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Gold medal: Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End (Original)



This is it. THE dragon card, one of the most infamous cards in history. Well done Sorozone, you called it. I'll give it to kateee as well because you sounded like you wanted to but just wanted to be different.

Usability: 10/10
This card for the uninformed is one of the cards that necessitated the CREATION OF THE BANLIST, as part of a combo called Yata-lock. Basically you wipe the field with this guy, who has a very easy summoning condition, with either witch of the black forest or sangan on the field. They get blown up and let you bring in Yata-Garasu from the deck, who you then peck with over and over until the opponent runs out of life points. This combo was so powerful that, in a game in which pot of greed, graceful charity, etc, had remained limited but not straight up banned, this combo was the one that broke konami and finally forced them to forbid cards. I think you could make a case that in its original incarnation (It was sadly errata'd to be worthless but legal) it was the most powerful card of all time. Stuff like pot of greed and graceful charity are incredibly powerful because they let any deck be more consistent, but none of those cards directly cause a win condition like CED does.

Design: 10/10
Like Red eyes darkness metal dragon, CED encapsulates a lot of what a dragon is. It has felgrand vibes where it's just so in your face and intimidating. And this one is roaring, almost howling up in the air as though it truly is an envoy of the end. Also, I LOVE the orange flowing mane, it's a nice touch that doesn't detract anything.

Attachment: 10/10
I owned this card. I used this card in a non-yata lock fashion because I wanted to use dragons only. One of my earliest ygo memories is I had a gamer mag that had a ygo section in it, and this particular edition was just at the height of all this yata nonsense, and I was just fascinated and read that mag over so many times. This was around the time where my town actually had a game store so we'd go in there sometimes and look at cards, so I was firmly into the game at that point, though I was always super shy so I never took part in any festivities there or anything.

Total score: 30/30
Probably expected/10, but idc. To the average fan, blue eyes is the most popular dragon, and that's not an unfair take at all. But no dragon has had a bigger impact on the game than Chaos Emperor Dragon.

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