Castle of dark Illusions is also the only wall that crush card can also use as a tribute. All others were other attributes (mystical elf aqua madoor giant solider of stone spirit of the harp) Just remembered, Wall of Illusion exists, but would not survive that battle
I remember using Castle of Dark Illusions in Eternal Duelist Soul for that purpose. There were level 4 monsters with slightly higher defense, but the castle could also be tribute for Crush Card.
Plus it buffs your pumpking, broken EDIT: I'll genuinely consider running Castle/Crush Card next time I'm playing Yu-Gi-Oh GBA games, Crush Card was wild
Something to note about PaniK is, that ALL of his monsters had irregular attack and defense stats. Doing so ensured the one thing that would make every opponents panic: math
Why did Castle of Dark Illusions boost zombie type monsters in the TCG? In the anime it boosted PaniK’s fiends type monsters, and it’s Pumpking that boosted zombie types yet in the TCG, both cards can only work with each other even though Bonz never used Castle and vice versa with PaniK and Pumpking
Cause they REALLY wanted those boss monsters to NEVER be useable... I think early Yugioh had a strong air of telling you what cards they expected you to play and which ones they didn't, given Joey put Mako, Espa and Weevile and Rex's cards all in his deck, but didn't bother with Bonz or Panik's "ace" monsters. XD Sadly not the only time a card was perfectly servicable in the anime, but painfully nerfed in the TCG cause they feared "it'd be too powerful" only to release game breakers shortly after and leave us wondering why these early cards ever had to be so bad.
In Vampire Lady's defense, its effect was better when it was released. At the time, spells and traps were relatively powerful, and did nothing in the GY. So even just making your opponent get rid of a Sakuretsu Armor or Nobleman of Crossout could easily be worth it.
Back in the day you pretty much always call Traps because if you called Spells you risk getting hit by Magician of Fate and if you called Monsters you just create food for Chaos monsters (Book of Life Helps in this regard).
@@RetrospectiveChannel True, MoF could make choosing Spells a bad idea, especially if you'r opponent is on something like Chaos. I suppose that with Traps, you run the risk of letting your opponent remove a dead Dustshoot from their deck. But if they're not playing it or they sided it out, you're basically guaranteed to remove a blowout card from their deck.
@@TheLetterJ0 yea the "bleed" effect wasnt bad until around XYZ era. Even in the XYZ era, it was STILL ok in conjunction with "Vampire Kingdom" (which gives you a free pop when you bleed your enemy) and your zombie support... (which ressurects your vampires after you bleed yourself) Just choose spell or trap cards more often than monsters and it will work out
Wow TheDuelLogs sure uses a lot of words to just say that Harpie lady 2 has her wing covering the two reasons why you would use the card compared to the others.
Hard disagree with Vampire Lady. Her effect isn't bad at all (and certainly not more than the previous cards), and a lot of decks don't want to have any of their spell or trap cards in the graveyard.
True but people run multiple copies of important cards. Like if someone vampire lady'd me and said "Spell" I could get rid of one of my 3 unexpected Dais since I really only need one and if I draw it again, it's a dead card usually. so even then it could help me. Unfortunately...a LOT of good decks have tons of recursion with spells and traps in the graveyard in modern day. So odds are at best, you thin their deck a little, and at worst, there's like good chance you're giving your opponent advantage for nothing really. They'll never pick their "one of" that they really need.
@@SethJV i would agree that during its time, it wasnt bad at all. Recursion wasnt as numerous back in her day... so when a monster hits the grave, its most likely gonna stay there since cards like Monster Reborn and friends arent as common. Same goes with spells and traps. But as @MarioMastar said... are you really doing a minus against your opponent? Since it doesnt impact the board and multiple copies of a card can minimize its damage Its good to run with the Vampire Field Spell: Vampire Kingdom... since "bleeding" an enemy results in a field pop (meaning it impacts the present board) AND a set up for your next plays Sadly... by the time the field spell got printed... recurssion was much more plentiful... not to mention floaters and graveyard effects. Calling "monster" against a zombie deck, for example, would get you a "thanks buddy
@@emiranda2491 Armor.exe has attack value of 2400, but requires you to remove a spell counter from anywherr during your turn and it cant attack the turn you summon it. That should make it in the list too At least the Rare Metal dragon, once summoned, will no longer bother you.
I have no idea why they couldn't just have Castle of Dark Illusions effect be "your opponent can't target any monsters for attack except this one" which would be at least close to its anime effect, instead of relating it's effect to Pumpkin, a card used by another minor antagonist who never even met Panic. Still does not deserve to be in the worst list. At the time of release the highest defense for a level 4 monster was 2000 and 1930 def was for all intents and purposes the same as that (there weren't any monsters with 1950 atk that people were using). Also, being a dark monster with less than 1500 atk made it an easy target for mystic tomatoe. Even the math isn't really hard as long as all the other monsters don't have unusual stat lines as you basically can just set aside the last two digits of the LP total and do your calculations normally.
I honestly though that my self. They could have had it say something like " As long as all of your monsters are dark attribute, your opponent can only target this face up monster for attack."
fun fact, bistro butcher WAS played by a guy at our locals, TO COMBO with appropriate. he ran 3 appropriates because EVERY deck had pot, graceful, upstart, some ran housekeeping + emerg. I think he was playing it in a clown control shell because i remember he got around the effect by using it to clear defense mode monsters or using stop attack. he lost in the finals because someone rammed a 1700 into it on his turn, then drew fissure + reborn on jinzo for the win XD. still whenever someone would talk about bad cards we would always say 'but remember bistro butcher?'
I could see Butcher being a mind game card too. One of those your opponent sees on the field and doesn't WANT to destroy cause every attack into it is a free draw 2. Imagine deliberately sending in weaker monsters to attack into Bistro to draw 2 from it instead of destroying it with a power house to only draw 2 once. Not that mind games always work (or even have a decent chance of) but hey..."a win's a win" mind games IS a legit strat sometimes and I've won a few duels with a very well timed bluff.
@@keymaster16 these days, it has an OTK it can enable XD Im not kidding... what you do is load up your deck with floaters (i.e Nova Summoner, Shinning Angel), Butcher, Creature Swap (and equivalent) and then the 5 Exodia pieces. Get out a floater, then next turn the Bistro Butcher, give it to your opponent, then ram that floater again and again until you draw your entire deck and win via Exodia! Is it a good OTK? Not in the slightest... but it does work... and i have done it in MD XD... once... PS: please note i said... once... not once in a while... just once XD
I actually built a deck featuring The Bistro Butcher in Nightmare Troubadour a while back. The idea is to combo it not with Appropriate, but with the rather obscure Continuous Trap "Greed". At each End Phase, Greed deals players 500 damage for each card they drew that turn outside of their normal start-of-turn draw. *Monsters* A Cat of Ill Omen x3 Cyber Jar Des Koala x3 Sangan Silent Magician LV4 x3 The Bistro Butcher x3 Witch of the Black Forest *Spells* Big Bang Shot x3 Graceful Charity Mystical Space Typhoon Pot of Greed Terraforming x3 Yami x3 *Traps* Call of the Haunted Disturbance Strategy x3 Dust Tornado x2 Greed x3 Mirror Force Negate Attack x2 Shadow Spell x2
@@SuperGoker64- I just wish Greed's effect activated upon the opponent drawing a card outside of the draw phase. Instead it activates during the end phase meaning the opponent can completely block the damage by activating MST or Dust Tornado to destroy it before the end phase occurs.
