Archfiend's Advent's effect to take control of an opponents monster sounds like a reference to whenever Yugi used Brain Control while having Summoned Skull in play during his duel against Rebecca after Duelist Kingdom
@@flamesaur8896 he didnt use Summoned Skull against Mako. He used Horn and Feral Imp, Giant Soldier Of Stone and Curse Of Dragon in that duel but not Summoned Skull
I actually think that might be a reference to way back when it was first played in the manga in Vs Kaiba 1 were Kaiba tried to destroy it with Blue eyes only for Blue eyes to self destruct (being stolen from Yugi's grandpa) with Yugi winning the next turn by re-summoning it with Monster Reborn.
I want Buster Blader and Dark Magician Girl in this archetype. Yugi had the former in his deck when he dueled Atem, and like Dark Magician, added the latter back to his deck in DSOD.
buster blader, dark magician girl, gaia, curse of dragon, BLS, Valkyrion the magna warrior. There are so many monsters that could be added, heck give magician of black chaos another retrain
For obvious choices to add to the archeype, the magnet warriors, Valkyrion, and the magnet trap should be retrained. These cards were what brought down the Egyptian god cards, so it's weird that they didn't get retrains either. Yugi also used Buster Blader and Curse of Dragonfire during the ceremonial duel so that would make sense.
I think it would be great to add them as Valkyrion as a fusion monster that requires 3 monster that mentions golden sarcophagus, and it could have a lifepoint gaining effect that happens if a monster attack changes or burn occures, and or an effect that makes monsters untargetable or redirect effects And the 3 magnet warrior should be one card like the 3 gadgets with a fusion helping effect.
They didn’t do it in the manga, but I agree, I’d love to see the magnet warriors, buster blader, curse of dragon, maybe even blockman and witch of the black forest get retrains
We need more archetypes like this that connect the often chaotic deck compositions of early characters into a cohesive and functional thing…. Now we just need an equivalent for Kaiba that links his Blue-Eyes cards with all his other odds and ends (Swordstalker, Sagi, Mystical Elf, Obelisk, etc…) Edit: Also ones for the other anime characters with otherwise chaotic deck compositions that REALLY wouldn’t hold up well in the actual game.
Kaiba's decks are allowed to have a coherent identity and strategy and a place within TCG lore as independent archetypes instead of just being a hodgepodge of completely unrelated monsters that get forced into being "a deck" because "it's a card Kaiba used." Fitting that Kaiba decks can be purebred while Joey's deck is a mutt.
Turn Silence’s effect, as seen in the card art is specifically in reference to the duel with Bakura, where Yugi used Turn Jumps effect to negate the damaging effect of the Trap-Monster Zoma the Spirit and increase Silent Swordsman LV1’s level to 4. He did also use Turn Jump against Depres and Atem but this card is specifically referencing the duel against Bakura. Fitting since in the main canon this duel is where most of these cards were introduced and all
Could see a good few choices for future additions to this series/archetype. - Dark Magician Girl's an obvious choice, perhaps paired with the other Magician Girls from Dark Side of Dimensions. - The Magnet Warriors and/or Valkyrion could be good, especially with some effect theming around Yugi's play involving them to destroy the Egyptian Gods. - Gaia and Curse of Dragon have some potential, maybe involving Catapult Turtle too or maybe Atem's play in the last duel with Swift Gaia. - And for a few other iconic ones: Buster Blader; Watapon; Giant Soldier of Stone (perhaps with some Attack the Moon referencing) and Celtic Guardian.
I fucking love this archetype. It went full balls to the wall on the idea of making a deck that has as many random monsters possible synergize. As well as having their names still be unique but shared an archetype though an effect. It's what I want more decks to do in the future. Especially with Yusei and his deck of random cards, or even Joey. Heck make it a deck based on a upgrade of Heart of the Underdog! (Yes I know it's a filler joke but it's such a good concept for a Joey deck to be based on Underdog cards.
I love how each of the monsters of the Shining Sarcophagus archetype have gold armour/gold themes in their artworks. Also Silent Magician Zero’s effect where it can increase its level and has another effect based on its level increase is kinda like how the Fortune Lady monsters increase their levels by one and each gain attack by their level times a certain amount. Please do the Libromancer archetype next
I just noticed: The bird-like figures on Gold Sarcophagus are facing inward towards each other, while the bird-like figures on Shining Sarcophagus are facing outward away from each other.
Which is a REALLY fun bit of lore in card design. The Gold Sarcophagus, designed to contain the pieces of the Millennium Puzzle, would obviously have the decorative birds facing one another; the gods are looking towards the puzzle box, because Atem, a pharaoh, is inside. The Shining Sarcophagus, meanwhile, doesn't have anything of importance sealed inside yet. In fact, it's being used to unseal Atem and send him to the afterlife he's been denied. So, the gods have no reason to watch an empty box.
Isn’t it also a reference to the Ark of the Covenant? The angels facing into the ark bowing down to God and his laws (the Ten Commandments) housed within the Ark.
people have said it already, but ill put them together here. Archfiend's effects reference the anime effect of Summoned Skull. Summoned Skull raised the attack of Yugis Magnet monsters with its electricity. The monster stealing effect might be a reference to how both Joey and Pegasus used it against Yugi by using effects to take control of it.
7:14 I saw two comments that mentioned where Archfeind Advent's effects came from. I guess the brain control in the duel with Rebecca kinda works, but I think the attack gain is against Seeker (the exodia player in battle city) when Alpha the magnet warrior gained attack from summoned skull. Side note, it's really funny that Alpha the magnet warrior just won a duel without the other magnet warriors on the field. 15:21 I'd love to see the magnet warriors get added to the deck.
There was only one time that comes to mind for summoned skull. When yugi battled the rare hunter in battle city summoned skull boosted his magnet warrior’s attack points by 200
My best guess without researching further as to why the new Summon Skull lookalike steals an opponent's monster is, skull archfiend of lighting was apart of the archfiend archetype; and they had a card called falling down. Falling down stole an opponent's monster which was good, but had archetype specific requirements otherwise. There's that theory and in the old yugioh gba games, nearly everyone had summon skull and brain control in their deck(s), because it was so good. You were hard pressed if you didn't see that combo, namely Yugi Muto and Weevil of all people.
The atk boost effect from the new skull is when it boosted alpha the magnet warrior in the exodia duel the taking an opponents monster effect I'm not sure
Archfiends Advent is a reference to Yugi's Brain Control card. It does the same effect that lasts until the End Phase, before going back to the opponent, just without taking Life Point Damage.
I’m so happy you finally covered my first physical deck! I really hope they give more retrains into this archetype based on the final duel…Gaia, BMG, Buster Blader, maybe a monster with all 3 Magnet Warriors on it haha
As we've seen other cards from already existing archetypes used I am working under the assumption that anything is on the table. Buster Blader, Curse of Dragonfire and the Magnet Warrior are the first ones that come to mind as they were used in the duel itself. However one combo he used in the duel was when one of his monsters was destroyed and he used the card Soul Rope to summon Witch of The Black Forest who was used to summon Summoned Skull (I Think?) and adding Marshmallon to his hand. She's not a popular card seen, but it would be cool to see a retrain of her and maybe soul rope? Use the Soul Rope when a monster that mentions shining sarcophagus is destroyed by battle or card effect to special summon a level four or lower monster from the deck that mentions shining sarcophagus. Then have the witch's effect be something along the line of if this card is sent to the graveyard add a level four or lower monster that mentions shining sarcophagus from your deck to your hand. You can tribute this card, special summon 1 level 5 or higher monster that mentions shining sarcophagus from your deck.
