The original un-errata'd CED was so game warping, that if it remained as originally printed today, it would probably even still see play in Dragon Link decks.
I would argue it would be the only reason to play dragon link currently. Imagine Magna searching this in the end phase so the opponent has to keep something for it despite all your plays (unless shifter) then Seyfert adding back from GY anything to help you close the game. Or going first hand looping. Armageddon is a great retrain but I'm still salty for the errata and would prefer being forever banned
It was my first guess, but then I thought: how good would it be in advanced? Sure, it might be a good going second card and an annoying way of winning at time. Prolly someone might figure out some crazy ftk lines with it but still... Online I didn't find anything that impressive nor consistent.
Jesse is becoming the Wolfe of Yu-Gi-Oh and I'm here for it. I noticed the similar editing style a while back, but now it's just his current series lol
I paused the video before your top 3 for my guesses. Dragon Rulers, as there is an entire format in their name. Stardust Dragon, as it's such an iconic card even in Edison today. And finally Chaos Emperor Dragon since it's the OG big baddie that started it all. Great video Jesse, I really enjoyed it. Would like to see one for most types but Machine would be fun
Lowkey my favorite Dragon is Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon since it's got so many counterparts, like revolution, Phantasm, and then it leads into Z-Arc, plus it was always cool to have Performapals alongside it, just made for a cool deck that never really became meta, unless you count Meteor 🤷🏻♂️
I put Pendulum and Advance in like all my decks. They have been reliable core pieces to my overall engine. What Pendulum can search for is still hella strong. I have been using Rain Bozu for the high end instead of the Performapal cards or the Abyss Actors card that applies too. It is also able to search out Dragodies the Empowered Warrior, which is a continual Riryoku in back and a search for another on battle destruction.
Has to be Agarpain. No non-xyz ED dragon without a summoning restriction can be above it since Agarpain makes it. The only main deck monster that might compete is pre-errata CED and the only xyz might be DMD.
My top 10 dragons: 10- Guardragon Elpy 9- Ancient Fairy Dragon 8- Chaos Ruler, the Chaotic Magical Dragon 7- Supreme King Dragon Starving Venom 6- Number 95: Galaxy-Eyes Dark Matter Dragon 5- Blaster, Dragon Ruler of Infernos (representing all 4) 4- Guardragon Agarpain 3- Dark Armed Dragon 2- Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End (pre erratum, it was the best card in the game) 1- Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon (it won a Worlds after its erratum)
Arkbrave dragon. Being able to remove face up spells and traps from play and having it screw over my opponent is one of the most satisfying ways to get ahead in a game. Its monster reborn effect is nice too
I did play the full dragon ruler era, i was running tidal mermails with 3 tidals and 2 streams in the deck... the deck was unstopable, kinda same power as judgmend spellbooks if u could play it properly. But man full power dragon rulers was on a different level. Good times :D
Cool series idea. I think it'd be sweet to see a table that shows the different monster types and their best card at the beginning and end of each video that gets filled in as the series progresses.
Chaos Emperor Dragon was not only one of the most impactful and strongest cards ever printed at their prime but made special summoning affordable. Boss monster before that and powerful cards in generel had pretty weird and restrictive conditions that you have to fullfill in order to special summon them. With Chaos Emperor Dragon and the chaos monsters in generell, special summoning was easier to do which chaned the game until today.
Ever since 2004 it’s been Blue Eyes Shining Dragon for me, just because of the impact it has had on my life but I think CED probably has had the biggest impact on the game for a dragon being one of the first banned cards ever because of how good it was. Also I really like this type of video Jessie this is cool!
I know you are probably busy, but I like your 1 card combo ideas, so I've got one for you to try to accomplish. Use Burning Bamboo Sword, Soul Devouring Bamboo Sword, and Terminal World to skip every phase on your opponents turn.
Darkness Metal Dragon sees play in Dragon Link a lot now because of Verudras. There are combos 1 and 2 card combos that easily get you to it since Black Metal Dragon can search for it. Because of Verudras your opponent has to drop Nibiru early if they didn't open any negation hand traps.
I like this video format, reminds me of wolfe's best pokemon of a certain type series, also this video is a testament to how insanely broken the earlier versions of dragon link were for their time with so many cards that are now either banned limited or errata'd
This one is difficult... 1. Chaos Emperor 2. Dark Matter 3. Druiswurm But because I like it... Gandora! Also, I thought that it was a list for individuals.
