One of the funniest things about Gren Maju is that he gains ATK and DEF, so every once in awhile your opponent can play themselves and attack into a a facedown with 5,000+ DEF.
I use it along with Inferno Tempest and Mirror Force to protect me for one turn, and then either set him facedown, or just summon him and rake in the points. I should point out that this has only worked for me in LOTD and not with a physical deck.
I would feel absolute dread knowing I fell for that, then knowing the monster that attacked is stuck in attack mode, unless I have a good trap ready. It would be pretty satisfying to play magic cylinders against Gren Maju Da Eiza though.
@@chaosgamer016_5 Battle Traps in general don't really see play anymore, since not only are Trap Cards in general too slow to see play unless they're REALLY good, Battle Traps just sit around until the battle phase, making them prime removal targets that can't just be activated in response
Gren Maju is just so funny. You have all these modern decks, establishing massive boards with indestructible boss monsters, omni negates, floodgates etc., and you just normal summon this dude with one line of text on it, and just beat them to death. it's hilarious.
@@astralguardian5930 the best part is that Gren Maju in most cases can just... Slip by a board of negates. He's a normal summon so his summon can't be negated by any vanity cards, he doesn't need to activate any of his effects to work so negates unless they're Impermanence or Effect Veiler can't be activated in response to his effect of gaining ATK, in addition to this most good gren maju players would have already burned their opponents' negations that could've affected Gren Maju on other cards like Orochi, Hexa Trude, or Golden Castle Stromberg. If you draw a gren maju going second in a deck based around banishes, you're going to do well just because of how sneaky Gren Maju is. Typically, Gren Maju goes up to 10k-12k attack after you resolve most of your effects for banished and if thats the case, after all is said and done: your gren maju can just swing for game.
@@arthurmorganlefaye7626 Yep, Gren Maju is an example of simple yet effective. Deceptively powerful and can be sent out almost any time. Be it through Normal Summon or just a surprise Special Summon.
Another important thing to remember about Summoned Skull that made it meta defining in its time was that its low defense was actually a big upside. Being at 1200 put it below the 1500 defense threshold and made it searchable by Witch of the Black Forest, which was a very common play.
chaos giant is actually immune to power bond bc of that spell immunity sadly :/ the fact it can attack each of the opponent's monsters once plus piercing damage definitely more than makes up for it tho
In a time before grass looks greener i run a 60 card deck un tcg, a lightsworn zombie chaos deck.... The amount of my banished cards sometimes get ridiculus numbers, so, i only play one copy of gren maju (lightsworn and zombie engine works wonders today too) One time in a tournament, my normal summoned gren maju gave me the victory whit his amazing 14k atk, since that day my gren maju was bff of my judgement dragon
A defining effect doesn't change its role, Cydra is powerful because its a BIG guy for its era that comes out free, it still doesn't DO anything besides be a large body
I actually never used Gren Maju back when I first got it, because I found it hard to use his effect. Yeah, call me old-fashioned, but this was before Synchos and XYZs were introduced.
@@nine_tails137 Well tbf, there weren't many ways to banish cards en masse in old school YGO. Unlike now where a single Pot of Desires instantly boosts Gren Maju to 4000 attack.
@@yamikagevg7841 I haven't played Yu-Gi-Oh! in a long time, so IDK how much as changed? All I know is being sent to the graveyard means the discard pile,while being removed from play, means removed from the graveyard. Banishing is new to me. Unless that's the same as being removed from play?
Hahahhaha omg I never thought I'd see someone actually mention this! That was my main deck for years, hybrid control/beatdown with Gren and Gravity Bind. No one else in my local group had Gren Maju. Almost everyone else I played with ran straight beatdown and I had too up until I pulled my first copy. But the one who learned to hate Gren most was my one friend who loved to play control and had built theirs around Gravity Bind. I only managed to convince someone to trade me a second copy after I offered them like a bunch of strong rares because they knew what my deck was like with just one already. If I remember correctly I included a Red Eyes Black Dragon *and* a Jinzo and they only said yes because they didn't have the cards they needed to rebuild their own deck around Gren. It was 100% worth it. Gren Maju was and is my favorite card in the whole game, that card essentially taught me how to *build* a deck thoughtfully, before I got it I would just throw some cards with big numbers together and call it a day like the rest of my friends who played pure beatdown.
chaos necromancer would be a good one to build around it's a 1 star and its atk is equal to the number of monsters in your graveyard times 300 while it might not have the same potential normally but if you do one of the arc v builds and use nothing but monsters that can lead to some killer atk lol
I think chimeratech overdragon deserves an honorable mention because it was the terror of the competitive environment for a while in the past, and it was able to reach crazy amounts of attack If you summoned it with overload fusion and a gy full of machine type monsters (with at least 1 cyber dragon) also it can attack even more times than purgatrio
I remember the horror you felt when you managed to get 2-3 monters out in attack position on T1, smugly passed to your opponent, and they just Future Fusion-ed their whole deck into Overload Fusion for a 15K+ attack monster that could attack each of your monsters. It was fun when you had Magic Cylinder or Mirror Force. Less so when you didn't.
Mechanicalchaser is my favorite historical beatstick. It was a really weird and cool card that had an extremely specific and limited release at first (being the Ultra Rare in Tournament Pack 1) which gave it a near mythic quality back in the day. Also I think it's hilarious how it one-ups La Jinn by literally only 50 ATK, which nonetheless made all the difference
Gren Maju Stromberg player here and I love the deck so much. The rage it induces when I use Eater of Millions to banish the entire extra deck, then summon Orochi and Gren Maju...I never get Rematches on EDOPro. Then again, it is a control OTK deck, so it is frustrating to play against
One more thing to note with Prime Photon Dragon; if you have Galaxy-Eyes Afterglow Dragon as a material, and you detach it to activate the effect, not only does he get a boost from his own effect, but afterglows effect allows you to either special summon or attach Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon from your deck as a material (so you're guaranteed to have him and do full damage), AND it doubles the attack. So as long as the effect goes off without being negated, Prime Photon can be a guaranteed 11,200 (or more) beat stick that does full damage.
I think he kinda forgot chimera overtech dragon. You know… a giant beat stick that gain stacks equal to the number of material used for its fusion summon x 800, attack a number of times equal to the number of material used for its summon each battle phase, can be boosted with limiter removal, power bond, or both if you were lucky.
Or Slifer The Sky Dragon, who could potentially reach 59k ATK, assuming you play a 60 card duel and you have 59 cards in your hand and Slifer on the field.
Top 10 generic pendulum cards. Top 10 "trap" cards. (Cards that seem good at first glance but aren't really that good. Top 10 cards that reference the anime/manga. Top 10 parody cards. Top 10 cards based on other Konami games. Top 10 special conditions in the games. Top 10 anime/manga exclusive cards. Top 10 cards that newcomers shouldn't use. More Rescue Rabbit, please.
Ancient rules must have a "normal monster" errata. Mystical ref panel. In duel links. The npcs tend to use a monster that steals yours on flip effect. But only as long as the monster's in the field. Completely useless if you use a beat stick
Also its worth noting that if you use Afterglow dragon to summon prime photon and use it to activate its effect, its attack points will double, meaning that its atk will be at least 11,200 atk
I did that. My Neo Prime hit 16,000 ATK. My enemy, with all 8000 life points, took 15,300 damage because he had Morphing Jar in Attack position. Absolutely glorious.
Some honorable mentions: Chimeratech Overdragon, Power Bond targets as a whole (tangentionally mentioned) Malefic Cyberend Dragon Great Maju Garzett Injection Fairy Lily Ancient Gear Golem Goyo Guardian Goblin Attack Force and friends Beast King Barbaros Just some I could think of... Also, Summoned Skull had a retrain back in Dark Crisis, Skull Archfiend of Lightning
Id honestly like to see a video going into the details of what levels tend to mean or imply beyond how they effect xyz and synchro summons or tributes. Things like how lvl 4 and lower typically can't have more than 2k attack
Before Synchros I didn't see any point on monsters having different levels that require the same number of tributes. Like, what was really the difference between a LV1 and a LV4 before synchros?
