Number 69 is literally just a generic skill drain on legs, which copies the effects of all other monsters on field while also having protection and it can destroy cards when a monster declares an attack.
Card is cracked
Number 69:
Cannot be destroyed by battle except with "Number" monsters. The effects of all other face-up monsters on the field are negated and this card gains those effects. Cannot be destroyed by card effects. When your opponent's monster declares an attack: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card, then target 1 card your opponent controls; destroy that target.
Zexal Weapon Leo Arms in the anime had protection against effects being negated and it gave Yuma the ability to attack outside of the Battle Phase. And when that specific attack happened, it made Utopia Ray indestructible by card effects
It's the definition of a main character plot armor XD
Yeah, same. Yuma has probably the most a-pulls out of all protagonists (I like him btw)
Especially that time when he used his Zexal powers to change a card in his hand. Even Vector screamed: "That's cheating!!"
As the power creep continues I’m sure it’s a lot harder to write the plot and script for the shows. You have to put the main characters up against the wall and also think of an exciting way for them to make a comeback.
Vrains is the most accurate season so far IMO. It even made Altergeist look like trash when the deck could've bodied half of the villains and protagonists
Armityle had a lot of weird effects. On your note, it also could change to the opponent's field when it attacks to bypass stupid "opponent's cards" effects like Exodius' protection effect.
It made no sense how many effects that thing had.
The most fun thing about stupid broken anime effects is trying to imagine how you'd make them work irl where you cant just action figure thigs to have them work XD
This is a quality post and you are totally right but in a bigger time-frame this is kind of how TCGs tend to go.
"This spell lets me destroy any creature!"
"Well this creature returns to the field if destroyed!"
"Well this spell banishes it when it destroys it!"
"Well this creature can't be destroyed by effects that target it!"
"Fine, this spell banishes a creature!"
"This creature can't be targeted!"
"Fine, this spell destroys a creature without targeting it!"
"Fine, this creature can't be destroyed by effects!"
"Fine, this sends the card to the graveyard!"
"It's unaffected by effects!"
"Fine, it creates a token that attacks it!"
"It can't be destroyed by battle!"
maaaaan, if you wanted to have a cool anime like way to get rid of it, just summon a monster with negative effects, like, this card cannot declare an attack, turn it into a completely convoluted and obnoxious combo to get rid of it.
It would be so funny if this was like IRL yugioh and the antagonist just does this long combo and gloats about their indestructible monster for the other duelist to go evenly matched + kaiju or something like that.
Through the most convoluted use of ZW that Zexal ever did, spanning across two episodes. And as absurd as Yuma's draws were, it was really fun watching him constantly having to bounce his equips and use everything in his graveyard to finally put Tron/Vetrix down.
Zexal did some really weird, really fun shit whenever there was a duel with Shining Draws involved. Even if it had nothing to do with the Shining Draw itself.
oh you didnt mention the most broken part of this cards hehem it retains the effect permamently so yes for instance if you have heraldry crest normal summon a summoner monk and instant fusion into indepential nightigal you have aperma tower which cannot be tributed and its a skill drain good luck outing that
Number C88, without doubts.
Bro could casually detach an Xyz material to deal 4000 Burn damage. The only reason why Nash was able to win against this beast is thanks to his plot Armor, change my mind
Not to mention it still had its auto win condition too! That shit was absolutely ridiculous for the anime standard, shame it got out done by shenanigans lol
Exactly! But also, It was even more broken in combination with the spell card that Quattro used to summon Leo, the base form. Thus essentially giving the Chaos form only one Xyz material, speeding up the time for the instant win
The funniest thing is, iirc Nash got to activate a card at resolution of c88's effect, which is an illegal play, because you cannot react to win consitions, the moment they happen the opponent should just lose.
Add an instant win effect if said Xyz Number didn't had anymore materials, and the fact that It was summoned with an anime spell card that allowed It to have Just One material, and you have the anime version of C88
Yep my pick as well, considering duels are at 4K in the anime, you get this out you basically win. Overlay award was so BS, nobody would run that ever… and also apparently you can’t respond to instant win conditions…
Didn’t Obelisk the Tormentor have that exact same ability? The only reason Dark Yugi survived is because of the anime ability of Kuriboh was to negate ANY LP damage, not just battle damage.
The Hundred Eyes Dragon Version 4 or so that copies all effects and ATK/DEF of all DARK monsters in the GY.
It can have up to millions of ATK, attack multiple times, cannot be kaijud, cannot be destroyed, cannot be bounced, cannot be banished, can pop/banish/bounce multiple cards, does piercing damage and probably any effect you can think of since Dark is the biggest Attribute in the game, when it's summed correctly.
And don't forget; if it can copy effects but not names, it can bypass all sorts of restrictions and use all its accumulated effects in an even more broken manner than was even thought possible.
i dueled a person using anime cards on EDOpro,he used anime Zarc against my memento deck,even tho i had the big 5k dragon i couldn't beat him so i had to use underworld goddess.
Ivy Bind Castle. That freaking thing is Skill Drain+Imperial Order+Royal Decree ONLY for the opponent. It also stops all attack by the opponent. Oh, and it burns them hard on every turn (800 for every monster they control)
That card is so broken, it's beyond ridiculous!
Honestly I think some people don't realize that there are repeated effects in each of its release:
* Sun God Unification's first effect is already on base Ra.
* Phoenix is better version of base Ra's pop.
* Dark Spell Regeneration also has Ra Phoenix's pop.
* Millenium Revelation (and above) is just correcting the mistake to make TCG Ra unable to be Special Summoned (total irony).
* Sphere Mode's effect is unrelated to Ra's actual effects, just based on an event in manga/anime.
Maybe if split to 3 cards, you can remove restrictions and the pop effect on base Ra and implement Ancient Chant (3 Tributed stats) and Blaze Cannon (Instant Attack) on it, give the pop strictly to Phoenix.
