@@Some._.Random._.PersonWhat made Butterfly Dagger Elma good enough to be banned was that it enabled a loop to generate spell counters for Magical Library, which was instrumental for an Exodia FTK
@@Some._.Random._.Person TheDuelLogs has a policy that if a card has been in too many videos then he won't put it on the list. This is because with a lot of these strongest cards videos he ended up talking about the same cards over and over again.
@@Some._.Random._.Person perhaps because the strategy it enables wasn't noteworthy enough to hang out with the top 10 picks, which had more time and notoriety in the competitive limelight. And they either enabled consistent tops or were very influential to be ran in almost all decks
Shoutouts to Power of The Guardians also for being able to not only gain strength with an attack, but also gives us an option to save our monster if they get targeted for something that destroys them.
Mikanko Water Arabesque is so strong. I play it in Phantom Knights Mikanko in Master Duel and They work together very well. Isolde + Mikanko engine allow PK to make Borreload Savage and Thunder Dragon Colossus relatively easy.
@@xbon1 Easy to mix in any GY base Archetype or Warrior ( cuz Isolde still legal ). And It's fun to play. My favorite version is when It's mix with Tearlaments. It's doesn't have insane end-board like Mikanko version. But It's have a lot of bait when you go 2nd to bait your opponent negate and Arc Rebellion them at the end.
@@BloodfelX Ah the classic turbo out Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon with Cyber Stein and have a 9,000atk beat stick, or the equip it to an opponent's beat stick when you have more life points.
@@alexanderrobins7497 I'm more familiar with... activate Giant Trunade, activate Flute of Summoning Kuriboh, activate Last Will, tribute Kuriboh for Jinzo, discard Thunder Dragon, summon Cyber Stein with Last Will, banish Thunder Dragon and Kuriboh for Chaos Sorcerer, and then Cyber Stein summon Master of Oz... ...because TCG was robbed of the Cyber Stein into Ultimate Dragon experience up until 2008. xD (Shout out to Reasoning, Monster Gate and Monster Reincarnation for making the above classic YGO OTK easier to stumble into... as well as to the April 2006 banlist for having Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning be forbidden, but Chaos Sorcerer at unlimited. At least they finally had Dark Hole banned at that point, even if it was at the cost of my precious boy Cyber Jar.) Note: Flute of Summoning Kuriboh was not available until November 2006 in the TCG - substitute it for Reasoning, or replace Kuriboh into Jinzo with Reinforcement of the Army into Exiled Force.
Smoke Grenade is definitely most famous for its abuse in Infernoble, but there were also some Dragon Link brews that were able to abuse Smoke Grenade by bringing out Vylon Cube and Vylon Sphere with cards like Crystron Halqifibrax and Union Carrier. Also, shoutout to the Dragon Link players who were running Dragunity Divine Lance as an extender that could be searched off of Romulus in hands that couldn't facilitate a Dragon Ravine play.
The continuous trap crackdown is similar to snatch steal but it has some restrictions to what the stolen monster can do. And it is powerful enough in duel links to be put on the limit 3 list.
For those who don’t know, limits are shared in Duel Links, so you can only run 3 total copies of cards on the limit 3 list. Same thing goes for limits 2 and 1; if two cards are limited to 1, you can run one of them at a single copy and you can’t play the other at all.
@@simonpetrikov3992I think you misunderstand. Limit 3 means that if you want 3 seperate limit 3 cards in your deck you can only run one copy each and you're not allowed a fourth limit 3.
I like running a few normal Archfiends with Phantasm Spiral. I give an Archfiend a Phantasm Spiral equip, summon Phantasm Spiral Dragon, and then give Dragon an Axe of Despair. I like it because it's like they're sharing their archetype with each other. I wish I could use Falling Down, but the effect monsters I grab make it counterproductive. 😢
Ranking is hard to disagree with, but I would say that dragoback is the last one that "feels" like a real equip. It's a shame that we don't have many good equips that you slap onto monsters to make them stronger (like was the original intention of the type)
Because the whole idea of "slapping them onto monsters to make them stronger" doesn't really work in yugioh, at least not in the way they currently work. If they worked more like in MTG, I could see them being used as tech cards here and there. As they would stay on the field until removed, even if the monster left the field, and you could reequip them to other monsters you control at spell speed 1.
@@1_____________________"Ekibyo Drakmord" kinda does that actually. It's an Equip Card specifically meant to be used on an Opponent's Monster, as the equipped Monster cannot Attack and gets automatically destroyed on the Monster's Controller's second Turn. If the Monster dies by this effect, the Card returns itself to your Hand. There's also the Spellcard "Flint", which simply auto-re-equips itself when the Monster its equipped to is destroyed by any means.
@@1_____________________ Made Noble Knights using Noble Arms equip cards fun for me in Duel Links, but the equip effects were often very easy to overcome or too situational. Usable enough to be playable, but definitely not overwhelmingly dominant especially when their inherent re-equip effects were once per card name per turn.
If you "overlayed" equip spells to monsters instead of using the spell trap zone would they all be broken? In my head it makes more sense to overlay it to show that it's actually equipped to that monster but I can see how it ruins the game lol
@@iistonton I actually love that concept and I've experimented with it many times in custom cards. Some Equip Spells are balanced around being able to remove them, and detaching materials from opponent's monsters is a very rare form of interaction in the game currently. Though it doesn't get truly broken until you start allowing Equip Spells to substitute as Synchro, Xyz and Link materials - especially if they are easily recursive or have notable secondary effects. (I would like to see more Union monsters with this ability though!) (Ritual tribute and Fusion material substitute Equip Spells don't seem that harmful though, I hope we see more of these kinds of equip cards in the future.)
