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forgot to post the classic

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#19: Pot of Greed
First TCG release: Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon (2002-03-08)

v.

The one. The only.

This card is actually responsible for getting me back into Yugioh this time around. And it was all the fucking memes I happened to run into which triggered my nostalgia and the rest is history. A couple unfortunate things about this card: First, the original print is only a rare which makes it the only non-foil member of the Power 5 despite being the most broken. And second, the first print also has three unnecessary words which kind of ruins the most straightforward card effect ever when it could undoubtedly be shorter.

Other than that, absolutely iconic (how many times have I used that word by now). One of the only(?) cards that every deck (Im sure someone will come up with one exception) would play if it was legal since theres virtually no downside. And the art is terrific as always. Look at those teeth.

iirc the OCG has different ratios so you're not as screwed most of the time

get those sweet penguin pulls baybeeeeeeeeeeeeee

rip

i don't even recall any talk of inheritance when my grandparents passed. don't remember them at all since our family's the only one on our tree who's in the US while everyone else is in the old country

lol no it's not a serious thing

#20: Dark Hole
First TCG release: Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon (2002-03-08)



I love numbered groups. Like the Elite Four, the Three Musketeers, the Gotei 13, the Six Samurai, etc. So when the Power 5 became a thing, I was totally into the concept. I mean, even as a dumbass kid there was no way you couldnt see that these were five of the strongest cards in the game (not to mention, they were mentioned in the instruction manuals that came with the starter decks). Sadly, I never had all five in the same deck at once. Dark Holes the weakest one of the five but it was so ubiquitous even in the playground days (as opposed to Raigeki which only came from a booster pack) that theres strong feelings of nostalgia there. The art is beautiful as well although its unfortunate its only a Super.

Emeraldegg posted...

Yeah sangan really gets the brunt of it, sadly. I think he ends up in jail with witch of the black forest (which is funny since iirc both were integral parts for the yata lock) and that's the last we've seen of him, all because he took the wrong bus. I really feel bad for poor sangan.

i was going to mention this card during honorable mentions but since it's already been brought up

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#21: Imperial Order
First TCG release: Pharaohs Servant (2002-10-20)



This is it. This is the fucking card I actually pulled out of a pack and traded away for a Griggle (+ Rush Recklessly). The sets back then also had only two Secret Rares out of like 100+ cards (the other one in this set being Jinzo) and while some sets like LOB had pretty meh Secrets (Tri-Horn & Gaia the Dragon Champion) both of the Secrets in this set were INSANE. The guy I traded it away to was the same guy I beat in the bet duel with Scapegoat and its not like he was even misleading me or anything. He asked me what I wanted for it and I told him. I came up with those answers out of all the cards he could possibly have had. And you could see the look of genuine confusion in his face when I named my terms. I mean what can I say, I thought this card was bad because why would I want to PAY life points and not even be able to play my own Spell cards?

Obviously I got over my aversion to paying LP and in fact this is the first of my PERSONAL TRINITY of LP cost cards that I realized were actually insane and grew to love, although this is the only one out of the three that I dont have my original copy of unfortunately. Lets talk about the artwork though. Just like Solemn Judgment, it features an old man holding his hand out for a negation. But whereas SJs evokes a more Gandalfian You Shall Not Pass feeling, IOs is a Im DONE WITH THIS SHIT Look how hes holding his hand out at an angle for you to kiss the ring you filthy peasant. Its OVER. All SPELLS. NO.

One other thing Ill comment on that affects the ranking of this card (and others) is personal pull history. Considering other factors like competitive viability, artwork, etc. equal, a card that I personally pulled is the one Im going to have more attachment to because it was my card: I didnt trade for it, nobody else owned it first but me. And obviously buying singles is way more practical (and what Ive done for years now) but that feeling of opening a booster pack and pulling something incredible is one of the best feelings about trading cards for me so its left me a bit sad that a vast majority of the time, youll largely get garbage and filler from packs that just make it so impractical to buy them unless youre buying boxes (and even then). So yeah a lot of the later cards are high as they are not only because of their effects, artwork, etc. but largely because in my sentimentality I see them as my cards first and foremost.

MZero posted...

The newest set that just came out in Japan has a bunch of penguins!

yess can't wait

oh shit i stand corrected

and it was the discard from hand effect to boot

#22: Kuriboh
First TCG release: Metal Raiders (2002-06-26)



I dont know if the actual card effect of taking no battle damage has ever been used in the anime but Kuriboh is the prime example to me of how much less from hand effects feel like real monsters. When they activate it from the hand, you just see them discard it into their duel disk graveyard yet every time we see Kuriboh summoned on the field its been absolutely iconic taking down all those BIG monsters like Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon and Thousand-Eyes Restrict with Multiply and in the filler virtual world arc where it picked itself as Yami Yugis deckmaster. Its been pointed out before but it could have maybe reached greater mascot potential if the original artwork was a little cuter, or looked like the anime version. But Im also appreciative of the wide-eyed creepy look and there are the other Kuriboh cards to supply the mainstream cuteness.

i'll be honest and maybe i won't be believed but i never read the effect until just now

#23: Nopenguin
First TCG release: Primal Origin (2014-05-16)



Its a fucking smug penguin holding a NO sign with repeating no!s in the background.

yess it's like the start of chapter pieces in One Piece that fills you in on the side characters from like 100 chapters ago

Grand Kirby posted...