OKAY! So, I did some digging on why Summoned Skull might have that specific ability to steal control of a monster. And… I only have two best guesses 😂 Guess 1) Summoned Skull appears to have been used multiple times by other people like Joey and Pegasus. They use Monster Reborn or Grave Robber to use him against Yugi, so theoretically it’s like Summoned Skull is getting revenge. Or Guess 2) It’s a reference to capsule monsters where Grandpa used him. The entire story arc was about a Pokémon style Yugioh spinoff, so fighting a creature only for it to be on your side eventually is what Pokémon’s all about. Other than that, that’s all I’ve got in the vein of theories 🤣
The summoned skull effects is from duelest kingdom when the Pharoah said something along the lines of summoned skulls electric energy is raised by the Makiu card he played. I think.
It’d be cool if we got the magnet warriors in this series. Some things they could do: 1. Make the magnets a trio like the gadgets, with an effect that references how Yugi used them in a combo to wipe out Atem’s god cards. 2. Do the trio idea, but also have Valkyrion referenced in a spell/trap, like how the older versions of Silent Magician/Swordsman are. 3. Have Valkyrion as another big boss of the deck, with effects referencing moments in the anime that Yugi used the magnets.
My big guess is a trio of the base 3 magnets as a monster. As for valkyrion I think it would be in a spell/trap that would reference that one trap that revived it and increased levels of revived monster
@@kevinbell5674 they literally have in rush duels though. Clearly atleast some part of konami company realized that "main deck contact fusions" dont work compared to an extra deck one.
So I really have to throw out my thanks man. For the *longest* time I've been trying to assemble 8 decks that represented all different characters of the Duel Monsters series and this gave me my 8th. Kudos, mate. Still really wish they'd give us an Orichalcos archetype though :p
Dark magician girl,Buster blader,BLS/GAIA,Kuriboh are what i would like to see most But it be cool if we got references to the god cards like statues of them or stone tablets (most likely never gonna happen)
Archfiend's increase atk point boost was most likely relates to when alpha the Magnet Warrior got boosted in yugi/atem's first duel in battle city against that exodia rare hunter
I fell in love with this series/archetype when it came out in Legacy of Destruction and am so happy the new support is finally out, it's very fun to play and the potential for damage and board control is insane. Hopefully we'll get new support sooner than later!
Thinking Archfiend Advent’s effects are references to Yugi’s duel against the Exodia Rare Hunter when Summoned Skull powered up Alpha The Magnet Warrior. Switching control…..duel against the Paradox Brothers switching Dark Magician with Black Skull Dragon with Mystic Box to beat Gate Guardian? Not sure sure lol
It would be amazing to see a Shining sarcophagus version of the Dark Magician Girl, and maybe the Black Buster Soldier. Maybe to show Joe's and Yugi's Friendship maybe a Shining Red Eye's Black Dragon monster (that can protect all other monsters or maybe 1 monster that you control by battle and card effect for the turn, to referents how Yugi tried to protect Joe and Tristan by a bully even after Joe was mean to Yugi at the start. Like if he was returning the favour.)
Idc if it’s just nostalgia bait this is a super awesome archetype idea and the references were so intentional it’s awesome. A card they have to add absolutely has to reference the way yugioh beat the god cards with the magnet warriors
Cant wait for Dark Magician Girl, and the Jack, Queen, and Kings Kights, to make it into this archtype, with thier own support. Plus i could see Gaia, Buster Bladder, Mystical Elf, another Kuriboh, this deck just has so much potential for versitility. Lets not forget that theres even potential for new Magical Hats as well as other spells and traps Yugi is known for.
Notice Mirror Force didn't get the explanation Dark Magician did since it was used by Atem in the final duel (though it can be seen in that scene from DSOD with Yugi in the game shop). Duelist Kingdom rules automatically inflicting damage when Monsters were destroyed by effects is true, but that wasn't the case with Mirror Force. It's called Mirror Force because it reflected attacks back at the opponent's monsters with damage calculation applied normally and did so throughout the first 4 seasons of the anime (including as Mirror Force Dragon's effect) and only used its real world effect of destroying Attack Position monsters by effect in season 5. Weevil's insect swarm extermination was notable as the first appearance of Mirror Force, but also the first error as 2 monsters with the same attack were counted once, which means Weevil should've lost at that point.
I hope we get more cards supporting this deck. All of the monsters for the deck so far appeared during the Ceremonial Duel. There’s still a handful of monsters that can be made for the deck.
Archfiend's Advent's effect of taking control of an opponent's Monster could be a reference to the first time Yami Yugi summoned it in his original duel with Kaiba in the manga. Kaiba tried to use the Blue-Eyes he stole from Yugi's Grandpa on him, but it refused to obey Kaiba's command because it didn't recognize him as his owner, allowing Yugi to clutch the victory with Summoned Skull.
Kind of wishing they'd do something similar but with Joey's deck. I can't be the only one who thinks it'd be pretty badass to get retrains of some of Joey's classic Monsters like Axe Raider, Battle Warrior, Time Wizard, Baby Dragon, Jinzo, Rocket Warrior, Little Windguard, Panther Warrior and Swordsman of Landstar.
The atk boost from Archfiend could just be running theme from the other Summoned Skulls cards, the xyz, synchro, ritual, fusion variants, they all boost other summoned skulls by 500. Those cards also have the same naming theme, "Archfiend's Ascent, Archfiend's Manifestation", etc etc. Also its a reach, but theirs a Archfiend spell card called Falling Down, a snatch steal type of spell card that needs a Archfiend monster on the field to use.
Archfiends advent effect refers to the duel of yugi vs seeker/rare hunter. when yugi used summoned skulls lightning to power up alpha the magnet warrior. Since summoned skulls had already attacked in episode 67
I think the next step honestly would be for the archetype to start introducing extra deck cards like a retrained Gaia the Dragon Champion. Some other cards I think we’ll see get retrained into the Gold Sarc. Archetype are: -Magical Hats (maybe a quickplay spell version like the anime) -Gaia the Fierce Knight -Curse of Dragon -Celtic Guardian -Spellbinding Circle -The Face Cards (maybe like Gadget Trio we get a “Royal Court Trio”) -Black Luster Soldier
So this archetype is not to be confused with the "King's Sarcophagus" and "Horus" cards that have been plaguing Master Duel in recent months. The ones where they get sent to the GY, special summon themselves while King's Sarcophagus is on the field, the monsters cannot be destroyed while KS is on the field, and if KS is destroyed, the Horus monsters activate a whole bunch of effects, and then them being Lv7 they bring out some of the most overpowered Xyz monsters, or become materials for spamable Link monsters. could you make a video explaining this specific archetype and their playstyle?
Archfiend's Advent's effects are references to other Summoned Skull retrain cards and generic "archfiend" related cards--the 500 attack point boost is a reference to the fusion re-train, "Archfiend's Manifestation" which boosts the attack points of all "Summoned Skull" monsters by 500; the second effect to take control of an opponent's monster is a reference to the Archfiend-archetype equip-spell "Falling Down," which equips itself to an opponent's monster to let you take control of it, but "Falling Down" will destroy itself if you do not control an "Archfiend" card.
