Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG: Top 10 Best Fiend Monsters of All Time

Fiend monsters are often horrific, dark, evil creatures. Usually, they're demons or ghosts, and most have the Dark attribute.

These monsters have been relevant since the first few days of Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG, and many of them are still popular in the format to this day.

Check out below the top 10 best Fiend monsters in Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG!

10 - Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis

Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis is very useful to deal with towers and monsters with 3000 or more ATK. In the current format, it is a good way to counter Ryzeal Detonator, the most important monster of the best deck in the game right now.

9 - Underworld Goddess of the Closed World

Underworld Goddess of the Closed World also works really well against towers. It doesn't disable their effects like "TY-PHON", but it lets you use one enemy monster as material to summon it. Unlike the previous card, it is also an out for unaffected monsters, so that's why it occupies our 9th place.

8 - Knightmare Phoenix

Knightmare Phoenix is a generic out for any face down or face up spell/trap. Considering most players only use backrow removals in their side deck, this card is often essential in game 1 against trap decks or any deck that uses annoying floodgates.

7 - Phantom of Yubel

Phantom of Yubel is the main card of its archetype nowadays. Yubel might not be the best deck in the format anymore, but it is still one of the best tier 2 decks around. Phantom of Yubel is one of the main reasons why, as it makes this deck a lot more powerful and resilient.

6 - Moon of the Closed Heaven

Moon of the Closed Heaven is one of the main reasons why the Fiendsmith engine is as generic as it is. That's because it is the only generic extra deck Fiend monster with the Light attribute, so any deck that can put 2 monsters in play can summon it, get Fiendsmith's Requiem and start the combo.

5 - Chaos Hunter

Chaos Hunter is a very well-positioned handtrap in the current format. Its continuous effect, which prevents your opponent from banishing cards, is perfect to counter Maliss, one of the best decks in the metagame. As a result, Chaos Hunter is quite popular in the side decks of many players.

4 - A Bao A Qu, the Lightless Shadow/Knightmare Gryphon

A Bao A Qu, the Lightless Shadow is quite new, but has already conquered space in the meta. It is popular in Maliss nowadays, as part of a combo whose goal is to lock your opponent with Knightmare Gryphon's effect. Both cards are tied in our fourth place because of this.

3 - D/D/D Wave High King Caesar

D/D/D Wave High King Caesar is what we can call the final product of the Fiendsmith combo. When you put it in play, the decks that use this engine gain a powerful negate effect that also lets you special summon a monster, like Nibiru, the Primal Being, for instance.

2 - Chaos Angel

Chaos Angel is a powerful tower that is incredibly well-positioned in the current meta. One of the reasons why is that, besides the fact it is an excellent out against Ryzeal Detonator, the main decks in the format also don't have an easy out to deal with it. They often have to rely on cards outside their main engines to do it.

1 - Fiendsmith Engraver

Fiendsmith Engraver is the most important card in the Fiendsmith engine, as, besides being a starter, it recycles Fiend Light monsters from your graveyard, so it makes this archetype's grind game quite interesting. Besides this, "Engraver" is a 1-card combo that summons Chaos Angel and can defeat a possible enemy Ryzeal Detonator. Because of its power and versatility, "Engraver" occupies our first place.

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