Yu-Gi-Oh! Ace Monsters: Broken or Terrible? 

I just wanna say... Whoever did the picture at the beginning has a VERY good technical understanding of hands. To make a picture comprised of only that, but put each hand in a totally different pose, doing the same thing, at the same perspective, *and* convey the different personalities of each character they belong to is pretty impressive.

We should have the antagonist ace cards next.

Dark Magician is the best (Obviously) because it has 100 more DEF than the others.

Summoned Skull had the same Attack as Dark Magician, but only took a single tribute.

Shoutout to Stardust Dragon for standing the test of time

My Ace card is Pot of Greed. coz you see, when I play this card, I get to draw two (2) more cards.

But you're mistaken, Atem's ace monster is clearly Kuribo, not Dark Magician.

Who else as a kid wanted cards that looked like the ones in the anime with almost no card information except attack and defense and an enormous graphic that took up the entire top of the card?

Yuya's ace isn't odd eyes, it's the action spell cards.

I would love both a rival ace monster video, as well as a side character ace monster (stuff like red-eyes and blackwings)

From a 2018 standpoint (my opinion, of course): *Dark Magician* - terrible as a standalone card, but has a decent deck built around it *E-HERO Neos* - also terrible as a standalone card, and unlike Dark Magician, any deck built around him is generally NOT that good *Stardust Dragon* - quite good as a standalone card, and you don't need a deck built around it either *Number 39: Utopia* - decent as a standalone card. Though you don't really need a deck built around it, it's best used as part of a game-changing combo with Utopia Lightning. *Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon* - decent as a standalone card, and has a decent deck built around it *Firewall Dragon* - This shit's just unfair. Need I say more?

Firewall Dragons plot armor is still protecting him from being banned...

Farfa is a pretty damn good ace monster imo.

I think even people that never played Yugioh! competitvely know that Dark Magician was always bad

Doug’s ace monster is chaos max

Dark Magician: Trash Neos: Garbage, but at least we got some good support in Savage Strike, I guess Stardust Dragon: Really good, a bit powercrept tho Utopia: Not the worst, but pretty bad rank 4 despite the utility Odd-Eyes: Good pendulum effect but slow, rank 7 material. If only Galaxy Tomahawk wasn't banned... Firewall: Card's BANNED, so yeah, it's gotta be pretty good

Dark Magician is at best an underdog. See guys, it makes sense in the anime! Yugi was an underdog until he got better cards and won mainly by plot arm- heart of the cards

“Thicc plot armor”😂

*_Obviously the best Ace card was Mushroom Man. His attack with Poison Spores gives you an Automatic Win. If the enemy tries to use Exodia, Exodia gets obliterated by Mushroom Man. Really, this card is so OP._*

I've noticed that every main character in Yu-Gi-Oh main monster card attack is 2500 ATK......

I think it would be cool to review the antagonists' ace monsters.

Shapesnatch is the best ace monster

Judging from your streams, Tyranno is your ace monster.

Yea I wanna see the antagonist's monsters. Along with potentially the main side characters (Joey, Crow, Akiza, Syrus, Blue Angel, the other "Yu" boys from Arc V, etc.)

Dark magician topped a few regionals before. I'd probably say tier 2 at best. But not as bad as you make the deck seem.

That was really interesting. I hope to see more of those discussions. So I guess rival ace monsters would be cool to see even though for some such as GX and arc V, its hard to tell what is really their ace.

Spheal is the best ace monster

That picture with pro and antagonists whose that last one holding odd-eyes pendulum dragon? That can't be yuya,cause he isn't holding an action card

So can we get a video on Why Nobody Plays the Earthbound Immortals? Because while I know why, we have videos on the god cards, the sacred beasts, and nothing for 5ds. And that's not really applicable for Zexal or 5ds, because everybody plays number cards and many people play the dimension dragons, or variations of them, namely Crystal Wing and Odd-eyes Vortex.

What I learned Duel monsters - Nostalgic, but not very good when you take a deeper look. GX - The protagonist people like to shit on, from the series people like to shit on, gets a card people like to shit on. it's honestly kind of poetic. 5Ds - The best series (fight me) gets the best monster. Zexal - It's kinda there...no one really cares about it... I didn't watch the other series so I'll won't comment on them I did start arcV and it is pretty cool so far.

