Graceful Charity is WAY more devious than you describe it. Due to how its effect is written, you draw 3 cards, then can discard ANY 2 cards from your hand, not necessarily from the 3 you drew. This means that you can grab 3 potentially duel-breaking cards from your deck, and discard 2 crappy ones from your hand. It also means that discarding 2 cards is a card effect, so it was an exceptionally powerful card in the likes of Dark World decks, where discarding by card effect would activate the discarded monster’s effect/s.
Not only that, but it sets you up for amazing combos. For example, this was a duel from my past: My deck was pretty shit, and my opponent had his Black Luster Soldier out. Things were desperate, with me having no monsters on field, LP very low, and I had bricks in my hand. He topdecked BLS and turned the tables instantly, after I had somehow managed to punch back a bit. I ran out of cards like Dark Hole and Fissure. My boss monster was Barrel Dragon, and I couldn't summon it. It was my turn, and I draw for turn... Graceful Charity. God damn, the game was back on. Activate, no response, I draw Monster Reborn, and Malevolent Nuzzler. I also drew a beater monster (I think it was... 7 color fish?). I discarded a brick card and Barrel Dragon, and used Monster Reborn. Flip coin... and oh baby a triple! BLS gets blown up, and I summon beater, equip spell, and attack for game. That was one hell of a victory, given I had a deck of a bunch of starter decks cards and barely any booster cards, along with a few charity cards from friends lol.
I'd certainly put Giant Trunade on the list. At its worst, it just clears the opponent's backrow - but at its best, it also lets you reuse soft once per turn continuous spells, reset dead continuous traps like Call of the Haunted, and remove your floodgates to free up your own turn just to reactivate them at the start of your opponent's next
A FTK deck with Mass Driver was so consistent that won the World Championship. It would be even worse nowadays with so much monster spamming, so I'd put that one over Giant Trunade any day. And Card of Safe Return is on a similar league of madness.
@@feder373 mass driver is a dreadful choice for this kind of list. It’s a card that has to have a deck built completely around it in order to be good. On its own it essentially does nothing. In order for a card to be considered in this type of discussion it has to be inherently powerful in an vacuum. In other words, on its own it can get you out of a losing situation. Mass Driver will never be that card.
@@elliottjohnson6708 Well, I do get your point, even though now any good deck can spam and win with Driver like it's nothing. Giant Trunade, on the other hand, despite being alive more easily, only gets great in a few specific situations, and can be useless against backrow-heavy decks. I'm not saying Mass Driver is the greatest choice for the list, but certainly better than Trunade in terms of danger to the game. Now, I would choose the original Crush Card Virus instead, which isn't only an awesome card to get out of a losing situation, but also won games on its own with the irrelevant requirement of a weak Dark monster. Or maybe, Sixth Sense.
I thought one aspect of the Power 9 was that they were from the first sets of MTG from before game balancing was really ever taken into account. With that in mind I'd agree with Pot of Greed, Graceful Charity, Painful Choice, Delinquent Duo, Imperial Order, and Royal Oppression. I'd then say Magical Scientist, Forceful Sentry, and Heavy Storm would round out the 9, with honorable mentions to Cold Wave, Confiscation, Giant Trunade, and Harpie's Feather Duster.
For as simple of a card Pot of Greed is, it being one of the strongest cards ever produced really is a testament to its Throne on the ban list. Seriously, people will banish a quarter of their deck. FACE DOWN, banish cards from their extra deck, and many other hoops just to draw 2 cards.
Yeah PoG just says get one more card then u would normally have. And in a combo heavy game like ygo cardadvantage is everything. So it might just be the strongest card ever printed. Just because everyone would use as many copys as they can.
People will give their opponent 1000 lp to draw 1 lol. That should tell you everything about how strong consistency cards are in yugioh, but also the instant card advantage you get is just broken in any card game in general
@aryzo 1000 LP wasn't much of a cost to begin with, so idk why you said, "That should tell you everything." But you would be right if it was 5000 LP. Most decks can't kill at 14k, so I would be shocked if it would still see play.