I think Summoned Skull’s retrained archetype effect to make other monsters gain attack points is a reference to the duel of Yugi vs Seeker in the Battle City Arc where Summoned Skull powers up Alpha The Magnet Warrior’s attack points to finish Seeker off.
Archfiend Advent There were a number of duels in early Duel Monsters where Brain Control was used the same duel as Summoned Skull. Vs Rebecca it was used while he was on the field. The ATK bonus is a reference to Yugi's first duel in Battle City where Summoned Skull powers up Alpha the Magnet Warrior to finish off the Rare Hunter
Easily the magnet warriors or buster blader. As for others (I’d say oddball choices) would be neat if the added magician of black chaos, breaker the magical warrior and possibly red eyes. Circling back to the buster blader they could even add a fusion where it’s a retrain of dark paladin.
Archfiend's advent attack boosting effect sounds like a version of seal of orichalcos. Even though afak he never used summons skull in waking the dragons arc
It's not a solo yugi card, but a version of BLS that ALSO scales off of the levels of the tributed monsters would be very cool. Having S!Swordsman and S!Magician grow with their levels is cool, but it's not functional for synchro or xyz summon... I feel like they set this up nicely for a very unique ritual summon. Also, while we are at it, a retrain of Silent Paladin that's actually decent would be appreciated. 👌
I don't think we can give Konami enough praise for this decision because it allows people who were fans of the anime to play this "Yugi deck" while not being a total brick of a deck and allowing old players to comeback to the game with a deck that they can recognize. Plus the synergy with all these cards, art call backs, and effects really truly makes you feel like the King Of Games.
When Yugi summoned the summoned skull during his last duel with the Pharaoh, I think he attacks Gaia and the gang talks about how surreal it is to see Yugi’s monsters fighting each other. That might be what the “take control of an opponent’s monster” effect references
Idea for a Joey version of this: risky roulette series. For the staple card: Risky Roulette. Effects: 1) after an initial die is rolled, or a coin is flipped(except by this card’s effect) you can force a do over 2) twice per turn if a Gemini monster is on the field its effects can be activated without using an additional summon. Then flip a coin. -Heads: special summon 1 Gemini monster or one monster that mentions risky roulette. -Tails: send one card from your hand to the graveyard at random. 3) if this card would be removed from play by opponent card effects: flip a coin. -H: negate the effect and if you do banish that card and one card from your deck for x(based on die roll) turns, then add those cards to hand. -T: this card is banished along with 2 cards from your hand or field. For some ruling purposes, the effects are per card. Thus if you have 2 risky roulettes you can redo a flip caused by the other one. If anyone wants to add anything , write the original card name and then the new effect it would have. The effect would need to A) relate back to the card in manga/anime. B) be gambling related. C) be a Gemini effect.
I love this. I’m a little tired of archetypes where every monster looks similar and has the archetype keyword in its name. I loved the hodgepodge nature of early Yugioh and this brings it back a bit. I hope they make similar things for more characters
Valkyrion the Titanium Magna Warrior Level 8 EARTH Rock 3500 ATK 3850 DEF if you control “Shining Sarcophagus”: you can special summon this card from your hand in defense position, and if your LP are lower than your opponent’s, gain 2000 LP. During the main phase: you can tribute this card; Special Summon up to 3 Level 4 or lower monsters that mention “Shining Sarcophagus”, that are banished, or in the GY. You cannot special summon monsters from the extra deck for the rest of this turn. When You can only use each effect of “Valkyrion the Titanium Magna Warrior” once per turn.
Archdiend's Advent's attack increase references when atem used summon skull to increase his magnet warrior's attack to go for game during his duel against the rare hunter that had exodia
the summoned skull retrains attack boosting effect could be a reference to the duel with the exodia rare hunter where summoned skull boosted alpha's attack to do the damage needed to win
14:35 this was actually very helpful because it confirmed for me that these monsters can go higher than level 12, as noted by the level 20 Silent Magician Zero
I think the effect of adding 500 atk points from the new Summoned Skull comes from when it boosted one of the Magnet Warriors when a Yugi was dueling the Rare Hunter with the Exodia Deck
Archfiend Advents effect is likely a reference to brain control like another person commented but also the attack gain might be connected to anime moments like how Summoned Skull's lightning powered up Alpha the Magnet Warriors attack during the Rare Hunter duel.
Summon skull added attack points to another monster in Yuki first battle city dual against seeker. He didn’t take control of the monster, but he raised Alpha the magnet Warriors attack points because of plants.
I feel the first effect of Archfiend's Advent is reference to when Atem beat a Monster because his attack was doubled because he had lightning and Weevil's monster was wet That 500 extra only, of course
Dark Magician Girl seems the most likely candidate for another Shining form. Could also say Curse of Dragon, Buster Blader, the Face Knights or Celtic Guard?
in the anime summon skull raised the attack of one of the magnet warriors during the first battle city duel. its the only thing that kinda makes sense.
If I were to predict 1 more card that should totally make it into the archetype in the future, is Valkyrion the Magna Warrior. That's the card that defeated the Egyptian Gods so it HAS to be in the plans xD As for Summoned Skull's, there was already a retrain of it that incorporated the magical mist into the effect, it was a Gemini monster meant as a material for the retrain of Black Skull Dragon (the Fusion with Red-Eyes). The retrained Red-Eyes counterpart on the other hand incorporated Inferno Fire Blast into its effect. The +500 ATK eff is probably a wink at the Ritual/Fusion/Synchro/Xyz counterparts Summoned Skull randomly got back in the Pendulum era. The control effect if I had to guess will replace Brain Control and Change of Heart for this version of Yugi's deck.
I like how most shining sarcophagus cards can be searched outside that spell since the millennium puzzle power allows yami to add any card when he activates the power.