@@xCorvus7x Exactly. And when they were all vanillas, for example, you would always play a Lv4 because of that strength so there was no point on having others
@@rodrigoandrade256 So? Are you questioning the point of smaller/physically weaker monsters having lower levels, or that such monsters exist in the first place? Besides, that period of time ended quickly. Man-Eater Bug, Skelengel, and Hane-Hane were released in the third booster pack. Obviously smaller/physically weaker monsters need other qualities to be useful, which is what they got (starting with Flip effects, and eventually Lvl 2 or lower support; frogs are mostly low-level monsters too and are very viable).
I have a suggestion: Top 10 Most Impactful Booster Packs I got this idea after you quickly mentioned how Cyberdark Impact iso so infamous, and would like to hear more about this and possibly others. Basically a list of the biggest booster packs, in terms of how many of the cards him them changed the caused the biggest impacts into the series than before. Obviously Legend of BEWD is out since it’s the first, but aside from that I guess it’s up to you.
I love the increased engagement in this video. Anyway, here's my idea for a new video: "Top Most 10 Overly Hyped Cards in YuGiOh." Before debuting the TCG, cards in this list seemed too overpowered and sparked controversies, but they turned out balanced, mediocre, or even bad in practice.
What you mean c1000 and ci1000 with an anime base atk of 10,000 and 100,000 and was hyped to be the highest base atk monsters in the game, but when officially released it's base atk is ?. And is can be easily defeated with a fiendish chain.
Summoned Skull isn’t all bad. He still sees play in Red-Eyes decks in formats where Dragoon isn’t available. Return of the Red-Eyes + Piercing the Darkness are what allow it to be decent
People tend to forget the other win condition in Yu-Gi-Oh instead of going through multiple negations. Just deplete their life points. - Someone I forgot.
I like having a Gren Maju in Virtual world just for the fun of it. It's level 3 so it meshes well with the rest of the deck, plus since you hardly Normal summon, you often have one left for it to pop out and OTK, especially if they Nibiru'd.
The Superdreadnaught/train engine is currently my favorite deck. Glad to see it here. Remember that you can limiter removal if you want to go all in. Ive wacked face with a 12,000 attack Superdreadnaught, and with Liebe you can attack multiple times. Very satisfying.
Also for duel links standards, it would be absolutely terrifying a monster that can attacks twice, while stacking attack due to its own effect equipped with power of the guardians, it's an auto win against Invoked Cocytus which ravaged the duel links meta for months
While my yugioh playing is only limited to Duel Links... One of my favorite beatstick to use there is Strong Wind Dragon. It can get some pretty nasty ATK going with it's effects... It's level 6, with 2400 ATK with 3 effects... First, if it's tribute summoned using a dragon, it gains half of it's tribute's original ATK. Second it has piercing damage. And as a slightly less useful third it doesn't get destroyed in a tie. Plop it into a Blue-Eyes Deck and you can fairly easily get yourself a 3900 ATK piercing beatstick.
one thing you forget about gren maju; you can use it with necroface and golden sarcophagus. Golgen sarcophagus sending a necroface to the banish zone will activate its effect. As well as that, when your deck is low on cards after banishing so many, with necroface you recover your entire deck back.
Another favorite beatstick of mine that I enjoy running in my train deck is super dimmensional robot galaxy destroyer given that it's a 5K beatstick with a harpie's feather duster effect. There's also Blue-eyes Ultimate dragon - and it's time with Tenyis - and 5 headed dragon that are fun as well.
Legendary Maju Garzett in a Darklord deck can climb up pretty high given a built up graveyard. And it even has pierce. Not very consistent but still kinda fun to do.
Number 62 can be summoned with photon dragon and afterglow dragon as materials, and by using its effect, discarding afterglow dragon to the graveyard allows you to not only double the attack of number 62, but add another photon dragon to it as a material. In combination with Xyz Unit and Xyz Territory you get an attack of around 8400 or so, which is then doubled by afterglow dragon to over 16000 worth of damage.
I feel like Malefic Cyber End Dragon could have earned a spot. It's basically a free 4k beatstick in any deck that runs field spells, and if you just so happen to be running Mound of the Bound Creator it does extra burn damage and gets some protection, although that's a little less important and niche
Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon was a major beat stick in my high school after Cyber Stein came out but not to attack exactly. Everyone tried to combo Cyber Stein, Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon, Megamorph, Ring of Destruction, and Barrel Behind the Door for a 9000 OTK. I had to start running my own Barrel Behind the Door just to counter it.
Damn I remember those days like it was yesterday 😏 On my first ever local tournament as a kid, I got absolutely demolished with that combo, two times in a row I was dead by the 3rd turn 😂😂 Learned the game in a brutal way that day 😅🤷🏼♂️
For Prime Photon Dragon, one of my favorite combos is this: 1. Xyz Summon PPD with Galaxy Eyes and Galaxy-Eyes Afterglow Dragon 2. Enter battle phase and activate the effect of PPD to detach one material for its effect, that detached material being Afterglow. 3. Activate Afterglow to either attach a GEPD from the deck or special summon it (whatever the case may be) 4. Afterglow’s other effect activates which does some major weird stuff w the atk boost 5. Laugh if your opponent has a monster w less than 2500 atk
Summoned Skull was my original ace, being in a stripped down Yugi Starter a friend gave me so I could play with everyone else since it was taking forever for me to build my own by doing favors for unwanted cards. I ended up building a pretty decent deck and ended up one of the best in my grade school only losing consistently to the friend who gave me the card in the first place since he could afford all of the best cards at the time. The card still holds a place in my heart for that alongside Hane-Hane for being my very first card.
Going on about the Cyber Dragon archetype, there's a card called Chimeratech Overdragon. In a decent cyber dragon deck you're going to have A LOT of machine monsters, and with the new Cyberdark Chimera you can search out power bond really easily and then use cards from your graveyard easily. You can easily have 10+ materials for its fusion summon which is then doubled with power bond. Edit: forgot to mention it can attack up to as many times as materials used. Sorry for the block of text lmao.
I'm a little surprised Utopia the Lightning didn't show up. I guess it essentially got replaced by double, but for years that was a notable out to big, targeting/destruction immune monsters. 5k plus shut down opponents effects during battle to ensure the attack got through.
Utopia Double is one of the main reasons Utopia decks are still able to compete with the meta. Running a Zexal Weapon sort of engine also gives your cards ATK, searches and other forms of negation. Using Asura Strike, this beatstick becomes 12000 and then can also attack every other monster on the field.
Gren Maju was and is my favorite card in the whole game, that card essentially taught me how to build a deck thoughtfully. Before I got it I would just throw some cards with big numbers together and call it a day like the rest of my friends who played pure beatdown. Even though I only play MTG now, that card is still the root of my love for deck building.
I'm surprised that Dugares the Timeless, Chaos Ancient Gear Giant, Numeron Dragon and Rainbow Overdragon (Because my Tribrigade deck can bring it with 14000 Atk no problem) failed to make even a honorable mention on the list. And yes, I included Rainbow Overdragon on this list. You wouldn't believe how easy it is to summon in Tribrigade builds.
played the invoked deck for a hole year. Since then, I couldn’t find a deck that satisfied me as much as it did and I stopped playing. Ohhh Alister, I miss youuu.
How did Cyberdark End Dragon not make it to this list? I know it's very limited to a Cyberdeck, but in that it's so busted.. There's literally no way to get over it besides Kaiju'ing and most decks are basicly forced to surrender once it's out.
@@Luna-Starfrost maybe it doesn't have a meta relevence yet ? I think that's how he does is top, based on competitive play in tournament, and maybe there wasn't enoght of them for him to be here Or maybe he just forgot because it's to recent.