Worst to best protagonist ace monsters in competitive play: 6th Elemental HERO Neos 5th Dark Magician 4th Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon 3rd Number 39: Utopia 2nd Stardust Dragon 1st Firewall Dragon

Dark Magician made one contribution to the game that shouldn't be overlooked. It didn't take long for Konami to realize that dark magician was bad, so he got a lot of support in Magician's force and structure deck Yugi 2 (Japan only). It wasn't much, but it was the first time that Konami devoted an entire support base to one monster. These days, nearly every iconic anime monster has a deck around it to make up for its lack of inherent playability

But Neos wasn't Jaden's first ace card. He didn't start with it. His original ace card might be something like Flame Wingman, because that was that "saved the day" the most.

"outgrown the anime" Someone needs to stop watching solely the English versions.

I don’t know how Kaiba is beaten by Yugi’s deck. That thing is unplayable unless you have the suitability of the script in the real life.

I'd like a series on competitive viability of character decks. Going through all known cards of like Akiza's plant deck, the effectiveness of the strategy, what cards have come out for the archetype in the pendulum, xyz, and link era. I think it could make for a fun video series could be a challenge for the earlier cast like Tea who didn't duel much

I thought playmakers ace monster was decode talker

Anybody ever wonder why Starlight Road wasn't considered a counter trap card?

I can agree with the "Number 39: Utopia", there isn't anything crazy about him but i think we will always see him somewhere in the background but never gone. He's just "good ole' reliable".

The first time I ever saw Stardust Dragon in Yu-Gi-Oh: Over the Nexus I knew it was a card that was awesomely powerful and greatly desired it IRL.

My protagonist ace card would be Voltic Bicorn (my favorite, and also has the usual Stats of the protagonist ace monsters!)

Ace monsters in a nutshell DM:I train underage girls to learn dark magic, I also used to be a person Neos: I pretend to stand in the back and be cool when I’m actually looking at Aqua dolphin’s ass SD: I commit suicide on a regular basis Utopia: don’t speak to me, my son, or my other son ever again Odd eye: I wear different contacts to make people laugh and hide my depression. Firewall: IM BANNED LOL

I always liked running a dark magician deck based around that one upgraded dark magician and dark magician girl. That was my playground go-to lol.

Interesting vid, definitely interested in a second installment for the antagonists' monsters.

*has traumatic flashbacks to Legacy of the Duelist's story mode using the story decks and not being able to draw Neo Space*

Is Firewall really Playmaker's ace if he doesn't summon it every duel?

Imagine a character whose ace is a spell. Like, a Final Countdown guy, or a moray of Greed guy, or a Chicken Game Guy.

Does anyone have a link to the first image he used with all of the protagonists and their rivals holding out their ace cards?

Kaiba/Yugi/GX: Normal Monsters everyone afterwards: monsters with 200000 effects

I was actually far more interested in the antagonist cards lol, was hoping both would be in this video. Therefore, I would definitely say yes to a follow-up.

As well as the antagonists like kaiba, chazz, and jack I think it would be cool to look at some of the real villians of some of the villians like Marik, Aster Phoenix, and Earth Bound Immortals. Not sure if you have already but i would like to see a review of some of the GX era structure decks like the zombie madness structure deck and dragon's roar. I think that while the zombie cards in zombie madness were not great it is important to point out how great some of the commons were.

Still gotta wonder what the Miracle Fusion for spellcasters effect Dark Magician and fusions in competitive with out insta fuse or brilliant fuse

Review the rivals ace monsters like blue eyes and galaxy eyes

But Dzeef never mentioned the best Firewall combo: First turn Firewall into pass.

DM - As much as I really liked DM way back then, even having him as my first ever Ace Monster when I started, I know his deck isn't the best. But I know some DM decks are still pretty good. GX - Looking forward to the new Neos cards. I'll be sure to get the tins for them. 5d's - Stardust and Synchro Monsters got me back into the game after GX. I might be tempted to build a Junk/Stardust build as my only deck from this series with the new tin support. ZEXAL - Utopia has his own deck, so why do people just see him as a means in other R4NK decks? Arc-V - We don't have all the Odd-Eyes support from the OCG, so I really can't say too much about this one. Not to mention the 3 different variants. (Fusion, Synchro, Xyz) VRAINS - Hitting Firewall to 1 was a good call. I feel like you only ever need 1. Those triple Firewall plays were too openly broken.

