Top 10 Cards That Gain Lifepoints Every Turn 

This series started as simple Top 10s of various aspects of YGO, and is now almost like a card knowledge challenge to think of 10 things that can do specific things

As an D/D/D player, I appreciate the monster D/D/D oracle king d'arc for her effect. "Any effect that would inflict damage to you makes you gain that much LP, instead." Which saved me multiple dulls due to the Dark Contract cards

Shout out to Solemn Wishes, Spell Absorption, Nimble Momonga, Kisetai and Marie the Fallen One from my early days of Yu-Gi-Oh

I think honerable mention should go to Golden Ladybug. You can reveal it in your hand during your standby phase, and it remains revealed until end phase, and in return you gain 500 LP. This card has effectively no cost and doesn't even touch the field. Sure it's only for your own standby phases, but it's so incredibly free and hard to destroy.

I was thinking the other day that, given LP gain’s underwhelming status, it might be fun to release an instant win based on some gargantuan number, one of those impractical wins that is just designed for casual fun. Whether it be a full on instant win like, “Activate this card only if you have more than 20,000 life points, you win the duel” or if it was a little more indirect. “Pay 20,000 life points to damage your opponent for 10,000 life points.” I don’t want viable utility, I just want silly utility.

I remember there was a Winged Dragon of Ra deck that utilised Soul Absorption's LP generating effect to replenish your life points, as well as summoning a giant Ra monster. I can't find any guides about that deck nowadays.

I love the fact that Number 1 is a retrain of Poison of the Old Man, one of my personal favorite cards from the good old days

This is literally my strategy cards back when i first learn how to play yugioh.

Unironically my favorite jank combo is inferno tempest with soul absorption the field. It doesn’t advance any end states, but your life points get ridiculously high

I love these deck building videos! They inspire me to see the game in new ways!

I'm really surprised that awakening of the sacred beasts didn't show up in this video. After a normal opponent combo you end up with 15-20k or more life points. And it also has a skill drain effect, making it an actually important card for the sacred beast deck.

Utopic XX is fun in duel links with trains if you're still farming for optimal pieces

I use Pot of Desires and Soul Absorption in my Ghostrick Mill deck to also facilitate Battle Royal - Joining plays. Pretty neat combo

it would be interestenting to see a top 10-15 with best deck for every last 10-15 years

As a person trying to run an Agents/Counter Fairy deck. Gaining lifepoints definitely helps because of some cards that require the cost like the solemn cards

Still one of the best youtubers i hardly know anything about yugioh and i just enjoy sitting down and watching your video very easy to follow along

One of my favorite decks to run Soul Absorption with back in the day was Meklord Emperor Granel Turbo. Play Soul Absorption and Macro Cosmos, give yourself a ton of LP with Gold Sarcophagus banishing Necroface (a single Soul Absorption would give you 6K LP with this, double or triple that with multiple copies), destroy one of your own monsters and special Granel with 8K+ ATK. I remember one game on Duelingbook/Network where I had my LP somewhere in the 50K range.

Idea for a suite/archetype of LP gain cards of my own: _Wellspring of Life_ Continuous Trap _You can only control 1 “Wellspring of Life”. You can activate this card from your hand or GY while you have less LP than your opponent. Unaffected by other card’s effects while you have more LP than your opponent. Each time a monster is summoned, you gain LP equal to its total original ATK/DEF. Each time a Spell/Trap card is activated, you gain 1000 LP. If a monster you control would be sent to the GY: You can instead pay LP Equal to it’s original ATK/DEF. You can pay any amount of LP: Increase the ATK and/or DEF of 1 monster on the field by equal to the amount payed. Once per turn, you can add 1 card to your hand from your deck or GY that mentions “Wellspring” in its name or effects._ _León, Guardian of the Wellspring_ (EARTH) Level 4 Warrior/Flip/Tuner/Effect _FLIP: Activate 1 “Wellspring” Spell/Trap from your hand, deck or GY._ _If you control a face-up “Wellspring of Life” (Quick Effect): You can special summon this card that is banished, or from your hand, deck or GY. Gains ATK/DEF equal to any increase in your LP. You gain LP equal to any battle or effect damage you inflict upon your opponent. Your opponent cannot target “Wellspring” Spells/traps you control for card effects while you control this face-up card. If your opponent summons a monster or declares an attack: You can special summon 1 “Wellspring” monster from your hand, or also your GY if you control a face-up “Wellspring of Life.”_ ATK/1500 DEF/1500 _Bounty of The Wellspring_ Quick-Play Spell _If your LP is lower than your opponent’s: Apply 1 of the following effects;_ ⚫️Double your LP. ⚫️Target 1 card you control: Until the end phase of next turn, While that target is on the field, any battle or effect damage you would take is halved. _If your LP is higher than your opponent’s: Apply 1 of the following effects:_ ⚫️Shuffle 2 cards from your hand, field and/or GY into your deck; Draw 2 cards. ⚫️Either Special Summon (face-up or Facedown) 1 “Wellspring” monster from your hand or GY OR set 1 “Wellspring” Spell/Trap from your hand, deck or GY._ _If you control a face-up “Wellspring of Life”, this card’s activation cannot be negated or responded to, also, shuffle this card into your deck after its effects resolve._ My head canon for these cards is that the Yu-Gi-Oh equivalent of Juan Ponce de León had managed to find the Fountain of Youth in his travels, BUT the fountain, or rather Wellspring, was alive in and of itself, and León could only use it by entering a pact with it: Juan would have the eternal life he so desired, and even the ability to travel to any instance of space-time from after the pact is made (including in and out of any afterlives he would normally qualify for), BUT in return, he is, in life, death and afterlife, eternally bound to act in the interests of the Wellspring, defending it from unwanted attention or running it’s errands across the world alongside others in his position.

