"And making his show-stopping entrance at number one is Yugi's faithful loyal companion, guardian and friend, who's always been by his side through the best and worst, and who Yugi can always depend on to guide him on the right path when going through the harshest trials and tribulations, Beaver Warrior."
I really like how most, if not all, of Yugi's monsters branched off to archetypes of their own, rather than just turn into support for one archetype (like Lord of D for Kaiba, or Gearfried for Joey)
Summoned Skull also shows the bonds of friendship between Yugi and Joey. Summoned Skull and Red-Eyes Black Dragon can be fused into Black Skull Dragon. In the first double duel of the series, Yugi and Joey did just that to defeat the Paradox brother. Edit: Yes, Dragoon can also be said to show the strength of their friendship, but that was not in the original show.
Truthfully, Konami said they got the Dragoon idea from when Yugi had Red Eyes on the field when he summoned DM & Buster Blader. It was a "What If" moment if Yugi fused Red Eyes and DM to defeat Kaiba in the semi finals, instead of Buster Blader. That's why Konami gave it the same clothing pattern as Dark Paladin. Also, Dragoon also has a relation to Gandora Dragon because of the Gigarays on its armor, hence the Fusion material: Dragon EFFECT Monster, something Gandora Dragon is.
King/Jack/Queen's Knight came up at pivotal momments when Yugi needed flex tribute summons or monster fotter. Magical Hats is still one of the most unique cards ever and I think is probably among the best cards Yugi had. Gardna and Mystical Elf were used as pure defensive walls, and were mostly ok back in those days.
@@amanonstilts4555 Actually, it's nowhere near Yugi's top card. He never uses it at all until the Battle City Finals. He also uses it twice during DOMA, once in the KC Grand Championship, and once against Yugi. Joey and Kaiba use it a LOT more.
@ 10:40 The irony is that Summoned Skull had an entire archetype now. Alongside a Fusion, Synchro, XYZ, and Ritual form. And that’s not counting the Skull Archfiend of Lightning retrain. Such a beloved card.
I was a bit sad he didn't bring up the archetype! It's not competitive, but definitely a nice ode to Yugi's beloved card. I wish they received a level 2 tuner and level 4 monster (or both make them level 3s) to help support the Fusion and Synchro variants -- and maybe the tuner can modify its level to help the Ritual and XYZ Summoned Skull, as well? 😁
@@christopherfeatherleyI don’t know what’s wrong with these Konami people, they’re missing out on such easy money, why is it so hard to give beloved cards decent support🤦♂️😂
I think "Top 10 Boss Monsters not part of an official archetype", "Top 10 Most expensive cards ever and why they are so expensive", "Top 10 Side Deck only cards", "Top 10 Worst Extra Deck monsters that can be brought out differently than their original materials", and "Top 10 Rogue Decks" would be a great idea for more lists. ^^
I liked that, too! I think it unintentionally kept the game balanced, at least, in terms of keeping boss monsters attack in check (usually if something has above 3000 attack, it's considered an "effect" such as Gishki Zielgiagas having 3200 attack and an okay ish effect). Other games such as Bakugan, from my experience, started out with the average Bakugans having 400-500 G power, then the next season they had 700 G power, making the previous ones obsolete 😬 and they kept increasing so much so the average bakugan had 900 - over 1000 G power. It just made the game never build a competitive or casual tournament community because of how you essentially had to collect all over again because a new series came out. I wish they had kept it like Yugioh, as returning players are heavily a thing
@@HusbandOfManyWives1776even before vrains, the cycle is broken by akaba reiji in arc-v. He plays D/D/D, a deck where everything he brings out from his extra deck is a boss monster on its own.
@@jettskie1986 lore-wise, Chazz. His ace monster (the serious one) is Armed Dragon Lv. 10. Though one could argue he had no rival since the dynamic in the anime shifted entirely during the later half of the show. He had a mentor figure in Zane and a temporary sidekick in Jesse. But no rivals as far as I know.
One of the reason I really like Yugi as main character that he truly loves his cards, treating them as companions and thanks to it, all of his cards are straight iconic.
This video forgot to mention that Slifer was actually played here and there is recent Tearlaments and Branded strategies due to the fact that the most recent Slifer trap card being released allowed for Slifer to be summoned and both players draw up to 6 cards.
