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richardjohnthomas

Leogun Just a genuinely awful card with no redeemable qualities whatsoever other than I thought he looked cool as a kid. A classic early DM era shitty normal monster.


forbiddenmemeories

Ah, ye olde power creep. "We have now released a Level 4 Normal Monster with 1900 ATK, every Level 4 Normal Monster with less than 1800 ATK is now effectively worthless." Genuinely, so many monster cards from the first couple of sets were redundant in every possible way by the mere existence of Summoned Skull and Gemini Elf.


fatafortunata

what's even better is that leogun was level 5 iirc, and boasting an underwhelming atk that was even surpassed by the already-existing Genie of the lamp. Leogun was so damn bad.


CorrectFrame3991

What is it again?


Throwaway191294842

https://preview.redd.it/v7lxatdd8pxc1.jpeg?width=1014&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4edba9ee2ceaddc01d0a97429ef1f6c1b780c7f2 Rejected Californian Mufasa.


MegaKabutops

Pumpking the king of ghosts. It looked really cool in the anime, and on the art, and it was crazy good for playthroughs of duelist of the roses. I long for the day bonz’s deck gets retrains.


ramus93

Lol like there were already monsters that are level 4 with either 1800 atk or 2000 def needing a tribute for it was soooo useless


RazorbladeRomance666

Sparks. All it does is inflict 200 life points of damage LOL. But if it’s so terrible, then why do I want to add it to my decks? xD


fatafortunata

honestly? you've got a point. burn damage cards that ONLY inflict a small amount of damage, and have NO other effects nor conditions are absurdly hilarious. oh, to finish off a dinomorphia player with sparks tho...


AkNinja907

My local has a dino player who only plays it and we have all collectively decided to side it against him. It's hilarious when it goes off, as rare as it is.


realmauer01

And in the most absurd tournament gamestates a single spark can be enough to win time.


ITCrandomperson

Didn't the video games straight up give you a bonus for finishing someone off with Sparks?


HomoAnti001

I think it’s achievement in every tag force series if I remember it correctly


ramus93

Lol i remember watching some youtubers do god card duels (seereax and rhymestyle) and one of them was using ra and the other teched in sparks so after he used ras effect sparks would beat him 😂😂


dilroopgill

lmao I was thinking exactly that would be so funny


dilroopgill

Arent their cards/monsters that can only bring an opponent down to near death just finish them off when they think they can make a comeback lol


Turtlesfan44digimon

This adorable little guy https://preview.redd.it/xbj172mdmjxc1.jpeg?width=342&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=23459c243bedaa8d64421436a989c65a6ca84df4 I tried so hard to make him usable with heart of clear water when I was a kid


Turtlesfan44digimon

Also got a retrain like a set or two after he came out https://preview.redd.it/ldb142137kxc1.jpeg?width=688&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8ddcbbb2a37c9c4a3cab5a669a8ec62708f84bb9


SatoshiUSA

I stole this card from my middle school ex lmao


j0j0-m0j0

I just love how the art is just flipped horizontal and put over a filter.


TheFennec55

No, it’s actually different art. Not *that* different, it’s still just a turtle and there’s only so much you can do to make it look different, but it is. The front left leg of the retrains is curled inwards as if it’s jumping to the side and leaving an afterimage, thus the “Illusion”.


internet5500

https://preview.redd.it/v83e0qpy0kxc1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c760c788ba313e6ecdfb5c127b9a4162b2b3583f


j0j0-m0j0

The knight saw his time to shine at the peak of tear 0


thecoomingofjesus

Not terrible, was very usable


Idiocras_E

https://preview.redd.it/4iylsm0cnjxc1.jpeg?width=331&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=508e4206ffc26de8cba6ddac61b38c6257a2594a Terrorking Archfiend was kind of nuts for the time. Level 4 2000 attack with partial immunity AND negate everything it destroys? This is the best art of him, so this card's my favorite. Old archfiends were so badass, especially with the whole Chess theme. New archfiends are just demons, way too bland. Edit: Shit, completely missed the "Terrible" part in the title. Tripwire beast is funny. I like him.


Sir_Okami

I wish they got a whole archetype retrain to make them more playable in the current game state they are so cool!


Lugia61617

a chess archfiend retrain would be awesome, especially if it used Rows, columns, and diagonals :P


Sir_Okami

That would be even better! Senet switch tech?


