I actually liked that with the OG art, felt like a mythical name to a shiny beast thats not completely understood and the heavy stylized drawing and shading really sold it. Then in the anime it was just fucking blue.
Honestly the starter deck is soo true the nostalgia seeing blue eyes on the front cover of the box and just how majestic the image is it's everything blue eyes is and should be
yes! a few years ago I threw away a bunch of money for a beautiful sealed starter deck Kaiba, just so I can take it out of my closet once in awhile and appreciate the nostalgia from when my mom bought my brother and I the decks back in 2002. my brother picked Yugi bc he identified with his character or something, I wanted Kaiba because I love Blue Eyes lol
Love how the background for the planet and tablet art is what decided the rank when it's the same pic for Blue-Eyes itself and was just copy past for the tablet version >w
I am so sick of the Tablet Blue-Eyes. The art is so mediocre. I hate that Konami keeps using it for all the games like in MD. Please. Just give us the OG art... I am begging you.
Same goes for dark magician nothing against that artwork it's just overused. I prefer the one from Yugi's starter/structure deck with the magna warrior cards tbh but I really want more purple dark magician artwork or does this mean there are three dark magicians the purple, the red and the green skin one.
@@Tomy_Lightning I always thought it is really weird how the most iconic look for Dark Magician is the purple look from the anime, yet every depiction of them, be it alt art or on other cards, is always the green skin/blue robe version
@@KinzokuDrummer I mainly hate how the tablet artworks have become the default, the green skin is the manga dm as the green skin artworks are usually taken from the manga making him manga Yugi's dm then there is purple which is anime Yugi's dm the red one which is Arcana's dm is the regular dm in the anime (since Arcana has multiple and we only ever see one purple dm) with Yugi's being special due to Mahad there's also dsod dm which is either updated manga dm or updated anime dm and now we have a new "support" dm card dm the ebony sorcerer which is basically a golden version of dm.
@@KinzokuDrummer also there are a couple of cards besides the main purple magician which have him in his purple robes like "amulet dragon" and :bond between teacher and student."
The og one is the best and nobody can say anything about it. If it looks like one of those old 2009 cards that are darker than todays cards that’s even better
I got into Yu-Gi-Oh! late because my mom was a christian who didnt like the idea of it. I watched up to the cyberverse and a lot of GX. I've got to say, you've brought back my love for this series! I love your videos!
From a nostalgia standpoint I agree with the original. But from a design/art perspective I like #2-3 a lot more. And I like the galaxy background on the #3 actually. Even if it’s “odd” it looks stunning regardless
The DSOD version is the best. The OG version always looked strange to me. Blue eyes looks great on the tablet version, but the dumb tablet stinks it up.
Dumber 5 and 3 are really elevated by the background not being a random photoshop filter. Roaring on top of a tower or flying through the night sky instead of posing in a void looks much cooler.
The earthglobe is one of my absolute favourites. Was it a promo? It was only available as usch in sweden when I was a kid atleast. Felt so special for having it.
Fun Fact: The original Blue Eyes white dragon art pre-dates the actual card game. As Konami’s first Yu-Gi-Oh video game was Capsule Monsters when Season 0 was airing. This game was a Japan only release but it came with some Cards that weren’t official, since at the time, Konami didn’t own the Card Game. But one of them was the Blue Eyes white dragon, and after Konami launched their Card Game, they kept the artwork and even convinced Studio Gallop to use it in the anime.
I’ll always remember the Christmas I got a Kaiba starter deck and Legend of Blue Eyes tin. Came away with two BEWDs and a Left Leg of Exodia (unfortunately never found any other pieces). Good times.
Solid list, I’d personally move some around but that’s why these lists are fun. Yeah I never really noticed that about the planet artwork, Blue eyes being bigger now stands out to me (I love it still)
I agree with #1, but #8 and #6 should've been #2 and #3 imo. I love the second art design and I love the new manga art design. The new Manga art one especially since it combines what I love about the og art and the second art. I feel like the new manga art print is the true third Blue Eyes print we all deserve and should've had instead of those other two with the planet and tablet backgrounds. The rest, including the two third prints I just mentioned, though they do look cool, just feel like a fan made them at times. Don't know what it is or why. I just love the og print, second print, and new manga art print more. The classic Blue Eyes charm is powerful and quite strong within all three of those prints imo. Blue Eyes actually looks like the Blue Eyes I know and love in those prints.
