Like a Total Defense Shogun which if I remember correctly was a level 5 or 6 1550/2500 Monster. I was thinking more like a Goblin Attack Force effect which made it go to DEF position after attacking and have to stay there for a turn. Your version would be stronger but both are pretty good and much better than what we got.
If the made its summoning condition a semi-nomi instead of a nomi gave it 2200 ATK and Total Defense Shogun's ability it would.... still not be worth all the trouble but at least you get something if you actually managed to go through all the hoops. Slifer the Sky Dragon can be awesome if you managed to bring him out with 3 cards in your hand on turn 2. If Wall Shadow was given some useful ability it wouldn't be worth the trouble of equip spell nonsense, but at least the few times you pulled off the inconsistent combo you'd get something cool out of it
It's a weirdly useful old spell. Attack denial and eventual removal that also give you the card back. If your opponent can't stop it, you just get more and more free value.
I am glad you are doing it by timeline. I remember asking about having the best and worst cards by years but this is neat as we get to hear about older things too vs the same newer stuff. Thanks for the upload.
Wall Shadow being able to attack while in defense position, similar to Total Defense Shogun or Super Heavy Samurai, would have probably made that combo worth something. Especially if it had a floating effect to become a regular Labyrinth Wall afterwards.
Should have included Smoke Grenade of the Thief. Like it has such specific activation requirements it can’t really get off its hand rip effect. I don’t see it ever making its way into meta decks oh, wait-
We should get cool erratas, like making it so Wall Shadow goes back to defense position after attacking, and maybe summons back Labiyrinth Wall on removal.
5:39 idea for demotion retrain: Delusional demotion Quick play spell Equip this card to a monster. Once per turn(quick effect): you can reduce the level of equipped monster by 1 or 2. Once per turn, during your standby phase: you can draw 1 card, then discard 1 card.
13:48 Idea to make a “Labyrinth Wall” retrain: _Paradox Labyrinth Wall_ (EARTH) Level 5 Rock/Effect _You can Normal Summon this card without Tributes. If this card is summoned, you can immediately change its battle position. This card can attack while in face-up Defense Position. If it does, apply its ATK for damage calculation. If this card is attacked while in Attack Position, apply its DEF for Damage Calculation. While you control this face-up card, You can Normal Summon/Set Level 5 or Higher monsters with 1 less tribute. During the Main Phase (Quick Effect): You can activate this effect; Tribute Summon 1 Level 7 LIGHT, WATER or WIND monster face-up, and if you do, add 1 Level 7 LIGHT, WATER or WIND monster to your hand from your deck with a different attribute._ ATK/1600 DEF/3000
Princess Pikaru and Curran would probably still suck if they were easier to bring out but the gull of needing to destroy a level 5 or higher monster to bring them both baffles me. Thats GX era card design right there.
What's so messed up is that even if their Princess forms were 'base' without need for the previous 'forms' and prerequisites they would still be bad cards.
Scroll of Bewitchment was fun in an alchemy deck since you could change attributes to whatever you need for your Element monsters. Was it a good deck? No. You were basically making it so you got 2K level 4 beaters could attack twice. It was still fun just for the silly flavor. Similar to the old Column deck from Cyberdark Impact. Armed Changer and Vicious Claw are just…they look cool? That’s the best that I got. It really is. I used to use Amplifier in video games, but mostly because I used to need to fill a slot in my deck. Demotion was a card that I would use in what I call “Satellite decks”. Basically building synchro decks using cards that I feel would make sense to be thrown out by New Domino residents in Yugioh 5ds. I used to run the tribal equips…in World Championship 2004 where I needed them sometimes to make the decks some decks consistently strong. Yeah…I like them from a visual standpoint, but that’s it. Legendary Black Belt is one of my least favorite kinds of equip cards. The kind that can only be equipped to specific monsters. Not tribal. Not attribute. Not archetype. Specific names. The only ones I consider worse are the ones made for the anime Elemental HEROes. Germ Infection is just a worse Shattered Axe. Trial of the Princess just…I enjoy making decks based around very weird and unique cards, but even I am hesitant to bother with this mess. Magical Labyrinth at least sort of got a retrain and by that I mean the deck it was made for got a massive revamp. I think summoning Wall Shadow was an achievement in some games, but I’d rather play Gate Guardian and I mean the original before we got all of the support that makes it even somewhat viable.
Idea to make this card a better “Jinzo” support card: _Psionic Amplifier_ Equip Spell _Equip only to “Jinzo”. This card's activation and effects cannot be negated. During either player’s turn, You can reveal this card in your hand: Tribute 1 Monster you control, then Normal or Special Summon 1 “Jinzo” from your hand, deck or GY, and if you do, equip this card to it. The equipped monster's effect, "Trap Cards, and their effects on the field, cannot be activated. Negate all Trap effects on the field." becomes "Your opponent cannot activate Trap Cards, or their effects on the field. Negate all Trap effects your opponent controls." Once per turn, during either player’s turn, you can tribute any number of Trap Cards from your hand or field, and/or face-up from your opponent’s field: Normal or Special Summon 1 Machine or Psychic monster from your hand or deck who’s level equals the number of tributed cards._
@@nrot2.384 I mean it’s now “Better”, right? Besides, the effects aren’t cheap to use… You need a monster to tribute to get that Jinzo (And ONLY “Jinzo”) out for the summon, AND you really need to burn through Trap cards to get bigger level machine and psychic monsters out. Plus while the activation and effects CANNOT be “Negated”, they CAN be responded to, so your opponent can absolutely fight back with the right tools.
@@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire well I think the summon a monster effect wouldn't be the problem. It would just be to strong to special jinzo from your deck and equip it with it. I don't know. The summon part is just overkill then.