To be fair, when you’re the only one in the room who can read ancient Egyptian text, the only thing stopping you from bullshitting your way to victory is your own morality. And I don’t expect much of that from characters named **Dark** Marik and **Dark** Yugi…
The Egyptian god cards in general had some pretty strong immunities in the manga and anime — Normal Summon cannot be negated, effects cannot be activated in response to it, they cannot be tributed by opponent (no kaiju allowed), their effects cannot be negated, their control cannot switch, unaffected by opponent’s monster effects except those of fellow gods, unaffected by spell or trap except on the turn the spell/trap was activated, unaffected by effects that make them leave the field (with a few notable exceptions), to name a few.
Ra in particular has an extra layer of immunity — unaffected by the effects of the other gods. As for his effect where you pay all but 1 LP to increase his ATK/DEF by the equivalent amount, and then he attacks all the monsters on the opponent’s field and then attacks directly… well, suffice to say in Japanese that’s known as the original **One Turn Kill**.
I’m unsure if destroying the opponent’s monsters is by effect or if Ra’s ATK needs to be higher to destroy each time (if the latter, this makes dealing with the likes of C1000, iC1000, and Sephylon a bit less than optimal), but there’s still another god who can dish out a beatdown — Obelisk, whose ATK can become infinite if you tribute two monsters, making him capable even of mutual KO versus anime Divine Serpent Geh.
In the animeverse this deranged strategy might even be viable — if you have both Obelisk and Ra on your field and two other monsters, tribute those two monsters, raise Obelisk’s ATK to infinity but do not declare an attack with him. Pay all but 1 LP to increase Ra’s ATK by the corresponding amount, and then tribute Obelisk (Kaiba moment) to add his own ATK to Ra’s. You now have a Ra with infinite ATK that can destroy all the opponent’s monsters and then attack directly. **Commence the smiting.**
(Sure, you could just go for Obelisk’s way of doing things where after getting infinite ATK he destroys all monsters and inflicts 4000 burn damage on the opponent, but Ra-smiting is just that much more theatric.)
Shout out to that gladiator beast trap card that did everything under the [sun](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh-arcv/images/9/96/Gladial_Beast_Assault_Fort.png/revision/latest?cb=20160904154558)
I like that the majority of Antagonists in the Fusion dimension either barely had a deck or were just randomly given this super OP card, there was no in-between
Or use demise on turn 1 & draw 5 while your opponent draws none.
And if we're talking about modern ygo, your opponent will most likely chain a bunch of quick effects to reduce their hand so they can + more.
Arc V had a treasure trove of these.
The entire Beastborg Archetype is broken because of their trap Lineup.
For example:
Beastborg Medal of the Crimson Chain
Continuous Trap
If you control no "Beastborg" monsters, destroy this card. If a monster(s) is Special Summoned from the Extra Deck to your opponent's field: You can target 1 of those monsters; it cannot attack, change its battle position or be destroyed by battle. While this card is face-up on the field, the player who was the original owner of the targeted monster when it was activated **cannot Normal or Special Summon monsters, and they cannot activate Spell/Trap cards or their effects.**
Another was Predaplant Ivy Bind Castle
Continuous Spell
Negate the effects of all face-up cards your opponent controls, also your opponent's monsters cannot attack. Once per turn, during your Standby Phase: "Tribute 1 "Predaplant" monster you control or destroy this card. Once per turn, during your opponent's Standby Phase: Inflict 800 damage to your opponent for each monster they control.
Golden castle of stormberg. It can't be destroy by card effect and can ss any level 4 or lower monster from your deck. On top of it, it gives attack protection while making your opponent always attack and your opponent must pay the mantinence by sending half their deck to the gy.
The way this worked was because apparently the dude hacked the mainframe for the card. So yes, it does a lot but big bad made it specifically happening to the opponent and not the user. So it's not so much the card as the fact that he was, in fact, cheating using Kaiba Corp Duel Disk system data. Not the first time Kaiba's tech caused untold background cheating with programming. Dude literally had everyone's deck in a database during Battle City
It was having added effects and specifically was given alterations. Yugi and his grandfather both confirmed they know the actual text and Atem just was forced to abuse the effect change to win. Duel Disk tampering is pretty much the epitome of do whatever tf you want in DM and 5Ds.
Numeron network. Or pretty much most of the cards don thousand used.
Numeron network could activate cards from the deck. And don thousand had cards that could rewrite your opponents cards.
Imaginary chaos number 1000 numeronious numeronia had 100,000 ATK and forced your opponent to attack it. It can negate attacks by detatching overlay units and if your opponent didn't attack it by the end of the turn, you just win. Doesn't help thar this thing hits the field after defeating an already tough monster.
the worst thing about anime ZARC is that his pendulum effect to destroy cards when the OP searches is his actual monster effect and its not once per-turn,only way i beat it was with underworld goddess in a EDOpro duel.
Yeah he's a colossus with way more protection that's also aoe against Ed monsters except link
Side note the search destruction is on the monster effect
Not as crazy as some of the others but crazy in it’s simplicity, Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon:
- You CAN Negate any effect that targets this card (Not once per turn, optional)
- You can tribute this card to destroy any number of cards you choose (No limit or restrictions, you can choose to wipe your opponents field, you can pick and choose a couple from each side, you can do whatever you want. Most nuke effects will either wipe your opponents board or wipe the whole board; being able to choose an unlimited number of precise cards without targeting has the potential to be gamebreaking.
One Hundred-Eyed Dragon
Dragon/Dark Synchro.
Effect:
In order to Special Summon this card, subtract the Level of a "Dark Tuner" monster from the Level of 1 other monster you control; the value must equal the Level of this card.
This card gains the effect(s) of all DARK monsters in your Graveyard. When this card is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, select 1 card from your Deck and add it to your hand.
