ITT: Worthless but pretty cards
>worthless
If both of them are on the field when you summon Sanwitch, you get a 2.1k beater and you proc both Sangan and Witchy's effects. It's not a minus, which is decent for older fusions.
>>46295704
Except both of its components are banned, so you can't make that card in any shape, way or form.
>>46295756
>judging older cards by the standards of today
Only witchy is banned, and neither of them were banned when it was released.
>>46295756
Why do they bother making cards, only to ban them?
Stat me.
>>46295801
Because older cards have unintended interactions with newer ones.
It's why Yugioh uses Archetypes now and why other TCGs have set rotations, they don't have to worry about that when designing new cards.
>>46295801
We don't intend to ban them obviously. Sometimes cards are OP, or more often, the community believes they're OP in ways that could not have been forseen
>>46295831
Too cool to duel.
>>46295616
This is my favorite card. I used to actually have it when I was a kid but I lost it somewhere.
Now I only have this image I found on google.
>>46295901
That's pretty, but hardly useless.
>>46295801
Sometimes, when new cards are released, they have synergy with the old ones that break the game in half. Or create infinite/consistent first turn loops that kill your opponent in one go. Or are just too good compared to everything else.
It happens. They're getting better about it. Format hasn't been this good since early 5D's.
>>46295791
Except even back then, older cards were completely retarded. At what juncture do you think Pot of Greed was ever balanced? Or Raigeki? Or Change of Heart? Those were always super retarded. The only reason Raigeki got off the banlist is because almost everything these days has destruction prevention, and it's still a must that everyone runs.
>>46295616
OG Sand Witch > Sanwitch.
>>46295929
It's mostly useless since it'll just get creamed on the opponent's turn by ANY creature.
>>46296023
That, plus if you try to protect it to get its effect off, it just raises the question as to why you're not protecting a BETTER monster?
My favourite card ever, simply for how ridiculous it is. Still got it mint from my original collection.
>>46296082
Good news, my friend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0wDLODcYjA
>>46296114
oh shit wrong video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0wDLODcYjA
>>46295616
This card saw actual play in tournaments in Magical Scientist decks.
I love everything about this card, except it's effect.
>>46296023
lockdown heal burn deck
Gravity Bind or Level limit B
Get some Fire Princesses out there
A golden ladybug
Injection Fairy Lilly for a beatstick and to make use of the excess LP
>>46296114
>>46296141
>same video twice
Please, tell me how this card can be useful!
>>46296114
>>46296141
I'm sorry to say that that's the same video.
>>46296247
fuck my bad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1zXacQ4SUI
>>46296247
Search "the huge revolution"
>>46295616
Gotcha covered anon
>>46296493
>summon him in attack mode
>opponent laughs and points out how he's only useful as fusion material
>metamorphosis out TER
>>46296177
One of my favorite one as well. This card isn't exactly "useless" but it is difficult to play right.
>>46296633
please enlighten me as to how you can use that card, I really want to know
>>46296666
>>46296633
>>46296666
Bad Reaction to Simochi/Nurse Reficule the Fallen One/Self Destruct Button.
They actually programmed this into Yu-gi-oh 5D's Millennium duels.
Sadly I'm too much of a pussy to put it in a deck
>>46296633
>>46296666
In Exodia Decks
>>46296679
>>46296706
Exodia decks are much better off as "summon Magical Library in attack mode and play a fuck ton of draw spells"
>>46296679
that's fantastic
Going back a while, was this ever useful?
>>46296733
http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Summoned_Lord_Exodia
I disagree.
>>46296947
That takes more than one turn. Royal Magical Library takes one.
>>46296947
Card effect types:
>trigger
>trigger
lost.
>>46296733
Manticore of Darkness works too
(shit get's real at 3:30)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW1cayTncyU
All elemental Charmers;_;
>>46298680
At least they're cute.
>>46295616
this card is twenty years old
>>46299066
Time is flying too fast for us to cherish it.
>>46296679
My friend has this card
I hate it so much
He uses it in combo with Upstart Goblin
I'm thinking about giving him my Brain Jacker to go with it too
>>46299942
Brain Jacker's effect doesn't activate if it's destroyed by battle. It has to still be on the field in order to work.
Find a use for this without fusion.looks pretty cool, though.
I always liked this guy, more than any other E-Hero.
>>46296628
>Thousand-Eyes Restrict is banned
What's up with that?
>>46300341
doesn't make it impossible to use
just have to have something to protect it for a turn
>>46296628
Couldn't you do that with any other 1 star, though?
There's got to be at least one or two good ones.
Like kuriboh, half the tuners, or battle fader.
>>46295801
As others have said, unforeseen interactions between old and new cards that are too powerful.
Though one thing none have addressed is planned obsolescence.