Well, we have an Exodia deck that uses Bistro Butcher, the idea is to give Bistro to your opponent and crashing with recruiters (if inremember well, to create this looping it is UFO Turtle, Masked Dragon, Dragon Trooper, UFORoid and Shining Angel), there is so many ways to use exodia to win but for me this one is one of the most creative ones.
I remember in of the YGO GX video games, Professor Sartyr used Bistro Butcher. I would respond by crashing multiple consecutive Giant Rats into it before unleashing a superpowered Muka Muka 😂
Paladin of dark dragon can summon Meteor black dragon... except it's not legal to put it in a deck, doesn't have red eyes in its name and is a fusion monster. Ok sure bud.
Man, seeing Boar Soldier hit me with a wave of nostalgia. Kid me thought it was the strongest card ever cause it was level 4 with 2000 attack. No I didn’t pay attention to the effect lol
In fairness, I don't think most of us did as a kid. IIRC I think we even decided that "effects are all 100% optional" meaning if a card had a negative effect, we could just choose not to have it happen. We...had NO idea how to play the game. XD
I have to admit. In the old days my friends and i changed a bit the Rules for ritual monsters. We have put them into the extradeck so you get them out easier.
That's how they worked in the dm manga and anime (outside of filler), the ritual spell created the monster out of thin air using the required tributes on the field, similar to how polymerization created fusion monsters.
I've always thought all they had to do to fix Rituals and Fusions is let Ritual monsters live in the Extra Deck, and let all Fusions contact fuse on the field without requiring Polymerization. Alas, it's far too late to change those now.
@@GMSryButYes. Now you must trust the opponent to be honest. If you catch them lying (say, by using a Trap Card after they claimed to have none) then that is considered illegal and they lose immediately.
I feel like vampire lady isn’t completely horrible with vampire kingdom on the field. Then you’re destroying a card every time you send a card from their deck to the grave. It’s still not strong but seems better than other cards on this list
I’d love to just summon Bistro Butcher just for my opponent to wonder if they should make sure they get dealt damage by it to draw, psychological warfare in its finest
Mind gaming in Yugioh can be a legitimate strat. They may figure if you have Bistro Butcher, you have a way to give it to your opponent or do like people do with one of the pot cards where they focus so much on drawing by attacking into you with weak monsters, they forget to build a board that can sufficiently hold off whatever you summon next turn.
Yeah if you add in creature swap with the butcher or vampire lady then they're not bottom tier. I still think Exodia Necross is the worst one yet with how many resources it requires plus how easily removable it is.
Please give us Castle of Dark Illusions support! Make the cards compatible with King of Yamimakai and all those weird atk value monsters that PaniK used. What about spell and traps that say "if you control a castle of dark illusions, then summon a monster from the deck that does not have 50 or 00 as an atk or def." Make a card that shrowds the field in darkness just like Panic!
if retrains occur i i rather have redesigns/upgrades than retrains. the monsters that do not have a multiple of 50 attack and defense values adds more needless complexity to the game. sword dragon and utopia prime are the only monsters not used by PaniK to have irregular values.
Paladin of white dragon was hands down my favorite card when I used to play Yu-Gi-Oh back on the gba lol. Getting manju of a thousand hands to get the other ritual card you needed, because the odds of having one of the 2 were always high, it was basically an instant summon. Because you can tribute manju to bring it out, pop a flip card like man eater bug or the stupid penguin and summon blue eyes on your main phase 2! Fun times 😌hurts me to see it on this list but I understand why😂😂
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I remember talking to a friend of dueling network (rip) about how Yado Karo can be used if you hace Rank-Up-Magic the seventh one in your starting hand to put it in thr bottom of the deck and THEN we use Convulsion of Nature to draw the seventh one and summon C107
Castle of Dark Illusion is even more ridiculous than he said. Because its stat biosting effect is a flip effect and not a continuous one, only the zombie monsters on the field when it's flipped face up get affected by it. So, if you summon a zombie after Castle of Dark Illusion, it doesn't get the power boost.
The butcher has at least one exodia deck it's used in where you give it to your opponent and attack with monsters that die and summon more to attack it so you gain the card draw
I was like Castle of Illusions is not that bad then your reminded me of the 30 in its defense and got flashbacks of having to remember those points in the old days and says... Yeah makes sense jajaja
@@Sklounst_Actual but heres the thing? we seen like beautful female beast tamer japanese only but for some odd reason we can have harpy 2 that has less clothes... I think the point is that they shouldnt had to censor that much... like I am sure kids seen way worst...
I remember using Bistro Butcher for decking out opponents in older games(because stupid missions or theme duels) since there were not many viable options. It was definitely a horrible experience.
Have to remember Butcher comes from an older time when not everyone had 1800 beaters laying around. People were playing 1700 Darkfire Soldiers even. You can attack over defense position creatures as a vanilla 1800 or add Appropriate and Roblin Goblin to accelerate your draw and mill them. It also kept hand destruction cards live.
I'm actually surprised Princess Pikeru and Princess Curran weren't in this list, despite them being 2 of my favorite cards. I've actually made custom support for them, as well as counterparts to both the level 2 and level 4 Pikeru/Curran for WIND, EARTH, FIRE, and WATER, on Dueling Book
@@mitchellslaughter2963 Pikeru i have no defense for it But for Curran, i once played a prison type deck with Ojama Trio. Prison includes cards like Limit Level B (switches all 4* and up monters to DEF position), Swords of Revealing Light (3 turns opponent cant attack you) and lots of negate (Dark Bribe, Solemn etc). When i use Ojama Trio, Curran does 1800 damage per turn... and its usually just those 3 bec id run Ground Collapse or Ojama Knight to block the other 2 Monster Zones. So yea... i have used Curran as my win con in much slower formats (GX era) Pikeru... i suppose it can be run in some sort of weird Aromage deck...? But... i dont know... never really found any use for her PS: altho for the most part, the 2* version is more than enough for this prison deck... but when else am i going to be able to run Princess and the trial equipment to some degree? XD
Probably due to covering them in previous videos. He doesn't like to constantly cover the same cards. I believe they were in his video on the Worst Equip Spells
Vampire Lady may be bad, but she was really fun to play in pure Vampire in early Duel Links, where recursion wasnt popular and 1550 + the 500 of the fieldspell was enough to get over a lot of threats + the fieldspell allowing you to pop.
The thing I like about Yado Karu is that it is one of the very few cards in YGO that says you can adjust things in any way "you desire" ... which sounds more interesting than the "in any order you choose" nowadays
one point to note about paladin dragons, is that while all the others's ritual spells require level 4 or highter, the ritual spell of photon dragon require exactly level 4 but it also allow to ritual summon another paladin of photon dragon from your hand by banishing it with another level 4 monster, while the other ritual spells don't have that effect.
Tbf, paladin of white dragon is actually very good by goat format standards, especially for a ritual monster in 2005 and you can play a fringely competitive blue eyes deck with him in such
No, by goat format standards it's horrible. It eats up way too many resources and is inconsistent. This is a format where Scapegoat + Metamorphosis exists.
@nicolaistuhlmuller8718 in the overall context of goat meta sure, I got a little ahead of myself there tbf, but in a dedicated blue eyes strategy in that format it's great. It's also far more consistent then you think, there's 3 manju and 3 senju in goat format. Even the el shaddoll construct-esque effect to auto kill face down monsters it attacks is a pretty strong effect that decks would kill for in that format
You honestly don't even need to run BEWD in decks with Paladin. Rituals in Goat Format is mostly an alternate engine to thin the deck/gain card advantage off of Manju/Senju + Tsukuyomi to enable Rageki Break/Tribe/Card D & get it into the grave for Chaos fuel. The only knock against it is that it isn't DARK.
