Insect queen was always one of the dumber early cards to me cause in a limited format all you can really do is just wait around until you can attack on your next turn whereas an opponent van get out a blue eyes or dark magician that can easily attack over it unless the field is flooded with insects
Insect queen's unnecessarily high rarity back then made pretty much everyone ended up pulling it in packs(e.g. Beginners Edition 2) which lead them trying to somehow _use_ it. I recall nobody who carried THAT out successfully.
@@soukenmarufwt5224 I like that the anime hypes terrible cards. Because it would be boring just seeing the meta cards from real life in the anime all the time.
I remember over a decade ago, my brother and i misread the effect text thinking that Insect Queen could tribute any monster on the field, including the opponent's, and incorrectly assumed that it was super overpowered. Hoo boy was it a wakeup call when we found out how wrong we were.
Fun fact about Insect Queen in the manga: Unlike in the anime, Joey never bothers to use her like he does with Jinzo (whose ability was always useful) or Legendary Fisherman (who in the manga was a four star monster and easier to bring out).
The thing i always found weird about insect queen was they talk about it's eggs hatching in the anime. Both Weevil and Joey suggest those eggs can give birth to a new monster but there's no card to suggest it.
Like, can you imagine if there was a Continuous Spell that, if an Insect Egg Token survived your opponent's turn, turned it into an Insect Soldier Token that had a similar ATK gain effect as Insect Queen for your entire field? Like, _During your Standby Phase, you can Tribute any number of "Insect Egg Tokens": Special Summon the same number of "Insect Soldier Tokens" (EARTH / Insect / Level 4 / 1200 / 1000) that have the following effect. •All Insect monsters you control gain 100 ATK for every Insect monster on the field._ If the Spell doubles as an Insect-locked DNA Surgery clone, it also makes the "Weevil vs. Joey" strat more consistent. For the curious, assuming the maximum number of these Tokens, and Insect Queen herself, loading up 5 of your Main Monster Zones, all 4 Tokens would be 3200 ATK, and the Queen would reach 5700 ATK. This is without accounting for the Extra Monster Zones, or your opponent's board.
In the manga they hatch after being summoned, 1200 atk 0 def. it also didn't have the tribute to attack effect, darn shame how much they butchered some cards in the org/tcg.
Late Tag Force games's early game NPCs actually have quite effective or deadly strategies to deal with unprepared decks - unless you're going with easy mode.
@@realpatriot1769 i tested it, it does really good at making a llteral invincible queen, in gimmick banlist like master duel legend anthology events i can tell they are pretty cracked
Speaking of White Night Queen: I'm really annoyed that they still haven't made an actual White Night archetype. Like White Night Dragon is pretty decent and I like the whole ice aesthetic.
I swear if Wall Shadow had Shadow Ghoul's effect of gaining 100 attack for every monster in your GY along with switching to defense position after every attack, it would have been much better for such an early boss monster, in fact idk why it doesn't have Shadow Ghoul's attack gain effect when Wall Shadow literally is Shadow Ghoul but traversing through the walls of the magical labyrinth
I still love the original Shadow Ghoul because it got me my most clutch win ever in the old GBA Eternal Duelist Soul game. My opponent had 3000 LP and a monster out, while I had nothing in my hand, 100 LP left, and just one card left in my deck. I drew it and it happened to be Monster Reborn, which I used to revive Shadow Ghoul with 4600 ATK, and attacked over his monster for game.
Fushioh Richie is a fun target for „A wild monster appears“ as its flipping mechanic allows it to bypass the downside of said spell card and thus it remains on the field. I would argue that this makes it much better than the majority of the cards on this top 10 list, since it can fit easily into a deck that has numerous targets for „a wild monster appears“ and most of the other 9 monsters have worse effects and stats or require more gimmicks to bring them out alternatively.
I love Fushioh Richie despite how bad of a card it is. I really like the flavor of a wizard doing a thing in order to become a lich is a cool concept. I could see retrains of the two like make Fushioh Richie an extra deck card and the summon condition be something that is actually achievable in the modern game. IDK maybe its just that it reminds me of the flip mechanics in MTG cards transforming under the right conditions is cool.
