Promo Cards 2002 (YGO)

So throughout the year (2002) several Promo cards were released either with Video Games or Collector's Tins.
     The video games released were "Dark Duel Stories" (which really does not follow the actual card game at all), "Forbidden Memories" (also does not follow the normal rules), and "Eternal Duelist Soul" (which did actually follow the rules). DDS and FM were still plenty of fun albeit FM was insanely difficult to really do anything in the story after 2 duels. EDS of course though was more fun because you got to practice your skills and decks against different characters in the show. Each game came with 3 Promo cards that ranged from awesome to meh. And DDS was unique because there were two sets of three that you could get. You could get either Dark Magician, BEWD, and Exodia or 3 unique cards: Seiyaryu, Acid Trap Hole, and Salamandra. I'm gonna focus on the second set for this page.

     Then we have the Collector's Tins which were great! This first round of tins featured 6 iconic cards with each being tied to one of three characters; Yugi, Kaiba and Joey. Yugi is with Dark Magician or Summoned Skull, Kaiba comes with either BEWD or Lord of D. and Joey has Red-Eyes B. Dragon or B. Skull Dragon (why can't they say "Black"? Are they racist or something?). In each tin were also 5 booster packs. 2 LBEWD, 2 Metal Raiders, and 1 Magic Ruler. So you got in total 46 cards for I believe $19.99. That's a good deal! And to boot, you had the actual tins that you could use to store all these cards plus all your old cards and any new cards you get.

The Awesome, Meh, and Stupid are going to be very short since I'm only going to rank the Video Game Promos.

Awesome:

• Seiyaryu (DDS)
• Powerful Dragon with acceptable Level 7 status to add to your collection.
• Metalmorph (FM)
• Solid way to boost ATK with a trap. Sadly, it's 1/2 ATK bonus is only when you attack.

Meh:

• Salamandra (DDS)
• Solid card but limited to FIRE Monsters.
• Graceful and Skull Dice (EDS)
• First off, each card says "Dice" in its name and yet there's only one so it should be Graceful Die and Skull Die but anyways...
• They're good for small bonuses or subtractions (depending on which you use) but they're a game of chance and the show version was just so much cooler albeit overpowered.
• Harpie's Pet Dragon (FM)
• Not the best stats for a Level 7 Dragon but if you run a Harpy Deck then it'll be boosted pretty fast.
• Exchange (EDS)
• If you know your opponent has a nice card and you have sucky ones, why not swap cards?
• Pretty situational in my opinion.
• Acid Trap Hole (DDS)
• Decent overall requirements for destroying the monster.
• Not usually worried about face-down monsters as much as face-up which makes it lesser than Trap Hole or Bottomless Trap Hole.

Stupid:

• Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon (FM)
• Points for actually using the word "Black"!!!!
• Red-Eyes with Metalmorph has the potential to get more ATK when it attacks a monster.
• Why get rid of Metalmorph's ability with REBMD? If that would be overkill, maybe not half but 1/4 of their attack or something.
• Ridiculous Summoning conditions.