If Mai was never in this show I probably never would have started to play the game. Harpies were my first love in the game and a deck I still use and love to main. I still have the first Harpie card I ever got and it was a Shonen Jump Cyber Harpie Lady who sits happily in my Deck. I wish they would do a revival series or movie or something with them older and have updated Decks like all the new Red eyes and Harpie Cards. I just want to see her summon Phantasmal Dragon and Harpie Conductor. Animation summon would look so nice.
Agreed!! I wish they would have another season of the series. Like how Dragon Ball Z continues in Super. It would be so great to see Yu Gi and everyone. That way 30 year olds could get hyped and start buying cards again.
I just figure it out that elegant egotist, the mosaic is made of the side of the face of a Harpie, I always think that was some type of generic background
I remember that she's formidable with her Mirror Wall, which generally made her opponents strongest monster falter and didn't have to pay 2000 LP to keep it on the field.
Mai was portried as top duelist in the anime. Sadly, most her on screen duels were loses. Yugi, Joey, Marik and Tea (which in Tea's case Mai held back). Mai did have some wins like Pegasus (only off-screen), Joey (her last duel against him), as well as many duels off-screen in Duel Kingdom and Battle City.
@DaakkuuYRS IKR??? when I was a kid I was like "Damn she fucking sucks" and lumped her in the same basket with like Rex and Weevil but she is definitely different and gives me a good run for my money in Stairway to the destined duel
I think YGOTAS Sums up her dueling best. "She fought Panic, and lost. She fought Joey Wheeler, and lost. She fought Tea Gardner and lost. What's wrong with this picture"
Well Mai is easily the biggest jobber in the whole show, but she would've straight up beaten Marik without him making up new rules for Ra on the fly XD.
Gravity Bind was weird for Mai. If I remember right she only used it in the duel against Marik and she intended to just stop him killing her (it failed: he played Holding Legs to bounce it to her hand then attacked for lethal with Ra). It was completely incompatible with her deck - I'm pretty sure they only included it for dramatic tension: it appeared being used by later duelists for an actual strategy. Mirror Wall was pretty broken in the anime because it did not require the 2000 life point payment. She used it against Yugi in Duelist Kingdom. They only had 2000 life points in Duelist Kingdom which is probably why the dropped the upkeep cost. Yugi destroyed it with Catapult Turtle... No comment. But it did mess him up for a few turns because "the best duelist in the world" forgot about its effect and attacked into it after it was flipped face-up.
UltimateMarvel1 I remember when Joey’s world release date got announced and I got REALLY excited to play Phoenix Formation and Dancer in Harpies for an upcoming YCS... then I saw the irl effect and played Dragon Rulers instead 😂
Didn't see it mentioned, but she also played Harpie Lady Phoenix Formation. It had a pretty bonkers effect in the anime, where it'd destroy up to as many opponents' monsters as you had Harpie monsters, and then inflict damage equal to the total ATK of every monster destroyed. The only downside was not being able to attack with them that turn. The real card we got was kind of neutered by comparison, since it requires at least 3+ Harpie monsters (not hard to do but still), destroys just as many, but deals damage equal to the highest ATK among the destroyed monsters instead of just the total of everything. It also locks you out of Special Summons from the Main or Extra deck and the Battle Phase the turn you activate it. I don't think anyone plays it.
@@rosewarrior706 but Tea Garderner's deck actually sucked didn't it? I don't think her deck got much buffs thru the anime (haven't seen the anime for a while)
@@LoboCrepuscularZelda and, while not as important, Spell Striker and Aqua Dolphin were cards used in some Gouki decks back in their heyday, Rainbow Neos is very legit, Prisma saw rogue play here and there, Miracle Fusion was great when E HEROs were meta, Fusion Gate was a problematic FTK enabler, and of course staples like Pot of Greed, Monster Reborn, and Polymerization exist.
Vanilla Harpie has a niche use which is a lil weird but I felt like mentioning it. Since it’s a normal monster you can link it into Imduk thus getting an east dragon aboard and having your channeler be lvl 7 that way if you summon perfumer from it you get a double search and if Oracle is in your hand then a free summon. Very particular and Imduk is really just there to be a dragon.
I'm sure you've had the same thought or mentioned it at some point, but I think part of the reason so many really powerful draw cards were in everyone's decks in the anime is so that they could create tension by someone being "down to two cards, neither of which is a monster" and then pop, say, pot of greed and graceful charity and suddenly be on 3 new stronger cards for the requisite Anime Duel Turnaround.
