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confidentlystranded

Tomfoolery and shenanigans


fallen_one_fs

Y complicated answer when simple answer do trick?


ACleverEndeavour

*Diamond Dude and Gishki Diviner have entered the chat*


BEEEELEEEE

That’s the only reason I play Yugioh


gwarguro

Trickery and Schemes


GokuSSRI

LOL


Orgalorg_BoW

Is it possible to have a whole deck that revolves around tomfoolery and shenanigan?


VillalobosChamp

To troll people in Dueling Network _oh wait..._


xxX_Darth_Vader_Xxx

I miss those kinds of sites


mavarian

If only there was some kind of Dueling Book


xxX_Darth_Vader_Xxx

True or some kind of master duel


Nirast25

Convulsion of Nature isn't on Master Duel.


VillalobosChamp

It isn't legal to play, card is programmed in-game


LilithLily5

It's not in the game at all. Similar to Spellbinding Circle for some reason, they straight up aren't coded into the game, you can't search for them, anything. I've got Banned cards turned on and I'm looking for them now, nothing.


Nirast25

Convulsion of Nature is probably not in the game due to programming reasons, but I don't know why Spellbinding Circle wouldn't be there. Also, I'm pretty sure Air Neos isn't in the game either.


Calhare

Air neos is a irl legality issue.


TheBewlayBrothers

The air neos saga is so weired, I think we have just no idea why they never use it in any cards arts, or reprint it


LilithLily5

Yeah, those definitely aren't the only cards. I'm guessing it's because the artwork. Although Convulsion of Nature *was* properly programmed into Legacy of the Duelist, so wouldn't it be easy enough to just take the programming from that game?


xxX_Darth_Vader_Xxx

Oh ok thx


xOV3RKILL3R

What about a dueling nexus?


xxX_Darth_Vader_Xxx

That too


CosmicBrownnie

Or maybe a nexus of duelists?


Antique_Log3382

It has almost no users. Makes me sad.


ZoroV1

Dueling nexus


xxX_Darth_Vader_Xxx

That’s a good site


LianneJW1912

It's still there? 


xxX_Darth_Vader_Xxx

Is it now? I thought it was shut down


Animegx43

Fuck you for making me sad. I'm upvoting, but fuck you.


SgtTittyfist

It saw play in Reversal Quiz FTK, right?


Xeoz_WarriorPrince

The weirdest and most useless cards always have someone trying them on some weird FTK, truly a classic of this community.


Broke-Citizen

Idk what that is. Can you explain?


SgtTittyfist

[This](https://youtu.be/RdpstqJ9XWQ) explains it better than words ever could. Basically though, it's meant to be used with cards that allow you to declare certain cards from the top of your deck, like Gishki Diviner.


MoodyWater909

Or my personal favorite, turbo Uria


Broke-Citizen

Ah, I see


Redshift-713

Well activating Reversal Quiz would send it to the GY and revert your Deck immediately, so you would still be guessing unless you had stacked the bottom of your Deck somehow.


samurai15070r

Back in the day this was used to cause havock in dueling network


julianmaiz

I'm kinda curious... What's the story behind this?


Kopothecat

Damn. I want to know too. Doesn’t seem like we’ll get an answer


SirLionMan1

turning the deck upside down in dueling network wasn't easy from what I've heard


metalflygon08

IIRC you had to banish all your cards 1 at a time and then use your banished pile as your deck.


starmag99

What if someone used a card to actually banish lmao Put it back in the deck? Actually, could you even shuffle your banishment?


samurai15070r

You'd just have to keep track lmfao. Regardless the one running this card was not in it to win it only to cause pain


samurai15070r

In dn there no option to flip the deck so you had to send your deck to the gy/banish one by one and then put that pile back in the deck in order one by one. On top of that that they would also run cards like mst to pop their own card so as soon as you did all that you'd have to redo it again. This was toxic especially in ranked matches so you would have to comply with doing this or just risk losing points


Kopothecat

Thanks for the reply! ... Sheesh man, that sounds like a pain


Nurujabes

The point is some wacky fun shenanigans with your bros. The best use case is in royal magical library ftk to help you call the top card for archfiends oath and reversal quiz


Al_Hakeem65

Using it with Archfiends Oath is actually pretty smart ngl


djinnman17

I used to play this in Spyrals just to make 1 friend very mad


Crackt_Apple

I thought you were supposed to play it in Spyrals… I may be dumb.


djinnman17

Seemed logical to me


TinyPidgenofDOOM

it turns on the archetype without needing to set up the top of their deck. you can just go off


acemccrank

Archfiend's Oath works well with this.


sashalafleur

and The True Name.


