The Yu-Gi-Oh! anime was just kind of a disaster all around, and we love it for that reason. The dub was laughable, scenarios were impractical, and cards just kind of did whatever they needed to for whatever scenario the characters found themselves in.

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These cards though, some of them are just pretty bad. I mean, Joey's out here using a normal alligator that he wrote the card description for. Anything goes really. Today, we're going over ten important cards to the anime that aren't actually good in the real card game. Let's jump into it.

10 Elegant Egotist

Elegant Egotist really isn't a good card, it isn't even played in Harpie decks at all nowadays. However, the anime effect allows the user to duplicate any Harpie Lady on the field twice, with any and all upgrades still attached. This is obviously an incredibly useful effect, especially in the era of XYZ summons. However, as Elegant Egotist functions now, it really can't do much to help.

9 Gravity Bind

Gravity Bind was one of the signature cards used by American champ and all-around icon Rebecca Hawkins in the anime. Rebecca would use this card in tandem with her Fire Princess to stall out and wear down her opponents.

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However, Gravity Bind stops all level four and higher monsters from attacking, and with so many types of monsters around now that don't have levels to begin with, Rebecca will need to find herself a new strategy. But it's okay she's an anime exclusive so she basically doesn't even canonically exist.

8 The Winged Dragon Of Ra

The all-powerful Winged Dragon of Ra is...well...trash. In the anime, it basically was just bestowed any effect that Marik thought that it should have (including a literal reading of Egyptian text to summon it, everyone, stop the tournament, I played Ra and we have to do this properly).

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In reality, this card has two subpar effects and just about no protection. If you're going to transfer all of your life points into something you at least want it to be able to stay on the field. Unfortunately, this is the worst God of the three.

7 Slifer The Sky Dragon

You're bad too buddy don't start thinking too highly of yourself. While Slifer the Sky Dragon is undoubtedly a better card than Ra, that still doesn't make it a good monster.

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If you're sacrificing three cards to get this thing on the field, your hand is likely going to be a small one, which essentially leaves Slifer dead in the water. As with the other God, Slifer offers minimal protection along with minimal reason to sacrifice three monsters to get it out on the field at all.

6 Labyrinth Wall

Isn't it cool that we have a monster card that turns the game of Duel Monsters into a completely different tabletop game? That's so fun! Oh... it doesn't do that? In reality, Labyrinth Wall is a non-effect monster with 3,000 defense points... thanks. This card can make absolutely no impact in any way shape or form except for maybe being a really bad stall card to bring out. But don't worry, this list isn't all about inanimate walls.

5 Blue-Eyes White Ultimate Dragon

It's also about dragons! While Blue-Eyes White Ultimate Dragon was an incredibly powerful card in the anime, it has no reason to be summoned in the actual game. Using three non-effect beatsticks to bring out a fourth, slightly more powerful beatstick isn't really worth it.

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Besides that point, there are retrained versions of this monster nowadays that have other effects alongside being a beatstick, so this card has basically just gone out of style.

4 Toon World

The card Toon World is completely broken in the anime, having the effect of... everything? It basically makes every Toon monster immune to everything, but that whole first season was a disaster anyway. While the retrained Toon Kingdom is a much better version of this card, the original Toon Kingdom was merely a facilitator card that offered no protection of its own to the Toons it was meant to protect.

3 Flame Swordsman

Remember that one time that Time Wizard (more on him later) was a spell card? Well, Flame Swordsman is also just a non-effect monster now because why actually do anything right when you can do it all wrong with zero repercussions?

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In reality, the Flame Swordsman is a level four fusion monster with no effect and no stats worth talking about. There's no reason to play this now, but there was never a point in Yu-Gi-Oh! history that this card was worth using. There are plenty of other monsters with the same attack stat that don't need two other worse monsters in order to be summoned.

2 Mirage Knight

Okay, this card might not necessarily fit into the "important" part of the headline but we're going to just run with it because the requirements that this card needs to be summoned are simply astounding. You are not Beyoncé. In order to get Mirage Knight out on the field, you need to fuse Dark Magician and Flame Swordsman (who is already a fusion monster), which will bring out Dark Flare Knight. When that card is destroyed, Mirage Knight can be special summoned. Well, with all that setup it must be a great card, what can Mirage Knight do? It attacks once with 2800+ the attack of the monster that it is attacking and then is banished. Literally, you don't deserve any more time than you've already gotten, goodbye.

1 Time Wizard

Time Wizard, the card that was sometimes a spell card but also not because plot armor. Time Wizard really just doesn't have a place in the meta. It is a monster clearing beast that can at best give you a small advantage and at worst literally give your opponent the win. There are other cards that can do what Time Wizard does without an unnecessarily tense coin flip to top it all off. Without a doubt, Time Wizard is Joey's worst ace monster, and one of the worst aces of all of the anime characters.

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