Definitely think Angelica’s Angelic Ring should’ve been in the vid. Although new, the ability to negate a spell card on resolution is incredibly powerful.
The script is very likely to be done before agov release which is where the card release also it's only equip on monster that's already equipped means only deck like infernoble and mikanko can really use it which while mikanko did top ycs this month,they didn't run the equip meanwhile infernoble still haven't got a good result of it yet
An equip spell with no archetypal searchers that requires another equip spell to activate with the effect to negate a single spell effect and destroy itself at spell speed 1 to make its monster untargetable isn't really all that great even in mikanko imo. They're both nice effects, but mikanko already has access to targeting protection with its own equip spells, and the negation of one spell effect isn't really worth the deck space. I feel like it's a side deck option against something like sky striker or branded at best.
Saqlifice is a good mention DuelLogs! Not to mention that tribute-effect priorities on Qli, you can chainblock yourself (i.e. Saqli CL 1, then tributed Carrier CL2) so you can safely search cards.
If equip spells or any card that can equip itself (Traps like metalmorph and Monsters like infernobles) functioned like XYZ materials, becoming attached to the the monster, rather than taking up slots in the magic and trap card zone, there would be more incentive to play them, probably not to a competitive level but still better than what we see at the moment.
the fundamental flaws of equip spells have little to do with the amount of zones they take up except for in decks specifically tailored to them, and even then you normally make do with just enough space. The way I see it, there's one key flaw with equip spells. They overlap with continuous spells in many ways. They both remain on field and have effects that are passive or can be activated every turn, and so the value of equips is lower because they have the disadvantage of being weak to monster removal as well as backrow removal. Konami is also less confident to print more complex and powerful equip spells because even the ones with simple effects end up generating too much value. I feel like Mikanko is them testing the waters with equips again and I think it's a step in the right direction. Allowing them to be have more effects without making them ban worthy
Unfortunately instead of changing a game mechanic to make all of a certain type of card viable, it looks like equip cards will continue to be completely useless or absolutely broken. Good for the equip spell cards that will be decent now while making 95% of the rest of them look worse, just like Ritual Spells and Monsters. Too bad we cannot make custom formats online every easily. Ritual Monsters should have been an extra deck type, but that won't happen since some of them have hand effects now. At least non-effect Ritual monsters could still go there without ruining the game.
If in one hand non-effect ritual monsters would be more viable with this format, on the other monsters that have good effects that can be activated from the hand end up losing this ability if they go to the extra deck.
Smoke Grenade is nowhere near broken. It's really awful actually. It's Charles effect what makes it strong. It shouldn't even be on the video, nowhere near a top 10.
@@hornetscaleBut not all cards need to be broken by themselves, for example, phoenix blade is not broken by itself (since it only returns from gy to the hand and if you can't take advantage of it, it won't be impactful), but its value lies in the possibilities of abuse it can provide
I'm gonna say it. Premature Burial should be #1, simply because of how it works with bounce effects. The weaker version, Lunalight Tiger, is currently limited.
Before Brionac, I did premature burial with giant truande combo with foolish burial to send some of my 2 tribute monsters to the graveyard. I think that was the combo many did with that.
3:02 “The equipped monster can be treated as 2 tributes for the Tribute Summon of a “Qli” monster.”… That gives me an idea for some DIVINE Support: _Herald of True Divinity_ Equip Spell _Can only be equipped to a monster you control. Unaffected by card effects while equipped to a monster. Monsters equipped with this card cannot be destroyed by battle by, and are unaffected by the effects of, Opponent’s monsters with the same type(s) and/or attribute(s) as themselves. The Equipped monster can be treated as 2 or 3 tributes for the Tribute Summon of a monster. If the Equipped monster is tributed for the Tribute summon of a monster, that Summoned monster gains original ATK and DEF equal to the Combined Total ATK/DEF the equipped monster had while on the field, also, you can conduct an additional normal summon this turn. Once per turn, you can reveal 1 DIVINE monster from your hand: Add 1 card to your hand (From your deck or GY) that mentions that revealed monster’s name in it’s effects._
It's kinda funny that Divine Sword Phoenix Blade is an obvious retrain of Butterfly Dagger Elma, which is so broken it's hilarious it was ever printed. However, this means that someone at Konami thought that we REALLY need that 300 ATK boost 🤣
When it comes to such dominated formats as mirror matches or equally stated decks, a +1 ATK boost can make a hilariously large difference. Cards like Banner of Courage being the key that outs an end board is hilarious when it happens.
And to be locked into using only Warrior monsters for that minuscule boost. I would rather run Axe of Despair for 1,000atk (steeper cost to get back in the hand though) unless I am running an all Warrior deck and I need discard fodder or banished cards.
Talking about Durendal a bit more, let's talk about a deck that was good in 2012, it's a pretty good inzektor card because it searches for a fire warrior, then triggers the inzektor's effects due to being destroyed. You can even search for a tuner who sends an equip spell from hand or field to the graveyard to summon him as a level 1 monster, allowing for synchro plays, and to trigger the inzektors again. I still find it hilarious that the inzektors search/summon effects aren't OPT, or even OPC.
Maybe Smoke Grenade of the Thief was thought of as an Anti Harpies' feather duster? I mean back in those days, no one would ever waste a quick effect to blow up their own card. Most decks cannot loop getting rid of their own backrow and in that context the design sort of makes sense as a niche thing to add to the game as opposed to "this will be gamebreaking in the future"
Honorable mention U.A. Powered Jersey and Iron Digger! Power Jersey won me games even when I used Pot of P! Iron Digger to pop and bring a banished ninja back, make any card it equips to it a ninja, and Borrelsword OTK!