When it comes to the anime, it seems like anything works for the plot. "Heart of the cards" and all that. But the IRL game largely has been a "all anime decks would be destroyed" thing, lol! Characters had a lot of broken cards, but usually their monsters were lackluster. So IRL players would have the broken cards PLUS would have better monsters. Even the heart of the cards wouldn't save them as their best draws were still outclassed. XD In addition to the cards talked about in the video: Harpie Lady Phoenix Formation may be one to consider since the deck can swarm fairly consistently. Wipes' out monsters and inflicts damage. Though it's probably outclassed by Raigeki, Dark Hole, etc... even in a Harpie Deck because they aren't as situational. Shadow Of Eyes was also a sort of card that may have been very useful in it's time because powerful flip effect monsters were pretty common and they tended to have low attack. Better' to just outright destroy them face down of course, but still something that has a bit of potential. Spell Reproduction could also potentially be something playable because of the similar usage Magical Stone Excavation had. But of course Spell Reproduction is basically a worse version of Magical Stone Excavation because you can't utilize as many discard effects with it.
the 5D's gang would be a nice fit, to see what the main trio of Yusei, Aki and Jack had (not counting Chrow, we already know how good his Blackwings were that he even stole Aki's spot in the story)
I love playing this deck but we don't use harpies pet dragon, once duelist overload comes out, I have a consistant combo to lock the opponent out of special summoning and monster effects
They just need to put an errata on Harpie's Feather Duster and it could come off the list. Give it a limitation that it can only be used if you control a Harpie Monster. Problem solved and card gets to thrive in the deck it was meant to be in.
@@Nocturne22 Exactly this. Just recalling her duel against Yami in the Duel Kingdom arc, she had a no-cost permanent Mirror Wall that she combo'd with Shadow of Eyes which forced the enemy's monsters out of defense mode and into an attack.
Mai's Harpie Lady decks are something of an interesting comparison to others in the anime. Because while they aren't very good in the TCG, and she doesn't exactly do well in most of the anime, I think if you played the anime decks in the actual TCG, she'd be one of the best. Why? Simply, consistency. Mai's shown to actually have a Harpie Lady engine going on, using cards specifically to get to and play off other cards in her deck, while everyone else is basically just relying on luck... and having that pay off, because in anime 'luck' is a viable strategy.
im surprised we even got her to win 1 one duel since she's a female which in Yugi logic means you're just a minor plot twist for ma(i)n characters lol I think she was a badass with a bad plot armor ...
well I dont have Cyber Harpie Lady in my harpie collection, but I do have Harpie Lady Cyber Bondage (although it is written as Harpie Lady SB)... I'm a big fan of Harpie Lady since way back but I just cant get it to work until modern support arrives...
So are you going to do these like character card analysis for other series besides the DM era I would love to see you continue this throughout the rest of the eras of Yu-Gi-Oh
Barely anybody plays Mirror Wall in Duel Links anymore. The most common decks are Dark Magician, Shiranui, Cyber Dragon, Blackwings and Superheavy Samurai. Dark Lords are fairly common too, but not as much as they used to be, and they‘re a lot easier to deal with. Their only really powerful card is Desire, but that non-destructive removal is annoying. Their trap, which negates monster-effects, is annoying too. Nevermind. Darklords are currently more than half of my opponents. I just tried again to get from legendary 5 to KOG and the opponents either play Darklords or a deck with Necrovalley. I think I'll just go to sleep now. It's almost 1:30 a.m..
Hope you do this for all the series so far...even though you haven't seen them all. :/ "...most of the harpies". I used to play the deck, they're all winged beast.
@@rosewarrior706 I like that it's mandatory because harpies do have spells and traps they want destroyed. And in this case hunting ground can force your opponent to destroy feather rest to trigger it. Also it is an easy way to go plus two by destroying harpie lady elegance
Mirror Wall was pretty insane in the anime. It didn't have its 2000 LP cost, and it stopped all your opponent's attacks. The latter sounds like a bad thing since the monster you activated this in response to won't get itself destroyed***, but it basically turned this card into a super-ultra Gravity Bind that affects Xyz, Links, lvls 3 and below, and still allows YOU to attack unrestricted. ***At least, that's how it happened in the anime. But it could be that Duelist Kingdom didn't have Damage Step rules: you should be able to use this in the Damage Step and the monster's attack won't be stopped (see Shadow Spell for example), giving you the best of both worlds.
Actually, the Dark Witch that Mai played was a level four light type fairy monster known as Dunames Dark Witch. I have the card, it’s the one that we saw in Battle City arc.