Sorry but that's not true. Accesscode can kill an unboosted one. Borrelsword can basically always kill it (cyberdark doesn't lose attack but borrel still gains, so if it's
I'd like to throw in Chimeratech Rampage Dragon. He blows up backrow, is fairly easy to summon, can set up the graveyard and attack multiple times - and he also profits from generic support like Powerbond or limiter Removal. He also has a pretty cool name and seems like a nice dude. 👍🏻
I think that another beatstick would be Chimerathech Overdragon, because it gains 800 ATK for each material used to summon him and also it can attack as many times as materials were used to bring it out, and his requirments are a Ciber Dragon+ 1 or more machine monsters, so, if you used 5 materials it would have 4000 ATK and can attack 5 times, and that ATK can even go even further if you use more monsters or using cards like "Power Bond" since is a machine fusion monster, "Limit Removal" since is just a machine type monster or Dark Honest since is a Dark Attribute monster
I'm a little salty that Chaos Ancient Gear Giant wasn't mentioned, it's basically just Purgatrio but without requiring your opponent to control cards to have a large attack stat, and it's completely immune to back row and prevents monster effects from stopping it in the battle phase, and the deck it's played in can summon it almost as reliably as Invoked can summon Purgatrio
It's so weird finally looking into meta yugioh and seeing that Gren Maju is this kind of paragon card, because I pulled my first copy from IOC as a kid and thought I was super clever for combining it with Skull Lair.
I've recently been getting back into playing Yugioh with a train deck, so seeing Liebe pop up on the list makes me happy. Especially since you mentioned the Gustav combo.
Would Rafael's card count? Discard 5 cards, but you then draw 2 cards during every draw phase. I think it's also a continuous spell with no protection, so only in the anime where people almost never play backrow destruction would that work. Your opponent would laugh at how much you'd done their job for them.
@@leviathan1173 Not really. If you could keep it on the field for five turns it would then get you pluses every following turn. So it should qualify for that list because it's extremely slow and very vulnerable to removal, but it will eventually result in a free pot of greed EVERY turn, which is great for card economy.
Chanbara is also great because the speedroid deck allows red eye dice to make the summoning conditions with any other non tuner you have on the field, combining it in main phase 2 with a level 3 speedroid tuner like car turbo, can instantly bring out another beat stick in crystal clear wing dragon
First of all nice video I enjoyed it a lot ^-^. Secondly IMO Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon should have made the list as at least a Honourable Mention, seeing how Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon is the biggest Non Effect monster that can be cheated out of the Extra Deck with the destruction Effect of Waking The Dragon (Ironic because Dragon KEKW) and Fists of the Unrivaled Tenyi. Still tho fun video ^^
I assume the reasoning is that it's because it requires specific cards in the graveyard to power it up? Sure, it can be quite powerful, but you gotta ditch a ton of cards to get it there and because of how the graveyard is like a second hand, there aren't too many efficient ways available to do that. I'd definitely call it a runner up at minimum.
Big number is my favorite win condition. I once ran a deck with Advanced Ritual Art, Giski Zielgigas (level 10), 14 level 1 vanilla monsters (4 of which were Exodia pieces), and Exodius the Ultimate Forbidden Lord. I slapped in some Sephylons for more power, Gustav Max for some free damage, and Number 81 for card immunity. Most fun I ever had with a dumb deck, and playing it normally got me 11k attack in one turn.
Choose any of these and others I might be forgetting or because there are SEVERAL OF THEM: Great Maju Garzett, the Wicked Avatar, Alexandrite Dragon, BLUE-EYES WHITE DRAGON, Blue-Eyes ULTIMATE Dragon, 5 Headed Dragon, Rabidragon, Frostosaurus, Malefic Truth Dragon, Malefic Cyber End Dragon , Obelisk, The Masked Beast, Black Luster Soldier, Dragon Master Knight, Master of Oz, Cyber End Dragon, Odin, Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon, 5 Headed Link Dragon, Beast King Barbaros, Exodius the Ultimate Forbidden Lord, King of the Skull Servants, Montage Dragon, Slifer and Ra, the Calculator,, Tyranno Infinity, Chimeratech Overdragon, Evil HRRO Dark Gaia, Berserk Dragon, etc.
Huh, neat to know I was actually using a top tier beatstick during recess. Back when I played Yugioh in middle school, I ran a dinosaur deck, no clear structure, just a bunch of monsters that were Dinosaur-type which were handed down to me by my older cousin who was a huge yugioh fan, however, I still had Gren Maju Da Eiza in my deck. This was because I had the trap card Survival Instinct which allowed me to banish any number of Dinosaur-Type monsters in my graveyard and gain 400 LP for each so I'd have an enormous amount of LP. Not just that, but I had Tyranno Infinity, a level 4 dinosaur monster that gained 1000 ATK points for EACH banished Dinosaur-Type monster. And that's how I pretty much dominated my school in Yugioh.
Another great thing about gren maju is that he has absolutely no summon conditions. He can be brought back from the graveyard or brought out through other effects very easily
Another pure beatsticks are "The Agent of Force - Mars" and "Neo-Parshath, the Sky Paladin", both from the Sanctuary in the Sky archtype. It's so cool to play them together with an Aroma deck, since they keep increasing your LP and making both of them tougher every turn. The major drawback is that you need the Sanctuary in the Sky on the field to activate their power, but at least Mars becomes immune to any other card's effect and Neo-Parshath starts with a 2300 Atk advantage, and also you can equip it with the Cestus of Dagla to gain LP equal to the damage inflicted by him, which always works since he has piercing attack xd
Injection Angel Lily deserves a spot here. Back in the day Yu-Gi-Oh was all about Normal Summon and Tribute Summoning with very little Special Summon mechanics. The most you will see are cards like Pre-mature Burial, Call of the Haunted and Monster Reborn, or at most when you see some very specialised decks like the LV monsters or Black Magician spellcaster decks. Having a non-Tribute Level 3 monster which can turn into a 3400 attack monster when attacking or being attacked was phenomenal. To make things even better (or worse for opponents), Injection Angel Lily is easily searchable by Sangan and Witch of the Black Forest, and she can also easily bypass all the stall cards of the time such as Gravity Bind (only work on Level 4), Level Limit Area B (only work on Level 4) and Messenger of Peace (only work on monsters with 1500 or more attack). These reasons are why this card was in the very first Ban List. It was simply too broken at that time.
The fun part with prime photon dragon is if you use galaxy eyes afterglow dragon and photon dragon you can establish a pretty decent combo. detach afterglow, it can float into a photon or add a photon to your prime photon AND primr photon effect gives double damage
The great thing about Gren Maju is that you can play into a lockdown strategy, AND still have Gren Maju able to swing nigh-freely. A parallel to Gren Maju is - if the name recollection serves me right - Golden Homunculus, starting at 1500 ATK, but gains 300 for each banished card. The only drawback is the necessity to tribute. If you're going Different Dimension archetype, Gren Maju is a VERY good jam-in, and Golden Homunculus is also good. This may also be a rare case where a 40-card deck may be suboptimal because the toolkit is just so massive and interconnected.
MALEFIC CYBER END DRAGON! Back in the day of barely releasing xyzs and synchros were dominant, I used to play small tournaments with my necrovalley skill drain deck with the main beatstick straight up malefic cyber end. At the time of 3 skill drains no effects on field and a sudden beater on the field i think its overwhelming and super easy to pull out. I was honestly looking for it on this list soon as i saw lol
As somebody that forced Gren Maju in the original Tag Force game on the PSP, and hasn't really played Yugioh (other than some of the video games that are against AI) anywhere outside of dueling network practically ten years ago at this point, it's pleasing that Gren Maju essentially has a bunch of support to it.
As a troll deck with my friends, I had three Necrofaces in my deck, two soul absorptions on the field, 1 gold sarcophagus in hand, and a D.D Dynamite trap card set on my field. Used the Gold sarcophagus and banished one Necroface, which banished my the second Necroface, which banished the third one. A total 31 cards were banished. So I healed 31,000 LP and hit them with the Dynamite trap the next turn for 4,500 LP damage. It was awesome. They told me they hated that deck, lol. It was trash though but really fun.