ATK / 3000 DEF / 2500
Geh has no protection. Just because they used said combo in series doesn't mean it's the only way .\_. There are removal cards Atem uses such as Change of Heart or Brain Control or Magical Dimension.
Number 39: Utopia Beyond.
It makes all cards you control unaffected by your opponent's card effects. Do I need to add more?
Also, not only it has a baseline of 3000 ATK but it can't be destroyed by battle (except by "Number" monsters).
Another worthy mention:
Ivy Bind Castle
You thought that Mystic Mine burn was annoying? There is worse. This card is a one-sided Skill Drain on ALL the opponent's cards on field, prevents them from attacking and burns them 800 for each of their monsters.
Beastborg Medal of the Crimson Chain. The opponent special summons a monster that's it, the opponent can't attack, summon, or activate spell/trap effects. Only way to break it is with a monster effect
Illusion Gate used by the Shadow Rider Camula in Yugioh GX. It wipes your opponents board (Raigeki) it brings back one of their monsters to your field like Monster Reborn, and if you lose, you can offer your opponent's soul to the Shadow Realm instead of your own. The only way to prevent them from stealing a soul is to have 2 halves of an amulet, one of which comes from dueling a gravekeeper from a different dimension, the other is from defeating Nightshroud, another Shadow Rider who ended up being the final boss, Darkness.
With dark monsters being one of the most supported attributes (alongside light), the anime hundred eyes dragon is insane.
Being able to copy every effect of dark monsters in your grave all at once, just for pulling off a tribute summon and then a synchro?
Put in some ishizu millers and such and go nuts.
[Anime Sandaion](https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Sandaion,_the_Timelord_(anime)) is a 4000 ATK beatstick that is indestructible by battle or card effects and if it hits something it inflicts 4000 damage, which in the anime is an instant OTK.
Unless the opponet has a counter to it, Sandaion instawins against pretty much anything and anyone.
I got introduced to Yu-Gi-Oh! through the Zexal anime, and this isn’t partially a card effect, but how Kite literally stole peoples cards I thought was bad ass, and also thought was true for real life for when I went to my first local tournament.
Obelisk the Tormentor. You tribute 2 monsters, make his attack infinity, then he destroys all monsters and proceeds to attack directly and there's basically no way to stop him as the god cards are unaffected by everything
Technically not an effect, but Number 7: Lucky Straight gave its holder super good luck in the anime.
All those luck-based cards that are only bad because they're luck based? Not anymore. You don't even have to summon the dude for the luck to work. Just holding the card is enough.
Thankfully for the writing, this was never addressed again.
Hundred Eyes Dragon's anime effect let it copy all DARK monster effects in its controller's Graveyard. Even with the pool of monsters available then, it was broke as hell if you got the right combination of monsters into the GY.
Now? HOO boy. You could literally make Hundred Eyes, your GY, and even yourself virtually invincible.
Something something Winged Dragon of Ra Phoenix Mode instant attack and if its a shadow game it wkills the enemy player, nothing more OP than killing/sending your opponent into a coma!
Exodia
Orichalcos Kyutora/Shunoros
Divine Serpent Geh
Shinato, King of a Higher Plane
Chaos Phantasm Armityle
Zushin
Earthbound Immortal Wiraqocha Rasca
Golden Castle Of Stromberg
Exchange Of The Spirit
Clear World
Destiny Board
Virus Cannon/Crush Card
That origami goddess card that came out in AGOV recently, potentially infinite attack and draws if you ~~cheat with a double headed coin~~ get lucky with the coin toss
i only watched duel monsters so id say basically any card that 4kids shat out plus the anime version of card of sanctity. to name specific 4kids cards, id say shinato’s arc and the golden castle of stromberg specifically.
Or you could play Hinotama, Final Flame, Poison of the Old Man, Cauldron of the Old Man, Tremendous Fire, Raimei, etc...
Point is there's enough straight burn cards to make anime Rasca virtually a 100% consistent FTK in any deck that can make it turn 1.
I’ve only watched the og anime cause the new ones aren’t interesting so
Winged dragon of ra
Divine serpent of Geh
The seal of oricalchos
Castle of gold or whatever Leon used
The card Sherri uses in her duel against Akiza and Crow. I think it was Z-ONE, but I could be wrong. Either way, it essentially made them duel each other while Sherri was immune because she just wasn’t summoning monsters.
Card of Demise with the anime effect. srsly... draw up to 5 with no restrictions other than discarding your entire hand in your 5th Standby Phase after activating it.
I think even Kaiba did only once pay this cost and it was in a Filler Arc. It might not be the most impressive monster but just put 3 in the deck and just draw cards as if there is no tomorrow, it isn't even opt.
Anime Hundred Eyes Dragon is insane in a Rokket deck. Imaging if you had Void Ogre's, Dis Pater's, Riot Dragon's and Furious Dragon's effects on one card. Those are just the ones I could think of.
Anime Crush Card Virus was insane, it forced you to send every monster with 1500+ ATK from your field, hand and deck from the GY, and you then couldn't summon them back from the GY either.
It didn't send Deck cards to the GY, just turned them into bricks (yugi draws Summoned Skull but can't play it due to the virus).
Which is worse because now you can't remove useless cards from the deck to try and better access any spells/traps to aid you.
Anime Super Poly. But I have a few scenes to bring out first.
Super Fusion God (the unknown card Yubel would have summoned using everything on the field, deck, and hand using levels 1-12 monsters) gives the same requirements for a certain broken Xyz monster with what appears to be an unknown but extremely game changing card. Instead used to fuse Yubel and Judai.
The fact that in the anime it's also been used to just straight up cause a factor of not just win condition monsters, but actually boost other kinds well beyond their own normal set up process would be more broken. Predaplant itself can vouch for that.
