Top 10 Worst Hand Traps in Yugioh 

During your hand from either person's turn. Thank you, Mr. Logs lmao.

Nonono, Ghost Sister is broken. My Locals banned it because I've won 6 Locals with that card because of writing all the LP down, making their turn 39 minutes Edit: HOW IS THIS SHITPOST GETTING SO MANY LIKES?! Honestly, I've never gotten so many xD Thx Memers

Ghost Sister is a card that's bad in 99% of decks but could be playable if we had a good archetype that benefits from increasing your life like Aromage

Here's an idea: Top 10 weirdest / most obscure tech cards used in tournaments. An example would be how Bull Blader was used during Necroz format.

Kuriboh deserves respect for being basically the first Hand Trap in the game. Also,this cute fluffball is great in DL and has an entire cute archetype based on him,including the ''Wretched Ghost of the Attic''!

Hoping to see a "Best cards introduced in the DM/GX/5Ds/etc." series of videos. I just want Dark Armed Dragon to be praised LOL

I mean Ghost sister does have another nice niche I'm surprised wasn't mentioned: It hard counters most FTK's that focus on burning you to death that special summon a lot. Yeah it's not good against every FTK deck, but can you imagine this being released in the same format as Danger Dark World FTK or any FTK that used Firewall? I bet it would see massive amounts of play since their only way of burning is 500, and you will always far outpace the damage since you gain around 2k LP each time.

Engraver of the Mark is one of those cards that would be so cool to have an archetype for

Confronting the "C" has one of the funniest pieces of artwork, and I can't believe I never realized that the "C" stood for "cockroach"!

When I played the games back then, Kuriboh was my signature card. It was the first holo I pulled from my first booster so it had a special meaning for me. Also I thought it was very useful and especially in the chaos era it found more uses.

Thought I'd share a true story from the very earliest days of competitive Yugioh. I was at a tournament for money, the location had only started having yugioh tournaments recently (this was WELL before the ban list but after the limited list was out) and I had won the previous two tournaments, including an 80 USD pot, so I was the favorite entering the tournament, but there was a second player that everyone was watching out for entering this one as well. At this point our decks were filled with all the early game staples, raigeki, dark hole, pot of greed, monster reborn, change of heart, La Jinn, and so on. However because of the restricted list everyone had had to scramble to fill in a number of spots in their decks and there was some disagreement at that moment of what the optimal final handful of cards were a deck should be built with (again, during this early era, like 90% of every top players deck was identical so there wasn't a lot of room for personal expression). This fellow favorite to win, whose name I know but I'm just going to refer to as Rival for his privacy, and I had a disagreement before the tournament. He was filling out the 40th card of his deck with Kuriboh, while I was filling it out with Man-Eater Bug. He argued a hand trap was more important, while I argued Kuriboh was always a -1 and that while man-eater had its issues, in that format it was almost always at least a +0, with the potential for a +1 if I got the chance to flip it up on my turn. The tournament takes place and things go as many thought, with me and Rival in the finals. We trade blows, now 1-1 in the best of 3 winner takes all, and the final game is brawl for the ages with lots of same attack monsters ramming into each other and board wipes a plenty. As the match nears its final turn both our hands are empty, I'm at 400 hp, Rival is at 100. He draws and stops and thinks for a moment, asks to check my graveyard, and confirms I'm out of my beat sticks, la jins, whatever the heck else I was running at that point just as a vanilla high attacker, as well as my monster reborn and change of heart, its all in there, then with a giant smile on his face he plays the Kuriboh he just drew into face up attack position and attacks, lowering my life points 100. So we're both now at 100 lp, empty hands. I draw for my turn, then smile back, summoning my Man-Eater Bug withs its 450 attack in face up attack position and attacking Kuriboh for game. My memory is of the rest of the room erupting around us, but this was enough decades ago that might be my brain playing tricks on me. In any case, seeing Kuriboh at the beginning of this video reminded me of that match. I played competitive tournament Yugioh for years after that, but I don't know that I ever had another tournament finale that epic, or perfectly foreshadowed given the disagreement we'd had prior to the tournament.