I would've put Druiswurm over Magnumhut but they're pretty close in power level. Also the effect to "send" a card to the graveyard to bypass destruction negate is HIGHLY underrated.
Off the top of my head my top 3 would be something like CED, Borreload Savage and Stardust ? Maybe that weird foolish 3 one that got banned straight away when dragon ruler were around (galaxy eyes dark matter something something ?)
To me it's PepegaRuler. -Pseudo Kitkallos/Prosperity -GY reborn for basically free -No restrictions whatsoever besides playing light and darks which is no restriction in the slightest Idk how some ppl still defend the fairness of thst card and want it back
Definitely think the likes of Crimson Dragon, Ultimaya, Crystal Wing, The Rokkets, Hieratic Seal and Borrelsword are some that are more deserving than Flamvell Guard to be here
I have to go with Red Supernova Dragon, not too many decks can deal with a boardwipe let alone 2 with red zone lol and i cant wait to see what the best warrior card is, i always feel like warriors arent super strong cards except baronne, nekroz and...?
NGL my fav dragon ( and IMO the strongest) is the greatest superpoly target ever. Starving Venom Fusion Dragon. some decks will still struggle to out it if its made on the opponent's turn
One dragon I think can rival OG CED is Victory Dragon, the first match winner card and one that revolutionised yugioh in terms of sportsmanship - for the worst. A card that had to be banned not for its power, but because its existance threatened the integrity of the game as a whole. Seeing it in a position to do what its supposed to was an instant scoop because it was better than losing the whole match, and lead to poor sportsmanship issues.
Best dragon is pre-errata Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End. Bar none! The first ever truly powerful dragon that broke the game and caused Konami to think “we might’ve fucked up.” Even now, pre-errata CED will be played and players will rage again.
Okay they should make an Archetype for Luster Dragon. It’s my favourite level 4 normal monster! Be pretty cool to have a strong Wind Dragon based deck, having the ability to do a mix of Synchro and Link summons
If albaz isn’t on here i’m calling scam, branded no matter how much power creep still continues to be playable, as well as being interruption itself, it also brought so many different dragons into the game
I think stardust deserved to be tiered, it was meta relwvant for so long and one of the first generic boss monsters that was disruption. Then i think beelze deserved an honourable mention too, also pushing the boundaries of what generic monster protection could be. But one monster that wasnt mentioned that i think could honestly be tier one is borrelsword dragon. There might not be another card in the game thats ended as many games as borrelsword; it was in every deck for so long and such a solid answer to so many threats in the game
@babrad yeah, all great breakers and game enders but purely I'd honestly doubt even Accesscode and BLS combined have ended as many games as borrelsword, it was SO prevalent and so easy to make
@@McKayCameron i would argue accesscode alone has surpassed both its predecessors specifically due to how long it stayed relevant. BLS had a higher "impact" in our memories because it was a top deck (being in the main meaning automatically it was less used than the later game enders) but Borrelsword vanished after Accesscode's release and only had about 2 years.
Dark requiem xyz dragon and arc rebellion xyz dragon. Edit: The part of the video showing the black rose dragon tin reminds me of the time I got the tin and got black rose dragon not only from the tin but also the pack.
The original un-errata'd CED was so game warping, that if it remained as originally printed today, it would probably even still see play in Dragon Link decks.
I would argue it would be the only reason to play dragon link currently. Imagine Magna searching this in the end phase so the opponent has to keep something for it despite all your plays (unless shifter) then Seyfert adding back from GY anything to help you close the game. Or going first hand looping.
Armageddon is a great retrain but I'm still salty for the errata and would prefer being forever banned
It was my first guess, but then I thought: how good would it be in advanced? Sure, it might be a good going second card and an annoying way of winning at time. Prolly someone might figure out some crazy ftk lines with it but still... Online I didn't find anything that impressive nor consistent.
Jesse is becoming the Wolfe of Yu-Gi-Oh and I'm here for it.
I noticed the similar editing style a while back, but now it's just his current series lol
Hopefully Jesse will get "world champ different, baby!" soon
Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon might be for me.
A card that has been basically meta for dragons since its release from disaster dragons to dragon link and literally ANY dragon decks inbetween
Shooting Quasar Dragon was first true omni-negate. Definitely worth mentioning.
When your entire deck and full hand was dedicated to summoning just 1 Omni negate.
Stardust dragon assault mode?
True. Right now, your whole hand is now used for Magia, with potential 3 negates, but that's it.