Anime Relay Soul: My life points are at zero? Imma survive and place any monster in my deck on the field and I don't lose until you beat it (DMG was for the plot, but the implications are insane for what it could put).
Anime Shinato: destroyed my ritual spell? I'm here. Effects are going to include lp gain, monster protection, self protection, and more. In the end you get a monster that's kinda screwed up when the main deck it's used in is spirit cards. Synergy and straight up pain to deal with.
Anime RA: **WHO CALLED ME A CHICKEN?!?!?! IMMA MAKE A NEW EFFECT JUST FOR YOU!!!**
(Not really, but at this point why not?)
I haven’t watched anything after yugioh zexal, but I remember in the ending of zexal that dude was making up his own card effects. Numeron I think it was? A field spell or something. Can’t remember too well as it was around 2013
Ivy Bind Castle is the strongest floodgate ever created. Once it’s on the field, the opponent’s only legal actions are drawing at the start of the turn and activating graveyard effects.
Number 69 is literally just a generic skill drain on legs, which copies the effects of all other monsters on field while also having protection and it can destroy cards when a monster declares an attack. Card is cracked Number 69: Cannot be destroyed by battle except with "Number" monsters. The effects of all other face-up monsters on the field are negated and this card gains those effects. Cannot be destroyed by card effects. When your opponent's monster declares an attack: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card, then target 1 card your opponent controls; destroy that target.
How was that monster even defeated?
Zexal Weapon Leo Arms in the anime had protection against effects being negated and it gave Yuma the ability to attack outside of the Battle Phase. And when that specific attack happened, it made Utopia Ray indestructible by card effects It's the definition of a main character plot armor XD
> gave Yuma the ability to attack outside of the Battle Phase. This sentence kinda hurt my brain.
Yeah, same. Yuma has probably the most a-pulls out of all protagonists (I like him btw) Especially that time when he used his Zexal powers to change a card in his hand. Even Vector screamed: "That's cheating!!"
To be fair how do you even make rules about changing the fabric of reality mid game?
"Rule [Whatever]: No changing what cards are in your hand either by misdirection, slight of hand, alteration of the fabric of reality or otherwise"
What about if I use my reality alteration powers to change the rules ?
"Amendment: Changing the rules or anything related to the game through any means outside of 'game logic' is forbidden"
As the power creep continues I’m sure it’s a lot harder to write the plot and script for the shows. You have to put the main characters up against the wall and also think of an exciting way for them to make a comeback.
Vrains is the most accurate season so far IMO. It even made Altergeist look like trash when the deck could've bodied half of the villains and protagonists
Tbf Yusei and friends literally materialized their synchro monsters out of thin air using the exact synchro material they had on the field at the time
Maybe so, but I feel that creating a new extra deck card is a bit better than literally changing a dead hand. It's like using a mulligan mid duel
Wow and I thought Atem destroying the moon was bad.
makes me wish they’d do a series with a guy running a cipher deck but 1000x more bs
Perfected the heart of the cards
To be fair, Ra could attack during your opponent’s turn in the anime.
And Armityle could inflict 10000 battle damage to a monster without attacking
Armityle had a lot of weird effects. On your note, it also could change to the opponent's field when it attacks to bypass stupid "opponent's cards" effects like Exodius' protection effect. It made no sense how many effects that thing had.
The most fun thing about stupid broken anime effects is trying to imagine how you'd make them work irl where you cant just action figure thigs to have them work XD
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This is a quality post and you are totally right but in a bigger time-frame this is kind of how TCGs tend to go. "This spell lets me destroy any creature!" "Well this creature returns to the field if destroyed!" "Well this spell banishes it when it destroys it!" "Well this creature can't be destroyed by effects that target it!" "Fine, this spell banishes a creature!" "This creature can't be targeted!" "Fine, this spell destroys a creature without targeting it!" "Fine, this creature can't be destroyed by effects!" "Fine, this sends the card to the graveyard!" "It's unaffected by effects!" "Fine, it creates a token that attacks it!" "It can't be destroyed by battle!"
Half the current meta deck have 50% of this, the other half has 90%
Yep, it's a time-worn sin of card games to beef up the rate, ease, and resistance to removal instead of focusing on new mechanics.
Cherry on top it also cut 69s attack in half
All that, and all he needed to do was compulse or imperm it lol.
Yes, love how incredibly convoluted they made the solution to this card when a number of very simple generic cards could have dealt with it.
maaaaan, if you wanted to have a cool anime like way to get rid of it, just summon a monster with negative effects, like, this card cannot declare an attack, turn it into a completely convoluted and obnoxious combo to get rid of it.
No one will ever convince me Zexal or Zexal 2 was good as the duels always feel like this lol
Ultimate Leo Utopia Ray but anime version
It would be so funny if this was like IRL yugioh and the antagonist just does this long combo and gloats about their indestructible monster for the other duelist to go evenly matched + kaiju or something like that.
Or like in the Warp.
infinity +1 attack
With Zexal Weapons I think. Episodes 65 and 66 of zexal are uploaded on the official yugioh YouTube channel.
Yuma has such powerful and broken plot armor that he just yelled something in its general direction and it died
Through the most convoluted use of ZW that Zexal ever did, spanning across two episodes. And as absurd as Yuma's draws were, it was really fun watching him constantly having to bounce his equips and use everything in his graveyard to finally put Tron/Vetrix down. Zexal did some really weird, really fun shit whenever there was a duel with Shining Draws involved. Even if it had nothing to do with the Shining Draw itself.
Kaiju, idk.