The problem I notice with a lot of ygo cards is that they tend to have a monster with the same background color... Blue on blue, etc.. The better artwork lets you see the monster properly imo
i just ordered the manga art blue eyes bc it’s so freakin adorable looking and needed to have it. the only one i think i’m missing is the one where he’s on top of the skyscraper
It's pure nostalgia that keeps Starter Deck Kaiba Blue-Eyes at number one for me. Without it, Dark Side of Dimensions is my number one. Honestly, this list is pretty much 1:1 to how I would rank them.
The one on the castle is my favorite cuz it resizes it to be a dragon that hangs around a castle. And like i imagine the dark magician or the dark sags living in that thing worrying about the absolutely fucking huge dragon above him.
The blue eyes white dragon is my favorite dragon monster card especially the number one you ranked your first and second one I have multiple copies of the last two Blue eyes white dragons.
Technically there is a 9th blue eyes artwork based on Kazuki Takahashis drawing he did for the Jump Ryu Magazin and the card is included in it. Brilliant illustration with both Kaiba and the Blue Eyes on it.
I never knew where that first JUMP promo blue eyes was from until just now. My mom came home one day and handed it to me 21 years ago. I thought it was cool as hell, but a kid I went to daycare with asked to see it, them immediately ran into the bathroom and claimed he flushed it down the toilet (he kept it). I always had the mental image of the blue eyes shooting the beam, but never saw it again when I tried looking for it. Larry hitting me with even more cringe nostalgia as I flash back to every time my cards got stolen and how every time it happened, it was the ones worth money or sentiment. All my Master Collection 1 and 2 cards stolen from my backpack in 3rd grade... *sighs in bad childhood decision-making skills*
The OG starter deck Kaiba artwork is the only artwork I’ll play with in my blue eyes decks lol. Same with the OG Dark Magician from Yugi’s deck. I’m okay with the LOB artwork and most of the others but I gotta have that Kaiba deck look if I’m playing the deck lol
Kinda relieved, incase you can't tell I'm abit of a fan of the OG Kaiba deck artwork. Have it tattooed across my arm as my first tattoo and everything 😅
I remember liking the yugi deck more because it has summoned skull that only needed one sacrifice, and the dark sword thing that made its attack 3200....im probably remembering it wrong but oh well
For me personally I actually like your nr. 8 the most. But I can see why you would like the others more. Blue eyes is very cool whatever form he takes :)
I dont know how you can say any one of them is the best other than the skyscraper variant. Majestic and beautiful as hell. The cosmic art is also very good.
I wish it was more consistent between the different cards. Some have more spikes, some have more body segment things, it’s almost like looking at different species of Blue-Eyes
Legend of Blue Eyes was my first one so there’s a nostalgic connection for me. But I think the DSOD artwork is excellent and should’ve been used for master duel IMO
I wonder what has become of my old blues eyes cards. I had them in 2002 and when I got a bit older I gave my deck to my neighbor. Now that they’re worth thousands I regret my decision 😩
I really love the OG and DSOD artwork and while I have a playset of both artworks, my playset of the DSOD artwork consist of 1 ultra and 2 gold secret rares and I wish I had 3 ultra rares
Blue Eyes White Dragon is only actually "white" like 12% of the time.
The other 88% it's White-Eyes Blue Dragon
I actually liked that with the OG art, felt like a mythical name to a shiny beast thats not completely understood and the heavy stylized drawing and shading really sold it.
Then in the anime it was just fucking blue.
Dragon Spirit is what Blue-Eyes should be.
@Atlas Oh no, it's the "evil" woke boogeyman we're all being told to be afraid of now 🙄
Isn’t it only white in Rush duels and DSOD?
The one you ranked at #5 is my personal favorite. Love how majestic it looks perched on top of a skyscraper.
That's my favourite also. It's a damn shame the anniversary pack is so expensive now.
I love that one as well
With the moon in the background 🤌
It's hard
I was considering buying one, but the price on TCG player, for a heavily damaged copy, was 40$ freaking bucks. 😢
Honestly the starter deck is soo true the nostalgia seeing blue eyes on the front cover of the box and just how majestic the image is it's everything blue eyes is and should be
yes! a few years ago I threw away a bunch of money for a beautiful sealed starter deck Kaiba, just so I can take it out of my closet once in awhile and appreciate the nostalgia from when my mom bought my brother and I the decks back in 2002. my brother picked Yugi bc he identified with his character or something, I wanted Kaiba because I love Blue Eyes lol
@@austinjones8420 I was the same lmao then my brother started playing joey with l legendary decks 2 the nostalgia
It's wing look like it's apart of the head though, kinda weird
I had the starter deck blue eyes as a kid, wish I looked after my cards. Didn't know of things like sleeves
Actually I still have mine I just realized later it's fake.