12:04 This is the second time I’ve seen this card here, so I’ll just drop the retrain idea I had for it the last time. _Triumph of the Princesses_ Equip Spell _This card’s name is always treated as “Trial of the Princesses”. Equip only to "White Magician Pikeru" or "Ebon Magician Curran"; it gains 800 ATK. During or after a turn that the equipped monster destroyed a monster by battle OR directly attacked your opponent: You can shuffle this card and the equipped monster into your deck, then special summon 1 “Princess Pikeru” and/or “Princess Curran” each from your hand, deck and/or GY, and if you do, that summoned monster gains the following effect._ _⚪️Monsters you control gain ATK/DEF equal to any change in either player’s LP._
I remember pulling germ infection in Duel links and thinking I had a 5head combo on my hands by equipping to Destiny HERO - Dystopia to pop a card every standby phase. My dissapointment when I tried it and the attack drop stopped applying after using the effect once was palpable.
Demotion works well with Gravity Bind as you can stop your opponents high-level monsters from attacking and downgrade a level 4 or 5 monster so it can still attack.
9:14 Idea to make this card battle-focused card’s dream: _The Master’s Black Belt_ Equip Spell _Equip only to a Non-Effect monster. You can only control 1 “The Master’s Black Belt”. The Equipped Monster gains ATK equal to it’s Original DEF, and DEF equal to it’s original ATK, can attack all of your opponent’s monsters once each, and if it attacks a defense position monster, inflict Piercing battle Damage to your opponent. The Equipped monster gains ATK/DEF equal to the total ATK/DEF any monster it destroyed by battle had while it was on the field. If the Equipped Monster battles, During the Damage Step, You can apply either its ATK or DEF for Damage Calculation, and Also, you can change the Equipped monster’s battle position._
5:38 Idea for a “Dark Ruler Ha Des”/‘Revived King Ha Des” Retrain that’s a hodgepodge of multiple cards’s effects (all from cards either are a part of the artwork of) _Archfiend Ha Des, Lord of the Lesser Legions_ (DARK) Level 8 Fiend/Syncrho/Tuner/Effect 1 “Ha Des” monster + 1+ Tuner monsters _During either player’s turn, You can also Special Summon this card from your extra deck or GY by tributing 3 Fiend, Zombie and/or Dragon monsters you control. If you summon this card, you can change its original type to Zombie or Dragon. Negate the effects of monsters destroyed (by battle or card effect) by Fiend, Zombie or Dragon monsters you control. If this card is targeted for an opponent’s attack or card effect, you can change the target to another correct target. If a monster you control battles, during the Damage Step: It gains 800 ATK/DEF, and also, You can Pay LP in multiples of 100, then target the opponent's battling monster; that opponent's monster loses that much ATK and DEF, until the end of this turn. (Quick Effect) Destroy 1 monster from your hand or field; You gain LP Equal to its total ATK/DEF. (Quick Effect) Target 1 Fiend, Zombie or Dragon monster in your GY or Banishment; banish cards from your hand, field and/or GY equal to that monster’s level, then Special Summon it. If this face-up card you control is banished or sent to the GY: Special Summon 1 Level 8 DARK Fiend, Zombie or Dragon monster from your Hand, Deck, GY or Banishment, ignoring its summoning conditions._ ATK/2450 DEF/2450
Idk why they hsd to make amplifier from good to bad by removing the ATK boost effect then make it go from bad to horrendous by adding a ‘Big Bang Shot’ removal effect…….
But the point is, Amplifier would still be bad even if it had its atk boost back, so they only changed it from bad to worse. Amplifier already has massive consistency issues that makes it unplayable. It's a card that is completely dead while you don't control a Jinzo, but there's an even bigger issue. The only deck Amplifier would be of any use would be a trap heavy deck running Jinzo, but that entire idea is kinda stupid, because in case you don't draw your Amplifier, Jinzo shuts down your own deck, and even if you happen to have an Amplifier ready and control Jinzo, you would still go -1 only to play your own cards. And even if Amplifier gave you atk then, you could also just equip an axe of despair for 1000 atk, and most importantly you could equip that one to any monster.
@@nicolaistuhlmuller8718You severely underestimate the the massive advantage an ability to lock your opponent out of trap cards while you can still play them gives it seems…
@@TheGreatSalsaMan if you could consistently get out Jinzo and Amplifier every game that is, and how do you ensure that? If you could always have a bunch of hard to search cards in your hand if you needed them, Exodia would actually be good, but you can't and so you need to consider the much more likely scenario: that you won't always have an Amplifier when you have a Jinzo. There's two options for building your deck here: lots of traps and few traps. If you build your deck with lots of traps and a Jinzo, then congrats: you build an awful deck because whenever you don't draw your Amplifier, Jinzo will shut down your own deck. If you have few traps, then Amplifier won't even matter that much. There's even more issues, like Amplifier being a massive brick or being a -1 even IF it works, and yeah the card would even be horrible if it gave Jinzo 1000 atk on top.
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Wall Shadow would have been cool if it had a Goblin Attack Force type effect. It could have been very similar to how Total Defense Shogun works but only a bit slower since it would have to be in attack position to attack but then immediately goes to DEF similar to the Attack Force and has to stay there for a turn but it actually has a great defense value so it's not that bad. In old school Yugioh, I could imagine that being a pretty useful card combo if only it had that ability to turn itself to DEF.
If Wall Shadow could attack in defense position, I think Magical Labyrinth could sit a little lower on this list. Not only would you not have to worry about losing your equip card after summoning Wall Shadow, you could use the card in a way that would keep it free from being destroyed by Mirror Force.
