Spell Ruler Yugioh - the third Yugioh set ever

Spell Ruler had slightly fewer cards to offer than the previous set "Metal Raiders". But much stronger! SRL contains a total of 131 different maps. Specifically:

Here again we have two extremely short card texts, but they are so unfair that we no longer understand the world.

Strong Sentry puts an opponent's hand card back on the deck. You can even see your opponent's entire hand, and you can choose the card yourself.

In the case of confiscation, it goes more in the direction of a criminal duo. Here, too, you first pay 1000 Life Points to discard a card from your opponent's hand to the graveyard. Unlike criminal duo , you only discard one card, but in this case, as in "Strong Sentry", you can also look at the opponent's hand and choose the respective card yourself!

By now everyone can probably imagine how frustrating it must have been to have played at the time when all 3 of these cards were allowed, and even unlimited!

There they would be! The next 3 spell cards that are still on the list of forbidden cards today! This brings us to 6 forbidden cards that only come from this one set! Konami was really serious about Spell Ruler, throwing out all the unfair ideas at the same time. These cards could really have been released at least spread over several sets.

With snap steel you could just like that, permanently take over any open monster of the opponent. In return, the opponent received 1000 Life Points in each round. So again "costs" that cannot be taken seriously. Definitely an extremely powerful effect, but that would be perfectly fine in this day and age if Snap Steel wasn't an equipment spell card. Because these can be taken with certain cards, specifically from the deck to the hand.

Spoiled for choice would really completely destroy everything today. With this card you get one card from the deck to the hand, and the remaining 4 to the graveyard. In this day and age, this card would be by far the strongest spell card in the entire game.

Also Giant Trunade is and remains locked away. The card simply allows too much, as all the spell and trap cards are sent from the field to the hand. The problem is rather that you get your own cards back into your hand, which can lead to very unfair combinations.

Again, we have short map texts. Very short! We would like to mention this more often, because such short map texts are unimaginable with modern maps. In the meantime, the card texts are really incredibly long! Nevertheless, the cards were extremely powerful at that time, in some cases even more powerful than today's cards, as we saw earlier.

The effect of upstart Goblin seems pretty harmless, if not bad, at first glance. But this card is so good that it's still limited to 1 today! Why? Because it's in Yu-Gi-Oh! It's too good if you can just draw cards and make your deck "faster". The minimum number of deck cards is 40. So, for example, if you were to play this card 3 times, you would basically only have 37 deck cards left, and would thus get to your key cards / combos even faster. Hence the limit!

Mystical Space Typhoon, on the other hand, is allowed 3 times today, but was also limited to 1 in the past! At that time, a lot of trap cards were played, so that cards like these, or Heavy Storm, Harpies, Bats, etc. were quite annoying. Nowadays it's very different, so Mystic Space Typhoon is basically no longer played at all!