Top 10 Normal Monster Card Evolutions in YuGiOh 

Can't wait for them to release an evolution of La Jinn called something like "La Jinn the Lamp-Bound Genie of Mysticism - Mystical Genie of the Lamp"

"Cursed dragon - cursed of dragon" sounds like somebody doing a 5000+ words essay

I remember someone in the OCG actually made a Celtic guardian control deck and won 2nd place this year. Was hilarious

"this card is a complete trash and no one will ever use it in this game... BUT IN DUEL LINKS"

Fun fact : Celtic guardian control did see 1 competitive deck that won an event in the ocg

Obese marmot of nefariousness needs another retrain: Absolute Unit of Nefariousness

"I summon the Sexually Frustrated Celtic Guardian!" "I'm so sexually--- OH F$$K I'M ON A TRAIN!!"

I remember back in the day where Pharoah's Servant was the newest set, one of my friends made an "effect deck" with only effect monsters instead of any vanilla monsters, and had a ceasefire in it as a "gotcha" to the opponent. Back then it got beaten down by La Jinns 7 colored fishes and Summoned Skulls all day long and he wasn't really in the runnings for prizes at locals, but fair play to him, he was ahead of his time.

"Cursed Dragon - Curse of Dragon" "The poison. The poison for Kuzco. The poison specifically designed to kill Kuzco... Kuzco's poison."

Number 0: Skull servant. I mean, it went from the most laughed card to the only deck that became 100% win rate in the history of Yu gi oh. If it was me, I would have at least done a Honourable mention. Great video as usual anyway.

Top 10 Level 3 Monster 🥉 1. 2. 3. Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring

I totally didn't realize Black Dragon Ninja was a retrain of Strike ninja until now.

“Cursed Dragon - Curse of Dragon” This name brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department

I feel like lately the most common words TheDuelLogs is saying is, "But in Duel Links..." This is not a complaint. I think it's interesting how different Duel Links works compared to the physical card game.

Kaiba: “I summon Battle Ox in ATTACK MODE!” Yugi “That card sucks. My move, your move. Get on with the duel, play a good card….” Kaiba: “Well, i summon Enraged Battle Ox…” =/ >=( Yugi “That’s one of the best cards in the game!”

Top 10 cards that were hyped up to be really good, but ended up being really bad and not being played

Sad that the summoned skull retrains and evolutions don’t get much attention he’s such an iconic monster : (

"Red-Eyes don't see competitive play out of Duel Links" Hold my Inferno Fire Blast

Celtic Guardian was always one of my favorites. I like the way it looks, especially in the show.

As a Yugioh fan that just play on Duel links, I find your videos so informative that I make it my reference on how to spend my gems.

The Celtic Guard series feels like foreshadowing a set themed around them one day

I do miss the lore from the old normal cards

As someone who was away from Yu-Gi-Oh from 2006ish until very recently, I just realized Dark Grepher can instantly set up Dark Armed Dragon all by itself. Jeez Louise. Also, I never really knew Strike Ninja was a retrain of Ansatsu. That's neat

Mikazukinoyaiba and Tri-Horned Dragon deserve retrain/evolution cards. Both of them have really cool looking artworks and since they are dragons, they already have support cards.

Cool, Obnoxious Celtic Guard! I remember using one in a Warrior-type toolbox deck alongside Fusion Sword Murasame Blade as a decent 2-card combo.

Uni-Zombie can target your opponent's cards, too, btw. If your levels are already where you want them, but still want to discard a card or Foolish Burial a zombie, you can mess with your opponent's monster levels. This can do something since the level increase is permanent. It might mess up their Synchro or Xyz plays.

I lowkey want cards like Wind guardian of the fortress or mechanicalchaser to get evolutions eventually, either due to their once upon a time formidable status, or their nostalgic designs. I'd also love to see all of the monsters in law of the normal getting at least one effect alternative (specially Haniwa). I'm glad Summoned skull got support although most of it is shockingly mediocre. I'd love if they gave him a new fat boss monster with a scary effect like "This card can only leave the field if its destroyed by battle, and can't be targeted by monster effects.". A nice reminder of how scary he use to be.

I didn’t know what a Celtic was, so in school I’d be like “I summon the Electric Guardian!”

Cursed Dragon - Curse of Dragon made me laugh really hard, hadn't seen that one before, thanks Konami

Back in the days of Enraged battle ox, it were used in a beast type deck with Bazoo, the Soul-Eater. A quick way to make a lot of damage easily.

Armored Kappa is probably one of my favorite retrains alongside Uni-Zombie. Even though Armored Kappa never saw any play ever, I do appreciate them creating an Xyz version of Psychic Kappa, an old normal monster that most players probably forgot existed

Cursed Dragon - Curse of Dragon's next retrain will aptly be called, "Cursed Dragon - Curse of Dragon - Dragon of the Cursed"

As someone who never really played beyond the first Yu-Gi-Oh generation, the thing about not having 3 copies often, very true. Only blue eyes or dark magician were something you had more than one copy of.