I remember playing duel links..and when I saw mirror wall 50% of the time I lost without surrendering....30% I surrendered and the last 20% I managed to pull through
2:23 I don't know about it being definitely better than heavy storm, that's pretty debatable. they're both incredibly sacky unsearchable s/t removal options, but storm is extra degenerate by being able to wipe your own stuff and plus off it that way too. the OCG has kept that banned for a reason I think whereas duster is fine.
You mentioned Mirror Wall in the context of Duel Links, dzeeff. YES, it's still being played, and people are chain comboing it with Wall of Disruption, too. For someone trying to improve their skills and just have fun, being bodied by that combo is disheartening. I was TRYING to see how far I could get in the KC Cup this time, but after having that combo done to me, with 3 separate decks in a row, it put me off of it.
What about the 2 spell card she used when she sort of joined Darts? Harpy´s sparrow and phoenix formation. The only experiance i have with yugioh is the anime so they maybe suck outside of the anime but there effects sounded powerful.
Yugioh dm held the filmmakers rule book upside down and read “tell don’t show”. Except, plenty of characters have rolled into the show with a powerful entrance. You know what how about a gx character. Alexis, Zane, Axel (played volcanic) jaden could be interesting, I don’t know how many of his heroes were actually competitive.
Next lets talk about Best Jaden card. A lot of people like to talk shit about Jaden deck because he play Neo Spacian. But in reality he play a lot of broken card as well.
@@coolkidsclub9943 E-Hero Bubbleman: Am i a joke to you? Also GX came out in a format where fast paced gameplay and extra deck spamming wasnt a thing yet (not counting magical scientist FTK). So of course Omni Hero won't be on his deck. But then again most omni hero got buffed a lot in real life because the manga version is kinda meh.
@@riqua27 That first thing was just cringy. Don't use a bad Reddit meme please. And there were better decks all over GX. GX did help define what makes an archetype, which was nice, but Jaden's strategy of "summon whatever weird flavor of fusion monster I'm feeling today because I drew three bricks and a polymerization" was just bad. The Neo reliance on Neo Space made them almost unplayable, and even his ace monster's mountain of support didn't make it as good as Dark Magician, who at least had a game plan. I like Jaden, and I actually like GX, but he's just a bad duelist because a lot of things in GX were bad. At least the Zexal kid was bad on purpose, and he got better as the show went on. TLDR: Play Cyber Dragons, Ancient Gears, Destiny HEROs, or Volcanics (if you want to be a mega Chad) for good GX decks. Or play Venoms if you want to never win a game
Everytime I got screwed over with that feather duster I Always thought I wanna slap MAI hand up her giant head for introducing this even tho she didn't in reality ugh that thing is just insanely powerful to use as a second term setup for a third turn finish
She did, but they probably didn't see any competitive use compared. Most Equip spells used for Isolde or something would normally be useful within the deck, rather than the archetype specific Harpy ones
It’s not that great in real dueling, but the anime Harpie Lady Phoenix Formation was wayyyyy OP....she could still special summon, she didn’t have to have at least 3 harpies, and it took the total combined attack of all monsters destroyed from its effect out of the opponents life points. Truly an OTK if played right
To Dzeef, who in the Yugioh series would you say had the most competively viable deck, that is, in their OWN generation and figuring on all the same card effects? Note: I mean whole, complete deck. Not single cards.
@@maxl5003 multiple. Revolver U-links Playmaker, who turns it into a 0 Link, Lightning U Links Spectre, who then works around it to U Link him back. May have been one or two more I can't remember, but I think that was it
Aren’t Harpies A Play On Harp? As In Like Cupid, Love, Harps. Harps Are Associated With Angels Or Angelic Figures. They’re Wing-Beasts. That Kinda Counts.
Obligatory posting of "Meh fancard, please love me": *Harpie’s Psychic Perfume Armor* - Equip Spell Artwork: A Harpie Lady but with clouds of thick colourful perfume instead of armour. Can only be Equipped to a “Harpie Lady” or “Harpie Lady Sisters”. The equipped monster gains ATK/DEF equal to the total level of all the “Harpie Lady” Monsters you control multiplied by 100. The first time, each turn, it is destroyed (by battle or by card effect) it is not. The equipped monster can make a second attack, during each battlephase. If a monster battles the equipped monster, negate that monster’s effects and said monster can no longer declare an attack. These effects remain, even if this card leaves the field. If this card, in the owner’s possession, leaves the field because of a card effect. You can take one “Harpie” card (or one card which lists “Harpie Lady” in it’s text) from your deck or GY and place it on top of your deck, except “Harpie’s Psychic Perfume Armor”.
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Before the video even begin: Harpie's Feather Duster.
Christian Castillo storm*
@@rosewarrior706 TCG version of Harpie's Feather Storm is also broken as well. I agree.