Top_Manager_1908

You're asking too much of Konami at a time when the game was a legitimate chaos...


ChrisYayo

now its much worse 😅


FacelessGravy

Back then cards had the wackiest effects. Some did stuff. Others were pointless. But if you try hard enough most of those shit cards can find some use.


MightyLego

Back in the old days, it got used with True Name a bit from what I remember. Plus even besides that, there was a couple other cards that are "Guess the type/name of the card on top of your deck" effects, so it'd come in handy with those. https://preview.redd.it/6ah0p1ael6oc1.png?width=694&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=92e609f409415af56e1eb78699d5021c3a4362f3


Z-T-A

It's useful for certain gimmick cards


Hikarian000

Get it with Gravekeepers Trap and you have a Yata-Garasu in the form of a Spell and a Trap


GoldFishPony

To prove that master duel will never have every legal yugioh card in it.


typhlosion_Rider_621

Wait, this is a real card? Just flip the deck over and now both players will see their next card, forever?


Key-Master26

yup. Old card. Played against it once against a friend of mine.


Randomd0g

Well not forever, just until this card is destroyed.


TinyPidgenofDOOM

"as long as this card remains face up on the field" so not forever


Wollffey

Oh I wish it was just flip the deck over, the order of cards actually doesn't change, the cards that are in the top still stay in the top and the ones on the bottom still stay in the bottom. This means that, yes, you do indeed have to manually flip every card in your deck face up one by one while keeping them in the order they were before F you if you're playing a 60 card deck lmao


typhlosion_Rider_621

That’s even better though. You get the know the order of every card in your deck.


Batman9298

At least to be able to see what your opponent is drawing next


Mrgoodtrips64

I used this in Spyrals along with Mind Crush and D.D. Designator. It was horribly unoptimized, but fun when it worked.


PalestineRefugee

minus the mind crush and DDDesig, Reeaally interesting tech at a 1 or 2 of. cool


Mrgoodtrips64

Since it’s weirdly not a field spell it’s too hard to search at one copy.


PalestineRefugee

but its one of those cards that is nice to draw, but isnt essential to core strategy. so you dont need to draw it, especially if you cut the other dependant cards


Eviltwin-Kisikil

Konami printed it for the lulz, I think. If you really want a good purpose you could use it in an Egypt God deck with The True Name (if you guess the top card correct you can add an egypt god) or you can use it in a Sylvan deck (the entire gimmick is guessing the top card). Now that I mention Sylvan, you could use it in a pure SPYRAL deck. It's oddly useful at the best of times, and a troll at the worst of times. To answer your question: I would assume when it leaves the field your deck would go back to normal, or maybe if you activate another one it goes back facedown? I'd love a judge's take on it.


Kortobowden

It’s just neat. And fun.


Pokemoncraft12

Chaos


Aliya_Akane

The real question is what happens when you play a second copy of this?


PalestineRefugee

Hmm your deck "should" be flipped back to normal, right? cause you can't activate a card with no effect? However, unreliable sources (wiki) says your deck stays face up, but then you activated a card with no effect, thus its illegal to have 2 onboard going off that ruling. Id say its illegal to play the 2nd or it flips back to normal. The card does need PSCT badddly