Duel logs left off megamorph. Sure wasn't the best card, but definitely was helpful especially early on. Either double your atk or half an opponent. Personally I loved using shooting star bow ceal. Used it to get the instant win effect of the flying elephant. Yugioh is so weird
Unlike cards like Return or Dimension Fusion, D.D.R. destroys the equipped monster, rather than re-banishing it. Mass re-summoning vs able to use one card as a resource again.
If we're allowing in archetype cards then Golden Rule should absolutely be there. If we're looking at power of the equip card alone which should be the case.
Tbh the better version of Qli, at least in 2015 was the standard floodgate turbo version, not towers turbo. That being said, Towers Turbo did feel like the closest Qli got to feeling like an actual deck and not just a collection of cards that you can summon then flip every stun card at the time
I was thinking by the wording that number 1 would be Butterfly Dagger Elma. Wasn't around for its rein, but I have heard that it had the potential for infinite burn damage, infinite drawing, or a guaranteed Exodia, which understandably made Konami mad causing Butterfly Dagger Elma to get permanently banned.
One thing that prevented me from using cards like Snatch Steal and Eye of Truth, is the fact that I was basically helping my opponent stay in the game. Thus making it harder to deplete their life points.
And old school Yu-Gi-Oh on average lasted many turns - especially when outs to floodgates and battle preventers weren't found, the opponent could end up gaining ridiculous amounts of LP off of Snatch Steal and potentially Cyber Stein rapid fire out their entire Fusion Deck if they wanted to (not that many good targets were really around back then for Cyber Stein). Modern Yu-Gi-Oh though, the life point regain "downside" is basically a joke.
@@BloodfelX I played the TCG more during GOAT format. So I never got to try out other mechanics like Synchros, XYZs, or Link summons. Nor am I familiar with how much faster modern day Yu-Gi-Oh! is. Hense why I've been watching these top 10 videos, to better understand how good or bad modern day cards are. Since I was more of a collector than a player. Although I did play a few duels against one of my friends years ago, just to test out some cards. Although back then, there were some rules we weren't properly following. Like switching monsters battle positions after attacking, or summoning high level monsters without tributes due to season 1 of the anime.
@@nine_tails137 As a fellow GOAT enthusiast I tried out XYZ summoning back then... XYZ - Catapult Cannon that is. ;) Back in my day XYZ summoning would have referred to XYZ Fusion! ...Before Neos co-opted it into being referred to as "Contact Fusion". ^_^"
I actually still semi-regularly play Nightmare Troubadour (which is in GOAT format), and one of the decks I have in rotation is a Nurseburn deck that runs both of those. Here's my current Deck Recipe for it: *Monsters:* A Cat of Ill Omen x3 Cyber Jar Magician of Faith x3 Marshmallon Mask of Darkness x2 Nimble Momonga x3 Royal Magical Library x3 Sangan Spirit Reaper x3 *Spells:* Graceful Charity Harpie's Feather Duster [note: you need to get far enough in the game to unlock the ability to use Forbidden cards] Mystical Space Typhoon Pot of Greed Rain of Mercy x3 Snatch Steal Soul Taker x3 Upstart Goblin x2 *Traps:* Bad Reaction to Simochi x3 Draining Shield x2 Mirror Force The Eye of Truth x3
@@SuperGoker64 Some of those cards you mentioned I still like using. So naturally I was pissed when I found out some of those cards were banned. Also, there are some cards I will never play like Nuvia the Wicked, due to their terrible effects. Also, I'm always intrigued to know what the TCG versions of anime cards are like upon obtaining them. As in: "Are they gonna be just like the anime? OR are they gonna be worse?" Also random question: Can you explain the Trap Card Skill Drain to me? I've read its effect, but the last part sounds like it's contradicting itself? It says it negates the effects of all face-up monsters on the field, but their effects can still be activated. What does that even mean?
What about Mage Power and United We Stand? Those cards are really awesome. Mage Power increases your monster Attack power by 500 points per card in your Spell and Trap card zone including itself and United We Stand increases Attack Power by 800 per monster in your Monster zone including the equipped Monster.
Logs, what's the abbreviation for starter deck Kiba Evolution????? I believe it's not PSV because premature barrels first printing was in Pharaoh's servant not in a starter deck. Edit, just so people are aware this is meant to be said and I'm more comical way
Oh no butter fly dagger Elma? Did they fix that card haha? Dam I remember snatch steal, we never notice how good it was cuz in the format half ppl decks were the same staples lol, now a days konami don’t like “staples “ lol
I’d be willing to say snatch steal could be brought back. We have TTT at 3, change of heart and mind control at 1. YGO players definitely worry too much about certain cards coming back, especially when Konami takes an eternity to unban them
@@simonpetrikov3992 I’m well aware, but talents doesnt target while offering other banned effects, and snatch steal can be popped as well as negated (and as well all know disruption and negation is the name of the game in modern YGO)
I feel like there would be too many options for people to steal monsters at that point, and equip spells are much easier to search and recover than regular spell cards.
@@alexanderrobins7497 I mean it’s just 1 extra card, neither COH or MC see pretty much any play. And while you’re correct about the support for snatch steal, you’d be filling up your deck with cards JUST to hopefully search/recover a single card, which can be popped as well as negated. Of course there is more generic support for it like Isolde but even then power creep is through the roof with modern YGO I wouldn’t say the card would be any more OP than a well timed nibiru, evenly matched, TTT, etc.
