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Win Con Death Triggers These are what the Aristocrats decks are built around, death triggers that kill opposing players, so why aren't they #1

SR Super Rare Lionhearted Locomotive X EARTH Level 4 [ MachineEffect ] ATK 2400 DEF 2100 When this card declares an attack: Its ATK becomes half its original ATK until the end of the Damage Step

Krile Baldesion Krile Baldesion requires a careful deck builder so that you turn as many noncreature spells into gravedigger effects

Phyrexian Metamorph This is an awesome, super flexible card

I think another factor as well is that by the time Yu-Gi-Oh was growing popular, Pokemon popularity & hype was starting to die down among the generation who largely experienced it