I think there are two that this list is definitely missing 1) Forceful Sentry: it's like a free delinquent duo that lets you discard only one card but looking at your opponent's hand and you choosing the card 2) Card of Safe Return: this would be definitely one of the most broken cards nowadays, this one lets you draw one card every time you special summon a monster from the graveyard, it's like a maxx C but you have the control to summon the monsters
I think my inclusion would be Magical Scientist, because it's literally a 1 card ftk in an unlimited or even traditional format (1 copy of every banned card) and bc it's a lv1 you can get it out in a myriad of different ways. Summon independent nightingale, 2 lv 4 fusions, garura, and 2 patissciel couverture. Overlay the lv 4s for king of the feral imps to search tyrant neptune, then tribute the 2 patissciel couverture to special summon supreme king dragon starving venom targeting independent nightingale on your field and burn for 4k. Link summon linkuribo with magical scientist, use KOTFI and garura to summon knightmare goblin, knightmare goblin CH1 garura CL2, draw with garura then discard with knightmare goblin for an extra normal, then tribute independent nightingale for tyrant neptune and use his new eff for 5k totaling 9k damage. 1 card ftk after paying 6k LP, requiring 1 main deck monster and 1 MD "garnet" that's not even a garnet cuz you search it as part of the combo anyways. Also leaves you with 5 ED spots so you can always put in an otk strategy going 2nd.
The legal (as of writing this comment) Power 9 (IMO) would be Harpie's Feather Duster, Nibiru, Ash Blossom and Joyous Spring, Infinite Impermanance, Called by the Grave, Evenly Matched, Foolish Burial, and Red Reboot. Some others that could be considered would be Forbidden Droplet, Instant Fusion, Reasoning, One for One, One Day of Peace, Terraforming, Upstart Goblin, Reckless Greed, or any of the Pot cards. Honorable mention to Pankratops.
Pre Erata Chaos Emporer Dragon. As a child i had fear for the Artwork bc i knew the effect. Today its awe. One of the Most Impact full cards and probably one of the mightiest cards in Yugioh.
I feel like, though maybe not part of the Power Nine, Last Turn is comparable (if not practically opposite) to Shaharazad in the convolution it adds to the game that no other card has truly done before or since its printing
Well if I learned anything from the anime, the most busted card is whatever your ace monster is, especially in a high-stakes, critical moment of your duel when it seems like all hope would be lost, but you have your friends' emotional support and the Heart of the Cards on your side.
Got into Duel Master about a month ago and with the free gems, helped me buy Maxx C and Nibiru helps me against most meta decks where they would rage quit.
The power 9 came from some of the earliest sets in the game. I’d argue for a yugioh list in this case of: Pot of Greed Graceful Charity Delinquent Duo The Forceful Sentry Confiscation Harpies Feather Duster Raigeki Mirror Force Imperial Order In same fashion as the MTG list, most of these cards are of 1 color (or lack thereof,) and the others are another.
I think The Forceful Sentry should be in there. A no restriction knowledge of the opponent's hand stripping their best card, amd being shuffled to the deck is too powerful. At least with Confiscation, the opponent may still get advantage for the discarded card going to the graveyard.
Yes, swap it for delincuent duo, its only good in turn 1 and even then them picking one means on the crack back they will be already set up perhaps with one less combo piece or board breaker, but not confidently being the best card
I would say the Forceful Sentry >>> Delinquent Duo, hand knowledge and being able to pick the card to shuffle back (not even GY set up) is just so much better.
The Forceful Sentry and Confiscation are stronger because of hand traps. Allows you to look at your opponent's hand and rip a card out of it. Then you can do your plays with ease. Stronger than Called By The Grave.
1)Graceful charity: draw 3 while loading gy 2)Pot of Greed: What does it do again? 3) Sixth sense: draw/mill up to 6 4)delinquent duo: opponent-2 + see their hand 5/6) Mass driver and cannon soldier: FTK fudgery 7)Dimension fusion: special summon 5 monsters 8)Skill drain: no monster effects 9) Last Turn: Guaranteed judge call that turns a losing game into an instant OTK or draw.
Painful Choice is literally the best card in yugioh bar none. In a no banlist tournament it allowed tear to use victory dragon effectively and ended matches. Stipulation of no banlist is no surrender because of Victory Dragon
I remember playing a game in which painfull choice was allowed they picked the card then the rest go to the gy and then i activate another effect to discard the card he gave me, to make him think that he had no option
Toon Kingdom immediately busted the first game i played with it. I searched for it woth Toon Bookmark on first turn with new deck. Toons immediately become really hard to destroy, and TK was safe with Bookmark on the graveyard. I need a second copy now.
I think that Waking the Dragon is extremely underappreciated. All you have to do is convince your opponent to wipe your spell/traps and you can special summon a Raidraptor the ultimate falcon for free. A monster that has 3500 atk and is immune to card effects
The 3 insane consistency pieces (PoG, Graceful, Painful Choice), the 3 Hand rip spells (Duo being the worst among them), Maxx "C", Soul Charge, Trap Dustshoot.
