Even Yu-Gi-Oh! isn't safe from joke cards, and we're not talking about meme cards but actual useless, laugh out loud, and weird cards straight from the makers that are memes in themselves. Many have either weird titles or useless abilities that have no benefit other than to troll friends with them.

Other cards just look like they lost all creative juices or were made off of such a specific character in the anime that no one would want to be so that character gets lost in history with only his weird cards left behind. The designs themselves are extremely over the top no matter what it is, that's for sure. So here are some of the best joke cards in Yu-Gi-Oh!

Updated November 7th, 2020 by Johnny Garcia:So many amazing new sets are coming to the game of Yu-Gi-Oh! Maximum Gold is giving us tons of new reprints of powerful cards, many of which formerly had incredibly high price tags. Sets like Phantom Rage and Blazing Vortex are upon us as well, giving fantastic legacy support and imports from the OCG that are meta staples. The metagame is about to go through a giant shift with the upcoming sets, enabling both budget and high paying players alike. With Remote Duels constantly growing, Duelists will be able to use these cards right away.

15 Pot Of Generosity

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It's no secret Pot of Greed has a long history in Yu-Gi-Oh! Due to that, Konami decided to print a parody card of it, Pot of Generosity. Pot of Generosity has the opposite effect of Pot of Greed, as it forces you to put two cards back into your deck and shuffle it.

There's pretty much no time you would ever want to do something like this, especially in Yu-Gi-Oh! where card advantage is so important. It's certainly a funny card, however, and one of the many hilarious parody cards in the game's catalog.

14 Tardy Orc

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Tardy Orc is a card that on its own isn't anything special, with its only effect being that it can't attack the turn it is Normal Summoned. The story behind Tardy Orc is what's so funny about it.

The previous Set before Tardy Orc was released was Order of Chaos, which was shortened to ORCS. However, there weren't any orcs in that set despite that. So, they decided to print Tardy Orc in the next Set, Galatic Overlord, as if the orc was late to the party. And yes, this was confirmed by Konami themselves.

13 Symbol of Friendship

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Everyone knows how the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime uses friendship very frequently. This often coincides with the power of "Heart of the Cards" moments to make for some of the cheesiest wins by pulling the exact card they need to win a duel. This is exactly what the card Symbol of Friendship is based on.

It's an incredibly specific activation requirement, requiring it to be drawn in the Draw Phrase while the opponent controls three or more Monsters. You also can't control any Monsters and it has to be activated the turn you draw it. It will then allow you to make your own anime moment by picking out any card from your deck and adding it to your hand.

12 The Humble Sentry

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The Humble Sentry is a parody card of one of the best Yu-Gi-Oh! cards ever released, The Forceful Sentry. Hand looping (the act of taking a card out of a player's hand and getting rid of it) is incredibly powerful, and The Forceful Sentry has been banned for years.

The Humble Sentry has the exact same effect as The Forceful Sentry, but it affects you instead. Not only do you reveal your entire hand to the opponent and give them free knowledge, but you also lose two cards in the process, both the card itself and the card it shuffles back into the deck.

11 Foolish Revival

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Foolish Burial is one of the greatest cards in Yu-Gi-Oh! that has ever been printed. The parody card of it, however, is one of the worst cards the game has ever seen. Foolish Revival forces you to special summon a Monster from the opponent's Graveyard to their side of the Field in Defense Position.

This gives them a free body on their board, which can be used for any kind of Extra Deck material. As if Foolish Revival couldn't get worse, it's also a Trap card, meaning it's not only bad but incredibly slow to be able to use.

10 Cold Feet

Cold feet is just the coward card when you want to show you're a coward duelist. "Hey, I'm going to play this card that makes it so I can't do anything to get a leg up in the game." It's silly because it's a card that will negatively affect only yourself and you have to play it. Most cards are designed around activation so the card has no use strategically. Even it's picture design is fitting as it shows someone freezing to death, that's the person playing the card. The only real use is to stop a trap card if it's about to be countered.

9 Humpty Grumpty

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It looks like a Titan from Attack on Titan if you turned one into an egg. Apparently, it's part devil too with its mini wings that could never give this egg flight and the little horns that would be horrible for any sort of offense.

It also has T-Rex issues with its hands that can't reach past its body. Humpty Dumpty is usually portrayed as an egg, so this must be his insane cousin that no one invites over to parties. The best question on this design is who put Humpty Grumpty's nose ring in?

8 D-Boyz

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This obviously is a very bad attempt at being trendy in the 90s-2000s. It's the equivalent to making a Hipster card, where the picture on the card is just a blue guy with a big beard, Nike clothing, and a fedora. The worst part of this card is using its special ability which does 1000 points of damage every time you summon another D-Boyz card from it. With 100 attack it's not even useful as fodder.

7 People Running About

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This is one of those "Running out of ideas," cards. The name of the card barely makes it a monster card as this would have made way more sense as a trap or spell card. One of the oddest things about this card is the statement on it "They run around in silence..."

In other words, they are silently running about, imagine that right now if you and all your friends just started running around in circles quietly. The idea is hilarious especially being a monster card, where the goal is to attack. so the monster is just a bunch of people silently running around and accidentally bumping into another monster.

6 Hungry Burger

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Hungry Burger. It's just a cartoon villain from a Saturday morning cartoon that has no creativity. It comes from "Oh, but what if food eats YOU" thought processes. It's hard to gauge its size as well, this could be the size of a murder burger. So just imagine this tiny palm-sized burger running around and trying to bite fools that go near it like some sort of venus fly trap. 2000 attack point on that mini murder burger, that fool is dead.

5 Overworked

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Gee, it's such a mystery on where this concept came from. It's almost like it's a call for help from the Yu-Gi-Oh! card designers. You can even see it with the computer screen blowing up at an office worker at a late midnight hour, blasting his glasses off. Nah, it must just be a card, totally that. Either way, it's a pretty decent card against cards that power themselves up. Plus you get to laugh in the person's face mockingly that they're overworking their cards.

4 Tatsunootoshigo

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This thing is a whole level of crazy. You can see it in the look of its face, blank staring eyes and tongue out like a charging dog towards a mailman. Add on that its fish-behind like some sort of horse mermaid with a front half with hooves.

Imagine this thing charging at you out of nowhere with it's behind flopping all about, tongue flying around in the air, jumping up and down to move forward using its front hooves. Good luck warning someone this thing is charging at them with how long its name is, it's a tongue twister for many. The biggest question here is whether it smells like a barn or like fish?

3 Doom Donuts

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This is another, they lost all interest in new ideas card. What's less fearsome than a donut? The "Overworked" designer must have been hungry designing this one because it could have as easily been called a ring and made more sense. Because how is a pastry going to kill everything with 0 attack, get itself swallowed? It's hilarious that this passed as donut and ring because that could have easily been a translation mix up too.

2 Ojama Yellow

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This is the card of nightmares, whatever your sleep paralysis demon was, it is now Ojama Yellow now and forever. The pose, the drool, the leotard, Yu-Gi-Oh! cards can be nightmarish a lot, but this thing is pure disgusting evil. You can't help but look at how bad this thing looks, it's like a slimy snail grew legs and became a big fat pervert. It has 0 attack, making it combatively useless, Ojama's best use is freaking out your friends and making joke decks. Ojama Yellow takes the cake as the ugliest Yu-Gi-Oh! Card ever.

1 Gift Card

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It's a good card for if you feel bad about your opponent. If you're sorry you hurt them you can literally give them a free 1000 points of health. This is strategically useless for the most part unless you have a very specific card or have such an inexperienced opponent you just want to make half your deck Giftcards so that they have more health.

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