Top 10 Power Crept Cards That Still See Play in YuGiOh 

LMAO I thought Im the only one

I never played competitive yu gi oh and I still like to listen to this guy talk about cards.

lol same me

Havent played competitively since 2018 Still listen for the nostalgia and general interest and his cool voice

See you are a man of culture as well

Yeah like, I never considered Denko Sekka to be a "better" Jinzo. Less attack, can't be special summoned, not a Dark Machine, only works when you don't have any backrow yourself... it doesn't take a tribute and also turns off quickplay spells, but those benefits clearly come with costs. It's just a different card, and I'm not surprised that Jinzo sometimes sees play for the various advantages it has.

Good use of KISS-Keep it simple stupid

@@princesscrystal6410 Can't apply it only to Konami if players ignore it and break simple effects in every one of the infinite ways NOT mentioned on the card.

Is that the bisexual flag on a pokeball?

@@Aryzo yes, yes it is

Feels bad man😅

And actually want to run their field spell

Frightfur is one of my favorite Archtypes to play and I still run poly in it because of Frightfur Patchwork

HEROs still rely on Poly cause of Vision HERO Vyon though usually as a one off

I would argue Poly has not _directly_ been power crept. In my opinion, it's like saying Monster Reborn is power crept because of searchable archetypal Reborn spells exist. Like sure in those decks it is, but most decks gave to play the original if they want to use that type of effect. I guess it's just a matter of opinion, the other cards on this list ignore archetype specific alternatives and instead focus on staples.

Yeah when he said he was still used in 2018 i was amazed, i dropped ygo in 2012

It really isn't. You see Spell Canceller more than you will see Jinzo.

He got new support cards

@@astralarkgamingandmore1341 Yeah. And it doesn't help.

@@orga7777 it probably doesn't help your strategy maybe.

Play 2 in my lost world Dinos lol.

I agree. Obsessed with the minimalist art as well. The aesthetics of the game/cards are why I got so into this as a kid

Agreed. Specially when the effect veiler is new in my eyes

Whats ur favorite?

@@annedrieck7316 From this list? Or like, favorite card in general?

@@InfiniteChances both

@@annedrieck7316 Hmm... that’s a tough one. From this list probably MST. Of all time? That’s even tougher. I used to love Chimeratech Overdragon way back when you’d Future Fusion/Overload Fusion your whole deck and OTK your opponent. I also liked Horus.

It's kinda funny how these days most Yu-Gi-Oh cards are crazy cheap and don't cost what they use to, except the ones that see all kinds of competitive play. Then the jack up of the price ALOT lol

@@stevenceja4706 it's cheaper so newer players can start playing but the top tier are expensive cuz yugioh needs dat money

​​@@unkown981nah, Konami only controls how many go out. Not how much people sell it for. The higher the demand, the less the supply and the more expensive it gets.

Not anymore!!!

This is why I only play Master Duel

Turns out, effect density is pretty good.

Let's not forget Jinzo is harder to get over, all you need to get rid of Sekka is a decent lv 4.

That's a good point. And that's why I don't really consider Denko to have powercrept Jinzo. They have similar effects, sure, but Jinzo does more than Denko, in exchange for being harder to bring out.

To the point where Duel Links has a skill specifically about supporting them.

Great idea

Timelord player here. Sandaion is a 4k/4k indestructible normal summon. Can't deal battle damage and spins itself in your standby, but if it battles it can burn for 2k at the end of the battle phase. It's part of the deck's otk

@Vinícius Deniz no.

The barrier statues

I don‘t like it it, because it gets annoying quickly, but it‘s at least unique. I don‘t know of any other youtubers who do that.

@@r4nd0mguy99 I know of one other, but they go more for absurdity in their statements.

Level limit area B or gravity bind

I have a deck like that on duel links

I ran that deck also!

Good old Gravity Bind+Lava Golem+Rivalry of the Warlord+Solemn Judgement. Complete lock for summoning plus burn damage per turn, also Solemn is there to stop MST or Heavy Storm.

that could have been the reason people play jinzo. its cheaper then deko seka

@@anteante2332 No Denko super cheap and Jinzo probs more expensive tbh Denko was in Dude

I'd say it's more so because sometimes you'd rather have a monster than a trap. Veiler can always be used for a Synchro play, plus him being Spellcaster type lets him play well with certain decks.

Effect veiler has uses being a lvl 1 tuner, plus certain decks prefer not having traps on the gy to get certain effects off. The price is the reason I play it.

@@anteante2332 plus you can special summon jinzo

It's the one for Divine atribute

Now I actually really wanna see what that would look like. Maybe an above shot of all six barrier statues standing back to back, and the ring of symbols around them is multi-color?

Number 1 through 10. There.