Soul Absorbtion also does big work in Runick and fountain gives you enough draw power per turn to draw into it reasonably often. If you are going for the deck out win condition, those extra LP + Munin's extra LP will help keep you alive long enough.

Imagine DL going one video without saying life gain bad.

Was actually just looking for continuous LP gain effects for my deck!

I run a darklord deck in part because there are darklord cards that can gain you a lot of life points, and some of those cards can negate opponents’ monster effects as well.

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Since Pyro decks might become a thing thanks to Bonfire, it's probably worth noting that Freezing Fire can be summoned off of an Upstart Goblin. The more access to life point control that Pyro gets, the more viable Freezing Fire will become as material for extra deck summons.

Heal/burn decks are by far my favorite ❤ I'm actually surprised Aroma Jar or Golden Ladybug wasn't on the list.

Normal summon Hummingbird-gain LP-sp.summon freezing fire-gain LP-overlay into fortune tune-attack-overlay into downerd magician-overlay into ZEUS honestly does not sound like a bad combo. Drawing into the 2 level 3s is the hardest part.

Juragedo, Red Resonator, Aroma Jar, and Cauldron are the only lifepoint gain cards I use in any of my decks. They save my ass a few times

I want an of the old man archetype, spells have life point burn or gain effects and the monsters will have different effects depending on weather you burned your appointment or gained life points yourself.

I feel like this one was prompted by the new fusion exodia. His Attack is just your LP.

I used to like using Solemn Wishes in the old DS games. Especially in a Heart of the Underdog deck, although it should work well with any deck that like drawing (or a Maxx C).

I still run Number XX in my Timelord deck. Mostly for it's Goyo Guardian effect, but the lifegain is a nice bonus. Especially if I steal a high atk monster. And because it's a Number monster, it can be made with Astral Kuriboh to have destruction protection. Also, because it's a Dark Rank 10, I can use it to go into Pain Gainer or Seven Sins

The sheer disrespect to Dian Keto the Cure Master...

Ive used gren maju for years and have always included soul absorption. Its good for if you run out of time and for if youre in trouble and need to stall out.

Ebon Sun works best in the Inca deck. Revive the Sun/Moon Dragon with 3500-4000 Atk and get back 2500-3000. If couple with Quilla's LP gain effect, that LP gain and atk boost can help em better and gives the deck more lasting power. The discard cost also works for Daywalker and Duskwalker as it can offset the cost especially if couple it with Metalfoes Fusion. They could switch the Egyptian Pyramid for an Inca one and it would essentially be Temple of the Sun on steroids. In fact, it might as well have been designed for the inca deck as it fits it far too well (I'm aware it's Manga version was GX era). It also goes well with DFE which would be an even better use for it.

On master duel there is a quest to gain life points rewarding you withs gems. I did not use any of the card mentionned but did it on the event reproducing the 2004 banlist where there was barely any backrow removal and floodgating my adversaries.

