Top 10 Worst Classic Cards in Yugioh 【Invasion of Chaos (IOC)】 

It’s always so much fun to try and make fantastic retrains of terrible cards, or support cards for lacking archetypes.

That and I feel like the "Worst cards" lists can help inspire some creative outside the box thinking, since Yugioh is one of the few deck build games where "Every card has a niche" due to how the game is played, even the worst cards can generate some kind of advantage in the right circumstances (and I'm not just talking Mystical Rafpanel stuff though that card could really make Cold feet scary to see if timed right in a slower game). It's just an interesting thought experiment to find a card in Yugioh that's so bad, it absolutely generates NO advantage at all and only puts you in a worse state EVEN if you build your deck in the most optimal way to take advantage AND your opponent ALLOWS you to use that card to benefit. The closest I can see is that one fairy monster dark artist or something that cuts it's 1400 attack power in half if it attacks a light monster as even in the best case scenario of deliberately activating an effect that only works if your attack power is dropped (like the anime does all the time), most of those cards tend to just reverse the attack drop and literally anything else you could do with that type of card is better. Still, I see Yugioh as more a puzzle game than a strategy game in that regard. Nothing feels better than legitimately beating an opponent with a "bad card" that is nearly impossible to pull off but if you do.... like Sophia Goddess of Rebirth or Flying Elephant. That really should be an achiement in Duel links. "Win a duel using Flying Elephants effect".

Because they are cards you probably never saw,with either underwhelming or original but badly designed effect and the bunch of creative tips duellogs gives

​@@MarioMastaryeah i agree. Too bad a loud majority think yugioh is simple when they probably follow meta, than the puzzle the game can be sometimes

​@@icefiredragon94That's what happens when you let power creep run wild. Every meta deck does the exact same thing with different cards.

Electrumite in the thumbnail lmao

I think that’s right. The Knightmares did throw the meta into chaos.

Ah, yes. I, too, remember how terrible Mermaid and Electrumite have been.

Nah bro. Electrumite was just that old.

Yeah, he forgot to add dark magician.

Bad for the game

Yeah did he use the wrong thumbnail or what?

yeah, those are the placeholder cards I use@@Sheikah_Architect

oopsie daisy@@TheDuelLogs

​@@TheDuelLogsDo you Plan to remake your Genex Video? Probably not but its funny how they just got new Support thats so crazy

I faced a dude with your profil pic on YGO omega yesterday

Kinda a similar idea, but I was running a Yubel deck. Since it can be somewhat easy to Miss Timing depending on, Thunder Crash was always handy as it destroys as well as burns at once, thus I can deal at least 300 damage, and go into Terror Incarnate/Ultimate Nightmare. I would also run Sacred Phoenix of Nepthys, which means a self-rez backrow wipe with Thunder Crash, too. Suffice to say, a simple combo of mine is Terror Incarnate/Sacred Phoenix to utterly dominate the board.

Remember when the Graveyard wasn't a second omni-present hand? XD Even Season 1 Yugioh Kaiba WANTED his blue eyes in the graveyard so he could monster reborn it getting around the 2 tribute requirement. I think only literally the first set was the Graveyard the worst place to put cards and even then...Gosh that's what makes Yugioh the best.

I was just remembering you were asking for these for, well, every video since the last one.

By the way, did you ever get around to that Exodia Necross retrain you were talking about?

Like card of sanctity who in yu gi oh gx duel academy is supposed to let both players to draw until have 6 cards in hand , but banish all your hand and field to draw 2 cards

But that's even worse than the Parasite mentioned in the video because the parasite also deals burn damage and clogs a draw. Even in duel links where you could have the opponent start with a parasite insect princess is plain bad. Insect princess would even be bad if it affected all monsters, not just insects.

@@nicolaistuhlmuller8718 then what about the equip spell power of the guardians? Would that make it better?

Seems too much for a LV4.

