Top 10 Worst Classic Cards in Yugioh 

I’m so sad to hear the Electric Lizard never saw any competitive play, next thing you’re going to tell me is that Swordsman From A Distant Land Beatdown is not a viable strategy

I still remember the first World's Tournament in 2000 when Jeff Jones's came in clutch with Blast Juggler to destroy Patrick Hoban's two Fusionists to win the game. Shit was crazy, yo!

From what I recall, while the tcg started with 1800 max atk for level 4s, in the first set of the OCG, the highest level 4 atk was just 1200, and that context makes some of the real old cards make a lot more sense, emphasis on SOME

Konami purposefuly made the Moths even worse than they already were. In the manga the evolution line started with Larvae Moth and the turn count included both players' turns so it took half the time to summon them. Also Great Moth and Perfectly Ultimate weren't main deck monsters (they were non-physical, like Fusions) so you didn't need them in your hand to summon them.

The pumpkin effect never made any sense to me, it and the castle of dark illusions were never played together in the manga nor anime and nothing in those cards indicated they were meant to pair together. Honestly they should release a retrain version of those cards since they both look cool

i'd like to toss out as an honorable mention the immortal of thunder, also in metal raiders. it has a flip effect where you gain 3000 lp but then when it's sent from the field to the graveyard you lose 5000. even back in the day, most things that would attack into its 1500/1300 stat line would be killing it, so it's a straight up minus 2k instantly. there are ways to get around that even back then, particularly penguin soldier, but that requires both surviving face down together for 2 turns total. even with swords and mirror force that wasn't super likely.

Man, I remember thinking 2-Pronged Attack was bad back when I was 7. Good to see I was right about most of these cards being bad even back in the day. Also, with Crass Clown and Dream Clown having some good effects, it pains me that Bickuribox doesn't have the combined effect of "change position = kill". It does bother me that Gate Guardian is so bad, though, as he was a poster boy of the old game. That thing needs a retrain badly.

I remember when my friends and I would build random decks just for fun. He tried so badly to make the stupid cocoon thing work, but even with banned cards in his deck and plenty of negating/stalling cards it was still too easy to disrupt the combo.

The crappy part about LOB fusion cards is that they were all rare rarity at a minimum. So imagine pulling a Fusionsist and wasting a rare for it

What I think is the biggest shame about fusionist is that it might be one of my actual favourite designs for a fusion. I like how it kind of shows off visually what a fusion actually is (two monsters basically smushed together), as opposed to something else that borrows design elements from 2 monsters.

I actually used Harpie Lady Sisters pretty often in Duel Links back when Harpie is still tier 1, She is pretty useful as a material for Photon Strike Bounzer, And you can also use Swallow's Nest on her to bring out Troposphere which is a pretty good monster in Duel Links

To be fair, some of these cards were released (in the OCG) in an era long before 1800 was a normal Attack stat line; look at The Bistro Butcher, for example, which has that 1800 but also gives your opponent two drawn cards whenever it deals damage. It seems likely that card was designed at a time when 1800 required a serious drawback to avoid it being overpowered. Hell, you can look at the anime as well; during the duel with Mokuba, said Mokuba summons Man-Eating Plant which immediately gets murked by Yami's WDGotF#1 (that name can screw off) and Mokuba loses 30% of his LP in the process. At one point, those cards might have been tolerable because the power ceiling was so low that throwing out something with 1000 Attack was actually something to fear.

I kinda miss the artwork on some of the older cards when there weren't that many archetypes. I stopped playing around 5ds era I wonder how bad its now ?

I like the idea of looking at good/bad cards from different formats. Like the best or worse from goat, or tela-dad. Basically more of this type of video I love hearing about what was good or bad and seeing how the game has changed.

I would love to see a Gate Guardian archetype in this game Maybe change the name to GateGuardian (no space in name) and have its three materials be named with GateGuardian as how the deck would be named.

Kaminari attack was on the Very first pack I ever opened (metal Raiders). Who would have thought it would see competitive play!