The summon skulls new archetype is reference to the battle city where he boosted a magnet, Warriors attack strength, and the taking control part they mix that in with like the brain control effect
Boosting attack probably comes from summoned skull boosting up the magnet warriors attack from the anime (beginning of battle city there is a duel where that happens I believe)
So these days we have multiple “Sarcophagus” cards “The First” “Kings” and “Shining” (which is in itself a redo of “golden”)… _Idea to make a joint retrain of ALL of these:_ _The Sarcophagus Supreme_ Continuous Trap (This card is always treated as a “Horus” card) _You can only control 1 “The Sarcophagus Supreme”. Unaffected by the effects of other cards while you control a face-up "The Second Sarcophagus". While in your hand, face-up on the field, in the GY or Banished, this card’s name is also treated as “The First Sarcophagus”, “King’s Sarcophagus”, and “Shining Sarcophagus”. You can shuffle 1 card from your hand, Field, GY or Banishment who’s original name was “King’s Sarcophagus”, or “Shining Sarcophagus”: This card gains that shuffled card’s effects while on the field. Once per turn, during the end phase of each player’s turn: The Second Sarcophagus" or (after you've done that) "The Third Sarcophagus" from your hand, Deck or GY in your Spell/Trap Zone face-up. Once per turn, if you control "The First Sarcophagus", "The Second Sarcophagus", and "The Third Sarcophagus", you can special summon 1 Special Summon 1 "Spirit of the Pharaoh" from your hand, Deck, GY or Banishment._ _The Sarcophagus Subservient #1_ Continuous Spell _(This card is always treated as “The Second Sarcophagus”, and is also always treated as a “Horus” card.)_ _This card can only be placed on the field by the effect of "The First Sarcophagus". Once per turn, you can apply 1 of the following effects:_ _⚪️Excavate 2 cards from the top of your deck, and if they mentions “Horus” or “Shining Sarcophagus” in their names or text, add them to your hand, otherwise shuffle them into your deck._ _⚪️Special Summon 1 “Token Soldier of Horus” (Zombie/Tuner/DARK/Level 1/ATK 500/DEF 500)._ _⚪️Send 1 banished card to it’s owners GY._ _The Sarcophagus Subservient #2_ Continuous Spell _(This card is always treated as “The Third Sarcophagus”, and is also always treated as a “Horus” card.)_ _This card can only be placed on the field by the effect of "The First Sarcophagus". Once per turn, you can apply 1 of the following effects:_ _⚪️Excavate 2 cards from the top of your deck, and if they mentions “Horus” or “Shining Sarcophagus” in their names or text, add them to your hand, otherwise shuffle them into your deck._ _⚪️Special Summon 1 “Token Soldier of Horus” (Zombie/Tuner/DARK/Level 1/ATK 500/DEF 500)._ _⚪️Send 1 banished card to it’s owners GY._ _Spirt of the Pharaoh - Chosen of Horus_ (DARK) Level 6 Zombie/Effect _(This card is always also treated as “Spirit of the Pharaoh”.)_ _Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be either be Special Summoned by "The First Sarcophagus", or by its own effect. Once per turn (Quick Effect): You can special summon any number of “Royal Soldier of Horus Tokens” (Zombie/Tuner/DARK/Level 1/ATK 1500/DEF 1500). While you control this Face-up card, “Sarcophagus” Spell/Trap cards you control are unaffected by your opponent’s cards or effects. If this card leaves the field: Add 1 Card to your hand form your deck or GY that mentions “King’s Sarcophagus” or “Shining Sarcophagus” in it’s name or text. If you Summoned a “Spirit of the Pharaoh” this duel using the effect of “The First Sarcophagus”, you can tribute 3 monsters you control: Special Summon this card from your hand, GY or Banishment._ ATK/2500 DEF/2000
I think Archfiend Advent's effect to take control of a monster may be a reference to Pegasus stealing it and turning it into a Toon. It could also be a reference to how it helped Joey fight Marik's brainwashing or when he used Brain Control against Rebecca while having it.
Archfiend's Advent has a few ideas for what it's referencing. For the control portion, it could be a reference to Brain Control or Change of Heart, cards Yugi has used in his deck, or possibly a reference to the Toon Skull from the Duelist Kingdom finale. IDK on this one. The power increase was a bit tricky, the only reference I could get off the top of my head was an odd interaction between Summoned Skull and Alpha the Magnet Warrior, when Summoned Skull's electricity gave Alpha an attack increase of 200. Also, there's one card that flew under the radar that should be mentioned, "Spell Card: Monster Reborn", who's effect is exactly like Monster Reborn, the only difference being that Spell Card is a quickplay. How does that relate? The literal last play Atem made during his duel with Yugi that gave birth to the Shining Sarcophagus family, when Atem used Monster Reborn to revive Slifer the Sky Dragon in the battle phase just before Yugi countered it with Golden Sarcophagus. As TGS said in his review of the duel, that was an illegal move since Monster Reborn is a normal spell, not quickplay, which meant that Atem couldn't use Monster Reborn to summon Slifer. Well, as it turns out, Konami heard that.
I think Archfiend's Advent's effect of other moments gaining atk could be a reference to back in duelist kingdom when Joey and Yugi were facing the paradox brothers specifically when Yugi used summoned skull to attack gate guardian Its the only thing that I can think of
Summoned Skull was also used against Rebecah, with Brain Control taking the Millennium Shield. In terms of Attack Boost, Makiu the Magical Mist changed the weather in Duelist Kingdom and made the Great Moth soaked, which boosted Summoned Skull's ATK from 2,500 to 3,500.
Archfiend's effect is that because of the Beatdown format combo of Soul Exchange into Summoned Skull dominating the format. The card is a Beatdown format players dream come true (minus not being in the format).
I love this archetype! Thanks to the internet, I managed to play with it, and it is AMAZING! I hope a retrain of Dark Magician Girl is made for this archetype someday though.
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Archfiend's Advent's effect to take control of an opponents monster sounds like a reference to whenever Yugi used Brain Control while having Summoned Skull in play during his duel against Rebecca after Duelist Kingdom
And the damage gain is from his duel when he used the lighting of summon skull against Mako’s fish.
@@flamesaur8896 he didnt use Summoned Skull against Mako. He used Horn and Feral Imp, Giant Soldier Of Stone and Curse Of Dragon in that duel but not Summoned Skull
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You're thinking of a different duel where he used the "rain" to enhance Summoned Skull's lightning
the attack boosting could be referencing the alpha play during the duel of the rare hunter at the end
I actually think that might be a reference to way back when it was first played in the manga in Vs Kaiba 1 were Kaiba tried to destroy it with Blue eyes only for Blue eyes to self destruct (being stolen from Yugi's grandpa) with Yugi winning the next turn by re-summoning it with Monster Reborn.
I love how the anime version of gold sarcophagus is essentially just a really complicated version of crossout designator
It's more similar to Prohibition, since in the anime, it lasts the whole duel.
The cooler Crossout Designator:
Gold sarcophagus walked so crosscut could run
U mean fly 😂?@@densenito5953
Anime Gold Sarcophagus came out on tv before Crossout Designator was even thought of by the designer.
I want Buster Blader and Dark Magician Girl in this archetype. Yugi had the former in his deck when he dueled Atem, and like Dark Magician, added the latter back to his deck in DSOD.
buster blader, dark magician girl, gaia, curse of dragon, BLS, Valkyrion the magna warrior. There are so many monsters that could be added, heck give magician of black chaos another retrain
@@GameCyborgCh YES~!
Wish I could make magician of black chaos work in my DM build 😓
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I need a Magnets retrain with a built-in magnet reverse in theyr effect
For obvious choices to add to the archeype, the magnet warriors, Valkyrion, and the magnet trap should be retrained. These cards were what brought down the Egyptian god cards, so it's weird that they didn't get retrains either. Yugi also used Buster Blader and Curse of Dragonfire during the ceremonial duel so that would make sense.
I think it would be great to add them as Valkyrion as a fusion monster that requires 3 monster that mentions golden sarcophagus, and it could have a lifepoint gaining effect that happens if a monster attack changes or burn occures, and or an effect that makes monsters untargetable or redirect effects
And the 3 magnet warrior should be one card like the 3 gadgets with a fusion helping effect.
They didn’t do it in the manga, but I agree, I’d love to see the magnet warriors, buster blader, curse of dragon, maybe even blockman and witch of the black forest get retrains
@@Pkmnkuribohdidn't the magnet warrior get support as archetype though
@@declanl311 not as part of the shining sarcophagus, but yes they did, they’re still mostly bad
We need more archetypes like this that connect the often chaotic deck compositions of early characters into a cohesive and functional thing…. Now we just need an equivalent for Kaiba that links his Blue-Eyes cards with all his other odds and ends (Swordstalker, Sagi, Mystical Elf, Obelisk, etc…)
Edit: Also ones for the other anime characters with otherwise chaotic deck compositions that REALLY wouldn’t hold up well in the actual game.