@@MrCegebyou can make magia with a 1 card combo consistently :/
with 2 cards you can get to like 98% consistency in a deck its that stupid
@@Levixne how to 1 or 2 card magia
Number 95: Galaxy Eyes Dark Matter Dragon
I paused the video before your top 3 for my guesses. Dragon Rulers, as there is an entire format in their name. Stardust Dragon, as it's such an iconic card even in Edison today. And finally Chaos Emperor Dragon since it's the OG big baddie that started it all. Great video Jesse, I really enjoyed it. Would like to see one for most types but Machine would be fun
Surprised Hieratic Seal of the Heavenly Spheres isnt on this list anywhere.
This is an amazing concept for a series imo. Would love to see more of this
gotta go judgment dragon card is so nostalgic, iconic, and in LOD card was revolutionary
Lowkey my favorite Dragon is Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon since it's got so many counterparts, like revolution, Phantasm, and then it leads into Z-Arc, plus it was always cool to have Performapals alongside it, just made for a cool deck that never really became meta, unless you count Meteor 🤷🏻♂️
I put Pendulum and Advance in like all my decks. They have been reliable core pieces to my overall engine. What Pendulum can search for is still hella strong. I have been using Rain Bozu for the high end instead of the Performapal cards or the Abyss Actors card that applies too. It is also able to search out Dragodies the Empowered Warrior, which is a continual Riryoku in back and a search for another on battle destruction.
Dark Armed Dragon has to be number one it’s just a true legend
When you said "disaster dragons" that took me back a decade. I know the deck was TOXIC however i miss it
It was toxic but to me it truly felt like a dragon deck. One of my favs for sure
Has to be Agarpain. No non-xyz ED dragon without a summoning restriction can be above it since Agarpain makes it. The only main deck monster that might compete is pre-errata CED and the only xyz might be DMD.
Love the content idea. Can't wait to see all the rest of the types. It was cool to see some dragons that I forgot about over the years.
All the versions of RDA are a vibe imo… 🤷🏽♂️
Warriors next!
Good choice 👌 and I definitely know two warrior archetypes already.
BLS EoB has to be in it
How betrayed would you be if the list included 0 Heroes
@@jessekottonygo ur such a troll
Fallen of Albaz? 😢
My top 10 dragons:
10- Guardragon Elpy
9- Ancient Fairy Dragon
8- Chaos Ruler, the Chaotic Magical Dragon
7- Supreme King Dragon Starving Venom
6- Number 95: Galaxy-Eyes Dark Matter Dragon
5- Blaster, Dragon Ruler of Infernos (representing all 4)
4- Guardragon Agarpain
3- Dark Armed Dragon
2- Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End (pre erratum, it was the best card in the game)
1- Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon (it won a Worlds after its erratum)
Completely agree with the list, other than savage (and maybe saryuja). Savage is so powerful and has had such a huge impact on the game since 2019
It's supernova calamity or cosmic blazar
Dis Pater in the convo though
Cosmic blazar my goat
Competitively? Stardust dragon.
casually? Stardust dragon.
Historically? Stardust dragon.
design wise? Stardust dragon.
Lore wise? Stardust dragon.
Stardust Dragon? Stardust dragon>
Damn right! 😁
Arkbrave dragon. Being able to remove face up spells and traps from play and having it screw over my opponent is one of the most satisfying ways to get ahead in a game.
Its monster reborn effect is nice too
Chaos ruler. Bring it back konami.
I did play the full dragon ruler era, i was running tidal mermails with 3 tidals and 2 streams in the deck... the deck was unstopable, kinda same power as judgmend spellbooks if u could play it properly. But man full power dragon rulers was on a different level.
Good times :D
Stardust assualt mode was a freak of nature back in the day and how easy it was to bring out! Really thought you were going to mention it 😂
Cool series idea. I think it'd be sweet to see a table that shows the different monster types and their best card at the beginning and end of each video that gets filled in as the series progresses.
Chaos Emperor Dragon was not only one of the most impactful and strongest cards ever printed at their prime but made special summoning affordable. Boss monster before that and powerful cards in generel had pretty weird and restrictive conditions that you have to fullfill in order to special summon them. With Chaos Emperor Dragon and the chaos monsters in generell, special summoning was easier to do which chaned the game until today.
Hi Jesse ! i would just like to thank you for the content you've been provinding us in these hard time !!