I think once i saw a monster that either blows the field or destroy cards on field whenever it’s original attribute is changed, i remember thinking to myself. “What a weird monster, this probably could work with that one equip spell”
7:27 Idea to make this a better insect armor equip spell: _Laser Canon Carapace_ Equip Spell _Equip only to an Insect Monster. The Equipped monster gains 300 ATK/DEF, and if it would be destroyed, destroy this card instead. The Equipped monster can attack all monsters your opponent controls once each, and if it attacks a defense position monster, inflict piercing battle damage. If the Equipped monster inflicts battle damage to your opponent: If possible, Equip 1 “Laser Canon Carapace” to another face-up Insect monster you control._
10:41 Idea to make a continuous trap version of this card: _Virus Infection_ Continuous Trap _All Face-Up Non-Machine Monsters on the field lose 300 ATK/DEF at the beginning of every phase. At the end of every phase, If a Face-Up Non-Machine Monster’s ATK or DEF is 0, Destroy it. During the end phase of each turn, you can add 1 “Virus”, “Viral”, “Infection”, “Plaguespreader”or “Germ” card to your hand from your deck for every 2 cards that were destroyed by this cards effect._
Well Shadolls did care about attributes for their Fusion summons. In fact they had their version of Scroll of Bewitchment with a Polymerization attached to it and I don't think that saw play. I'm about Nephe Shaddoll Fusion.
Wall Shadow should have been like Total Defense Shogun where it can attack while it's in defense mode. It would still be awful, but it would make more sense than spending 3 cards to put a 1800/3000 in attack mode. xD
In Yugioh Gx World Tournament 2007, There's And NPC That Uses Demotion To Reduce Your Monsters Levels, To Steal Them With Allure Queen. Not Bad, But Mostly Annoying
A WALL SHADOW retrain fusion monster requiring any ROCK + WARRIOR monsters could be a game changer if it has an appropriately themed effect where it has the same base stats but carries an effect to the effect of: Must be fusion summoned in face-up defense position and cannot be summoned otherwise. If this face-up defense position monster is changed to face-up attack position or flipped face down, banish this card. During your battle phase, all your face-up defense position monsters can declare an attack. While all monsters your opponent controls are defense position monsters, your defense position monsters may attack directly but all damage is halved. This card can only be destroyed by battle and cannot be destroyed by card effects. This would be a crazy gimmicky card but it would open up a floodgate of strategies. That only tributing or changing its battle position could remove it from the field at 3000 DEF would make it a hard monster to outright beat over meaning that people would have to side deck against it and that its summon albeit fusion summon is necessary, generic rock and warrior materials and being summonable by just about any fusion summon method would make it easy to pull out. I dunno, maybe OP, maybe not, but would make an otherwise legendary anime and manga card see a strong come back. I say it should be named “WALLS OF THE ABYSS” for effect.
0:13 Idea for a retrain to this card that leans into the Attribute Support: _Scroll of Attunement_ Equip Spell _You can only control 1 face-up “Scroll of Attunment”. Declare 1 Attribute; Change the equipped monster’s to the one that was declared, and if you do, the following effects are applied while the equipped monster is on the field._ _⚪️If the Equipped monster would leave the field, the owner of this card equip this card to another Face-up monster on the field._ _⚪️If the owner of this card Tribute, Flip, Ritual, Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, Link and/or Pendulum Summon any number of monsters of the declared attribute: They Draw cards equal to the number of monsters summoned._ _⚪️The owner of this card can Normal Summon/Set monsters of the declared attribute with 1 less tribute. During the card owner’s Main Phase, they can Normal Summon/Set 1 monster of the declared attribute in addition to your Normal Summon/Set._ Basically this card would not only let the card owner summon out monsters of the declared attribute easier, but they are A: Also rewarded for it if they do so with specific methods (I.E not by generic normal or special summons.), B: The card can bounce around from monster to monster, and C: The card takes full advantage of the fact that Equip Spells can be equipped to monsters _either player_ controls, including equipping this card to an opponents key monster.
Funny but the two cards from the start of the top are one of my favorite ones from old school Equip Spells. Armed Changer has a good effect but it's high effort to actually play it. While Scroll funny enough I have found some synergy with Tistina Deck, to re Summon your Tistinas from GY. Anyway, for the Shadow Wall, they has to put it an effect to being able to attack while on Def Position, or even being changed to Def after attacking, same as other cards actually. Also, they could give it the effect to attack directo or something. This way its Equip Spell would't be the worst 😄
Makes no sense, I agree. But that was Konami's official ruling, it's the turn of the controller of the Germ Infection and not the monster. Translation error maybe?
The Labyrinth episode was so cool as a kid, and at least 3000 defense could potentially be fun to troll with, there is just no reason to ever bring out Wall Shadow...
Demotion is best used on the opponent's monsters. But good luck landing in the situation where that's helpful. Most of the time, they've already Xyz, Synchro, Ritual summoned or had level specific link summons. You can't even ruin a Sprights with this card. They'll just negate it.
You really need someone to look over the text included in the video. There are multiple sections where the spoken was right but the text shown was wrong.
Wall Shadow and the Labyrinth deck definitly deserves a reprint D: In general, the Deck Types I loved the most suck so hard in real life. Moth, Labyrinth, Pumpking. At least Ancient Gear and Toon are somewhat playable.
1:29 Idea for a retrain of this card to improve it’s effects: _Dread Armed Charger_ Equip Spell _Shuffle 1 card from your hand or field into your deck to activate this card. If the equipped monster destroys a monster by battle or card effect, the controller of this equip spell can apply 1 or 2 of the following effects in any order. ⚫️Gain LP equal to the destroyed OR Equipped monster’s Total ATK/DEF. ⚫️Draw 1 card for every 1000 Total ATK/DEF the Destroyed monster had while it was on the field. ⚫️Increase or decrease the ATK/DEF of 1 face-up monster on the field by the destroyed monster’s total ATK/DEF. ⚫️Add 1 monster to your hand from your field, deck or GY with a total ATK/DEF equal to the equipped monster’s._
The only time you'd even consider playing Demotion. If you really wanted to summon Jet Warrior when Jet Synchron was banned in the TCG (only) at the time
I thought vicious claw was alright until I read it summons the token to your OPPONENT'S side? What the actual fuck haha. It would still be bad if it summoned it to YOUR side.