One of my fav beatsticks is Guardian Dreadscythe: Imagine your opponent being proud of destroying your Guardian Eatos, only to recieve a thing that equips itself with a card from the deck that grants him +500atk for every monster in any GY, so any monster you destroy gets that number higher and higher. Also, as long as you have cards on your hand you can instantly bring it again from your GY if it's destroyed
Number 100 numeron dragon is one that I would mention when talking about beat sticks. Not as splashable or as widely used latex by any stretch of the imagination as utopia double but with draglubion and utopia dragonar summoning it respectively giving it 9000 and 13000 atk instantly is something that is definetley worth noting. (I know I’m biased it’s a personal favorite lol)
I came with this idea today but how about listing the top strongest cards that have never been placed in the forbidden/limited list (it could be tcg only or tcg/ocg). If this option were to be selected it would probably be better to take into account historical significance and not just how good the cards are at this moment to not have the list full of cards such as Forbidden Droplet and DPE.
From my first ever Yugioh pack, I pulled the Continuous Trap card Skull Lair. Banish as many cards as you want from your graveyard, destroy a monster on the field whose level is equal to the number of cards banished. So imagine my joy knowing I have a card to use with it called Gren Maju Da Eiza. Then I pulled Twin Swords of Flashing Light-Tryce. Delightful.
Cant forget one of the most goated fusions.... 5 headed dragon... it can litterally be placed in the extra deck of any dragon deck. Red eyes, blue eyes. Ect. You can use dragon mirror to banish 5 dragons from hand field or grave to summon it .... for a 5k beatstick only able to be destroyed by divine or light type monsters. And of course effect destruction too.
I'd honestly replace Prime Photon Dragon with Numeron Dragon, it might be less used, but if you do the Draglubion combo (that require 2 level 8 same as Prime) you get a 9K beatstick at least.
I remember Uria w/ Reasoning, sending 10+ continous trap cards to the graveyard lol And also Dark Gaia, sending one high attack Fiend and Rock to hit hard !
I honestly thought you were going to mention Arc Rebellion Xyz dragon cause that card has a crazy effect that gains the attack of all monsters on the field then negating all their effects as well. I used it to get up to 15k attack one time
Not to mention that most of these banishing cards are inherent summons or a cost, so negates don't stop them from banishing cards anyway. For instance a Pot of Desires that gets its draws negated, already banished 10 cards for Gren Maju.
Trains!!!! The #3 was u talking about half of my friend's deck, he mixed the train strategy with kaiju if I recall correctly. Utterly wrecked me but I haven't really played since Summoned Skull was a good card
I would mention Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem 8800 attack off the bat when power bond summoned, easy to summon in an ancient gear deck, has the effect of piercing battle damage whilst stopping spell and trap cards during the damage step and can have it's already outrageous attack doubled to 17600 in the same turn with a quickplay spell card "limiter removal" which a lot of machine decks run. This card was a powerhouse back in the day and I think should have been on this list.
I remember people hating Gran Maju when it first came out because everyone was terrified to remove their own cards plus almost no cards benefitted from being removed
Gishki Zielgigas was a great beatstick for the Gishki deck back in the day. I have many fond memories of summoning 2, attacking for 6000, then turning them into gustav max for game.
While Arc Rebellion XYZ Dragon isn’t as easy to bring out as any card on this list, the fact that it can very easily get to over 15k attack permanently while also negating the effects of every monster on the field seems like it would warrant a mention
I think for Utopia Double you forgot that you can rank up to Utopia Beyond also, which set your opponent’s monsters atk all down to 0 so doesn’t really matter what atk point they have on board you only need 2k more dmg to win.
One of the funniest things about Gren Maju is that he gains ATK and DEF, so every once in awhile your opponent can play themselves and attack into a a facedown with 5,000+ DEF.
thats how i usually play it and it works in 95% of the cases when they run into i say 12-13000def
I use it along with Inferno Tempest and Mirror Force to protect me for one turn, and then either set him facedown, or just summon him and rake in the points. I should point out that this has only worked for me in LOTD and not with a physical deck.
I would feel absolute dread knowing I fell for that, then knowing the monster that attacked is stuck in attack mode, unless I have a good trap ready. It would be pretty satisfying to play magic cylinders against Gren Maju Da Eiza though.
@@alexanderrobins7497 Is magic cilinder played at all I never see this guy talk about it
@@chaosgamer016_5 Battle Traps in general don't really see play anymore, since not only are Trap Cards in general too slow to see play unless they're REALLY good, Battle Traps just sit around until the battle phase, making them prime removal targets that can't just be activated in response
Gren Maju is just so funny. You have all these modern decks, establishing massive boards with indestructible boss monsters, omni negates, floodgates etc., and you just normal summon this dude with one line of text on it, and just beat them to death. it's hilarious.
That same deck: *proceeds to negate or destroy the Gren Maju before you could summon or attack with it*
Gren Maju's always been one of my favorites. I'm that bastard who ran Macro Cosmos.
@@astralguardian5930 the best part is that Gren Maju in most cases can just... Slip by a board of negates. He's a normal summon so his summon can't be negated by any vanity cards, he doesn't need to activate any of his effects to work so negates unless they're Impermanence or Effect Veiler can't be activated in response to his effect of gaining ATK, in addition to this most good gren maju players would have already burned their opponents' negations that could've affected Gren Maju on other cards like Orochi, Hexa Trude, or Golden Castle Stromberg.
If you draw a gren maju going second in a deck based around banishes, you're going to do well just because of how sneaky Gren Maju is. Typically, Gren Maju goes up to 10k-12k attack after you resolve most of your effects for banished and if thats the case, after all is said and done: your gren maju can just swing for game.
@@arthurmorganlefaye7626 Yep, Gren Maju is an example of simple yet effective. Deceptively powerful and can be sent out almost any time. Be it through Normal Summon or just a surprise Special Summon.
@@arthurmorganlefaye7626 or 12k def face down like a boss lmao
What about Jerry Beans Man, the strongest level 3 in the game, he powercrept the mighty Sonic Duck, JBM is love, JBM is life
😭😭😭
No, duel logs didn't include it. Therefore it's not good
JBM best card in the game
Sleeping on Atlantean Pikeman. The strongest lvl 2 monster! Beating out Clown Zombie. I think that’s still true.
JBM carries the yugioh video games' starter decks
Another important thing to remember about Summoned Skull that made it meta defining in its time was that its low defense was actually a big upside. Being at 1200 put it below the 1500 defense threshold and made it searchable by Witch of the Black Forest, which was a very common play.
A wise man once said:
"Who needs combos when you have big number?"
couldve been me xD
Big number go brrrrrrrr
@@torokami1109 exactly
*Davinator1212 has entered the chat*
@@dantevega5103 that was a rata quote
Chaos Ancient Gear Golem DEFINITELY should’ve gotten a mention, swinging for 4500 on everything with spell/trap immunity, 9k with Power Bond
Yeah was more expecting that type of beat stick
It also has battle monster immunity *so no things like Utopia* and piercing
chaos giant is actually immune to power bond bc of that spell immunity sadly :/
the fact it can attack each of the opponent's monsters once plus piercing damage definitely more than makes up for it tho
@@squeakybold9182 it's not it works wierd rulings
@@Loldino897 it literally doesn't
i play ancient gears and i've tried it before dude
An interesting parellel to this might be "ten worst beatsticks", monsters with some crazy attack potentials but just too hard to pull of or use
Armityle fits that perfectly. Also, Dragon Master Knight.
also the not-fusion thing of those chinesse duelist from the pegasus arc
@@qty1315 armityle is pretty good especially with its retrain
That train that makes you discard all your cards every turn
Numeronis be like
Beat sticks in yugioh remind me of that SAO abridged moment “group up… AND HIT IT TILL IT DIES!” lmao
Vars! Weird to see you here but cool all the same.