My friend and I used to often argue about how swords of revealing light worked. He claimed that the swords activated their effect when played, immediately went to the graveyard and prevented me from attacking for 3 turns. His reasoning was that the spell card didn't have the continuous spell symbol on it and most other spell cards that didn't have that were activated, did whatever it is they do and then immediately hit the graveyard. I argued that the swords stayed on the field for 3 turns, then selfdestructed and only then went to the graveyard and that it didn't have the continuous spell symbol on it because it wasn't really continuous, but had a temporary effect. It was in some undefined grey area that no other cards (at the time) existed in and we could never agree on who was right. Years later, after we had both stopped playing the game, we finally learned how they work, but it was too late by then. It was a really confusing card mechanic for kids, lol I also remember seeing other kids play around the mirror force trap by putting some of their monsters in defense, as DuelLogs mentioned but it went beyond even that. Sometimes, they had Mirror Force, let the opponent attack with one monster but didn't activate it to trick them into thinking they didn't have it and if the opponent fell for it, they'd turn everything back into attack position the next turn and try to go for game, only to be met with devastation instead. So, the idea then became to present lethal with one or two monsters in attack while keeping the rest safe in defense as potential back up, so your opponent was forced to activate it just to survive. But to achieve such a dominating board state is easier said then done, ofcourse. We called it the mirror force mindgames. It was epic.
Regarding Swords of Revealing Light, doesn't the card text explicitly state that it remains on the field after activation, but you must send it to the GY after the third turn?
@@vahlen5281 Maybe on some versions of the card it does, but back when we played it in the very early stages of the game, it didn't. If I had to guess, this was an issue that came up in many different places, so they clarified it on the card itself later on. It definitely wasn't on the card itself back in the days we played it, though.
@@Xylarxcode Definitely an errata then, although I have to wonder why Konami didn't specify it from the get go, since as you pointed out, SoRL was definitely a spell that pretty much went against the established rule set.
@@vahlen5281 Either they want it to be unique an special, or it was Wizard of the Coast goofing up cuz back then they were in charge of distributing Yugioh in America, and they were responsible for some effect cards having weird wording for the sake of making them sound cool and fantastical, causing some ruling headaches for the first years of the game
Idk about anyone else, but DMG felt like Yugi's main ace through the Battle City Arc; idk if it was to promote the new monster or because she was easier to summon, but it seems like there were at least equal, if not more, duels involving her in the Battle City Arc than Dark Magician.
I’ve watched the video a few times and I love it but it just dawned on me because Timaeus was mentioned in other segments. The eye of Timeaus should have been on the list and probably at #4 to push exodia back. Swords may of had some moments but Timeaus was used so much more.
I remember freaking out when I got my first Summoned Skull as a kid. I loved and do still love that card. Really want to make a full Summoned Skull deck sometime with all of its extra deck retrains.
now we need to see kaiba and joey. a bit surprising magician of black chaos wasn't part of the list considering while not anywhere near as prevalent as its more well known 2 counterparts (dark magician and dark magician girl), black chaos is still part of the magician trinity and yugi did put a heavy emphasis of utilizing the magicians especially earlier on in the series.
I love Kuriboh’s Duelist Kingdom detonation effect! How it behaved in the show/manga, it’s probably something along the lines of “If this card is targeted by a card effect: It gains the following effect. •If this card battles an opponent’s monster, before Damage Calculation: You can destroy both this card and that monster”
Kuriboh definitely became a grandfather in Yu-Gi-Oh. It was not only because it's own archetype. It essentially became the first hand trap, a mechanic which is apparently a key strategy on competitive decks.
If this is based on the anime, I might argue to move Kuriboh up since it’s the card that Yugi gives Jayden (as winged Kuriboh) to begin the follow-up anime. Great vid as always 🤘
An interesting list could be top 10 cards that were featured in multiple versions of the anime. Not counting staples like pot of greed or polymerisation.
I realize it's difficult to only pick ten cards of the most iconic protagonist, so I'm glad a second part is being considered to correct some glaring omissions. Justice for Louise, the Beaver Warrior!
This is a fun idea for a series of videos. Kaiba and Joey definitely should be next. Maybe also examine the cards of some of the recurrent characters that appeared the most, like Mai Valentine.
I think that's one of the few times you talk about cards impact in anime !! Waiting for jaden , and don't forget to include bubbleman in top 5 because it was an underrated card at the anime even though it has a different effect in tcg and ocg
I really enjoy learning about different anime characters’ cards. I would like to see more videos like this. Also, I noticed that the Flying Fortress Skyfire in the video is shown as a Synchro monster. Very well done video!!!