As kids we could barely get our parents to get the cards much less sleeves.
I had Pegasus deck. I miss my toon cards 😔
If I knew as a kid what I know now, I'd have never opened my OG Duel Disk. I could use an extra 500 bucks right now lol
Nothing will ever top the OG Blue-eyes artwork.
Whaaaaaaat? The Blue-Eyes with the Earth is my second favorite:
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My favorite is the jump promo. It's absolutely beautiful and I love the design choices made with it.
not to mention the jump promo is the most detailed and does the body perportions perfectly
Didn't rank all of them technically. There's an OCG exclusive art that has Kaiba from DSOD in the artwork
There’s also the rush duel artwork too
These are tcg blue eyes only i believe as there would be a few not on this list if that were the case…
Love how the background for the planet and tablet art is what decided the rank when it's the same pic for Blue-Eyes itself and was just copy past for the tablet version >w
The OG artwork is my favorite hands down.
This is also the Blue-Eyes that I send out to my buddies from over the years
I am so sick of the Tablet Blue-Eyes. The art is so mediocre. I hate that Konami keeps using it for all the games like in MD. Please. Just give us the OG art... I am begging you.
Agree the tablet arts suck give us the OGs ffs 😂
Same goes for dark magician nothing against that artwork it's just overused. I prefer the one from Yugi's starter/structure deck with the magna warrior cards tbh but I really want more purple dark magician artwork or does this mean there are three dark magicians the purple, the red and the green skin one.
@@Tomy_Lightning I always thought it is really weird how the most iconic look for Dark Magician is the purple look from the anime, yet every depiction of them, be it alt art or on other cards, is always the green skin/blue robe version
@@KinzokuDrummer I mainly hate how the tablet artworks have become the default, the green skin is the manga dm as the green skin artworks are usually taken from the manga making him manga Yugi's dm then there is purple which is anime Yugi's dm the red one which is Arcana's dm is the regular dm in the anime (since Arcana has multiple and we only ever see one purple dm) with Yugi's being special due to Mahad there's also dsod dm which is either updated manga dm or updated anime dm and now we have a new "support" dm card dm the ebony sorcerer which is basically a golden version of dm.
@@KinzokuDrummer also there are a couple of cards besides the main purple magician which have him in his purple robes like "amulet dragon" and :bond between teacher and student."
More videos like this, with other cards like dark magician
Gotta be the dimension one for me, he's actually white, and of you have the gold one from the movie its actually crazy how good it shines.
Personally I like DSOTD artwork its just Majestic more then it could get.
The Tablet artwork is my favorite one
I prefer dsod artwork personally As it's more accurate to its name of "blue eyes" and white dragon
This is like, almost exactly the reverse order of how I rank them lol
Lol I agree but the manga and the blue eyes flying through the galaxy are top two
The og one is the best and nobody can say anything about it. If it looks like one of those old 2009 cards that are darker than todays cards that’s even better
Nice ranking! DSOD is my favorite!
Blue Eyes on the tower is still my favorite. One of these days, I hope to snag one
Shonen Jump promo is definitely my favorite it just looks awesome I would love to have a place that but they are like $80 last I checked
The original will always be the best! Gives me chills from nostalgia every time I see it!!!
OG SDK-001 blue eyes with the ultra rare foil mmh it looks so clean.
I actually had that #8 card. I was so disappointed when I realized they changed the OG artwork on it.
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@@ultimateg591 I didn't realize they changed the original artwork until I got the Blue Eyes White Dragon in a booster pack.
OG arts need a come back for real, Blue-Eyes, Red-Eyes, Dark Magician
The artwork for SDK Blue Eyes made me get my parents to buy me the deck, and from there it was history.
I got into Yu-Gi-Oh! late because my mom was a christian who didnt like the idea of it.
I watched up to the cyberverse and a lot of GX.
I've got to say, you've brought back my love for this series! I love your videos!
The Legend of Blue Eyes art is 11/10, will always be my favourite art.
Same, best art at least for me
LOB Blue-Eyes is so lit
I really like the Blue-Eyes in front of earth. In fact, it is my favorite artwork.