It's not broken because 5 turns later you have to discard your hand. I mean it's extremely unlikely drawing 5 cards right now will help. Lol but for real i think it's not so broken if it's the only card in your hand, you can activate only once per turn, it's probably limited to 1, and you lose in 3 turns or something AND you can't activate this card on your opponent's side of the field or something
You could move Pot of Greed back to 1 and the meta wouldnt change whatsoever. Thats the state of this game's powercreep. Prosperity is just the better card, and even it sees niche play nowadays. Now Painful Choice, thats a card that can never come off the banlist. People would main deck spell/trap negation just to stop it.
The power 9 of MTG were from the early days of the game so I’m going to give the Yugioh power 9 the same treatment. I am only including cards from the first three sets and starter decks/promos from that period, just like MTG: Pot of Greed, Graceful Charity, Raigeki, Change of Heart, Heavy Storm, Harpies Feather Duster, Snatch Steal, Delinquent Duo, The Forceful Sentry
Last Will; as it only gets stronger as new cards are released. A monster sent from your field to GY by any means allows you to special summon any monster with 1500 ATK or less from your deck.
The power 9 in Magic are 9 cards from Magic's release (Or around it) that were seen as the most powerful cards ever printed. Additionally, the term "Power 9" came very early in Magic's history. If we follow the same limitation for Yugioh, you'd have to think of something to replace both Maxx "C" and Soul Charge at minimum. Since those cards were released years after the game first started.
I love how perspective affects YuGiOh. As a kid, seeing Painful Choice: “What a crappy card. 4 cards to the graveyard?!”. Whereas nowadays there’s probably dozens of archetypes where that’s totally OP.
I'd say Pot, Graceful, Painful Choice, Imperial Order, Duo, Sentry, Card of Safe Return, Heavy Storm, Magical Scientist. With an honorable mention for things like Cold Wave/Oppression/Confi/Dimension Fusion/Soul Charge.
The Sixth Sense. Pick two Nummers from 1 to 6 and roll a dice. If your number comes up, you can draw as many cards. If not, discard as many cards from the top of your deck. Best case, you can draw 5 or 6 cards or discard 1-4 cards from your deck to the grave wich is good to these days
I still play the PSP Tagforce games with a lot of these cards. Good times 🙂 I like the thematic character decks and the visuals are nice. Have any of you play/played it?
For me, the Power 9 was those cards from Forbidden Memories: 1. Dark Hole 2. Trap Hole 3. Monster Reborn 4. Change of Heart 5. Mirror Force 6. Magical Cylinder 7. Raigeki 8. Megamorph 9. Dian Keto the Cure Master
Original release Dark Strike Fighter. Infinitely being able to sacrifice your own monsters to deal 200 damage times the sacrificed monster's level was kinda op when it first came out. Led to it getting banned within a few months iirc
Maxx C, Pot of Greed, Graceful Charity, Soul Charge, Solomon Judgement, Delinquent Duo, Royal oppression, Wing Dragon of Ra Spear mode and Last Turn. This would my List.
In order to be a power 9 it has to be first set and has to be either warping or game breaking for at least a good while. With this in mind I went ahead and checked LoB and the first two starter decks to get a good idea for what would be Yu-Gi-Oh's power 9 or in this case power 6. Monster Reborn Pot of Greed Raigeki (no brainers, in LoB) Card Destruction Change of heart Last Will (Odd choice I know but this thing is still banned for a reason) (In Yugi's starter deck, released same time as the OG set)) That gives us a power 6 which are the 6 OG cards that are still good enough to see play today (not a ton of play but still some) if we expand it to the entire first year we can be a bit more choosy by limiting it to cards that either are still banned or to 1 copy each. That gives us: Painful Choice Heavy Storm Upstart Goblin Delinquent Duo Giant Trunade Cyber Jar Imperial Order Morphing Jar Believe it or not Graceful Charity wasn't released in the TCG until Dark Beginning 2.
The power 9 ( Pot of greed, Mirage of nightmare, Graceful chairty, sixth sense, painful choice, deliquent duo, royal oppresion , soul charge , dimension fusion.) The power 9 changes each meta in yugioh but if these 9 cards came back in the current game they would warp it. The true power 12 however would include mystic mine, confiscation and the forceful sentry. Appointer of the red lotus would be 13 and 14 would have to be maxx c.