The post picture in the beginning of the video 0:04 is actually a playmat on ebay if anyone was interested in the art

Has anyone notices that all the ace monster have 2500 atk and around 2000 def (give or take 100)?

It's usually split between how good they were at the time of release and how much better they got with later support. Themes like Cyber Dragons, Galaxy-Eyes, and Blackwings got some good stuff. BEWD came back huge.

This was a great vid, you should do one for the main rivals ace monsters.

Eternal Soul, Dark Magical Circle, Dark Magician the Dragon Knight, Dark Magician (From Eternal Soul) and Secret Village of the Spellcasters. That combo has a fairly decent softlock, especially since all cards listed are searchable minus the Dragon Knight.

I'd love to you to talk about those monster, but kaiba, manjome, etcetera are not really antagonist as much as they are rivals, the real antagonist are other people in those animes

Junk Warrior is my boi

Great vid of a awesome youtuber, a quick hi from Brasil, and do a antagonist vid as well.

To everyone saying Flame Wingman is Judai’s Ace, that’s like saying Junk Warrior is Yusei’s Ace.

Even though this comment doesn't disprove your stuff on your utopia statements, like "utopia is just a stepping stone", I find it surprising you didn't mention the meta playability that rank up magic argent chaos force had with it in order to make number s0: Utopic ZEXAL. The card saw alot of game experimentation recently (until argent got banned), and it certainly had more use than lightning at ZEXAL locking your opponent

Why are they all 2500 ATK and 2000 DEF? Excluding the link ofc

Dark Magician: Not Blue Eyes for those two tributes or Summoned Skull for one. Current support doesn't do enough compared to other decks. Neos: Was made in an age where someone in Konami balanced its support too much. Stardust Dragon: The limits of how powerful an ace card should be. Utopia: The card itself is okay, but it's simply a tool. Similar to Stardust, it should've been an example of what an xyz should've been. Odd Eyes: What pendulums should've been, but came too late. Firewall Dragon: Time until banned, 3, 2 ,1.....

What do I have to look for to find that image in the beggining of the video? I swear I can't find it

Just a "little bit" of gx? UNSUBBED

Stardust is my favorite, followed by odd eyes

I’m excited to see what odd eyes dragon you will use, will it be the effect monster? Or the pendulum effect one? I shall wait and see

I love to do a certain thing with Utopia in my Dinosaur deck. I play Utopia double. So i summon it, use its effect to get an Utopia with 5000 ATK and double or nothing. I negate Utopias own attack and use double or nothing for a juicy 10.000 ATK attack. It's fun and can lead to some funny OTKs

Noticed that all ace monster have 2500 attack

"I've outgrown the anime" uhu

He mentions that for Stardust dragon, if u bring it out with starlight road + use its effect it doesn't come back due to not being summoned properly. Is that right? The card does not say "when this card is synchro summoned" or any type of clause like that

Neos is also surprisingly very splashable in duel links able to fit into many other deck types. Cyber dark being the most famous I think. See it a lot with koiki core since their ace monster got limited this helps give them more power and still keep the same sp summon beatdown strategy. And my own personal favorite water neos. How it works is run a standard water deck with abyss soldiers mobius etc then run the atlantaen engine you commonly see with mermails. Use jadens neo space skill for a free field spell to most importantly allow you to keep neo space aqua neos on the field. You can discard either atlantean for a 2 for 1 trade off as it will make your opponent discard and your atlantean will kill a face up or fd card as well. So an easy +1. Along with your powerful monster this can create huge advantage. Combine with abyss soldier as your normal summon you can easily generate huge card advantage and easily OTK in many duels. Alternatively you can tech in sinister serpent too and use it as an option for the other neos fusion, thus like an easy way to get sinister serpent. And even with the erratta it’s still really good here as you can use it for a free discard cost, or space it out with your atlantean discards so use it every other turn to almost get its old school effect of brokenness.

