This has nothing to with viability, but I love the artwork! I like how blue eyes ultimate has this relaxed, fluid, pose, like he's so powerful he doesn't even tense up for battle.
@@bluefable3416 Sure. The two cards the original commenter mentioned would probably be more useful. And if you happen to have a fusion monster while it's out, Battle Fusion would be better.
Silamon they will once the newer version also hits the board as a alternate win-con. The new one is so good that now slightly altering your deck for him helps the other versions (not the OG) become playable.
No one plays Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon because everyone's too busy playing Dragon Master Knight in their Sky Scourge Chaos MAX Fluffalgeists Turbo Beatdown decks
And apparently Kaiba also owns the Dragon Master Knight Fusion of Black Luster Solider & Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, even though he doesn't own Black Luster soldier but does own one of those fusion substitute monsters.
“Hey, Pegasus why are we printing support for a card only one guy has?” “He’s stinking rich, how else am I going to afford to pay off the debt from building duelist kingdom island?”
oh my god you utter FOOL how do you not realize that blue eyes ultimate dragon is BROKEN?! i always beat my little brother who still puts fusion monsters in the main deck, if its bad how could i get a 100% winrate out of 2 games against him hmmm?
@@xolotltolox7626 THANK YOU ugh its so hard to find any intellectuals that have inteligence that matches my own i am truly happy that people like you exist
@@Swagg0t oh no my intellect is far too huge for a show made for simpleton brutes like rick and morty, if i were to watch that show i think it could damage my extremely high iq .
What might have been interesting (had it been this way back in 2005/2006) is if Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon had a protection effect that was based off the effect it had in Season 1 of the anime. The effect would be that it could prevent its destruction from battle twice while on the field (like an Xyz detaching material effect). I don't think that would have made it much more competitively viable, but it doesn't break the card and might have actually caused it to see some play
It's too hard to summon and doesn't have enough protection to stay longer on the field and do something. Just like Volcanic Doomfire. Day 73 of waiting for new Volcanic support
GeneralVan You need it to summon Dragon Master Knight who has 500 more Attack and can gain more Attack through its effect. Definitely great for a Dragon Master Knight Turbo Deck.
Remember that in his rival ace cards video he mentioned Blue Eyes strategy being stronger than Dark Magician. From this I can extrapolate that Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon is the best card ever printed, which contradcits this video, therefore everything dzeeff has ever said is the opposite of true. So, I'm going to go buy as many copies of Sparks, Jar of Greed, God cards etc. as I can. Check and mate.
I'm surprised you mentioned Blue-Eyes Alternative Ultimate Dragon without mentioning the prior retrain Neo Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon. I'm curious about your thoughts on THAT card.
My deck is PURE Blue-Eyes. I use Neo Blue Eyes Ultimate and Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon. If you use the right cards then you can get them out VERY easily and in multiples.
Because it's not a particularly great advancement on the original. It's better now that dark matter is banned but without a fusion spell for blue eyes it has pretty much the same problem as the vanilla verison.
It’s worth mentioning that it already has a better counterpart in “Neo Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon.” If you control no other face-up cards, it can attack your opponent up to three times per turn by sending blue-eyes fusion monsters from your extra deck to the graveyard. It then gives protection to your blue-eyes monsters if it’s in the graveyard. By banishing it, you get to negate and destroy cards that target your blue-eyes monster. It may not be the most competitive card, but it’s far superior to the regular Ultimate Dragon.
It seems people forgot about a certain spell card called megamorph which doubles your monsters attack power as long as you have less health than your opponent combine that with cyber Stein and your blue eyes ultimate now has 9000 attack
With BEUD, Twin Burst, Neo BEUD, and the new Blue-Eyes Alternative Ultimate Dragon, it is absolutely criminal that there is no Blue-Eyes Fusion. Red-Eyes has one, DM has Timaes and Keeper, HERO's have like 15, and basically every deck from Ancient Gears to Shaddols, to Metalfoes, to Infernoids, to pretty much everything! Blue-Eyes is basically the mascot and definitely coolest monster in the whole game to this date. How fucking sad konami... And no, Dragon's Mirror doesn't count...it's not even searchable by Predaplants.
Back in old days Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon had only 2 uses: fusion material for Ultimate Dragon Knight which was very difficult to summon, and summon the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon. Now I can just use retains like Neo Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon for OTK and Blue-Eyes Alternative Ultimate Dragon for board clearing.
@@osiris9128 that's why i said there's no real point in doing it in competitive play. For casual play, it could be a lot of fun and you could even essily go for a blue eyes shining dragon. Just don't expect winning much lol. There are a ton of options to get the searches and draw power you need.
@@osiris9128 You can use Dragon's mirror to banish those cards from the GY to summon Blue eyes Ultimate dragon but there's no point. There's other ways of summoning him, you don't have to waste 4 cards to summon it.
As a big fan of the BEUD, I appreciate your perspective. Im not really one who does a lot of competitive Yu-Gi-Oh, but these vids do open my mind. I do love this card, but you do make good points on its competitive use. Thank you.
Good old Ultimate Dragon... Back in middle/high school, playing with friends I would sometimes get lucky and OTK them with this card. Cyber Stein -> BEUD -> Megamorph. Pretty fun when everyone who's playing is terrible at the game/has no idea about any "meta".
I miss the good ol days of Yu-Gi-Oh. The beginning days of this game brings back memories of actually card packs that you waited for. I remember when Invasion of Chaos came out, and then the game changed. Invasion Of Chaos was a pivot point in competitive play.
I was going to mention how BEUD started falling out of favor for stuff like Barbaroid or Shooting Quasar in Nekroz because of Phantom of Chaos, but that seems to have only been a thing at one OTS Championship. Huh, I remember that interaction sticking around longer.