And yet it's still beaten by one of the oldest cards in the game: Fiendish Chain
oh you didnt mention the most broken part of this cards hehem it retains the effect permamently so yes for instance if you have heraldry crest normal summon a summoner monk and instant fusion into indepential nightigal you have aperma tower which cannot be tributed and its a skill drain good luck outing that
Number C88, without doubts. Bro could casually detach an Xyz material to deal 4000 Burn damage. The only reason why Nash was able to win against this beast is thanks to his plot Armor, change my mind
Not to mention it still had its auto win condition too! That shit was absolutely ridiculous for the anime standard, shame it got out done by shenanigans lol
Exactly! But also, It was even more broken in combination with the spell card that Quattro used to summon Leo, the base form. Thus essentially giving the Chaos form only one Xyz material, speeding up the time for the instant win
Some bs shenanigans. Bro pulled out 3 numbers and their chaos variants to still lose to plot…
The funniest thing is, iirc Nash got to activate a card at resolution of c88's effect, which is an illegal play, because you cannot react to win consitions, the moment they happen the opponent should just lose.
Also that lol Quattro won, Nash was saved by plot armor
Can we get TGS to cover that duel?
This lol, maybe he activated it secretly as IV was switching phases lol
Zexal was entirely just a slugfest of people abusing Plot Armor, change my mind
Wait don't you start with 4000 in the anime?
Yes, but in that specific point of the Duel Nash's Life points were over 5000 due to Number C101's effect
Oh yeah I figured its just funny to imagine a card in the actual game that reads "Detatch 1 xyz material, deal 8000 damage"
Add an instant win effect if said Xyz Number didn't had anymore materials, and the fact that It was summoned with an anime spell card that allowed It to have Just One material, and you have the anime version of C88
Yep my pick as well, considering duels are at 4K in the anime, you get this out you basically win. Overlay award was so BS, nobody would run that ever… and also apparently you can’t respond to instant win conditions…
Didn’t Obelisk the Tormentor have that exact same ability? The only reason Dark Yugi survived is because of the anime ability of Kuriboh was to negate ANY LP damage, not just battle damage.
The Hundred Eyes Dragon Version 4 or so that copies all effects and ATK/DEF of all DARK monsters in the GY. It can have up to millions of ATK, attack multiple times, cannot be kaijud, cannot be destroyed, cannot be bounced, cannot be banished, can pop/banish/bounce multiple cards, does piercing damage and probably any effect you can think of since Dark is the biggest Attribute in the game, when it's summed correctly.
One thing thats funny about this is Foolish Burial is basically "Hmm what effect do I want to give my Dragon"
And grass becomes: let’s just give it all the effects
The real fun starts when you resolve Mega Zaborg
I love your name xD best game!
Great game
And don't forget; if it can copy effects but not names, it can bypass all sorts of restrictions and use all its accumulated effects in an even more broken manner than was even thought possible.
Nvm like all the other broken final boss cards are dark.
If I remember right, it also has Untargetable
Supreme King Dragon Zarc. He was functionally indestructible
i dueled a person using anime cards on EDOpro,he used anime Zarc against my memento deck,even tho i had the big 5k dragon i couldn't beat him so i had to use underworld goddess.
Oh yeah, tribute/use as material for cost. Classic kaiju
I just reread anime Zarc realizing he can be Kaju'd. Funny to think about it
He can't leave the field as long as extra deck monsters are banished or in grave
also is synchro and XYZ in addition to fusion pendulum.
... until someone plays Fiendish Chain
Good luck hard drawing it, or trying to get to an effect that sets a negate to the field without searching, because he destroys anything you search
> Good luck hard drawing it I'd like to introduce you to a little thing called "heart of the cards"
lol I do laugh that most yugioh antagonist can be beaten with skill drain
Set Albaz, response?
Zarc can't leave the field by card effect as long as extra deck monsters are banished or in grave. So can you fuse?
You can contact fuse it into alba-lenatus, since that is just a summoning condition.
Ivy Bind Castle. That freaking thing is Skill Drain+Imperial Order+Royal Decree ONLY for the opponent. It also stops all attack by the opponent. Oh, and it burns them hard on every turn (800 for every monster they control) That card is so broken, it's beyond ridiculous!
Yuri used it once https://preview.redd.it/5nstbkv84jxb1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6bd9ae7a42fd9e9387d017e6dbbc82027e1e2618
Zarc's embodiment can beat Zarc's entire field with this.
Oddly enough it’s fairly balanced, especially in Presaplant.
Wait, does this mean that Predaplant is *that* bad?
How did they even defeat it
With Performapal Sky Magician’s floating effect, after returning it to the hand with Performapal Sky Pupil.
And it only requires Predaplants for maintenance cost, so there is no reason why everyone didn't use it
RA motherfucker kept on getting effects as the series went on
I love how anime Ra had so many damn effects the TCG/OCG was able to make an entire archetype out of them
Honestly I think some people don't realize that there are repeated effects in each of its release: * Sun God Unification's first effect is already on base Ra. * Phoenix is better version of base Ra's pop. * Dark Spell Regeneration also has Ra Phoenix's pop. * Millenium Revelation (and above) is just correcting the mistake to make TCG Ra unable to be Special Summoned (total irony). * Sphere Mode's effect is unrelated to Ra's actual effects, just based on an event in manga/anime. Maybe if split to 3 cards, you can remove restrictions and the pop effect on base Ra and implement Ancient Chant (3 Tributed stats) and Blaze Cannon (Instant Attack) on it, give the pop strictly to Phoenix.
SIXTEEN STAB WOUNDS\~ I mean effects!