@@Bezaliel13 Maybe I should put her back as a level 6 then?

@@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire With two Quick Effects, including a self Special, and 1900 ATK, I would have to say so ngl.

It's actually not too broken, imo. That is, it depends on a few factors. If by "possess", you mean on your field or in the hand, then the first effect is too reactive to be broken and would mostly be a once a turn thing, if not once per several turns (unless you can find a way to easily bring the card back to your hand from the Graveyard through other means). The "cannot be destroyed" effect is too limited to make it much of a wall in modern metas. Though being immune to most link cards' destruction effects is nice. And the 500 ATK/DEF raise... doesn't amount to much, especially since it is Battle Phase dependent (where the card would probably be long synchro'd or link'd off by then). That leaves the battle position changing effect. If it is _not_ OPT, then it would be a big nuisance for the opponent and could potentially allow decks to break through a lot of non-Link walls. If it _is_ OPT... then the card is pretty _underpowered_ for modern standards. 1900 ATK for a Level 4 Effect monster - especially a Tuner - _is_ well above average, but Level 4s aren't really used for their Attack Points nowadays. Just combo them into a 3K beater instead.

Why this effect specifically?

Now that sounds kinda broken tbh...

Worse d.d crow?

@@benbenbenben-qw6tx Consider that with a card like what I proposed existed you could bait your opponent's destruction effects and get rid of monsters they need in their GY and building a deck with little to no trap cards is easy to do

So basically just Tribute 10 Things, win the game? In plants? With the spell effect not losing you any advantage, letting you set another spell to tribute and loop? Dawg what do you want to bring upon this earth?

@@1_____________________ I _should_ put an OPT on that, huh?

@@1_____________________ Also, why did you emphasize “Plants” like that?

@@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire Plant combos have the easiest time out of all current meta decks in terms of flooding the board. They go through like 30 cards so any normal Loci combo would burn your opponent turn 1 with this card. Also, a lot of plants trigger if tributed.

@@1_____________________ Right, better make that a HARD OPT then.

Dimension distortion isnt possible in floo due to its own special summon restriction.. chaos greed kinda possible tho

@@justsightseeing1 Exactly. Chaos Greed doesn't really work either because they're pretty unlikely to have four of their cards banished, because they keep adding them back to the hand. And they do run plenty of backrow that can end up in the GY. Maybe it would be possible under Shifter, but at that point it's kind of a win more card, and still not very consistent.

@@TheLetterJ0 yes agreed. the point of draw card is to open starter if you arleady start your play, extra card would be just "win more"

The Pot of Greed like cards are so finicky. It's like the reason Jar of Greed is borderline useless while Pot of Greed is the most broken card in the game. Even if Jar of Greed was a spell card, The only benefit to the card is deck thinning...sort of. but even in a 40 card deck, you generally want every card to generate some advantage. Thus despite adding the most rediculous effects to "Draw 2 card" cards, Realistically, if you have to put in 2 cards just to get a pot of greed, and that's the only point of the cards, not taking advantage of the banished cards like Gren maju stuff, then it's a waste. People tend to vastly overvalue the ability to draw an extra card, but even though Gladiator Beasts have an easy in archetype way to Graceful Charity (And unlimited too), it's still luck of the draw to get the right combo pieces at the right time. Also Glad beasts WANT their cards in the deck. the hand is kind of the worst place to have them cause you can't use their effects, but that's where the "Return 2 cards to the deck" aspect helps a lot. Get Brickgustus back in the deck...

That's my favorite way to play Yugioh. Try to make a card who's art I love work. I don't care if Saffira is a "Win moar" card in a Blue eyes deck. that card art is BEAUTIFUL and I will play with her! Though as Duel Logs often says, "If your goal isn't to win, then this card is for you." Well I'd rephrase that as "If your goal isn't to win consistently".