The "C" in Confronting The "C" is big enough to shift that lampshade. Forget a newspaper, burn the whole house down. Top 10 Best/Worst Cards That Can Miss Timing Top 10 Worst Monsters With Effects That Only Activate When They Destroy A Card By Battle Top 10 Synchro Tuner Monsters Top 10 Best Level/Rank 5 Monsters Top 10 Cards With More Than One Artwork Top 10 Best/Worst Cards That Require A Specific Named Monster On The Field To Activate Top 10 Honorary Archetype Cards

Actually used to use engraver of the mark quite a bit to stop field spells, continuous cards or even just cards my opponent didn't want to leave the field, all without having to waste a MST, and then I could just use it as a material to summon something else. All in all, it was essentially a free effect to pressure my opponent in some way. For that reason, it was sort of useful (in casual play) at the time, but I can see why people don't run it, especially not anymore. Also, even though I don't really play Yugioh anymore, I love watching and listening to your videos while I work and/or do something else. Helps me get through the night. Thank you.

I have some list suggestions of you don't mind: Top 10 stall 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 special conditions in the games. More Rescue Rabbit, please.

"activates during your hand from either player's turn" ~ Duel Logs, 2022

The day that they make a card that allows you and your opponent to search for any card as long as you both have that exact card is the day Engraver sees play.

Ghost Sister is actually really good with decks that use life points for triggering efects, like Aromages.

Another Bad Handtrap could be "Charm of Shabti" which is a Handtrap for the Gravekeeper archetype,and its only effect is to be discarded to prevent your Gravekeeper monsters from being destroyed in battle, but it is still a card with many problems, the first is the fact that due to its name it does not fit the archetype the same as Gadget Driver, so neither it can't even be searched by its archetype with cards like Gravekeeper's Supernaturalist or Gravekeeper's recruiter, then there's the fact of going -1 to only avoid battle destruction monsters that generally have low attack is ridiculous, if in addition to battle protection it had the effect of reducing the damage to 0 on an effect like Waboku or Heroic Champion Swordshield would be a bit better

Ghost Sister is actually pretty good I use her in my Scrap Dino since she is a water monster which helps me when get Adamancipater Dragite on the field. And I may use her in my Agent deck.

I don’t think the psychic or the D/D ones were meant as protection, they’re for triggering effects. The psychic one is for banish psychics to trigger their effects or have a banished monster for their effects, while the D/D one is so you can bounce back a monster that has an effect that activates in the hand or on summon

I'm sure that once this video reaches my sister's recommended list, she will put Ghost Sister in her Aromage deck just to prove it's usefulness lol

Kuriboh is sort of an odd pick since it not only part of an archetype, but is also the center piece of said archetype. What's more is that the deck actually wants to summon it so they can use cards like multiply and detonate. Say what you want about kuriboh, but it has something that other hand traps don't. The ability to be played on the field.

Ghost Sister is a fair spot. I like it in Aromage and Ra decks that are slower.

D/D Galilae is a decent card for it's deck. D/D/D tends to stick with its own archetype, so the exclusivity thing is not an issue. I found that it is good fusion fodder for some of the bigger monsters in the deck, and the recovery effect protects your contracts if you don't have access to a replacement at the time. From a broader perspective it stinks, but in it's deck it is an OK card.

Man, I've been watching so many of your LogsLogs videos lately that I'd forgotten how much more formal you sound in your top 10 vids.

Great vid DuelLogs, I wasn't aware I could do those things with the 'C' cards in Duel links.

This is EXACTLY what I was hoping you were going to cover next. Makes me wonder if you read my mind when deciding to do this video.

dark angel absolutely deserved a spot on this list. dark fairy effect level 5 0/0 atk/def "When your Fairy monster is targeted for an attack: You can Tribute it and send this card from your hand to the GY, then target 1 face-up monster you control; change the attack target to your targeted monster, and if you do, it gains ATK equal to the original ATK of the Tributed monster, until the end of this turn."

Interesting analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

I thought time escaper was used to trigger smaller psychic monster effects that activate when theyre banished

0:00 "In yu-gi-oh a hand trap is a card which activated 'during your hand' 'from either players turn'" homie had me thinking I was having a stroke for a second

It’s odd seeing you include Ghost Sister when she’s appeared in your “best of” lists before

good video, i liked thje picks on this one.

Got an idea for a new series : How does it work? Explaining the most difficult cards to understand , like reasoning ... Great video as always btw

Ghost sister & spooky dogwood is also on the list of top 10 most powerful life gain cards, as number 2 as a matter of fact. This speaks to how powerful hand traps in this game, but moreso it speaks to how bad life point gain cards are

This video only adds to my hopes that you'll do Top 10 Targets for Engraver of the Mark because I'm curious what kind of cards it's actually useful against

I like contact C, since it really has a good surprise effect, and is annoying to deal with. Galilei is really bad, I have delved into DDD, they are really hard to play.