Key-Master26

Imagine the knowledge you could gain if you used this lol. But fr, this card is gimmicky as heck


illucio

1. Cards that are important and are sent to bottom of the deck (or putting cards at the bottom of the deck in any order). So you can immediately grab them. 2. Try and guess spells that require guessing what card you pulled and guessing correctly provides a benefit to the player in some way. 3. Keeping track whats in your opponents hand so you stategize around it. So you know if they will be pulling a ash blossom, Belle, effect veiler and so on. 4. A card effect that allows you to draw cards and send them to the graveyard or back into your deck. But if you pull X card you get to summon it, get a token, get LP and so on. 5. Cards that remove the cards on top of the deck. So you can see important cards and choose to put them in the graveyard or banish them face up or face down.  It's a cool card, but building a deck based on this playstyle difficult since you NEED the card to make anything function. But if you put three of them in the deck then you might draw one too many and not need another copy. Since the card is inoffensive enough that a opponent might just ignore it until they figure out what your strategy is. But then your better off having cards that can just retrieve the card back from the graveyard or banish zone then to just have multiple copies.  But even then, this is just a side strategy unless there are monsters or a archetype that can really benefit from this.


TheNextSherlock52

I used to run this in my Egyptian god deck. This with "True name" was to fun to pull off.


MissingIdiots

I remember using this card in a trollest troll deck with no win condition. And going x-2 on local. Good times


Azling_

Ordeal of the Traveller


PushBlock_WOOD

That's for the hand not the deck. Could help your opponent guess reasoning lol


dralcax

[To FTK people in Goat format](https://www.goatformat.com/home/january-31st-2019)


AmelieAndalle

https://preview.redd.it/fiel9itjs7oc1.jpeg?width=813&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4be47c52476342da3013b1bbadd058ab1c19ea46


A-Lone-Techy

I think I remember a mate of mine using it in his Spyral deck so he would always call the right card because you could just straight up see what it was


Darky_Warky

cuz why not


RedTemplar22

Ma'at OTK


Dndfan68

It’s fun


GPHollow76

Making people leave duels on Dueling Network.


MemeLordZeta

knowing what your opponent is gonna draw? Not insanely usefull but still pretty nice to know. Not meant to be tier 0 lol


Victacobell

To get you banned from Dueling Network


RedLimes

Pack filler. And for-fun-duel shenanigans I guess


TheMaker676

Pegasus effect in goat.


aaa1e2r3

This actually got play back during pre-tier zero Spyral


ISnortSpaghettiDaily

Diamond dude, spy, archfiend oath are all cards that can utilize this cards effect nicely


DankMagic7

The point is acquiring information at the cost of giving up your own. There are cards like The True Name that can easily benefit from this card. It's likely never going to see competitive play but I wouldn't rule out that one insane table-500 player to get a kick out of playing this.


Chaosshepherd

To have the most unnecessarily, epic card art ever


ohlonelyme

Konami allows a little trolling. As a treat


explodingjason

Decks are flipped upside down, you are now drawing face up cards… so everybody knows what cards can be played


kondocher

It allows you to see every card your opponent draws how is that not awesome?


Elot_irl

Bc Funni


ThaBlooder

Its the goat Card from Back in the time its very usefull in Combination with Some Cards that lets u get benefits If u can declare your next Card right. If ur Into it just take a look on duel night by teamsamuraix1 On 1 night Jesse used this Card and won easily its really crazy


real_winterbro

this + archfiend's oath + gishki diviner + draw engine = the worst exodia strategy you've ever seen. managed to get it to go off once or twice


Wham-Bam-Duel

Archfiend's Oath, Gishki Diviner, The True Name


ElLindo88

I used it + The True Name in a Ra deck I built on the Switch.


RulerOfKeflasAbs

Spyral support


PalestineRefugee

activate this + card destruction = look at your opp whole hand and follow up


AttackerCat

Works great with one true name to cheese out god cards


jdauhmer

Isn't it useful to see every card your opponent draws?


Stranger_425

Well it was useful in three decks, Dimanond dude turbo, Spyrals, and Reverse Quiz OTK.


Aillesdaille

Because other card games could never.