@ Harpies COULD search it.
Harder now that it can't go in the deck.
Agreed. No further questions.
To counter that, have Gryphon's Wing ready to reverse the effect and destroy any cards in her spell/trap zone.
Litterally the only thing that stop mai from winning against an Egyptian god card was her inability to speak ancient Egypt hieroglyphics.
Which was also a rule added my Marik on the spot 😂 she’s an icon
If Mai was never in this show I probably never would have started to play the game. Harpies were my first love in the game and a deck I still use and love to main. I still have the first Harpie card I ever got and it was a Shonen Jump Cyber Harpie Lady who sits happily in my Deck. I wish they would do a revival series or movie or something with them older and have updated Decks like all the new Red eyes and Harpie Cards. I just want to see her summon Phantasmal Dragon and Harpie Conductor. Animation summon would look so nice.
i thought she was the hottest thing on the show…i mean besides dark magician girl.
Agreed!! I wish they would have another season of the series. Like how Dragon Ball Z continues in Super. It would be so great to see Yu Gi and everyone. That way 30 year olds could get hyped and start buying cards again.
Her deck was so broken you could smell her opponents fear from miles away...what do you mean thats just the smell of her perfumed deck?
Thanks to Feather Storm, I can actually smell the fear, ire and desperation of my opponents every time Crystal Beast Cobalt Eagle hits the field
I just figure it out that elegant egotist, the mosaic is made of the side of the face of a Harpie, I always think that was some type of generic background
I thought they were snowflakes
@@danchase7454 I also thought they were snowflakes! How did I never notice this before?
It's a kaleidoscopic
wth, u changed the way i see this card forever
Say wha? :O
I only realized the word play on Mai Valentine's name now.
Careful, or she will give you -herpes- harpies
@Zyukia geez, well played, my friend, well played, I didn’t see the harpies herpes play on words.
_It's not a very subtle pun but then nothing about me is subtle_ - YGOTAS episode 3
There is also a character in Saint Seiya named ‘Harpy Valentine.’
@@spykezspykez7001 🤢
i love that you saved this for valentine's day.
I remember that she's formidable with her Mirror Wall, which generally made her opponents strongest monster falter and didn't have to pay 2000 LP to keep it on the field.
Mai was portried as top duelist in the anime. Sadly, most her on screen duels were loses. Yugi, Joey, Marik and Tea (which in Tea's case Mai held back). Mai did have some wins like Pegasus (only off-screen), Joey (her last duel against him), as well as many duels off-screen in Duel Kingdom and Battle City.
@DaakkuuYRS IKR??? when I was a kid I was like "Damn she fucking sucks" and lumped her in the same basket with like Rex and Weevil but she is definitely different and gives me a good run for my money in Stairway to the destined duel
I think YGOTAS Sums up her dueling best. "She fought Panic, and lost. She fought Joey Wheeler, and lost. She fought Tea Gardner and lost. What's wrong with this picture"
Scott Noble well to be fair she threw in the towel for tea and joe is the third best duelist
Well Mai is easily the biggest jobber in the whole show, but she would've straight up beaten Marik without him making up new rules for Ra on the fly XD.
@@rosewarrior706 Joey*
You forgot about Yami Marik
She beat that guy who used a ninja deck.
Gravity Bind was weird for Mai. If I remember right she only used it in the duel against Marik and she intended to just stop him killing her (it failed: he played Holding Legs to bounce it to her hand then attacked for lethal with Ra). It was completely incompatible with her deck - I'm pretty sure they only included it for dramatic tension: it appeared being used by later duelists for an actual strategy.
Mirror Wall was pretty broken in the anime because it did not require the 2000 life point payment. She used it against Yugi in Duelist Kingdom. They only had 2000 life points in Duelist Kingdom which is probably why the dropped the upkeep cost. Yugi destroyed it with Catapult Turtle... No comment. But it did mess him up for a few turns because "the best duelist in the world" forgot about its effect and attacked into it after it was flipped face-up.
yugi made that mistake remember. not the pharaoh. the pharaoh led the comeback.
Alex Tomlinson that only happened in the dub. It was the pharaoh dueling from the start in the original version.
@@greenlight8819 i know the english dub is all that matters to me so thats what happened. the japanese dub cant compare.
Alex Tomlinson and you’re a moron. Thanks for playing
Aesthetically mirror wall makes sense to me, I think it fits well with harpies and elegant egoist. Gravity bind though... completely nonsensical.
Remember when she threw her cards at those bikers?
yes season 4 epic moment.
It would have been a huge turn-on if it wasn't such a huge waste of trading cards.