From a nostalgia standpoint I agree with the original. But from a design/art perspective I like #2-3 a lot more. And I like the galaxy background on the #3 actually. Even if it’s “odd” it looks stunning regardless
The DSOD version is the best. The OG version always looked strange to me. Blue eyes looks great on the tablet version, but the dumb tablet stinks it up.
Dumber 5 and 3 are really elevated by the background not being a random photoshop filter.
Roaring on top of a tower or flying through the night sky instead of posing in a void looks much cooler.
His statement on #1 was an absolute fact. You can guess what my starter deck was.
Tablet Blue Eyes should be last place
funny enough in yugioh lore.. the blue eyes white dragon is able to travel into space.
Number 5 I always imagined Blue Eyes standing atop of Alcatraz from Battle City.
Thanks for doing this vid man
you forgot blue eyes’s anniversary art where she’s being summoned by kaiba
Since I love cyberpunk aesthetics and the bike has an Akira-esque shape, I:P Masquaerena alt art is my fav of any of the alt arts
I've never even seen some of these Blue Eyes artworks
The earthglobe is one of my absolute favourites. Was it a promo? It was only available as usch in sweden when I was a kid atleast. Felt so special for having it.
3rd ranking one looks really well done. It even shows how translucent its wings are by having the background light shining through.
Fun Fact: The original Blue Eyes white dragon art pre-dates the actual card game. As Konami’s first Yu-Gi-Oh video game was Capsule Monsters when Season 0 was airing. This game was a Japan only release but it came with some Cards that weren’t official, since at the time, Konami didn’t own the Card Game. But one of them was the Blue Eyes white dragon, and after Konami launched their Card Game, they kept the artwork and even convinced Studio Gallop to use it in the anime.
I’ll always remember the Christmas I got a Kaiba starter deck and Legend of Blue Eyes tin. Came away with two BEWDs and a Left Leg of Exodia (unfortunately never found any other pieces). Good times.
Solid list, I’d personally move some around but that’s why these lists are fun. Yeah I never really noticed that about the planet artwork, Blue eyes being bigger now stands out to me (I love it still)
I agree with #1, but #8 and #6 should've been #2 and #3 imo. I love the second art design and I love the new manga art design. The new Manga art one especially since it combines what I love about the og art and the second art. I feel like the new manga art print is the true third Blue Eyes print we all deserve and should've had instead of those other two with the planet and tablet backgrounds. The rest, including the two third prints I just mentioned, though they do look cool, just feel like a fan made them at times. Don't know what it is or why. I just love the og print, second print, and new manga art print more. The classic Blue Eyes charm is powerful and quite strong within all three of those prints imo. Blue Eyes actually looks like the Blue Eyes I know and love in those prints.
Agreed no one is talking about how amazing #8 is 😭. Its super underrated
The og Yu-Gi-Oh season one Blue-Eyes will forever be up there for card art design
The problem I notice with a lot of ygo cards is that they tend to have a monster with the same background color... Blue on blue, etc.. The better artwork lets you see the monster properly imo
I’m glad you made the dsod Blue Eyes White Dragon #2 cause it’s my second favorite and the original one from the anime is my #1 favorite
I had the one with the tablet artwork. Was always my most fav design but also agree with the OG
OG is the best for sure, I'm glad you put that first.
Blue Eyes looking like a kaiju on top of that skyscraper. Loving it
I had a Blue Eyes deck back in the day, still miss it from time to time.
i just ordered the manga art blue eyes bc it’s so freakin adorable looking and needed to have it. the only one i think i’m missing is the one where he’s on top of the skyscraper
It's pure nostalgia that keeps Starter Deck Kaiba Blue-Eyes at number one for me. Without it, Dark Side of Dimensions is my number one.
Honestly, this list is pretty much 1:1 to how I would rank them.
You missed the best one. The OCG exclusive that has Kaiba on it and features a KaibaCorp logo foiling
I agree with the original card art being number 1 I have three of them and limited editions to😊
The one on the castle is my favorite cuz it resizes it to be a dragon that hangs around a castle. And like i imagine the dark magician or the dark sags living in that thing worrying about the absolutely fucking huge dragon above him.
The blue eyes white dragon is my favorite dragon monster card especially the number one you ranked your first and second one I have multiple copies of the last two Blue eyes white dragons.
The Blue eyes in Space is a reference to the Episode where the Dragon destroyed the satellitecanon and his way to evolve to galaxyeyes.