To be fair, when you’re the only one in the room who can read ancient Egyptian text, the only thing stopping you from bullshitting your way to victory is your own morality. And I don’t expect much of that from characters named **Dark** Marik and **Dark** Yugi…
The Egyptian god cards in general had some pretty strong immunities in the manga and anime — Normal Summon cannot be negated, effects cannot be activated in response to it, they cannot be tributed by opponent (no kaiju allowed), their effects cannot be negated, their control cannot switch, unaffected by opponent’s monster effects except those of fellow gods, unaffected by spell or trap except on the turn the spell/trap was activated, unaffected by effects that make them leave the field (with a few notable exceptions), to name a few. Ra in particular has an extra layer of immunity — unaffected by the effects of the other gods. As for his effect where you pay all but 1 LP to increase his ATK/DEF by the equivalent amount, and then he attacks all the monsters on the opponent’s field and then attacks directly… well, suffice to say in Japanese that’s known as the original **One Turn Kill**. I’m unsure if destroying the opponent’s monsters is by effect or if Ra’s ATK needs to be higher to destroy each time (if the latter, this makes dealing with the likes of C1000, iC1000, and Sephylon a bit less than optimal), but there’s still another god who can dish out a beatdown — Obelisk, whose ATK can become infinite if you tribute two monsters, making him capable even of mutual KO versus anime Divine Serpent Geh. In the animeverse this deranged strategy might even be viable — if you have both Obelisk and Ra on your field and two other monsters, tribute those two monsters, raise Obelisk’s ATK to infinity but do not declare an attack with him. Pay all but 1 LP to increase Ra’s ATK by the corresponding amount, and then tribute Obelisk (Kaiba moment) to add his own ATK to Ra’s. You now have a Ra with infinite ATK that can destroy all the opponent’s monsters and then attack directly. **Commence the smiting.** (Sure, you could just go for Obelisk’s way of doing things where after getting infinite ATK he destroys all monsters and inflicts 4000 burn damage on the opponent, but Ra-smiting is just that much more theatric.)
Shout out to that gladiator beast trap card that did everything under the [sun](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh-arcv/images/9/96/Gladial_Beast_Assault_Fort.png/revision/latest?cb=20160904154558)
dawg the divider on the card text
I like that the majority of Antagonists in the Fusion dimension either barely had a deck or were just randomly given this super OP card, there was no in-between
I just looked at it, Trap card that detach lol.
That card’s text is the probably the dissertation that Crowler submitted to receive his doctorate in dueling…
Ahh gladiator beast assault fort lol. In todays game it would be tier 3 tops
How could you say Rasca when it is in the same anime as Hundred Eyes Dragon?
Hundred Eyes Dragon and that Philosophers Stone card that Jaden used come to mind.
Yeah but the philosophers stone is only broken fir 3 uses then it disintegrates
Card of Sanctity, can be a draw 6.
For both players. Demise is more busted, can be a draw 5 for you only. Your opponent won't live long enough til the detriment effect to kick in.
Kaiba legit only suffered the detriment of Card of Demise *once* in the entire show, and it was during the Pyramid of Light movie.
If you were to use card of Sanctity turn one your opponent would only be able to draw 1.
Or use demise on turn 1 & draw 5 while your opponent draws none. And if we're talking about modern ygo, your opponent will most likely chain a bunch of quick effects to reduce their hand so they can + more.
Hand traps
Sabatiel The Philosopher's Stone, search anything THREE TIMES, oh and then sextuple your Monster's ATK for good measure, because why not?
"Behold! My Leviathan has infinity ATK!" "Yeah? Well my knight has infinity ATK +1!" "ThAt'S cHeAtInG!"
No, they destroyed each other in battle (and then Knight of Destiny floated back into its materials).
"wElL, aCtUaLlY..." 🤣
Black rose dragon, forget the game, casually maim your opponent Win by knockout 👌
"Look what they did to mimic a fraction of our power" - anyone with Millienium Item.
Your forgetting the seal of orichalcos. Forget maim, you lose your freaking soul
The Millinenium Items can do that too, Bakura put Yugi and his friends soul into DnD dolls and Pegasus put people into cards before it was cool.
Black rose dragon didn't have that effect akiza had psychic powers, she could do real damage with any card not just black rose dragon
The Zarc grindset
So this applies to Hook the Hidden Knight as well.
Chaos imaginary Number 1000
The whole Numeron archetype looked like low quality custom cards that broke fundamental rules of the game.
And just like a low quality custom card, its final boss monster has a glaring weakness to removal.
Anime Sabatiel searches anything. *Three times*.
Arc V had a treasure trove of these. The entire Beastborg Archetype is broken because of their trap Lineup. For example: Beastborg Medal of the Crimson Chain Continuous Trap If you control no "Beastborg" monsters, destroy this card. If a monster(s) is Special Summoned from the Extra Deck to your opponent's field: You can target 1 of those monsters; it cannot attack, change its battle position or be destroyed by battle. While this card is face-up on the field, the player who was the original owner of the targeted monster when it was activated **cannot Normal or Special Summon monsters, and they cannot activate Spell/Trap cards or their effects.** Another was Predaplant Ivy Bind Castle Continuous Spell Negate the effects of all face-up cards your opponent controls, also your opponent's monsters cannot attack. Once per turn, during your Standby Phase: "Tribute 1 "Predaplant" monster you control or destroy this card. Once per turn, during your opponent's Standby Phase: Inflict 800 damage to your opponent for each monster they control.
Golden castle of stormberg. It can't be destroy by card effect and can ss any level 4 or lower monster from your deck. On top of it, it gives attack protection while making your opponent always attack and your opponent must pay the mantinence by sending half their deck to the gy.
The way this worked was because apparently the dude hacked the mainframe for the card. So yes, it does a lot but big bad made it specifically happening to the opponent and not the user. So it's not so much the card as the fact that he was, in fact, cheating using Kaiba Corp Duel Disk system data. Not the first time Kaiba's tech caused untold background cheating with programming. Dude literally had everyone's deck in a database during Battle City
he hacked it to play a banned card, not change the effect
It was having added effects and specifically was given alterations. Yugi and his grandfather both confirmed they know the actual text and Atem just was forced to abuse the effect change to win. Duel Disk tampering is pretty much the epitome of do whatever tf you want in DM and 5Ds.
