It’s very much pushing the line imo. I just got off a Facebook thread asking the same thing and 9/10 answers were either:
Any of the god cards
Dark magician
Blue eyes X dragon
Red eyes X dragon
Exodia
Jinzo.
And all those cards rank high in my favorite cards of all time but I rarely ever hear of people having relinquished as their favorite.
Change of Heart. Found a pre-Spell Ruler SYE-032 copy at a flee market and got excited over it saying "Magic Card." Plus, the anime moments with it and the artwork are just sick.
Mystical Knight of Jackal. If I could make him work today he'd be in every deck. I have a binder full of him and I never leave one in someone's binder or bulk. I will find him and I will collect him.
This is hard to say for me but this is just going off artwork when I answer this for me my favorite card of all time would be red eyes black dragon but its the third artwork or alt artwork I never like the 1st art work of that card but once I saw the 4th artwork of the card I liked the pose it took, its the one where he looks like he is charging up a blast. While the green background was cool but once I saw the blue and black background and how well it mix with red eyes charging his attack I was like dude this is badass.
https://preview.redd.it/xt5t0yv3nc6c1.png?width=512&format=png&auto=webp&s=4de158b6128bf45ceecc0aa36517789f518d90fb
https://preview.redd.it/iwm7aqyb0c6c1.jpeg?width=706&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c7a710c60baeaf0e28e8440ad5b76e9bd6505cbb
I love showing off my wallpaper every time this is asked, Manticore of Darkness. To comment on yours, Breaker has always been one of the coolest of all time. Especially how he is used in the anime with Berserker Soul.
Stellarknight Triverr.
I didn't have a deck I called "mine" at first, when I played on Dueling Nexus. I just mainly stuck to anime decks and some random decks I don't remember, then I stumbled upon a Duel Evolution deck profile and decided, why not?
Made it in Nexus, hopped on a duel against the ai, got 3 tellars on board, and there he was. I didn't bother to read and just Summoned him, just wanting to know what he does through action. The result?
The *entire* board, **bounced.**
My jaw dropped, this "Triverr" can just *do that?*
**And I loved it.**
Summoning him was my sole goal, each and every Duel, I ignored every other Xyz I could Summon, they weren't Triverr so they're useless. Triverr was my Ace monster, I used him as much if not more than Yuma used Utopia. I didn't care if it was the same, didn't care if it was "boring", I loved putting my foot down and telling the board to take hike with Triverr behind me.
The CYAC support sadly made his need practically nonexistent, but I still love Constellarknights regardless, and hope I may rely on Triverr once more some day.
Give it to me Konami, give me ***Stellarknight Constellar Triverr.***
Gotcha my bad man. I was thinking of the question as in your favorite yu-gi-oh character not your favorite singular for the sake of the question I prefer the first dark lord over the original morning Star
Lord of the Red. Both effects are soft once per turns, so you can respond with one to something the opponent does, then chain I:P Masquerena to go into Dyna Mondo. Then shuffle something the opponent controls into the deck, followed by tributing to summon Lord of the Red back again, resetting the effects.
My favorite card when i was a kid was magical marrionette, when i was a teen it was red dragon archfiend. When i got good at the game, legendary six samurai shi en. Elemental hero stratos and currently its fallen of albaz. Favorite spell is forbidden chalice. Favorite trap seven tools of the bandit.
This. Nothing special, just a normal card, but looks cool and have a memorable name.
https://preview.redd.it/0uk3di8o7e6c1.jpeg?width=554&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=45f66eec0103b7b6f3bdd8ca489885f9609739c4
The god cards are the ones that introduced me to yugioh so they are high up in my ranking. But if a really have to choose I’d say borrelend dragon just because it’s such a cool card and it feels like an accomplishment if you can get it out.
So my all time - Silent Magician. I get that it’s 3 (soon to be more!!!!) cards but the non-level silent magician I just love. I always wished for the silent archetype to be more of a thing so I’m hyped.
New favorite? RDA. I recently fell in love with the deck, play style, and artwork. Sooooo cool
Batteryman AA. Gaining power when surrounded by friends is exactly what I'm all about, and it helps that this guy has its own jank OTK! I love Thunder monsters, but Batteryman AA is in a league of its own.
9-Volt, Solar, and Micro Cell are pretty cool, too, though. And that's not even mentioning Super Electromagnetic Voltech Dragon!!
Spirit of the Pharoah for its wicked artwork.
Question for how many games that card saved my ass as a kid.
Bazoo the Soul Eater because it made the spell card question that much better. Plus, he looks terrifyingly cool.
My favorite current card would be Eldlitch, the Golden Lord
Spright Elf!