The commentary really hit me when he said the benefit from shuffling your deck includes……nothing 😂

If I may make a suggestion: the other day I was thinking that I hadn't read the flavor text on the Rice Suship card. So I looked it up and was shocked to discover that it was a wall of text. It got me thinking, which other normal monster cards have crazy long flavor text? And which one has the longest? Is it Rice Suship, or is there another one with even more. And yes I know there are pendulum normal monsters so should you decide to make this top ten of normal monsters which have the longest flavor text, I'll add an extra rule that no pendulum monsters are allowed because that would make it too easy.

Fusionist does have a niche: it is the only level 3 monster that can be Special Summoned from the Extra Deck with Fusion Armament (by revealing Rare Fish from the Extra Deck). So it could potentially be used in a Rank 3 spam deck.

I've been into Yu-Gi-Oh for 20 years and never ever noticed that Elegant Egotist had faces in it

Honestly, i would love pumpking support, i dunno i liked the art and was an absolute beast in forbidden memories/duelist of the roses, the only places it saw "competitive play"

Actually, not sure if you knew this or not, but when it comes to Gate Guardian - it actually did see competitive success, but only much later. It was used with Power Bond and UFOroid to fuse into that ? fusion whose original ATK is equal to the combined materials, then it got doubled by power bond which allowed for OTKs. True story, though I'm sure that wasn't Konami's intended use for the card.

Great moth being bad is funny because on a gameboy advanced yugioh game it was one of the best cards in the game, there was no timers involved you just used cuccoons effect to saccrifice it for a great moth, then on the next turn use great moths effect to sacrifice it for a ultimate great moth

14:24 Honestly surprised there was never modern Gate Guardian support or reworking released after all this time, and I have a pitch for some of it: Have Gate Guardian be a main deck Pendulum Monster (so it can exist in the main OR extra deck), with level 8 or 9 pendulum arrows to make it easier to summon it’s proper components It could be an even 3750 ATK/DEF, be a tuner, and have the effect adjusted to be special summonable (from the hand or graveyard) first by sending it’s classic materials from the field, OR banishing them from the graveyard, to summon it And it has the following effects: _Must first be special summoned (from the hand or graveyard) by tributing "Sanga of the Thunder", "Kazejin", and "Suijin", and if you do this card gains the following effects: Thrice per turn, this card cannot be destroyed or affected by battle or card effects. This monster can attack an additional two times a turn, and durning damage calculation (Quick Effect), any monster this card battles has its ATK/DEF reduced to 0. Once per turn, at the end of your turn, you may return this card to you hand to special summon "Sanga of the Thunder", "Kazejin", and "Suijin" from your graveyard._ And the pendulum effect could be _Once per turn, if you control no monsters on your side of the field, you may normal or special summon one “Labyrinth Wall” and/or “Wall Shadow” in defense position from your hand or deck. While “Labyrinth Wall” is on your side of the field, once per turn at the beginning of your turn, you may declare that monsters require one less or more tribute to summon. Once per turn, when you have a LIGHT, WIND, AND WATER attribute monster on the field each, you may tribute them to special/normal summon "Sanga of the Thunder", "Kazejin", and "Suijin" from your hand or graveyard, and if you do, add this card to your hand._

I dunno, back around 2011-2013, I ran a zombie deck when a support deck came out for them, and used a LOT of the older zombie cards, along with pumpking and a few CoDI cards, and destroyed some friends in some duels. It was a double edged sword though, because if Zombie World wasn't out, it was harder to get those points set up correctly.

I have some list suggestions of you don't mind: Top 10 fusion support cards. Top 10 generic pendulum cards. Top 10 "trap" cards. (Cards that seem good at first glance but aren't really that good. Top 10 parody cards. Top 10 cards based on other Konami games. Top 10 special conditions in the games. More Rescue Rabbit, please.

Gate guardian is the best target of Fusion summoning "Elemental Hero Neos Knight" if you want the Fusion got a huge Atk boost.