@@DonbotS Since Tomato, Sangan, and Witch is the natural package to get to Manju, honestly Paladin (or Relinquished, for that matter) represent a whole chaos engine incidentally and a ritual summon only needs to represent 2 cards (or cards that get to cards), not much bigger of an ask than making Metamorphosis live. The main issue with Paladin is more the main issue Parshath has: being a really threatening 1900 attacker but needing 2 cards to make is really rough into backrow.
Wait so Harpie Lady 2 negates the flip effect of any monster it destroys by batlle..but alot of flip effects happen instantly anyway..so what's the point outside of the "if destroyed by battle/sent to graveyard" effects?
I remember I used to play a Paladin Of The White Dragon based Blue-Eyes way back then. It worked reasonably well, though not too great. It definitely lacked some kind of protection. It was fun though.
You notice the monsters that didn’t have a stat line ending in 00 and or 50 were used by panic? I guess that’s why he’s called panik because his opponents will panic trying to keep up with all that math he set up for them with the monsters in his deck
Now I want a new Harpie Xyz monster that's a revamped Harpie Lady Sisters with an effect that Soul Drains your opponent's destroyed cards. In addition to the Exodia Necross/Contract With Exodia retrain that just gives it it's anime effects of getting a different effect for each piece in the graveyard.
When I first heard about Exodia Necross I thought it was Exodia Necroz and was part of the Necroz archetype, and it's kind of like a Necroz monster, referencing another monster while having Ritual-like summoning conditions. Maybe someday we'll get Necroz of Exodia and you can summon it with Advanced Ritual Art by dumping the pieces from deck.
One of my favourite things from these videos is thinking:"Hey I remember this card, X person gave it to me when we were kids. Good times" whenever an old underwhelming card shows up.
Vampire Lady can also be a resource for the other vampire cards like the ones that require you to discard a card to use the effect. So yeah, on the field not the best card but still useful in a vampire deck.
Pyro Clock of Destiny is hilarious in how little it actually accomplishes. Almost nothing cares what the current turn number is, most turn-based effects only care how many Standby Phases have passed, on how many End Phases, etc. Which means skipping ahead a turn, without going through any of those phases, doesn't do a darn thing for any of those cards.
The Thing is, that Ritual Monsters would be straight up "better" Fusion Monsters if they were Extra Deck Monsters. Especially back in the old days of Yugioh. "Use one Ritual Spell and one random Tribute to get a Big Monster from the Extra Deck" unlike Fusion... "use one Ploymerization Spell and two specific Monsters to get a big Monster from the Extra Deck". That would be poor balancing (not saying that Yugioh was good balanced at all lol).
14:22 did you know that baou is the ultimate attack spell in the anime "Zatch Bell"? It's hilarious to see that one show makes it a very powerful attack guardian, and another makes it a joke.
So not only do I actually love the Castle of Dark Illusions I'm working on a custom card re-train of it and all of PaniK's cards. Key changes being: Make them all Illusion monsters, Yamakai is the boss monster, luster (chaos) shield rework, add 3 new abnormal stat monsters (pulling them from Gameboy/GBA games that don't have IRL cards yet), 3 new continuous spells, and no zombie synergy. Those are my PaniK reworks.
Regenerating Mummy deserves to be on this list, Vampire Lady number 1 is super weird, her effect is not worst in game compared to other shits, for modern yugioh is ass yes, but in Goat is amazing to drop power spells from ur opponent deck
I've seen people play a deck that involved The Bistro Butcher and a combo that constantly summoned tokens to the opponent's first and crashing them into the Butcher, causing a race between whether they'll lose all their LP or run out of cards in their deck first. It was fun to watch.
Exodia Necross got done dirty in the real card game. In the anime, he's a Ritual, who gains effects based on the pieces in the Graveyard Cannot be destroyed by battle Cannot be destroyed by Spell Cannot be destroyed by Trap Cannot be destroyed by Monster When it battles, it gains 1000ATK(permanently)
This list is a joke, Paladin and *ESPECIALLY* Necross are so much worse than the other cards on this list it's not even funny. Not being able to Normal Summon/Set *AUTOMATICALLY* makes them among the worst because unless they have a built-in summon effect they can't be used. Even in the WORST case scenario for something like Bistro Butcher, Yado, Lady, etc. you can still just set them to protect your LP or use them as Extra Deck summon material. You can't do ANYTHING with Paladin or Necross unless you meet their summon conditions. 23:20 - Even if you COULD do that (which you can't because you're in the damage step) you were *SOOOOOOOOOOOO* close to naming a card you'd want to pair this with: MukA. *_Muka_* MukA. If you switch control of the Bistro Butcher and crash into it with your monster, now all of a sudden *YOU'RE* the one drawing the cards. And if you can do it enough times, there are all *KINDS* of cards that could benefit from it. Mostly ATK-increasing cards like Slifer, Enraged Muka Muka, Tragoedia, etc. But of course, one of the most significant is *EXODIA,* which is something I did in Master Duel *SEVERAL* times.
Yeah, you'll NEVER run Harpy lady 2 because you're either running Harpy lady 1, Harpy lady, or cyber harpy lady. Harpy lady 3 on niche cases, but 2 requires you to know your opponent is running flip monsters and intends to use a maneater bug or something.... but the thing is, you're never gonna attack with Harpy lady 2 anyway. she'll be Synchro'd or XYZ'd RIGHT away. So the hill is ultra high to climb.
exodia necross would have actually been an alright card if it was a ritual, and if contract with exodia had the effect to send all the forbidden one cards from hand deck or field to the grave to summon necross.
Interesting note about Castle of Dark Illusions. In the first English YGO game, Dark Duel Stories, it did have the 1200/2500 stat line, making it one of the best cards in the game. The game also altered King of Yamimakai's statline to a massive 2600/something, making it better than Summoned Skull.
If Vampire Lady and it's bigger brother Vampire Lord was to give it a card text buff, like say when your opponent has to choose a card to discard one random Monster, Spell, or Trap to the GY it must be placed face down and you gain an immunity to that card type for the rest of that turn, then it's effect would have made it absolutely broken and ban worthy especially during the time the card came out.
I agree alot on the vampire lady effect, though it COULD be decent in specific situations, like making opponent send a monster to make your book of life available to use for example, or sending away spell cards from their deck if you run Magic drain copies in your deck, to make them more viable, even if thats a very bit stretch. I just like finding uses for cards that on paper are quite bad
Seeing Number #06's combo of solid stats and terrible effects reminds me of the first time I obtained Armor Exe. I got over-excited and slotted it into my deck, without checking its effects, so I looked and felt like a dope when it self-destructed at the start of my opponent's turn. On top of that, it was the start of the Duel and left nothing else out. I done goofed... Always examine the card text folks. Especially those of Effect Monsters.
