10 Totally Broken Yu-Gi-Oh Cards They Had To Change For Being Too Powerful

This Synchro Monster was a force to be reckoned with in the early 2010s. A Level 7 card requiring no specific Tuner monster, it was one of the easiest of Yu-Gi-Oh!'s shiny new white card type to Summon, and had a bombastic effect to boot.

The card's original effect was straightforward and damning in its simplicity, allowing the player to "Tribute 1 monster to inflict damage to your opponent equal to its Level x 200". No specifications, no restrictions: this was a Cannon Soldier on turbo, able to do some serious battle damage with its mighty 2600 ATK.

Tributing Dark Strike Fighter itself would directly cause 1400 points of damage to the opponent -- not much in itself, but when paired with a tribute of other Monsters of the same level, this quickly becomes a whopping 7000 Life Points in one turn -- and that was in the days before the Extra Monster Zone.

Dark Strike Fighter had the potential to inflict so much burn it ended up on the ban list, and its updated version is hardly worth the effort to Synchro Summon. The Fighter can now only use one Monster as a fodder per turn, and its effect can only be activated in Main Phase 1 -- meaning it can't use its effect to launch a fatal blow after an already devastating Battle Phase.