@@jonathan-6958 lol

Rhongo Will be 1

@@Drakorre shock master is a number

Humongous Oculus.

do you mean stuff that gives lingering effects?

@@MrNFree no, like bambosling shadow. Change effect to draw card. Or artifacts durandal to destroy backrow

@@groken2365 Oh right, that's niche as fuck

Dark Worlds have stuff for that.

My guy, you got your list!

This happens all the time now in master duel lmao

@@Spartan-sz7km and now it doesn't anymore, rip halq lol

also it's a level 1 light tuner, which mean it's searchable in blue-eyes with sage :D

Plus effect veiler is waifu

It’s not my fave card but will always have a soft spot for gren maju. I only really played when it first came out, and the look in people’s faces when I’ve banished a bunch of stuff, which was odd at the time, only to drop him for a OHKO

jinzo was the first psychic type

Was meta defining for way too long. Plus control decks shouldn't dominate in a healthy game.

Doesn't it discard 2 cards?

@@tree3214 pretty sure it draws 2 from your opponent's deck

@@marcodestefano7119 *opponents graveyard

I thought it brought back 2 cards from being banished. Strange days indeed

The effect actually allows you to destroy 2 cards on field then draw 2 cards from your banished pile then your opponent takes 2 damage and any monster summoned will now have 2 less attack points

Red Reboot is honestly a card that changes the game for the worse. It being at 1 is good

@@nodeberiaestaraqui93 i love red reboot, but yeah its a little bit unfair

@@lucaslucas6207 i will at 1 it fine but fuck control decks

@@lucaslucas6207 There is tons of things about the game that "isn't fair". Singling out one card is a moot point.

@@lloydbagby8355 what's wrong with control decks? They are more fair than decks the spill their load and half the deck turn one.

regional champ? just like weevil holy shit

He did.

Jinzo is always smoothly shaven because he checks his beard in the mirror Force. that joke totally makes no sense because mirror Force cannot be activated in his presence, so I assume he shaves blind.

It’s super nice to be able to have him remove annoying cards and damage the opponent’s life points.

It's just nice to have a Level8(Trade in Target), 3000 atk(Good Beatstick if you are desperate) Fiend Type(Good Dark Spirit Target, searchable by dark Spirit Mastery), Fire Attribute (weird attribute, so it can be quircky to be taken advantage by opponent), that tribute 2 monster on opponents side of the field(sometimes you just have to remove one more card on the opponents' side of the field.) Not to mention its a perfect fit for my Unchained Deck.

Yeah, i never see them like a better version, more like a especific user version

I really dont understand why people use pot of desires, you really want to draw 2 cards and banish 10? what if you need to draw an specific one and you end up banishing it? it doesn't make sense for me

@@luissaumeth8000 Draw 2 is almost always worth the banish of 10 cards. If you run a 40 card deck with your key cards being 3-ofs, then banishing 10 cards is unlikely to completely remove all 3 copies of a card. Sure, it can happen, but it's almost always worth the risk for an otherwise unconditional +1 in card advantage. Even in the worst case scenario, losing all 3 copies of a certain card is usually not going to be a failure condition of your deck unless that card is particularly central. Decks that can't afford to lose certain cards, whether those cards are just super important or are limited to 1 (e.g. Branded) don't play Pot of Desires for exactly that reason. For everybody else though, the drop in consistency is worth the power of a draw 2. Not to mention, banishing 10 cards face-down is actually beneficial in Gren Maju da Eiza decks and maybe a little bit in Swordsoul If you start turn 1 with a 40 card deck, you will draw 5, leaving 35 cards in your deck. Let's say you really want to draw Card X, and you have 3 copies of Card X in your deck and none in your hand. The chance of banishing all 3 copies of Card X from the top 10 cards from a 35 card deck can be calculated using a hypergeometric distribution where the population size is 35, the number of successes in the population is 3, the sample size is 10, and the number of successes in the sample is 3. The output is a 0.01833 probability. That's a lot of oblique maths, but the point is, there is only a 1.8% chance that will happen. In other words, 98% of the time, that will not happen. 98% safety of nothing bad happening with a +1 in card advantage sounds pretty good to me. Now, granted, that probability is only for banishing all 3 copies of Card X - maybe it will banish 2 copies of Card X (~20% chance) or 1 copy of Card X (~50% chance), but that usually doesn't matter. And of course, maybe it'll banish your copies of Card Y or Card Z that you care about too... but for most decks, it's just not worth caring about. The 1.8% chance is only for it banishing all 3 copies of the same specific card - for it to banish all 3 copies of any card at all, it's a little bit more than 3 times that, or roughly 6% chance. That's still an overwhelming 94% chance of it not banishing all 3 copies of cards at all, or in other words, particular cards you really want will remain and be searched out assuming theyr'e all 3-ofs. To put it another way, so long as you can search out those cards, Pot of Desires doesn't do anything negative to your deck at all. Now you could say that that's also assuming you have a 35 card deck, when often you might play Pot of Desires later in the game where you might only have 30 or 25 cards left etc. Sure, if you have a 25 card deck left and still somehow haven't got a particular card you need yet, then the chance of it banishing all 3 copies of Card X is an overwhelming... 5.2%. Seriously. It's still really unlikely even in the late-game, and honestly by then if you haven't already drawn that key card in the first place then your deck is doing something wrong anyway. Pot of Desires screwing over a deck that is made up mostly of 3-ofs is rare enough that the power of a draw 2 is more than worth it. And even if you do banish all 3 copies of Card X, a card you really want... you'll probably be able to get by anyway now that you have +1 in card advantage to your opponent so can more easily play through their interruptions. Let's re-examine this a little bit more though. Let's say we only have 1 copy of Card X in the deck and we really want it. The chance of banishing 1 card that has 3 copies out of 10 banished cards of a 35 card deck is 50%, but that is very different to the chance of banishing 1 card that has 1 copy out of 10 banished cards of a 35 card deck. The chance of banishing our precious 1-of in the early 35-card scenario is a 29% chance. For most decks, banishing a precious one-of a third of the time is too inconsistent to deal with... even so, over 2/3rds of the time, it's fine. So even decks that have one or two one-ofs can throw in Pot of Desires if they feel particularly risky anyway. The payoff is just that worth it.