13:32 Imagine the day we get a either a Boar Soldier retrain, or a card with Boar Soldier in its artwork that support the Egyptian God cards 23:53 such a shame, for such a nice artwork
and hope your opponent has a flip monster? If your strategy revolves around your opponent having certain cards in their deck, there's a legit chance the card has no value at all. XD Sure your opponent COULD have a flip monster, but with the other options affecting EVERY duel, not just some of them, the odds of getting advantage by stopping a flip effect are so low, your opponent would have to tell you "by the way, I use flip monsters" and even then... They'll probably have multiple or a bigger plan than just flipping. Sadly, one of the hard rules of yugioh... If your strategy requires your OPPONENT to be playing certain cards, the odds are lower than winning at a casino. and it's not like you can GIVE them flip cards (just to negate them....which why?) XD Still if you NEED 3 harpies and you only physically have Harpie 2, she's better than nothing.
@MarioMastar I had All three when they were new in ocg and got No use out of any including the normal monster. But at least you are using it the way it was intended. Harpies 3 can get blown up before battle or ran over by a monster unaffected by it's weak effect. Harpie 1 is the best but the strat evolved past most of the Harpies listed
I'm wondering, will Vampire Lady's effect completely cease to work if a card like Macro Cosmos or Dimensional Fissure is on the field (For the latter, you can't choose monster at all)?
Bistro butcher does have an otk strategy with exodia + token and swarm cards. It requires a lot of luck to set up, but its pretty hard to stop once rolling.
Vampire lady equipped with either black pendent or Power of the guardians works wonders in my milling deck. I deck out a majority of my opponents in dual links.
There's some interesting things about a couple of monsters on this list that weren't brought up. Yado Karu is the only card in the game that puts cards back in any order "you desire," and still doesn't have a printing without this wording. The Bistro Butcher was also released in the exact same set as 7 Colored Fish, which has the same ATK, but 200 less DEF, but also doesn't have the major downside of Butcher
Interesting choices: Boar Soldier has use in Meklords that can be searched with Tenki. Harpie Lady #2 could be a side deck choice against Penguins or Shaddolls. Bistro Butcher makes me think of Trickstar Lycoris combos, although it's probably not the best choice for that. Finally, Vampire Lady can, in certain matchups, force a player to dump cards that they do want to draw, especially if you declare Trap Cards in some strategies that don't run many. Still, Kashtira Ogre is the nail in the coffin.
Necross was playable-ish when it released, because Painful Choice was still legal and set it up very quickly. There were a lot fewer ways to remove it, too, and GY hate wasn't very common.
That was still extremely bad. Painful Choice was at 1, was already one of the best cards in the game that you would have to waste and you need a 3 card combo just to get Necross out, when back then there were 3 card combos that won the game on the spot.
Whoever decided that Castle of Dark Illusions was better off being a fiend instead of a zombie type should be 🔫. I understand Lord of D because of its effect but come on, Dark Illusions effect had no self protection especially back then when you could summon high level monsters without tributing.
I ran a shadow ghoul beatstick deck and ran castle of dark illusions. By the 4th turn my shadow ghoul would easily have over 4k attack which was huge in the original meta
I think boar n nuvias purpose is to have it's effect negated by skill drain. That used to be bastions deck in the 2008 ds game. Purpose of skill drain is to fill it up with level 4 beat stick with bad effects and then negate it with skill drain
Not only did they come out way before Skill Drain, but by the time Skill Drain came out there were tons of stronger monsters out already. And shortly after fusilier dragon was released.
Harpie Lady 2 actually had some (admittedly not much, but some) play in "beastdown" decks back in the day, as being a much worse Ha Des was still valuable enough with tribeast typing, as it could benefit from Enraged Battle Ox, be used for Manticore of Darkness summons, etc. I don't know anywhere that Harpie Lady 3 saw play, as dedicated Harpie decks usually wanted Cyber or 1 instead.
Paladin of white's _effect_ was actually not terrible for the time. Destroying a fd monster at the start of the damage step prevents it from flipping face up, so flip effects don't activate.
Castle of Dark Illusions saved me from so many Vorse Raiders and Gemini Elfs back then. I can never hate it
But there's a monster with 2000 defends like mystical elf, the soldier of giant, aqua mandor etc.
Castle of dark Illusions is also the only wall that crush card can also use as a tribute. All others were other attributes (mystical elf aqua madoor giant solider of stone spirit of the harp)
Just remembered, Wall of Illusion exists, but would not survive that battle
I remember using Castle of Dark Illusions in Eternal Duelist Soul for that purpose. There were level 4 monsters with slightly higher defense, but the castle could also be tribute for Crush Card.
Plebs
Plus it buffs your pumpking, broken
EDIT: I'll genuinely consider running Castle/Crush Card next time I'm playing Yu-Gi-Oh GBA games, Crush Card was wild
4:01 _"[Harpie Lady 2] is kind of an odd card."_
No, you are wrong. It is even.
The odd cards are Harpie Ladies 1 and 3.
*slow claps* 😂
Duuuude
*ba dum tssss* :D
@@ThermalVoid i wanna get the tomatoes... but this was pretty good so maybe next time XD
Something to note about PaniK is, that ALL of his monsters had irregular attack and defense stats. Doing so ensured the one thing that would make every opponents panic: math
PaniK was an absolute menace to society.
Math that doesn't end in 100 and literacy, every YGO player's worst nightmares
Why did Castle of Dark Illusions boost zombie type monsters in the TCG? In the anime it boosted PaniK’s fiends type monsters, and it’s Pumpking that boosted zombie types yet in the TCG, both cards can only work with each other even though Bonz never used Castle and vice versa with PaniK and Pumpking
It’s a nerf
@@IndexInvestingWithColeA really strange way to nerf it.
@@MasterArchfiend very
They should have just had it boost dark monsters
Cause they REALLY wanted those boss monsters to NEVER be useable... I think early Yugioh had a strong air of telling you what cards they expected you to play and which ones they didn't, given Joey put Mako, Espa and Weevile and Rex's cards all in his deck, but didn't bother with Bonz or Panik's "ace" monsters. XD
Sadly not the only time a card was perfectly servicable in the anime, but painfully nerfed in the TCG cause they feared "it'd be too powerful" only to release game breakers shortly after and leave us wondering why these early cards ever had to be so bad.
In Vampire Lady's defense, its effect was better when it was released. At the time, spells and traps were relatively powerful, and did nothing in the GY. So even just making your opponent get rid of a Sakuretsu Armor or Nobleman of Crossout could easily be worth it.
Right. Its definitely not the worst 4 star monster.
I was gonna say the same thing. Sure, you never call monster, but burning away even weaker maindeck traps/spells gave you so much info and advantage.
Back in the day you pretty much always call Traps because if you called Spells you risk getting hit by Magician of Fate and if you called Monsters you just create food for Chaos monsters (Book of Life Helps in this regard).
@@RetrospectiveChannel True, MoF could make choosing Spells a bad idea, especially if you'r opponent is on something like Chaos. I suppose that with Traps, you run the risk of letting your opponent remove a dead Dustshoot from their deck. But if they're not playing it or they sided it out, you're basically guaranteed to remove a blowout card from their deck.
@@TheLetterJ0 yea the "bleed" effect wasnt bad until around XYZ era. Even in the XYZ era, it was STILL ok in conjunction with "Vampire Kingdom" (which gives you a free pop when you bleed your enemy) and your zombie support... (which ressurects your vampires after you bleed yourself)
Just choose spell or trap cards more often than monsters and it will work out
Wow TheDuelLogs sure uses a lot of words to just say that Harpie lady 2 has her wing covering the two reasons why you would use the card compared to the others.
Honestly the best level four monster is insect knight, its battle prowess grows ever stronger and we can no longer ignore it.
😂
And you know whats the best part about insect knight...?