Really good video! Wondered if Topological Gumblar Dragon would get an honourable mention as Konami seemed to regret printing it almost immediately
Ever since 2004 it’s been Blue Eyes Shining Dragon for me, just because of the impact it has had on my life but I think CED probably has had the biggest impact on the game for a dragon being one of the first banned cards ever because of how good it was. Also I really like this type of video Jessie this is cool!
I know you are probably busy, but I like your 1 card combo ideas, so I've got one for you to try to accomplish. Use Burning Bamboo Sword, Soul Devouring Bamboo Sword, and Terminal World to skip every phase on your opponents turn.
The ones that instantly come to mind for me are CED (pre-errata), REDMD, and Borrel Savage
Dragonruler 👌
cool video, it would be really cool to see what a modern version of dragon link with fiendsmith cards would look like
Darkness Metal Dragon sees play in Dragon Link a lot now because of Verudras. There are combos 1 and 2 card combos that easily get you to it since Black Metal Dragon can search for it. Because of Verudras your opponent has to drop Nibiru early if they didn't open any negation hand traps.
Instantly Thought Of Firewall Dragon
which is neither fire nor dragon
@@Dwerynith tbh firewall has nothing to do with fire
I still have my 1st Ed CED from IOC I loved playing that card alongside Yata
When it got banned I took that personally lol
Wow super cool Video!
Pls do this with all types!
I miss playing Chaos Emperor Dragon. It was so busted and the chance to summon it was just out of this world.
I like this video format, reminds me of wolfe's best pokemon of a certain type series, also this video is a testament to how insanely broken the earlier versions of dragon link were for their time with so many cards that are now either banned limited or errata'd
This one is difficult...
1. Chaos Emperor
2. Dark Matter
3. Druiswurm
But because I like it...
Gandora!
Also, I thought that it was a list for individuals.
Great video Jesse!
RDA+Crimson Gaia feels like cheating
I knew REDMD would be here. It had to.
I thought I'd see at least Striker Dragon or Dragunity Knight - Romulus.
I would've put Druiswurm over Magnumhut but they're pretty close in power level. Also the effect to "send" a card to the graveyard to bypass destruction negate is HIGHLY underrated.
Off the top of my head my top 3 would be something like CED, Borreload Savage and Stardust ? Maybe that weird foolish 3 one that got banned straight away when dragon ruler were around (galaxy eyes dark matter something something ?)
Regarding affect in it's time I'd go with the dragon rulers or DAD if you accept only one singular dragon.
I still remember terrorizing the tournament scene with Chaos Emperor Dragon. Those were the days.
To me it's PepegaRuler.
-Pseudo Kitkallos/Prosperity
-GY reborn for basically free
-No restrictions whatsoever besides playing light and darks which is no restriction in the slightest
Idk how some ppl still defend the fairness of thst card and want it back
Great video Jesse 🔥
Can’t wait to see now the warrior and spellcaster
Without pre-watching? It's rare to see a card be an endboard by itself like Hieratic Seal of the Heavenly Spheres
Definitely think the likes of Crimson Dragon, Ultimaya, Crystal Wing, The Rokkets, Hieratic Seal and Borrelsword are some that are more deserving than Flamvell Guard to be here
Subterror Guru is my favorite dragon, very fun to play.
Hey Jessie, I love ur videos and was wondering if u tackles the challenge of making a lady of laments deck would help out a lot
kinda shocked dark matter dragon wasn't higher on this list. Still as a fan of dragon's in yugioh, this list was still really cool.
NUTBUSTER DRAGON ON TOP 🗣🗣🗣
I was sad when Chaos Ruler got banned in master duel, I would say “it’s time to cook”, and summon him as an ultimate extender
I have to go with Red Supernova Dragon, not too many decks can deal with a boardwipe let alone 2 with red zone lol and i cant wait to see what the best warrior card is, i always feel like warriors arent super strong cards except baronne, nekroz and...?
NGL my fav dragon ( and IMO the strongest) is the greatest superpoly target ever. Starving Venom Fusion Dragon. some decks will still struggle to out it if its made on the opponent's turn
I would love to see a ranking for warrior monsters.
I couln´t select one 'cause i have a lot of favorite, but hope to see a good list
Faves that aren't impactful: Dark Rebellion and Odd-Eyes Pen
Favorite that actually have long-term impact: Stardust Dragon
please have another look at your abc ojama tcg deck, id love your take!
Chaos Emperor Dragon- Envoy of the end
One dragon I think can rival OG CED is Victory Dragon, the first match winner card and one that revolutionised yugioh in terms of sportsmanship - for the worst. A card that had to be banned not for its power, but because its existance threatened the integrity of the game as a whole. Seeing it in a position to do what its supposed to was an instant scoop because it was better than losing the whole match, and lead to poor sportsmanship issues.