Season 4 Mai was the best! From her updated deck to her outfit 💅🏻💪🏻
My favorite yugioh Character of all time. And card decks!
Harpie Lady Phoenix Formation and Mirror Wall Anime Versions....very OP burn damage and attack reduction
UltimateMarvel1 I remember when Joey’s world release date got announced and I got REALLY excited to play Phoenix Formation and Dancer in Harpies for an upcoming YCS... then I saw the irl effect and played Dragon Rulers instead 😂
I was today years old when I found out the patterns on Elegant Egotist were not some kinda flowers or crystals but actually faces and hair.
I never realised the reflections in the Elegant Egotist were harpies' faces holy shit
Damn i didnt either
I thought those were supposed to be talons!
Given that Mai sprays her cards with unique perfumes so she can smell her next draw, I'd say she has the most broken cards of all time.
Didn't see it mentioned, but she also played Harpie Lady Phoenix Formation.
It had a pretty bonkers effect in the anime, where it'd destroy up to as many opponents' monsters as you had Harpie monsters, and then inflict damage equal to the total ATK of every monster destroyed. The only downside was not being able to attack with them that turn.
The real card we got was kind of neutered by comparison, since it requires at least 3+ Harpie monsters (not hard to do but still), destroys just as many, but deals damage equal to the highest ATK among the destroyed monsters instead of just the total of everything. It also locks you out of Special Summons from the Main or Extra deck and the Battle Phase the turn you activate it. I don't think anyone plays it.
How long till dzeef gets to GX characters? I wanna see him do Jaden Yuki's monsters. If he includes manga we get Stratos and the Masked HEROs.
Outlaw Otaku he should do tea
Super Poly, Dandylion and Mirage of Nightmare will cause him nightmares lol
(Also, Jaden played Solemn Judgement, a noteworthy mention)
Afaik he didn't watched the actual anime nor read the manga. iirc he just pulls all his informations from various internet sites
@@rosewarrior706 but Tea Garderner's deck actually sucked didn't it? I don't think her deck got much buffs thru the anime (haven't seen the anime for a while)
@@LoboCrepuscularZelda and, while not as important, Spell Striker and Aqua Dolphin were cards used in some Gouki decks back in their heyday, Rainbow Neos is very legit, Prisma saw rogue play here and there, Miracle Fusion was great when E HEROs were meta, Fusion Gate was a problematic FTK enabler, and of course staples like Pot of Greed, Monster Reborn, and Polymerization exist.
Vanilla Harpie has a niche use which is a lil weird but I felt like mentioning it. Since it’s a normal monster you can link it into Imduk thus getting an east dragon aboard and having your channeler be lvl 7 that way if you summon perfumer from it you get a double search and if Oracle is in your hand then a free summon. Very particular and Imduk is really just there to be a dragon.
I'm sure you've had the same thought or mentioned it at some point, but I think part of the reason so many really powerful draw cards were in everyone's decks in the anime is so that they could create tension by someone being "down to two cards, neither of which is a monster" and then pop, say, pot of greed and graceful charity and suddenly be on 3 new stronger cards for the requisite Anime Duel Turnaround.
3:09 John Sena: "ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?"
Mirror Wall is still played sometimes to activate skills that require you to lose 2000 life points.
True, but it got Powercrept by Wall of Revealing Light, which let you pay more lp if needed and even had a decent effect if it remained on the field.
Now That I Think Of It, Harpies Are Actually One Of The More Fun Rogue Strats I’ve Played When Lightning Chidori Was A Thing.
When it comes to the anime, it seems like anything works for the plot. "Heart of the cards" and all that. But the IRL game largely has been a "all anime decks would be destroyed" thing, lol! Characters had a lot of broken cards, but usually their monsters were lackluster. So IRL players would have the broken cards PLUS would have better monsters. Even the heart of the cards wouldn't save them as their best draws were still outclassed. XD
In addition to the cards talked about in the video:
Harpie Lady Phoenix Formation may be one to consider since the deck can swarm fairly consistently. Wipes' out monsters and inflicts damage. Though it's probably outclassed by Raigeki, Dark Hole, etc... even in a Harpie Deck because they aren't as situational.
Shadow Of Eyes was also a sort of card that may have been very useful in it's time because powerful flip effect monsters were pretty common and they tended to have low attack. Better' to just outright destroy them face down of course, but still something that has a bit of potential.
Spell Reproduction could also potentially be something playable because of the similar usage Magical Stone Excavation had. But of course Spell Reproduction is basically a worse version of Magical Stone Excavation because you can't utilize as many discard effects with it.