Enraged Battle Ox is one of my favorite cards. The set it came in had a number of good Beast and Beast-Warrior monsters and support so I ended up making a Beast deck. To this day I mainly play with Beast/Beast-Warrior archetypes. I do play others like Salamangreat and Crusadia but I will always gravitate towards Beast decks because of this card.

This was one of my favorite videos of the channel. I liked a lot the explanation of the decks of the old days

It's funny how "crowned by the world chalice" died at the beginning of the World Legacy lore and it revived at the end as a broken as fuck synchro monster. Like, she got mad she died and activated a ton of cheat codes when she respawned.

What if hear me out... Volcanic rat gets a effect monster evolution... Were never getting new support are we

I keep being reminded of Link whenever I see Celtic Guardian, lol. 😊 Anyway, I still like using him for my rank 4 XYZ summons sometimes. Obnoxious Celtic Guardian can be somewhat good if you have a boss monster that has more than 1900 attack points and you place him in defense mode.

Great vid DuelLogs! Curse of Dragon is my favorite monster, I hope we get Cursed Dragon in Duel Links alongside the xyz and ritual versions of Call and Manifestation.

I like how you provide a background matching every card. It’s makes the video less jarring compared to others.

Aaaayyyy Love your content, thank you!

I feel like Strike Ninja/Gran Maju would be one hell of a pairing.

Great job on the video!

I thought this was going to be boring and I was going to stop watching the video and play duel links but you opened my eyes to so many strategies, I had to watch to the end and subscribed with a thumbs up.

Also Mystical Elf has a Rush Duel counterpart, Bubbly Elf, along with other old vanilla female cards

I always loved Celtic Guardians original art ever since I was a kid.

This was really interesting. It's awesome with Master Duel, seeing these cards, being surprised by all the new ones then watching a video like this can clear up a lot of the "why was this added" or "what's going on"

Fun fact, Celtic guardian control won second place on a ocg tournament this year not too long ago Edit: misclicked early

Strike ninja was also useful with world lock by using it to banish 2 dd satalites to have 2 tributes for the world's effect.

how about a video of the best monsters that can special summon themselves from the hand if you control a monster of their Archetype, like BlackWing Bora, the Spear?

Do a video on the best Gemini monsters sometime. Also, I love archfiend of nefariousness and I'm glad he's received constant support over the years.

Curse of Dragonfire's effect is based off the Burning Land combo Yugi used in the anime which is pretty neat

I really wish they made more ridiculous named Celtic guard cards 😂 like annoyed Celtic guard, ridiculous Celtic guard, outraged Celtic guard, salty Celtic guard. There could be a whole archetype of them. Itd be sick.

Believe or not Celtic Guardian saw play in the OCG very recently.

Even if the videos would be longer, It would be nice if you showed all versions. I stopped playing back when synchro came out so seeing the new versions of cards is honestly interesting.

Didn't mention Toon Summoned Skull, but I can't blame him. Pretty sure Toon was only truly competitive in my Grade School as a kid because no one ran S/T destruction because most of the cards worth worrying about were Normal Spells. Enraged Battle Ox also got an Aqua counterpart that supported Aqua, Fish and Sea Serpent monsters with Umitauros in the Zexal era. Abyss Rising if I recall and not really worth running as WATER decks were either going for Xyz summoning or Mermail.

King of the Skull Servants, while kind of a silly gimmick, is still pretty good. He can easily OTK with all the Skull Servant/Zombie Support. Plus, it actually saw competitive play!

0:18 THat explains WHY Yugi used Celtic Guard 2:25 AND Cursed Dragon AND Celtic Guard 4:49 AND Mystical Elf 6:50 AND Summon Skull 12:24 Huh. Not bad for a card Yugi used once in the filler episodes / the Dungeon Dice Monsters episodes. Strike Ninja surely had it better than Beaver Warrior, or Silver Fang, or Big Shield Gardna

I love your videos!! 🎉🤘🏽

Loved using IB Justiciar in my world legacy lore deck. I had it search monstrosity and used it as material for World Gears. Good times. It still can never come back.

Enraged Battle Ox is awesome to use with Ape Fighter, Voltic Kong, and Vampiric Koala.

The duellogs should do top 10 field spells that search on activation

I remember back before Air Marmot of Nefariousness was an Archfiend. Honestly, changing the card's name at all was an evolution. Also, not sure what I was expecting with this video, but was definitely thinking of the four Gagagigo cards. A tragic story, but a complete epic. I wonder if they ever added more to his story...

I've always had fun using strike ninja but really didn't realize the combo with return from the different dimension.

I still remember the good old times. The simpeler times, when there were no weird stuff and text so small, it was for ants

this might surprise you, but someone in the OCG came 2nd in a regional tournament with #10 this month, granted it is a control deck but the fact he use every single one of Celtic Guardian and ended up as 2nd with only 1 loss is really mind boggling.