Soltite feels like it's one cheat out option from being incredibly good. Just a way to bring it out during a combo, and bam, some really good free monster protection.
4:08 Retrain idea for this card to make it easier to summon AND turn it’s “Cannot be Special Summoned” bit into an advantage: _White Knight Queen_ (LIGHT) Level 7 Fairy/Effect _Cannot be Special Summoned. You can Tribute Summon this card by Tributing 1 Facedown monster from either player’s field. If this card is Normal or Flip Summoned, you can take 1 Monster that cannot be Special Summoned (From your Hand, Deck, or GY): Add it to your hand, Shuffle it into your deck, or Send it to your GY. Once per turn (Quick Effect), You can target 1 Facedown card on the field: Destroy that target, and if you do, apply 1 of the following effects._ _⚪️This card can make an additional attack in a row per battle phase during the next turn declares an attack._ _⚪️Draw 1 card._ ATK/2100 DEF/800
@@a1rg3ar31 I know I know, but A: I’m not sure if 10 retrain ideas would even _fit_ in a single comment, B: If they DID a lot of the response comments would probably be like “Ah HELL NAH I AIN’T READING ALL THAT!”, and C: The one comment would probably just get lost in the sea of the videos others. Even if I put them as replies to the first one of these I made people would only read the first comment.
Worm Victory is one of those cards which really annoy me because they describe a concept not associated with the card art itself. It’s like how Mammoth Graveyard isn’t a Graveyard and how Ice Water isn’t Water.
It does the "V" for victory though and it's effect was intended as a win condition. Flip it to clear the opponent's board and attack with high ATK gained through Worms in GY to win. Also all Worms have a different letter of the alphabet as the first letter of their name. Apocalypse, Barses, Cartaros, Dimikles, Erokin, Falco, etc. so V for Victory was just too good not to use as a name.
@@smicklou3297 My favorite card in all of Yugioh is Exodius the Ultimate Forbidden Lord. Duel Logs finally talking about it would be a dream come true.
@@agustin12689 There's a Dzeff video about the Exodia retrains which is pretty good, although it's a few years old by now so doesn't include the newest Exodia support.
(9:01) Metalizing Parasite - Soltite isn't a retrain of Lunatite they're just a small series and technically Metalmorph cards (per their Japanese name) which actually makes sense since they're "Metalizing" a monster just like Metalmorph does (they're basically a metal version of Venom). Lunatite is the living version of Rare Metalmorph (gives spell protection) and the new Enhanced Metalmorph (released last month in JP) gives the monster the protection from both Soltite and Lunatite.
I use to use the og metalizing parasite in my water deck Mother Grizzly > MP > legendary ocean > Terrorking Salmon. It was either used for tribute fodder, or to protect my larger cards like fissure, hammer shot etc.
I actually kind of liked Insect Queen, i just liked how gross it was in the anime. It eats monsters tributed rather then them just being destroyed, it lays eggs in a way that make it look like it's taking a dump and the monsters it destroys turn into goop
I loved the design of *Humanoid Worm Drake* so much, I tried my best to build a deck around it hehe always lost but it felt like an accomplishment every time I managed to summon it.
I put Humanoid Worm Drake in my Ra deck as fodder and I’ve been going down this rabbit hole about slime cards lol. I’m just happy to see one of my favorite YuGiTubers speak on it. They need to retrain Slime cards and make it an archetype immediately. It would have so much potential in this current state of the game. Something refreshing in having an OG monster rather than some random hentai girl as artwork with overpowered effects.
