Vanilla Ice Cream
-800
The Best Deck
Weeb Trash
Aleister & Pals
200

This is the only Psychic normal monster that is not a pendulum monster.

Psy-Frame Driver

200

This pendulum marks the origin of the meme

Qliphort Scout

200

This card was the first cyberse pendulum monster. 

Antihuman Intelligence ME-PSY-YA

200

Subaru Natsuki summons Darkwurm and searches a scale 0 in another world.

Supreme King Gate Re:Zero

200

This card is best known for making Isolde while dealing with hand traps

Neo Space Connector

400

This normal monster has the shortest flavor text in the game. LOOK AT THIS

Mekk-knight Avram

400

Known for its role in GOAT, this spell card received an errata making it more fair, but as a result, unplayable.

Brain Control

400

As if banning Heavymetalfoes Electrumite wasn't enough, this card was also limited to check pendulums

Servant of Endymion

400

Maka Albarn banishes her entire extra deck face-down at Death Weapon Meister Academy

Soul Eater of Millions

400

This card was quickly put to 2 after release and people assumed it would be ok, but were quickly proven wrong when the Fusion Substitute combo was discovered

Zoodiac Ratpier

600

Blue-Eyes White Dragon has the highest ATK of any normal monster in the game, but this one has the highest base stat total (ATK + DEF)

Rabidragon

600

This tuner monster lets you block attacks.

Krebons

600

This card was the first pendulum monster to be forbidden, due to its swarming capabilities combined with Luster Pendulum

Performage Plushfire

600

Major Motoko Kusanagi pays 500 life points to add more copies of herself to Public Security Section 9

Ghost in the Volcanic Shell

600

This WATER monster saw play in an old hero variant that made Bahamut Shark

Tin Goldfish

800

One of only 10 normal tuner monsters (not counting pendulums), this card has the highest DEF of any level 1 tuner in the game

Flamvell Guard

800

This card was forbidden for presumably the same reasons as Vanity's Emptiness

Royal Opression

800

This is the highest scaled pendulum monster in the game

Supreme King Gate Infinity

800

Mikey Fudo gains the power to fuse with Digimon in his deck in this 2012 anime produced by Toei

Digimon Shaddoll Fusion

800

One of the short printed secrets in its side set, this card is part of an archetype that requires you carefully manage your card placement.

The Weather Painter Snow

1000
Gunkan Suship Shari has the longest flavor text of any normal monster. This one has the second.

Noble Knight Artorgius

1000

This card was infamous for its role in an infinite loop to assemble the 5 pieces of Exodia.

Mind Master

1000

This card was used as a niche tech against sky striker by preventing players from activating spell cards

Amorphage Lechery

1000

A certain zombie ritual monster looks for a cure after his little sister is turned into a demon.

Revendread Demon Slayer

1000

This level 2 tuner in an archetype that doesn't have any synchro monsters in the TCG was limited for one format in 2012, put to 2 in September of that year, then released a year later.

The Agent of Mystery - Earth