Handtraps are just awful to play against mentally. There's some fun in seeing that your opponent set something down and the nervousness of what could be waiting for you, or wondering if they're just bluffing. But having something spring out at you from their hand never feels great and just makes you feel paranoid for the entire game.

yeah i definitely feel this

htaeD posted...

Also Graceful Charity was great and I love how often the angel appears in other cards (mostly to be nice to a banned Sangan).

oh yeah this one is great

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#24: Honest
First TCG release: Light of Destruction (2008-05-13)



Mostly here for the gorgeous art (the WINGS) but I have mixed feelings about handtraps. Its just not as COOL as a summon and lacks that feeling of oh Im actually PLAYING this monster. Even if you just use a card that you summoned for a very small effect, it still managed to hit the field. Or another way to think about it, if this was the anime and a monster was summoned you would get the hologram of it. At that point youre actually summoning/playing the monster whereas if you have a card like Honest, it retains its card form and you would like never see it and it would lack those personal feelings of attachment (at least for me) that come about when a monster actually battles or something.

I love the art so much though.

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#25: Judgment Dragon
First TCG release: Light of Destruction (2008-05-13)



Another great boss monster who has one of my favorite effects of destroying THE ENTIRE FIELD. Awe-inspiring. He fits so well thematically like once he hits the field, its over. Its JUDGMENT TIME.

Always thought he kind of looked like a dog though.

#26: Serpent Night Dragon
First TCG release: Magic Ruler (2002-09-16)



This card is underwhelming in pretty much every way. A measly 2350 ATK for two tributes and no effect. But Im still rather attached to it because its one of the first Secret Rares I had (can you imagine getting this in your Secret slot though?).

#27: Graceful Charity
First TCG release: Starter Deck Pegasus (2003-03-30)



Oh whats that? You dont know what this card does? Graceful Charity lets me draw three new cards and discard two! Another broken card but the specific reason this card stuck with me is in fact anime related and how most of the time when they DRAW a card, theres so much unnecessary STYLE which is really the best thing about anime in general and how it injects so much flare into typically mundane activities resulting in hilarity. Ever since the first Rare Hunter drew his cards and you hear the tik-tik-tik as he draws his cards. So good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjUVAmsAm64

Heres a compilation someone made of the times they use Graceful Charity in the anime. I think the only must-see one is Mais at 1:10.

Bit of an afterthought but the angel artwork is really a plus. If there had been a pure angel archetype I would have loved to play it.

Waluigi1 posted...

I still don't know a lot about pendulum but they seem really stupid(broken) from my limited knowledge lol.

i THINK (and i'm saying this because i quit when they came out) the general consensus is that shortly after they came out, there was an archetype that became top tier that had Pendulums in it but other than that in recent years they are joke status.

Kenri posted...

I feel like that's not how it should work, not that that ever stopped the anime before lol

oh i think i misworded it if that's where the misunderstanding is coming from. it's not that he was forced to summon it in the duel against Mako but he figured he might as well summon it because he could infect Mako's monsters that way (he couldn't).

oh shit i forgot to mention the OCG artwork for this game which on some days I'm impressed by how gross it managed to be and wish that was also the TCG version and on other days I'm glad for once that they changed the artwork in the transition because I don't want to look at it

i won't even direct upload it haha

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#28: Parasite Paracide
First TCG release: Pharaohs Servant (2002-10-20)



This is one of the craziest cards ever. First of all its iconic as hell because of the anime and was a feature in not one but TWO of Joeys duels (remember when he forgot to take it out of his deck after the Weevil duel so he had to summon it against Mako?). But also, the card effect reads that you put it FACE UP into your opponents deck and shuffle it. Like what the fuck? Now, whenever I played casually with this and its effect went off, I would just shuffle it to the top so that my opponent would draw it immediately and take 1000 damage. Now, did they want me (the owner of the card) to shuffle it or my opponent to shuffle their own deck. Because either way that ends with some fuckery. Not even taking card sleeves into account, its fucking FACE UP.

But yeah this card is really bad lol

wowzers

the most i ever paid for a single card...$25 + $40 of store credit i had built up

Was that an official thing?

I only remember it from the anime

Vanille

Yeah Chidori might seem a bit low for something I say I summoned so much bit in the end I'm more of a casual/collector that those old school legacy cards and nostalgia is just too strong to overcome with maybe like 2 or 3 exceptions.

when i was sorting out my collection a month or two back, I looked through some of the dragon cards for my dragon page

i'll be looking to see if there are any more that stand out to me enough to add to the COLLECTION

#29: Yata-Garasu
First TCG release: Legacy of Darkness (2004-12-01)



I actually love finding out about degenerate strategies in any game and most of the time think they are amazing and hilarious (when Im not on the receiving end of course lol). I wasnt playing when Yata-Lock was a thing but a random conversation with some friends who had played competitively led me to find out about this card and I thought wait thats actually amazing and this quickly became one of my favs. Theres so much to love about this: Its a cool raven, it returns to your hand after every turn which means its safe from a lot of opponent card effects and it has 200 ATK which means any death by this will be a slow and painful one, and the pairing with Chaos Emperor Dragon makes like the picture-perfect crime duo with one GIANT DRAGON and one TINY bird.