Can we talk about Chazz and Ojamas, the true heroes
mai also used dunames dark witch
also I'm surprised that rose whip hasn't been made into an actual card yet
Terry Syvertson same but honestly it’s a little late for that now
I believe they based it off "electro whip" which has nearly the same art and same effect but only works for thunder type monsters
the 5D's gang would be a nice fit, to see what the main trio of Yusei, Aki and Jack had (not counting Chrow, we already know how good his Blackwings were that he even stole Aki's spot in the story)
Mirror Wall was good very recently in DL, because it was the only trap who could affect Cocytus wich was the main boss of invoked before
Wait...
Invoked hit DL???
I'm guessing no mechaba or raiden tho, cuz those would be broken.
@@DrDrao Yes, only until Pugratrio, and its broken already
@@ketsura3618 Purg and cocy are pretty broken already.
Pretty sure 3300 purgatrios are OTK-ing left and right.
LOVE MAI❗💜💜💜 WISH SHE HAD AMAZON EMPRESS BACK THEN, I HEARD THEY BASED HER FROM HER FACIAL FEATURES & STRUCTURE IN A VIDEO.
Didn't Mai play Amazoness Swords Woman? If so, I thought there were OTK decks involving that card back in the day?
That was during the Darts arc
I've used that in Duel Links against Quintet's Magician and Ancient Gears big ass 4500 fusion. Never expected it
Remember how harpies have a cold wave and a VFD and yet still no one plays them.
I love playing this deck but we don't use harpies pet dragon, once duelist overload comes out, I have a consistant combo to lock the opponent out of special summoning and monster effects
He forgot to mention her extensive use of Amazon monsters in Battle City and beyond though.
I thought he was talking about good cards
Talk about Jaden since he had miracle fusion
They just need to put an errata on Harpie's Feather Duster and it could come off the list. Give it a limitation that it can only be used if you control a Harpie Monster. Problem solved and card gets to thrive in the deck it was meant to be in.
Then people would just play an easy to summon Harpie to play feather duster
@@biblebot3947 it can be limited to just one.
@@Huh_What_Who that doesn’t solve anything
Hey Doug,
Would you be Mai Valentine?
Bruh...
How you leave out Amazoness Swordswoman ??
Feather storm is a staple 3 of in my Simorgh build, I run it with trap trick too to maximize my chances of seeing it
I used to think Mirror Wall required the 2000 LP payment upon activation. I also thought Toon World required paying 1000 every turn.
In the anime her deck didn't seem so good. Surprised she was a top duelist.
Her deck ran on the anime's logic though, which made her insanely powerful.
@@Nocturne22 Exactly this. Just recalling her duel against Yami in the Duel Kingdom arc, she had a no-cost permanent Mirror Wall that she combo'd with Shadow of Eyes which forced the enemy's monsters out of defense mode and into an attack.
@@GodSpear
Unless it was a female monster according to Atem xD
Mai's Harpie Lady decks are something of an interesting comparison to others in the anime. Because while they aren't very good in the TCG, and she doesn't exactly do well in most of the anime, I think if you played the anime decks in the actual TCG, she'd be one of the best.
Why? Simply, consistency. Mai's shown to actually have a Harpie Lady engine going on, using cards specifically to get to and play off other cards in her deck, while everyone else is basically just relying on luck... and having that pay off, because in anime 'luck' is a viable strategy.
im surprised we even got her to win 1 one duel since she's a female which in Yugi logic means you're just a minor plot twist for ma(i)n characters lol I think she was a badass with a bad plot armor ...
My favorite card back in the day was dark witch, and this was when I was a kid in high school in the early 2000’s
I like theese videos. I hope you'll consider making one for every protagonist once you're out of DM characters to cover.
well I dont have Cyber Harpie Lady in my harpie collection, but I do have Harpie Lady Cyber Bondage (although it is written as Harpie Lady SB)... I'm a big fan of Harpie Lady since way back but I just cant get it to work until modern support arrives...
So are you going to do these like character card analysis for other series besides the DM era I would love to see you continue this throughout the rest of the eras of Yu-Gi-Oh
ONYX ARLAN how good was golden rat guys
Mai was always my favorite and I've played Harpie Ladies since they first became a real deck c:
Barely anybody plays Mirror Wall in Duel Links anymore. The most common decks are Dark Magician, Shiranui, Cyber Dragon, Blackwings and Superheavy Samurai. Dark Lords are fairly common too, but not as much as they used to be, and they‘re a lot easier to deal with. Their only really powerful card is Desire, but that non-destructive removal is annoying. Their trap, which negates monster-effects, is annoying too.