2:52 Idea to make an even more “Vicious” retrain of this card: _Vicious Talons_ Equip Spell _The Equipped monster gains 300 ATK/DEF, ATK equal to its original DEF, and DEF equal to its original ATK. The Equipped monster can attack all of your opponent’s monsters once each, and if it attacks a defense position monster, inflict piercing battle damage. If the equipped monster would be destroyed by battle or removed from the field by an opponent’s card effect, return this card to its owner's hand instead, and if you do, you can destroy 1 card on the field, and if you do that, inflict 600 damage to your opponent. After that, Special Summon 1 "Evil Token" (Fiend-Type/DARK/Level 7/ATK 2500/DEF 2500) to either player’s field._
They always bring back cards and archetypes with better effects nowadays, so let’s bring back this monk fighter archetype and bring it into the 21st-century
Wait, the "Amplifier" effect shown in the video is wrong. What the card actually does is replace Jinzo's effect from "negating traps" to "negating and destroying traps", which is even worse.
But... If you convert ALL monsters on the field to an attribute, that has zero offensive synergy with Gozen Match. In fact it's the opposite - it makes it no longer a floodgate at all since they now automatically only control monsters of one attribute. Unless I'm missing something.
I feel like the Black Belt card needed an ATK buff to be viable. Considering it's so limited in use, even a 500 buff would make it maybe playable. In a casual deck.
@@nicolaistuhlmuller8718 I was being conservative with the buff but was thinking 1000 would be better. Considering the era, it was released 500 is more likely.
@@saltyk9869 it was released almost two years after axe of despair, and that one was a 1000 atk boost to literally any monster. The set that had black belt also had the first common 1900 atk normal monster, so even the most casual decks could use insect soldier + axe of despair for a 2900 atk beater. Even with a 1500 atk boost the belt would only make the monk a 2800 atk monster and the mouse a 2700 atk monster, so just to be at least not complete garbage in casual matches it should've given 2000 atk.
DuelLogs, I love your videos and all, but you don't use apostrophes when talking about plurals, so it'd be "Synchros", not "Synchro's", as that implies that something belongs to Synchro.
Scroll of bewitchment is in the category of “just an FTK enabler and nothing more, but also not really because there is a better card that does the same thing (reproducus)”
Top 10 Worst classic cards 7: Ancient Sanctuary, or Top 10 Worst Warrior type monsters For the non top 10 list: The Unknown side of Yu-Gi-Oh: Beasts of the Colliseum featuring Gladiator Beasts
They should have given Wall shadow the effect to change position after attacking to try mimic its purpose from the anime, but even with that it would be a trash card.
5:52 Minor typo, 2023 instead of 2003
A gap of 20 years is pretty big to be minor.
@@CirnoFairy the gap between 0 and 2 on keyboards is also pretty big hhhhh
Wall Shadow not at least having an ability to attack while in defense position is baffling.
Like a Total Defense Shogun which if I remember correctly was a level 5 or 6 1550/2500 Monster. I was thinking more like a Goblin Attack Force effect which made it go to DEF position after attacking and have to stay there for a turn. Your version would be stronger but both are pretty good and much better than what we got.
@@lorenztor1990what you mean i turned my labyrinth wall from a 1 card tribute wall into a 3 card cost wall?
Exactly....if they wanted it to work like the anime, that's obviously how it should have worked.
If the made its summoning condition a semi-nomi instead of a nomi gave it 2200 ATK and Total Defense Shogun's ability it would.... still not be worth all the trouble but at least you get something if you actually managed to go through all the hoops. Slifer the Sky Dragon can be awesome if you managed to bring him out with 3 cards in your hand on turn 2. If Wall Shadow was given some useful ability it wouldn't be worth the trouble of equip spell nonsense, but at least the few times you pulled off the inconsistent combo you'd get something cool out of it
Hurts more that Wall Shadow becomes a dead card once it enters your hand since the spell only states to search for it from your deck.
My favourite equip spell is ekiibyo drakmord. Its insane how well it worked for me
It's a weirdly useful old spell. Attack denial and eventual removal that also give you the card back. If your opponent can't stop it, you just get more and more free value.
@@MrShukaku1991 exactly. The look of confusion I got from the mikanko player I used this against was priceless 😂
If Wall Shadow's ATK is 3000, it'd definitely be a janky funny option.
and attack while being in defense
@@feijesuskucaliz633 that too.
Just equip it with magnum shield, then he becomes stronger that the blue-eyes ultimate dragon.
I agree and even better if it's actually a normal monster
Wall Shadow should've had the effect to be able to attack while in defense mode, like how Total Defense Shogun does
I am glad you are doing it by timeline. I remember asking about having the best and worst cards by years but this is neat as we get to hear about older things too vs the same newer stuff.
Thanks for the upload.
I remember having wall shadow as a kid and realizing that adults who are in charge of making games sometimes have no idea what they're doing.
Oh...the good old labyrinth wall equip spell. Yeah, that one definitely takes the big spot in this topic.
Wall Shadow being able to attack while in defense position, similar to Total Defense Shogun or Super Heavy Samurai, would have probably made that combo worth something. Especially if it had a floating effect to become a regular Labyrinth Wall afterwards.
I actually play a Master Monk stun lock deck lol. Pairing the black belt with moon mirror shield can lead to some fun shenanigans.