It also reminds me of the bridge scene in SAO abridged where he tells him they can’t kill him and that their god is here and he’s fresh out of mercy
lol Vars you know yugioh holy sheet
Gren Maju is one of my favorite deck types. Nothing says 'BEGONE!' like a 10,000+ attack monster.
It's just like skull servant's. I know gren maju gets bigger then king but he can still get very big though.
Oponent: BEHOLD! THE ALMIGHTY GREN MAJ-
Me: infinite imperdinance
Oponent: @#$%^&%$#%^&*(*#@#$%^&*(%$@Q!@$#%^#@@#^^%&%$#@%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@DAZZANATAR Hey, I also love my little Skelle-boys too! Skull Servants are just so much fun.
@@javelinmaster2 Magic Cylinder
In a time before grass looks greener i run a 60 card deck un tcg, a lightsworn zombie chaos deck....
The amount of my banished cards sometimes get ridiculus numbers, so, i only play one copy of gren maju (lightsworn and zombie engine works wonders today too)
One time in a tournament, my normal summoned gren maju gave me the victory whit his amazing 14k atk, since that day my gren maju was bff of my judgement dragon
I wouldn't define Cyber Dragon as a "pure" beat stick as it's most defining feature is DEFINITELY it's effect.
A defining effect doesn't change its role, Cydra is powerful because its a BIG guy for its era that comes out free, it still doesn't DO anything besides be a large body
Its crazy how such a simple and seemingly innocent effect like Gren Maju's can be so powerful that people are building decks around that
I actually never used Gren Maju back when I first got it, because I found it hard to use his effect.
Yeah, call me old-fashioned, but this was before Synchos and XYZs were introduced.
@@nine_tails137 Well tbf, there weren't many ways to banish cards en masse in old school YGO. Unlike now where a single Pot of Desires instantly boosts Gren Maju to 4000 attack.
@@MobiusLeader007 Makes sense honestly. Plus IDK if there's a difference between Banishing, and being sent to the graveyard?
@@nine_tails137 You need to read a Yugioh rulebook if you dont know that 😅
@@yamikagevg7841 I haven't played Yu-Gi-Oh! in a long time, so IDK how much as changed? All I know is being sent to the graveyard means the discard pile,while being removed from play, means removed from the graveyard. Banishing is new to me. Unless that's the same as being removed from play?
The funny part of Gren Maju is that since it's level 3, it's unaffected by Gravity Bind
Hahahhaha omg I never thought I'd see someone actually mention this! That was my main deck for years, hybrid control/beatdown with Gren and Gravity Bind. No one else in my local group had Gren Maju. Almost everyone else I played with ran straight beatdown and I had too up until I pulled my first copy. But the one who learned to hate Gren most was my one friend who loved to play control and had built theirs around Gravity Bind. I only managed to convince someone to trade me a second copy after I offered them like a bunch of strong rares because they knew what my deck was like with just one already. If I remember correctly I included a Red Eyes Black Dragon *and* a Jinzo and they only said yes because they didn't have the cards they needed to rebuild their own deck around Gren. It was 100% worth it. Gren Maju was and is my favorite card in the whole game, that card essentially taught me how to *build* a deck thoughtfully, before I got it I would just throw some cards with big numbers together and call it a day like the rest of my friends who played pure beatdown.
chaos necromancer would be a good one to build around it's a 1 star and its atk is equal to the number of monsters in your graveyard times 300 while it might not have the same potential normally but if you do one of the arc v builds and use nothing but monsters that can lead to some killer atk lol
@@vineousvondrake2456 you could play it as a tech against Necrovalley in Tearlaments
I abused that combo a lot in my fiend decks lolol
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Top 10 Worst cards that send a monster from the deck to the graveyard
I think chimeratech overdragon deserves an honorable mention because it was the terror of the competitive environment for a while in the past, and it was able to reach crazy amounts of attack If you summoned it with overload fusion and a gy full of machine type monsters (with at least 1 cyber dragon) also it can attack even more times than purgatrio
I remember the horror you felt when you managed to get 2-3 monters out in attack position on T1, smugly passed to your opponent, and they just Future Fusion-ed their whole deck into Overload Fusion for a 15K+ attack monster that could attack each of your monsters.
It was fun when you had Magic Cylinder or Mirror Force. Less so when you didn't.
Top 10 things to do while you wait for your opponent to finish his 2 hours combo each turn.
Mechanicalchaser is my favorite historical beatstick. It was a really weird and cool card that had an extremely specific and limited release at first (being the Ultra Rare in Tournament Pack 1) which gave it a near mythic quality back in the day. Also I think it's hilarious how it one-ups La Jinn by literally only 50 ATK, which nonetheless made all the difference
Summoned Skull still has one of the coolest artwork.
Raw drip and power
Gren Maju Stromberg player here and I love the deck so much. The rage it induces when I use Eater of Millions to banish the entire extra deck, then summon Orochi and Gren Maju...I never get Rematches on EDOPro. Then again, it is a control OTK deck, so it is frustrating to play against
Gren Maju: "I don't now who i am, i don't now what i'm doing here. All that i know, is that i must kill"
Sounds accurate enough
Nailed it
I want some Gren Maju lore now.
One more thing to note with Prime Photon Dragon; if you have Galaxy-Eyes Afterglow Dragon as a material, and you detach it to activate the effect, not only does he get a boost from his own effect, but afterglows effect allows you to either special summon or attach Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon from your deck as a material (so you're guaranteed to have him and do full damage), AND it doubles the attack. So as long as the effect goes off without being negated, Prime Photon can be a guaranteed 11,200 (or more) beat stick that does full damage.
Remember everyone, you can play a beat stick in yugioh, but you can't beat your stick in public
This is what kids call humor now? Sad.
@@catisreckless4647 You think this is bad? You haven’t seen the bad jojo’s bizarre adventure jokes that are everywhere.
You can, you just have to have permission. Or claim it’s a religious ritual.
What about the elderly?
I think he kinda forgot chimera overtech dragon.
You know… a giant beat stick that gain stacks equal to the number of material used for its fusion summon x 800, attack a number of times equal to the number of material used for its summon each battle phase, can be boosted with limiter removal, power bond, or both if you were lucky.
Or Slifer The Sky Dragon, who could potentially reach 59k ATK, assuming you play a 60 card duel and you have 59 cards in your hand and Slifer on the field.
@@CornaOnTheCob realistically, that’s not happening
@@kicker19539 Oh, I know, but it's still fun to see how high someone like Slifer could go. Well, fun to me that is.
@@CornaOnTheCob Didn't you just immediately lose?
You have zero cards in your deck.
@@RheaMainz Well, yeah, but you only lose in your draw phase if you have 0 cards.
Top 10 generic pendulum cards.
Top 10 "trap" cards. (Cards that seem good at first glance but aren't really that good.
Top 10 cards that reference the anime/manga.
Top 10 parody cards.
Top 10 cards based on other Konami games.
Top 10 special conditions in the games.
Top 10 anime/manga exclusive cards.
Top 10 cards that newcomers shouldn't use.
More Rescue Rabbit, please.
Ancient rules must have a "normal monster" errata.
Mystical ref panel.
In duel links. The npcs tend to use a monster that steals yours on flip effect. But only as long as the monster's in the field.
Completely useless if you use a beat stick
@@fredyramirez3035 *Charmers intensifies*
The "Trap" cards one seems a lot interesting.
@@pedromoreira2875 Kinda like Compulsory Evacuation Device? (Was overpowered for a while, but in the modern meta has no true consistency)
@@pedromoreira2875 Ledger of Legerdemain is one that sounds really good but is a bit slow.
What makes Dark Rebellion even better is that's its effect still continues at the end of the turn unlike with riryoku
Also its worth noting that if you use Afterglow dragon to summon prime photon and use it to activate its effect, its attack points will double, meaning that its atk will be at least 11,200 atk
I did that.
My Neo Prime hit 16,000 ATK.
My enemy, with all 8000 life points, took 15,300 damage because he had Morphing Jar in Attack position.
Absolutely glorious.