Nevermind. Darklords are currently more than half of my opponents. I just tried again to get from legendary 5 to KOG and the opponents either play Darklords or a deck with Necrovalley. I think I'll just go to sleep now. It's almost 1:30 a.m..
Hope you do this for all the series so far...even though you haven't seen them all. :/
"...most of the harpies". I used to play the deck, they're all winged beast.
Harpie's Pet Dragon is a dragon type harpie card
@@mastemaherald9939 As well as the Pet Baby Dragon and Pet Phantasmal Dragon.
Review Revolver's cards (VRains anime), he played a Rokket deck but had a couple old school techs that made his deck interesting
Mirror Force, Mind Crush, Imperial Order, Magic Cylinder
2 of them being Yugi cards tho
Still, would love to see him review Revolver
The synergy in a harpie deck is harpies feather duster is searchable with harpies feather storm, when feather storm is destroyed.
Dominic Ernst I don’t get why hunting grounds is not an optional effect
@@rosewarrior706 I like that it's mandatory because harpies do have spells and traps they want destroyed. And in this case hunting ground can force your opponent to destroy feather rest to trigger it. Also it is an easy way to go plus two by destroying harpie lady elegance
Mirror Wall was pretty insane in the anime. It didn't have its 2000 LP cost, and it stopped all your opponent's attacks. The latter sounds like a bad thing since the monster you activated this in response to won't get itself destroyed***, but it basically turned this card into a super-ultra Gravity Bind that affects Xyz, Links, lvls 3 and below, and still allows YOU to attack unrestricted.
***At least, that's how it happened in the anime. But it could be that Duelist Kingdom didn't have Damage Step rules: you should be able to use this in the Damage Step and the monster's attack won't be stopped (see Shadow Spell for example), giving you the best of both worlds.
releasing this video on Valentines Day..
I see you Doug
Actually, the Dark Witch that Mai played was a level four light type fairy monster known as Dunames Dark Witch. I have the card, it’s the one that we saw in Battle City arc.
Dunames the Dark Witch is actually a different card than Dark Witch, and both were played by Mai :)
A Light Fairy-tyoe monster called dark witch?
I remember playing duel links..and when I saw mirror wall 50% of the time I lost without surrendering....30% I surrendered and the last 20% I managed to pull through
2:23 I don't know about it being definitely better than heavy storm, that's pretty debatable. they're both incredibly sacky unsearchable s/t removal options, but storm is extra degenerate by being able to wipe your own stuff and plus off it that way too. the OCG has kept that banned for a reason I think whereas duster is fine.
Jack YT >Feather Duster is searchable
@@mezasepkmn Well relying on your opponent destroying a set storm isn't really a proactive search unless they have another card I'm not aware of?
Mirror Wall is still a viable method in duel links to lost LP and trigger your skills.
I wouldn't mind if she uses me again.
Wrong Icon...
Graceful Charity SIMP
Same tbh
@@TheHolyDishwater I don't think you get my joke in regards to saryuja and charity being similar cards digging through your deck....
@@AxisChurchDevotee ;)
You mentioned Mirror Wall in the context of Duel Links, dzeeff. YES, it's still being played, and people are chain comboing it with Wall of Disruption, too. For someone trying to improve their skills and just have fun, being bodied by that combo is disheartening. I was TRYING to see how far I could get in the KC Cup this time, but after having that combo done to me, with 3 separate decks in a row, it put me off of it.
I know you didn't want to mention duel link but since was kind of scrap for monster amazon swords women?
bro i have to wait a whole week for my shaddoll structure decks to come!!!!!
What about the 2 spell card she used when she sort of joined Darts? Harpy´s sparrow and phoenix formation. The only experiance i have with yugioh is the anime so they maybe suck outside of the anime but there effects sounded powerful.
Sparrow is anime-only and Phoenix got a bunch of restrictions that make it really bad :(
Yugioh dm held the filmmakers rule book upside down and read “tell don’t show”. Except, plenty of characters have rolled into the show with a powerful entrance. You know what how about a gx character. Alexis, Zane, Axel (played volcanic) jaden could be interesting, I don’t know how many of his heroes were actually competitive.
Why exclude her amazons? That was her more competitive deck.
This is a video about which of her cards were good in the TCG. Amazons were not good in the TCG
@@Dzeeff agree with you
Next lets talk about Best Jaden card. A lot of people like to talk shit about Jaden deck because he play Neo Spacian. But in reality he play a lot of broken card as well.
Wasn't E-Hero Dark Gaia a good old school card because of the insane attack potential?
@@CarmsCelestia Yeah but maybe because of RATA people still think Jaden deck terrible.