__slowpoke__

some old magic cards have *way* wackier effects than convulsion of nature, from playing [sub-games of magic](https://cards.scryfall.io/large/front/0/0/0014def3-4063-4929-ac51-76aef1bb2a68.jpg?1562895012) to [flipping cards on the table](https://cards.scryfall.io/large/front/7/a/7a601041-926f-40fd-8106-39099b87806f.jpg?1559592122) to [utterly incomprehensible nonsense](https://cards.scryfall.io/large/front/7/e/7ee63877-056e-413d-932a-a393a4183686.jpg?1559592211). the first two of these are banned in every format that exists, by the way, and not because they are good oh, and in the very early days, magic used to have a mechanic where you put cards from your deck into the "ante" pile and the winner of the game gets to keep those cards, with a bunch of cards that interacted with this mechanic (e.g. by putting more cards into the pile as an additional cost). they very quickly realized that this was an absolutely terrible idea and every single card that mentions ante is also banned everywhere with no exceptions


PreviousNoise

To make nature convulse. /s Seriously, it will show you every card your opponent is drawing, as well as allow you dump cards at the bottom of your deck, activate Convulsion, and then draw those cards. You have to remember this was back toward the beginning of YGO, so the game went a slower and knowing what your opponent was drawing was much more beneficial (i.e. prepping a counter to your opponents trap card they just drew or even knowing that they had a dead draw and you could attack with impunity) . And yes, if Convulsion was destroyed, you'd flip your deck back face-down.


qruis1210

TO EMBRACE THE CHAOS. also a degenerate spyral combo, but who is even playing spyrals at this point?


Broke-Citizen

I ran into one a few werks ago actually


No-Yesterday-1214

To literally fuck with your opponent


TropicalSkiFly

For the funsy. Can also mess with your opponent if their strategy stacks cards on top of their deck. Those top cards will be on the bottom.


shadowinc

Its Funny. I want this card in MD


murderofhawks

I used to run 3 of these in a 60 card burn/deck out deck somewhere around 07 watching people lose hope as I forced them to send so many cards to the graveyard was priceless especially if the card they needed was on their top deck


ZatchZeta

I use it for Malefics and Valkyries. Malefics so I can if the next card is useful or if I can use Malefic World for a mulligan Valkyries so I can "predict" what the next effect is so I can screw over the opponent's next turn.


owenowen2022

To have fun


CJSxS02

True Name + Convulsion + Card Advance :)


SobbingKnave

Funny


DharcDaniel

Mindfuckery (and to make the rules more convoluted)


MBluna9

fun and shenanigans


Dismal_Reaction4337

To make the game fun that why And not aver card has to be competitive.


Dependent-Horror4495

You see the next card they draw the turn before. Would be fun to play in salad decks tho


Xaldarino

Because its fun?


Striking-Ad56

Just a gimmick. I used this with True Name to get Obelisk out.


JorlanReddit

You can see the next card you and your opponent draws, leading for some wacky plays.


SwaghetiAndMemeballs

I've actually seen someone use it with mystic mine back in the day. I think they were running it with a card where you have to discard what you draw if your opponent "guesses" it correctly


Corzo123

Personally I just used it for general fuckery when dueling friends.


MaryPoppinsM7

I remember using it on spyral decks because I needed to fill empty spaces


Chiramijumaru

Fun. But if you actually wanted a specific use case of the card, The True Name, Archfiend's Oath, and most SPYRAL cards benefit from this effect, as well as the niche case of drawing a card you just put on the bottom of your deck.


sideshow-boob-92

Not a clue but as a geography goober I used to love the artwork for this card


General-Bar-2743

Shits and giggles


gubigubi

So as far as rules go this is "Both players flip their deck upside down. As long as this card remainds face-up on the field both players play with the top card of their deck revealed". Because to me the way its worded on the actual card makes me think that players would have to draw the bottom card of their deck because the bottom card is still technically the top card. And also any card that would say "Place on the bottom of the deck in any order" would actually put the card on the top but it wouldn't matter because you are not drawing that card for turn anyways because that is still technically the bottom of the deck just the deck is upside down. Very weird way to word it for a card that essentially is just "Both players play with the top card of their deck revealed"


After-Bonus-4168

That's not how it works at all. The deck is flipped upside down so that you now draw from the revealed bottom.


zankypoo

Every time I see this card I think of how it should be called catastrophe based on the art. Reminds me of the spell in Lunar 2 XD


Background-Low2926

Against friends it would be played to see when they are about to draw there boss so you know when to use drastic drop off, or some deck shuffling effect just to annoy them. Also bad jokes about being psychic predicting what your next draw will be. Back when the boss was either in the main deck or it was poly that you shuffle away from them to prevent there fusion boss from being summoned.