@@No-XIV-Xion he deserves to lose just for playing morphing jar
I will forever love Beast King Barbaros as my favourite beatstick and card.
Some honorable mentions:
Chimeratech Overdragon, Power Bond targets as a whole (tangentionally mentioned)
Malefic Cyberend Dragon
Great Maju Garzett
Injection Fairy Lily
Ancient Gear Golem
Goyo Guardian
Goblin Attack Force and friends
Beast King Barbaros
Just some I could think of...
Also, Summoned Skull had a retrain back in Dark Crisis, Skull Archfiend of Lightning
Frostassaurus, a Level 6 vanilla with 2600 ATK
Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon
Mystical Elf?
Blue-Eyes Chaos Max Dragon. Run into any face-down 0 Def card and its game
Ultimate Conductor Tyranno
Id honestly like to see a video going into the details of what levels tend to mean or imply beyond how they effect xyz and synchro summons or tributes. Things like how lvl 4 and lower typically can't have more than 2k attack
Before Synchros I didn't see any point on monsters having different levels that require the same number of tributes. Like, what was really the difference between a LV1 and a LV4 before synchros?
@@rodrigoandrade256 Basically just rituals and cards that specifically mention levels, like gravity bind
@@rodrigoandrade256 Well, among monsters brought out equally easily there's still a difference in size, or (brute) strength (or physique, perhaps).
@@xCorvus7x Exactly. And when they were all vanillas, for example, you would always play a Lv4 because of that strength so there was no point on having others
@@rodrigoandrade256 So? Are you questioning the point of smaller/physically weaker monsters having lower levels, or that such monsters exist in the first place?
Besides, that period of time ended quickly. Man-Eater Bug, Skelengel, and Hane-Hane were released in the third booster pack.
Obviously smaller/physically weaker monsters need other qualities to be useful, which is what they got (starting with Flip effects, and eventually Lvl 2 or lower support; frogs are mostly low-level monsters too and are very viable).
I have a suggestion: Top 10 Most Impactful Booster Packs
I got this idea after you quickly mentioned how Cyberdark Impact iso so infamous, and would like to hear more about this and possibly others.
Basically a list of the biggest booster packs, in terms of how many of the cards him them changed the caused the biggest impacts into the series than before.
Obviously Legend of BEWD is out since it’s the first, but aside from that I guess it’s up to you.
I love the increased engagement in this video.
Anyway, here's my idea for a new video: "Top Most 10 Overly Hyped Cards in YuGiOh." Before debuting the TCG, cards in this list seemed too overpowered and sparked controversies, but they turned out balanced, mediocre, or even bad in practice.
What you mean c1000 and ci1000 with an anime base atk of 10,000 and 100,000 and was hyped to be the highest base atk monsters in the game, but when officially released it's base atk is ?. And is can be easily defeated with a fiendish chain.
Sea monster theseus.
Summoned Skull isn’t all bad. He still sees play in Red-Eyes decks in formats where Dragoon isn’t available. Return of the Red-Eyes + Piercing the Darkness are what allow it to be decent
People tend to forget the other win condition in Yu-Gi-Oh instead of going through multiple negations. Just deplete their life points.
- Someone I forgot.
Sun Tzu
Seriously how do you forget that it was Sun Tzu that said this in his book The Art of War
Burn decks be like
@@mohammadmurie people just don't do business school like they used to. It's just after the advice on making the enemy cheat on his wife
omfg thats so good
@@imjoesan nurse reficule decks be like burn decks but clearing the opponents lifepoints like an iphone battery its power
I like having a Gren Maju in Virtual world just for the fun of it. It's level 3 so it meshes well with the rest of the deck, plus since you hardly Normal summon, you often have one left for it to pop out and OTK, especially if they Nibiru'd.
I haven’t played Yu-Gi-Oh since I was a kid, but I love this channel. Subbed!
If you haven't tried master duel, I would. It's great
The Superdreadnaught/train engine is currently my favorite deck. Glad to see it here.
Remember that you can limiter removal if you want to go all in. Ive wacked face with a 12,000 attack Superdreadnaught, and with Liebe you can attack multiple times. Very satisfying.
Kinda surprised to not see the King of Skull Servants on the list
Also for duel links standards, it would be absolutely terrifying a monster that can attacks twice, while stacking attack due to its own effect equipped with power of the guardians, it's an auto win against Invoked Cocytus which ravaged the duel links meta for months
While my yugioh playing is only limited to Duel Links... One of my favorite beatstick to use there is Strong Wind Dragon. It can get some pretty nasty ATK going with it's effects...
It's level 6, with 2400 ATK with 3 effects... First, if it's tribute summoned using a dragon, it gains half of it's tribute's original ATK. Second it has piercing damage. And as a slightly less useful third it doesn't get destroyed in a tie.
Plop it into a Blue-Eyes Deck and you can fairly easily get yourself a 3900 ATK piercing beatstick.
one thing you forget about gren maju; you can use it with necroface and golden sarcophagus. Golgen sarcophagus sending a necroface to the banish zone will activate its effect. As well as that, when your deck is low on cards after banishing so many, with necroface you recover your entire deck back.
Another favorite beatstick of mine that I enjoy running in my train deck is super dimmensional robot galaxy destroyer given that it's a 5K beatstick with a harpie's feather duster effect. There's also Blue-eyes Ultimate dragon - and it's time with Tenyis - and 5 headed dragon that are fun as well.
Legendary Maju Garzett in a Darklord deck can climb up pretty high given a built up graveyard. And it even has pierce. Not very consistent but still kinda fun to do.
Number 62 can be summoned with photon dragon and afterglow dragon as materials, and by using its effect, discarding afterglow dragon to the graveyard allows you to not only double the attack of number 62, but add another photon dragon to it as a material. In combination with Xyz Unit and Xyz Territory you get an attack of around 8400 or so, which is then doubled by afterglow dragon to over 16000 worth of damage.
I feel like Malefic Cyber End Dragon could have earned a spot. It's basically a free 4k beatstick in any deck that runs field spells, and if you just so happen to be running Mound of the Bound Creator it does extra burn damage and gets some protection, although that's a little less important and niche
Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon was a major beat stick in my high school after Cyber Stein came out but not to attack exactly. Everyone tried to combo Cyber Stein, Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon, Megamorph, Ring of Destruction, and Barrel Behind the Door for a 9000 OTK. I had to start running my own Barrel Behind the Door just to counter it.
Damn I remember those days like it was yesterday 😏 On my first ever local tournament as a kid, I got absolutely demolished with that combo, two times in a row I was dead by the 3rd turn 😂😂 Learned the game in a brutal way that day 😅🤷🏼♂️
For Prime Photon Dragon, one of my favorite combos is this:
1. Xyz Summon PPD with Galaxy Eyes and Galaxy-Eyes Afterglow Dragon
2. Enter battle phase and activate the effect of PPD to detach one material for its effect, that detached material being Afterglow.
3. Activate Afterglow to either attach a GEPD from the deck or special summon it (whatever the case may be)
4. Afterglow’s other effect activates which does some major weird stuff w the atk boost
5. Laugh if your opponent has a monster w less than 2500 atk
Summoned Skull was my original ace, being in a stripped down Yugi Starter a friend gave me so I could play with everyone else since it was taking forever for me to build my own by doing favors for unwanted cards. I ended up building a pretty decent deck and ended up one of the best in my grade school only losing consistently to the friend who gave me the card in the first place since he could afford all of the best cards at the time.
The card still holds a place in my heart for that alongside Hane-Hane for being my very first card.
My favorite beat stick is definitely Blue Eyes, gotta love the classics.
Going on about the Cyber Dragon archetype, there's a card called Chimeratech Overdragon. In a decent cyber dragon deck you're going to have A LOT of machine monsters, and with the new Cyberdark Chimera you can search out power bond really easily and then use cards from your graveyard easily. You can easily have 10+ materials for its fusion summon which is then doubled with power bond.
Edit: forgot to mention it can attack up to as many times as materials used.
