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

Itself a retrain of Yugi's famous Dark Magician, Dark Magician Of Chaos gained a reputation in the game's early days for its ability to recycle Spell Cards. While the ability to add an already-used Monster Reborn, Pot Of Greed or Graceful Charity to the hand from the Graveyard during the Main Phase could prove fatal enough, this even Darker Magician had another secret trick up its sleeve.

Any monster the Spellcaster destroyed by battle was removed from play instead of being sent to the Graveyard, back in the day when cards that were banished really were banished, with few to no cards out there to bring them back into play.

The card's erratum has weakened the Magician considerably. While it still adds Spell cards from the Graveyard to the player's hand, this now happens at the End Phase of the turn the Monster's Summoned, meaning players need to wait an entire turn before casting their Spell. And while the ability to banish Monsters is still useful, tributing two Monsters for the sake of a 2800 ATK creature in a metagame focused around the ability to easily and efficiently swarm Extra Deck cards is barely worth it, especially when there are few truly powerful Spells out there.