Top 10 Best "Pot" and "Jar" Cards in Yugioh 

Hmmm... By activating Pot of greed it let me draw all 5 Exodia pieces and win me the duel. Easy.

Are you dense? Clearly it draws two cards. Though I do hate the lack of clarification whether it uses paint, pencils, or whatever. And on what medium?

I hate this fucking joke.

It allows me to fillibuster for 15 minutes and distract you while I look through my deck and adds the exact cards I need to win to my hand and field, while also giving me a millennium item and banishing your soul to the Shadow Realm before the duel has even started

Same! Like, I thought I got it, and was going to come down to the comments to shout it to the heavens, but I can't recite its effect. Or remember it, for that matter.

I feel Last Turn and Self-Destruct shouldn't be grouped. Last Turn was banned because the way it interacted with cards like Jowgen and Marshmellon in very cheesy way, while Self-Destruct allowed for very degenerate match stalling

Twin-Headed Behemoth was banend for creating a Schrodinger's Cat scenario with it's soft once per duel.

I believe there is a video with victory dragon and other monsters with the same "Win the duel" effect.

Kaiser Colosseum was actually banned for power reasons. If you would let your turn 1 end on exactly one strong boss monster, you could then put down kaiser kolosseum and mostly prevent any monster based strategy that requires you to have more than one monster on the field.

victory dragon was banned because it was never intended to be a legal card

I feel this has a lot to do with the complexity of Yugioh as a whole, especially when you consider how many different types of special summoning mechanics there are, not to mention the fact that unlike with pretty much any other tcg other there currently, there's also no set rotation, either. It's also worth mentioning that the example you used for Pokemon specifically is not played because of a few reasons: 1) Those cards are supporter cards, which only one copy can be played of per turn, and it's a pretty weak effect for a supporter. This is why Bill, which lets you draw 2 cards, was originally considered to be very good since there was no restriction on how many copies you could play in a turn when the card was first printed, but as soon as it got reprinted as a supporter card, everyone disregarded it. 2) There are other supporters that either let you draw more cards, or do the same effect of drawing 3 more while also having additional effects as well; this ties into the first point of why those cards never get played, since you're giving up the ability to play a different, more useful supporter by playing one of those cards instead. 3) In Pokemon, you need to have a 60 card deck, while in Yugioh, you're allowed anywhere between 40 and 60 cards, and back when I still played the game regularly, it was much closer to the smaller 40 card limit. This means that in Yugioh, draw effects don't necessarily need to be able to draw you as many cards because you have a smaller number to go through in the course of a game, which is only compounded by how prevalent search effects are in Yugioh, which can thin your deck even more

I've been thinking about what makes things "fun" lately and I think that card draw is inherently fun in card games.

for me it is a limiting thing, one of the many reasons why I prefer Magic and I think it is much more complete

I've been thinking on how to make an N-like card that makes both players discard their hand and draw cards depending on life points lost, probably in increments of 2000 LP

Yeah especially when u compare it against MtG where you have whole decks that revolve around just drawing lmao. Playing both, I get screwed up sometimes switching between lmao

It is nice that they explain the effects of their cards.

Yep that's the joke.

Dude wtf lmfao that's hilarious, did you think of that yourself lmfao 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣😂😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣😂

So lame

To be fair, in the anime usually there is no text on the cards or it is scribbles. for people watching with subs because they stayed up past bed time and wanna learn Yu GI oh from the most honest source directly this is much easier

How dare he make this mistake :l

Just a minor correction: Attribute, not type.

If it was Dark, it would be even better with all of the support Dark has

I think it could come back and be fine

@@austinclubb2093 if anything i wanna see someone trying to break it tbh

That is its main issue. It acts as disruption, sure, but wouldn't work outside a turbo jar deck. In the best case scenario that it lives through your turn and into your opponent's battle phase, it will wipe the board, but then give your opponent some bodies on the board and extra cards in hand, so they can just go to main phase 2 and combo off using that. Meanwhile, if you use it during your own turn in a deck focused on flipping them up and back down, you would be able to avoid most hand traps by forcing them on the field instead of the hand, while at least getting information on anything else they did add. It would be too niche to be problematic nowadays

I thought of a way to bring back flip monsters is that konami allows the player to flip them as a quick effect any time after they was set 1 turn (such as traps), i cant think of it being broken, just for them to be a bit better

@@b4sh936 please no, we don't need the krawlers discord be winning

i absolutely agree, fiber jar is a card non banish monster/s/t/graveyard/hand removal there are so many ways to abuse it expecially with new cards, only downside is being a bit slow but cards like book of tayiou exist

It’s not really good, just incredibly toxic

I literally came to comment where is fiber jar. Its the strongest flip monster in the game it should have been number 2.