Mystical elf is yugi
@@ethanmacdonald8568he used the trap of it one time and it seems he won’t live it down
If the same thing would happen for Joey I don't know if that would make it the most coherent or chaotic Deck that uses Red-Eyes.
Kaiba's decks are allowed to have a coherent identity and strategy and a place within TCG lore as independent archetypes instead of just being a hodgepodge of completely unrelated monsters that get forced into being "a deck" because "it's a card Kaiba used."
Fitting that Kaiba decks can be purebred while Joey's deck is a mutt.
@@drooprtroopr6969
Both?
Turn Silence’s effect, as seen in the card art is specifically in reference to the duel with Bakura, where Yugi used Turn Jumps effect to negate the damaging effect of the Trap-Monster Zoma the Spirit and increase Silent Swordsman LV1’s level to 4. He did also use Turn Jump against Depres and Atem but this card is specifically referencing the duel against Bakura. Fitting since in the main canon this duel is where most of these cards were introduced and all
Ironically Turn Silence can’t negate Zoma which is a Trap effect activating in the Damage Step.
I'm kinda butthurt we got a dark magician for this archetype before the magnet warriors or even buster blader to help separate the deck from atem's.
Yugi used Dark Magician in DSOD. Gandora Geas references DSOD
@thefonzpart I'm aware, also gandora could just as easily reference the original.
And yet this Dark Magician doesn't mesh well with his other cards as Eternal Soul can't get it out of the graveyard
@@franknova987 there's much better targets for his effect than eternal soul.
Irónically Buster Blader is also icónic Aten Card.
If anything the Magnet Warriors would fit better
Could see a good few choices for future additions to this series/archetype.
- Dark Magician Girl's an obvious choice, perhaps paired with the other Magician Girls from Dark Side of Dimensions.
- The Magnet Warriors and/or Valkyrion could be good, especially with some effect theming around Yugi's play involving them to destroy the Egyptian Gods.
- Gaia and Curse of Dragon have some potential, maybe involving Catapult Turtle too or maybe Atem's play in the last duel with Swift Gaia.
- And for a few other iconic ones: Buster Blader; Watapon; Giant Soldier of Stone (perhaps with some Attack the Moon referencing) and Celtic Guardian.
I Def. Want magnets
Blockman: 😞
@@thatman666 how could I forget him? I have brought myself shame. Ooooh, he could reference the puzzle!
@@Sarisjackoviak1815could probably call it Millennium Puzzleman or something.
@@christianwright7581 maybe "Golden Pieceman"
I fucking love this archetype. It went full balls to the wall on the idea of making a deck that has as many random monsters possible synergize. As well as having their names still be unique but shared an archetype though an effect. It's what I want more decks to do in the future. Especially with Yusei and his deck of random cards, or even Joey. Heck make it a deck based on a upgrade of Heart of the Underdog! (Yes I know it's a filler joke but it's such a good concept for a Joey deck to be based on Underdog cards.
I love how each of the monsters of the Shining Sarcophagus archetype have gold armour/gold themes in their artworks. Also Silent Magician Zero’s effect where it can increase its level and has another effect based on its level increase is kinda like how the Fortune Lady monsters increase their levels by one and each gain attack by their level times a certain amount. Please do the Libromancer archetype next
I just noticed: The bird-like figures on Gold Sarcophagus are facing inward towards each other, while the bird-like figures on Shining Sarcophagus are facing outward away from each other.
Which is a REALLY fun bit of lore in card design. The Gold Sarcophagus, designed to contain the pieces of the Millennium Puzzle, would obviously have the decorative birds facing one another; the gods are looking towards the puzzle box, because Atem, a pharaoh, is inside.
The Shining Sarcophagus, meanwhile, doesn't have anything of importance sealed inside yet. In fact, it's being used to unseal Atem and send him to the afterlife he's been denied. So, the gods have no reason to watch an empty box.
Isn’t it also a reference to the Ark of the Covenant? The angels facing into the ark bowing down to God and his laws (the Ten Commandments) housed within the Ark.
Its effect also sends a reanimated monster back to the grave, just like he sends the pharao to rest.
@@MegaNinjaRyanyes. It appears so.
people have said it already, but ill put them together here. Archfiend's effects reference the anime effect of Summoned Skull.
Summoned Skull raised the attack of Yugis Magnet monsters with its electricity. The monster stealing effect might be a reference to how both Joey and Pegasus used it against Yugi by using effects to take control of it.
7:14 I saw two comments that mentioned where Archfeind Advent's effects came from. I guess the brain control in the duel with Rebecca kinda works, but I think the attack gain is against Seeker (the exodia player in battle city) when Alpha the magnet warrior gained attack from summoned skull.
Side note, it's really funny that Alpha the magnet warrior just won a duel without the other magnet warriors on the field.
15:21 I'd love to see the magnet warriors get added to the deck.
I LOVE Archfiend's Advent's design. I know it's just a gold SS, but I love seeing gold/yellow with purple.
There was only one time that comes to mind for summoned skull. When yugi battled the rare hunter in battle city summoned skull boosted his magnet warrior’s attack points by 200
My best guess without researching further as to why the new Summon Skull lookalike steals an opponent's monster is, skull archfiend of lighting was apart of the archfiend archetype; and they had a card called falling down.
Falling down stole an opponent's monster which was good, but had archetype specific requirements otherwise.
There's that theory and in the old yugioh gba games, nearly everyone had summon skull and brain control in their deck(s), because it was so good. You were hard pressed if you didn't see that combo, namely Yugi Muto and Weevil of all people.
The atk boost effect from the new skull is when it boosted alpha the magnet warrior in the exodia duel the taking an opponents monster effect I'm not sure
7:02 His effects are probably from his archetype. Gain 500 (Archfiend Palabyrinth) & Take control of a monster (Falling Down)
Since Dark Magician is in this series, I would love to see Dark Magician Girl added to the series to see what she would look like in this~
Archfiends Advent is a reference to Yugi's Brain Control card. It does the same effect that lasts until the End Phase, before going back to the opponent, just without taking Life Point Damage.
before the errata nuttered it into oblivion
I’m so happy you finally covered my first physical deck!
I really hope they give more retrains into this archetype based on the final duel…Gaia, BMG, Buster Blader, maybe a monster with all 3 Magnet Warriors on it haha
The Summoned Skull retrain might be a reference to the other versions of Summoned Skull like the fusion, synchro, xyz, or ritual varients
As we've seen other cards from already existing archetypes used I am working under the assumption that anything is on the table. Buster Blader, Curse of Dragonfire and the Magnet Warrior are the first ones that come to mind as they were used in the duel itself. However one combo he used in the duel was when one of his monsters was destroyed and he used the card Soul Rope to summon Witch of The Black Forest who was used to summon Summoned Skull (I Think?) and adding Marshmallon to his hand. She's not a popular card seen, but it would be cool to see a retrain of her and maybe soul rope? Use the Soul Rope when a monster that mentions shining sarcophagus is destroyed by battle or card effect to special summon a level four or lower monster from the deck that mentions shining sarcophagus. Then have the witch's effect be something along the line of if this card is sent to the graveyard add a level four or lower monster that mentions shining sarcophagus from your deck to your hand. You can tribute this card, special summon 1 level 5 or higher monster that mentions shining sarcophagus from your deck.