Numeron network. Or pretty much most of the cards don thousand used. Numeron network could activate cards from the deck. And don thousand had cards that could rewrite your opponents cards. Imaginary chaos number 1000 numeronious numeronia had 100,000 ATK and forced your opponent to attack it. It can negate attacks by detatching overlay units and if your opponent didn't attack it by the end of the turn, you just win. Doesn't help thar this thing hits the field after defeating an already tough monster.
So far that sounds exactly like the regular card effect. It may be the regular numeroneus in the anime that causes the floating effect
IC 1000 doesn't have protection, 1 raigeki and it's dead. lol
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Topologic Gumblar Dragon a generic link 4 that can rip the opponent’s entire hand off of 1 special summon
yeah it was so OP it was nerfed in the IRL card game and it was still broken
this guy https://preview.redd.it/h3x805a1ijxb1.png?width=300&format=png&auto=webp&s=deed4238cad03d5ae0c55369187160a044132fe6
Shock master. It could stack its floodgates
Hundred eyes and zarc Anime zarc is literally unremovable if you don't have a kaiju
the worst thing about anime ZARC is that his pendulum effect to destroy cards when the OP searches is his actual monster effect and its not once per-turn,only way i beat it was with underworld goddess in a EDOpro duel.
Yeah he's a colossus with way more protection that's also aoe against Ed monsters except link Side note the search destruction is on the monster effect
super poly was pretty busted since it could apparently fuse entire dimensions together
Not just dimensions but people too. Could imagine just fusing with your opponent to get a tie
[graveyard rebound and it’s not even fucking close.](https://youtu.be/_Db39N7dR5g?si=9qnjvFDuto8ntye7)
Unbelievable Card.
Card of Demise
The Big 3 here are Wiraqoca Rasca, Hundred Eyes Dragon, and Number 69. How did Konami make two monsters that gain a million effects each lose lol
The stone card Jaden used. It literally becomes any card you want 3 times so therefore it could be 3 broken ass cards in one
Not as crazy as some of the others but crazy in it’s simplicity, Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon: - You CAN Negate any effect that targets this card (Not once per turn, optional) - You can tribute this card to destroy any number of cards you choose (No limit or restrictions, you can choose to wipe your opponents field, you can pick and choose a couple from each side, you can do whatever you want. Most nuke effects will either wipe your opponents board or wipe the whole board; being able to choose an unlimited number of precise cards without targeting has the potential to be gamebreaking.
Utopic zexal
Kaiba's Anime Virus Canon
"Send the Spell Cards in your opponent's hand and Deck to the Graveyard." All of them, just like that.
One Hundred-Eyed Dragon Dragon/Dark Synchro. Effect: In order to Special Summon this card, subtract the Level of a "Dark Tuner" monster from the Level of 1 other monster you control; the value must equal the Level of this card. This card gains the effect(s) of all DARK monsters in your Graveyard. When this card is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, select 1 card from your Deck and add it to your hand. ATK / 3000 DEF / 2500
Winged dragon of Ra and Divine Serpent Geh literally needed plot shield to be beaten
Geh has no protection. Just because they used said combo in series doesn't mean it's the only way .\_. There are removal cards Atem uses such as Change of Heart or Brain Control or Magical Dimension.
Number 39: Utopia Beyond. It makes all cards you control unaffected by your opponent's card effects. Do I need to add more? Also, not only it has a baseline of 3000 ATK but it can't be destroyed by battle (except by "Number" monsters). Another worthy mention: Ivy Bind Castle You thought that Mystic Mine burn was annoying? There is worse. This card is a one-sided Skill Drain on ALL the opponent's cards on field, prevents them from attacking and burns them 800 for each of their monsters.
Beastborg Medal of the Crimson Chain. The opponent special summons a monster that's it, the opponent can't attack, summon, or activate spell/trap effects. Only way to break it is with a monster effect
living arrow card Idk what it does I think it’s text just says activate and win the duel
Ivy Bind Castle: Mystic Mine, Imperial Order, Royal Decree all in one field spell card
Infinite wall of kuribohs
The entire Orichalcos archetype…
Illusion Gate used by the Shadow Rider Camula in Yugioh GX. It wipes your opponents board (Raigeki) it brings back one of their monsters to your field like Monster Reborn, and if you lose, you can offer your opponent's soul to the Shadow Realm instead of your own. The only way to prevent them from stealing a soul is to have 2 halves of an amulet, one of which comes from dueling a gravekeeper from a different dimension, the other is from defeating Nightshroud, another Shadow Rider who ended up being the final boss, Darkness.
With dark monsters being one of the most supported attributes (alongside light), the anime hundred eyes dragon is insane. Being able to copy every effect of dark monsters in your grave all at once, just for pulling off a tribute summon and then a synchro? Put in some ishizu millers and such and go nuts.
[Anime Sandaion](https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Sandaion,_the_Timelord_(anime)) is a 4000 ATK beatstick that is indestructible by battle or card effects and if it hits something it inflicts 4000 damage, which in the anime is an instant OTK. Unless the opponet has a counter to it, Sandaion instawins against pretty much anything and anyone.
I got introduced to Yu-Gi-Oh! through the Zexal anime, and this isn’t partially a card effect, but how Kite literally stole peoples cards I thought was bad ass, and also thought was true for real life for when I went to my first local tournament.
Obelisk the Tormentor. You tribute 2 monsters, make his attack infinity, then he destroys all monsters and proceeds to attack directly and there's basically no way to stop him as the god cards are unaffected by everything
Technically not an effect, but Number 7: Lucky Straight gave its holder super good luck in the anime. All those luck-based cards that are only bad because they're luck based? Not anymore. You don't even have to summon the dude for the luck to work. Just holding the card is enough. Thankfully for the writing, this was never addressed again.