@@MegaMetal96 are you sure? I mean it just resets the entire game (barring life points)

Yeah its the Better jar monster

literally a "look at what they need to do to mimic our power" moment 😂

Is... Is that why those jar monsters looks like a space ship or something? Because they are Pod???

@@CrnaStrela Fiber Pod, Absorbing Pod, Cyber Pod, Reverse Pod, Chaos Pod (Morphing Jar #2), Dimension Pod. Ancient Jar is the same sort of Pot as Pot of Greed/Pot of the Forbidden. This is why I said hit or miss. I *tried* to figure out some rule for how to identify, but couldn't.

@@sliver170 Trick Jar

What was the effect of that particular jar monster anyway that never saw print in the TCG?

@@karisasani7006 _A not-so-powerful servant, he is an errand boy of a master sorcerer._

Or you could just not play Jar like a normal person

yup

The only monster summon that should ever be free is normal summon, since that's restricted to once per turn But since there's so many ways for basically free special summons, nothing really matters anymore

There's also once per turn/duel which makes turns a resource. In fact, that's probably the main resource besides just cards themselves.

@@gumbarius link 1 monsters were a mistake in my opinion

@@gumbarius i love rikka princess who you can special summon simply by willing it into existence

Oh man i wonder what will be #1 best nontarget removal

@@olivergames7783 Idk man Zues maybe

He doesn’t realize finer jar exists

Fiber*

@@Ianhrh Sometimes it's better, other tines Zues would be better

Banishing cards face-down from your Extra deck means both that the cards are banished face-down _and_ that the banished cards were face-down in your Extra deck? I thought it meant only the former (although, unless you get Pendulums into your Extra deck before your Main Phase 1 begins, Extravagance would only be a turn 3 tool here).

@@xCorvus7x Nope. Extravagance explicitly says "Banish 3 or 6 random **face-down** cards from your Extra Deck, face-down" meaning that the cards its banishing must be face-down in the Extra Deck, and it makes 3 or 6 of them at random become banished face-down. Prosperity does *not* have that stipulation - they just gotta be cards in your extra deck, but they are still banished face-down.

On the other hand, extravagance is fantastic in gimmick decks that don't use an extra deck because it's basically a free pot of greed.

@@ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΗΣΛΑΧΑΝΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ Semi free. It has to be the first thing you do in the main phase, and you cannot draw any more cards after resolving the effect successfully. That being said, if you can gimmick a bunch of fast effect draw cards in your draw and standby phases, Extravagance says that you're still good to use it. Buuuut now you're playing a bunch of draw cards that Extravagance will likely be drawing you into. Also, I just learned that Extravagance is on the list of things Mystical Refpanel arbitrarily cannot chain to, despite NOTHING about either card indicating that they are incompatible - they just don't want you locking yourself out of drawing cards during your opponent's turn, I guess. You'll notice that on rulings, "Can "Mystical Refpanel" be activated in Chain to the activation of [X}" and the cards where you can't will say, universally, "Mystical Refpanel" is a card that is activated directly in Chain to the activation of a Spell Card that affects 1 player. Since [X] is not a Spell Card that affects 1 player, "Mystical Refpanel" cannot be activated in Chain to the activation of [X]." Even if [X] does only affect one player. You'll notice that the theme here, at least when it comes to some of these cards with draw backs, is that the draw back is tied to the effect, rather than as a condition independent of the effect. You CAN Refpanel Duality, and you will excavate 3 and add 1, but the player who activated Duality will be restricted from special summoning. But you can't on Extravagance because the no more draws is part of the effect. Nevermind that the entire effect of Extravagance affects only the 1 player. Same deal with Sekka's Light, but at least that one follows under the line of reasoning that is "we don't want players to lose hard lose because they got too ahead of themselves, rather than because of any one exact interaction."

To be fair, even if pot of greed was legal, I doubt any of those would see play anyway. Running useless bricks in your deck just to gain an extra draw cancels itself out, and jar robber is useless for the same reason as anti-raigeki and gryphon's feather duster

Oooh thats a hard one

That's pretty much Timelord the top ten

Beast King Barbaros(or sth similar) 😁😁

Vanity's fiend with cost down lul

@@boyankovachev7982 bro was basically fusilier dragon and Gilford the lightning with BEWD stats. An absolute king in and out of skill drain deck

Morphing jar puts the dark monsters in your hand in the gy and you can draw into DAD to play as long as you have the set up. While he did say Morphin is dark, that is what I believe he meant.

