10 Best Normal Monsters In Yu-Gi-Oh
7. Gem-Knight Garnet
Gem-Knight Garnet is a level four 1900 attack pyro monster that debuted in 2011s Hidden Arsenal.
The reason this card features on this list is because of its interaction with Brilliant Fusion. Brilliant Fusion allows us to fusion summon one Gem-Knight monster from our extra deck using monsters from our deck as material.
This latter part was unlike anything Yu-Gi-Oh had seen at the time and the main target was Gem-Knight Seraphinite, a fusion monster that allowed for an additional normal summon.
As we've already touched upon, a level four monster with 1900 attack and no downside is great, while not the direction Yu-Gi-Oh was heading in in 2011 Gem-Knight Garnet could easily run over whatever normal summon your opponent made during this time.
Gem-Knight Garnet really did everything you needed from a card and even now the term 'Garnet' is used in Yu-Gi-Oh terminology to describe a normal monster that you use to help summon or cheat into play another more powerful monster.