I get maxx c all the time on master duel, let them draw as much as they want and then go for the OTK, its rare they draw into a hand trap that will stop cyber dragon smackdown otk strategies. . Toss your cyber dragons away to summon rampage dragon clear backrow. Mill herz and nachester with rampage second effect. Add nachester from grave to hand with hertz effect since its now called cyber dragon. Normal summon nachester which specials any 2100 atk monster in the GY (nova is a good target if you lost it earlier because then you can up to infinity and then attach nachester as material too and you can negate any battle faders) then attack for game
If we are talking about raw power during their release, the Chaos suite deserves a mention. BLS and CED completely took over the game upon release to the point where they were splashed in almost every deck. The cost of summoning them was so easily met because the best monster cards in the game at the time were already light/dark anyways. Mad scientist also belongs on this list for its meta defining presence, and it was also the only deck that could reliably stand up against the chaos decks at the time because of how fast it was. Catapult turtle also comes to mind because of it's ability to potentially end the game on the first turn before cards were released to be able to deal with it at all.
Just like the actual Power 9, these are all centered around insanely high-value resource management, outside of one that just shuts down everything outright.
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The credit card lets you add cards to your deck at the cost of hours from your life. Totally busted
agreed
That's insane
Agreed 😂
unless it has zero counters on it, then it's a brick
not banlisted??
Graceful Charity is WAY more devious than you describe it.
Due to how its effect is written, you draw 3 cards, then can discard ANY 2 cards from your hand, not necessarily from the 3 you drew.
This means that you can grab 3 potentially duel-breaking cards from your deck, and discard 2 crappy ones from your hand.
It also means that discarding 2 cards is a card effect, so it was an exceptionally powerful card in the likes of Dark World decks, where discarding by card effect would activate the discarded monster’s effect/s.
You sir. Need to be a proof reader. I was today years old when i found that out.
@@RomanAroundSF
You have to be a lawyer or proof-reader just to play YuGiOh! lol
@@BYERE 😅🤣😅🤣 AMEN.
Not only that, but it sets you up for amazing combos. For example, this was a duel from my past:
My deck was pretty shit, and my opponent had his Black Luster Soldier out. Things were desperate, with me having no monsters on field, LP very low, and I had bricks in my hand. He topdecked BLS and turned the tables instantly, after I had somehow managed to punch back a bit. I ran out of cards like Dark Hole and Fissure. My boss monster was Barrel Dragon, and I couldn't summon it. It was my turn, and I draw for turn...
Graceful Charity. God damn, the game was back on. Activate, no response, I draw Monster Reborn, and Malevolent Nuzzler. I also drew a beater monster (I think it was... 7 color fish?). I discarded a brick card and Barrel Dragon, and used Monster Reborn. Flip coin... and oh baby a triple! BLS gets blown up, and I summon beater, equip spell, and attack for game.
That was one hell of a victory, given I had a deck of a bunch of starter decks cards and barely any booster cards, along with a few charity cards from friends lol.
...that was implied. Its pretty obvious
Moki Moki when he get's mad.
And transforms into big lebowski
mokey mokey **KING**
What about Muka Muka when he is enraged? 🤔
i was gonna say this then i realized this is a year old and you beat me to it by a long time lol
I'd certainly put Giant Trunade on the list. At its worst, it just clears the opponent's backrow - but at its best, it also lets you reuse soft once per turn continuous spells, reset dead continuous traps like Call of the Haunted, and remove your floodgates to free up your own turn just to reactivate them at the start of your opponent's next
It’s actually crazy how it wasn’t mentioned that cards most definitely should have bin on that list
A FTK deck with Mass Driver was so consistent that won the World Championship. It would be even worse nowadays with so much monster spamming, so I'd put that one over Giant Trunade any day. And Card of Safe Return is on a similar league of madness.
@@feder373 mass driver is a dreadful choice for this kind of list. It’s a card that has to have a deck built completely around it in order to be good. On its own it essentially does nothing. In order for a card to be considered in this type of discussion it has to be inherently powerful in an vacuum. In other words, on its own it can get you out of a losing situation. Mass Driver will never be that card.
@@elliottjohnson6708 Well, I do get your point, even though now any good deck can spam and win with Driver like it's nothing. Giant Trunade, on the other hand, despite being alive more easily, only gets great in a few specific situations, and can be useless against backrow-heavy decks. I'm not saying Mass Driver is the greatest choice for the list, but certainly better than Trunade in terms of danger to the game.
Now, I would choose the original Crush Card Virus instead, which isn't only an awesome card to get out of a losing situation, but also won games on its own with the irrelevant requirement of a weak Dark monster. Or maybe, Sixth Sense.
It was only good against toxic bacrow decks. Just like gozen match and warlords are only good against monster decks
I would unquestionably put The Forceful Sentry and Confiscation on this list
I thought the same thing
Forceful Sentry is probably the strongest amongst the 3 anyways
Same with snatch steal.