I use ghost sister with aromage deck to help activate my effects even better

New editor for this video? Seems like a different style. Great video as always. Maybe on the theduellogs duel logs channel own by the theduellogs we could see a gimmick deck based around some of these cards.

I have to add for DD Savant Kepler Galilei, because I always think he is underrated - Yeah its effect isn't the most insane but if you're playing a fully pure DDD deck it can fill a VERY specific hole in brickier hands - that's that it goes to the graveyard for almost free. In hands that are mostly if not all pendulum monsters I think it's awesome to have a monster that guarantees a graveyard fuel for stuff like Necro Slime or anything that revives from the GY - instead of how pendulums monsters you'd use for material on the field end up going to the extra deck FU. That plus it being high level (allowing you to use it as material for high Genghis) makes it such a handy tech card for pure D/Ds.

I liked the first Archfiend cards themeing, they were chess related in cardname and art, but sadly they did barely anything to translate those themes due to their time of origin, except for rook and pawn, where rook actualy did the castle strategy to save the king... even if a bit late, and pawn being the you can't attack any other archfiend monster meatshield.

8: I personally would run it in a Senet deck just because it can also be a decent body if I need it. 6: Was basically made to work with Starry, but most use that as a Rank 4 deck from what I’ve seen with the boss monster just there just in case. 4: You’re mainly supposed to use it with Psychic monsters who have a benefit when they get banished, but that’s not a lot honestly. 1: I like the chess motif, but even I wouldn’t run Desrook in a deck where I am playing Terrorking. I just don’t need it, even to summon him since I am playing intentionally junk pendulum decks.

I used to run 1 copy of dogwood. Its prettty useful against 5 material rodno since usually you can gain enough hp to survive 2+ turns against their decks

Actually The grand radiance is really good in Starry Knight decks since it's a level 7 light monster and well it helps quite well with its banishing if you can lock then out of gaining cards in their hand

One little note for the number 10 spot: Kuriboh can also be a better option than sphere k. And Rainbow K. in the eventuality the opponent controls a monster that is immune to card effects. Example: If my opponent has the Geomathmech Boss monster in the extra monster zone, wich makes it immune to any effect whatsoever (except Mathmech effects) then Rainbow K. cannot equip itself to it, and Sphere cannot switch its battle position. Kuriboh instead nullifies the damage, has nothing to do with the monster, so OG Kuriboh can still be very useful in this types of instances

Say, how about a top 10 list of “Yu-gi-oh cards with obscure video game references”? And I’m not counting the obvious ones like Gradius or Goemon, I mean the super obscure ones like Zone Eater being a reference to a Final Fantasy VI monster of the same name.

Putting galili at 2 is definitely not giving enough credit to it and the archetype. If you want to use it to protect your contracts, the 1000 damage isn’t the issue, it’s you can use it to dodge removal. It’s also a lot better when you return non extra deck monsters, and hutch d/ds actually have a lot of good one that work very well with this. The reason why D/Ds are as good as they are is the are a very modular archetype. They can recover from and loop in so many different ways. You can compare galili and Newton in this way. Both allow you to recover cards to your hand, but from different places. Not to mention that discarding them puts them in the grave rather than the extra deck which is also better. Basically D/Ds can do so much that potentially more niche or obscure effects are better than normal because they can be taken advantage of. Example is D/Ds can 100% renewably loop dark contract with the witch after using its destruction effect on both yours and your opponents turn. They can also loop nikola’s Atk/def boost effect every turn as well. Both of these are due to weird interactions of effects that would typically not be considered standard level of good.

New duel logs top ten list, breakfast is gonna have to wait.

I use DD Savant Galilei in my DDD deck, but not for the reasons listed…usually. It can save you from taking damage, but the real reason it’s helpful is to pull DD Savant Kepler back to the hand if its effect is chained with Infinite Impermanence, Effect Veiler, etc.

Top 10 cards that are great against modern decks but bad against old decks is an interesting video concept.

Time Escaper has a better purpose than you stated. Several Psychics proct when banished or when special summoned after being banished. so it might be able to function as an extender in some niche plays.