Infernobles are one of my favorite archetypes and the fact they revolve around equip spells is cool to me. Using their "equipment" to get other effects is a cool niche. New support seems pretty good too maybe they'll be tier 3 at least 😂
Now i see the Mikanko, some days ago a play against a mikanko deck (i use ancient gear) and i go first and i bring ancient gear chimera... In his turn does some things here and there i end up with 1000LP... At the start of my turn dude activate Skill drain 2 sec later surrender... I still can't get what is he thinking when put that card on a effect deck, on of the mysteries of the universe
Not wondering why you excluded it... but I would be curious where Butterfly Dagger would end up IF it wasn't part of your internal ban list Also, im surprised Mark of the Rose didnt get anywhere. It's pretty much an equip version of Change of Heart... but the return aspect of the equip usually doesnt matter since youre probably gonna use that card as material anyway. And its additional cost needs to be in the grave... so you already got some use for that plant type in your GY anyway
Honestly, Elma wasn't the problem card, just easier to ban than a lot of the combo, think Ancient Fairy Dragon, pre errata, wasn't that strong, but decks like Tyramid which LOVE field spells made it broken, and which would you ban, the problem CARDS, or the cause of it
There seems to be a theme here with how bans are enacted. If it's a random card that just has strong benefits but isn't part of an archetype, it gets banned. If it's a primary card of a archetype, there is no ban. Or if it's juat a very good card and enough losers whine about it (Azathot for example) it gets banned. How about they disable ban laws and allow everything to be viable? That would actually be fun and fair. "Too bad, so sad, deal with it" is the fairest rule of them all. Note: YuGiOh tournaments should be a separate system with its own rules, the general game shouldn't be penalized for loser's benefits.
@@zowayix That is true yet in games like Duel Masters, average duel searching has painful restrictions. They have events which should be classified as tournaments, but that aside, the average duel should be fair game.
@@ARandomNerd88 If there was no banlist, all your opponents would play Exodia FTK or Magical Scientist FTK or Exchange of the Spirit FTK (still possible even after the erratum).
I was just about to comment about “Butterfly Dagger Elma”, but TheDuelLogs already took care of that
Why was it left off, do we know?
@@Some._.Random._.PersonWhat made Butterfly Dagger Elma good enough to be banned was that it enabled a loop to generate spell counters for Magical Library, which was instrumental for an Exodia FTK
@@granmastersword no I get that but why wasn’t it included in this list
@@Some._.Random._.Person TheDuelLogs has a policy that if a card has been in too many videos then he won't put it on the list. This is because with a lot of these strongest cards videos he ended up talking about the same cards over and over again.
@@Some._.Random._.Person perhaps because the strategy it enables wasn't noteworthy enough to hang out with the top 10 picks, which had more time and notoriety in the competitive limelight. And they either enabled consistent tops or were very influential to be ran in almost all decks
Honorable mention to dispair axe, united we stand and magic force.
Honestly more equip cards that can be wrought back from the deck would be useful.
Shoutouts to Power of The Guardians also for being able to not only gain strength with an attack, but also gives us an option to save our monster if they get targeted for something that destroys them.
Man back in the day that 1000 atk actually won games. And united we stand/mage power were the best cards in those old 2005-2007 gba games 😂
Also Maha vailho combo was really good
Ah, Magic Force. Classic card!
"I play Magic Force... which allows me to play Pot of Greed once again, to draw 3 additional cards!"
@@raxy0009 maybe I mistake the name. I meant the one that adds 500 for every spell or trap in the field.
I'm an extremely large fan of equip spells and the equip mechanics. Been running Noble Knights, Guardians then moved on to Infernoble and Mikanko.
Aren't Infernoble knights not just an extension of noble knights?
@@lordofcrowsthey look like they play pretty differently, it’s like roids and speedroids though the difference isn’t that extreme
@@lordofcrows"Technicality" yes but in practice not really.
They are tied together by some support
In lore I'm sure they are in some way (forgive my lack of lore connection) but in meshing and play style, not so much.
Mikanko Water Arabesque is so strong. I play it in Phantom Knights Mikanko in Master Duel and They work together very well.
Isolde + Mikanko engine allow PK to make Borreload Savage and Thunder Dragon Colossus relatively easy.
My favourite deck to play currently.
why does everyone combine everything with phantom knights? lmaoooo.
@@xbon1 Easy to mix in any GY base Archetype or Warrior ( cuz Isolde still legal ). And It's fun to play.
My favorite version is when It's mix with Tearlaments. It's doesn't have insane end-board like Mikanko version. But It's have a lot of bait when you go 2nd to bait your opponent negate and Arc Rebellion them at the end.
Shoutout to the OG equip beasts in "United We Stand" and "Mage Power"
Megamorph also for being a funny removal option when behind on Life Points.
@@BloodfelX
Ah the classic turbo out Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon with Cyber Stein and have a 9,000atk beat stick, or the equip it to an opponent's beat stick when you have more life points.
@@BloodfelX I forgot that one. Classic YuGiOh rules.
@@alexanderrobins7497 I'm more familiar with...
activate Giant Trunade,
activate Flute of Summoning Kuriboh,
activate Last Will,
tribute Kuriboh for Jinzo,
discard Thunder Dragon,
summon Cyber Stein with Last Will,
banish Thunder Dragon and Kuriboh for Chaos Sorcerer,
and then Cyber Stein summon Master of Oz...
...because TCG was robbed of the Cyber Stein into Ultimate Dragon experience up until 2008. xD
(Shout out to Reasoning, Monster Gate and Monster Reincarnation for making the above classic YGO OTK easier to stumble into... as well as to the April 2006 banlist for having Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning be forbidden, but Chaos Sorcerer at unlimited.