He/They
@@bonzey9895"They" refers to the Indestructible Insect Invaders, not to Insect Knight.
@@Pocket-Calculator That was a MBT reference btw. I was just joking.
I thought the best Level 4 monster is Jerry Beans Man.
Hard disagree with Vampire Lady. Her effect isn't bad at all (and certainly not more than the previous cards), and a lot of decks don't want to have any of their spell or trap cards in the graveyard.
True but people run multiple copies of important cards. Like if someone vampire lady'd me and said "Spell" I could get rid of one of my 3 unexpected Dais since I really only need one and if I draw it again, it's a dead card usually. so even then it could help me. Unfortunately...a LOT of good decks have tons of recursion with spells and traps in the graveyard in modern day. So odds are at best, you thin their deck a little, and at worst, there's like good chance you're giving your opponent advantage for nothing really. They'll never pick their "one of" that they really need.
Vapire Lady would genuinely be better as a normal monster, and a monster that is worse than a 1550 normal monster is an easy first place
@@SethJV i would agree that during its time, it wasnt bad at all. Recursion wasnt as numerous back in her day... so when a monster hits the grave, its most likely gonna stay there since cards like Monster Reborn and friends arent as common. Same goes with spells and traps.
But as @MarioMastar said... are you really doing a minus against your opponent? Since it doesnt impact the board and multiple copies of a card can minimize its damage
Its good to run with the Vampire Field Spell: Vampire Kingdom... since "bleeding" an enemy results in a field pop (meaning it impacts the present board) AND a set up for your next plays
Sadly... by the time the field spell got printed... recurssion was much more plentiful... not to mention floaters and graveyard effects. Calling "monster" against a zombie deck, for example, would get you a "thanks buddy
Vampire lady doesn't deserve the number 1 space like wtf. Almost all the cards on this list are worse than that card.
Rare Metal Dragon should have been there…..
Justice for the vampire sub-archtypes
@@emiranda2491 Armor.exe has attack value of 2400, but requires you to remove a spell counter from anywherr during your turn and it cant attack the turn you summon it. That should make it in the list too
At least the Rare Metal dragon, once summoned, will no longer bother you.
I have no idea why they couldn't just have Castle of Dark Illusions effect be "your opponent can't target any monsters for attack except this one" which would be at least close to its anime effect, instead of relating it's effect to Pumpkin, a card used by another minor antagonist who never even met Panic.
Still does not deserve to be in the worst list. At the time of release the highest defense for a level 4 monster was 2000 and 1930 def was for all intents and purposes the same as that (there weren't any monsters with 1950 atk that people were using). Also, being a dark monster with less than 1500 atk made it an easy target for mystic tomatoe. Even the math isn't really hard as long as all the other monsters don't have unusual stat lines as you basically can just set aside the last two digits of the LP total and do your calculations normally.
I honestly though that my self. They could have had it say something like " As long as all of your monsters are dark attribute, your opponent can only target this face up monster for attack."
fun fact, bistro butcher WAS played by a guy at our locals, TO COMBO with appropriate. he ran 3 appropriates because EVERY deck had pot, graceful, upstart, some ran housekeeping + emerg. I think he was playing it in a clown control shell because i remember he got around the effect by using it to clear defense mode monsters or using stop attack. he lost in the finals because someone rammed a 1700 into it on his turn, then drew fissure + reborn on jinzo for the win XD. still whenever someone would talk about bad cards we would always say 'but remember bistro butcher?'
The Butcher is Great Creature Swap Bait
I could see Butcher being a mind game card too. One of those your opponent sees on the field and doesn't WANT to destroy cause every attack into it is a free draw 2. Imagine deliberately sending in weaker monsters to attack into Bistro to draw 2 from it instead of destroying it with a power house to only draw 2 once. Not that mind games always work (or even have a decent chance of) but hey..."a win's a win" mind games IS a legit strat sometimes and I've won a few duels with a very well timed bluff.
@@keymaster16 these days, it has an OTK it can enable XD
Im not kidding... what you do is load up your deck with floaters (i.e Nova Summoner, Shinning Angel), Butcher, Creature Swap (and equivalent) and then the 5 Exodia pieces. Get out a floater, then next turn the Bistro Butcher, give it to your opponent, then ram that floater again and again until you draw your entire deck and win via Exodia!
Is it a good OTK? Not in the slightest... but it does work... and i have done it in MD XD... once...
PS: please note i said... once... not once in a while... just once XD
I actually built a deck featuring The Bistro Butcher in Nightmare Troubadour a while back. The idea is to combo it not with Appropriate, but with the rather obscure Continuous Trap "Greed". At each End Phase, Greed deals players 500 damage for each card they drew that turn outside of their normal start-of-turn draw.
*Monsters*
A Cat of Ill Omen x3
Cyber Jar
Des Koala x3
Sangan
Silent Magician LV4 x3
The Bistro Butcher x3
Witch of the Black Forest
*Spells*
Big Bang Shot x3
Graceful Charity
Mystical Space Typhoon
Pot of Greed
Terraforming x3
Yami x3
*Traps*
Call of the Haunted
Disturbance Strategy x3
Dust Tornado x2
Greed x3
Mirror Force
Negate Attack x2
Shadow Spell x2
@@SuperGoker64- I just wish Greed's effect activated upon the opponent drawing a card outside of the draw phase. Instead it activates during the end phase meaning the opponent can completely block the damage by activating MST or Dust Tornado to destroy it before the end phase occurs.
Well, we have an Exodia deck that uses Bistro Butcher, the idea is to give Bistro to your opponent and crashing with recruiters (if inremember well, to create this looping it is UFO Turtle, Masked Dragon, Dragon Trooper, UFORoid and Shining Angel), there is so many ways to use exodia to win but for me this one is one of the most creative ones.
I remember in of the YGO GX video games, Professor Sartyr used Bistro Butcher.
I would respond by crashing multiple consecutive Giant Rats into it before unleashing a superpowered Muka Muka 😂
Paladin of dark dragon can summon Meteor black dragon... except it's not legal to put it in a deck, doesn't have red eyes in its name and is a fusion monster. Ok sure bud.
I was about to say the same thing. But I THINK he meant to talk about Red-Eyes Black Meteor Dragon.
Man, seeing Boar Soldier hit me with a wave of nostalgia. Kid me thought it was the strongest card ever cause it was level 4 with 2000 attack. No I didn’t pay attention to the effect lol
In fairness, I don't think most of us did as a kid. IIRC I think we even decided that "effects are all 100% optional" meaning if a card had a negative effect, we could just choose not to have it happen. We...had NO idea how to play the game. XD
Flash Assailant welcomes you.
@@MarioMastarkid me thought Pot of Greed was ome of the worst cards and Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon the best
I have to admit. In the old days my friends and i changed a bit the Rules for ritual monsters. We have put them into the extradeck so you get them out easier.
Understandable.
That's how they worked in the dm manga and anime (outside of filler), the ritual spell created the monster out of thin air using the required tributes on the field, similar to how polymerization created fusion monsters.
I've always thought all they had to do to fix Rituals and Fusions is let Ritual monsters live in the Extra Deck, and let all Fusions contact fuse on the field without requiring Polymerization.
Alas, it's far too late to change those now.
Vampire Lady can let you check out your opponent Deck if they don't have the type of card you declared, gaining you ENORMOUS knowledge advantage xD
this is no longer true by the way. the ruling was changed a few years ago.
@@tubegerm6732 So what'S then?
My opponennt declares trap, I say I have no trap and what then?
