
The Sky Striker Spell Cards have incredibly powerful effects, most notably Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage which not only drew a card but searched out any Sky Striker card at the same time. The card was easily recycled any time a Sky Striker Link Monster was taken off the Field, which could then be used to Link Summon again. Sky Striker only had one Main Deck Monster in Sky Striker Ace - Raye at release. Sky Striker immediately set its place in the meta upon its release, turning into one of the strongest Control Decks ever. Key Cards: Sky Striker Ace - Raye, Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage!, Sky Striker Ace - Kagari Master Duel will be one of the first official simulators that are dedicated to the TCG as opposed to being anime-focused. With paper Yu-Gi-Oh! so active, a new digital way to play is still on the horizon, with Master Duel still pending release. In addition to that, new Archetypes like Swordsoul and Floowandereeze have entered the metagame and have helped to make it as diverse as it's been in years. Destiny HERO - Destroy Phoenix Enforcer is warping the way decks are built, taking even the powerful Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon out of the limelight. Updated December 6, 2021, by Johnny Garcia: Yu-Gi-Oh! has seen a giant shake-up in the metagame since the release of Burst Of Destiny. From first-turn kills to completely locking your opponent out of the game, these Decks are the best that Yu-Gi-Oh! has ever seen. This list will be ranking the best Decks based on their peak in their respective format, rather than how they would all fare in the current metagame. There have been many playstyles and archetypes through the years, and some were by far the strongest Deck in their format.

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The game is over twenty years old and shows no signs of stopping. After encountering Kaiba, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon is ripped apart and Exodia gets thrown out to sea by Weevil.The game of Yu-Gi-Oh! has had many different metas, Decks, and cards that have shaped the game's history. Yugi started off with one Blue-Eyes White Dragon (technically his grandpa’s, but still available to him) and all five Exodia cards. On top of creating worse villains by defeating Kaiba, Yugi’s deck is also negatively impacted by all this. If Yugi never beat Kaiba, then Pegasus wouldn’t have known who he was, and his family would have been safe. Not only that, but Pegasus then steals Solomon’s soul in an elaborate plot to get his hands on the Millennium Puzzle. By beating Kaiba, Yugi puts himself on Pegasus’ radar, which leads the villain to figure out that Yugi has the coveted Millennium Puzzle. Every moment of Yugi’s life following his victory over Kaiba is rife with misery and hardship. During Yugi’s first duel against Kaiba, Yami Yugi separated the good part of Kaiba’s soul from the bad, and he sent the bad part of him to the Shadow Realm, where Pegasus found Ghost Kaiba and used him against Yugi in this episode.īy beating Kaiba in episode 1, Yugi quite literally creates a villain who is so much worse than the original–but that’s not all. As Yugi would soon learn, this is because the Kaiba he was facing wasn’t actually Kaiba, but the incarnated evil that was expelled from Kaiba who was known as Ghost Kaiba.

The original Kaiba was no boy scout, but this one had no shred of goodness left in him. This Kaiba is darker, colder, and overall more sinister. In Yu-Gi-Oh! episode 9 (written by Junki Takegami, Masashi Sogo, and Shin Yoshida, and directed by Kunihisa Sugishima), Yugi is facing Kaiba again for the first time since he beat him in episode 1, but something is different about him.