6:11 Idea to retrain this card to make the “Victory” part more apt: _Worm Victory - Violence_ (LIGHT) Level 7 Reptile/Flip/Effect _FLIP: Destroy all Face-up Monsters on the field, except “Worm” monsters._ _Can be Normal Summoned/Set by tributing 1 Reptile monster. ”Worm” monsters you control gain 500 ATK/DEF, and can make additional attacks per battle phase, for each Reptile monster in your GY. If a “Worm” monster you control attacks a defense position monster, inflict piercing battle damage. If a “Worm” monster you control destroys an opponent’s monster by battle, or directly attacks your opponent: You can Normal Set or Special Summon facedown 1 “Worm” monster from your hand or deck._ ATK/0 DEF/2500
No mention of Jeff Leonard using Flare Neos in his Exodia deck? In that deck, Flare Neos is not only a Warrior-type that you can Instant Contact to churn out to make Isolde with, but it being FIRE also allows Renaud to SS itself from hand for the crucial two Warrior-types material to start the combo
I remember playing in a progression series server that started from the very first set. Once in a while, we would do a no-banlist tournament and the first one was on the release of IOC. Everyone did Chaos or Scientist shenanigans, but I went the route of stun, and funny enough Metallizing Parasite Lunatite was a key part of the combo. Send a monster from the field to GY (Nuvia the Wicked or Boar Soldier), activate Last Will to get Parasite, Metamorph into Last Warrior, profit.
If anything the only card that will see potential meta play is the new Light one as a generic extender for many decks to insulate combos vs Nibiru. New support doesnt help much for the actual deck.
Kinda surprised that Regenerating Rose didn't get a Yubel Retrain like with Grave Squirmer, Samsara Lotus, and Grinder Golem. Like, let it float on any destruction into letting you add a Yubel or a card that mentions it to your hand. And knock that defense down to 0 while we're at it.
@@il3fortunato664our lord and savior is making his triumphant return. Poseidra just had to get a retrain in response to what the Fire Kings (the Atlanteans’ biggest rivals) got
This is just me messing about with random decks but I've found that if you play around summoning Worm Zero with future fusion (as unlikely as it is to pull off), Worm Victory comes out as an even bigger beat stick than worm Zero itself, it becomes a sort of plan B if you can get it out of the GY if you used it as fusion material.
12:25 Idea to retrain this card by making it so it can Special Summon itself from your GY or Banishment by tributing the tokens it summons: _Resurrection Rose_ (DARK) Level 7 Plant/Effect _You can Special Summon this card (From your GY or Banishment) by tributing 2 Plant monsters you control. once per turn (Quick Effect), you can tribute any number of cards from your hand and/or field: Special Summon 1 Plant monster from your GY or Banishment who’s Level equals the number of tributes. If this card leaves the field and is Banished or Sent to the GY, You can Special Summon 1 or 2 “Resurrection Rose Tokens (Plant/DARK/Level 3/ATK 1200/DEF 1200)_ ATK/0 DEF/1500
I always liked insect queen, but really hate what they did to her. I wish they made some kind of strategy around her, like giving her a tree born frog who restricts it's after she it's it. Or a field spell that gives you buffs for the tokens. Also my man worm Drake making it to finals! First ever fusion monster I tried to summon
The silliest part of Fushioh Richie is that it mentions unnecessary details on its summoning condition instead of just saying "must be Special Summoned by the effect of Great Dezard".
Wall shadow could've been good, it's effect just needed a few tweaks: - it can attack using it's 1600 points of atk while being on defense position - if it destroys a monster by battle it can attack again - if it is in your hand when you activate magical labyrinth, it returns itself to the deck and you draw two cards And even with all that extra advantages, it still wouldn't have seen competitive play, it just would've been good for fun, gimmick focused decks.
I love the idea and art of Fushio Richie, being a spellcaster that can turn into a lich. I'd love to see a retrain of Fushioh and Dezard to see what they could do in 2024 with such a concept
14:27 Retrain idea to make this card to make it easier to summon out and remaking its effects to be more useful: _Insect Empress_ (EARTH) Level 7 _Insect/Tuner/Effect_ _You can Tribute Summon this card by Tributing 1 monster. You can special summon this card (From your Hand or GY) by Tributing 2 Insect monsters. Insect monsters you control gain 200 ATK/DEF for every Insect monster you control. If an Insect monster you control attacks and inflicts battle damage, you can tribute 1 card from your hand or field: That monster can attack again in a row. Once per turn, during the End Phase: Special Summon 1 “"Insect Monster Token" (Insect/EARTH/Level 1/ATK 100/DEF 100)._ ATK/2200 DEF/2400
Humanoid Worm Drake should get a modern Retrain to Egyptian God Archetypes; like how God Slime turned into the 3 Sacrifices. While we continue talking about slime, Konami should finally print Mad Dog's (GX) Slime cards. Imagine a Egyptian God Deck with a Hand destruction x Burn Deck. This would definitely bring the God's to a Higher Tier in the current Meta. Edit: The Burn Strategy is an Ode to Yami Marik's sadistic play tactics.