I remember people tried to play Gate Guardian in an UFOroid Fighter OTK, when UFOroid Fighter was released. UFOroid Fighter is a machine-type fusion monster that uses "UFOroid" and a Warrior Type monster and had effect that its ATK was the combined ATK of its fusion materials. So people looked for the highest ATK Warrior-type monster available, which happened to be Gate Guardian. Goal was to Fusion Summon UFOroid Fighter with Powerbond and then attack into a weak monster (or direct) with its 9900 ATK (1200 ATK from UFOroid, 3750 ATK from Gate Guardian, doubled by Powerbond) for the win.

The only reason why I remember the existence of Blast Juggler is because it was obligatory material to ritual summon the dark magician of chaos in Forbiden Memories...which isn't better because ritual summon in such game was an awful mechanic

It'd be really cool to see a "tainted" archetype full of cards with broken effects that only go off when your deck is shuffled. Imagine how cool cards with names like "Tainted Hope" and "Tainted Charity" would look 🤯

The running gag of bringing up La Jinn is peak comedy imo XD

I'm really not that deep into YGO, but I always wondered about some balancing. There are so many hard to bring out monsters and then on the other hand there are conditionless board wipes like Raigeki, it must be kinda frustrating to even begin playing a more convoluted strategy.

12:00 You could run say, Convulsion of Nature or such so that you know your top card. Then Shuffling is KINDA worthwhile. But even then, Tainted Wisdom is still trash. 13:37 Lol, was that "if you desire" a reference to the text "in any order you desire" of Yado Karu's text? Anyway, nice & fun analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

Some of these cards and given how bad there effects were because they were tied to specific characters from the anime which predated the card game. Harpy Lady Sisters, Pumpking, Castle of Dark Illusions, and Great Moth are solid examples if this. Because Harpy Ladies were staple cards for Mia who was a regular in the series. Where as Gate Guardian was used in a tag team match so it made more sense for two characters in a non traditional match with no tribute summons to use these. Vs Great Moth who had these turn limits before summoning as a way to build the drama of the episode. Then you have Pumpking and Castle of Illusion which were used in decks that played to the cards strengths. Sych Bones used an all zombie deck so a card that could boost other zombies was useful in the anime it just did it every turn. Vs Castle which was in a fiend deck to boost their abilities. But a fun video either way.

Imagine if the cocoon of evolution got reworked into its own archetype. Bring in some spell or trap cards for a bit pf protection, searchability and maybe even pass turns so instead of waiting 4 turns with a spell card you could really just wait 1 instead or make instantaneous.

It's a shame that pumpking sucked so hard as a card, since it was god-tier in most of the early yugioh games that ignored the tcg rules. In duelists of the roses it was the best card in the game against passive opponents, since you could just infinitely buff all your zombies and use certain tech cards to make all your monsters be treated as zombies for that effect. In capsule monster coliseum, it was already dark so benefitted from one of the best stats/symbol buffs in the game, and also had really good attack range for such a powerful monster. Even in forbidden memories it was a good fusion in the early game before you had consistent access to twin headed thunder dragon or meteor black dragon

I have never in my life played Yu Gi Oh (at least not by the proper rules!) and but somehow your top 10 videos started popping up in my feed and now I use your top 10's to fall asleep. Cheers!

Man, Blast Juggler is interesting... yes I admit the effect is bad. But its not impossible to get off. Zero Gravity is a trap card that can activate if a monster you control is removed from play, if you do so all monsters on the field have there attack points reduced to 0. Now if this happened and it became your turn in some way shape or form (Eg. You had Electro-magnetic turtle in your grave and ended the battle phase banishing it for it's effect...) Then on your standby phase you can nuke the annoying monsters for that. Now I will admit that's a convoluted set-up just to take out a monster or 2 but I like this Idea. Heck I am the kind of guy who loves Lightning Warrior-Mini Guts OTK. Hell I used to use Widespread Dud to drop two monsters my opponent controlled by MST'ing the trap. "Look at me, I'm losin' to a rug..."