Waste-Baby1203

so I wanted to build a deck all about this one specific card so the idea is you use the true name to always call things right and for your opponent you use things like mindcrush because you know what they have in their hand and just when they have a second copy of somtheing name it or if theirs just a problematic card name it but the deck would be absolutely awful


PirateNinjaLawyer

I feel like it was just made for the anime but was thrown in the irl game


LiefKatano

The only problem with that is that it was never in the anime.


GoddessWithblueeyes

To see eachothers next draw...


dufuslazer

To be my favorite card and hang above my monitor for all of ever


Zavalac03

I used to play this in Spyrals before we got all the support. It was a fun card in that deck


MaridAudran

I remember playing against someone who had this card on the field, and another continuous card that allowed them to guess the card I drew, and if they were right, I had to discard it to the graveyard.


BarretOblivion

Beautiful jank.


GuiltyEmergency6364

For the card on the top of the deck to be visible to both players


Piper6728

Cards like the true name, if you guess the top card you get it


Mastakillerboi

What does “turning deck upside down” even mean


PushBlock_WOOD

Literally take your deck and flip it over


DecodedShadow

Isn't their guessing cards with good effect, perhaps that 🤔


mr-blindsight

so you can see what your opponent is going to have in their hand, and play around it. or make them think you're playing around it. or mae them think you think you're playing around it, but they know, so you plan around them planning around it.


Svue016

Would you be able to use this with cards that tell you to put them at the bottom of the deck? Or no now that it's not the bottom anymore?


HyperLethalNoble6

Its to see also what your opponent is drawing also but, it one of those gimic cards


Gekkomoria

To guess parasite parasite correctly


Unluckygamer23

Some cards have positive effects if you know what the top card of your or your opponent”s deck is


DevilripperTJ

Try vera deck sylphs with this and the perma trap for earth fairies you can predict every draw phase a card name if the opponent draws it, it is sended to the grave instead ... Guessing is not to hard with a flipped deck xD


GrazingCrow

Shows both players the other player’s draw, so it’s valuable in its own right in the information game. It’s not dramatically strong but back then, the game was slow enough that it wasn’t straight terrible. Paired with Archfiend’s Oath, you could add the top card of your deck to your hand for free or dump it into the grave to control your draw.


Clemrax

I just want it for my flower cardian deck, i swear


MayhemMessiah

[Old fucks will remember](https://youtu.be/Af5emYZ5Krk?si=L-LVCVd5shikqY7x). True dueling.


Passing_wo

Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder Stun/Lockdown deck. I ran a deck utilizing this, messenger of peace and other continuous magic cards that prevents the opponent from playing, with face downs to protect my backrow. Once everything is removed of dealt with, tribute the spell cards. That was back before xyz summoning. Don't know how you'd make it now with the game being so fast.


harisha_didonato

Total anarchy


MadRabbit116

Gravekeeper's Trap lockdown


Anton_Dmitriev

I ran it in a cheesy ma'at deck


antraxsuicide

[Here's a list of 50+ cards that excavate from your deck and do "something" based on the result](https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Ask?limit=250&offset=0&q=%5B%5BClass+1%3A%3AOfficial%5D%5D+%5B%5BCard+type%3A%3AMonster+Card%5D%5D+%5B%5BActions%3A%3AExcavates+from+the+player%27s+Deck%5D%5D&p=mainlabel%3D-20-2D%2Fformat%3Dtable%2Fheaders%3D-20plain%2Fsearchlabel%3D-20...-20further-20results-20%285-20more%29%2Fclass%3D-20sortable-20fandom-2Dtable-20smwtable-20card-2Dlist&po=%3FEnglish+name+%28linked%29%0A%3FJapanese+name%0A%3FPrimary+type%0A%3FSecondary+type%0A%3FAttribute%3D%5B%5BAttribute%5D%5D%0A%3FType%3D%5B%5BType%5D%5D%0A%3FStars+string%3D%5B%5BLevel%5D%5D%2F+%5B%5BRank%5D%5D%0A%3FATK+string%3D%5B%5BATK%5D%5D%0A%3FDEF+string%3D%5B%5BDEF%5D%5D%0A&sort=&order=asc&eq=no#search) The use case is obvious, and I think eventually there will be a decent archetype that relies on excavation that'll get this thing banned lol


MegaKabutops

It’s meant to combo with divination gimmick cards (cards that let you do stuff if you guess the top card of your deck correctly, sorta like spyrals but for your own cards too). The issue is that this card is a minus 1 that does nothing else and almost all the cards it buffs are so old that they’re similarly weak.