You have a certain generation of cards, then you release a new generation of cards. This new generation is better than the last, and to compete you have to buy the new generation. This is further compounded by banning/limiting the usefulness of the older generation, making them non-viable options.
Rinse and repeat for more money.
>>46300405
Metamorphosis, Tsukuyomi, Scapegoat. Scapegoat provides infinite Metamorphosis targets to get out TER, and Tsukuyomi allows you to reset TER if your opponent summoned a stronger monster.
Goat control. Was a pretty damn good deck about a decade ago.
>>46300444
see:
>>46296047
>>46300455
see above
>>46300499
>see above
that didn't answer why one would someone ever use TEI without directly trying to fuze, if anything that proved my point that it's worthless.
it -is- a worthless but pretty cards, thread. It's prettiness is questionable, but it's shit to actually use..
>>46300843
It was a deck all about TER, even having Poly with the ability to legitimately get out TER.
Metamorphosis'ing a TEI was just another way to get it out.
>>46295616
I think 'worthless but pretty' fits this one
>>46296694
Just remember to make your hand as disgusting as possible before you play it with Unity on the field. They have to accept the handshake, even if it's covered in snot or other bodily fluids.
>>46301325
Oh god, the best tourny deck.
>Get a rubber glove.
>Get small sharp tacks(kind with narrow heads)
>Press tacks through palm of glove
>Leave glove in a bag/box, nothing really obvious.
>Before you play yojo with unity, put on glove.
>Make opponent chose between a large amount of pain or conceding.
For bonus points, have a grip exercise device out, and work with it while you play.
>>46301551
That's illegal.
>>46296922
As far as I know, no.
If you're curious about why frog card effects exclude "Frog the Jam" it's that Frog the Jam does not have "Frog" in it's Japanese title.
>>46300341
Really?
>>46301719
>doesn't even shadow duel
>>46295616
I carry that card in my wallet alongside an Ancient Mew
>>46304342
That's so cute and I mean it in a non-sarcastic way.
>>46304342
>Ancient Mew
>Sanwitch
>both
Not even gods have taste that rivals yours, anon.
There was a cubic, blue angel with a interrogation mark above its head. Does anyone remember this one? Loved it as I was younger and unfortunately can't remember the name.
>>46305304
I had some fucker that used these and beat people just to prove he could.FUCK mokey mokeys.seriously.
>>46305362
Thanks for finding, simply love them
>>46305362
Reminds me of the Ojama deck I ran back in the day, though that was probably well after your Mokey guy.
>>46305402
>simply love them
I'll allow that as long as you don't like these guys, I knew a kid that loved playing with these.
At least calm Mokeys are cute, these are just fugly.
>>46295616
This was unironically my favourite card as a kid
I didn't even realise that the combo was kind of broken, I just liked the characters
The last time I payed serious attention to Yugioh was like 10 years ago yet I still recognize all these cards jesus fuck I just put 2004 world tournament in my gba.
>>46295943
In what fucking world is Raigeki not banned?
>>46305449I had all the Ojama cards and loved them dearly.
>>46305658
>>46305448
You two actually disgust me in a way I haven't felt in years.
Congrats.
>>46303539
Yes. If a card with FLIP has its effect requiring it to remain on the field (like Brain Jacker or something similar) it needs to survive the battle that would cause it to flip face up. Something like Man-Eater Bug doesn't need to survive because it doesn't have to be on the field to activate.
>>46305652
A world with tons of cards that either get positive effects when destroyed or that just can't be destroyed. You can Raigeki now, and be in a worse position than you were before if you're not careful.
>>46299894
>scary time
>>46300967
>lewd
>>46295616
>hmm, so my name is sanwitch.
>>46305362
Ahhhhh, my one-star OTK deck has 2 of these little pricks in it, that is until my Flamvell Guards arrive though.
>>46296666
For Allah Akbar decks
>>46305652
>raigeki limited
>shaddoll construct forbidden
Fuck
>>46295901
>>46296023
Sup?
Ain't neva 'nuff dakka.
Is there a card that lets you activate a trap card on your side of the field, but in benefit to your opponent?
That + Enchanted Javelin + Simochi would equal all kinds of major pain.
>>46306632
>YOU CANT NEGATE TIME
>>46305219
Ka-kanna fag?
>>46306752
That used to be played in last turn decks. Win one game with last turn, then draw the other 2.
>>46296177
shhh nothing personell
>>46300374
Spark Blaster....that's all that springs to mind, free position change.
>>46305675
That was half the reason I ran them.
>>46304735
>>46305219
;)
>>46309228
I can imagine this would have some use in a spellcaster deck that uses cards like Royal Magical Library, but aside from that what the fuck is the point in that card?!
>>46313572
That's literally the entire point. It's a source of Spell Counters.