At least they finally had Dark Hole banned at that point, even if it was at the cost of my precious boy Cyber Jar.)
Note: Flute of Summoning Kuriboh was not available until November 2006 in the TCG - substitute it for Reasoning, or replace Kuriboh into Jinzo with Reinforcement of the Army into Exiled Force.
Smoke Grenade is definitely most famous for its abuse in Infernoble, but there were also some Dragon Link brews that were able to abuse Smoke Grenade by bringing out Vylon Cube and Vylon Sphere with cards like Crystron Halqifibrax and Union Carrier. Also, shoutout to the Dragon Link players who were running Dragunity Divine Lance as an extender that could be searched off of Romulus in hands that couldn't facilitate a Dragon Ravine play.
One day Dragon Link players will answer for their crimes
And God may not be so merciful.
As a gemini fan, it brings a smile to my face to see Supervise and geminis get mention on a top 10 list.
TheDuelLogs has conditioned me to call it Dracoback, the Rideable Breedable Dragon.
*sprays with holy water*
honestly that sounds more like mbt
have you watched the duellogs duellogs? that mfer crazy, but yeah some of that brain rot probably came from mbt lol
The continuous trap crackdown is similar to snatch steal but it has some restrictions to what the stolen monster can do. And it is powerful enough in duel links to be put on the limit 3 list.
It's also solid tech in Master Duel's lower ranks.
It's duel links
They cannot get the complete mayakaschi archtype
For those who don’t know, limits are shared in Duel Links, so you can only run 3 total copies of cards on the limit 3 list. Same thing goes for limits 2 and 1; if two cards are limited to 1, you can run one of them at a single copy and you can’t play the other at all.
@@jeezuhskriste5759yeah in the tcg you can only run 3 if it’s unlimited on the list
@@simonpetrikov3992I think you misunderstand. Limit 3 means that if you want 3 seperate limit 3 cards in your deck you can only run one copy each and you're not allowed a fourth limit 3.
I like running a few normal Archfiends with Phantasm Spiral. I give an Archfiend a Phantasm Spiral equip, summon Phantasm Spiral Dragon, and then give Dragon an Axe of Despair. I like it because it's like they're sharing their archetype with each other. I wish I could use Falling Down, but the effect monsters I grab make it counterproductive. 😢
Ranking is hard to disagree with, but I would say that dragoback is the last one that "feels" like a real equip.
It's a shame that we don't have many good equips that you slap onto monsters to make them stronger (like was the original intention of the type)
Because the whole idea of "slapping them onto monsters to make them stronger" doesn't really work in yugioh, at least not in the way they currently work. If they worked more like in MTG, I could see them being used as tech cards here and there. As they would stay on the field until removed, even if the monster left the field, and you could reequip them to other monsters you control at spell speed 1.
@@1_____________________"Ekibyo Drakmord" kinda does that actually. It's an Equip Card specifically meant to be used on an Opponent's Monster, as the equipped Monster cannot Attack and gets automatically destroyed on the Monster's Controller's second Turn. If the Monster dies by this effect, the Card returns itself to your Hand.
There's also the Spellcard "Flint", which simply auto-re-equips itself when the Monster its equipped to is destroyed by any means.
@@1_____________________ Made Noble Knights using Noble Arms equip cards fun for me in Duel Links, but the equip effects were often very easy to overcome or too situational. Usable enough to be playable, but definitely not overwhelmingly dominant especially when their inherent re-equip effects were once per card name per turn.
If you "overlayed" equip spells to monsters instead of using the spell trap zone would they all be broken? In my head it makes more sense to overlay it to show that it's actually equipped to that monster but I can see how it ruins the game lol
@@iistonton I actually love that concept and I've experimented with it many times in custom cards.
Some Equip Spells are balanced around being able to remove them, and detaching materials from opponent's monsters is a very rare form of interaction in the game currently.
Though it doesn't get truly broken until you start allowing Equip Spells to substitute as Synchro, Xyz and Link materials - especially if they are easily recursive or have notable secondary effects. (I would like to see more Union monsters with this ability though!)
(Ritual tribute and Fusion material substitute Equip Spells don't seem that harmful though, I hope we see more of these kinds of equip cards in the future.)
I remember as a kid I thought Horn of the Unicorn was the most powerful thing ever.
Definitely think Angelica’s Angelic Ring should’ve been in the vid. Although new, the ability to negate a spell card on resolution is incredibly powerful.
The script is very likely to be done before agov release which is where the card release also it's only equip on monster that's already equipped means only deck like infernoble and mikanko can really use it which while mikanko did top ycs this month,they didn't run the equip meanwhile infernoble still haven't got a good result of it yet
An equip spell with no archetypal searchers that requires another equip spell to activate with the effect to negate a single spell effect and destroy itself at spell speed 1 to make its monster untargetable isn't really all that great even in mikanko imo. They're both nice effects, but mikanko already has access to targeting protection with its own equip spells, and the negation of one spell effect isn't really worth the deck space. I feel like it's a side deck option against something like sky striker or branded at best.
Thanks for not disrespecting Saqlifice. That card was ALSO limited, not just Scout.
Last night I was Here looking for a top 10 equip video from duel log. Couldn’t find one. Today I’ve been bless with a top 10 equip card video 😅
Saqlifice is a good mention DuelLogs! Not to mention that tribute-effect priorities on Qli, you can chainblock yourself (i.e. Saqli CL 1, then tributed Carrier CL2) so you can safely search cards.
Shoutout to my favorite equip, Moon Mirror Shield.