@@conlooka9356nah, Snatch Steal isn't that great anymore. Change of Heart is literally better.
Change of Heart and Card of Safe Return are better than Confiscation.
I thought one aspect of the Power 9 was that they were from the first sets of MTG from before game balancing was really ever taken into account. With that in mind I'd agree with Pot of Greed, Graceful Charity, Painful Choice, Delinquent Duo, Imperial Order, and Royal Oppression. I'd then say Magical Scientist, Forceful Sentry, and Heavy Storm would round out the 9, with honorable mentions to Cold Wave, Confiscation, Giant Trunade, and Harpie's Feather Duster.
why heavy storm? harpies duster is better no?
@@RsChrisG id say depends. you know some cards have a "if this card leaves the field,..." and/or if you want to get rid of your own backrow
@@eternalpunishment3922 true
Swap duo with cold wave. Duo is still strong but it's no, pog, graceful RO or IO
Trunade is much more powerful than Heavy Storm. Reusing continuous spells/traps is no joke.
For as simple of a card Pot of Greed is, it being one of the strongest cards ever produced really is a testament to its Throne on the ban list.
Seriously, people will banish a quarter of their deck. FACE DOWN, banish cards from their extra deck, and many other hoops just to draw 2 cards.
Yeah PoG just says get one more card then u would normally have. And in a combo heavy game like ygo cardadvantage is everything. So it might just be the strongest card ever printed. Just because everyone would use as many copys as they can.
Oh yep 👍
Triple Tactics Thrust would see MUCH MORE play just because it searches PoG.
People will give their opponent 1000 lp to draw 1 lol. That should tell you everything about how strong consistency cards are in yugioh, but also the instant card advantage you get is just broken in any card game in general
@aryzo 1000 LP wasn't much of a cost to begin with, so idk why you said, "That should tell you everything." But you would be right if it was 5000 LP. Most decks can't kill at 14k, so I would be shocked if it would still see play.
I think there are two that this list is definitely missing
1) Forceful Sentry: it's like a free delinquent duo that lets you discard only one card but looking at your opponent's hand and you choosing the card
2) Card of Safe Return: this would be definitely one of the most broken cards nowadays, this one lets you draw one card every time you special summon a monster from the graveyard, it's like a maxx C but you have the control to summon the monsters
FS puts a card back in the deck, not discard, which is even better. Confiscation is the discard one, but costs 1000 LP.
Imagine having Card of Safe Return and Special Summon Disk Commander repeatedly and you would draw 3 cards each time.
@@leebulger7112 Disk Commander is once per duel, so you'd get 3, then 1.
@@kuyashiix I am referring to Disk Commander pre errata effect.
The strongest card is the Credit card
#1 on the Power Nine!
@@DmDroidzeeker I buy 50 loot boxes, where I have a 0,5% chance to get all 5 pieces of Exodia!!
You don't have a chance of winning this time Yugi!
YES LOL
@@TeamAPS are you guys going to ever play magic with the professor? You said it in the video where he played Yu-Gi-Oh.
Did you just summon a bunch of monsters in one turn?!?
Screw the rules I have money
Kaiba knew it all along.
I think my inclusion would be Magical Scientist, because it's literally a 1 card ftk in an unlimited or even traditional format (1 copy of every banned card) and bc it's a lv1 you can get it out in a myriad of different ways. Summon independent nightingale, 2 lv 4 fusions, garura, and 2 patissciel couverture. Overlay the lv 4s for king of the feral imps to search tyrant neptune, then tribute the 2 patissciel couverture to special summon supreme king dragon starving venom targeting independent nightingale on your field and burn for 4k. Link summon linkuribo with magical scientist, use KOTFI and garura to summon knightmare goblin, knightmare goblin CH1 garura CL2, draw with garura then discard with knightmare goblin for an extra normal, then tribute independent nightingale for tyrant neptune and use his new eff for 5k totaling 9k damage. 1 card ftk after paying 6k LP, requiring 1 main deck monster and 1 MD "garnet" that's not even a garnet cuz you search it as part of the combo anyways. Also leaves you with 5 ED spots so you can always put in an otk strategy going 2nd.
Scientist takes up your normal summon
@@xatuyou8045 have you ever read knightmare goblin?
Would be interesting to see a version of this list with adds that are legal. The ‘Legal Power 9’, if you will.
Ash and Imperm seem to be no-brainers but I would be curious to see what the other seven would be too.
@@fawfulmark2 I can see Droplets being among them ( being interchangeable with DRNM depending on the deck ).