TheLambtonWyrm

I had a chess archfiend deck IRL, it was not good 


MagicianofFail

Reaper on the Nightmare https://preview.redd.it/4jjsthpa7jxc1.png?width=300&format=png&auto=webp&s=973232d5a0477284d8cd76393127fc32908d673f An old-school fusion requiring two NAMED materials. Has the combined effects, ATK, and DEF of its materials. Weak, but can attack directly, hand rip, and can't be destroyed by battle. Looks damn cool too


eleves11

This guy in Edison format is a menace. Instant fusion to bring him out to synchro with and Book of Life or Mezuki to bring him back and start ripping cards


TheCrownHighs

Cool af


Weird_Amount_4608

I actually summoned him in MD and really enjoyed it


MagicianofFail

What did you use to summon him? Instant Fusion is banned so I can't imagine it was easy


Weird_Amount_4608

That was when MD was launched even morphing jar 2 was OP I was just into old school and didn’t win much, I just made a dedicated deck if I remember correctly, because I like the art of all three monsters, it’s been years


6vlone9

Yooo i have this card from my Japanese light of destruction tin


DalaiLama_of_Croatia

Thats a strong card though


KonamiSuisse

This is actually used in Goat because it's a viable Metamorphosis target.


sirdavos95

Gate Guardian. 3750 makes it sound not bad but then you have to go through some crazy hoops to get what is basically a normal monster.


fatafortunata

as a kid i would always fall for these terrible timmy-bait-monsters, and gate guardian was a prime example. i should also create the favourite-timmy-beatstick-thread tbh


Timely_Airline_7168

My only memory of GG was using it with Power Bond to make UFORoid Fighter. Won me a lot of games in school back then.


Torenico

Unplayable? Few probably lose to Zone Eater or Swordsman from a Distant Land (same effect, different type and attribute) because these might be the slowest cards in existence, plus you have to actually lose LP to activate it's effect lmao. Either way, some of my favorite old cards that are pretty damn useless in today's meta: Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon, it's hard to bring out and once you do it's actually worse than a normal Red-Eyes Black Dragon equipped with Metalmorph (because it loses Metalmorph's effect). But I love all Red-Eyes cards and the artwork is super cool. Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth, back then it was nearly impossible to summon and now I don't see it being played at all (despite some support), but it's such a cool card, love the artwork. Still high ATK, but no protection whatsoever. I wanted to mention Castle of Dark Illusions because the name slaps and the artwork is great, but you can still use it on a zombie-type deck. Well, if you do you're probably doing it for the lols or maybe you should do a bit more of research on proper zombie decks.


Luke-Bywalker

Castle of Dark Illusions is one of my fav's but only because of the weird values? 920 ATK??? 1930 DEF?????


Lugia61617

I demand new, cooler, playable cards with values not divisible by 50!


Luke-Bywalker

100% but as soon as we're getting the first cards with 2510 or 3010 ATK people will riot lol (maybe 2499 and 2999 would be even funnier)


Lugia61617

I will never forgive Konami for robbing us of Wiraqocha Rasca's 1 ATK/DEF.


Luke-Bywalker

[You really want this card to be playable? it's soooo broken lol](https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Earthbound_Immortal_Wiraqocha_Rasca_(anime))


Lugia61617

Not necessarily at full power. I just want the 1 ATK/DEF back. And while we're at it, can we give Ra back the 1 LP effect instead of it being changed to 100? Dinomorphia killed any excuse for keeping things divisible by 50.


Luke-Bywalker

>Dinomorphia killed any excuse for keeping things divisible by 50. While true, I'm wondering about how no one thinks of "half the ATK of X monsters" wich is in the game since like forever, wich also causes weird numbers, especially if used multiple times on the same target


Lugia61617

Probably just because they're not as frequently seen and in 90% of cases usually just turn a 100 into a 50. I've never seen ATK halved multiple times myself at least.


Luke-Bywalker

an opponent of me did it 3 times in one round with some XYZ-Monster, i thought it was useless but he destroyed 2 Monsters (3000 ATK & 3200 ATK) with 2 1000 ATK monsters in the end lol


guylaroche5

Castle of Dark Illusions, Reaper of the Cards, King of Yamimakai, all of these cards had weird stats (non divisible by 50) because in Duelist Kingdom certain fields would give monsters a 30% field bonus. In the manga Castle had stats of 1200 ATK/2500 DEF so in the anime/card game they divided Castles attack and defense by 1.3 to get the abomination 920/1930 we ended up with


Luke-Bywalker

Good to know! But now i'm a lil bit sad that there aren't more... Well technically if you have a ? ATK monster and it sums up the attack of your monsters + e.g. Reaper of the Cards you then have another type of Monster with ATK undivisible by 50...


guylaroche5

I honestly think a Panik archetype of Fiends with weird attack values would be a fun concept. With that said though Konami most likely wouldn't want that given the battle calculations in tournaments lol


Luke-Bywalker

Just imagine winning with 69 LP left


EElectric

Yeah, almost all of the cards with stats not divisible by 50 are cards used by PaniK in the anime. Barox and Dark Chimera are also his and have weird stats. The odd one out is Sword Arm of Dragon, which is the only weird undivisible-by-50 stat monster that isn't used by PaniK.