#30: Lightning Chidori
First TCG release: Cosmo Blazer (2013-01-24)



My most-made XYZ by far and great for maintaining advantage. The return to top of deck effect is actually so good. Also its a cool-ass thunder bird.

#31: Tribute to the Doomed
First TCG release: Metal Raiders (2002-06-26)



This one should actually be lower on the list. I dont really have much to say except it looks cool and that one scene in the anime where the hand just sprung up from the field and dragged a monster down has stuck with me.

htaeD posted...

He is actually God

scrolling through this in the morning and i thought this was about Gale for a sec. what a twist that would have been

i guess i'll actually check out the anime sometime to see the Wings in action.

MikeTavish posted...

Check out the side deck for my favourite meme spell.

excellent.

2009? that was also the year Blackwings won the world championship iirc.

also, damn 3 gale & 2 allure looks fun. when i was playing they were both at 1. not that i was even close to being 'good'

top 8 at nationals is really impressive! the site lists the deck value as $108 and i did a double take but then it listed DAD as $1. curious as to how much that was going for back then.

what year was that? curious as to what that deck looked like

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rewatched La La Land pretty recently and i can't imagine i won't be disappointed by any adaptation of Monte Cristo tbh

i saw the post about feh pass loyalty perks

just give me more fucking orbs FUCK

#32: Blackwing Gale the Whirlwind
First TCG release: Crimson Crisis (2009-03-03)



The only Blackwing on the list although I did consider a few others. I didnt play them as much as Harpies and was way more casual with my deckbuilding choices but they were my second deck. Gale is a pretty good mascot as far as things go (idk if he actually is or even if they have any presence in the anime or anything like that). First of all, hes an actual bird and not a weirdo in a bird suit like some Blackwings. Second hes cuteee (or is that just me) but ALSO is a cool buddy bird because hes so tiny. Not to mention hes incredibly versatile with being a very easy special summon AND a tuner. And of course, that effect to deal with problem monsters.

#33: El Shaddoll Construct
First TCG release: Duelist Alliance (2014-08-14)



Ive never played this card but it looks sick as fuck. Conceptually, Shaddolls are one of the most intriguing archetypes (aesthetics-wise, I have no idea how they play besides flip effects lol) to me because of the whole puppet and corruption of other archetypes thing they have going. I would have definitely tried them out as my next deck had I kept playing back in 2014. Also goddamn look at the size of this thing. It so fucking big. Like gargantuan. Massive. And we all know that a good size makes a good BOSS monster.

#34: Card Destruction
First TCG release: Starter Deck Yugi (2002-03-29)



I just really liked the idea of being able to set all my important cards and then using this to force my opponent to not give them a chance to play.

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CaptainOfCrush posted...

Oh man, I just remembered one early-era card that wrecked my shit: Ekibyo Drakmord. When my brother's friend first busted it out in a game, I did like twelve double takes and demanded to read every word of the card text. I couldn't believe a freakin common (this was still around the time most of us were fumbling with the first starters) could be so broken.

i def had pretty much the same reaction to this. it seemed like the most broken thing at that time.

#35: Solemn Judgment
First TCG release: Metal Raiders (2002-06-26)



NO

Absolutely insane card from Metal Raiders and the thing is this type of card only got better as time went on because other cards got stronger. For sure I did a double take when I saw the Half your life points bit because bro thats 4000 life points at the beginning. I didn't even have the opportunity to play this card (and I know for sure I wouldn't have played even if I had a copy) but also I didn't really see anybody else either. I think 4000 seemed too costly to a lot more people back then.

Also I havent mentioned this for every card but it goes without saying that the artwork is a big factor for all of them and this one is no exception. Its just some old man with a magnificent beard telling you NO. Legend.

CaptainOfCrush posted...

IIRC, Summoned was a common. I think Soul Exchange was one of the rares lol.

this is correct. the early starter decks only had 3 foils

Yugi had Dark Magician, Soul Exchange and Card Destruction
Kaiba had Blue-Eyes, Lord of D and Flute
Joey had Red-Eyes, Scapegoat and something else
Pegasus had Relinquished, Graceful Charity and Gryphon Wing or whatever it was called

Emeraldegg posted...

Kateee, do you mind if I go ahead and post my own topic or would you rather wait till you're done with yours? Don't want you to think I'm trying to steal your thunder or anything

i don't mind. i'm going to finish this list by the end of the week though

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haven't seen him yet but i'm actually going to see how long i can avoid seeing the Resp Raven image so I'll be greeted by his full GLORY when i've forgotten about it and log in

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