They have to believe me on the "Trust Me, Bro" basis?
@@GMSryButhe is wrong this is exactly how it works the way op said
@@GMSryButYes. Now you must trust the opponent to be honest.
If you catch them lying (say, by using a Trap Card after they claimed to have none) then that is considered illegal and they lose immediately.
@@Pocket-Calculatorhow can they be totally sure that card wasnt already in the hand before this effect though? If they have cards in hand that is
I feel like vampire lady isn’t completely horrible with vampire kingdom on the field. Then you’re destroying a card every time you send a card from their deck to the grave. It’s still not strong but seems better than other cards on this list
You're sleeping on the "butcher-swap-exodia" strategy, bro!
@@FernandoOliveira-oq9gr i made that deck work once in MD
... note i said "once"... not once in a while XD
I’d love to just summon Bistro Butcher just for my opponent to wonder if they should make sure they get dealt damage by it to draw, psychological warfare in its finest
Mind gaming in Yugioh can be a legitimate strat. They may figure if you have Bistro Butcher, you have a way to give it to your opponent or do like people do with one of the pot cards where they focus so much on drawing by attacking into you with weak monsters, they forget to build a board that can sufficiently hold off whatever you summon next turn.
The Bistro Butcher was my first card I ever got, in the same pack I got like some ritual sword girl and wall shadow? Ages ago. Good times!
Im surprised you didnt mention creature swap with bistro butcher. Thats probably the best way to use it
Yeah if you add in creature swap with the butcher or vampire lady then they're not bottom tier. I still think Exodia Necross is the worst one yet with how many resources it requires plus how easily removable it is.
Please give us Castle of Dark Illusions support! Make the cards compatible with King of Yamimakai and all those weird atk value monsters that PaniK used. What about spell and traps that say "if you control a castle of dark illusions, then summon a monster from the deck that does not have 50 or 00 as an atk or def." Make a card that shrowds the field in darkness just like Panic!
I'd be so down for that. I think he's one of the few OG villians that don't have retrains
if retrains occur i i rather have redesigns/upgrades than retrains. the monsters that do not have a multiple of 50 attack and defense values adds more needless complexity to the game. sword dragon and utopia prime are the only monsters not used by PaniK to have irregular values.
the bandai kind of yamimaki was a level 7 2600/1600 and in dark duel stories it was a level 5 2600/2300.
Castle of Dark Illusions was funny to play as a kid just cause it'd make the math so frustrating when you didn't have a calculator
why were y’all so bad at basic arithmetic
@@cashnelson2306back then i am surprised the kids knew how to play at all.
@@leandrocastello309 the decks came with a rulebook lol
Paladin of white dragon was hands down my favorite card when I used to play Yu-Gi-Oh back on the gba lol. Getting manju of a thousand hands to get the other ritual card you needed, because the odds of having one of the 2 were always high, it was basically an instant summon. Because you can tribute manju to bring it out, pop a flip card like man eater bug or the stupid penguin and summon blue eyes on your main phase 2! Fun times 😌hurts me to see it on this list but I understand why😂😂
First time I've watched one of your videos this early. Recently started playing Yu Gi Oh games again and your top 10s has been helping me relearn stuff and get hyped, currently playing Yu Gi Oh Tag Force 1 on the PSP. Thanks for your videos. 🎉
I feel like a part 2 is needed because there are definitely more that can be added to make this Top 50 at LEAST
I remember talking to a friend of dueling network (rip) about how Yado Karo can be used if you hace Rank-Up-Magic the seventh one in your starting hand to put it in thr bottom of the deck and THEN we use Convulsion of Nature to draw the seventh one and summon C107
I've liked Bistro Butcher for that simple little combo of Creature Swap and Mystic Tomato/Giant Germ. Made sure my Strike Ninja was well fed.
Genuinely a fan of number 3, was the first Yu-Gi-Oh card I ever got as a kid
Castle of Dark Illusion is even more ridiculous than he said. Because its stat biosting effect is a flip effect and not a continuous one, only the zombie monsters on the field when it's flipped face up get affected by it. So, if you summon a zombie after Castle of Dark Illusion, it doesn't get the power boost.
It’s impressive how much unique content you create, amazing work you do
The butcher has at least one exodia deck it's used in where you give it to your opponent and attack with monsters that die and summon more to attack it so you gain the card draw
The dragon of "Paladin of White Dragon"s artwork looks HIDEOUS ☠️
"That's not a head, that's a bean..."
YGO dragons all looked like this in 2003 and I never understood why. Beans.
It's inspired by xenomorphs, pretty sure
No wonder the new Blue-Eyes Link-1 is just a small BEWD.
I was like Castle of Illusions is not that bad then your reminded me of the 30 in its defense and got flashbacks of having to remember those points in the old days and says... Yeah makes sense jajaja
Let's be clear, Harpie Lady #2 is on this list over the others because no B00B5
Amen! They shouldn't be censoring female anatomy! If the male cards can have giant muscles and pecks, female cards can have boobs!
@@MarioMastar That's....not quite the same but ok lol
@@Sklounst_Actual but heres the thing? we seen like beautful female beast tamer japanese only but for some odd reason we can have harpy 2 that has less clothes... I think the point is that they shouldnt had to censor that much... like I am sure kids seen way worst...
Harpie Lady 2 may be bad but she's also a baddie
You see 3!?!?! 2 hiding that cake 🎂
I remember using Bistro Butcher for decking out opponents in older games(because stupid missions or theme duels) since there were not many viable options. It was definitely a horrible experience.
Have to remember Butcher comes from an older time when not everyone had 1800 beaters laying around. People were playing 1700 Darkfire Soldiers even. You can attack over defense position creatures as a vanilla 1800 or add Appropriate and Roblin Goblin to accelerate your draw and mill them. It also kept hand destruction cards live.
I'm actually surprised Princess Pikeru and Princess Curran weren't in this list, despite them being 2 of my favorite cards. I've actually made custom support for them, as well as counterparts to both the level 2 and level 4 Pikeru/Curran for WIND, EARTH, FIRE, and WATER, on Dueling Book
yeah they're both way worse then Vampire Lady.
@@jadedheartsz Yeah, I use a vampire deck and Vampire Lady is a good card as a discard option for the other vampire cards cost.
@@mitchellslaughter2963 Pikeru i have no defense for it
But for Curran, i once played a prison type deck with Ojama Trio. Prison includes cards like Limit Level B (switches all 4* and up monters to DEF position), Swords of Revealing Light (3 turns opponent cant attack you) and lots of negate (Dark Bribe, Solemn etc).
When i use Ojama Trio, Curran does 1800 damage per turn... and its usually just those 3 bec id run Ground Collapse or Ojama Knight to block the other 2 Monster Zones.
So yea... i have used Curran as my win con in much slower formats (GX era)
Pikeru... i suppose it can be run in some sort of weird Aromage deck...? But... i dont know... never really found any use for her
PS: altho for the most part, the 2* version is more than enough for this prison deck... but when else am i going to be able to run Princess and the trial equipment to some degree? XD
Probably due to covering them in previous videos. He doesn't like to constantly cover the same cards. I believe they were in his video on the Worst Equip Spells
Vampire Lady may be bad, but she was really fun to play in pure Vampire in early Duel Links, where recursion wasnt popular and 1550 + the 500 of the fieldspell was enough to get over a lot of threats + the fieldspell allowing you to pop.