The legal (as of writing this comment) Power 9 (IMO) would be Harpie's Feather Duster, Nibiru, Ash Blossom and Joyous Spring, Infinite Impermanance, Called by the Grave, Evenly Matched, Foolish Burial, and Red Reboot. Some others that could be considered would be Forbidden Droplet, Instant Fusion, Reasoning, One for One, One Day of Peace, Terraforming, Upstart Goblin, Reckless Greed, or any of the Pot cards. Honorable mention to Pankratops.
@@kuyashiix the only objection I have is that Red Reboot is banned in the TCG, which is replace with Droll & Lock Bird
Pre Erata Chaos Emporer Dragon.
As a child i had fear for the Artwork bc i knew the effect. Today its awe.
One of the Most Impact full cards and probably one of the mightiest cards in Yugioh.
Card of Safe Return. Drawing everytime you SS from the grave is crazy
In the Anime you drew 3 cards instead of 1
thats why you see 3 cards in the card image
Goes to show how powerful spells are
I feel like, though maybe not part of the Power Nine, Last Turn is comparable (if not practically opposite) to Shaharazad in the convolution it adds to the game that no other card has truly done before or since its printing
Bro the gba duel academy music hits hard
It’s too good!
Winged Dragon of Ra. So powerful you could literally die playing it.
Well if I learned anything from the anime, the most busted card is whatever your ace monster is, especially in a high-stakes, critical moment of your duel when it seems like all hope would be lost, but you have your friends' emotional support and the Heart of the Cards on your side.
So a topdeck monster reborn type card? Makes sense
I used to run a fan deck that mained Chain Energy and Wicked Avatar. Soul Charge was a blessing. Love that card
Confiscation and forceful sentry I believe should always be there with this list.
Maxx C into Tragoedia was hilarious. Pulled it off against a Hieratic guy back in the day. Instant rage Quit 😂
😮 all i played is hieratics back in the daay, i hated maxx c, were you....
Got into Duel Master about a month ago and with the free gems, helped me buy Maxx C and Nibiru helps me against most meta decks where they would rage quit.
If we're choosing a Monster. I think Master Peace is up there.
The power 9 came from some of the earliest sets in the game. I’d argue for a yugioh list in this case of:
Pot of Greed
Graceful Charity
Delinquent Duo
The Forceful Sentry
Confiscation
Harpies Feather Duster
Raigeki
Mirror Force
Imperial Order
In same fashion as the MTG list, most of these cards are of 1 color (or lack thereof,) and the others are another.
I think The Forceful Sentry should be in there. A no restriction knowledge of the opponent's hand stripping their best card, amd being shuffled to the deck is too powerful. At least with Confiscation, the opponent may still get advantage for the discarded card going to the graveyard.
Yes, swap it for delincuent duo, its only good in turn 1 and even then them picking one means on the crack back they will be already set up perhaps with one less combo piece or board breaker, but not confidently being the best card
I would say the Forceful Sentry >>> Delinquent Duo, hand knowledge and being able to pick the card to shuffle back (not even GY set up) is just so much better.
Man the music for gx duel academy went so hard. Good times.
2 Ground Collapses is all I need tbh.
Vanity’s Emptiness and Mystic Mine are solid runner ups. Grass is greener should definitely be on the list too
Red Eyes Dark Dragoon, Pot of Greed, Solemn Judgement, Forceful Entry, Fiber Jar, Waboku, Raigeki, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, Mystic Box.
Oh, that background music ❤
Yugioh duelist academy in gba dueling music
Bro, the music in the background brings back good memories of duel academy on gba for me.
You got the yugioh gx duel academy gba music in the bg nice
The Forceful Sentry and Confiscation are stronger because of hand traps. Allows you to look at your opponent's hand and rip a card out of it. Then you can do your plays with ease. Stronger than Called By The Grave.
I just rewatched the video you did with the prof earlier today, great timing! 😊
Pot of Ultimate Greed.
"Draw until you find every possibe combo you like"
Solemn judgement is really good.
1)Graceful charity: draw 3 while loading gy
2)Pot of Greed: What does it do again?
3) Sixth sense: draw/mill up to 6
4)delinquent duo: opponent-2 + see their hand
5/6) Mass driver and cannon soldier: FTK fudgery
7)Dimension fusion: special summon 5 monsters
8)Skill drain: no monster effects
9) Last Turn: Guaranteed judge call that turns a losing game into an instant OTK or draw.
You fool! You just activated my credit card trap.
Couldn’t imagine painful choice in today’s game 😭
Didn't even mention the Dark Magician. Wow.
I know right! And he didnt even mention Blue Eye White Dragon, the most powerful monster in the game.