Nice video. Honorable Mention: Magic Cylinders, because in the TCG its probably the main weakness to the Egyptian Gods. I know from experience, since I pulled it on someone who brought Ra out, and got it to 15,000, before I flipped up Magic Cylinders, and I had to remind the person the trap is sending the attack back at them directly. I hope you do this for a possible video: What kind of deck would you give Syrus to make him different from Zane? (I mean what monster type, since both use Machine-themed decks.)
I'm just waiting for Konami to release fusions of Dark Magician with every other monster from Yugi/Yami's deck at this point. Like Summoned Skull with a Non-Targeting Board Nuke effect, Big Shield Gardna with absurd protection effects, or with Kuriboh and Exodia for strait up memes.
Can you do “Top 10 Decks That Need Need New Support?” I would like to see decks like Aromages, Gravekeepers, and other decks that barely had any new and/or decent support
I’m very upset about the lack of buster blader on this list. My absolute favorite (well, second favorite but that’s behind dark paladin of which BB is my favorite half) and he used it to bully Kaiba into cheating.
Also every single protagonist has a form of kuriboh, yugi, Jaden, luna, Yuma, yuga and playmaker, also you forgot summoned skull does have lots of support, it has its own archetype with spells and even extra deck cards such as xyz, link, synchro and even fusion( yes black skull dragon does count) it even got a retrain as red eyes archfiend
Don't know if you could pick out 10 cards for this list, but I would love to see one of these lists for Kaiser Ryo/Zane Truesdale. Cyber Dragons have been an iconic part of the game and warped the meta when the OG first hit the scene.
The funny thing is off the top of my head I can only think of two duels where he used its RL effect, against Kaiba in Battle City and against Vivian Wong in the KC Grand Prix. Usually it involved Multiply shenanigans.
Sadly it didn’t appear on the list, but I would say Buster Blader in my opinion one one of Yugi’s best cards. When looking at Buster Blader’s lore and it’s effects you play that card right it can be unstoppable.
New people of yugioh will never understand the old fans of first animation how much this anime teached us many thing it been at least 10 years or more I followed yugioh and I'm still sad we will never have the old master piece one heart of cards power of friendship feint belief love following our dreams having fun I learned many thing from yugioh till at least arc v but now it feels it lost all those
In the earlier games. SWORDS of R. LIGHT isnt at the field after using using it so the opp cannot get rid of it after the play which IS BUSTED AS ALL HECK! I think the anime does this too and makes it very powerful since we never saw any counter-play against it.
Kuriboh + Swords is amazing I've been using a timelords/burn deck Swords gives me a potential 3k direct damage with timelords and/or a possible 750+ damage with cauldron
It seems to be pure speculation. The appearance has a passing similarity, and the japanese name does include "Kuri", being named "Kurittā" Which looks compelling until you realise it's a japanese phonetic spelling of the english word "Critter". Edit: looking into it, the word "Kuriboh" is apparently the same name as Goombas in mario have in japanese. So I guess it actually is compelling.
Yami yugi is might be the only protag in yugi oh who can used efficiently multiple types of card in his deck. Yup, most card that he used is Spellcaster but there are lot of instances where he also will and can use Warrior , Fiend , Rock and sometimes Beast , which those then become iconic monster or archetype on their own
It looks like your explanations of animé moments is becoming the new normal. If that is true, then would it be ridiculous for me to ask you to warn your audience of spoilers before you talk about them even if they would be obvious like in this video? Not everyone will care about that, but to some, that detail will be a _blessing!_
i hope he does a lot of characters from every season up to vrains i think it would be dope but it's probably a lot of work so who knows but it would be nice to see like 20 of these
I thought for sure the ultimate comeback card, (insert yugi voice) "Card of Sanctity", would be up there since I can't tell how many times Yugi used that card to just flex on opponents with all them combos after its activation.
Kuriboh IMHO does have a pretty big impact on the game. He was the OG handtrap and now a days in modern YGO you essentially can not play without having at least a single handtrap.
@TheDuelLogs Great video, I was wondering if you wouldn't mind talking about the Ghoti deck I enjoy how you break things down and I'd really like to try them. Thanks!
Yugioh was complex since the OCG in 1999. Even beginners in Japan complained about the complexity of the game. Yes, it is far more complex today, but back then, it was still on a complex level. It may not seem like it now to us, but that’s only because we’ve been playing this game for so many years that our minds are conditioned into understanding the rules. Even MTG players would tell you that early MTG was simplistic compared to today. But that doesn’t mean it was complex to beginners. It was. We just have to remember that we are veteran players of Yu-Gi-Oh. So to our perspective, Yugioh was simple compared to now. But to a beginner, it is not.