OKAY! So, I did some digging on why Summoned Skull might have that specific ability to steal control of a monster. And… I only have two best guesses 😂 Guess 1) Summoned Skull appears to have been used multiple times by other people like Joey and Pegasus. They use Monster Reborn or Grave Robber to use him against Yugi, so theoretically it’s like Summoned Skull is getting revenge. Or Guess 2) It’s a reference to capsule monsters where Grandpa used him. The entire story arc was about a Pokémon style Yugioh spinoff, so fighting a creature only for it to be on your side eventually is what Pokémon’s all about. Other than that, that’s all I’ve got in the vein of theories 🤣
The summoned skull effects is from duelest kingdom when the Pharoah said something along the lines of summoned skulls electric energy is raised by the Makiu card he played. I think.
It’d be cool if we got the magnet warriors in this series. Some things they could do:
1. Make the magnets a trio like the gadgets, with an effect that references how Yugi used them in a combo to wipe out Atem’s god cards.
2. Do the trio idea, but also have Valkyrion referenced in a spell/trap, like how the older versions of Silent Magician/Swordsman are.
3. Have Valkyrion as another big boss of the deck, with effects referencing moments in the anime that Yugi used the magnets.
My big guess is a trio of the base 3 magnets as a monster.
As for valkyrion I think it would be in a spell/trap that would reference that one trap that revived it and increased levels of revived monster
Make a Valkyrion retrain that is a Fusion Monster like in the manga.
@@kevinbell5674 nah normal magnets deserve the fusions not a shining sarc one
@RedTheWeeb They'll never do that, though.
@@kevinbell5674 they literally have in rush duels though. Clearly atleast some part of konami company realized that "main deck contact fusions" dont work compared to an extra deck one.
I've been waiting for you to do this one. I knew you would do the anime justice with the archetype.
So I really have to throw out my thanks man. For the *longest* time I've been trying to assemble 8 decks that represented all different characters of the Duel Monsters series and this gave me my 8th. Kudos, mate. Still really wish they'd give us an Orichalcos archetype though :p
Dark magician girl,Buster blader,BLS/GAIA,Kuriboh are what i would like to see most
But it be cool if we got references to the god cards like statues of them or stone tablets (most likely never gonna happen)
Archfiend's increase atk point boost was most likely relates to when alpha the Magnet Warrior got boosted in yugi/atem's first duel in battle city against that exodia rare hunter
I fell in love with this series/archetype when it came out in Legacy of Destruction and am so happy the new support is finally out, it's very fun to play and the potential for damage and board control is insane. Hopefully we'll get new support sooner than later!
Thinking Archfiend Advent’s effects are references to Yugi’s duel against the Exodia Rare Hunter when Summoned Skull powered up Alpha The Magnet Warrior. Switching control…..duel against the Paradox Brothers switching Dark Magician with Black Skull Dragon with Mystic Box to beat Gate Guardian? Not sure sure lol
It would be amazing to see a Shining sarcophagus version of the Dark Magician Girl, and maybe the Black Buster Soldier.
Maybe to show Joe's and Yugi's Friendship maybe a Shining Red Eye's Black Dragon monster (that can protect all other monsters or maybe 1 monster that you control by battle and card effect for the turn, to referents how Yugi tried to protect Joe and Tristan by a bully even after Joe was mean to Yugi at the start. Like if he was returning the favour.)
Idc if it’s just nostalgia bait this is a super awesome archetype idea and the references were so intentional it’s awesome. A card they have to add absolutely has to reference the way yugioh beat the god cards with the magnet warriors
Cant wait for Dark Magician Girl, and the Jack, Queen, and Kings Kights, to make it into this archtype, with thier own support. Plus i could see Gaia, Buster Bladder, Mystical Elf, another Kuriboh, this deck just has so much potential for versitility. Lets not forget that theres even potential for new Magical Hats as well as other spells and traps Yugi is known for.
Notice Mirror Force didn't get the explanation Dark Magician did since it was used by Atem in the final duel (though it can be seen in that scene from DSOD with Yugi in the game shop).
Duelist Kingdom rules automatically inflicting damage when Monsters were destroyed by effects is true, but that wasn't the case with Mirror Force. It's called Mirror Force because it reflected attacks back at the opponent's monsters with damage calculation applied normally and did so throughout the first 4 seasons of the anime (including as Mirror Force Dragon's effect) and only used its real world effect of destroying Attack Position monsters by effect in season 5. Weevil's insect swarm extermination was notable as the first appearance of Mirror Force, but also the first error as 2 monsters with the same attack were counted once, which means Weevil should've lost at that point.
I'd love to see some Shining Sarcophagus Magnets, Gaia and Shield Gardna
And Yugi’s toy deck from the R manga is finally getting more representation and support as well!
I feel like Archfiend’s Advent is a clear reference to Brain Control, which I think Yugi has used before.
I hope we get more cards supporting this deck. All of the monsters for the deck so far appeared during the Ceremonial Duel. There’s still a handful of monsters that can be made for the deck.
This is my 2nd favorite deck. It's so much fun. I'd really like to see a Blockman retrain added to the archetype.
Honestly, I want to see more of Yugi's old monsters from Duelist Kingdom to make combacks; like Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress and Feral Imp
Archfiend-effect is from when peguas captured dark magican and yugi summoned skull to counter it
Archfiend's Advent's effect of taking control of an opponent's Monster could be a reference to the first time Yami Yugi summoned it in his original duel with Kaiba in the manga.
Kaiba tried to use the Blue-Eyes he stole from Yugi's Grandpa on him, but it refused to obey Kaiba's command because it didn't recognize him as his owner, allowing Yugi to clutch the victory with Summoned Skull.
Kind of wishing they'd do something similar but with Joey's deck. I can't be the only one who thinks it'd be pretty badass to get retrains of some of Joey's classic Monsters like Axe Raider, Battle Warrior, Time Wizard, Baby Dragon, Jinzo, Rocket Warrior, Little Windguard, Panther Warrior and Swordsman of Landstar.
The atk boost from Archfiend could just be running theme from the other Summoned Skulls cards, the xyz, synchro, ritual, fusion variants, they all boost other summoned skulls by 500. Those cards also have the same naming theme, "Archfiend's Ascent, Archfiend's Manifestation", etc etc. Also its a reach, but theirs a Archfiend spell card called Falling Down, a snatch steal type of spell card that needs a Archfiend monster on the field to use.
Archfiend Skull ability is from the battle city tournament against the headhunter who stole Joey Red Eyes Black Dragon ⚫️
This is the earliest I ever been to one of his videos and im surprised hes covering a recent archetype😅
Archfiends advent effect refers to the duel of yugi vs seeker/rare hunter. when yugi used summoned skulls lightning to power up alpha the magnet warrior. Since summoned skulls had already attacked in episode 67
It’s a reference to brain control when ever he would use it during duelist kingdom
The retrain summoned skulls power increasing effect could be referencing how Summin Skull's electric abilties buffs certain monsters
I think the next step honestly would be for the archetype to start introducing extra deck cards like a retrained Gaia the Dragon Champion.
