Yugioh Metal Raiders - The Second Booster Pack Ever!

Metal Raiders contains more, and above all, significantly more powerful cards than the 1st main set (LOB). But here too, we have incredibly beautiful, rare, and nostalgic cards with various rarities. The entire set contains a total of 144 different cards, which are divided as follows:

Now let's get to the 2 Secret Rare cards, the first Counter Trap cards, the first Hand Trap, the Meta changing cards, and much more!

The next 2 cards on this list are monsters that were played in pretty much every deck for many years and changed the meta significantly over time. Even today, you very rarely see at least one of the two in use in one deck or another!

Witch of the Black Forest & Sangan have seen an incredible amount of play in Yu-Gi-Oh!. With both, you had the opportunity to search certain monsters from the deck to the hand relatively quickly. At the same time, they were also very good as protection. You could also use both monsters very well in combination with cards that required a monster as a tribute, etc. Later, they were also popular in combination with the Monarchs and could be summoned from the deck with Mystic Tomato, a monster that was only released in the next main set. These 2 "searchers" only really became a problem when the game-changing set "Invasion of Chaos" was released. After a while, the Witch was banned, and Sangan was limited to 1. In the meantime, both cards have received a so-called "Errata", which weakened their effects, and thus both cards are allowed at 3 again. Even if they are hardly played anymore, you still see Sangan in action here and there, even if it is very rare!

Change of Heart (Ultra Rare), Mirror Force (Ultra Rare), and Heavy Storm (Super Rare) are 3 more incredibly strong cards that were also a must-have for every deck. These 3 cards are/were powerful anyway, but especially when you compare them to the cards available up to that point, they were simply far too strong and therefore indispensable. It didn't take long before Konami limited/banned these cards. All 3 cards were quickly limited to 1. Eventually, both Change of Heart and Heavy Storm were banned. While Mirror Force is now allowed at 3 again and is hardly played, Heavy Storm is still banned today! Change of Heart was also not allowed until recently but managed to make its comeback in 2022 and is now limited to 1.

With Thunder Dragon, you could already generate good card advantage back then. You discarded it through its own effect and added 2 more copies from the deck to your hand. If you also had "Graceful Charity", you could draw 3 cards and discard the remaining 2 Thunder Dragons, which was very effective. Along with Thunder Dragon, the Fusion Monster "Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon" was also released in MRD. So if you had a Thunder Dragon + the Fusion Spell card "Polymerization" in hand, you could directly summon Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon from the Fusion Deck. However, Thunder Dragon only became actively played when (who would have thought) the game-changing set "Invasion of Chaos" was released. Because in addition to the combination with "Graceful Charity", you could use the dragon very effectively in combination with the Chaos monsters.

However, it is actually the case that Thunder Dragon can even be played in meta-viable decks today, in 2023! In addition, many other Thunder Dragons have been released over time. Who would have thought that back then?

Now we come to the last Meta card of the set! A card that was also played in pretty much every deck for several years.

When you read the short effect text of this magician, you immediately realize how incredibly strong she must have been in the old Yu-Gi-Oh! format. Magician of Faith was truly a powerhouse. The fact that you could recycle any Spell card from the graveyard with this monster was simply too powerful. Considering how many incredibly strong Spell cards already existed at the time, such as Pot of Greed, Graceful Charity, Heavy Storm, Raigeki, and so on. You can't even list them all. In addition, more and more strong Spell cards were released with subsequent sets. Magician of Faith was therefore welcome in every deck, and no less than three times!

Today, you don't see this card at all anymore, as Flip monsters are generally too slow for the Meta Game. Who knows if that will change one day!

Even though Magician of Faith was a key card in many decks and could decide many games in combination with Spell cards, we don't want to end this blog with her. Because we have kept one very important, iconic monster for the end. It is a very popular monster from the anime, which was often used by the main character Yami Yugi. Although the card never had anything to do with the Meta, it is still one of the favorite cards of many Yu-Gi-Oh! fans and should not be missing from any collection. But that's enough words, because the artwork of this nostalgic card definitely says more than 1000 words. Here we go!