The thing I like about Yado Karu is that it is one of the very few cards in YGO that says you can adjust things in any way "you desire" ... which sounds more interesting than the "in any order you choose" nowadays
Armor Exe Spell Counter thing is a cost, so Skill Drain doesn't negate it.
@@thewanderingmistnull2451which makes it even worss! 😅
one point to note about paladin dragons, is that while all the others's ritual spells require level 4 or highter, the ritual spell of photon dragon require exactly level 4 but it also allow to ritual summon another paladin of photon dragon from your hand by banishing it with another level 4 monster, while the other ritual spells don't have that effect.
Tbf, paladin of white dragon is actually very good by goat format standards, especially for a ritual monster in 2005 and you can play a fringely competitive blue eyes deck with him in such
No, by goat format standards it's horrible. It eats up way too many resources and is inconsistent.
This is a format where Scapegoat + Metamorphosis exists.
@nicolaistuhlmuller8718 in the overall context of goat meta sure, I got a little ahead of myself there tbf, but in a dedicated blue eyes strategy in that format it's great. It's also far more consistent then you think, there's 3 manju and 3 senju in goat format. Even the el shaddoll construct-esque effect to auto kill face down monsters it attacks is a pretty strong effect that decks would kill for in that format
You honestly don't even need to run BEWD in decks with Paladin. Rituals in Goat Format is mostly an alternate engine to thin the deck/gain card advantage off of Manju/Senju + Tsukuyomi to enable Rageki Break/Tribe/Card D & get it into the grave for Chaos fuel. The only knock against it is that it isn't DARK.
@@DonbotS interesting
@@DonbotS Since Tomato, Sangan, and Witch is the natural package to get to Manju, honestly Paladin (or Relinquished, for that matter) represent a whole chaos engine incidentally and a ritual summon only needs to represent 2 cards (or cards that get to cards), not much bigger of an ask than making Metamorphosis live. The main issue with Paladin is more the main issue Parshath has: being a really threatening 1900 attacker but needing 2 cards to make is really rough into backrow.
Wait so Harpie Lady 2 negates the flip effect of any monster it destroys by batlle..but alot of flip effects happen instantly anyway..so what's the point outside of the "if destroyed by battle/sent to graveyard" effects?
I remember I used to play a Paladin Of The White Dragon based Blue-Eyes way back then. It worked reasonably well, though not too great. It definitely lacked some kind of protection. It was fun though.
Whoa, this is the first time I really gave the Harpie Lady 3 card art a good look. You KNOW her back hurts.
You notice the monsters that didn’t have a stat line ending in 00 and or 50 were used by panic? I guess that’s why he’s called panik because his opponents will panic trying to keep up with all that math he set up for them with the monsters in his deck
Now I want a new Harpie Xyz monster that's a revamped Harpie Lady Sisters with an effect that Soul Drains your opponent's destroyed cards. In addition to the Exodia Necross/Contract With Exodia retrain that just gives it it's anime effects of getting a different effect for each piece in the graveyard.
When I first heard about Exodia Necross I thought it was Exodia Necroz and was part of the Necroz archetype, and it's kind of like a Necroz monster, referencing another monster while having Ritual-like summoning conditions. Maybe someday we'll get Necroz of Exodia and you can summon it with Advanced Ritual Art by dumping the pieces from deck.
One of my favourite things from these videos is thinking:"Hey I remember this card, X person gave it to me when we were kids. Good times" whenever an old underwhelming card shows up.
Vampire Lady can also be a resource for the other vampire cards like the ones that require you to discard a card to use the effect. So yeah, on the field not the best card but still useful in a vampire deck.
it annoys me to no end that Exodia Necross isn't affected by Pyro Clock of Destiny
Pyro Clock of Destiny is hilarious in how little it actually accomplishes. Almost nothing cares what the current turn number is, most turn-based effects only care how many Standby Phases have passed, on how many End Phases, etc. Which means skipping ahead a turn, without going through any of those phases, doesn't do a darn thing for any of those cards.
I’ll never understand why ritual monsters don’t go in the extra deck like fusion monsters. Would have immediately improved their viability
The Thing is, that Ritual Monsters would be straight up "better" Fusion Monsters if they were Extra Deck Monsters. Especially back in the old days of Yugioh. "Use one Ritual Spell and one random Tribute to get a Big Monster from the Extra Deck" unlike Fusion... "use one Ploymerization Spell and two specific Monsters to get a big Monster from the Extra Deck". That would be poor balancing (not saying that Yugioh was good balanced at all lol).
Castle of Dark Illusions is fire because it works with crush card as well as the strongest dark wall. Unless you have wall of illusion
14:22 did you know that baou is the ultimate attack spell in the anime "Zatch Bell"? It's hilarious to see that one show makes it a very powerful attack guardian, and another makes it a joke.
So not only do I actually love the Castle of Dark Illusions I'm working on a custom card re-train of it and all of PaniK's cards. Key changes being: Make them all Illusion monsters, Yamakai is the boss monster, luster (chaos) shield rework, add 3 new abnormal stat monsters (pulling them from Gameboy/GBA games that don't have IRL cards yet), 3 new continuous spells, and no zombie synergy. Those are my PaniK reworks.
I actually love Yado Karu. It's just a really cool looking hermit crab monster, and I just think it's neat.
I don’t see why people simp Dark Magician Girl when harpie lady 3 got some big ol honkin bizongers
You did NOT mention the Castle of Dark Illusions' floatation ring
Does anyone remember the Ps2 Yu gi Oh game called Duelist of the Roses?
I remember a lot of fun times on there.
Regenerating Mummy deserves to be on this list, Vampire Lady number 1 is super weird, her effect is not worst in game compared to other shits, for modern yugioh is ass yes, but in Goat is amazing to drop power spells from ur opponent deck
I've seen people play a deck that involved The Bistro Butcher and a combo that constantly summoned tokens to the opponent's first and crashing them into the Butcher, causing a race between whether they'll lose all their LP or run out of cards in their deck first. It was fun to watch.
Exodia Necross got done dirty in the real card game.
In the anime, he's a Ritual, who gains effects based on the pieces in the Graveyard
Cannot be destroyed by battle
Cannot be destroyed by Spell
Cannot be destroyed by Trap
Cannot be destroyed by Monster
When it battles, it gains 1000ATK(permanently)
"Faustian" is the word of the video you might have only ever read
You cannot use Muko on Bistro Butcher because it activates in the damage step.
Never thought about it before, but how do the straps on the harpie lady outfits even stay on? They like, cling under the bust somehow 0_o
This list is a joke, Paladin and *ESPECIALLY* Necross are so much worse than the other cards on this list it's not even funny.
Not being able to Normal Summon/Set *AUTOMATICALLY* makes them among the worst because unless they have a built-in summon effect they can't be used.
Even in the WORST case scenario for something like Bistro Butcher, Yado, Lady, etc. you can still just set them to protect your LP or use them as Extra Deck summon material. You can't do ANYTHING with Paladin or Necross unless you meet their summon conditions.
23:20 - Even if you COULD do that (which you can't because you're in the damage step) you were *SOOOOOOOOOOOO* close to naming a card you'd want to pair this with: MukA. *_Muka_* MukA. If you switch control of the Bistro Butcher and crash into it with your monster, now all of a sudden *YOU'RE* the one drawing the cards. And if you can do it enough times, there are all *KINDS* of cards that could benefit from it. Mostly ATK-increasing cards like Slifer, Enraged Muka Muka, Tragoedia, etc. But of course, one of the most significant is *EXODIA,* which is something I did in Master Duel *SEVERAL* times.