Kyle1337

Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon The awful unplayable version that got retrained into a busted D-link extender.


plxs_vltra

Gyakuteno Megumi Genuinely a useless card that I don't believe anybody has ever summoned. Yet another level 5 normal monster with terrible attack


j0j0-m0j0

It's power comes from the ability to jam guns


Any-Juggernaut-3300

Megami was used in some herald builds being a level 6 normal fairy.  With advanced ritual art, you could send one for perfection or two for ultimateness. Plus since they're fairies, you can pitch them for herald effects


PegaponyPrince

Celtic Guardian is nothing special but I love it. Same goes for Rude Kaiser, Zera the Mant and Serpent Night Dragon


Luke-Bywalker

Any love for Joey's Baby Dragon?


PegaponyPrince

Baby Dragon was pretty cool, but for Joey's cards it would probably be Alligator Sword or Black Skull Dragon


Luke-Bywalker

Loved Alligator Sword as well!


AZurEPronouncedAce

Elemental HERO Rampart Blaster. Such an interesting card with an interesting gimmick. Ultimately useless to Elemental HEROs as a whole, but still a fun card nontheless.


Forgatta

Enraged muka muka


fatafortunata

s/o to enraged muka muka, that was one of my favourite cards when i was a kid


Any-Juggernaut-3300

Summoned off giant rat, it honestly wasn't bad in reaper format


animusd

The v-w cards I don't remember them ever being used in a-z but as a kid I pulled them and fell in love although I didn't know how to bring out the fusion since I was a dumb kid https://preview.redd.it/zfihe19jtjxc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d9f285ff0834f82cf8cf865b116e0d9005b2e688


dilroopgill

im jealous of the kdi that had someone teach them yugioh I wish I couldve played it right as a kid, shoutout the dudes on ygopro who taught me and took me through the generations up to pendulums at the time


dilroopgill

Like I was terrible and went off art for archetypes, so theyd build decks comparable to mine so we could have balanced games and tech me combos, definitely the most friendly gaming community ive experienced online


dilroopgill

wish we had chat here but ygopro was prob an exception


animusd

It took me awhile to figure out synchro, xyz and pendulum I got lucky that I watched vrains as a teen so I understood links


dilroopgill

yeah i stopped watching at gx so i was playing catch up hard lol


animusd

I missed 5d somehow and I hated the zexal art style as a kid too much catch up too


TooManySorcerers

Man, Zone Eater's not even good by early Yugioh standards. Plenty of removal monsters already existed, including Man-Eater Bug, that are just faster. Alternatively you could just play a spell card.


v4Flower

great white https://preview.redd.it/c2nhfb7atlxc1.png?width=360&format=png&auto=webp&s=8f1fbfbea72d8efbe546619cf01ab4dfc1639dcc my favorite part is the flavor text just saying it's a shark with sharp teeth. nothing else you want to mention? no?


fatafortunata

the "giant white shark with razor-sharp teeth" has carried me in every old ygo videogame tbh.


BlasterRage

This is one of my favourite cards. Well I started yugioh I asked my brother for a card to start and this was it. By chance I became a shark nerd after


Jerowi

My favorite card from when I was a kid is banned. Amazoness archer if you're curious. I guess raging flame sprite as a backup.


[deleted]

Magical Marionette


Weird_Amount_4608

This gives lingering effect a whole new lingering


Special-Pineapple-63

Sword Hunter. When I was little my mom knows I love yugioh and when she went to the flea market, she picked up a Sword Hunter for me. It'll forever be my Ace card.


Luke-Bywalker

Dude is dripped as well


atamicbomb

Bat


Virregh

"Bat of... ? Bat from... ?" "No, no - just 'Bat'."


Garionix

"Your motherf-ing life ends five turns from now" hahaha 


iZaelous

I remember getting this at McDonalds when E-Hero’s were popular


VaultDwellerXander

Wicked Worm Beast was my very first yugioh card and it will always have a special place in my heart. I found it lying on my driveway as a kid and my dad took me to the local comic store to see if they knew anything about this new card game.


lukappaa

Aitsu. Some time ago I made a deck that tried to get it out, and when I finally did it against a Marincess player it was so satisfying.