I'm so mad Konami made it generic and had to ban it because if it required 1 level 2 and 1 Spright monster to summon it'd be fine and if it could only bring back Spright monster from gy (unless opponent controls a monster, then you can summon any level/link/rank 2) it would've been much more fair of a card I think. I want new support for the Sprights and I want them to have lore separate from the Albaz Lore just because I love their design and playstyle. Errata and unban Spright Elf plz Konami plz.
Used to be dark paladin with the good art but now it’s Dark Magician the dragon knight. If you are able to keep that and eternal souls on the field, unless the opponent has a sharp eye, they get blindsided when their effects don’t work on those cards
I haven't played since around 2005 or so, so this is an old card that I'm sure no one even knows it exists anymore, but Gigagagoogecko or something like that. I think there were three of them. The first was something like Gecko, the second was Gagagecko or something like that and the last one was Gigagagagecko. I just loved saying their names plus I was playing a deck with mostly water monsters so they fit
Traptrix Sera. Card stopped me from quitting yugioh and is the boss of my favourite archtype and playstyle.
Historically it was chaos sorcerer, LADD and then Dandylion for there various competitive antics but Sera will likely be the card that stay's my favourite until I call time on the game
Silver Sentinel. Specifically the Ultimate Rare version. Effect is pretty useless, but the Ulti art is so cool. Was also the first Ulti I ever got so that helps.
One of my favourites is Sorcerer of Black Magic.
Got that card when I was young, and it's always stuck in my head as being badass, even though I never actually played it.
Might have to get a new copy, cause I traded it in my youth for winged dragon of Ra... Which I ended up not liking.
Light and Darkness Dragon. My first foray into competitive YGO was with a Disaster Dragon deck back in 2011. LaDD was an absolute house during that time, usually being a +4 if it dropped due to all the resources my opponent would waste on getting rid of it. I loved that card and still do to this day, even if it has been powercrept.
For me I’d have to say supreme king dragon clearwing. Synchros have always had a soft spot in my eyes, and given arc v was the first series I watched it had such a badass effect, I fell in love. Cut to years later, I mainly play supreme king dragons.
It's a tie between Judgment Dragon and Minerva the Exalted Lightsworn for me.
I love Minerva too! Other of my favorites is Raiden, he’s so cool
There’s way too many to pick just one. But I’ll ignore all the fan favorites (god cards, blue eyes, exodia, etc). So definitely relinquished
I would count relinquished as a fan favorit but I can’t say I disagree with you. Relinquished is just badass
It’s very much pushing the line imo. I just got off a Facebook thread asking the same thing and 9/10 answers were either: Any of the god cards Dark magician Blue eyes X dragon Red eyes X dragon Exodia Jinzo. And all those cards rank high in my favorite cards of all time but I rarely ever hear of people having relinquished as their favorite.
Really? That surprise’s me because relinquished was the first villain boss monster ever shown in the anime (not counting kaiba)
Damn that's a great one. Definitely top 5 for me
UCT. Just a banger of a boss monster.
Change of Heart. Found a pre-Spell Ruler SYE-032 copy at a flee market and got excited over it saying "Magic Card." Plus, the anime moments with it and the artwork are just sick.
Dante, Traveler of the Burning Abyss. No need to explain any further
Cir target Dante?
Dante target cir?
Dante is pretty bad ass no liw
*"This party's getting crazy!"*
Mystical Knight of Jackal. If I could make him work today he'd be in every deck. I have a binder full of him and I never leave one in someone's binder or bulk. I will find him and I will collect him.
I remember as a kid being desperate to trade with my friend for his copy of him. Still have it now and I love it man
Elemental Heros Stratos. I quit when he was banned and only came back near the start of this year.
Toadally Awesome. He is my friend.
Heavy Freight Train DERRICRANE
This is hard to say for me but this is just going off artwork when I answer this for me my favorite card of all time would be red eyes black dragon but its the third artwork or alt artwork I never like the 1st art work of that card but once I saw the 4th artwork of the card I liked the pose it took, its the one where he looks like he is charging up a blast. While the green background was cool but once I saw the blue and black background and how well it mix with red eyes charging his attack I was like dude this is badass. https://preview.redd.it/xt5t0yv3nc6c1.png?width=512&format=png&auto=webp&s=4de158b6128bf45ceecc0aa36517789f518d90fb
Exodia, the look, the colours ect just sooo nostalgic
https://preview.redd.it/iwm7aqyb0c6c1.jpeg?width=706&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c7a710c60baeaf0e28e8440ad5b76e9bd6505cbb I love showing off my wallpaper every time this is asked, Manticore of Darkness. To comment on yours, Breaker has always been one of the coolest of all time. Especially how he is used in the anime with Berserker Soul.