Some other cards I think we’ll see get retrained into the Gold Sarc. Archetype are:
-Magical Hats (maybe a quickplay spell version like the anime)
-Gaia the Fierce Knight
-Curse of Dragon
-Celtic Guardian
-Spellbinding Circle
-The Face Cards (maybe like Gadget Trio we get a “Royal Court Trio”)
-Black Luster Soldier
I love the idea behind this, I loved seeing Yugi grow and the final duel against Atem is still one of my favorites 😍
My favorite is Yugi vs Yami Bakura (manga). And yes I said manga version because Yugi only lost Life Points was via Gandora.
So this archetype is not to be confused with the "King's Sarcophagus" and "Horus" cards that have been plaguing Master Duel in recent months. The ones where they get sent to the GY, special summon themselves while King's Sarcophagus is on the field, the monsters cannot be destroyed while KS is on the field, and if KS is destroyed, the Horus monsters activate a whole bunch of effects, and then them being Lv7 they bring out some of the most overpowered Xyz monsters, or become materials for spamable Link monsters.
could you make a video explaining this specific archetype and their playstyle?
They should 100% make a structure deck for this archetype alongside the new Blue eyes stuff
Archfiend's Advent's effects are references to other Summoned Skull retrain cards and generic "archfiend" related cards--the 500 attack point boost is a reference to the fusion re-train, "Archfiend's Manifestation" which boosts the attack points of all "Summoned Skull" monsters by 500; the second effect to take control of an opponent's monster is a reference to the Archfiend-archetype equip-spell "Falling Down," which equips itself to an opponent's monster to let you take control of it, but "Falling Down" will destroy itself if you do not control an "Archfiend" card.
I think Summoned Skull’s retrained archetype effect to make other monsters gain attack points is a reference to the duel of Yugi vs Seeker in the Battle City Arc where Summoned Skull powers up Alpha The Magnet Warrior’s attack points to finish Seeker off.
I would like to see all of the original normal monsters like mystical elf, winged guardian of the fortress in this archetype in the future.
Archfiend Advent
There were a number of duels in early Duel Monsters where Brain Control was used the same duel as Summoned Skull. Vs Rebecca it was used while he was on the field.
The ATK bonus is a reference to Yugi's first duel in Battle City where Summoned Skull powers up Alpha the Magnet Warrior to finish off the Rare Hunter
Easily the magnet warriors or buster blader. As for others (I’d say oddball choices) would be neat if the added magician of black chaos, breaker the magical warrior and possibly red eyes. Circling back to the buster blader they could even add a fusion where it’s a retrain of dark paladin.
The Man-Emperor of Mankind approves of all of the gold.
Kitten feels his Emperor needs a new hobby.
@@Dragon66898kitten should first summon the washing machine in attack position
I really want to see the magnet warriors as a shining sarcophagus archetype
Archfiend's advent attack boosting effect sounds like a version of seal of orichalcos. Even though afak he never used summons skull in waking the dragons arc
wait hold on, that ties that bind artwork is actually really adorable i love it
It's not a solo yugi card, but a version of BLS that ALSO scales off of the levels of the tributed monsters would be very cool.
Having S!Swordsman and S!Magician grow with their levels is cool, but it's not functional for synchro or xyz summon... I feel like they set this up nicely for a very unique ritual summon.
Also, while we are at it, a retrain of Silent Paladin that's actually decent would be appreciated. 👌
Here’s hoping we get a Yugi vs Bakura duel breakdown.
Ties that bind name is a reference to the duel links verison of yugi's skill named The Tie That Bind. 😊 ❤
The attack boost for summoned skull could be a reference to when it boosted the magnet warriors in battle city
I think Archfiend could be a small reference to fusing Summon skull with Red -Eyes Black Dragon.
I don't think we can give Konami enough praise for this decision because it allows people who were fans of the anime to play this "Yugi deck" while not being a total brick of a deck and allowing old players to comeback to the game with a deck that they can recognize. Plus the synergy with all these cards, art call backs, and effects really truly makes you feel like the King Of Games.
When Yugi summoned the summoned skull during his last duel with the Pharaoh, I think he attacks Gaia and the gang talks about how surreal it is to see Yugi’s monsters fighting each other. That might be what the “take control of an opponent’s monster” effect references
Idea for a Joey version of this: risky roulette series.
For the staple card: Risky Roulette.
Effects:
1) after an initial die is rolled, or a coin is flipped(except by this card’s effect) you can force a do over
2) twice per turn if a Gemini monster is on the field its effects can be activated without using an additional summon. Then flip a coin.
-Heads: special summon 1 Gemini monster or one monster that mentions risky roulette.
-Tails: send one card from your hand to the graveyard at random.
3) if this card would be removed from play by opponent card effects: flip a coin.
-H: negate the effect and if you do banish that card and one card from your deck for x(based on die roll) turns, then add those cards to hand.
-T: this card is banished along with 2 cards from your hand or field.
For some ruling purposes, the effects are per card. Thus if you have 2 risky roulettes you can redo a flip caused by the other one.
If anyone wants to add anything , write the original card name and then the new effect it would have. The effect would need to
A) relate back to the card in manga/anime.
B) be gambling related.
C) be a Gemini effect.
Man this deck is so simple and straight to the point. A joy to use.
I love this. I’m a little tired of archetypes where every monster looks similar and has the archetype keyword in its name.
I loved the hodgepodge nature of early Yugioh and this brings it back a bit.
I hope they make similar things for more characters
Valkyrion the Titanium Magna Warrior
Level 8 EARTH Rock
3500 ATK 3850 DEF
if you control “Shining Sarcophagus”: you can special summon this card from your hand in defense position, and if your LP are lower than your opponent’s, gain 2000 LP. During the main phase: you can tribute this card; Special Summon up to 3 Level 4 or lower monsters that mention “Shining Sarcophagus”, that are banished, or in the GY. You cannot special summon monsters from the extra deck for the rest of this turn. When You can only use each effect of “Valkyrion the Titanium Magna Warrior” once per turn.
Archdiend's Advent's attack increase references when atem used summon skull to increase his magnet warrior's attack to go for game during his duel against the rare hunter that had exodia
the summoned skull retrains attack boosting effect could be a reference to the duel with the exodia rare hunter where summoned skull boosted alpha's attack to do the damage needed to win
14:35 this was actually very helpful because it confirmed for me that these monsters can go higher than level 12, as noted by the level 20 Silent Magician Zero
Silent magician is also a reference to her support card “silent burning” which is more direct with the battle phase clause and naming.
I think the effect of adding 500 atk points from the new Summoned Skull comes from when it boosted one of the Magnet Warriors when a Yugi was dueling the Rare Hunter with the Exodia Deck
Archfiend Advents effect is likely a reference to brain control like another person commented but also the attack gain might be connected to anime moments like how Summoned Skull's lightning powered up Alpha the Magnet Warriors attack during the Rare Hunter duel.
Summon skull added attack points to another monster in Yuki first battle city dual against seeker. He didn’t take control of the monster, but he raised Alpha the magnet Warriors attack points because of plants.
I feel the first effect of Archfiend's Advent is reference to when Atem beat a Monster because his attack was doubled because he had lightning and Weevil's monster was wet
That 500 extra only, of course
Dark Magician Girl seems the most likely candidate for another Shining form. Could also say Curse of Dragon, Buster Blader, the Face Knights or Celtic Guard?
in the anime summon skull raised the attack of one of the magnet warriors during the first battle city duel. its the only thing that kinda makes sense.
