Yu-Gi-Oh: 10 Most Powerful Unbanned Cards In The Game

Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is commonly referred to as a 'handtrap'. As YuGiOh evolved there was a time where traps became far too slow, having to set a card and wait till the next turn was not worth it.

Ash Blossom is a level 3 monster with 0 attack and 1800 defence but the stats are largely irrelevant, the card has seen a monumental amount of play based on its effects. It has three effects, one of which can be used each turn by specifically discarding it from your hand. It stops cards being added to your hand, this includes drawing cards outside of your draw phase. It stops you sending a monster from your deck to your graveyard - most decks do this, and lastly, it stops a monster from being special summoned directly from the deck.

So in the current metagame it stops Pot of Desires, Dragon Shrine, Card of Demise, or any monster that has a search effect when you play it. The list goes on and on. There was a point in time when Ash Blossom commanded a massive £100 price tag, and you definitely needed three for your deck.

In fact, when it was printed back in Maximum Crisis it was the death of certain decks at the time, specifically the world championship-winning Blue-Eyes deck. Ash has been semi-limited to two in the OCG but nowadays Ash can be found everywhere across various rarities meaning the average price is around £8.

The chance of a ban or limit is highly unlikely but there was a time when duelist wanted it gone because of how versatile and how expensive it was.