Monster cardo!
An Illusion retrain of him would be awesome for Chimera.
That would be cool. I was hoping for a Fire King retrain because he was in the first structure deck and his type/attribute fits.
Oh that's a great point actually. I'd be cool with either. Even if not officially a fire king, something that works with them.
Soul Release, first card I ever got, it came out of the Pegasus structure deck and I still have to this day.
Stellarknight Triverr. I didn't have a deck I called "mine" at first, when I played on Dueling Nexus. I just mainly stuck to anime decks and some random decks I don't remember, then I stumbled upon a Duel Evolution deck profile and decided, why not? Made it in Nexus, hopped on a duel against the ai, got 3 tellars on board, and there he was. I didn't bother to read and just Summoned him, just wanting to know what he does through action. The result? The *entire* board, **bounced.** My jaw dropped, this "Triverr" can just *do that?* **And I loved it.** Summoning him was my sole goal, each and every Duel, I ignored every other Xyz I could Summon, they weren't Triverr so they're useless. Triverr was my Ace monster, I used him as much if not more than Yuma used Utopia. I didn't care if it was the same, didn't care if it was "boring", I loved putting my foot down and telling the board to take hike with Triverr behind me. The CYAC support sadly made his need practically nonexistent, but I still love Constellarknights regardless, and hope I may rely on Triverr once more some day. Give it to me Konami, give me ***Stellarknight Constellar Triverr.***
Darklord Morningstar / the first darklord ( same monster)
Isn't Morningstar the lv11 main deck monster and first darklord the Fusion? (Same person in the lore, yes.)
Yes you are correct. They are both the same character of Lucifer so that's why I listed both.
You saying "monster" through me off because that implies the same card goes by both names.
Gotcha my bad man. I was thinking of the question as in your favorite yu-gi-oh character not your favorite singular for the sake of the question I prefer the first dark lord over the original morning Star
Lord of the Red. Both effects are soft once per turns, so you can respond with one to something the opponent does, then chain I:P Masquerena to go into Dyna Mondo. Then shuffle something the opponent controls into the deck, followed by tributing to summon Lord of the Red back again, resetting the effects.
My favorite card when i was a kid was magical marrionette, when i was a teen it was red dragon archfiend. When i got good at the game, legendary six samurai shi en. Elemental hero stratos and currently its fallen of albaz. Favorite spell is forbidden chalice. Favorite trap seven tools of the bandit.
Beelze
Gren Maju. Love him
I’m the one nutjob whose favorite card is a Spell. I’m a sucker for Double Summon.
Gearfried the swordmaster
Tyrant Dragon
Black Luster Soldier, specifically the OG print.
Athena. I'll never forget my fairy burn deck.
Gilford the Lighting
I like Red Eyes but if I had to pick a second favorite it would be Gilford the Lightning.
Love gilfords artwork so badass
Cyber Dragon Infinity
This. Nothing special, just a normal card, but looks cool and have a memorable name. https://preview.redd.it/0uk3di8o7e6c1.jpeg?width=554&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=45f66eec0103b7b6f3bdd8ca489885f9609739c4
Has to be the original Cyber Dragon for me.
Soul Exchange baby!
The god cards are the ones that introduced me to yugioh so they are high up in my ranking. But if a really have to choose I’d say borrelend dragon just because it’s such a cool card and it feels like an accomplishment if you can get it out.
Jinzo because my brothers traps always pissed me off
Phoenix Gearfried
I like the Egyptian god cards
So my all time - Silent Magician. I get that it’s 3 (soon to be more!!!!) cards but the non-level silent magician I just love. I always wished for the silent archetype to be more of a thing so I’m hyped. New favorite? RDA. I recently fell in love with the deck, play style, and artwork. Sooooo cool
Batteryman AA. Gaining power when surrounded by friends is exactly what I'm all about, and it helps that this guy has its own jank OTK! I love Thunder monsters, but Batteryman AA is in a league of its own. 9-Volt, Solar, and Micro Cell are pretty cool, too, though. And that's not even mentioning Super Electromagnetic Voltech Dragon!!
Barrel Dragon 💥🔫
Relinquished.
Reflect bounder. I was 8 and it was the first ultra rare I pulled, I still get a dopamine hit when I see it to this day.
One of the Utopias, give me a minute.
Wulf, Lightsworn Beast #1 Minerva, the Exalted Lightsworn #2
Jinzo, second place goes to Gren Maju da Eiza (favourite deck)
Linear Equation Cannon. Yes, the card sucks, but the concept and effect are so stupidly specific, I just absolutely love it.
