Yu-Gi-Oh!: The 10 Best Cards In Quarter Century Stampede
Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG’s Quarter Century Stampede contains reprints of game-changing cards that broke records in their original sets. Some cards are hard enough to pull on their own, while others only ever got released once and never reprinted before. From Valiant Smashers to Rage of the Abyss, it’s an all-star roundup as these cards get rarity bumps, cheaper alternatives, and special art variants.
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Posts 1With the set being the fourth and final member of the rarity collection series of boxes, it’s the perfect way to close out the 25th anniversary of the game. So, what are the best cards to get reprints in the collection?
10 Fiendsmith Engraver
Making Fiendsmith More Affordable
Fiendsmith’s Engraver is one of the chase cards from The Infinite Forbidden. While this made players scramble for a playset, Quarter Century Stampede has plenty of copies starting at super rare to pull from.
The Fiendsmith engine is great for setting up your board before you go into your main combos, leaving you with plenty of material to work with. You can also use this to bait out your opponent’s hand traps. Fiendsmith Engraver is a one-card combo that kicks it all off. Getting a full playset unlocks the engine’s full potential.
9 Mulcharmy Fuwalos
Staples Galore
Quarter Century Stampede contains a few different hand traps. The most notable of them all is Mulcharmy Fuwalos, which gets a much-needed reprint. This is a powerful card that lets you draw cards each time your opponent Special Summons from the deck or extra deck.
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PostsConsidering so many decks eventually touch the extra deck during their combos, this is an important card for any deck to have. It’s one of the three Mulcharmies that each divide the power of Maxx “C” into more balanced monsters.
8 Crimson Dragon
Show Off Your Signer Skills
This is the legendary dragon from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds. While it has had a few reprintings since it first appeared in Duelist Nexus, Quarter Century Stampede is the first set where it feels truly budget. There are printings of it across almost every rarity.
This is good because Crimson Dragon is an excellent extender for Synchro decks. If you use level sevens or higher, Crimson Dragon lets you trade one Synchro for another as long as they’re the same level. It also counts as a Synchro Summon, allowing you to utilize that card’s effects even though you cheesed it out.
7 Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis
Zeus’s Evil Twin
Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis is a massive name to say in one go. It’s one of the few XYZ Monsters that can overlay itself on top of a single card during your opponent’s turn. All your opponent needs to do to trigger this is Special Summon from the extra deck twice.
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Posts 1You can then bring this card out to negate the effects of any monster with 3,000 or more attack. This can be a neat floodgate for some of your opponent’s stronger monsters. However, make sure to read the entire text. If you try doing this during your own turn, you’ll lock yourself out of your Normal and Special Summons.
6 Divine Arsenal AA-Zeus - Sky Thunder
Then Along Came Zeus
When all else fails in your XYZ strategy, you can just send out Zeus. This beefy monster can overlay itself onto any other XYZ Monster that has successfully attacked. Once on the field, it can do a board wipe by removing two material from itself.
This is a good way to get back in the game. It doesn’t target, and monsters are sent to the grave, not destroyed. The more material you get under it, the more often you can use this effect. Zeus is that one card that always comes in clutch, and this set gives it an alternate art.
5 Dragon Master Magia
Striking A Gold Mine
Dragon Master Magia is one of the few good cards to be locked behind the quarter century rare status. While every other card is just focused on spitting the number 25 everywhere, Dragon Master Magia gives you three possible negates each turn.
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PostsQuarter century stampede finally prints this card in other rarities. This includes a collector’s rare, ultimate rare, and platinum secret rare. While it can still be difficult to pull, it no longer feels impossible. Especially when you only really need one for your extra deck.
4 Mementotlan Angwitch
Memento Becomes Budget
If any card desperately needed a reprint, it’s the two Memento starters. Memento is such an interesting archetype since it revamps old vanilla monsters as these corrupted versions of themselves. It’s nostalgic yet powerful enough to take on other decks.
This is one of those situations where you need three copies of a card in a deck, but it all stacks up a little too high. Yet, it searches for other Memento monsters, Special Summons them from the grave, and even pops them to trigger effects or get them in the grave.
3 Mementotlan Bone Party
Memento Fans Celebrate
Memento has not one but two cards, which make the deck expensive to build. This second one is Mementotlan Bone Party. Finally free from Valiant Smasher’s exclusivity, Bone Party helps you get some Special Summons directly from the deck.
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PostsIt's an equivalent exchange. You destroy one Memento in your hand, and you can bring out a different one from the deck or add it to your hand. This is also a Quick-Play Spell, so you can also activate it during your opponent’s turn. You can even give one of your monsters piercing damage from the graveyard.
2 Transaction Rollback
A Trap That Changes To Your Needs
Paying half your life points to activate a card effect isn’t as bad as it sounds. Transaction Rollback lets you reuse the effect of a Trap card in either player’s graveyard. What makes this card a great way to spend life points is that it replaces the normal cost of the Trap.
So, say you wanted to pay for a card’s activation by tributing two monsters on your side of the field to wipe the board. Transaction Rollback substitutes those tributes for life points. However, you still need to meet the conditions that would allow you to activate the Trap in the first place.
1 Mermail Abyssgaios
Rising From The Deep
The cool thing about Yu-Gi-Oh! is that older cards can suddenly become meta again with any set that releases. The downside is that some cards never really warranted a reprint until the sudden need spikes up. This is the story behind Mermail Abyssgaios, which remained trapped as an ultra rare and an ultimate rare in its native set of Abyss Rising.
Mermail and Atlantean support make it easier to bring this card out. It has a mini floodgate to prevent attacks from level five or higher monsters. It also Skill Drains all of your opponent’s monsters with less attack than itself.
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Franchise Yu-Gi-Oh! Original Release Date February 4, 1999 Player Count Two-player (1 vs. 1) Age Recommendation 8 and up Length per Game 20 minutes See at Official Site Expand Collapse