Pot of greed got the dopest set of golds on his teeth
Painful Choice is literally the best card in yugioh bar none. In a no banlist tournament it allowed tear to use victory dragon effectively and ended matches. Stipulation of no banlist is no surrender because of Victory Dragon
Last Turn
@@drosky5512 isn’t that a trap card?
My lord, this music is so nostalgic
"What does pot of greed do ?"
I remember playing a game in which painfull choice was allowed they picked the card then the rest go to the gy and then i activate another effect to discard the card he gave me, to make him think that he had no option
Nice Yu-Gi-Oh! GX duel academy bg music
Toon Kingdom immediately busted the first game i played with it. I searched for it woth Toon Bookmark on first turn with new deck. Toons immediately become really hard to destroy, and TK was safe with Bookmark on the graveyard. I need a second copy now.
I never thought of YuGiOh having a power 9 cards, but this is pretty interesting. For a monster I would say Yata-Garasu.
Pre-errata CCV and Chaos Emperor Dragon
I think that Waking the Dragon is extremely underappreciated. All you have to do is convince your opponent to wipe your spell/traps and you can special summon a Raidraptor the ultimate falcon for free. A monster that has 3500 atk and is immune to card effects
Goat format basically. I'ma fan
The 3 insane consistency pieces (PoG, Graceful, Painful Choice), the 3 Hand rip spells (Duo being the worst among them), Maxx "C", Soul Charge, Trap Dustshoot.
I'd be interested to see if you guys come up with a sequel to this one for the most powerful extra deck cards ever printed.
I literally had everyone of these cards and still lost my middle school tournaments 😢
"CARD OF DEMISE" DRAW TILL U HAVE 5 CARDS IN HAND IS BROKEN USED BY SETO KAIBA IN PYRAMID OF LIGHT MOVIE.
It's not broken because 5 turns later you have to discard your hand. I mean it's extremely unlikely drawing 5 cards right now will help.
Lol but for real i think it's not so broken if it's the only card in your hand, you can activate only once per turn, it's probably limited to 1, and you lose in 3 turns or something
AND you can't activate this card on your opponent's side of the field or something
@@nicbentulan it’s actually only discard the cards drawn by the effect.
I’d say azathot, kitkallos, scientist, ced pre errata, painful, gofu, ratpier, summon sorc and linkross
Dimensional fusion and soul charge were hard ones to deal especially if you played spell economy
id definitley would put that grass looks greener
Imagine someone uses pot of greed then the other guy uses delinquent duo💀
Raigeki and Feather Duster are obvious additions to this list.
Idk why
But I love when I have raigeki and mirror force in my hand😂😊
Painful Choice with Dragon's Mirror... say Hello to Five-Headed Dragon (or pretty much any dragon fusion).
Man the OG cards sure aged well to the point that it will break the game in modern meta
Everyone always forget about Last Will
Beaver Warrior
The powercreep is so insane that the banlist has some cards who were considered bad at the early 00's...
You could move Pot of Greed back to 1 and the meta wouldnt change whatsoever.
Thats the state of this game's powercreep. Prosperity is just the better card, and even it sees niche play nowadays.
Now Painful Choice, thats a card that can never come off the banlist. People would main deck spell/trap negation just to stop it.
ultimate offering is what came to mind for traps
The swordsman of landstar is up there for me
Frog the Jam, or some say the Power Tenth
They should make a card similar to maxx c, but it's everytime your opponent adds a card to their hand, draw 1 card
The power 9 of MTG were from the early days of the game so I’m going to give the Yugioh power 9 the same treatment. I am only including cards from the first three sets and starter decks/promos from that period, just like MTG: Pot of Greed, Graceful Charity, Raigeki, Change of Heart, Heavy Storm, Harpies Feather Duster, Snatch Steal, Delinquent Duo, The Forceful Sentry
That's sounds great, but what does Pot Of Greed even do?
Last Will; as it only gets stronger as new cards are released. A monster sent from your field to GY by any means allows you to special summon any monster with 1500 ATK or less from your deck.
The power 9 in Magic are 9 cards from Magic's release (Or around it) that were seen as the most powerful cards ever printed. Additionally, the term "Power 9" came very early in Magic's history. If we follow the same limitation for Yugioh, you'd have to think of something to replace both Maxx "C" and Soul Charge at minimum. Since those cards were released years after the game first started.
How could you have forgotten "return from the different dimension" ?
I love how perspective affects YuGiOh. As a kid, seeing Painful Choice:
“What a crappy card. 4 cards to the graveyard?!”. Whereas nowadays there’s probably dozens of archetypes where that’s totally OP.