Then they came out with a card that's very nearly a direct upgrade, Spell Power Grasp, which lets you put a Spell Counter on something, then search out another copy of itself.But actual Spell Counter decks tend to run Toon Table of Contents instead, because it can search out another copy of itself which you can IMMEDIATELY play.
>>46313675
that moment were your opener is 3 toon tables, toon world, and an exodia piece in exodia. Fuck even 2 tables is a massive bitch. You need to draw into a hammer.
>>46308053
Worked even better in Simochi decks for the same reason.
>>46295801
Because YGO uses Power Creep rather than Set Rotation as its business model.
>>46306664
>Flamvell Guards
Jesus christ whos fucking idea was it to come up with a 1 star dragon tuner with 2000 def
>>46307934
>Ka-kanna fag
what?
>>46309228
Huh. I think I actually managed to use spark blaster a couple times way back when, to great effectiveness. Proved me wrong pretty easily, then.
Spooky scary skeletons.
>>46318118
>SKULL servant
>a skeletal ghost
>zombie
That still bugs me.
>>46318118
Skeletons of fun
>>46318234
for the whole fucking family
>>46318118
>>46318234
>>46318262
>>46318262
Not worthless, but very spooky.
>>46318262
Bring the kids and their skeletons too!
>>46318287
>>46318281
>>46318262
>>46318234
>>46318118
Am I the only one that hates how Yugioh uses card names for card effects?
Alright, famnons.
I want to know how many of you live in California, and particularly East Bay California.
And how many of you actually play the physical card game.The reason is, the Card Club at the college I attend is hosting a YGO Tourney on April 6th, at 11:30a.m. I can copy and pasta all other details here.
Anyways.
>>46318476
Honestly, I like it.
>>46318629
Why?
>>46318659
It's kind of a gameplay/story integration thing. Like cards that belong to factions or group together help eachother specifically rather than just being general.
>>46318720
>Like cards that belong to factions or group together help eachother specifically rather than just being general.
Other games can do that without calling out specific cards or even worse parts of card names in their effects.
>>46296082
top fucking kek. thats hilarious. i think thats my favorite now as well.
>>46318760
Fair point.
>>46318760
The problem with YGO is reading comprehension and understanding.
There are people who still firmly believeMST negates.
Thank Dueling Network for that.
>>46318798
I think using a card name can be done well in games where there are multiple cards with the same name (e.g. Pokemon, Star Wars), but in games like Yugioh it results in cards having effects that change their names.
And archetypes could easily be added as a seperate part of the card.
>>46318848
Really? fucking plebs
>>46319062
When I picked up the game again in 2011, the first thing my friend taught me was Spell Speeds.
Since then I feel nothing but anxiety when some guy, who clearly is old enough to read the damn rulebook, says X negates Y when Y has a higher spell speed than X.
It's very mind numbing.
>>46319062
There's a running joke amongst fans of the game that your ability to function at high level play is inversely proportional to your ability to comprehend things you've read. TCG judges routinely being retards that couldn't pass 4th Grade English doesn't help.
>>46320098
Also ability to cheat. The winner of the most recent YCS in Prague attempted to normal summon twice multiple times during various matches.
>>46320452
>>46320098
I am so glad I never played YGO at any kind of tournament.
Now that I think about it, Yugioh has even more insultingly worthless cards printed than Magic.
Seriously, what the fuck? You have a a minute subset of playables and then a bunch of vanilla chaff or cards with jank abilities.
How did Konami even make it this far?
>>46320544
Kids are there primary market
Kids don't care
>>46320544
They stopped saturating sets with garbage vanilla cards like a decade ago.
>>46320544
The TV show was/is a great marketing campaign.
>>46320605
Apparently I'm a kid, too
*their
>>46320497
Honestly at low level tournaments it used to be really really fun.
I'll never forget pulling a Mechanicalchaser from a Tournament Pack back in 2002 after winning the little tournament that basically consisted of just me and my friends at a small card shop. Happiest day of my fucking life, that shit was.
>>46320544
To be somewhat fair to the shit vanillas, some of them actually WERE playable at some point in time in Japan. When the game was first released there in 1999, Celtic Guardian was the strongest level 4 or lower monster in the game, and was only obtainable by preordering the Starter Box from a movie theater before its release and the best monster status slowly crept upwards until La Jinn was released in the second revision of the Starter Box (the one that the US Yugi and Kaiba starters were based on). There actually was a point when running a Level 5 monster with ~1700 attack if it was the only other thing you had besides Summoned Skull wasn't a horrible idea. That said, there is still no fucking excuse for Shapesnatch.
>>46320452
Let's not forget about Good Ol' Hoban, who hasn't been able to get in the top 32 of so much as a 5-man locals since the Djinn incident.
It seems that despite all of his bluster, he was only really good at cheating and mind games. Once people started being careful around him, he couldn't win shit.
>>46295756
>not having different formats.