I've got an idea for a video: good combos you may not see coming. My sister has a four Trap Card combo that is pretty good. 1. Magical Thorn - deals 500 damage whenever your opponent discards from their hand. 2. Robbin' Goblin - if your monster inflicts damage, one of your opponent's cards are discarded. 3. Coffin Seller - inflicts 300 damage any time your opponent's monsters are sent to the graveyard. 4. Needle Wall, which has a chance to destroy one card in your opponent's main monster zones.

As a Harpie player that first entry hits real close to home.

I saw what you did, Mr. TheDuelLogs, you recently did Top 10 Worst Classic Cards on your Hearthstone channel. 2 cool lists from 2 games I enjoy.

So I'm a magic player trying out yu-gi-oh as a nice change of pace. This video has helped me learn how to evaluate yu-gi-oh cards. Maybe even if it's just a little bit better than I was before

We run sealed tournaments me and my friends, and two pronged attack actually carried me during the first 3 packs

0:07 Which is Pot Of Greed?

Actually, shuffling your deck is useful when they put parasites in your deck and you are about to draw one. In duel links we had a skill that put parasites in, and for a short while, it was a deck i dealt with frequently, even on the cusps of king of games (kog was just harpies at the time) I would always try to have a search or a shuffle ready for when a parasite showed up

I'm kind of surprised you didn't bring up the fact that Cocoon of Evolution is actually the best card in its "archetype". Having 2k defense was passable on its own at the time. I would also definitely argue that Electric Lizard is marginally better than Blast Juggler as its effect is likely to go off, and it is technically a better beater than Blast Juggler.

17:17 little Correction: There is a ruling that say, you can special summon Great Moth even if it is a later turn than the 4th turn.

What I find hilarious is that a lot of these that are not viable due to being almost impossible to summon were effectively used against Yu-Gi and the gang in the anime. They somehow kept allowing these “no way you’ll ever get this on the field” monsters to solve summoned

Lol I remember using flame ghost in a dark hex sealed fusion/metamorphosis deck. One trick that deck used was taking opponent's monsters with snatch steal/change of heart and metamorphing it into a fusion monster. Having fusion monsters of every possible reason was important for that reason

As someone who started playing Yu-Gi-Oh since the game was introduced in America, and am one of those people who love Fusion Monsters, it still astounds me that Konami thought that they thought Fusionist was a good idea for a card. I mean, if I were in charge, I'd give Fusionist an effect to make it slightly more useful. Maybe have an effect where you can return a Polymerization cards from your Graveyard, and it can be a Fusion Substitute Card and if it was used as a Fusion Material, the Fused Monster would gain both a power boost and an immunity effect, where it's unaffected by all of you opponent's card effects.

You should make a video about the best classic cards seeing as you made a video about the worst

Yado Karu, while a bit niche, can be used if you have a card that has to be in the deck to be used or summoned, like if you accidentally draw your Red Eyes Black Metal Dragon (not the best example but it's all I can think of right off), if Yado Karu can survive long enough to be switched from attack to defense mode, you can put the Black Metal Dragon back in the deck. Unfortunately the hard part is actually keeping Yado Karu alive long enough to do that. ^^;

Pumpking is not THAT bad for the first couple of sets. I love playing Pumpking zombie decks in critter format. It's a super fun deck. Bummed to hear it get bashed on when there are not that many weird strats you can do in the first few sets.

Yado Karu has a special place in my heart because it saved me from an empty deck and caused my brother to lose to no deck. It was the most satisfying "REEEE" of my childhood.

First, also keep up the amazing content

my youtube's been bugging out so when I first clicked into this video I heard "In this video, we'll be looking at some of the worst cards from the first two sets of the game" and it hard cut to the end with the recommended videos popping up with almost perfect timing to imply that there are no "bad cards" in the first two sets LOL

I think in the first sets of the OCG, 900 ATK wasn't terrible. I might be wrong on that, but even if I'm not, considering that the mystical sheep has 800, just give it any kind of attack boost and you're better off.