If equip spells or any card that can equip itself (Traps like metalmorph and Monsters like infernobles) functioned like XYZ materials, becoming attached to the the monster, rather than taking up slots in the magic and trap card zone, there would be more incentive to play them, probably not to a competitive level but still better than what we see at the moment.
the fundamental flaws of equip spells have little to do with the amount of zones they take up except for in decks specifically tailored to them, and even then you normally make do with just enough space. The way I see it, there's one key flaw with equip spells. They overlap with continuous spells in many ways. They both remain on field and have effects that are passive or can be activated every turn, and so the value of equips is lower because they have the disadvantage of being weak to monster removal as well as backrow removal. Konami is also less confident to print more complex and powerful equip spells because even the ones with simple effects end up generating too much value. I feel like Mikanko is them testing the waters with equips again and I think it's a step in the right direction. Allowing them to be have more effects without making them ban worthy
Unfortunately instead of changing a game mechanic to make all of a certain type of card viable, it looks like equip cards will continue to be completely useless or absolutely broken. Good for the equip spell cards that will be decent now while making 95% of the rest of them look worse, just like Ritual Spells and Monsters.
Too bad we cannot make custom formats online every easily. Ritual Monsters should have been an extra deck type, but that won't happen since some of them have hand effects now. At least non-effect Ritual monsters could still go there without ruining the game.
If in one hand non-effect ritual monsters would be more viable with this format, on the other monsters that have good effects that can be activated from the hand end up losing this ability if they go to the extra deck.
Smoke Grenade of the Thief reminds me that you should make a video about cards that went from unplayable to broken in a single format.
Smoke Grenade is nowhere near broken. It's really awful actually. It's Charles effect what makes it strong.
It shouldn't even be on the video, nowhere near a top 10.
@@hornetscale: The fact that it is banned means that it is broken at least in one way.
@@chengliu872 No. It is banned because too many cards abuse it not because it is broken itself.
@@hornetscaleBut not all cards need to be broken by themselves, for example, phoenix blade is not broken by itself (since it only returns from gy to the hand and if you can't take advantage of it, it won't be impactful), but its value lies in the possibilities of abuse it can provide
@@hornetscale The fact it can allow for easy hand looping means it deserves its ban.
He forgot to mention moon mirror shield which is the greatest equip spell ever made
I imagine Elma is on your internal Banlist similar to pre-errata Chaos Emperor Dragon?
And now Snatch Steal is back again!
As an Isolde/Immortal Phoenix Gearfried player, I appreciate this
I'm gonna say it. Premature Burial should be #1, simply because of how it works with bounce effects. The weaker version, Lunalight Tiger, is currently limited.
Before Brionac, I did premature burial with giant truande combo with foolish burial to send some of my 2 tribute monsters to the graveyard. I think that was the combo many did with that.
Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!
Have to hand it to Smoke Grenade for the reverse powercreep ngl.
"Rise among the rest and shine as extremely powerful game peices" remember me "Rise and shine Mr. Freeman"
Snatch Steal.
The bane of every BEWD deck
BEWD decks are the bane of themselves bc of how bricky they are.
Power of the Guardians 👍 Don't know in TCG, but in Duel Links 😉 it's in Top 10 spells
Snatch steal could probably come back cause Is strong but more fragile than change of heart right now
But it's also way more searchable and easier to recover
@@Cameytoe recover?
@micha-elhorus5799 yeah, like retrieving it from the GY
Ummm, does he not realize that Premature Burial came out in Pharaoh’s Servant, which came out 2 years before SDKE?
ah yes Summoned skull with Axe of despair or Maha Vailo with multiple equip cards good old days of crappy cards
2:38 - Oh my god, Biblically Accurate Aki Izayoi
3:02 “The equipped monster can be treated as 2 tributes for the Tribute Summon of a “Qli” monster.”…
That gives me an idea for some DIVINE Support:
_Herald of True Divinity_
Equip Spell
_Can only be equipped to a monster you control. Unaffected by card effects while equipped to a monster. Monsters equipped with this card cannot be destroyed by battle by, and are unaffected by the effects of, Opponent’s monsters with the same type(s) and/or attribute(s) as themselves. The Equipped monster can be treated as 2 or 3 tributes for the Tribute Summon of a monster. If the Equipped monster is tributed for the Tribute summon of a monster, that Summoned monster gains original ATK and DEF equal to the Combined Total ATK/DEF the equipped monster had while on the field, also, you can conduct an additional normal summon this turn. Once per turn, you can reveal 1 DIVINE monster from your hand: Add 1 card to your hand (From your deck or GY) that mentions that revealed monster’s name in it’s effects._
Do a viodeos of
1 -best cards with a discard trigger or cost.
2-best cards return a banished cards either to gy or hand or deck.
playing duel links while watching this video and i literally pulled durendal as it came up on the list. how cool.
Water Arabesque in #10 feels criminal lmao
It's kinda funny that Divine Sword Phoenix Blade is an obvious retrain of Butterfly Dagger Elma, which is so broken it's hilarious it was ever printed.
However, this means that someone at Konami thought that we REALLY need that 300 ATK boost 🤣
When it comes to such dominated formats as mirror matches or equally stated decks, a +1 ATK boost can make a hilariously large difference. Cards like Banner of Courage being the key that outs an end board is hilarious when it happens.
And to be locked into using only Warrior monsters for that minuscule boost. I would rather run Axe of Despair for 1,000atk (steeper cost to get back in the hand though) unless I am running an all Warrior deck and I need discard fodder or banished cards.
Words can not describe how much i hated Snatch steal in the GX GBA game as a child, and maybe even now
Waiting to see all of Leo's Equip spells and Rush duel ones
I can see him resist the urge to say "Dracoback the rideable breedable dragon"
No. Just no.