The wing in the background always makes the original blue eyes seem like it has a gigantic head
That og blue eyes is just fun to stare at that and og dark magician or Neos og red eyes summoned skull too
Honestly the one in #5 is one of my favorite artworks when you realize that is a Kiba Corp tower
Technically there is a 9th blue eyes artwork based on Kazuki Takahashis drawing he did for the Jump Ryu Magazin and the card is included in it. Brilliant illustration with both Kaiba and the Blue Eyes on it.
I never knew where that first JUMP promo blue eyes was from until just now. My mom came home one day and handed it to me 21 years ago. I thought it was cool as hell, but a kid I went to daycare with asked to see it, them immediately ran into the bathroom and claimed he flushed it down the toilet (he kept it). I always had the mental image of the blue eyes shooting the beam, but never saw it again when I tried looking for it. Larry hitting me with even more cringe nostalgia as I flash back to every time my cards got stolen and how every time it happened, it was the ones worth money or sentiment. All my Master Collection 1 and 2 cards stolen from my backpack in 3rd grade... *sighs in bad childhood decision-making skills*
I like the blue eyes in space, its a good reference to when kaiba faced lector and it attacked its satellite cannon.
#7 was also a Jump promo, I think vol 1 of the US monthly release
Put of all three started decks from yugioh I liked red eyes the most looks so cool
The OG starter deck Kaiba artwork is the only artwork I’ll play with in my blue eyes decks lol. Same with the OG Dark Magician from Yugi’s deck. I’m okay with the LOB artwork and most of the others but I gotta have that Kaiba deck look if I’m playing the deck lol
Had to put the OG at #1 for sure. Just remembering seeing that for the first time at toys r us as a kid. Legendary
Kinda relieved, incase you can't tell I'm abit of a fan of the OG Kaiba deck artwork. Have it tattooed across my arm as my first tattoo and everything 😅
I remember liking the yugi deck more because it has summoned skull that only needed one sacrifice, and the dark sword thing that made its attack 3200....im probably remembering it wrong but oh well
the number 2 should be number 1. It is a beautiful artwork that oozes majesty. Truly beautiful and im glad I own a copy
I also had 3 x of the #1 artwork cards. Can’t beat those.
For me personally I actually like your nr. 8 the most. But I can see why you would like the others more. Blue eyes is very cool whatever form he takes :)
I dont know how you can say any one of them is the best other than the skyscraper variant. Majestic and beautiful as hell. The cosmic art is also very good.
If I remember correctly, #7 was a jump promo originally as well
I wish it was more consistent between the different cards. Some have more spikes, some have more body segment things, it’s almost like looking at different species of Blue-Eyes
I think the YAP1 (moon artwork) blues if my fav bc I personally think it looks rlly good in my opinion
Legend of Blue Eyes was my first one so there’s a nostalgic connection for me. But I think the DSOD artwork is excellent and should’ve been used for master duel IMO
Personally, I have always liked the Legend of blue eyes art the best. It just has kind of grown on me.
OG baby.
7th rank Blue Eyes version reminds me of the 2 part Settling the score episode. I have that version of Blue Eyes
0:05 yep that is my favorite :D
6 is growing on me, i may need 1 or 3 for the collection
The OG artwork had that mystical feel to it. The designs aren't over the top and it's like something you find in a ancient textbook.
I wonder what has become of my old blues eyes cards. I had them in 2002 and when I got a bit older I gave my deck to my neighbor. Now that they’re worth thousands I regret my decision 😩
#5 is drawn by Takahashi and deserves a higher place.
The planet one reminds me of that arc with Noah Kaiba
Yup. The OG Starter Deck Kaiba still gives Me the heebi jeebis.
Used to think the OG art works wing was part of it's head when I was a kid.
I've been a fan of Yu-Gi-Oh since the anime first dropped on Kids WB and I personally prefer the DSOD card art over the starter deck Kaiba art.
Tablet and starter deck are my faves
I really love the OG and DSOD artwork and while I have a playset of both artworks, my playset of the DSOD artwork consist of 1 ultra and 2 gold secret rares and I wish I had 3 ultra rares
Yup, #1 where it’s at. Had to have it when I saw it
On point
For some reason to me he comes off as the cool nerdy guy and I like it lol
The Blue Eyes White Dragon with the earth behind it is my favorite
Edit: it was also a jump promo when I was in middle school...
rank 2 is my favorite - even though i grew up with Yu Gi Oh Blue Eyes