I still like Main Deck monsters. Of course, they would now need to impossibly OP to competee with OP ED bosses now. Also, could have mentioned the Fusions, like Cybersaurus.

Rewatching your vid on the most and least represented types in Yugioh gave me some ideas for new video suggestions. The top ten archetypes made of muptiple monster-types The top ten archetypes made of a single monster-type. The top ten monsters that support a type that is not their own. (example, Prickle fairy is a Plant-type, but is Insect-support)

According to ocg rulings, you can still summon great moth even after the fourth turn. "Counting the turn in which "Petit Moth" was equipped with "Cocoon of Evolution" as the first turn, if 4 or more turns have passed, you can Special Summon this card by Tributing "Petit Moth". (Even if 5 or 6 turns have passed, you can still Special Summon "Great Moth".)[1]"

Pumpking, the King of Ghosts is my favorite/most nostalgic card of all time. I have a fairly well turned kitchen table zombie tribal with Pumpking. Doesn’t even run castle

I never knew about ultra cacoon of evolution 🤯 Poor Weevil's cards were so useless they even tried to help the man out after all these years 😭😭🤣

Also I was always under the impression that the release of Harpie Lady #2 and #3 was in a sense the retrain for Harpie Lady Sisters as #2 and #3 were in the original card.

Pumpkin the king of ghost was one my first Yu-Gi-Oh cards. It was so bad I got it for free from another kid on the bus on the way home along with another 22 cards. Two pronged attack was another of those cards.

Griggle: It's a Level 1 Plant monster with an effect that when you transfer it to your opponent's side of the field while faced up ON the field, you gain 3000 Life Points.

I am honestly surprised that they never tried to revisit Gate Guardian as an archetype. Feels like the perfect setup to add some XYZ cards to because that essentially seems what OG Gate Guardian was going for. Smh Konami wants to erase the Paradox Brothers from Duel Monsters history

"Top 10 archetypes most restricted in the banlist" Zoo and Dragon Rulers have 3 bans each. I wonder which deck is the most restricted right now.

It's weird that Harpie Lady Sisters havent gotten a retrain yet, there are so many ways of getting the various Harpies out and getting Elegant Egotist into your hand.

I like the Petit Moth version from Yugioh the Sacred Cards. If you played it and manage to protect it, the very next turn it becomes Larvae Moth. One more turn and it becomes Cocoon of Evolution. One turn later it becomes Great Moth. Finally one more turn and it becomes Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth. That would be WAY better if that were its real effect.

3- could work in a Gladiator Beast Deck if one of the cards you want to special summon at the end of a turn in in your hand rather than your deck. I guess that's a big theme of the older bunch, later cards could use them in interesting ways.

Two pronged attack these days could have some niche use, but mainly from the fact that it specifically destroys your monsters, as there are some effects that need the monsters to be destroyed, but don't care who does it. Probably better options though Likewise, Pumpking could have had SOME mild use after pyramid turtle was introduced, since that can summon any zombie with 2k or less defense, and Pumpking has exactly 2k...but you're still gonna have a rough time getting it out and using it to its full potential since it won't be coming out until the battle phase, and you'll need to flip castle too. And then protect both for 4ish turns. And in return you get, based on a very quick estimation...a 3300 attack beatstick. Just play blue-eyes.

If you haven't already, can you make a video on censored card art. I think that would be interesting to compare. And you never know, there might be one where the censor looks better.

A little surprised Jigen Bakudan's trash ass didn't make the list, but this is some steep competition. Almost want to suggest a Top 10 Cards That Weren't Playable On Release, but the only card I know of that fits that criteria is Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon, since it needs Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon yet Shining Dragon came out in the TCG first. Dark Magician Girl came out before Magician of Black Chaos, so you couldn't get her max attack power but you could still use Dark Magician Girl.