What’s your list?
Scroll goes crazy if your running the link charmers in your extra deck
Pikuru and Curran really need their own archetype imo
Should have included Smoke Grenade of the Thief. Like it has such specific activation requirements it can’t really get off its hand rip effect. I don’t see it ever making its way into meta decks oh, wait-
😂😂😂 It just needed a way to abuse it.
Can't believe Demotion came out in 2023, that was so long ago!
Most of us were just infants back then!
We should get cool erratas, like making it so Wall Shadow goes back to defense position after attacking, and maybe summons back Labiyrinth Wall on removal.
I remember using demotion in my old level deck
5:39 idea for demotion retrain:
Delusional demotion
Quick play spell
Equip this card to a monster.
Once per turn(quick effect): you can reduce the level of equipped monster by 1 or 2.
Once per turn, during your standby phase: you can draw 1 card, then discard 1 card.
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I wil admit that I ran Laser Cannon Armor in Duel Links just for the voice lines ^^
13:48 Idea to make a “Labyrinth Wall” retrain:
_Paradox Labyrinth Wall_ (EARTH)
Level 5
Rock/Effect
_You can Normal Summon this card without Tributes. If this card is summoned, you can immediately change its battle position. This card can attack while in face-up Defense Position. If it does, apply its ATK for damage calculation. If this card is attacked while in Attack Position, apply its DEF for Damage Calculation. While you control this face-up card, You can Normal Summon/Set Level 5 or Higher monsters with 1 less tribute. During the Main Phase (Quick Effect): You can activate this effect; Tribute Summon 1 Level 7 LIGHT, WATER or WIND monster face-up, and if you do, add 1 Level 7 LIGHT, WATER or WIND monster to your hand from your deck with a different attribute._
ATK/1600 DEF/3000
Princess Pikaru and Curran would probably still suck if they were easier to bring out but the gull of needing to destroy a level 5 or higher monster to bring them both baffles me.
Thats GX era card design right there.
What's so messed up is that even if their Princess forms were 'base' without need for the previous 'forms' and prerequisites they would still be bad cards.
Scroll of Bewitchment was fun in an alchemy deck since you could change attributes to whatever you need for your Element monsters. Was it a good deck? No. You were basically making it so you got 2K level 4 beaters could attack twice. It was still fun just for the silly flavor. Similar to the old Column deck from Cyberdark Impact.
Armed Changer and Vicious Claw are just…they look cool? That’s the best that I got. It really is.
I used to use Amplifier in video games, but mostly because I used to need to fill a slot in my deck.
Demotion was a card that I would use in what I call “Satellite decks”. Basically building synchro decks using cards that I feel would make sense to be thrown out by New Domino residents in Yugioh 5ds.
I used to run the tribal equips…in World Championship 2004 where I needed them sometimes to make the decks some decks consistently strong. Yeah…I like them from a visual standpoint, but that’s it.
Legendary Black Belt is one of my least favorite kinds of equip cards. The kind that can only be equipped to specific monsters. Not tribal. Not attribute. Not archetype. Specific names. The only ones I consider worse are the ones made for the anime Elemental HEROes.
Germ Infection is just a worse Shattered Axe.
Trial of the Princess just…I enjoy making decks based around very weird and unique cards, but even I am hesitant to bother with this mess.
Magical Labyrinth at least sort of got a retrain and by that I mean the deck it was made for got a massive revamp. I think summoning Wall Shadow was an achievement in some games, but I’d rather play Gate Guardian and I mean the original before we got all of the support that makes it even somewhat viable.
Idea to make this card a better “Jinzo” support card:
_Psionic Amplifier_
Equip Spell
_Equip only to “Jinzo”. This card's activation and effects cannot be negated. During either player’s turn, You can reveal this card in your hand: Tribute 1 Monster you control, then Normal or Special Summon 1 “Jinzo” from your hand, deck or GY, and if you do, equip this card to it. The equipped monster's effect, "Trap Cards, and their effects on the field, cannot be activated. Negate all Trap effects on the field." becomes "Your opponent cannot activate Trap Cards, or their effects on the field. Negate all Trap effects your opponent controls." Once per turn, during either player’s turn, you can tribute any number of Trap Cards from your hand or field, and/or face-up from your opponent’s field: Normal or Special Summon 1 Machine or Psychic monster from your hand or deck who’s level equals the number of tributed cards._
This would be a little bit broken, don't you think?
@@nrot2.384
I mean it’s now “Better”, right?
Besides, the effects aren’t cheap to use… You need a monster to tribute to get that Jinzo (And ONLY “Jinzo”) out for the summon, AND you really need to burn through Trap cards to get bigger level machine and psychic monsters out. Plus while the activation and effects CANNOT be “Negated”, they CAN be responded to, so your opponent can absolutely fight back with the right tools.
@@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire well I think the summon a monster effect wouldn't be the problem. It would just be to strong to special jinzo from your deck and equip it with it. I don't know. The summon part is just overkill then.
12:04 This is the second time I’ve seen this card here, so I’ll just drop the retrain idea I had for it the last time.
_Triumph of the Princesses_
Equip Spell
_This card’s name is always treated as “Trial of the Princesses”. Equip only to "White Magician Pikeru" or "Ebon Magician Curran"; it gains 800 ATK. During or after a turn that the equipped monster destroyed a monster by battle OR directly attacked your opponent: You can shuffle this card and the equipped monster into your deck, then special summon 1 “Princess Pikeru” and/or “Princess Curran” each from your hand, deck and/or GY, and if you do, that summoned monster gains the following effect._
_⚪️Monsters you control gain ATK/DEF equal to any change in either player’s LP._
Just let the card cheat the 'upgraded' forms out of the Deck without condition.