To be fair, Vampire Lady was a decent card in her days. She only became bad when the GY turned into a second hand.
No, even when she came out she was literally worse than had she been a normal monster.
Huh I never thought of that effect with the Harpy Ladies before, it really does gimp them with the fact that they count as Harpy Ladies in the deck.
Yeah, you'll NEVER run Harpy lady 2 because you're either running Harpy lady 1, Harpy lady, or cyber harpy lady. Harpy lady 3 on niche cases, but 2 requires you to know your opponent is running flip monsters and intends to use a maneater bug or something.... but the thing is, you're never gonna attack with Harpy lady 2 anyway. she'll be Synchro'd or XYZ'd RIGHT away. So the hill is ultra high to climb.
exodia necross would have actually been an alright card if it was a ritual, and if contract with exodia had the effect to send all the forbidden one cards from hand deck or field to the grave to summon necross.
what about Cave Dragon cant Normal summon it when you have a monster but needs a monster to attack what
Sometimes, it feels like YGO's starting life is not eighty hundred "life point", but eighty "hundred life point".
It's important to know that every card on this list is inherently more useless than every vanilla level 4 thanks to Rescue Rabbit
Interesting note about Castle of Dark Illusions. In the first English YGO game, Dark Duel Stories, it did have the 1200/2500 stat line, making it one of the best cards in the game. The game also altered King of Yamimakai's statline to a massive 2600/something, making it better than Summoned Skull.
If Vampire Lady and it's bigger brother Vampire Lord was to give it a card text buff, like say when your opponent has to choose a card to discard one random Monster, Spell, or Trap to the GY it must be placed face down and you gain an immunity to that card type for the rest of that turn, then it's effect would have made it absolutely broken and ban worthy especially during the time the card came out.
Feather storm isn't just field. Its a full no monster effects for opponent on that turn. So hand gy and banish as well
Ah, a Yu-Gi-Oh! players second most hated thing: Basic Math.
I agree alot on the vampire lady effect, though it COULD be decent in specific situations, like making opponent send a monster to make your book of life available to use for example, or sending away spell cards from their deck if you run Magic drain copies in your deck, to make them more viable, even if thats a very bit stretch. I just like finding uses for cards that on paper are quite bad
Seeing Number #06's combo of solid stats and terrible effects reminds me of the first time I obtained Armor Exe. I got over-excited and slotted it into my deck, without checking its effects, so I looked and felt like a dope when it self-destructed at the start of my opponent's turn.
On top of that, it was the start of the Duel and left nothing else out. I done goofed...
Always examine the card text folks. Especially those of Effect Monsters.
13:32 Imagine the day we get a either a Boar Soldier retrain, or a card with Boar Soldier in its artwork that support the Egyptian God cards
23:53 such a shame, for such a nice artwork
Harpie Lady 3 is the Worse, Buff 2 with the Field and Harpie 1 and Attack
and hope your opponent has a flip monster? If your strategy revolves around your opponent having certain cards in their deck, there's a legit chance the card has no value at all. XD Sure your opponent COULD have a flip monster, but with the other options affecting EVERY duel, not just some of them, the odds of getting advantage by stopping a flip effect are so low, your opponent would have to tell you "by the way, I use flip monsters" and even then... They'll probably have multiple or a bigger plan than just flipping.
Sadly, one of the hard rules of yugioh... If your strategy requires your OPPONENT to be playing certain cards, the odds are lower than winning at a casino. and it's not like you can GIVE them flip cards (just to negate them....which why?) XD
Still if you NEED 3 harpies and you only physically have Harpie 2, she's better than nothing.
@MarioMastar I had All three when they were new in ocg and got No use out of any including the normal monster.
But at least you are using it the way it was intended. Harpies 3 can get blown up before battle or ran over by a monster unaffected by it's weak effect. Harpie 1 is the best but the strat evolved past most of the Harpies listed
Yo, Yado Karu crew represent!!!
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How can the paladin card summon out Meteor Black dragon? Im confused
I'm wondering, will Vampire Lady's effect completely cease to work if a card like Macro Cosmos or Dimensional Fissure is on the field (For the latter, you can't choose monster at all)?
Bistro butcher does have an otk strategy with exodia + token and swarm cards. It requires a lot of luck to set up, but its pretty hard to stop once rolling.
harpi lady 2 was really strong in that time we was have a lot of filp monster that time but harpie lady 3 was too bad card even that time
I never knew I wanted to learn about the worst level 4s I'll never ever use in any deck ever, but I do. 👍👀👍 GG
Vampire lady equipped with either black pendent or Power of the guardians works wonders in my milling deck. I deck out a majority of my opponents in dual links.
How is Vampire Lady worse than say Flying Fish? Which isn't even on the list
There's some interesting things about a couple of monsters on this list that weren't brought up.
Yado Karu is the only card in the game that puts cards back in any order "you desire," and still doesn't have a printing without this wording.
The Bistro Butcher was also released in the exact same set as 7 Colored Fish, which has the same ATK, but 200 less DEF, but also doesn't have the major downside of Butcher
Interesting choices: Boar Soldier has use in Meklords that can be searched with Tenki. Harpie Lady #2 could be a side deck choice against Penguins or Shaddolls. Bistro Butcher makes me think of Trickstar Lycoris combos, although it's probably not the best choice for that. Finally, Vampire Lady can, in certain matchups, force a player to dump cards that they do want to draw, especially if you declare Trap Cards in some strategies that don't run many. Still, Kashtira Ogre is the nail in the coffin.
Necross was playable-ish when it released, because Painful Choice was still legal and set it up very quickly.
There were a lot fewer ways to remove it, too, and GY hate wasn't very common.
That was still extremely bad. Painful Choice was at 1, was already one of the best cards in the game that you would have to waste and you need a 3 card combo just to get Necross out, when back then there were 3 card combos that won the game on the spot.
Whoever decided that Castle of Dark Illusions was better off being a fiend instead of a zombie type should be 🔫. I understand Lord of D because of its effect but come on, Dark Illusions effect had no self protection especially back then when you could summon high level monsters without tributing.
I've played a bistro butcher exodia deck before using shiens spy or creature swap to give control to your enemy. funny deck
I ran a shadow ghoul beatstick deck and ran castle of dark illusions. By the 4th turn my shadow ghoul would easily have over 4k attack which was huge in the original meta
I think boar n nuvias purpose is to have it's effect negated by skill drain. That used to be bastions deck in the 2008 ds game. Purpose of skill drain is to fill it up with level 4 beat stick with bad effects and then negate it with skill drain
Idr if Goblin Attack Force and Goblin Elite Attack Force were out by then but those were better options
Not only did they come out way before Skill Drain, but by the time Skill Drain came out there were tons of stronger monsters out already.
And shortly after fusilier dragon was released.
Harpie Lady 2 actually had some (admittedly not much, but some) play in "beastdown" decks back in the day, as being a much worse Ha Des was still valuable enough with tribeast typing, as it could benefit from Enraged Battle Ox, be used for Manticore of Darkness summons, etc. I don't know anywhere that Harpie Lady 3 saw play, as dedicated Harpie decks usually wanted Cyber or 1 instead.
Paladin of white's _effect_ was actually not terrible for the time. Destroying a fd monster at the start of the damage step prevents it from flipping face up, so flip effects don't activate.
I was gonna be shocked if Bistro Butcher wasn't on the list
Top 10 monster that require tribute summoning?