@@luissaumeth8000 If you are playing a deck that doesn't draw every card in the deck every game, you can think of those 10 banished cards as cards at the bottom of your deck that you would have never drawn that duel. That's a simplification, but one that makes sense to me. Most duels don't come down to fatigue, and most good decks don't draw through a majority of their deck in a few turns (because usually Komani doesn't like strategies revolving around drawing every card in your deck, so they'll end up nerfing them eventually.) And if you are running a deck with multiple crucial combo pieces, then you wouldn't run Desires if you don't like your odds of discarding said combo pieces. The more pieces you have, the less viable Desires is.

What is VFD?

@@thepoweroftheweed2215 Variable Frequency Drive.

@@thepoweroftheweed2215 True King of All Calamities aka Very Fun Dragon

@@thepoweroftheweed2215 VFD was a powerful floodgate monster that makes it so your opponent can't attack or activate monster effects. It had 3k attack. It was a Dark Wyrm. Rank 9 XYZ. IT IS BANNED NOW

Nah bro it's 'fucendity'

That's just dumb.

wanderesq You must be new here, mispronouncing card names is kind of what he does.

It’s basically the function that allows animals like cats dogs etc..to spawn offspring from multiple sires/progenitors

Kinda makes sense. Torrential tribute is a torrent. So makes sense for there to be some benefit to water cards. Support card searching out torrential tribute and then protecting a monster from your own torrential tribute is kinda cool. I'm sure there are more random support cards than that.

when top 10 random support

I mean, Torrential Tribute is basically a Sleeper Unchained Turbo. Xd

Torrential Tribute's real name is Tidal Wave. And Kairyu-shin is like the king of the oceans so it makes sense that it can bring forth tidal waves

So it's been power-crept 3 times now.

While you aren’t wrong, I’d say it would still see play in those decks because it’s still extra draw power for the same reason as it sees play with those pots. Having more consistency is always a good thing.

Pot of Prosperity is also just... not out in the TCG yet

Pot of Disparity (yeah, prosperity in tcg, I prefer the original name) kinda has harsh restrictions, like "you cannot add from your deck anything the turn you use it" and technically it's still a neutral card advantage like Duality. Duality restricts special summons, but at least lets you draw other things if you just so happen to draw another pot

@@thepoweroftheweed2215 no, has the restriction that you can't DRAW for the rest of the turn

Yes but with floating mirror force classic is sometimes not much better. Both tend to be side deck cards anyways so running a mix of 2 of each is often seen.

Avatar of Pots! All the Pots!

Glad to hear it!

Envoy isn't really powercrept. He's easier to get out than Levianeer, and his banish is still useful. Now Chaos Sorcerer, yeah, he's powercrept.

I wouldnt say Veiler has been powercrept really. Other handtraps are more niche in their application than Veiler. Ghost Girls only hit specific areas, Gamma on your opponents turn is usually minus and all main deck Psy-Frames require a soft garnet (Driver), whereas unless your opponent plays Mystic Mine Burn, you will have targets for Veiler. Plus it has a way better typing than most hand traps in most decks. Light Level 1 0/0 has a lot of good interactions

@@tootsie_ I hate the ghost girls For such powerful effects there's no set up you just use it and nothing else The worst part is the stupid artwork Little rats

Number 1: Nekroz Kaleidoscope Imagine being able to summon a Skill drain for extra deck monsters while also getting a free ritual monster or spell in the process

@@thepoweroftheweed2215 I think Dawn of the Herald is better. You can recover part of the resources you use who can be used to negate thinks with Herald of Perfection

@@thepoweroftheweed2215 draiton more spammeble

Chaos Form

95% of decks are not "meta"

@@SonofIiberty that number will be much closer to 99.9%

No bully Woodsman! It's not his fault that board wipes happen 3 times a turn so he'll never see a Standby Phase! Woodsman is still cool in our hearts.