If you're running a stall deck, ghost sister isn't half bad especially if you gain a massive amount of lp with it. Funny enough, I've had a decent amount of opponents that would actually stop their combos once I used it so I'm actually thinking of putting it in my main combo deck. While the theory of why it's bad may be true, it could actually be very different in practice. Will be testing it out for sure

Time Escaper might be a very bad card but it made sense in the era when it was released (Extreme Victory) since there was an attempt at a “Remove from Play Psychic” archetype where this both got you a psychic RFP’d and help it dodge the removal of that era (when mirror force was limited to 1). I don’t recall if it was super good but I recall it being ok and maybe a 1-2 of in a few casual decks back in middle school. It was certainly better in the power level of its day than now.

but cool fact with spooky dog wood is any ftk which special monster a lot this card counter and just this card existing make cards like that pointless too do

RU-vid is treating this video as duel links even though we didn't really have a solid "...but in duel links" moment

Wow i just got this reference after all these years. The combo for the Archfiends, with the Rook and the King, is like the castle move in chess. Ahh old school archfiends, all flavor, very little function, haha!

I understand absolutely nothing of these videos, but I used to really like yugioh when I was a kid and I like seeing the funny pictures/monsters lol

3:00 card advanta- 12:08 very awkward fo- 20:19 battle with i- 15:27 essentially acting as an easier to access relinqui-

D/D Savant Galili really shouldn't be on here considering that it can bounce back your scales as well. Considering that D/D/D have a monster that allows them to set scales from the deck you can easily pull off some fun strategies with that. Also side note I like how a lot of D/D/D cards lock you into playing D/D/D. I wish more decks would do that. Playing pure D/D/D is so much fun because there's so many routes you can take.

Time escaper can be used on the cyber stein psychic otk deck very well over all though love the videos

I have a fun utility for Ghost Sister. I use it in Evil Eye and utilise it’s ability to manipulate LP in the way I need it to. Activate it during my opponent’s turn to gain more LP to give Evil Eye’s more attack under Selene, or use it on my turn and purposely half my LP to gain much more attack with Gorgonne, which pairs well as a surprise retaliation with Hidden Armoury. It’s not the best strategy, but it’s a fun one for me nevertheless.

A DnDLogs and a DuelLogs video on the same day? Gotta love that

I would love to see a top 10 best/worst insect cards. Just to see if that type has its uses?

I've only been subbed for a little while, but I did searches and couldn't seem to find anything like this from you before. Could there be a 10 most middling archetypes? Just because I'm curious what battery man or arch fiend or gem knight decks were actually doing in the field at large. Those are just three examples of ones archetypes I enjoyed a lot, and I feel like they rarely see mention outside of the one or two (if they have them) omni-useful monsters to other decks that aren't of that archetype

I was almost expecting Ursarctics to make an appearence on here. As much as I love the bears the world's slowest and most costly Book of Moon or D.D. Crow are not all that strong.

I'm not sure if you have done this, or if the information is even researchable, but I think "Top 10 Most Sold Cards" would be pretty neat, showing which cards are the most popular

Worth noting about Confronting the "C" is that it's not disruption so much as it's going-second extension, or at least, it's a 2500 wall to defend with (even if it would be better if it did that during the battle phase). It's very similar to another card, Naturia Cosmobeet, which did used to see play for being a free level 2 (Earth Plant) Tuner if your opponent normal summons or sets a monster. This card, released 3 years after Cosmobeet, seems more like it's being a level 5 body, and given when it was released, the demi-targeting protection was actually, on paper, useful for making it survive to your first turn, being immune to Blaster, Big Eye, Scrap Dragon, and Dracossack. Further, level 5 wasn't a bad level to be at - a lot of powerful cards exist at Rank 5, and it makes synchroing to 7 and higher really easy too. But Spell Books also existed at the same time, and the game was also shifting more to non-targeting removal as well as removal becoming more and more common as S/T cards/effects rather than monster.

In goat format, chess archfiends are a fun jank deck. Against goat control there is more than enough time to search out the field spell. Terrorking can be cheated out with marauding captain and can negate effects of flips and sinister serpent. Desrook also procs surprisingly often in a format with tribe, torrential, mirror force,sakuretsu armor, etc. The targeting protection also helps with bls, thousand eyes and snatch steal. Since a lot of the destruction effects are battle traps as well, it can waste an opponents resource and just come back to attack again

I know you've done a list of cards that had stronger effects in the anime than they do in the OCG/TCG, But have you done a list of rarely used cards that would probably see more play if they had their anime effects?