I'd say Pot, Graceful, Painful Choice, Imperial Order, Duo, Sentry, Card of Safe Return, Heavy Storm, Magical Scientist. With an honorable mention for things like Cold Wave/Oppression/Confi/Dimension Fusion/Soul Charge.
The Sixth Sense. Pick two Nummers from 1 to 6 and roll a dice. If your number comes up, you can draw as many cards. If not, discard as many cards from the top of your deck. Best case, you can draw 5 or 6 cards or discard 1-4 cards from your deck to the grave wich is good to these days
I still play the PSP Tagforce games with a lot of these cards. Good times 🙂 I like the thematic character decks and the visuals are nice. Have any of you play/played it?
painful choice is so amazing in witchcrafter, its meant for that deck honestly
For me, the Power 9 was those cards from Forbidden Memories:
1. Dark Hole
2. Trap Hole
3. Monster Reborn
4. Change of Heart
5. Mirror Force
6. Magical Cylinder
7. Raigeki
8. Megamorph
9. Dian Keto the Cure Master
Original release Dark Strike Fighter.
Infinitely being able to sacrifice your own monsters to deal 200 damage times the sacrificed monster's level was kinda op when it first came out. Led to it getting banned within a few months iirc
Pov: you forgot every omni negation cards
Pot of greed is the benchmark that all advantage cards are judged by
Hot take, the hand rip cards aren't good enough anymore and should be unbanned
Maxx C, Pot of Greed, Graceful Charity, Soul Charge, Solomon Judgement, Delinquent Duo, Royal oppression, Wing Dragon of Ra Spear mode and Last Turn. This would my List.
In order to be a power 9 it has to be first set and has to be either warping or game breaking for at least a good while. With this in mind I went ahead and checked LoB and the first two starter decks to get a good idea for what would be Yu-Gi-Oh's power 9 or in this case power 6.
Monster Reborn
Pot of Greed
Raigeki
(no brainers, in LoB)
Card Destruction
Change of heart
Last Will (Odd choice I know but this thing is still banned for a reason)
(In Yugi's starter deck, released same time as the OG set))
That gives us a power 6 which are the 6 OG cards that are still good enough to see play today (not a ton of play but still some)
if we expand it to the entire first year we can be a bit more choosy by limiting it to cards that either are still banned or to 1 copy each. That gives us:
Painful Choice
Heavy Storm
Upstart Goblin
Delinquent Duo
Giant Trunade
Cyber Jar
Imperial Order
Morphing Jar
Believe it or not Graceful Charity wasn't released in the TCG until Dark Beginning 2.
Missing the boy - Yata Garasu.
Cup of ace
Powerful card there
The power 9 ( Pot of greed, Mirage of nightmare, Graceful chairty, sixth sense, painful choice, deliquent duo, royal oppresion , soul charge , dimension fusion.) The power 9 changes each meta in yugioh but if these 9 cards came back in the current game they would warp it. The true power 12 however would include mystic mine, confiscation and the forceful sentry. Appointer of the red lotus would be 13 and 14 would have to be maxx c.
Shocked cold wave wasn’t mentioned
At the pleb level, Mirror Force and Magic Cylinder. Also Raigeki
No one talking about the Duel Academy BGM???
I get maxx c all the time on master duel, let them draw as much as they want and then go for the OTK, its rare they draw into a hand trap that will stop cyber dragon smackdown otk strategies.
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Toss your cyber dragons away to summon rampage dragon clear backrow. Mill herz and nachester with rampage second effect. Add nachester from grave to hand with hertz effect since its now called cyber dragon. Normal summon nachester which specials any 2100 atk monster in the GY (nova is a good target if you lost it earlier because then you can up to infinity and then attach nachester as material too and you can negate any battle faders) then attack for game
The forceful sentry seems like a better option than Maxx C cause it lets you know if its safe to combo off or you can make it safe to combo off
If we are talking about raw power during their release, the Chaos suite deserves a mention. BLS and CED completely took over the game upon release to the point where they were splashed in almost every deck. The cost of summoning them was so easily met because the best monster cards in the game at the time were already light/dark anyways.
Mad scientist also belongs on this list for its meta defining presence, and it was also the only deck that could reliably stand up against the chaos decks at the time because of how fast it was.
Catapult turtle also comes to mind because of it's ability to potentially end the game on the first turn before cards were released to be able to deal with it at all.
Zombie Warrior is a force to be reckoned with.
Just like the actual Power 9, these are all centered around insanely high-value resource management, outside of one that just shuts down everything outright.
Wheres cold wave at
That functionality turns off any response to big power pushes but stops you using anything to stabilise