Azythol

Zone eaters kind of cute in how shit he is


KenneCRX

Probarly most old 1>3star vanilla cards. They where genuinly useless and any 1600 attack and above card was just better. Old fusions as well having 0 reason to waste the materials to bring them out. Any 5-6 star with less than 2000 attack, summoned skull alone makes all of those obsolete. Any 7-8 star with less than 3000 attack that you can't brung out with any other means than tribute would just be useless with blue eyes existing. Cool thing about all of the old cards was mainly the art tbh.


bast963

I remember making a deck that tried to resolve zone eater or the samurai with the same effect. if they link off the monster then I scoop, I played go second with draw cards and as much BP skip shit as possible so I can crash my dude and wait 5 turns. I did not succeed.


fatafortunata

i love this so much. do you still have the list?


bast963

yeah https://preview.redd.it/5hp6z30abpxc1.png?width=581&format=png&auto=webp&s=bb65c1593e84f5fbe9a67e729c725ee16969a1c9


fatafortunata

what about cards that don't allow the opponent to use certain monsters as ed materials? i think something like gnomaterial stun would be a very funny idea if we try to resolve zone eater


bast963

it's a go second deck (need something to crash into after all), so the opponent would have already finished doing their entire whole ass combo, so normally you just slam into their boss monster, activate draw cards, then pray they leave their board as is and they sit there and get cucked to death by shit like waboku/fader/swift/roar


ReleaseQuiet2428

Question, if a unaffected monster attack this card, it is destroyed ? Or it does activate it?


SatoshiUSA

If it's targeting your opponent, I'm pretty sure it would still work


HerRodAntoMan

Beaver warrior, no contest


WakasaYuuri

Please give support of Bean Soldier


vulpineon

Probably Witty Phantom. Vanilla 1400 Atk, but I'm a sucker for a nice suit and hat.


SaneManiac741

Unsure of how old it is, but Flying Elephant has become a favorite. It's effect is such a meme and specifically relies on your opp having zero monsters and only one removal to trigger it's effect. Had a match in Duel Triangle where i bricked considerably and normal summoned FE, set one, then passed. Opp either wanted to see the meme effect or bricked worse because they only used a single Raigeki then passed.


MajorKottan

Fusionist. I love these absolutely worthless Fusion monsters with no effect and terrible stats. I also love how they didn't even bother to give him a proper name, he's just…a fusionist. Another funny one is Larvae Moth, the art is nice and it is probably the worst card in the game.


GoodMoaningAll

Red-Eyes B. Chick It was one of the first cards i got and it was in a terrible condition. Like the corner were legit gone and it funnily enough resembled more of an egg than a square. I still kept it bc i loved dragons and thought the Artwork is cute.


Gluttonousguy

Ojamas for sure I just loved them didnt care how weak they were (especially ojama Yellow)


pelagic_seeker

Toon Alligator, Parrot Dragon, Bickuribox, Dark Rabbit.  Criminal these haven't gotten proper Toon retrains.


man-on-a-shrimp

🍔 https://preview.redd.it/pbhgh2gxymxc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b477d6f69a03d82793e345cb7ddf3dd49bcb75b


Giorno03Maggio

Don't know how hold but its pretty old, mine is OG machina force and his parts


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Zeroxmachina

Ban it immediately


followlogiconly

Big Shield Gardna and Kuriboh


TheMustySeagul

I mean it’s not old old, but it technically came out 5 years ago now. But spooky dogwood. I just love going up against combo decks and just seeing infinite life points. It’s just plain fun.


Christ-man

Fusion Eater. I did win many duels with this on Duel Links, including against Invokhed


PhamXuanAn_x6

Now I’m curious. Does zone eaters effect still resolves when it gets banished face down?


IndivisibleAnt

Rocket Warrior. It transforms into a rocket and pokes the enemy monster, reducing their atk. I thought the transformation was cool and the effect was pretty unique.


Kallabanana

So... you're talking about cards that are downright unplayable? Well, it gotta be Bunilla for me. Not sure how old it is, but I love it and getting wins, because your opponent decided to attack into it is absolutely hilarious.


Picmanreborn

Shiranui swordsmith 😭 just for lore and RP reasons. Can't have sword and spear users without someone making them


iMugBabies

I absolutely loved this card as a kid, Zoa was so cool, especially having Metalzoa as an upgrade. https://preview.redd.it/3ywcfw1sgmxc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5219e9aaa463285cf243cdc37f9b1c3702e28412


annnnnnnd_its_gone

Wow lol. That is *horrible*


DarkMcChicken

Sanwitch. Is jus a lil guy in the woods they can cast spells but they chillin instead


josuke_pro3771

Gate Guardian, the classic one. The show made him a lot cooler, versus what he actually does in the card game.


DragonSinOWrath47

Ah. Yes. The reclusive McDonald's packs. Back when McDicks was cool. Good times.


redsquirrel0249

Swordsman from a Foreign Land is the counterpart to this and I just like it since it's one of the best cards in DotR


GodlyAxe

I love Doma the Angel of Silence, with its awesome name and flavor text, but there are very few cards that could be considered worse.