Talking about Durendal a bit more, let's talk about a deck that was good in 2012, it's a pretty good inzektor card because it searches for a fire warrior, then triggers the inzektor's effects due to being destroyed.
You can even search for a tuner who sends an equip spell from hand or field to the graveyard to summon him as a level 1 monster, allowing for synchro plays, and to trigger the inzektors again.
I still find it hilarious that the inzektors search/summon effects aren't OPT, or even OPC.
Got the notification, saw the word Spell and thought it was a new Hirumaredx video 🤣🤣 clicked so damn fast
Hearing Logs say "Dracoback, the Rideable Dragon" without "breedable" feels weird to me
...get help
Maybe Smoke Grenade of the Thief was thought of as an Anti Harpies' feather duster? I mean back in those days, no one would ever waste a quick effect to blow up their own card. Most decks cannot loop getting rid of their own backrow and in that context the design sort of makes sense as a niche thing to add to the game as opposed to "this will be gamebreaking in the future"
Mikanko has been getting a lot of tops as of late.
Honorable mention U.A. Powered Jersey and Iron Digger!
Power Jersey won me games even when I used Pot of P!
Iron Digger to pop and bring a banished ninja back, make any card it equips to it a ninja, and Borrelsword OTK!
So, when are we getting TheDuelLogs voice Ai again? Lowkey was pretty accurate
Duel logs left off megamorph. Sure wasn't the best card, but definitely was helpful especially early on. Either double your atk or half an opponent.
Personally I loved using shooting star bow ceal. Used it to get the instant win effect of the flying elephant. Yugioh is so weird
Comic Hand worth mentioning
I can see the argument for snatch number 1. But premature burial needs to be number 2
Unlike cards like Return or Dimension Fusion, D.D.R. destroys the equipped monster, rather than re-banishing it. Mass re-summoning vs able to use one card as a resource again.
the mikanko list lets go
We not gonna talk about Axe of Despair?
Ok I want a couple MIkanko Water Absorbtion for my Lockdown Burn Deck A copy of it and Mist Body one Ebon Magicion Currie would be great.
The fact sparks is not on this list for being such a menace in magical explosion is an insult
And now Snatch Steal is unban again 😂
If we're allowing in archetype cards then Golden Rule should absolutely be there. If we're looking at power of the equip card alone which should be the case.
LETS GOOOOOOOO!!!
QLI REPRESENTATION!!!!! LETS FUCKING GOOOO!!!!!!!!!
I'm surprised grid rod didn't make the cut.
Nice to see the ridable dragon!
They should rework equip spells like in magic the gathering. They stay on the field even if the equipped monster is removed from the field.
Tbh the better version of Qli, at least in 2015 was the standard floodgate turbo version, not towers turbo. That being said, Towers Turbo did feel like the closest Qli got to feeling like an actual deck and not just a collection of cards that you can summon then flip every stun card at the time
Top 10 cards better in real life than in the anime/manga
I was thinking by the wording that number 1 would be Butterfly Dagger Elma. Wasn't around for its rein, but I have heard that it had the potential for infinite burn damage, infinite drawing, or a guaranteed Exodia, which understandably made Konami mad causing Butterfly Dagger Elma to get permanently banned.
One thing that prevented me from using cards like Snatch Steal and Eye of Truth,
is the fact that I was basically helping my opponent stay in the game.
Thus making it harder to deplete their life points.
And old school Yu-Gi-Oh on average lasted many turns - especially when outs to floodgates and battle preventers weren't found, the opponent could end up gaining ridiculous amounts of LP off of Snatch Steal and potentially Cyber Stein rapid fire out their entire Fusion Deck if they wanted to (not that many good targets were really around back then for Cyber Stein).
Modern Yu-Gi-Oh though, the life point regain "downside" is basically a joke.
@@BloodfelX I played the TCG more during GOAT format. So I never got to try out other mechanics like Synchros, XYZs, or Link summons. Nor am I familiar with how much faster modern day Yu-Gi-Oh! is. Hense why I've been watching these top 10 videos, to better understand how good or bad modern day cards are. Since I was more of a collector than a player.
Although I did play a few duels against one of my friends years ago, just to test out some cards. Although back then, there were some rules we weren't properly following. Like switching monsters battle positions after attacking, or summoning high level monsters without tributes due to season 1 of the anime.
@@nine_tails137 As a fellow GOAT enthusiast I tried out XYZ summoning back then... XYZ - Catapult Cannon that is. ;)
Back in my day XYZ summoning would have referred to XYZ Fusion! ...Before Neos co-opted it into being referred to as "Contact Fusion". ^_^"
I actually still semi-regularly play Nightmare Troubadour (which is in GOAT format), and one of the decks I have in rotation is a Nurseburn deck that runs both of those. Here's my current Deck Recipe for it:
*Monsters:*
A Cat of Ill Omen x3
Cyber Jar
Magician of Faith x3
Marshmallon
Mask of Darkness x2
Nimble Momonga x3
Royal Magical Library x3
Sangan
Spirit Reaper x3
*Spells:*
Graceful Charity
Harpie's Feather Duster [note: you need to get far enough in the game to unlock the ability to use Forbidden cards]
Mystical Space Typhoon
Pot of Greed
Rain of Mercy x3
Snatch Steal
Soul Taker x3
Upstart Goblin x2
*Traps:*
Bad Reaction to Simochi x3
Draining Shield x2
Mirror Force
The Eye of Truth x3
@@SuperGoker64 Some of those cards you mentioned I still like using. So naturally I was pissed when I found out some of those cards were banned. Also, there are some cards I will never play like Nuvia the Wicked, due to their terrible effects.