“Outgrown the anime” LOL

I have to argue. I run Dark Magician Deck and have not lost to a Blue eyes yet

Dude Dzeff this is such a creatively brilliant video that shows off your Yugioh knowhow, keep it up. Can't wait for the Rivals Ace monster video.

Just looking to start a thread for people to share if they had an ace monster and why Mine was Star Eater. I drew it from a JOTL and loved him immediately. It took a little while to learn how to use him properly, but even in early days summoning him meant someone was in for a bad time. He perfectly matched my patient playstyle in a trap heavy casual meta, and was quite easy to Synchro Climb into with a Synchron deck

I wish Dark Magicians were better.

Batteryman Deck Update

Are you going to do a list for the Rival ace monsters?

hey Dzeef can you do the mini Ace Monsters Yugi: Gaia Jaden: Flame Wingman Yusei: Junk Warrior Yuma: Gagaga Yuya: Magicican Yusaku: Decode

Y’all forgetting the literal dozen alternate kuribohs

Neos is bad to the point that even in duel links he is super iffy

Neos is also my favorite protagonist ace monster. Id say my personal ace monster would be madolche tiaramisu

Paused at 11:36. Did I read this right? "If a monster this card points to is destroyed..." Points to? I havent played yugioh since high school (to give a time frame, this was around when everyone was playing blackwings and just before pendulums came out). Do we have three diminisonal holographic cards with random pointing mechanics now?

In before all the seething DM players.

Casual = good, Pro/Competitive = Bad, my opinion

Okay can someone explain to me why you can't use stardust dragon's tribute and recycle effect if it wasn't summoned via syncro summon when the text mentions nothing about it.

I think there are only a couple issues with pinning down antagonist aces, compared to protagonists... well, two cases I can think of. Zexal: is kinda unique in the yugioh-verse, in that you could argue that the "kaiba" role belongs to two different people, with two different aces. Arc-v: Akaba Reiji is unique among all the kaiba clones in that he didn't really have an "ace" monster. Doom King Armageddon is usually put in the role, such as in the fanart of your video, due to having stats similar to blue eyes, but he only used it once. Reiji's schtick was versatility, having a different boss monster for each different situation, which would make identifying "the" DD boss monster difficult. having said all that, I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on how the antagonist boss monsters stack up/stacked up in the actual meta. this was a fun video.

Two theoretical spell cards that might make Dark Magicians slightly better: False Grave: Move a Dark Magician from your GY to your hand and move a Dark Magician Girl from your deck to your hand. While this card is in your GY, it's name becomes "Dark Magician". Title transfer: Remove a level 7 or higher spell caster from your GY. Add a Spellcaster of lesser level from your GY to your hand. While this card is in the GY, all Magician Girl cards are considered "Magician of Black Chaos". Just a thought. Considering you'd mostly be gaining monsters that don't have inherent means of summoning themselves, I think that's fair.

It’s fun to look at the evolution of the act monster, with the first couple being more of a material then for the card itself

That first background is dope

I came here for Dark Magician and you’re 100% right it’s easily a good rouge deck for fun casual play but most times you will not dance well with the meta. However the new support is pretty good and genuinely a fun deck, which isn’t bad because, not all decks need to be a top meta deck to have a good game with.

I had a Ghost Rare Stardust Dragon as a kid, best looking card I ever saw, I only found out how valuable it was recently and couldn't find it.

I'd love to see one about the Rivals ace monsters tho this brings up the question. What is Chazz's true ace monster? Armed Dragon Lv 10? VWXYZ Dragon Catapult Cannon? Ojama King? Only a mystery.

now, Blue Eyes may be my (Main) Decks big theme but you would not believe how often Deep-Eyes White Dragon has won me games...its kinda scary actually, either I always have it and need it later, I draw it the turn before my opponent thinks he has me beat, or I never draw it because I never need it. I would whole-heartedly consider Deep-Eyes my Ace as it seems to have a mind of its own and is always there for me.

i mainly use my slightly modified legendary dragon knight deck, i love it, i can't not, especially since everyone in my town plays dumb moves so i basically can get away with most decks so i use my legendary dragon knights deck because i love dark magician, the style of all the cards just interests me