I remember pulling germ infection in Duel links and thinking I had a 5head combo on my hands by equipping to Destiny HERO - Dystopia to pop a card every standby phase. My dissapointment when I tried it and the attack drop stopped applying after using the effect once was palpable.
Demotion works well with Gravity Bind as you can stop your opponents high-level monsters from attacking and downgrade a level 4 or 5 monster so it can still attack.
No it doesn't, because there are cards that do that while affecting your opponents entire battlefield. No reason to use it.
That is a pretty horrible combo though that would be better off without demotion in the first place
@@Ergeniz Mystic Mine got banned tho.
# 10 Is 1 of my favorites as it was 1 of the 1st cards I ever got back when they were Magic also I liked the card art 😅
9:14 Idea to make this card battle-focused card’s dream:
_The Master’s Black Belt_
Equip Spell
_Equip only to a Non-Effect monster. You can only control 1 “The Master’s Black Belt”. The Equipped Monster gains ATK equal to it’s Original DEF, and DEF equal to it’s original ATK, can attack all of your opponent’s monsters once each, and if it attacks a defense position monster, inflict Piercing battle Damage to your opponent. The Equipped monster gains ATK/DEF equal to the total ATK/DEF any monster it destroyed by battle had while it was on the field. If the Equipped Monster battles, During the Damage Step, You can apply either its ATK or DEF for Damage Calculation, and Also, you can change the Equipped monster’s battle position._
5:38 Idea for a “Dark Ruler Ha Des”/‘Revived King Ha Des” Retrain that’s a hodgepodge of multiple cards’s effects (all from cards either are a part of the artwork of)
_Archfiend Ha Des, Lord of the Lesser Legions_ (DARK)
Level 8
Fiend/Syncrho/Tuner/Effect
1 “Ha Des” monster + 1+ Tuner monsters
_During either player’s turn, You can also Special Summon this card from your extra deck or GY by tributing 3 Fiend, Zombie and/or Dragon monsters you control. If you summon this card, you can change its original type to Zombie or Dragon. Negate the effects of monsters destroyed (by battle or card effect) by Fiend, Zombie or Dragon monsters you control. If this card is targeted for an opponent’s attack or card effect, you can change the target to another correct target. If a monster you control battles, during the Damage Step: It gains 800 ATK/DEF, and also, You can Pay LP in multiples of 100, then target the opponent's battling monster; that opponent's monster loses that much ATK and DEF, until the end of this turn. (Quick Effect) Destroy 1 monster from your hand or field; You gain LP Equal to its total ATK/DEF. (Quick Effect) Target 1 Fiend, Zombie or Dragon monster in your GY or Banishment; banish cards from your hand, field and/or GY equal to that monster’s level, then Special Summon it. If this face-up card you control is banished or sent to the GY: Special Summon 1 Level 8 DARK Fiend, Zombie or Dragon monster from your Hand, Deck, GY or Banishment, ignoring its summoning conditions._
ATK/2450 DEF/2450
Demotion could have a use before xyz in allowing level 5 monsters to dodge gravity ball.
Idk why they hsd to make amplifier from good to bad by removing the ATK boost effect then make it go from bad to horrendous by adding a ‘Big Bang Shot’ removal effect…….
But the point is, Amplifier would still be bad even if it had its atk boost back, so they only changed it from bad to worse.
Amplifier already has massive consistency issues that makes it unplayable. It's a card that is completely dead while you don't control a Jinzo, but there's an even bigger issue.
The only deck Amplifier would be of any use would be a trap heavy deck running Jinzo, but that entire idea is kinda stupid, because in case you don't draw your Amplifier, Jinzo shuts down your own deck, and even if you happen to have an Amplifier ready and control Jinzo, you would still go -1 only to play your own cards.
And even if Amplifier gave you atk then, you could also just equip an axe of despair for 1000 atk, and most importantly you could equip that one to any monster.
@@nicolaistuhlmuller8718You severely underestimate the the massive advantage an ability to lock your opponent out of trap cards while you can still play them gives it seems…
@@TheGreatSalsaMan if you could consistently get out Jinzo and Amplifier every game that is, and how do you ensure that?
If you could always have a bunch of hard to search cards in your hand if you needed them, Exodia would actually be good, but you can't and so you need to consider the much more likely scenario: that you won't always have an Amplifier when you have a Jinzo.
There's two options for building your deck here: lots of traps and few traps.
If you build your deck with lots of traps and a Jinzo, then congrats: you build an awful deck because whenever you don't draw your Amplifier, Jinzo will shut down your own deck.
If you have few traps, then Amplifier won't even matter that much.
There's even more issues, like Amplifier being a massive brick or being a -1 even IF it works, and yeah the card would even be horrible if it gave Jinzo 1000 atk on top.
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Wall Shadow would have been cool if it had a Goblin Attack Force type effect. It could have been very similar to how Total Defense Shogun works but only a bit slower since it would have to be in attack position to attack but then immediately goes to DEF similar to the Attack Force and has to stay there for a turn but it actually has a great defense value so it's not that bad. In old school Yugioh, I could imagine that being a pretty useful card combo if only it had that ability to turn itself to DEF.
If Wall Shadow could attack in defense position, I think Magical Labyrinth could sit a little lower on this list. Not only would you not have to worry about losing your equip card after summoning Wall Shadow, you could use the card in a way that would keep it free from being destroyed by Mirror Force.
It would've still been held back by its summoning condition. But it would've been less bad.
... wait, Germ Infection triggers during the monster's standby phase! I mean, it's still bad, but at least it doesn't do literally nothing.