1. Yes 2. Sure, why not 3. Oh absolutely 4. Meh 5. Ok I can get behind that 6. I guess, but not really that interested 7. Yeah 8. Ok, sure 9. Maybe 10. Woah, buddy. Look at me. Look at me. Look. At. Me. YES.

@@BmanTheChamp the thing that bothers me is that the dragpnsmaid don't even look like dragon. They look like 3 sexy woman. I mean sure if they r like mystique that can transform into dragons then yeah I buy it

@@BmanTheChamp alot of peeps say blue eyes shining dragon is terrible bc of its summoning condition. To me I don't think it is since today cyberstein is unban so u could bet both ultimate and shining out alot easier. Just my main beef is shining has 1500 atk less than ultimate and even it gains 300 atk for every dead dragon its still a lot of work to get 5 of them to the graveyard. The reason red eyes darkness is even better even though it has the same effect but 600 less atk is bc darkness is alot less convoluted. Now if shining already has 4500 atk to begin or if they errata the effect to tribute blue eyes white dragon then it wouldn't be half bad

@@BmanTheChamp ojama may lack in ATK but they are good at locking your opponents out from summoning monsters

@@leonardolim8976 Well that's literally the Dragonmaid archetype's mechanic, that they transform into dragons, and also there's more than 3

Doomdog Orthros?

Dogoran, the Mad Flame Kaiju is easier to search but Lava Golem is still good for taking out 2 monsters.

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Cairngorgon, Antiluminescent Knight Slacker Magician Master of Blades

@@mfznal-hafidz8592 yeah

Maiden with eyes of blue?

@@cbbblue8348 yeah and that card too

Why? The fewer staples there are, the better the game. MST and mirror force were in every single deck when I played. Basically means you only get to choose 38 cards (actually fewer bcs of other staples).

Veiler has that niche of being more situationally useful than Imperm. It also doesn't have a board limitation like Imperm to be used as a hand trap. Just being limited to your opponent's main phase. And it's a level 1 Tuner though almost never really used for Synchro/Halq plays.

@@ShiningJudgment666 True though just as you said: the example i gave and that one about it being a level 1 tuner comes up like once every 100 matches unless you have a way to search it like with abductor in pendulums or with halq, it's primary strength is in it being a hand trap, and imperm being an actual trap card can be better in certain hand trap heavy formats where gamma sees lots of play especially in main decks to counter said hand traps since they're mostly monsters, also monster effect negation tends to be more prevalent than spell/trap negation which is the players' fault, s/t negation should always be considered ever since imperm and called by the grave came out and especially with these other very strong going second cards like evenly matched.

Painful Choice number 1

Of their own volition, not with Bad Reaction to Simo, or Mystical Refpanel.

See basically the entirety of Gren Maju decks. Pot of Desires, Gizmek Orochi, Pot of Extravagance, Golden Castle of Stromberg, etc.

I now think of a "certain" Dragon that can Foolish Burial 3 dragons from your deck as a cost and still has good effects, stats and is an extra deck monster on top. No, such a thing would never be print...

@@sephikong8323 2007: "Let's make a card that gives you 2 tokens, but you have to summon it to your opponent's Field." 2020: "Well, I have Grinder Golem in my starting hand so I guess I'll start by going into a Link-4 monster."

Not sure if they've had any success competitively, but I know Simorgh decks can abuse Stormwinds to no end.

@@catisreckless4647 Simorghs deck no, but the Simorgh link is used by tri-brigade decks to summon it.

@@danielrogers7098 That's a shame. I still think Simorgh has a chance to be at least rogue tier, because their turn 1 board is simple, but can be extremely hard to deal with. They just can't make it consistently. Maybe if there was a way they could get Dark Simorgh and Apex Avian out at the same time.

At least karma cut wasn't like wall of d. You got wall put on you, it was gg hit surrender.

Karma Cut seems powercrept by Paleozoic Dinomischus in TCG/OCG because it can banish any card, not just monster and discard is an effect not cost so works with Dark World

@@jackiethomas6578 Someone didn't have Ballista or Providence. They really will use WoD or Drowning to set up the OTK. (I have set monsters before in anticipation, usually doesn't make a difference.)

@@runningoncylinders3829 I'm talking about wall of d on release. There's tons of answers to it now.