That is why you add Chaosrider Gustaph.😁

A lot of the ones higher on these top 10 lists are usually there because they have legitimate niches, but Duel Logs generally talks about cards in general use cases. Though I do feel sometimes cards ranked badly are unfairly so...(like trap cards being universally bad as if every game is meant to end on turn 1/2), he has been acknowledging that Duel Links exists and is more so addressing how cards are bad within their OWN archetype or running counter to their archetype being the reason they make the list. Like some of the Gladiator beast cards that can't do the tag out mechanic, which is literally the whole point of the archetype (except the Normal one which is extremely useful cause you can use Unexpected Dai and it IS a Glad beast. the more you swarm the field, the easier it is to get the good boss monsters out quickly)

​@@MarioMastar while trap cards aren't generally bad, they do have an inherent disadvantage, and unless they are specifically meant to be used during an opponent's turn like counter traps, that makes a lot of them inherently worse than if they were spell cards (like Jar of Greed)

Red eyes Black Dragon. Hate that it's bad cause it's so cool! I'm also sure some GX Fans out there will make the Neo Spacians and Crystal beasts work one way or another cause the card art is really cute. Love Dark Panther!

Read level eater again.

I think it's easy to forget that trap cards still have to be face down and baiting an opponent to waste thier negates is just as much a strategy. I've won quite a few duels by bluffing my opponent to waste their negate on a useless trap card (one of the defensive ones that would only save me if I was losing) and then I was able to use a more important one to win the game. You don't want to rely on it, but traps definitely have thier niche if you can make the game last longer than 3 turns. XD

@@MarioMastar It’s not nothing, true. But I know in Goat for example, a lot of traps are chainable, so while getting your Ring MSTed might force a suboptimal use, it’s not the end of the world. One of the strong parts of MST is that you can use it in your opponent’s end phase on cards they just set, and thus can’t activate in response, a problem FHM doesn’t circumvent unless you have it set before the card you want to protect with it. Targeted S/T removal exists, but MST is limited, so running a card to protect a piece of backrow against a single card in your opponent’s 40-card deck is pretty bad. The fact it can only redirect spell effects means it can’t stop Dust Tornado or Breaker or Mobius. De-Spell and Remove Trap exist, but aren’t heavily played. Maybe Nobleman of Extermination. Plus setting a lot of backrow at once, like setting FHM and the backrow you want FHM to protect, is just asking for a Heavy Storm, which doesn’t target at all. You could in principle just set it to bait your opponent’s S/T removal, but then you’re just running a bad card whose sole purpose is to bait your opponent. Fake Trap insures against a wider array of S/T removal like the aforementioned Dust Tornado and Mobius and the non-targeting Storm. Jar of Greed can bait your opponent and give you card draw, so you go +1 on your opponent’s MST. Idk, it’s funny, but I can’t really see a good use for it that’s isn’t highly situational and/or better served by other cards.

ALL these terrible cards were "Win conditions" in the anime due to the most rediculously niche situations. Plus GX was the era where they would abuse Pot of Greed and clearly be playing with 11 card decks... (coughZanecough). 5Ds had a ton of rediculously predictive counter play, Zexal had Yuma effectively pull more XYZ upgrades out of his side deck but Astral was an excellent duelist. Arc-V had action cards and VRAINS completely changed the rules of the game....XD but I LOVED it all even though almost none of those duels are how real life duels would go.

@@MarioMastar 5D's had Angel Baton instead of pot, which only true difference was that hade you discard (And was mostly for graveyard setup). Meanwhile VRAINS practically dismissed the action cards besides Evasion becoming a deus ex machina for a big chunk of duels, specially when they introduced action trap cards (which were negative effects for the user and forced activation) in one duel and never again.

Not true. Thunder Crash has some use in a Yubel deck.

In duel links

Pot of Desires would give you a total 7 card draw with just 2 cards. XD

probably until the link era tbh

Really? Wow. That's going to be a lot in this series. What makes the Link era the cut-off point with this series?