Top 10 Cards With Weird Pre-Errata Card Text in Yugioh

Early Yu-Gi-Oh had a whole bunch of really weird card text, as a lot of cards were trying to explain mechanics of the game on their card text in addition to what the cards actually did, so in this list will be going over cards which have somewhat weird wording for their rulings, or just used to do something completely different.

--The List--
Intro: (0:00)
10-Lord of D.: (0:16)
9- Monster reborn: (2:10)
8- Dust Tornado: (2:55)
7- Wall of illusion: (4:25)
6- Necrovalley: (5:36)
5- Gravedigger Ghoul: (7:18)
4- Mask of Restrict: (8:35)
3- Pot of Greed: (9:40)
2- Five-headed dragon: (11:00)
1- Polymerization: (13:35)

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[juanpablouriascruz]

Fun fact: in the Yugioh GX anime, when someone activated Pot of greed, it usually exploded after drawing two cards

[Hugelag]

Mask of Restrict has to be one my favorite card texts. Imagine being told that you could tribute summon for the rest of the tournament because it says "No matter the situation." You just can't do it ever again.

[infinity]

The "no matter the situation" thing that comes up in my mind is less the someone will throw water on you example he used and more like a thing like this:
-you're playing with a friend
-you try to tribute something
-they stop you, but mask of restrict isn't even in their deck
-they point out it says "no matter the situation"
-mask of restrict not being on the field is a situation
-kill the entire mechanic

[Frousch]

In my opinion, the most interesting thing about the pre-errata pot of greed is the "Pull 2 cards from your deck". It doesn't say draw, it says pull. You could literally just grab cards from the middle or bottom of your deck if you wanted.

[youtube-kit]

"Any order you desire"
"Regardless of position"
"No matter the situation"
The trifecta of just *chef's kiss* pre-errata card text being great.

[brianaguilar]

One common problem was that there was no middle ground. The text either overexplained what the card did or it was too vague

[TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

I jokingly read The original printing of Dust Tornado’s effect as “this card can only be used if it’s a quick play magic card” “but it’s a trap card! So you can’t use it”

[whiz]

Other old cards: Draw the card (from your Deck) and if it was not a Magic or Trap Card (Monster) then you can summon it (to the field) (you control it)
Polymerization: eh just, fuze the creatures or sometin.

[melvinshine]

With some of those old texts, Delinquent Duo would probably read, "To play this Magic Card you must subtract 1000 from the amount of Life Points you currently have. Then, pick one card from the other player's hand without looking at what that card is. The other player must place the card you selected in their graveyard. Then, the other player who placed a card you picked in their graveyard must place one more card from their hand into their graveyard. Neither you nor the other player can look at the second card. After the second card has been placed in the other player's graveyard, place this card in your graveyard."

[MrSamulai]

So when Mask of Restrict says "under any circumstances", wouldn't these include:
-MoR is destroyed
-MoR is negated
-MoR hasn't been played
-Neither player has MoR in their deck
-MoR has received errata
-MoR is banned

[MasterArchfiend]

Considering he's mentioned multiple times that he doesn't watch the anime or read the manga, I wonder if stacking the monsters was an intentional callback to Duelist Kingdom where Fusion monsters were the result of placing the cards on top of each other to make a new hologram.

[NoDeePop]

Surprised you didn't talk about pre-errata rota, a card that technically can't be ashed, as it doesn't add a card from deck to hand, it MOVES a card from deck to hand

[Kuronosa]

I also think that the "Until the end of the duel." line was meant to remind people that the effect only lasted the one duel, and the cards could be put back in the deck after the duel.

[raptorwithwings]

Top 10 Cards that are part of an archetype but doesn’t share the archetype’s name, like Judgement Dragon for Lightsworns.

[MFMegaZeroX]

As someone who knows Japanese, and is somewhat familiar with the early OCG, I have a couple of things to say:

First of all, all spell and trap cards used to specify whether or not the card would be sent to the graveyard, not just Pot of Greed. Secondly, that translation for Pot of Greed looks autotranslated. A better translation would be:

"Draw two cards from your deck. After you have drawn, destroy Pot of Greed."

The two key differences here are that obviously "draw" is a more appropriate translation for ひく than "pull." Second, the condition for destroying it is after drawing rather than being played. If negates existed back then, it likely would have been ruled that if you negated Pot of Greed, it didn't get destroyed.

[AshbornXVI]

Pot of Greed card text was so weird that even after the errata nobody know what he does. That's the reason why its banned

[straightXjessedge]

Every so often, I just think to myself about how interesting Wall of Illusion's text is, just casually using "creature" instead of "monster". As soon as I saw the title of the video, I knew it was going to be on the list.

[coadpop]

“Destroy Pot of Greed after it is played” Is that why the pot explodes when played in the anime lol.

[aidanyoung]

Fun fact: Mask of Restrict was errataed after someone broke into a regional tournament and pulled a gun on a player.

[martinmespiespinosa]

If I recall correctly, from the first issues of the manga and the infamous season 0, the Duel Monster game was just a secondary game that Yami played along a lot of gambling and skill games through out their first adventures.

In one of the episodes/issues, they implied that really high attack monster can be beated using two monsters to attack it and destroy it.

In fact the very early "Two Pronged Attack" trap card is a reference to that mechanic.

I bet they abandoned that mechanic to avoid more conflicts with Wizard of the Coast, since they get in troubles for the Magic cards issue...