Elegant-Stranger-215

There r cards that mess up ur opponent if u can figure out what they will draw next


SverdHerre

Does this mean putting the top cards on the bottom or legitimately grabbing your deck and flipping it upside down with all the cards face-up?


6210classick

The later. If ya would shuffle the deck, ya shuffle it face-down like normal then flip it face-up before placing it back while this card is on the field. Also, once it leaves the field, ya flip your deck back to normal without shuffling


JC11997

I mean…you could play it in a janky deck with cards that require you to know what cards are at the top of your deck, but even that’s pushing it.😅


MonsieurMidnight

Well for starter you'll get information about the top card of the opponent's deck. Even if he also get to know your top card.


I_am_an_account56

This can abuse certain mechanics such as effects where X happens if the correctly declared card name, type, attribute, etc is the top card of your deck


Vendo-Meu-Peixe

Counter parasite paracide


Artix31

You flip your decks upside down, aka, your top card can be viewed by your opponent and vice versa, it helps a lot with cards that work off the enemy/player drawing a specific card or naming a to be drawn card


Broke-Citizen

Wait, your cards in the deck aren't face-down anymore?


Artix31

Yeah, both decks are upside down, so the top card is shown


Whybotherr

It's good in a deck that foreknowledge of either your or your opponents deck would he advantageous Spyrals, mind crush, The True Name etc


metalflygon08

To give programmers a headache.


ThatOnePersonWhoDo

Funny


cabalus

Used to play this in a Ma'at deck So much fun


AloeAsInTheVera

In Magic The Gathering there is a card with a similar effect (though it only flips the top card of the deck instead of the whole deck) and it is the center of a control deck. Essentially the idea is to mill if your opponent is about to draw anything useful (or sometimes if your next draw *isn't* going to be useful) I know mill isn't as common in Yu-Gi-Oh but maybe someone could make a deck like that with this?


drblimp0909

Cards like the true name and the funny


Status_Count_2697

My sister used to run this in all of her decks when we were kids. It led to some amazing reactions at our locals


Shoddy_Tomatillo_927

Chaos


NoobJew666

Wow... I should try to get that card.


VagrantWaters

Made a deck around this card, it's one of those cards that's fun cause it alters the game in a really unexpected way. I think most people have mention solid card techs that pair with this card. So my (non-obvious) favorites was to use Phoenix Wing Blast coupled with cards that might shuffle the opponent's deck to prevent or lock them out from favorable top-decks. Plus, you can also use card effects to shuffle your deck to get closer to those "heart of the cards" moments. And yes, if Convulsion of Nature is destroyed, the entire deck gets flipped back over in the same order. Which can also be a surprise way to deny your opponent a good top-deck or to get yourself a 2nd chance draw at one.


Relevant-Sympathy

Exodia Deck where you have a monster that reads "Guess the top card of your deck than draw a card" there's multiple ways to use it, Guess the card and special summon Obelisk the Tormenter, play Adamancipator, or decks that predict your opponents deck


AC4643

well this is going in thinking everycard konami makes is good or them actually expecting people to play a card.... but i think its funny to imagine the card not actually doing anything because the cards in your deck are already face down or instead of flipping the deck you just rotate it 180° 


Poetryisalive

Long time ago, I saw spyral players using it


TinyPidgenofDOOM

Silly and also cards like Gravekeepers trap or the entire Spyral archetype FUCK HARD with this because they know whats at the top of the deck. with grave keepers trap it just sends your draw to the grave and now you dont get a draw with spyrals they proceed to combo for fucking hours because its unlimited gas for them and you lose


nejithegenius

Bm lol