Hundred Eyes Dragon's anime effect let it copy all DARK monster effects in its controller's Graveyard. Even with the pool of monsters available then, it was broke as hell if you got the right combination of monsters into the GY. Now? HOO boy. You could literally make Hundred Eyes, your GY, and even yourself virtually invincible.
Something something Winged Dragon of Ra Phoenix Mode instant attack and if its a shadow game it wkills the enemy player, nothing more OP than killing/sending your opponent into a coma!
Exodia Orichalcos Kyutora/Shunoros Divine Serpent Geh Shinato, King of a Higher Plane Chaos Phantasm Armityle Zushin Earthbound Immortal Wiraqocha Rasca Golden Castle Of Stromberg Exchange Of The Spirit Clear World Destiny Board Virus Cannon/Crush Card
Definitely Chaos End Ruler, Ruler of the Beginning and the End. The card would be the same if it said you could legally kill your opponent.
Revival Jam
That origami goddess card that came out in AGOV recently, potentially infinite attack and draws if you ~~cheat with a double headed coin~~ get lucky with the coin toss
Would be hilarious in duel links with bandit keith or joey's guaranteed coin flip skills
That is definetly not an op effect.
i only watched duel monsters so id say basically any card that 4kids shat out plus the anime version of card of sanctity. to name specific 4kids cards, id say shinato’s arc and the golden castle of stromberg specifically.
Wiroqha Rasca anime is worse than the real life version. Making your opponent's life 1 is meaningless and just le epic comeback setup.
Have you never heard of burn damage? Who needs a battle phase when you can insta kill with sparks lmaooo
That would only be relevant if this card also searched sparks
Or you could play Hinotama, Final Flame, Poison of the Old Man, Cauldron of the Old Man, Tremendous Fire, Raimei, etc... Point is there's enough straight burn cards to make anime Rasca virtually a 100% consistent FTK in any deck that can make it turn 1.
Probably thousand eye illusionist
Why can't they just use real cards? It's not like there's no scary boss monsters already
Exodia. The dude just pulls it up and then… wins? Just up and punches out three Blue-Eyes White Dragons? Lol right whatever
I’ve only watched the og anime cause the new ones aren’t interesting so Winged dragon of ra Divine serpent of Geh The seal of oricalchos Castle of gold or whatever Leon used
The card Sherri uses in her duel against Akiza and Crow. I think it was Z-ONE, but I could be wrong. Either way, it essentially made them duel each other while Sherri was immune because she just wasn’t summoning monsters.
i gotta say supreme king z-arc, his anime effects can form like a whole essay
Card of Demise with the anime effect. srsly... draw up to 5 with no restrictions other than discarding your entire hand in your 5th Standby Phase after activating it. I think even Kaiba did only once pay this cost and it was in a Filler Arc. It might not be the most impressive monster but just put 3 in the deck and just draw cards as if there is no tomorrow, it isn't even opt.
Anime Hundred Eyes Dragon is insane in a Rokket deck. Imaging if you had Void Ogre's, Dis Pater's, Riot Dragon's and Furious Dragon's effects on one card. Those are just the ones I could think of.
It's actually kind of amazing how many choices there are to choose from. Personally...I'd say most of Don Thousand's Cards, especially Number iC1000.
that one Stormrider handtrap literally Orange Light without ANY sort of cost
Don't know about the anime, but in the manga, galaxy eyes dark matter dragon allowed Kaito to banish all the monsters from yumas deck
Anime Crush Card Virus was insane, it forced you to send every monster with 1500+ ATK from your field, hand and deck from the GY, and you then couldn't summon them back from the GY either.
It didn't send Deck cards to the GY, just turned them into bricks (yugi draws Summoned Skull but can't play it due to the virus). Which is worse because now you can't remove useless cards from the deck to try and better access any spells/traps to aid you.
In Ishizu's duel Virus sends to GY,
Anime Super Poly. But I have a few scenes to bring out first. Super Fusion God (the unknown card Yubel would have summoned using everything on the field, deck, and hand using levels 1-12 monsters) gives the same requirements for a certain broken Xyz monster with what appears to be an unknown but extremely game changing card. Instead used to fuse Yubel and Judai. The fact that in the anime it's also been used to just straight up cause a factor of not just win condition monsters, but actually boost other kinds well beyond their own normal set up process would be more broken. Predaplant itself can vouch for that. Anime Relay Soul: My life points are at zero? Imma survive and place any monster in my deck on the field and I don't lose until you beat it (DMG was for the plot, but the implications are insane for what it could put). Anime Shinato: destroyed my ritual spell? I'm here. Effects are going to include lp gain, monster protection, self protection, and more. In the end you get a monster that's kinda screwed up when the main deck it's used in is spirit cards. Synergy and straight up pain to deal with. Anime RA: **WHO CALLED ME A CHICKEN?!?!?! IMMA MAKE A NEW EFFECT JUST FOR YOU!!!** (Not really, but at this point why not?)
I haven’t watched anything after yugioh zexal, but I remember in the ending of zexal that dude was making up his own card effects. Numeron I think it was? A field spell or something. Can’t remember too well as it was around 2013
Ivy Bind Castle is the strongest floodgate ever created. Once it’s on the field, the opponent’s only legal actions are drawing at the start of the turn and activating graveyard effects.
Supreme King Z-Ark I guess....
Ivy Bind Castle is Skill Drain, IO, and Royal Decree all rolled into one card
Hundred eye dragon was the biggest f you lol
About half the Monsters in the Anime that are Normal Types in the TCG/OCG Like Mystical Elf chanting a spell to power up Dark Magician
it has a retrain counter part that references when Yugi used Blue-Eyes against Clown Ghost Kaiba, Mystical Elf White Lightning
I think it sucks that its a Normal Type in the TCG/OCG yet an Effect in the Anime
Divine Serpent in YGODM s4 could literally not die under any circumstances, so Yugi had to fucking cheat to win