dude use prologue as an example. bruh.. buster dragon destruction sword has been used and abused in so many meta decks its not even funny, and the archetype it's home to infinitely loops it back. surely BDDS woulda been a better example. needless to say i agree with hat was said anyways, the deck is just haha 4 card skilldrain haha. which is why im currently playing it xD

When I was younger Exabio Drakmor was my favorite card and nobody ever understood how to out it

Who would've guessed that floodgates are just bad card design?

Seeing all these decks with skill drain effects makes me feel bad for ice jade. They got a skill drain too, but it requires 3 cards on the field to work, and if any of those cards are off the field it instantly turns off.

Personally, and this is gonna be controversial.. *_Swordsoul_* Every Swordsoul Player has an answer to being interrupted. Oh whats that? Mo ye is imperm'd? LEMME JUST SPAWN LONGYUANG AND DISCARD BLACKOUT TO KEEP GOING!

I'm glad Toons don't seem to have any super hated cards, but if a toon card was to have shown up in this video my guess would have been Comic Hand given that it's in archetype Snatch Steal, with 1 bonus and 1 drawback added on.

I wasn't the tweeter but I'm glad junk speeder is on here. I kinda hate it even more because it took synchrons from a difficult but rewarding deck to play to make a level 5 synchro turbo that does the rest of your plays for you and the deck still isn't good.

I'd rather old decks get a floodgate to slow other decks down rather than their support just turned them into a worse version of a new deck.

7:33 Ye, instead give us monster effect raigeki or monster effect harpy's. GIVE US MORE MACHINA SUPPORT, COWARDS

I think the Witchcrafter cards are well designed and fun. Madame Verre released with the release of the archtype so its not like they got the Mayakashi treatment of getting a boring powerful support years later. Verre is one of few cards that rewards attentive players since the Witchcrafter pilot gets their spells from GY to hand in the end phase and discards them for cost when disrupting the opponent, someone paying attention can keep track of how many spells are left in hand, hence Verre maximum possible ATK gain, and play around it.

To be fair to umi control and buster blader, those are supposed to be stun decks, that´s what they are supposed to do, unless you believe stun shouldn´t exist, which is another discussion entirely and which seems pointless for the game, i mean Yugi won on the first episode thanks to a floodgate if you think about it, it is a part of the game inherently.

Royal Magical Library. Pretty much only appears in dumb FTKs

I'm not a fan of floodgates. Buy Kairyu-Shin's artwork is so badass that I semi-frequently play Umi-control. I also just love water decks. I'm not proud of it... but at the same time it's so funny to just normal it turn 2 and wipe the opponent's entire board of negates :'D

My favorite part about pure predaplants is that the goal is an anti xys/synchro archetype that can be turned into just skill drain and if you summoned anything not getting negated you could be getting super polymerization’d

I guess my answer would be any sort of Kuriboh like card in Duel Links specifically, because in that game they might as well say "and then next turn search any card you want"

Joseph immediately taking the Actman take with the example huh

Icejade has two skill drains instead of one. That clearly makes them unique

im at the skill drain im at the vanity's im at the combination skill drain vanity's

Someone needs to make a compilation of these MBT openings haha!

I loved the Fire King deck back in the deck. Having a dark hole every turn was hilarious and my friends hated it. I actually bought a cloth garunix playmat that's really clean 👌

Garunix has now seen competitive play

This is probably a boring answer, but for me it's Mystic Mine when it was still unlimited. I have a Love/Hate relationship with this card. My first duel in forever was a Mystic Mine Burn. I didn't even had a chance to try out Dragunity. Although, later on, i played a Psy-Frame deck with Mystic Mine in it. i managed to activate it once and it was the most trollish thing i've ever done to a person. My other option would be Jinzo since when i was a kid, i played a Yugioh video game and i only played against Joey and when Jinzo was out, it was basically a outo lose.

Yeah Maiden with Eyes of Blue fuckin SUCKED when I played with my friends. I was THE duelist on my street with my friends fearing for their lives whenever I did the Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon summoning chant from the anime... UNTIL MY FRIEND CAME ALONG WITH THE BLUE-EYES DECK I LOANED HIM. Uggggghhhhhhh

When are we getting the skilldrain type beat on spotify Mr B Tee

Good to know others have the same thought pattern as me. First thing I thought of when I read the title was Harpie’s and DDD, then I saw the thumbnail

3:07 YEP. Nobody wanted this, not even us. If it weren't for the GY effect I'd refuse to even play it. I'd happily just take the Link 3 from that set and be OK with fielding 1-2 really slow targeted monster negates. no but seriously why did it take until MAMA for Mayakashi to actually have a full ladder

Oh come on, Verre isn't a skill drain. Is every monster with a negate a floodgate now? Is Swordsoul Chixiao a skill drain? The entire problem with actual floodgates is that they're continuous effects with no cost (even if discarding a spell is a negligible one it does come up). Anyway, please ban Dark Magical Circle, thank you.

I've been slowbrewing Icejade ever since MBT started to play them in prog but I just cannot stand that every instance of the deck I come up with, that looks remotely viable, is just; 'one-sided skill drain, pass'.

As much as I love hero, it really is the exact same. Before dpe, it was just dark law and/or plasma. Like full combo was a one sided macro and a one sided skill drain with maybe a pop off of dystopia if you felt frisky. Now with dpe the end board feels a little more varied as dpe is a cooler design, but lord above I do not enjoy playing against hero if I'm playing something else.

I’ve always disliked Eternal Soul. Cool you get to to maybe summon one DM that’s a towers, but one back row pop and suddenly it’s a free Raigeki. For a deck that doesn’t OTK very well or at least consistently , it feels like a weirdly designed card.

I don't have much a problem with Kristya, but that's because it's won me more games than I'm willing to admit.

fun fact!! kashtira has exactly that bad design philosophy which is why it's actually ass ariseheart may be a format warpingly broken boss monster bu by god is his deck actual dogwater

Konami I assure you decks can be playable WITHOUT GIVING THEM SUPPORT IN THE FORM OF A STUPID FLOODGATE

Someone get King Scarlet to make a Skill Drain song so he can call it the Skill Drain Beat

wow what a cool video joseph

Toon Kingdom. The deck isn't good, but once it has its board established it's just such a pain to out. Nvm their searchable snatch steal.

As an Inzektor-Beetrooper/insect pile player, the deck would be incredibly unfun to play against if only it ever got to play. It aims to go second, and if it somehow manages to get past its very obvious chokepoints that have very few workarounds and no follow up, it erases boards. However, it completely crumples to even just a Ghost Ogre on Dragonfly let alone a negate, so it never gets to that point...

I’m surprised nobody brought up Lady Lapis Lazuli. I love Gem-Knights and I’ll freely admit we suck to play against. We have one long combo and if we do it right the opponent doesn’t get to play Yugioh.

I would say magnus the king of the computere, but he is not in a bad deck, quant is a secretly insane deck that no one plays

in defense of nordics, its a one time negate of the opponents field, its not skill drain but yes konami pls stop printing "banned floodgate but its locked in a bad archetype" type cards