To everyone saying that "no duh it's bad because it's x or x" I don't believe that's the point of these videos. The point of them (in my eyes) is to show why things like this are bad, not to show that BEUD itself is bad. I believe this is mostly for causal or new players that want to learn. Yes it's a vanilla, yes it's just a lot of attack, but they didn't know that and now that they know they can apply it to different cards. Okay well now let's look at the original Black Luster Soldier, well it's a ritual and doesn't provide any useful effects, so the only thing that it's good for is that it's a large body yet if you wanted something that big just go for a regular Blue Eyes that's way easier to summon. Then we can take it farther. Well while I want to summon a big monster it'll take the same amount of cards as my opponent will use to Dark Hole them and then summon a few lower attack monsters with useful effects to swarm the field and then go into even bigger monsters. I suppose to summarize this ramble, a new player doesn't understand that attack isn't everything and Dzeeff is trying to explain it in a way that they can apply it to other decks and strategies. Edit: Making it easier to read.
This is the most bias "Why nobody summons" even though you can trade 3 and get them back instantly. The real reason nobody runs it is because they can't do a negate lockdown deck to trolls their opponent to surrender first turn
I’ll be honest, I absolutely love Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon and his retrains. I do actually play Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon in my Blue-Eyes Deck, though I do understand why most people wouldn’t play it in a Blue-Eyes deck, Fusions in that deck are a pretty slow outside of maybe Twin Burst. I do bring Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon out sometimes but I usually just choose to bring out Neo Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, though I don’t bring him out too often either, I usually just stick with bringing out Twin Burst, First of the Dragons, my Synchros, or my rank 8 Xyz monsters. Anyway, my point is while lots of people like the card and think it’s awesome, it’s not very competitive and you normally wouldn’t throw it in a Blue-Eyes Deck very often.
Arkyre I do play Neo, I bring him out more often than I do the original Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon. But sometimes I do still bring out Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon just because the card is pretty cool and nostalgic, I also send him off of Neo a lot
If at least this card had the anime effect of being able to attack thrice, it would at least make up for the cost for having 4500 extra total damage on the board. But still, protection basically makes or brakes any big monster.
Not really. Cyber Twin Dragon has zero protection effects and it saw tons of play back in early yugioh. If BEWD could attack thrice, that'd have probably been the best choice for Stein OTK decks. What makes or breaks big boss monsters boils down to two questions: How difficult is it to get on the field consistent, and how useful is it's effect once it's there? Protection effects are nice and all, but not very useful if the card does little else. The better effects are things like generic removal (especially if it's non-targeting), negation effects, or some kind of lockdown effects.
I really wish blue eyes ultimate would have been printed in the early days of yugioh. I know it wouldn’t of seen much play, but it would of been interesting to see how people would of tried to use it.
Cyber Stein OTK was fun though. Summon Cyber Stein, pay 5000LP, equip Ultimate Dragon with megamorph, punch enemy super hard. Super bricky, but a ton of fun if it went off.
I was so proud when I discovered this trick. I used to beat up Mokuba all the time in Yu-Gi-Oh! stairway to the destined soul. There he only plays all of his monsters in attack position. A fun detail that if you keep on beating Mokuba, he will eventually get his brother to fight you instead :P
@@HunterStiles651 Hey, just speaking from experience, I played upwards of 750 games with that deck in Eternal Duelist Soul for the GBA, it bricked about 500 of them. Still enough to kill Tristan, but the AI was really REALLY dumb. If you played a card in Defense mode they HAD to summon a card in Atk and hit it. Super abusable. This OTK was the fastest way to win 10+ matches against each character, but if they so much as flipped Sakuretsu armor you just lost.
@@alvaromarjalizo5904 oh i got 3 mystical tyyphoons, giant trunade, that hurricane thing and 2 axe of despairs with 2 more malevolent nuzzlers 1 shot ezpk gg pwned 7900 blue eyes and cyberstein ATTACK!
I've been playing Yu-Gi-Oh for nearly 16 years now and I've never used Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon in any decks I build but I still think it's a really powerful card😎👍
i was a little disappoint that you mentioned shining, but didnt talk about it. blue eyes ultimate might as well be an extra deck ritual card that says sack 3 blue eyes, bring out shining from your hand. shining has enough base attack to be worth it, plus he buffs for every dragon in the graveyard which justifies ultimates cost a little bit. and hes got wicked protection effects. shining also discourages cheezing ultimate to the field cuz then you get less attack power.
The blue eyes deck has now really gotten a huge boost since you can go with blue eyes ultimate dragon or go with neo version of it and the alternative blue eyes their are a lot of new cards for a blue eyes deck I can say I have a little over 22 different decks and one deck has neo blue eyes ultimate dragon so I even twin burst so the decks for blue eyes are changing now as well.
the way Konami came up with Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon's Attack is by dividing the atk of vanilla Blue-Eyes by 2 and then multiplying that value by the total amount of dragons, which is 3. and so 4500 atk same goes for the defense stat but they round the value to 3800 because you get 3750 when using the formula. as for the fact that it's level 12, is also the same idea since vanilla blue eyes is level 8. divide by 2 equals 4. times 3 is 12. and so a level 12 monster
I run a deck with both Ultimate Dragon AND Five Headed Dragon. I can easily bring out more White Dragons because i also run Cosmo Brain, White Stone of Legend and Mausoleum of White (which i often team up with Silver's Cry, Birthright or Azure Eyes Silver Dragon). Once i fusion summon Ultimate Dragon with Polymerization, i ALSO bring out 5 Headed Dragon right away with Dragon's Mirror
