Top 10 Classic Monsters With Under 1500 ATK

5000 years ago in 1999, when the Pyramids were still young, Konami kicked off the game of Yu-Gi-Oh, and up until 2008, the game would stay relatively simple. At the start of a duel, you’d have your cards in hand (Elemental HERO Stratos) and cards in deck (Elemental HERO Garnet), and maybe a smattering of fusion monsters (Aqua Dragon, Dark Balter the Terrible) if they fit your strategy. This was the before times - an age prior to the expansive extra deck mechanics that introduced synchros, XYZ monsters, pendulums, and links (Old Entity Hastorr, Stellarknight Delteros, Odd-Eyes Pendulumgraph Dragon, Honeybot). This era, known as Classic Yu-Gi-Oh, was an exploratory time where the game would chisel out its identity card by card (Dark Magician, Exchange of the Spirit, Destiny HERO Dogma). Some of those cards we remember fondly for how laughable they are. Remember Twin Long Rods #2? Ha ha ha! But others turned out quite strong (Magician of Faith, Spirit Reaper), and there are still more that inspire fear to this day. That’s not going to be every card on this list, but it will be a few, because these are Classic Yu-Gi-Oh’s top 10 best monsters with less than 1500 attack.

Script by bally
Edited by S

├ The List
10 - Giant Soldier of Stone: (0:00)
9 - Shining Angel / Giant Rat / Mother Grizzly / Flying Kamakiri #1 / UFO Turtle / Mystic Tomato: (4:50)
8 - King of the Swamp: (7:41)
7 - Fiber Jar: (11:18)
6 - Rescue Cat: (13:19)
5 - Cyber Valley: (16:44)
4 - Thousand-Eyes Restrict: (19:23)
3 - Honest: (23:13)
2 - Yata-Garasu: (25:49)
1 - Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo & Jowgen the Spiritualist: (28:36)

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[TheDuelLogs]

I remember the days when he use to have intros smh

[magiccardmaster]

Let's not forget Jowgen was used in last turn decks as the monster of choice to keep on your field

[andrewschwarz]

Giant Soilder of Stone was one of my favorites growing up. Not only in the anime but also playing it as a kid. I am glad it made it on this list.

[thomkennedy]

5:05 I think you meant to say the third set, as Metal Raiders was the second set released in the TCG. Fun and informative video overall, it truly does make me wish playground Yugioh was still a thing.

[hiimemily]

Giant Soldier of Stone at least saw some play in the very earliest TCG meta, when La Jinn ruled the world. It had more ATK than the other 2000 DEF monsters, which meant attacking with it after a board wipe wasn't the worst idea.

[joshuadillard]

He doesn't need an intro to increase watch times, we'll watch it all regardless!!💪🏾💪🏾 And replay it a few times

[rainbowdragon]

The Jar Monsters are really interesting and I remember seeing duel with a combo with some of the Jar Monsters in Master Duel

[jai]

attack the moon's artwork is also a reference to one of the final fights in thew original mobile suit gundam, where the gundam assumes basically the exact same pose

[kmdgaming]

I would honestly love to see an entire "Giant Soldier of" archetype. Wonder what its gimmick could be?

[fullmetalpotato]

Glad to see fluffals/frightfurs mentioned again in a video.

King of the swamp was a nice option for Frightfur back when they could focus wholy on fusion summoning. Now with frightfur patchwork, king of the swamp has been phased out of most fluffal strategies. Especially since the fluffal engine in modern yugioh is used more for link summoning or getting out toadally awesome. With their fusions being used for their on summon destruction effects or to combo off with cross sheep, usually both.

Frightfur fusion ends up being used as a final push to summon frightfur tiger (or maybe wolf) with a crap ton of materials to board wipe or get an otk from multiattack.

[todor]

Suprised pyramid turtle 🐢 didn't make the list

[redlox]

I remember the good old “classic days” when attack points was pretty much the only thing that people paid attention to. Now most combo builders are all in the same ball park anyways so low level, low attack monsters to rapidly build up for Link or Extra deck monsters is the way to go!

[attilaszanto]

Attack the Moon actually depicts Giant Soldier of Steel, an Xyz retrain of Giant Soldier of Stone.

[FOXZILLA]

Honest was the very first ghost rare card I pulled from a pack and played it against friends at school, good memories.

[kochiyamochiya]

Honest effect to bounce herself back in hand is the cherry on top
because when you're ahead you can normal summon it, attack directly for 1100, and bounce it back spirit monster style

during early Lightsworn meta, I experienced so many Honest poke in my life and sometimes you can't do anything to stop her

[Hinatauzumaki]

I remember at my locals in 2011 and 2012 almost every deck involved a king of the swamp

[stinkyroadhog]

Fun fact: Fossil Dyna's anime effect has nothing to do with blocking special summons or anything. It got that effect completely out of nowhere. It's anime effect is that if it destroys a monster by battle, it switches to DEF and then gains DEF equal to the DEF of the destroyed monster until the end of the next turn.

[AMerrySlaaneshmasToOneAndAll]

28:41 Idea for a fusion of these 2 that’s just Jowgen riding the Dyno like he’s driving an an out of control truck:
_Jowgen the Fossil Rider_ (EARTH)
Level 7
Rock/Fusion/Effect
_”Jowgen the Spiritualist” + “Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo”_
_This card is always also LIGHT-Attribute. If this card is Fusion Summoned, or if you Discard a card(s); Destroy all other Special Summoned Monsters. Neither player can Special Summon monsters. Can attack all monsters your opponent controls, once each.(Quick Effect) You can Change its Orginal Type to either Spellcaster or Rock._
ATK/1500 DEF/2600

[alexbulgarelli]

I remember when I was little I got an error pack of spell ruler where every card was all rares, nothing better or common. And I got literally all the cards at #9 except for the angel. I cherished those cards because it felt so special that I essentially got an accidental god pack 😅

[DaitylSword]

Giant soldier of stone is one of my favorites in my meme decks. Dude was a genuinely good wall back in the day and I still use him in my meme deck