If I were to predict 1 more card that should totally make it into the archetype in the future, is Valkyrion the Magna Warrior. That's the card that defeated the Egyptian Gods so it HAS to be in the plans xD
As for Summoned Skull's, there was already a retrain of it that incorporated the magical mist into the effect, it was a Gemini monster meant as a material for the retrain of Black Skull Dragon (the Fusion with Red-Eyes). The retrained Red-Eyes counterpart on the other hand incorporated Inferno Fire Blast into its effect.
The +500 ATK eff is probably a wink at the Ritual/Fusion/Synchro/Xyz counterparts Summoned Skull randomly got back in the Pendulum era. The control effect if I had to guess will replace Brain Control and Change of Heart for this version of Yugi's deck.
I like how most shining sarcophagus cards can be searched outside that spell since the millennium puzzle power allows yami to add any card when he activates the power.
This whole deck sounds like what toons should have been.
The summon skulls new archetype is reference to the battle city where he boosted a magnet, Warriors attack strength, and the taking control part they mix that in with like the brain control effect
Boosting attack probably comes from summoned skull boosting up the magnet warriors attack from the anime (beginning of battle city there is a duel where that happens I believe)
So these days we have multiple “Sarcophagus” cards “The First” “Kings” and “Shining” (which is in itself a redo of “golden”)… _Idea to make a joint retrain of ALL of these:_
_The Sarcophagus Supreme_
Continuous Trap
(This card is always treated as a “Horus” card)
_You can only control 1 “The Sarcophagus Supreme”. Unaffected by the effects of other cards while you control a face-up "The Second Sarcophagus". While in your hand, face-up on the field, in the GY or Banished, this card’s name is also treated as “The First Sarcophagus”, “King’s Sarcophagus”, and “Shining Sarcophagus”. You can shuffle 1 card from your hand, Field, GY or Banishment who’s original name was “King’s Sarcophagus”, or “Shining Sarcophagus”: This card gains that shuffled card’s effects while on the field. Once per turn, during the end phase of each player’s turn: The Second Sarcophagus" or (after you've done that) "The Third Sarcophagus" from your hand, Deck or GY in your Spell/Trap Zone face-up. Once per turn, if you control "The First Sarcophagus", "The Second Sarcophagus", and "The Third Sarcophagus", you can special summon 1 Special Summon 1 "Spirit of the Pharaoh" from your hand, Deck, GY or Banishment._
_The Sarcophagus Subservient #1_
Continuous Spell
_(This card is always treated as “The Second Sarcophagus”, and is also always treated as a “Horus” card.)_
_This card can only be placed on the field by the effect of "The First Sarcophagus". Once per turn, you can apply 1 of the following effects:_
_⚪️Excavate 2 cards from the top of your deck, and if they mentions “Horus” or “Shining Sarcophagus” in their names or text, add them to your hand, otherwise shuffle them into your deck._
_⚪️Special Summon 1 “Token Soldier of Horus” (Zombie/Tuner/DARK/Level 1/ATK 500/DEF 500)._
_⚪️Send 1 banished card to it’s owners GY._
_The Sarcophagus Subservient #2_
Continuous Spell
_(This card is always treated as “The Third Sarcophagus”, and is also always treated as a “Horus” card.)_
_This card can only be placed on the field by the effect of "The First Sarcophagus". Once per turn, you can apply 1 of the following effects:_
_⚪️Excavate 2 cards from the top of your deck, and if they mentions “Horus” or “Shining Sarcophagus” in their names or text, add them to your hand, otherwise shuffle them into your deck._
_⚪️Special Summon 1 “Token Soldier of Horus” (Zombie/Tuner/DARK/Level 1/ATK 500/DEF 500)._
_⚪️Send 1 banished card to it’s owners GY._
_Spirt of the Pharaoh - Chosen of Horus_ (DARK)
Level 6
Zombie/Effect
_(This card is always also treated as “Spirit of the Pharaoh”.)_
_Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be either be Special Summoned by "The First Sarcophagus", or by its own effect. Once per turn (Quick Effect): You can special summon any number of “Royal Soldier of Horus Tokens” (Zombie/Tuner/DARK/Level 1/ATK 1500/DEF 1500). While you control this Face-up card, “Sarcophagus” Spell/Trap cards you control are unaffected by your opponent’s cards or effects. If this card leaves the field: Add 1 Card to your hand form your deck or GY that mentions “King’s Sarcophagus” or “Shining Sarcophagus” in it’s name or text. If you Summoned a “Spirit of the Pharaoh” this duel using the effect of “The First Sarcophagus”, you can tribute 3 monsters you control: Special Summon this card from your hand, GY or Banishment._
ATK/2500 DEF/2000
I think Archfiend Advent's effect to take control of a monster may be a reference to Pegasus stealing it and turning it into a Toon. It could also be a reference to how it helped Joey fight Marik's brainwashing or when he used Brain Control against Rebecca while having it.
Archfiend's Advent has a few ideas for what it's referencing. For the control portion, it could be a reference to Brain Control or Change of Heart, cards Yugi has used in his deck, or possibly a reference to the Toon Skull from the Duelist Kingdom finale. IDK on this one.
The power increase was a bit tricky, the only reference I could get off the top of my head was an odd interaction between Summoned Skull and Alpha the Magnet Warrior, when Summoned Skull's electricity gave Alpha an attack increase of 200.
Also, there's one card that flew under the radar that should be mentioned, "Spell Card: Monster Reborn", who's effect is exactly like Monster Reborn, the only difference being that Spell Card is a quickplay. How does that relate? The literal last play Atem made during his duel with Yugi that gave birth to the Shining Sarcophagus family, when Atem used Monster Reborn to revive Slifer the Sky Dragon in the battle phase just before Yugi countered it with Golden Sarcophagus. As TGS said in his review of the duel, that was an illegal move since Monster Reborn is a normal spell, not quickplay, which meant that Atem couldn't use Monster Reborn to summon Slifer. Well, as it turns out, Konami heard that.
I think Archfiend's Advent's effect of other moments gaining atk could be a reference to back in duelist kingdom when Joey and Yugi were facing the paradox brothers specifically when Yugi used summoned skull to attack gate guardian Its the only thing that I can think of
Summoned Skull was also used against Rebecah, with Brain Control taking the Millennium Shield.
In terms of Attack Boost, Makiu the Magical Mist changed the weather in Duelist Kingdom and made the Great Moth soaked, which boosted Summoned Skull's ATK from 2,500 to 3,500.
I love to see Buster Blader, Magnet Warriors, and Blockman to be part of the Shining Sarcophagus series/archetype
I think the summoned skull effect references the labyrinth flood moment
Archfiend's effect is that because of the Beatdown format combo of Soul Exchange into Summoned Skull dominating the format. The card is a Beatdown format players dream come true (minus not being in the format).
I love this archetype! Thanks to the internet, I managed to play with it, and it is AMAZING! I hope a retrain of Dark Magician Girl is made for this archetype someday though.
I think the 500 atk increase of Archfiend's Advent was referencing the effect of Archfiend's Manifestation which is a Fusion type Summoned Skull.