This was sick 😎

These top 10s keep getting better

I know that I’ve commented this already before I want these two videos to be done: Top 10 Monsters that let you banish a monster from the graveyard for an effect. Top 10 Spells that let you control an opponents monster for a turn

How about "top 10 best spell/traps that bring a monster from the GY"? monster reborn, call of the haunted, etc.

Yoooo, I played that Strike Ninja deck with DMoC. It was really competitive at the time, especially with the DMoC pre errata.

I had no idea Strike Ninja was Ansatsu's reworked version, I love it!

holy shit, YGOrganization just released a post with the entirety of the world legacy lore written out

Me, that played the early days of yugioh and used Dark elf, Solemn Judgment and Jirai Gumo. Kind of a masochist.

You might have already done this, but the way you do videos really wants me to make you to make a "How to Play" series

If I recall Curse of Dragonfire was a reference to the anime Battle Kingdom arc in which Yugi used Curse of Dragon to burn the forest in his match with Weevil via the tournament's unique rules.

I know it has to be called that for the support cards but Cursed Dragon- Curse Of Dragon sounds like someone stuttering on an ancient legend they only half remember

Top main character archetypes? Like dark magician, gagaga, odd eyes, performapal and on

YAY CELTIC GUARDIAN!!!!! my fave card ever. Have so many copies. Don't follow ocg news (especially when the game started). So didn't know it was strongest level 4 for a while. AWESOME!! (Probably why it came as a secret in OCG's LOB Pack, which I have a few copies of)

Good video again

Honestly waiting for summoned skull to have it's own Archetype cause it's just really awesome to look at. Yeah you can kinda make one buuuuuut... its not very good on it's own.

Just wanna say that when Celtic Guardian released and 1400 was the strongest a level 4 monster had, Celtic Guardian was still not that important because Kanan was in the game and level 5 and higher monsters could be Normal Summoned and Set without requiring tributes. These were the original rules until Volume 2. There are a total of 5 formats with these rules. If any of you curious, there's a playlist on my channel called History Challenge Season 1. Edit: Celtic Guardian was still playable and meta for a couple OCG sets though. Being Warrior was also good because Legendary Sword saw play in the early formats. As for TCG, it does have a place in the meta in the more aggro decks if you play a Legend of BlueEyes format, but its still just the 3rd strongest monster .

I'd love to see Konami's meetings when deciding which monsters deserve evolutions. Did someone who was just a fan of some of the random early design just think "hey, let's make that one forgettable marmot viable this time. Turning him blue didn't do anything" and pitch it to their boss? Three-Legged Zombie was a card that I always thought was kinda sweet, though, so I was on board with them getting an upgrade.

I love learning abt new cards by watching these

I love how the first half of the list is pretty much just kaiba and yugi retrains

They really need to make a la jinn evolution.

Please do Top 10 most used link monsters or Top 10 cards that are based of the anime or Top 10 cards that have funny naming/puns in their names !

I can't believe you didn't mention either Wynn or Winda (Gusto, Charmer, Shaddoll, Ritual Beast, etc.). Some many different versions but all are really good.

Honestly surprised BM isn't on the list since both Dragoon and Magician's souls could both be considered card evos (though both are more like combined evo of two separate monsters so I'm not sure if they would count...then again Dark Counterparts qualify to you so I don't see why these wouldn't)

Top 10 cards that can be substituted as a fusion material.

Here's one that can be fun: top 10 cards related to warrior dai grepher (for instance if he shows up in the card art).

Celtic guardian lore: he was an elf who wants to protect the people of a castle town he was raised in, then the Noble Arms come to fight off a strange enemy, while Celtic guardian fights to protect the towns folk, the Noble Arms sees Potential in Celtic Guardian. As weeks past as enemies came to assault the town, Celtic Guardian got an offer to help and assist the Noble Army (he is being Obnoxious because he is helping and was eager to help the Noble Arms AND due to his constant fear of enemies attacking the town) than years later, after being mature enough and he is no longer obnoxious, he now got the title of being part of NOBLE ARMS... Note: I am so proud of him...

Top 10 cards that can miss timing/ top ten broken cards balanced by being able to miss timing.

Star boy evolves into Mistar boy using a hat and a moustache... I fuse them now using the power of the heart of the cards?

note about uni-zombie, you can also level your opponents monsters, allowing you to disrupt xyz and synchro plays across turns by the opponent, not as relevant in modern yugioh, but an interesting use case

When I was younger I always thought Ansatsu was Strike Ninja. Shout out to that dice game Yugi played that made Strike Ninja cool.

Monster evolution is the first step to creating the downfall of humanity, remember arc v

lets all stop and appreciate the beautiful artwork YuGiOh has provided us with for over 20 years! :D

I never knew atsanu had any evolutions since I though strike ninja was its own thing. Good for you my first ever card that I lost years ago

Mystical elf got another form. It's call bubbly elf.