I run Utopic Dark Infinity in my Train deck as a contingency plan against stubborn GY strategies

I use used to play a green maji deck with soul absorbiton and I can tell you. When your gaining 5000 LP or more every turn with cards like nercroface reshuffling your deck. It's actually pretty good. Especially when paired with childs play 👌🏻🗿

If you can make a synchro deck that can turbo out level 10 synchro monsters easily, you can quickly get to Number XX: Utopic dark infinity and even more comedically you can combo it with black and white wave; a spell card that specifically requires you to control an xyz monster summoned using a synchro monster as xyz material, which then lets you banish an opponent's card. An easy non synchro monster material to use is Tragoedia, a level 10 monster that can special summon itself from the hand if you take battle damage. Summoning Tragoedia gives you half of the minimum required material for dark infinity. You might also be able to get away with using a non restrictive/archetypical rank up magic card on a rank 8-9 monster to rank up into dark infinity depending on how far the rank up card allows you to rank up.

#8 Utopic Dark....this is my Spirit Monster. Pulled it in first Legacy Pack as a Royal when Master Duel came out

Actually you can go into utopic dark infinity using the hyper rank up magic that turns a rank 9 or lower utopia into rank 10 or higher so any deck that can get 2 level 4s and a way to search it can consistently go into it

An episode on the worst archetypes with 10 or more cards in it would be good! Or one on archetypes that are only good in other decks types and should never be the main focus of a deck

You don't have to 'hard draw' cauldron of the old man, Ebon sun or soul absorption if you can run The despair Uranus. That card can get you a continuous card(spell or trap)of your choice if you don't already have one on board and can do this on it's summoning. Although being a level 8 light attribute rock type monster does complicate things as unless you have a deck that works with it's attribute or type or can spam summon tributable tokens, you're looking at a kaiser seahorse double summon combo to make this work.😅

You know it's a strange list when spright elf is at #10

"Air Hummingbird's effect activates!" "Honey suck!" - Jaden Yuki

I sometimes play a soul absorption, Runick, gren manju, Trick Star deck and it's fun

I personally like Child's Play and Gingerbread House. Child's Play can be sort of a soft floodgate like Maxx C , and Gingerbread House Has a combo synergy with Messenger of Piece as well as a monster destruction on your opponents stand-by phase.

How Rainbow Life wasn't mentioned is insane to me. While it hasn't spent a ton of time on the Forbidden list, it's still regularly part of the competitive circuit's ban list. Go and look at a Regional, WCQ or World Championship event and Rainbow Life is on every single list simply because of how many shenanigans it causes.

One thing I like to do is splash Solemn Wishes and Trade In in a Lightsworn deck. I'll switch some high levels with Lightsworn with some generic normal monsters to gain life points and recycle the Lightsworn in the graveyard with Michael to keep gaining life points. Also, I'll throw in a few Joans to gain life points for the monsters she destroys. It's my favorite life point gain strategy while slowing the pace of the game down with how fast the game has become. That's all I'm telling about it.

where is the classic Solemn Wishes? Nice video 😃

One honorable mention: Geistgrinder Golem LP gain effect: if Golem battles a “Yubel” monster then the opponent gains 3000 LP, the opponent being you since you’ll usually be summoning it to your actual opponent’s side of the field by revealing a “Yubel” from your hand therefore you’re the one who receives the LP gaining effect. Pros: can be searched (via Nightmare Pain), can bring itself back from the GY if you special summon “Yubel”, stops cards like Evenly Matched (from the hand), Infinite Impermanence (from the hand) and other cards that would require for opponent’s field to be empty or having no [effect] monsters on their side of the field. Cons: heavily reliant on its archetype (Yubel) to bring out, your opponent could potentially use Golem as a resource/material for their plays if given the chance, you yourself can’t normally be used as a resource unless you’re using something like Super Polymerization.

Alright! Now to set this up to complete my life point gain goal in master duel

Shot out to Kozmo forerunner: 1000 LP during your standby phase, 2800 atk beatstick, cant be targeted and easy to summon in kozmo decks. Also if you get rid of it, you can summon any lower rank kozmo that can be used to summon forerunner again.

Please can you do a top 10 rank 3s?

Honorable mention: D/D/D High King Orleans. You need to get burn damaged to gain LP, but it is D/D.

I used to use a Soul Absorption in a rock deck with Megarock Dragon and get a massive beatstick and like 10k LP it was fun times

Here's two ideas for lists. Top 10 cards to use while you're low on Life Points. And Top 10 Younger versions of certain Yugioh monsters (Things like Neo Space Connector which is a younger version of Neo Space Pathfinder)

Shout out to Golden Ladybug and Child’s Play as being good LP gaining cards. I get why DuelLogs went with Spright Elf as number 10, but I think he should have put Red Resonator as number 10 since it’s the card that actually gives you LP. By the way, when does Freezing Flame come out in the TCG?