Never heard of contact c until now. Will see if running 1 in my deck would be helpful

Nice Video topic today

I never realized till rightt now that Des Rook's effect is a reference to castling. I knew the Archfiends were based on chess pieces, but I didn't realize that little bit. Pretty cool even if it's garbage lol.

Ghost Sister is actually outstandinh against combo decks that special summon multiple high ATK monsters. It leaves the opponent dead in their tracks.

Savant Galilei can bounce back a scale placed by Gilgamesh, plus it goes to grave so it can be used to fuse and stuff. I know I'm reaching, but I don't think it deserves to be that high on this list

fun fact : you can ss confronting the "c" then use bahalutiya effect to tribute the confronting the "c" if they added a card on which maybe a search after the extra deck monster can search out a card then use droll & lock bird after they added the card so what would happen is chain droll on the search as c2 to bataluhiya or vice versa if you're making a meme or handtrap deck

Damn, four uploads today, you must be keeping your editor busy! haha.

Funny enough Bahalutiya, the Grand Radiance would be pretty good in Starry Knight since that deck is guild to summon and bounce lvl 7 light dragons..... I feel like there is a way to make it so you can empty your opponent's hand and lock them out of adding the banished cards to there hand.

Noticed some changes in the editing style of this video, is this a new editor? Some of the audio cuts were very tight but I liked the use of the die at the time a die roll was mentioned.

this will be perfect for my handtrap deck

Honestly had no idea Grand Radiance was a card, wonder if it'll be any good in Tearalements, since it seems like they're pretty capable of setting themselves up during the opponent's turn

Damn nice to see that Time Escaper can protect Edward Elric.

I do have an idea for a Master Duel video that might be interesting: Top 10 best/worst cards in the legacy packs

You have a top 10 list for both best synchro and fusion monsters, any plans for a xyz one ?

Top10 cards not banned in MasterDuel that have made no impact. Would be interesting to know if there's that kind of stuff floating around

I love Spooky Sister, I use her in my Winged Dragon of Ra deck and using her usually lets my Ra win when I summon him. 😂

Desrook can be used specifically on King because it's a callback for the "Castling" move in chess

Ghost sister is a underrated tech for playing against swordsoul or prank kids in game 3 if your going 2nd. Both decks have native burn and it keeps you from losing in time.

It was great to see an old card like Terrorking Archfiend on here being the worst in the list! Here's hoping Top/Bottom 10 Cards From Legend of Blue Eyes If Used Today makes it!

So with Confronting the C I used to run it in my fun gimmick Giant ball park deck because I use the card Insect Imitation. It lets me special summon an insect monster 1 level higher than the monster i tributed (doesn’t have to be an insect monster tributes) to try and special summon Scary moth which limits special summons to 1 per turn. I never got it to work mostly cause insect imitation is a normal spell, funny enough with the deck it was easier to tribute summon it most of the time than try and pull off that combo. But it’s something interesting to do with it. And that’s about it lmao

I use ghost sister in my RA deck. When I summon ra and use it's ability to try and kill my opponent quickly, it's a good option if ra fails and I need to reset my life points. And I always activate it if my opponent uses a card that forcefully special summons a monster. So there's no downside when I use it. Like if they activate an effect in hand that allows a special summon, I'll chain ghost sister and gain life points immediately so my LP isn't halved.

#10 Seto kaiba: YOU MOCK ME?!!?? HOW DARE U MOCK THE POWER OF MY EGYPTIAN GOD WITH THAT PUFFBALL

Engraver is great against X-out designator. It’s always funny resolving it against that card…but it’s really not worth it to run.

Another point in Kuriboh's favor is that it's searchable, with the flute, but by then you might as well use Winged Kuriboh

I have won so many games thanks to Ghost Sister due to time. I always chain it to an effect that special summons a monster so I can get some guaranteed life points.

I hope puppet plant is on the list. It’s actually a really good csrd but with just way to specific types to be widely applicable

Top ten best XYZ monsters that can be summoned using another XYZ monster as material

Look duel logs, what you gotta do is activate confronting the "c" going second to get a monster on the field and then when they try to search you hit them with the grand radiance

The one upside base kuriboh has over rainbow and sphere is base can be used against monsters that are unaffected by card effects

Back in the day,I used to run 3 Kuribohs as a Dark Necrofear fodder.

The most useful situation I can see with Confronting The "C" is when your opponent uses cards like I.P. Masquerena or Formula Synchron on your turn to get immediate benefits from it. Needless to say, that's awfully niche and I'm certain pretty out of style.