Yu-Gi-Oh Cards: The Good, bad and Mech (Page 2)

Yu-Gi-Oh Cards: The Good, Bad and Meh (Page 2)

Instant Fusion: Instant Regret
It came from one of the worst Booster Packs I can ever recall, Cyberdark Impact, and as a Common no less. The card was largely for vanilla Fusions until Elder Entity Norden and N'tss made their debuts as Tin promos. Instant Fusion brings out Level 5 or less Fusons for 1000 LP, but prevents their attacks and tosses them in the Grave at the turn's end. As far as I'm concerned, counting as a Fusion Summon just isn't enough. There are a myriad of Fusions that it cannot bring out, which largely leaves the vanilla Fusions from the early days. It was certainly justified as a Common back then and even today.

Raigeki and Dark Hole: Bringers of Destruction
The infamous duo dating back all the way to Legend of Blue-Eyes White Dragon, where the majority of monsters were Normal Monsters and arguably paved way for the Forbidden & Limited List for many years to come. Can't argue with free and these two do it with great potency by destroying all monsters on one or both fields, and Dark Hole had no prevention for using it when you lacked monsters entirely. They were both also the same rarity, but easily could've been higher and certainly much better than some of today's cards. I'd argue they should've stayed Forbidden regardless of how many players used them.

Spirits: Undoing Your Own Success
Legacy of Darkness brought this stack to life and I can't really understand why they couldn't be Special Summoned when they return to the hand at the End Phase anyway. The one that got the most attention was Yata-Garasu, which needed a field-clearing effect to even trigger its own, and that was down to Chaos Emperor Dragon, which to be fair was quite the powerhouse back then. Garasu was also searchable, but skipping 1 Draw Phase is not what I'd call a potent strategy unless the opponent had few cards in their hand and on theri field anyway. The rest of the pack didn't even get recognized much at all and for good reason. They all should've been quite a bit less rare than they were.