Soul absorption works really well in Metaphys

Ive always wanted to make a deck that passively and consistently gains life points so that i can win using flame princess(effect being everytime you gain lp,your opponent takes 500 burn damage)

Cauldron is great, but when it’s so easy to destroy backrow cards, and given how slow it is to give or take LPs, your opponent’s hardly going to let it stay on the field for any huge amount of time

Air Hummingbird is also a soft once per turn so 2 or 3 copies on the field would all trigger simultaneously.

Top 10 beginner friendly decks for new or returning players

Darklord Marie. Neat tech.

I'm kind of shocked Solemn Wishes didn't get a mention at all. I know it's OOOOOOOLD but 500 LP each time cards are drawn is really good, and you can just keep getting LPs per turn or by using other draw effect cards.

The Aromage Field spell is great, but blessed winds is even better.

We need top 10 link monsters that can not be used as link matetial top 10 cards that have the text "this card is always treated as..."

Air Hummingbird is among the very few usable card of the whole Neos deck.

I feel like these cards would be good in a wing dragon of raw deck that way you can make life, points go to one and the then regain all your life points back

Honorable mention to Solemn Wishes for aiding me through my first days of stalling

As an Aromage player I am drooling 🤤(Part 2)

It's also very easy to get rid of Sprite Eld, with its only 1400 ATK. Also, I believe that Freezing Fire is a re-train of Burning Algae. Cauldron of the Old Man takes way too long to work competitively. I can't believe you missed Aroma Jar, honestly, it should be #1 on this list because it can't be destroyed by battle either. This thing can, in the right deck, slow the duel down to a crawl, depending on the matchup.

I don't understand why Spooky Dogwood or Awakening Of The Sacred Beasts aren't in the top 10 at all when Hummingbird made the list.

I would like that you mention that number one is a retrain of a old Yu-Gi-Oh! card

What about Ghost Sister & Spooky Dogwood? While it is dependent on your opponent special summoning monsters, you can easily gain tens of thousands of LP since your opponent is less likely to end their combo early if it's just giving you LP and not a bunch of cards like Maxx "C".

This guy is pretty interesting. He should start a RU-vid channel

Vampire desire comes in handy in vamp deck

Idea: Top 10 cards that can Add (Non Archetype) Spells to your hand.

Number XX is really easy to bring out onto the field imo with Hyper Rank up along with like number 99 utopic Dragon always getting 4000 LP a turn

please make list of cards top 10 useful in graveyard or getting milled i.e breakthrough skill, lost wind etc. thankyou

Surprised to not see Guardian Angel Joan on this list

Ebon sun would be hilarious in fire kings, especially with cards like trap tracks and true king agnimazud the vanisher, Torrential tribute and circle of the fire kings. Imagine the look on your opponent's face when you destroy a 2000+ original atk fire king to reborn a different one and gain 2000+ LP instantly as a result.😂

Suggestion: best/worst 'token generators'.

Considering modern Yu-Gi-Oh, I'm surprised Child's Play isn't getting any attention.+300 LP every time your opponent summons a monster, with battle destruction protection if your LP are 10k or higher.

Top 10 Fusion Monsters that can attack more than once per battle phase

I can't believe you didn't mention solemn wishes the card that gives you life points every time you draw a card

As a Sacred Beasts player I have 3 Awakening of the Sacred Beasts in my deck and the amount of life points I gain is ridiculous.

Im kinda surprised solemn wishes wasn’t listed if your deck has high draw power like mine does you can really spam its effect(only takes 4 turns tops to go through most of my deck)

Freezing fire can be used in nurse burn as well

I was out healing a blue eyes player in dueling thanks to cauldron. Seriously I had three of them on the field and was out healing 10 000 HP per turn. That was a funny match

It would’ve been nice to do a special shoutout to Solemn Wishes

Soul absorption: exists Kozmo Ships go boom: luckily I payed for the extended warranty

Top 10 Number Monsters for the next list 😁

One card I know of is "dancing fairies "

Kashtira with 3 soul absorptions, the effects stack if u get more than 1

Sigh, if only Hummingbird had some sort of Extra Deck summon to turn into and make its effect more valuable...

Soul Absorption and Kashtira, maybe? >_>

Golden beetle! You reveal that bad boy in your hand and gain 500LP every turn. If you got all three in your hand that's 1500LP every turn you get

I once got to 50,000 using soul absorption. It's amazing in Nemurelia

Souls absorption + munin on field = ez Lp gain. since soul absorption only trigger when card banished no matter who card was it, you can gain Lp + draw up to 3 cards + decking out your opponent using this card and runcik.

How about a top 10 best or worse, anime, exclusive archetypes / cards