He wasn't exactly the best duelist. "My Revival Jam + Jam Defender combo means you can't attack. So now, I activate Nightmare's Steelcage so you can't attack even more than you already couldn't while it also prevents me from attacking, muhahahaha!"
I have a strategy with fusihoh richie that won me a local tournament. You see, i took the card, and i placed it in the garage can, and by filling that spot with a different card, it allowed me to take first place. Would recommend.
The number one spot may be bad but come on man, it’s so cool.😅 when I first saw this card I was like damn this is cool until I read the effect. However, I like how it basically references how a Lich is made and how it’s basically an undead king striving for immortality.
You use Future Fusion on Worm Zero or Snake Rain to get Worm Victorys stats up its one of best ways to clear monsters in a worm deck so to good for this list.
Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth will always be the ace monster I use with Weevil’s deck in duel links. Insect Queen needs a busted skill to even bother with, and I like to use suboptimal decks in the first deck slot in DL to focus on summoning their ace, but Insect Queen can go away
What was messed up about that Waking the dragons flashback is after Weevil & Rex got beat up, a stray dog lifted it's hind leg at them. I think we all know what that implys
9:43 I don't know.... the fact that its minimum a Giant beatstick that you can easily summon from Neos Fusion should at least make it the number 10 of the list 18:34 Bakura has a line with this?
Insect Queen was such a missed opportunity for what could've been a good boss monster. Also, pretty sure that in the Manga, weevil straight up maces the kid with bug spray.
The labyrinth wall episode of the show was my favorite episode, and so I've always been attached to the card. It sucks that it sucks so much. I've always wanted to use it?? EVER?? And I haven't been able to use it ever. :(
A slight correction about Flare Neos: the highest potential attack it can have only by its own effect should be 11300. This due to there being several trap monsters that are still treated as traps when summoned as monsters. So if Flare Neos is summoned to a ED-zone and all other spaces on the field (except the other ED zone) are filled with Spell/Traps and trap monsters that are still treated as traps, then his attack is: (24x400)+2500=11300 I hope this inspires someone to make a Flare Neos OTK
Well, at least Worm Victory is searchable by W Nebula Meteorite. I guess it could work with a Future Fusion Worm OTK. Where you throw all worms from your deck to the GY for Worm Zero and then Nebula Meteorite Victory to attack.
Nice video, but I don't think "Humanoid Worm Drake" should have been on the list. Everyone can agree that Normal Fusion monsters (of any level) are completely terrible and a complete waste of resources (except in some niche strats), you can literally make an entire list of just Normal Fusion monsters. So, taking a spot is kind of redundant IMO.
16:40 AND in the original manga, it didn't need to sacrifice a monster to attack (though to be fair, neither did Joey's Panther Warrior). It was hinted that the tokens had another effect too, but Weevil never got a chance to use it.
Weird thing about cheating out Humanoid Worm Drake within Phantasm Spiral is that Fists of the Unrivalled Tenyi could also summon, like, Gagagigo the Risen or if you needed a Fusion for whatever reason there's also Aqua Dragon though due to that being a McDonald's Promo with no reprints it's slightly less dirt cheap.
another negative of white night queen it that at the end of her effect say "that target" which means that set card have to be set when her effect resolve.
I'd say you're half wrong about Allure Palace and Golden Allure Queen being currently unreleased since they were released this June in the OCG, but haven't yet in the TCG. In the OCG they got them in Animation Chronicle 2024 which if I recall correctly typically has it's cards imported in the TCG in Battles of Legend sets, I'd say they'll probably get released in the June-August 2025 for the TCG.
I think lord richie deserves an entire deck worth of support and retrains that both make fun of the translation error and really play it up as well. Fave worse card so far i think