Also, I'm always intrigued to know what the TCG versions of anime cards are like upon obtaining them. As in: "Are they gonna be just like the anime? OR are they gonna be worse?"
Also random question: Can you explain the Trap Card Skill Drain to me? I've read its effect, but the last part sounds like it's contradicting itself? It says it negates the effects of all face-up monsters on the field, but their effects can still be activated. What does that even mean?
I love D.D.R and Re-Fusion
Weird that Phoenix blade never got limited
Top 10 Continuous Spells Of All Time
Broken Bamboo Sword
What about Mage Power and United We Stand? Those cards are really awesome. Mage Power increases your monster Attack power by 500 points per card in your Spell and Trap card zone including itself and United We Stand increases Attack Power by 800 per monster in your Monster zone including the equipped Monster.
outdated. very outdated 😂
Logs, what's the abbreviation for starter deck Kiba Evolution????? I believe it's not PSV because premature barrels first printing was in Pharaoh's servant not in a starter deck.
Edit, just so people are aware this is meant to be said and I'm more comical way
Unban Snatch and Steal & Masterpiece please.
Oh no butter fly dagger Elma? Did they fix that card haha? Dam I remember snatch steal, we never notice how good it was cuz in the format half ppl decks were the same staples lol, now a days konami don’t like “staples “ lol
I was expecting butterfly dagger to be number 1
If TheDuelLogs was watching Cimooooo at the moment, he would know to at least give an honorable mention to Parasomnia Pillow xD
if snatch was legal it wouldn't be on this list because everyone would know its not that good
Top 10 Archetypes with the most support.
I like Ebikyo Drakmord.
It’s such a shame that Equip Spells have mostly fallen out of popularity. I’ve always liked them.
Can you do a video on Edison format?
Change of heart: who are you
Snatch steal: you but better
TOP 10 RANK 8 MONSTERS OF ALL TIME
Tutors like lone fire blossom or glow up bulb? This ain’t the mana logs lol
I’d be willing to say snatch steal could be brought back. We have TTT at 3, change of heart and mind control at 1. YGO players definitely worry too much about certain cards coming back, especially when Konami takes an eternity to unban them
Talents and change of heart and mind control are temporary
@@simonpetrikov3992 I’m well aware, but talents doesnt target while offering other banned effects, and snatch steal can be popped as well as negated (and as well all know disruption and negation is the name of the game in modern YGO)
I feel like there would be too many options for people to steal monsters at that point, and equip spells are much easier to search and recover than regular spell cards.
@@alexanderrobins7497 I mean it’s just 1 extra card, neither COH or MC see pretty much any play. And while you’re correct about the support for snatch steal, you’d be filling up your deck with cards JUST to hopefully search/recover a single card, which can be popped as well as negated.
Of course there is more generic support for it like Isolde but even then power creep is through the roof with modern YGO I wouldn’t say the card would be any more OP than a well timed nibiru, evenly matched, TTT, etc.
See guys I was right! They even brought mind control to 3 (although they banned Isolde too haha)
Thought Power of the guardians would be on the list lol.
Top 10 Emergency Teleport targets.
Im surprised comic hand wasnt on this list... Its literally snatch steal at home lol.
Top 10 Pack releases
Infernobles are one of my favorite archetypes and the fact they revolve around equip spells is cool to me. Using their "equipment" to get other effects is a cool niche. New support seems pretty good too maybe they'll be tier 3 at least 😂
Yooo coming back after snatch steal is now legeal again !!
no bamboo sword? :3
Evil Eye of Selene
Suprised not to see Moon Mirror
Moon mirror shield??
Now i see the Mikanko, some days ago a play against a mikanko deck (i use ancient gear) and i go first and i bring ancient gear chimera... In his turn does some things here and there i end up with 1000LP... At the start of my turn dude activate Skill drain 2 sec later surrender...
I still can't get what is he thinking when put that card on a effect deck, on of the mysteries of the universe
Am I the only one who sees these types of titles and go ( there is noway he didn't cover this topic before )
Not wondering why you excluded it... but I would be curious where Butterfly Dagger would end up IF it wasn't part of your internal ban list
Also, im surprised Mark of the Rose didnt get anywhere. It's pretty much an equip version of Change of Heart... but the return aspect of the equip usually doesnt matter since youre probably gonna use that card as material anyway. And its additional cost needs to be in the grave... so you already got some use for that plant type in your GY anyway
Honestly, Elma wasn't the problem card, just easier to ban than a lot of the combo, think Ancient Fairy Dragon, pre errata, wasn't that strong, but decks like Tyramid which LOVE field spells made it broken, and which would you ban, the problem CARDS, or the cause of it
There seems to be a theme here with how bans are enacted. If it's a random card that just has strong benefits but isn't part of an archetype, it gets banned. If it's a primary card of a archetype, there is no ban. Or if it's juat a very good card and enough losers whine about it (Azathot for example) it gets banned.
How about they disable ban laws and allow everything to be viable? That would actually be fun and fair. "Too bad, so sad, deal with it" is the fairest rule of them all.
Note: YuGiOh tournaments should be a separate system with its own rules, the general game shouldn't be penalized for loser's benefits.
The banlist is already for tournaments only. In friendly games you can agree to anything you want.
@@zowayix That is true yet in games like Duel Masters, average duel searching has painful restrictions. They have events which should be classified as tournaments, but that aside, the average duel should be fair game.
@@ARandomNerd88 If there was no banlist, all your opponents would play Exodia FTK or Magical Scientist FTK or Exchange of the Spirit FTK (still possible even after the erratum).