Destiny HERO - Dogma
Amulet Dragon. Its just so cool
Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier was my classic answer, although now it might be Kaleido-Heart.
Light & Darkness Dragon 😬
To be original its Vanquish Soul Ceasar Vailus
It's either Sacred phoenix of Nephtys or Relinquished... I'll just add Monster Reborn and make it a top 3
Crimson Nova the Dark Cubic Lord
Spirit of the Pharoah for its wicked artwork. Question for how many games that card saved my ass as a kid. Bazoo the Soul Eater because it made the spell card question that much better. Plus, he looks terrifyingly cool. My favorite current card would be Eldlitch, the Golden Lord
ZEUUUUS
There's nothing quite as compelling as [Master of Oz](https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Master_of_Oz).
Red-Eyes Black Dragon and Jinzo for classic cards, Witchcrafter Madame Verre for modern cards!
https://preview.redd.it/c1lvicn85d6c1.jpeg?width=894&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ac98a467d3888848394de67e624dbe6e532be216 ULTIMATE CONDUCTOR TYRANNO!
Astrograph Sorcerer for sure. That cloak is Just magnificent.
High Priestess of Prophecy.
Infernity Archfiend
Spright Elf! I'm so mad Konami made it generic and had to ban it because if it required 1 level 2 and 1 Spright monster to summon it'd be fine and if it could only bring back Spright monster from gy (unless opponent controls a monster, then you can summon any level/link/rank 2) it would've been much more fair of a card I think. I want new support for the Sprights and I want them to have lore separate from the Albaz Lore just because I love their design and playstyle. Errata and unban Spright Elf plz Konami plz.
Used to be dark paladin with the good art but now it’s Dark Magician the dragon knight. If you are able to keep that and eternal souls on the field, unless the opponent has a sharp eye, they get blindsided when their effects don’t work on those cards
I haven't played since around 2005 or so, so this is an old card that I'm sure no one even knows it exists anymore, but Gigagagoogecko or something like that. I think there were three of them. The first was something like Gecko, the second was Gagagecko or something like that and the last one was Gigagagagecko. I just loved saying their names plus I was playing a deck with mostly water monsters so they fit
High priestess of prophecy or trident dragion
Traptrix Sera. Card stopped me from quitting yugioh and is the boss of my favourite archtype and playstyle. Historically it was chaos sorcerer, LADD and then Dandylion for there various competitive antics but Sera will likely be the card that stay's my favourite until I call time on the game
Summoned Skull! Even the toon one is amazing.
Either Five-Headed Dragon or Fallen of Albaz
Embodiment of Apophis! Cool design. Cool mechanic. Trap monsters rule.
Silver Sentinel. Specifically the Ultimate Rare version. Effect is pretty useless, but the Ulti art is so cool. Was also the first Ulti I ever got so that helps.
Impossible to choose, so I'll do a top 5 Dark Armed Dragon El Shaddoll Construct Daigusto Sphreez Vennominaga Lithosagym
There are too many, but: Dark Magician Gilford Alligator's Sword Panther Warrior Celtic Guardian
Stratos for sure
Amazoness baby tiger! Just look at the little guy, taking such a big steppy!
Cliche but Dark magician. Being a child a seeing that purple hooded mage being summoned is still one of the best feelings ever.
Junk Synchron
Exarion universe. Awesome artwork and an effect that was powerful for its time.
I'll always have a spot in my heart for Jinzo, Exodia, Obelisk, and Winged Dragon of Ra.
Chaos dragon Levianeer
Summoned Skull
Dragon Master Knight
One of my favourites is Sorcerer of Black Magic. Got that card when I was young, and it's always stuck in my head as being badass, even though I never actually played it. Might have to get a new copy, cause I traded it in my youth for winged dragon of Ra... Which I ended up not liking.
Favorite card? Self-Destruct Button. Favorite monster? Morphing Jar
Madame Verre. Can’t get enough of that smug face.
Light and Darkness Dragon. My first foray into competitive YGO was with a Disaster Dragon deck back in 2011. LaDD was an absolute house during that time, usually being a +4 if it dropped due to all the resources my opponent would waste on getting rid of it. I loved that card and still do to this day, even if it has been powercrept.
Goldie’s the legend was my all time favorite as a kid
Barrel Dragon
Probably rainbow life. How can you not like rainbow life? Its perfect in every way
Plasma
For me I’d have to say supreme king dragon clearwing. Synchros have always had a soft spot in my eyes, and given arc v was the first series I watched it had such a badass effect, I fell in love. Cut to years later, I mainly play supreme king dragons.
moke-moke,