>>46320942
I still find that incident hilarious, because even if Hoban was in the wrong, his opponent was a moron for trusting him.
>>46320942
Explain for those of us that don't follow tournaments.
>>46321023
Patrick Hoban was playing a mirror match, and he suggested to the opponent to side out a specific card in game 2 or 3, I forget which. Both players were running two copies of the card. The other player agreed, and when the game started, the first thing that Hoban did was send a copy of the card to the graveyard from the deck (it needs to be in the graveyard to activate) and then proceeded to use its effect. Turns out fatass had a third copy in his side deck, and sided it in while siding the other two out.
So while it was definitely a scummy as fuck move, he still did nothing actually wrong and his opponent was an idiot for trusting him. If I were his opponent, I'd have sided in my extra one and not sided out my original two at all.
>>46320982
To be fair, generally in tournaments it's a big honor thing when both players agree to side out a card. Hoban didn't do anything against the official rules, but he shot up any trust that tournament players have amongst each other. If this fuck who routinely got top rankings can't be trusted, then what's the point in playing any degree of honestly? Lie and cheat your way to the top whenever you can and fuck everyone else.
>>46321023
During Nekroz format back in March 2015, Hoban and his opponent during some bigwig tournament agreed that the card Djinn Releaser of Rituals was too broken and they agreed to both side out their one copy from the deck between games. Hoban sided in a second Releaser he had in the side deck and used it to win the match. It was a dick move to say the least, even if the "it's too powerful we should side it out" argument is fairly dumb to begin with. If you feel hollow victories from a broken card, then don't play tournaments because that's like 90% of your matches.
>>46321070
>>46321122
Ah, when you said cheating and mind games you had me thinking he convinced an opponent a card worked differently than it actually did.
>>46321178
Oh, he does that shit too.
Most "professional" YGO players are shitstains who gotta fight over them 4 year old iPad prizes.
>>46321178
He's openly admitted to doing just that.
>I used Snatch Steal on my opponent and my opponent asks if using Forbidden Chalice will make the equip "fall off"
>I know that's bullshit and that it won't, but I know that the judge will force him to make the play if he wants the ruling, so I say "I dunno".
>He calls the judge, and sure enough, the judge tells him that he'll have to make the play if he wants the ruling.
>He does, and it fails. I win that game.
This isn't even paraphrasing that much. He does this shit all the time.
>>46321261
>Tourney players don't even know how the game works
That's just sad.
>>46321280
To be fair, even at regionals and YCSs, you still have low-tier shit that's barely above locals level for the first round or two.
Honestly, the low end play is leagues more interesting than the high level play, because you get to see silly shit like Chain Burn and Gladiator Beasts in 2016/2015 tournaments.
And then Jeff "let's take 2 anime casual archetypes and turn them into a meta deck" Jones shows up and makes Break Sword a $50 card.
>>46321280
To be fair, more than a few of the cards have rules and errata text that warrants a doubletake.
>>46321325
>tfw not even Monarch players had outs to it at those tourneys
I went to my locals, and when a Burning Abyss shitter tried to get into a Break Sword thinking he could safely pop things, I simply dropped Caius through Escalation and got rid of all his Break Swords.
Why people even lost to Phantom Knights is beyond me.
>>46322018
TCGPlayer did an interview with Jeff Jones, and he said that Fog Blade and Twin Twister carried the shit out of the deck, but primarily cited "lack of knowledge" as the main reason he managed to get so many wins.
He won because nobody knew what the fuck they were playing against and how to deal with it.
>>46322176
>have friend who goes in blind with Satellarknights because they won Worlds
>he never played against Kozmos or Monarchs
>gets steamrolled
>now runs Raidraptors
Sasuga, Konami.
>>46318118
I want to make a spooky skeleton deck
>>46322212
>Going in blind with a deck that just won Worlds without checking on the current meta.
>Expecting to be anything but steamrolled.
>Now runs raidraptors
Your friend's got good taste but is a complete retard.Tell him to try Raidraptor Kaiju. At the locals level you can fuck people up because there really aren't any outs to Kaiju fucking up boards and then you either Remove Brainwashing or use it as fodder for your Rise Falcon or other ED Birds.
>>46322176
As someone who is getting into MtG as well, that makes sense.
It was basically just a gimmicky rogue deck that was decent but not amazing. MtG players are more used to this type of thing, whereas Yugimon players are more used to players sticking with a single specific archetype. Same reason why HAT was so good, nobody knew what the fuck was going on the first time they saw it.
>>46318281
Had this fucker reach 10k attack while playing against a deck for it in the android game.
I'm a casual, so I won a few times only, once was simply because he ran out of cards.
Can we all just take a second to appreciate dat flavor text?
>>46322758
English print cards in the style of 4kids Joey Wheeler. Truly, a treasure of this game