It makes me sad because I still use some of these cards
I think once i saw a monster that either blows the field or destroy cards on field whenever it’s original attribute is changed, i remember thinking to myself. “What a weird monster, this probably could work with that one equip spell”
7:27 Idea to make this a better insect armor equip spell:
_Laser Canon Carapace_
Equip Spell
_Equip only to an Insect Monster. The Equipped monster gains 300 ATK/DEF, and if it would be destroyed, destroy this card instead. The Equipped monster can attack all monsters your opponent controls once each, and if it attacks a defense position monster, inflict piercing battle damage. If the Equipped monster inflicts battle damage to your opponent: If possible, Equip 1 “Laser Canon Carapace” to another face-up Insect monster you control._
9:12 what the Monk theme needs is brand new support
12:20 Minor Typo: You have it written that White Magician Pikeru heals for 300 when it actually does 400 (despite saying it out loud).
10:41 Idea to make a continuous trap version of this card:
_Virus Infection_
Continuous Trap
_All Face-Up Non-Machine Monsters on the field lose 300 ATK/DEF at the beginning of every phase. At the end of every phase, If a Face-Up Non-Machine Monster’s ATK or DEF is 0, Destroy it. During the end phase of each turn, you can add 1 “Virus”, “Viral”, “Infection”, “Plaguespreader”or “Germ” card to your hand from your deck for every 2 cards that were destroyed by this cards effect._
@Duellogs, I assumed that Demotion was about getting around Gravity Bind.
Well Shadolls did care about attributes for their Fusion summons. In fact they had their version of Scroll of Bewitchment with a Polymerization attached to it and I don't think that saw play. I'm about Nephe Shaddoll Fusion.
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Wall Shadow should have been like Total Defense Shogun where it can attack while it's in defense mode. It would still be awful, but it would make more sense than spending 3 cards to put a 1800/3000 in attack mode. xD
In Yugioh Gx World Tournament 2007, There's And NPC That Uses Demotion To Reduce Your Monsters Levels, To Steal Them With Allure Queen. Not Bad, But Mostly Annoying
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Wall Shadow was such a cool monster from the anime, and they couldn't even do the bare minimum of giving it the same effect of its fusion material.
A WALL SHADOW retrain fusion monster requiring any ROCK + WARRIOR monsters could be a game changer if it has an appropriately themed effect where it has the same base stats but carries an effect to the effect of:
Must be fusion summoned in face-up defense position and cannot be summoned otherwise. If this face-up defense position monster is changed to face-up attack position or flipped face down, banish this card. During your battle phase, all your face-up defense position monsters can declare an attack. While all monsters your opponent controls are defense position monsters, your defense position monsters may attack directly but all damage is halved. This card can only be destroyed by battle and cannot be destroyed by card effects.
This would be a crazy gimmicky card but it would open up a floodgate of strategies. That only tributing or changing its battle position could remove it from the field at 3000 DEF would make it a hard monster to outright beat over meaning that people would have to side deck against it and that its summon albeit fusion summon is necessary, generic rock and warrior materials and being summonable by just about any fusion summon method would make it easy to pull out. I dunno, maybe OP, maybe not, but would make an otherwise legendary anime and manga card see a strong come back. I say it should be named “WALLS OF THE ABYSS” for effect.
0:13 Idea for a retrain to this card that leans into the Attribute Support:
_Scroll of Attunement_
Equip Spell
_You can only control 1 face-up “Scroll of Attunment”. Declare 1 Attribute; Change the equipped monster’s to the one that was declared, and if you do, the following effects are applied while the equipped monster is on the field._
_⚪️If the Equipped monster would leave the field, the owner of this card equip this card to another Face-up monster on the field._
_⚪️If the owner of this card Tribute, Flip, Ritual, Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, Link and/or Pendulum Summon any number of monsters of the declared attribute: They Draw cards equal to the number of monsters summoned._
_⚪️The owner of this card can Normal Summon/Set monsters of the declared attribute with 1 less tribute. During the card owner’s Main Phase, they can Normal Summon/Set 1 monster of the declared attribute in addition to your Normal Summon/Set._
Basically this card would not only let the card owner summon out monsters of the declared attribute easier, but they are A: Also rewarded for it if they do so with specific methods (I.E not by generic normal or special summons.), B: The card can bounce around from monster to monster, and C: The card takes full advantage of the fact that Equip Spells can be equipped to monsters _either player_ controls, including equipping this card to an opponents key monster.
Funny but the two cards from the start of the top are one of my favorite ones from old school Equip Spells. Armed Changer has a good effect but it's high effort to actually play it. While Scroll funny enough I have found some synergy with Tistina Deck, to re Summon your Tistinas from GY.
Anyway, for the Shadow Wall, they has to put it an effect to being able to attack while on Def Position, or even being changed to Def after attacking, same as other cards actually. Also, they could give it the effect to attack directo or something. This way its Equip Spell would't be the worst 😄
Germ infection says "it's turn" does that not imply the owner of the monster it's equipped too's turn? Not yours neccasarily.
Makes no sense, I agree. But that was Konami's official ruling, it's the turn of the controller of the Germ Infection and not the monster. Translation error maybe?
@@winkone101 maybe, it is an old card, those were subject to a lot of translation issues.
I loved it when all the equips gave you 500 in forbidden memories, bring back that format.
Amplifier was MUCH better in the Anime. Not only did it give an initial 500 ATK boost, it also gained 200 ATK during the Standby Phase of each turn.
The Labyrinth episode was so cool as a kid, and at least 3000 defense could potentially be fun to troll with, there is just no reason to ever bring out Wall Shadow...
Can’t believe labyrinth wall has 2023 defense
Demotion is best used on the opponent's monsters. But good luck landing in the situation where that's helpful. Most of the time, they've already Xyz, Synchro, Ritual summoned or had level specific link summons.
You can't even ruin a Sprights with this card. They'll just negate it.
