Pharaoh's Servant was the fourth set released in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Yu-Gi-Oh! The set was crafted to be one focused on trap cards, opposite of the previous set Spell Ruler which focused on spell cards. Pharaoh's Servant introduced a plethora of iconic cards and the first appearance of a Secret Rare on a trap card (Imperial Order).
Pharaoh's Servant features plenty of cards of high power that still see modern play (and several that had to be banned). Many cards are widely used in the fan-favorite Goat Format that utilizes sets from the earliest days of the game. Although the monster selection was fairly small, the spell and trap card options were plentiful.
10 🦋 Dust Tornado 📖
Dust Tornado back in the early days of the game was one of the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:best options for spell and trap remova💙l. While you do have to set it first unlike Mystical Space Typhoon, Dust Tornado let you keep one of your spell or trap cards safe from removal since you could set a card from your hand after its use so it wouldn't be on the field in the first place to be targetted.
Although the power of Dust Tornado has fallen in recent years (as well as trap cards in general), Dust Tornado remains a menace in formats that use older sets exclusively such as Goat Format (which allows ever🌸y set up to The Lost Millennium).
9 ဣ Gravity Bind 🍌
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:One of the original stall cards, Gravity Bind was a menace of early Yu-Gi-Oh! Since level four and higher monsters are among the most common Gravity Bind prevents most of your opponent's monsters from doing much. What made Gravity Bind so good (and why it's semi-limited in Goat Format) is that there were not many options for spell and trap removal.
Gravity Bind can greatly stall out games so your op🌼ponent is helpless against it while you draw into your win condition. It is one of the best control cards of the early days, and a bane of many Yu-Gi-Oh! players of old formats.
8 🐬 Prohibition
Prohibition lets you prevent the effect of any card from being used so long as it is on the field. Since Yu-Gi-Oh! is a game where oౠften one card is very important to win, this ma🍌kes Prohibition a strong counterplay card.
It saw recent success in Mystic Mine decks before the banning of Mystic Mind and still sees play in the side deck in formats with specific problem cards. It is common in control decks to name a mass back row removal card like Lightning Storm to ensure all of your spell and trap cardsꦯ remain safe.
7 Noblema♔n Of Crossout 🌠
Nobleman Of Crossout was once 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:one of the best monster removal ꦆspells in the entire game. It is a way to get rid of every copy of a flip monster so that you never have to worry about it for the rest of the game, and even if you don't destroy a flip monster you still get rid of whatever monster you targetted with it.
Nobleman Of Crossout swapped between being limited and semi-limited back in 2003 all the way through 2008 and was unbanned thಌen after setting monsters became far less common. For old-school formats such as Goat Format Nobleman Of Crossout is gene✱rally still restricted.
6 Jinzo
Jinzo was once the best one-tribute monster, and it has solid stats 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:while preventing all trap cards from working. With how many mon♏sters could float into more monsters when destroyed it was very easy to bring Jinzo out.
Jinzo was very hard to remove, and you often had to rely on spell cards as Jinzo's stats were often too high for most monsters to deal with. While Jinzo is nowhere near the menace it once was, it remains one of the best cards of Goat Format and any other one where tribute monsters are still played.
5 🥀 ℱ Limiter Removal
A staple of machine-based OTK (one-turn kill) decks, Limiter Removal is a way to suddenly win th♌e game out of nowhere. Even though the monsters that got double attack are destroyed, that clause was hardly an issue since you often won the game the꧋ turn you used Limited Removal.
Limiter Removal spent most of its life limited to one copy, but it wasn't until early 2019 that it got completely unrestricted. Though most decks can OTK on their own in the modern game, Limiter Removal can still catch opponents by surprise and helps weaker decks compete in the modern age.
4 Thousand-Eyes Restrict ♚
Instant Fusion is a card that lets you bring a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:level five or lower fusion monster out from your extra deck, and Thousand-Eyes Restrict is one of the best targets for it. Thousand-Eyes Restrict lets you steal an opponent's monster and turn it into an equip spell, and it's a must-negate effect as it can get rid of one of your opponent's boss monsters.
Instant Fusion makes Thousand-Eyes Restrict trivial to bring out which led to its banning back in 2006 and wasn't unbanned until 2016. The card is still powerful in the modern game although its never actually fusion summoned.
3 Premature Buri💖al
Premature Burial is technically a weaker effect than Monster Reborn which has an almost identical effect (except Monster Reborn can target a monster in either graveyard for no cost). Howev🐟er, Premature Burial has been🤪 banned since 2008 (whereas Monster Reborn is only limited), because it is an equip spell.
Equip spells canꦐ more easily be searched out directly from your deck. There were also many infinite loops involved with equip spells in which ౠPremature Burial was often featured, which is why Premature Burial is widely considered to be one of the best equip spells of all time.
2 🦋 Imperial Order
Spell cards are among the most played cards inꦑ all of Yu-Gi-Oh! Often and most decks rely on spell cards in order to function. As such, a trap card that completely negates them was bound to be powerful.
Even though Imperial Order has a maintenance cost, this cost doesn't matter when you shut down your opponent's deck. This card was banned in 2005 before being limited after changing the maintenance cost to be mandatory in 2017 (in the original printing you could choose to not pay 700 Life Points to destroy it).
However, this nerf proved to not do anything to Imperial Order's power (especially with how fast Yu-Gi-Oh! became) and was once again banღned in 2022.
1 Cold Wave
Looking at Cold Wave it's clear why this card is so powerful. It completely shuts down your opponent's ability to play or set spell cards for their turn. While you are affected by it as well, you get the first chance at using them again after your opponent starts setting up their field of monsters.
If you build your deck around Cold Wave you could make use of its effect without it harming you at🦄✱ all.
Cold Wave actually spent a long time off the radar until players started seeing its power level. It was limited in late 2009 before being banned just two years later i🦂n 2011 where it will ♛likely remain.