Skeletal Dragon Felgrand he’s a pretty dope card that can pop on summon
DAD for me!
Red-Eyes has always been my favorite but Supreme King Z-ARC has definitely made its way up. If you could help me make red-eyes meta I would love it
The Hieratic seal disrespect omg
Shocked to not only see Striker Dragon not on the list, but not even in the honorable mentions. Put some respect on my boys name‼️🗣️
Chaos Emperor Dragon
Card was so good they had to ban it and change the text.
I gotta go with DAD, changed the game when it came out and has been relevant in many formats after
I mean blue-eyes is virtually invincible, so he's the clear winner
Best dragon is pre-errata
Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End. Bar none!
The first ever truly powerful dragon that broke the game and caused Konami to think “we might’ve fucked up.” Even now, pre-errata CED will be played and players will rage again.
Tenyi Spirit - Ashuna
JUDGMENT DRAGON
If magnumhut can roam free, eclipse wyvern should be able to fly once more, I miss that bloody lizard
Okay they should make an Archetype for Luster Dragon.
It’s my favourite level 4 normal monster!
Be pretty cool to have a strong Wind Dragon based deck, having the ability to do a mix of Synchro and Link summons
dragunity exist
1. Pre-errata Firewall Dragon
2. ABC Buster Dragon
3. Cyber Dragon
This video idea is great but I feel like making a top 10 list and making the video shorter would make it more appealing to a wider audience
We already have plenty wider audience ygo channels tho
I gotta say Fallen of Albaz just because of all the different ways it can be utilitzed.
Chaos Emperor Dragon is my top tier dragon of choice
If albaz isn’t on here i’m calling scam, branded no matter how much power creep still continues to be playable, as well as being interruption itself, it also brought so many different dragons into the game
Red eyes needs: link 1, field spell, less restrictive fusion, new warrior support, more starters, new ritual, new fusion…..
The shorter list is what red eyes doesn’t need… which is a new gimmick…
@@tiggerbane4325I mean, they could do better than Gemini
@@tiggerbane4325 Not really. Should lean into the burning gimmick that it had.
It needs to figure out wtf it wants to be. Does everything and achieves nothing
@@Xero-rr2ol yes it should lean into a gimmick it already has not get another new one…
I think stardust deserved to be tiered, it was meta relwvant for so long and one of the first generic boss monsters that was disruption. Then i think beelze deserved an honourable mention too, also pushing the boundaries of what generic monster protection could be. But one monster that wasnt mentioned that i think could honestly be tier one is borrelsword dragon. There might not be another card in the game thats ended as many games as borrelsword; it was in every deck for so long and such a solid answer to so many threats in the game
Bls was that card before Borrelsword, then the torch was passed to Accesscode
@babrad yeah, all great breakers and game enders but purely I'd honestly doubt even Accesscode and BLS combined have ended as many games as borrelsword, it was SO prevalent and so easy to make
@@McKayCameron i would argue accesscode alone has surpassed both its predecessors specifically due to how long it stayed relevant.
BLS had a higher "impact" in our memories because it was a top deck (being in the main meaning automatically it was less used than the later game enders) but Borrelsword vanished after Accesscode's release and only had about 2 years.
Dark requiem xyz dragon and arc rebellion xyz dragon.
Edit: The part of the video showing the black rose dragon tin reminds me of the time I got the tin and got black rose dragon not only from the tin but also the pack.
Guardragon Agairpain is pretty high up there I'd say.
Unsure if thisll count as a Dragon, since its a zombie, but Red Eyes Dragon Lord is one of my favorites.
Honestly, i think blue eyes should be higher. First actual dragon boss monster, that ever since then has helped inspire other dragons and archetypes
First dragon that comes to mind for me is Dark Matter Dragon.
Dark Armed Dragon hands down!! #DAD changed the game, the price and thus why PTDN is unable to find nowadays.
Sleeping on my boi crystal wing. Also I think coral dragon deserves a mention
Unban my boi:
*_"Number 95: Galaxy-Eyes Dark Matter Dragon"_*
100% Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End
Toon Red-Eyes Black Dragon, Period.
woah woah woah - whatcha tryna do here? start a war?
Fallen of albaz due to all the support and archetypes that came out of the lore
Neo Galaxy-Eyes Prime Photon Dragon