Sorry for the block of text lmao.
Chimeratech Rampage dragon is better, it can also blow your opponent s/t not to mention it didn't blow your own cards like overdragon.
I'm a little surprised Utopia the Lightning didn't show up. I guess it essentially got replaced by double, but for years that was a notable out to big, targeting/destruction immune monsters. 5k plus shut down opponents effects during battle to ensure the attack got through.
Utopia Double is one of the main reasons Utopia decks are still able to compete with the meta. Running a Zexal Weapon sort of engine also gives your cards ATK, searches and other forms of negation. Using Asura Strike, this beatstick becomes 12000 and then can also attack every other monster on the field.
Gren Maju was and is my favorite card in the whole game, that card essentially taught me how to build a deck thoughtfully. Before I got it I would just throw some cards with big numbers together and call it a day like the rest of my friends who played pure beatdown. Even though I only play MTG now, that card is still the root of my love for deck building.
I'm surprised that Dugares the Timeless, Chaos Ancient Gear Giant, Numeron Dragon and Rainbow Overdragon (Because my Tribrigade deck can bring it with 14000 Atk no problem) failed to make even a honorable mention on the list.
And yes, I included Rainbow Overdragon on this list. You wouldn't believe how easy it is to summon in Tribrigade builds.
played the invoked deck for a hole year. Since then, I couldn’t find a deck that satisfied me as much as it did and I stopped playing. Ohhh Alister, I miss youuu.
Finally my request. Next top 10 monsters that both good while on the field and when it leaves the field
How did Cyberdark End Dragon not make it to this list? I know it's very limited to a Cyberdeck, but in that it's so busted.. There's literally no way to get over it besides Kaiju'ing and most decks are basicly forced to surrender once it's out.
If it wasn't a monster only list. I would've complained about metal morph
@@fredyramirez3035 Oh dear, you literally brought me vietnam flashbacks-
@@Luna-Starfrost maybe it doesn't have a meta relevence yet ? I think that's how he does is top, based on competitive play in tournament, and maybe there wasn't enoght of them for him to be here
Or maybe he just forgot because it's to recent.
Sorry but that's not true.
Accesscode can kill an unboosted one.
Borrelsword can basically always kill it (cyberdark doesn't lose attack but borrel still gains, so if it's
Yeah, it's really hard to get rid of.
I'd like to throw in Chimeratech Rampage Dragon. He blows up backrow, is fairly easy to summon, can set up the graveyard and attack multiple times - and he also profits from generic support like Powerbond or limiter Removal. He also has a pretty cool name and seems like a nice dude. 👍🏻
Blue eyes white dragon: Am I a joke to… *realizes their archetype was never competitively viable* never mind.
It was somewhat competitive in early pendulum era, mainly because of Blue Eyes Spirit Dragon
Didnt Blue eyes win worlds in 2016 (and the finals was a mirror match)
@@Marko-he8el Yeah but it wasn't because of its prowess as a beatstick. It's rather lame that the archetype struggles to go over 3000 ATK.
@@HoveringAboveMyself ye like you d think twin would be 3500 atleast. +Spirit and azure should have been 3000 too.
To be fair, while the BEWD has had various levels of viability over time, it's never been a good beatstick in those decks, so... Yeah.
I think that another beatstick would be Chimerathech Overdragon, because it gains 800 ATK for each material used to summon him and also it can attack as many times as materials were used to bring it out, and his requirments are a Ciber Dragon+ 1 or more machine monsters, so, if you used 5 materials it would have 4000 ATK and can attack 5 times, and that ATK can even go even further if you use more monsters or using cards like "Power Bond" since is a machine fusion monster, "Limit Removal" since is just a machine type monster or Dark Honest since is a Dark Attribute monster
I'm a little salty that Chaos Ancient Gear Giant wasn't mentioned, it's basically just Purgatrio but without requiring your opponent to control cards to have a large attack stat, and it's completely immune to back row and prevents monster effects from stopping it in the battle phase, and the deck it's played in can summon it almost as reliably as Invoked can summon Purgatrio
It's so weird finally looking into meta yugioh and seeing that Gren Maju is this kind of paragon card, because I pulled my first copy from IOC as a kid and thought I was super clever for combining it with Skull Lair.
Well, clever ≠ unique. You can certainly be clever without being unique
I've recently been getting back into playing Yugioh with a train deck, so seeing Liebe pop up on the list makes me happy. Especially since you mentioned the Gustav combo.
Top 10 Worst Cards that Result in Positive Card Economy.
Would Rafael's card count? Discard 5 cards, but you then draw 2 cards during every draw phase. I think it's also a continuous spell with no protection, so only in the anime where people almost never play backrow destruction would that work. Your opponent would laugh at how much you'd done their job for them.
@@kyuubinaruto17
That wouldn't be a positive. It would be a -4 in card advantage.
@@leviathan1173 Not really. If you could keep it on the field for five turns it would then get you pluses every following turn.
So it should qualify for that list because it's extremely slow and very vulnerable to removal, but it will eventually result in a free pot of greed EVERY turn, which is great for card economy.
Chanbara is also great because the speedroid deck allows red eye dice to make the summoning conditions with any other non tuner you have on the field, combining it in main phase 2 with a level 3 speedroid tuner like car turbo, can instantly bring out another beat stick in crystal clear wing dragon
First of all nice video I enjoyed it a lot ^-^. Secondly IMO Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon should have made the list as at least a Honourable Mention, seeing how Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon is the biggest Non Effect monster that can be cheated out of the Extra Deck with the destruction Effect of Waking The Dragon (Ironic because Dragon KEKW) and Fists of the Unrivaled Tenyi. Still tho fun video ^^
King of skull servant is a pretty good beat stick , and since is easy to have 2-3 on your side of the field it should be around 7 place
I assume the reasoning is that it's because it requires specific cards in the graveyard to power it up? Sure, it can be quite powerful, but you gotta ditch a ton of cards to get it there and because of how the graveyard is like a second hand, there aren't too many efficient ways available to do that. I'd definitely call it a runner up at minimum.
Big number is my favorite win condition. I once ran a deck with Advanced Ritual Art, Giski Zielgigas (level 10), 14 level 1 vanilla monsters (4 of which were Exodia pieces), and Exodius the Ultimate Forbidden Lord. I slapped in some Sephylons for more power, Gustav Max for some free damage, and Number 81 for card immunity. Most fun I ever had with a dumb deck, and playing it normally got me 11k attack in one turn.
Choose any of these and others I might be forgetting or because there are SEVERAL OF THEM: Great Maju Garzett, the Wicked Avatar, Alexandrite Dragon, BLUE-EYES WHITE DRAGON, Blue-Eyes ULTIMATE Dragon, 5 Headed Dragon, Rabidragon, Frostosaurus, Malefic Truth Dragon, Malefic Cyber End Dragon , Obelisk, The Masked Beast, Black Luster Soldier, Dragon Master Knight, Master of Oz, Cyber End Dragon, Odin, Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon, 5 Headed Link Dragon, Beast King Barbaros, Exodius the Ultimate Forbidden Lord, King of the Skull Servants, Montage Dragon, Slifer and Ra, the Calculator,, Tyranno Infinity, Chimeratech Overdragon, Evil HRRO Dark Gaia, Berserk Dragon, etc.
Huh, neat to know I was actually using a top tier beatstick during recess. Back when I played Yugioh in middle school, I ran a dinosaur deck, no clear structure, just a bunch of monsters that were Dinosaur-type which were handed down to me by my older cousin who was a huge yugioh fan, however, I still had Gren Maju Da Eiza in my deck. This was because I had the trap card Survival Instinct which allowed me to banish any number of Dinosaur-Type monsters in my graveyard and gain 400 LP for each so I'd have an enormous amount of LP. Not just that, but I had Tyranno Infinity, a level 4 dinosaur monster that gained 1000 ATK points for EACH banished Dinosaur-Type monster. And that's how I pretty much dominated my school in Yugioh.