Tainted Wisdom is an extremely powerful card...if you learned a few of the basic basic card tricks you can pick up in your average street magic primer. That's why it's "tainted" wisdom. It requires dubious morals to unlock it's full power. It can turn any player into a Yu-Gi-Oh early season villain.

tainted wisdom has 1 hypothetical benefit. parasite paracide if you see it is the next card at the top of your deck and you have 800 life points left, you can change its battle position to shuffle the deck to save yourself. that is about it

I never complain or point out things on these videos because usually Mr. Logs is always on point on these things. But this is the first time I will point out something. Not to say that it's wrong, I just want to know the thought process on it. Why is Yado Karou in #3 when it's clearly better than Fusionist firstly because you can treat Yado Karou as a non-effect monster and just play it in face down position to at least benefit from that 1700. Second, it doesn't lose you card advantage for playing it. And for the opponent to even "take advantage" of the effect, they have to change it's battle position twice in order for them to force the effect if for some reason the effect is so bad for you.

Top 10 useful cards from legacy pack if you can pull them (master duel)

On another video I requested a video of cards with odd stat lines, and this video reminded me of Castle of Dark Illusions wonky line.

TheDuelLogs: *mentioned Tainted Wisdom Me: why is my brain starting to play upbeat song?

The pumpkin king guy looks soooo cool though

If Konami prints Gate Guardian support cards, he wouldn't be this bad

We need an Archtype which activates their effects if they get shuffled back into the deck just to give some cards a use xD

I think you should have also included Magic Ruler. It had stupidly powerful cards too.

I have a video idea: top 10 tech cards that are a minus in card advantage(book of moon, droplet, etc.)

5:56 the voicecrack caught me off guard while eating and listening to this video lmao

Yado Karo could maybe be useful to make it easier to fulfill conditions for one of those effects that require you to have no cards or at least few cards in your hand, like the Infernity Archetype, or if you're trying to run a bottom-of-deck focused effect deck for the LOLs, or if specific cards in your hand are somehow disadvantageous and you for whatever reason can't just use Pot of Generosity....

can you please do a video about the karakuri archetype ❤️

I maybe remembering this wrong but in duel links wasn’t two-pronged attack used in early wild heart and tenkabito shien decks?

Will you do top ten cards who'd make the best dads?

Also a severe limitation of the Harpie Lady monsters, at least in master duel, you cannot have Harpie Lady, Harpie Lady 1, Harpie Lady 2, Harpie Lady 3, or Harpie Lady Sisters in the same deck because they all have Harpie Lady in the name and are treated as the same card.

At least Pumpking, Harpie Lady Sisters, and Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth are good in Duelist of the Roses.

12:30 I wonder if an archetype based on shuffling decks would work. Specifically when the archetype does it, not when any card does it. Maybe they wouldn't want that much more shuffling in the game.

Ah old yugioh was fun. Less consistency and overall not having cards that pretty much do the exact same thing for every archetype to make them all have a searcher, special summon from hand etc, just fun. Plus random ass effects and the ones specific to types was cool too which tbf can still work today like if Cybers or another machine deck become Meta welp we all know what spell to start using. But I liked creatures having little gimmicky effects they all felt gimmicky back then. Also Tainted Wisdom is still my favourite card I ever got out of a pack because I just sat there thinking how the hell does one use this. Thinking it would actually be fun if they ever did cards that gain benefits from shuffling said deck.

I feel very targeted...I love all of these cards hahaha! Super fun to see these in a list

funny thing is, petite moth was NEVER involved with the moth set in the show, larvae moth was the one that started the cocoon

Two pronged attack can be chained to your monsters being destroyed by your opponent like a mirror force or other pops

I had actually a duell where the effect of tainted wisdom could have won me the gam where my opponent avtivated a card that made him able to look at the top 3 cards of my deck and put them back in any order getting a usefull topdeck by shufling my deck could have won me the game

You should do a top 10 best cards that were powercrept on release I think it would be an interesting concept

Yado Karu probably was designed to "survive" a prolonged as fuck game when cards run out as a way to get more cards into your deck than your opponent...

Yado Karu could be used to place garnets back in your deck! It has a niche use!