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The only reason I could ever see Wall Shadow being used is with Spikeshield with Chain shenanigans.
That’s a very wild way of pronouncing Gnome.
You really need someone to look over the text included in the video. There are multiple sections where the spoken was right but the text shown was wrong.
Goated pfp /gen
Wall shadow should have black stego's effect and the effect to specail labyrinth wall from your graveyard,which it kind of did in the anime
Wall Shadow and the Labyrinth deck definitly deserves a reprint D:
In general, the Deck Types I loved the most suck so hard in real life.
Moth, Labyrinth, Pumpking.
At least Ancient Gear and Toon are somewhat playable.
With my early school yard decks I tried to make armed changer work, it seemed like it would b insane but never really came off
1:29 Idea for a retrain of this card to improve it’s effects:
_Dread Armed Charger_
Equip Spell
_Shuffle 1 card from your hand or field into your deck to activate this card. If the equipped monster destroys a monster by battle or card effect, the controller of this equip spell can apply 1 or 2 of the following effects in any order. ⚫️Gain LP equal to the destroyed OR Equipped monster’s Total ATK/DEF. ⚫️Draw 1 card for every 1000 Total ATK/DEF the Destroyed monster had while it was on the field. ⚫️Increase or decrease the ATK/DEF of 1 face-up monster on the field by the destroyed monster’s total ATK/DEF. ⚫️Add 1 monster to your hand from your field, deck or GY with a total ATK/DEF equal to the equipped monster’s._
I actually used Wall Shadow in a very niche stalemate deck
The only time you'd even consider playing Demotion.
If you really wanted to summon Jet Warrior when Jet Synchron was banned in the TCG (only) at the time
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Jinzo defying powercreep is beautifull
I thought vicious claw was alright until I read it summons the token to your OPPONENT'S side? What the actual fuck haha. It would still be bad if it summoned it to YOUR side.
Oh good god if that's what #10 is this is gonna be interesting.
If there was a Pikeru/Curran archetype, what would you guys imagine it would be?
2:52 Idea to make an even more “Vicious” retrain of this card:
_Vicious Talons_
Equip Spell
_The Equipped monster gains 300 ATK/DEF, ATK equal to its original DEF, and DEF equal to its original ATK. The Equipped monster can attack all of your opponent’s monsters once each, and if it attacks a defense position monster, inflict piercing battle damage. If the equipped monster would be destroyed by battle or removed from the field by an opponent’s card effect, return this card to its owner's hand instead, and if you do, you can destroy 1 card on the field, and if you do that, inflict 600 damage to your opponent. After that, Special Summon 1 "Evil Token" (Fiend-Type/DARK/Level 7/ATK 2500/DEF 2500) to either player’s field._
When I'm about to eat and I see DuelLogs just posted a video 🤤
They always bring back cards and archetypes with better effects nowadays, so let’s bring back this monk fighter archetype and bring it into the 21st-century
Wait, the "Amplifier" effect shown in the video is wrong. What the card actually does is replace Jinzo's effect from "negating traps" to "negating and destroying traps", which is even worse.
the chapter for #5 on the video is incorrectly titled as Vile Germs instead of Laser Cannon Armor.
But... If you convert ALL monsters on the field to an attribute, that has zero offensive synergy with Gozen Match. In fact it's the opposite - it makes it no longer a floodgate at all since they now automatically only control monsters of one attribute. Unless I'm missing something.
Equip scroll to fiend, fiendsmith combo
The text is confusing but can't I equip _Vicious Claw_ to an opponent's monster to get a lvl7 token?
Mischief of the what?
You heard right. He said the g in gnomes.
I feel like the Black Belt card needed an ATK buff to be viable. Considering it's so limited in use, even a 500 buff would make it maybe playable. In a casual deck.
Honestly to be useful in a casual setting it would need 1500 or more likely 2000 bonus atk.
@@nicolaistuhlmuller8718 I was being conservative with the buff but was thinking 1000 would be better. Considering the era, it was released 500 is more likely.
@@saltyk9869 it was released almost two years after axe of despair, and that one was a 1000 atk boost to literally any monster. The set that had black belt also had the first common 1900 atk normal monster, so even the most casual decks could use insect soldier + axe of despair for a 2900 atk beater. Even with a 1500 atk boost the belt would only make the monk a 2800 atk monster and the mouse a 2700 atk monster, so just to be at least not complete garbage in casual matches it should've given 2000 atk.
DuelLogs, I love your videos and all, but you don't use apostrophes when talking about plurals, so it'd be "Synchros", not "Synchro's", as that implies that something belongs to Synchro.
I wonder how many of these cards are in my cpu tournaments on my channel? I assume a few
Scroll of bewitchment is in the category of “just an FTK enabler and nothing more, but also not really because there is a better card that does the same thing (reproducus)”
We get it: the Princesses and Labyrinth Wall monsters suck! Sheesh!
Poor trial of the princess, they screwed you two so hard.
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They should have given Wall shadow the effect to change position after attacking to try mimic its purpose from the anime, but even with that it would be a trash card.
I felt wall shadow should have been a fusion of Labyrinth wall and Shadow Ghoul. I would have given it the ability to direct attack while in defense.
There’s an error in the description you put vile germs where laser cannon armor should be
I would disagree about Vicious Claw, it is actually a great staple in Lair of Darkness
No, it really isn't and it has 0 synergy with lair.
@@nicolaistuhlmuller8718 It does if you know how to play it, I play it and it works!
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Needing to stipulate that classic is before the Synchro era makes me feel decrepit.
Isnt the first level matters rituals?
did you call the card german faction becouse i feel like that whould make it powerfull though
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how many more top tens can you make
Ya the labyrinth card/wall shadow sucks, but you can’t deny the anime episode with that labyrinth double duel was sick af