Another great thing about gren maju is that he has absolutely no summon conditions. He can be brought back from the graveyard or brought out through other effects very easily
Another pure beatsticks are "The Agent of Force - Mars" and "Neo-Parshath, the Sky Paladin", both from the Sanctuary in the Sky archtype.
It's so cool to play them together with an Aroma deck, since they keep increasing your LP and making both of them tougher every turn.
The major drawback is that you need the Sanctuary in the Sky on the field to activate their power, but at least Mars becomes immune to any other card's effect and Neo-Parshath starts with a 2300 Atk advantage, and also you can equip it with the Cestus of Dagla to gain LP equal to the damage inflicted by him, which always works since he has piercing attack xd
Injection Angel Lily deserves a spot here. Back in the day Yu-Gi-Oh was all about Normal Summon and Tribute Summoning with very little Special Summon mechanics. The most you will see are cards like Pre-mature Burial, Call of the Haunted and Monster Reborn, or at most when you see some very specialised decks like the LV monsters or Black Magician spellcaster decks. Having a non-Tribute Level 3 monster which can turn into a 3400 attack monster when attacking or being attacked was phenomenal. To make things even better (or worse for opponents), Injection Angel Lily is easily searchable by Sangan and Witch of the Black Forest, and she can also easily bypass all the stall cards of the time such as Gravity Bind (only work on Level 4), Level Limit Area B (only work on Level 4) and Messenger of Peace (only work on monsters with 1500 or more attack). These reasons are why this card was in the very first Ban List. It was simply too broken at that time.
Topologic Zeroboros is my personal boss beatstick. I always try and summon it with Borrelcode Dragon's effect
The fun part with prime photon dragon is if you use galaxy eyes afterglow dragon and photon dragon you can establish a pretty decent combo. detach afterglow, it can float into a photon or add a photon to your prime photon AND primr photon effect gives double damage
I feel personally attacked that you explained half my deck during the #1 discussion. 🤣🤣
The great thing about Gren Maju is that you can play into a lockdown strategy, AND still have Gren Maju able to swing nigh-freely.
A parallel to Gren Maju is - if the name recollection serves me right - Golden Homunculus, starting at 1500 ATK, but gains 300 for each banished card. The only drawback is the necessity to tribute.
If you're going Different Dimension archetype, Gren Maju is a VERY good jam-in, and Golden Homunculus is also good.
This may also be a rare case where a 40-card deck may be suboptimal because the toolkit is just so massive and interconnected.
MALEFIC CYBER END DRAGON! Back in the day of barely releasing xyzs and synchros were dominant, I used to play small tournaments with my necrovalley skill drain deck with the main beatstick straight up malefic cyber end. At the time of 3 skill drains no effects on field and a sudden beater on the field i think its overwhelming and super easy to pull out. I was honestly looking for it on this list soon as i saw lol
There's a card called Tyrano Infinitity that basically does the same thing as Gren Maju but only for dinosaurs and dinosaur decks
As somebody that forced Gren Maju in the original Tag Force game on the PSP, and hasn't really played Yugioh (other than some of the video games that are against AI) anywhere outside of dueling network practically ten years ago at this point, it's pleasing that Gren Maju essentially has a bunch of support to it.
Gren Maju is one of my favorite cards. I love playing a Stromberg Gren Maju deck!
As a troll deck with my friends, I had three Necrofaces in my deck, two soul absorptions on the field, 1 gold sarcophagus in hand, and a D.D Dynamite trap card set on my field. Used the Gold sarcophagus and banished one Necroface, which banished my the second Necroface, which banished the third one. A total 31 cards were banished. So I healed 31,000 LP and hit them with the Dynamite trap the next turn for 4,500 LP damage. It was awesome. They told me they hated that deck, lol. It was trash though but really fun.
One of my fav beatsticks is Guardian Dreadscythe:
Imagine your opponent being proud of destroying your Guardian Eatos, only to recieve a thing that equips itself with a card from the deck that grants him +500atk for every monster in any GY, so any monster you destroy gets that number higher and higher. Also, as long as you have cards on your hand you can instantly bring it again from your GY if it's destroyed
Number 100 numeron dragon is one that I would mention when talking about beat sticks. Not as splashable or as widely used latex by any stretch of the imagination as utopia double but with draglubion and utopia dragonar summoning it respectively giving it 9000 and 13000 atk instantly is something that is definetley worth noting. (I know I’m biased it’s a personal favorite lol)
I came with this idea today but how about listing the top strongest cards that have never been placed in the forbidden/limited list (it could be tcg only or tcg/ocg). If this option were to be selected it would probably be better to take into account historical significance and not just how good the cards are at this moment to not have the list full of cards such as Forbidden Droplet and DPE.
From my first ever Yugioh pack, I pulled the Continuous Trap card Skull Lair. Banish as many cards as you want from your graveyard, destroy a monster on the field whose level is equal to the number of cards banished.
So imagine my joy knowing I have a card to use with it called Gren Maju Da Eiza. Then I pulled Twin Swords of Flashing Light-Tryce. Delightful.
Cant forget one of the most goated fusions.... 5 headed dragon... it can litterally be placed in the extra deck of any dragon deck. Red eyes, blue eyes. Ect. You can use dragon mirror to banish 5 dragons from hand field or grave to summon it .... for a 5k beatstick only able to be destroyed by divine or light type monsters. And of course effect destruction too.
I'd honestly replace Prime Photon Dragon with Numeron Dragon, it might be less used, but if you do the Draglubion combo (that require 2 level 8 same as Prime) you get a 9K beatstick at least.
It's actually kind of funny that the best beat stick in the game is a Level 3 main deck monster
I remember Uria w/ Reasoning, sending 10+ continous trap cards to the graveyard lol
And also Dark Gaia, sending one high attack Fiend and Rock to hit hard !
I honestly thought you were going to mention Arc Rebellion Xyz dragon cause that card has a crazy effect that gains the attack of all monsters on the field then negating all their effects as well. I used it to get up to 15k attack one time
Montage Dragon is an amazing beatstick you missed on this list.
Gren majus power comes from not using a single effect. Your opponent can have tonnes of omni negates yet can't stop gren maju
Not to mention that most of these banishing cards are inherent summons or a cost, so negates don't stop them from banishing cards anyway. For instance a Pot of Desires that gets its draws negated, already banished 10 cards for Gren Maju.
Stopping utopia with it's own effect and using double or nothing is one of the yuma's and astral's first and most effective combos.
Trains!!!! The #3 was u talking about half of my friend's deck, he mixed the train strategy with kaiju if I recall correctly. Utterly wrecked me but I haven't really played since Summoned Skull was a good card
I would mention Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem
8800 attack off the bat when power bond summoned, easy to summon in an ancient gear deck, has the effect of piercing battle damage whilst stopping spell and trap cards during the damage step and can have it's already outrageous attack doubled to 17600 in the same turn with a quickplay spell card "limiter removal" which a lot of machine decks run.
This card was a powerhouse back in the day and I think should have been on this list.
Summoned skull actually had a retrain as early as the gx era in the form of skull arch fiend of lightning.
Zombiestein in a gimmick puppet deck is amazing, and an amazing beatstick
I remember people hating Gran Maju when it first came out because everyone was terrified to remove their own cards plus almost no cards benefitted from being removed
Gishki Zielgigas was a great beatstick for the Gishki deck back in the day. I have many fond memories of summoning 2, attacking for 6000, then turning them into gustav max for game.
While Arc Rebellion XYZ Dragon isn’t as easy to bring out as any card on this list, the fact that it can very easily get to over 15k attack permanently while also negating the effects of every monster on the field seems like it would warrant a mention
I think for Utopia Double you forgot that you can rank up to Utopia Beyond also, which set your opponent’s monsters atk all down to 0 so doesn’t really matter what atk point they have on board you only need 2k more dmg to win.
Boss monsters usually at 3k body, double to utopia + double or nothing is 10k, minus 3K that still 7k damage. 1000 more than beyond+double.