@@cameronthomas5165 yea true. but now that cyber jar at 1. I think morphing jar and cyber jar should do just fine in empty jar. lets hope next format cyber jar goes to at 3. and mabe in master and duel links at 1

I agree! Unfortunately, it is so extremely expensive in the TCG!

@@Hamboarding not only that. it been limited in master duel to 1 copy. 😔😔😔, when rogue deck need prosperity to complete newly released branded card.

@@xenonim yeah and not to mention that the actual meta decks being responsible for limiting pot of Prosperity to 1 (looking at you floowandereeze) still can play other cards as options unlike most other rogue deck. Seriously all they did was hurting the rogue decks instead of the meta decks lol

I don't think people would ever play Pot of Prosperity over Pot of Greed if it was legal, they would just play both. Pot of Greed is a card that just can't be refused to be played in any deck, the free 2 card drawings are just too good I think what you meant was that people would focus Pot of Prosperity more than Pot of Greed but at the end of the day, everyone would still play Pot of Greed due to how splashable it is in every deck

@@Gurkan790 yeah also the ban is more too marketing purpose their mirrorjade and branded way too early where supposed to be marincess secret pack. All top card under branded is UR. so unluck for player that want to play dinomorphia and branded deck as it make it super expensive.

Maxx C existing at 3 is also a factor in this

@@sliver170 The format which has less stuff banned is the 'more fun' one.

@@Ergeniz Yes, but not really. Less banned stuff also means more toxic and unfair stuff running around. Personally I'm not a fan of super-restrictive deck-building in a Maxx C at 3 format (forcing you to run Maxx C as well as Ash Blossom and Called by the Grave at a bare minimum unless you're running an FTK deck).

@@ShiningJudgment666 Its not toxic and unfair if anyone can use it. The less banned cards the better.

@@Ergeniz I can agree that having as few banned cards as possible is better but the line gets drawn when Deck-building is restrictive due to needing to have heavy counterplay to something absolutely broken or to run the same thing and hope to get better luck than your opponent. A good format also needs as many viable decks as possible. Not 1 or 2 usable decks. If you want to play with banned cards, play Traditional format.

Cyber jar is my favorite monster, so fun to resolve

For superheavy samurai

This aged well. It's unbanned on the next list.

@@ShiningJudgment666 yup the new banlist is a bit strange but I’m happy they unbanned cyber jar

@@nazeersadek6705 That's powercreep for you. Being a Flip effect monster makes it inherently too slow for the current state of the game. We could see more of this happening in future lists.

I used to run it in an exxod/sphinx/trap deck I played in high school. It was a dumb meme deck and super outdated by that time already, but it was fun and actually kind of worked

I think he has been staying away from more general products or topics just because there comes a whole new level of abstract decision making behind it. One of his most common sources for rankings is the amount of competitive play a card has seen, which is a nice empirical measurement. Sure, there is a lot of subjectiveness to that, like *when* it saw competitive play, or *why* it saw play. However, if he just went on to packs, it would bring in a bunch of real world factors like short printing, card rarity, third party card markets, and other real world events affecting availability of cards/tournaments. Then just the issues of having 60-100+ cards in a set and having to arbitrarily weigh just how many of those cards were useful, or whether a set deserves to be mentioned just because of a single meta-changing card inside even though everything else was underwhelming gimmicks or filler/reprints. He seems to prefer talking about just the cards and their specific role in the game

@@sirswagabadha4896 then how about a top *5* pack video? Maybe packs that have interesting cards that would've seen play in an earlier format? Or even the most disappointing packs lol

Pretty much anything that drastically warped the game upon its release qualifies. Invasion of Chaos and Phantom Darkness are 2 of the packs. The former being responsible for the Forbidden part of the Forbidden and Limited list being used.

Lmao

Imagine how much better it would be if it was Dark attribute

@BPB: I completely agree.

Yugioh's game design has fallen apart by simply trying to maintain the design. Refusing to let us draw cards perhaps is because they know that if we could, we would see how poorly designed it really is.

They just revealed it’ll be unbanned in the next list so it ought to be interesting

In terms of card text, it’s actually sea monster of Theseus. The text? “Two Tuners” Card effect text? Yeah it is jar of greed.

That would require it to be in top 10 yet it is in the bottom 10, as it isn't good.

@@malexthegreat As much as any card on the forbidden list can be considered “not good.” It’s basically a full on reset of the duel aside from banished cards and restoring lost LP, that sounds valuable in ANY losing situation.