It was horrible tho and he didn't even play the good heroes
@@coolkidsclub9943 E-Hero Bubbleman: Am i a joke to you?
Also GX came out in a format where fast paced gameplay and extra deck spamming wasnt a thing yet (not counting magical scientist FTK). So of course Omni Hero won't be on his deck. But then again most omni hero got buffed a lot in real life because the manga version is kinda meh.
@@riqua27 That first thing was just cringy. Don't use a bad Reddit meme please.
And there were better decks all over GX. GX did help define what makes an archetype, which was nice, but Jaden's strategy of "summon whatever weird flavor of fusion monster I'm feeling today because I drew three bricks and a polymerization" was just bad. The Neo reliance on Neo Space made them almost unplayable, and even his ace monster's mountain of support didn't make it as good as Dark Magician, who at least had a game plan.
I like Jaden, and I actually like GX, but he's just a bad duelist because a lot of things in GX were bad. At least the Zexal kid was bad on purpose, and he got better as the show went on.
TLDR: Play Cyber Dragons, Ancient Gears, Destiny HEROs, or Volcanics (if you want to be a mega Chad) for good GX decks.
Or play Venoms if you want to never win a game
Everytime I got screwed over with that feather duster I Always thought I wanna slap MAI hand up her giant head for introducing this even tho she didn't in reality ugh that thing is just insanely powerful to use as a second term setup for a third turn finish
Ahhw, no Dunames Dark Witch?
Can u plz review Bakura??? He is my fav duelist
Can you go back and do videos for duel links since its an entirely different beast but its still yugioh
Now the trap cards in duel links are wall of disruption, drowning mirror force, and floodgate trap hole
Mirror Wall was on the limited list?
Swordswoman is really cool in weird formats like Duel Links
hey can you do a video like this on zane ?
❤😬 Happy Valentine's Day y'all
I noticed that you didn't talk about her equip cards. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't she use some type of Harpy armor and weapons?
She did, but they probably didn't see any competitive use compared. Most Equip spells used for Isolde or something would normally be useful within the deck, rather than the archetype specific Harpy ones
"Harpie's Feather Duster is a card that I don't think will be coming back to the TCG anytime soon..."
Boy, that comment aged well.
*"I thought disguising myself as a bee would help me to win!"*
Mai 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
I like to put together her deck .
Love Mai Valentine (I think Amazoness Swords Women should have made the list)
It’s not that great in real dueling, but the anime Harpie Lady Phoenix Formation was wayyyyy OP....she could still special summon, she didn’t have to have at least 3 harpies, and it took the total combined attack of all monsters destroyed from its effect out of the opponents life points. Truly an OTK if played right
Well, Harpie's feather duster did come back, who would have thought
didnt harpies feather duster get limited to 1 in the TCG?
Hey Dzeff, PLZ do Aporia, Paradox, Zone, Nightshroud(GX Season 4), Fujiwara, and The Supreme King next!🙏
Woah, first time I'm ever a first time viewer, love your vids Doug, happy valentine's day!
No? Nice try.
I just love Mai and am in love playing Yugioh with my Harpie deck 💟 this video was gooood thank you 🍪💟
The character that always lost in the manga when we saw her and only won one duel on screen
To Dzeef, who in the Yugioh series would you say had the most competively viable deck, that is, in their OWN generation and figuring on all the same card effects? Note: I mean whole, complete deck. Not single cards.
The Pretzel2 Should be a character from VRAINS, there was a whole U Link in that series if I remember correctly
@@maxl5003 multiple. Revolver U-links Playmaker, who turns it into a 0 Link, Lightning U Links Spectre, who then works around it to U Link him back. May have been one or two more I can't remember, but I think that was it
Next you could do a villainous character like Pegasus, Marik, or Bakura
"a few months ago" was apperently 14 days before this video
Do "How Broken Were Bandit Keith's Yugioh Cards" on July 4th
Nah do it now.
July 4th...In America!
How broken are my cards in America
Aren’t Harpies A Play On Harp? As In Like Cupid, Love, Harps. Harps Are Associated With Angels Or Angelic Figures. They’re Wing-Beasts. That Kinda Counts.
... Uh, no? The harpy is a creature from Greek mythology.
I wonder if they will errata Feather Duster to make it require controlling a Harpie someday
She used Amazoness Spellcaster or Magician as a quick play...I hate her :P I think Mai kinda looks like Paladin
Paladin looks like Mai
did u ignor the waking the dragons filler when making this video
We deserve to have Harpies Feather Duster at 1 like the OCG. And Lithosagym to 3
Probably not the first to ask: What about sparrow and phoenix formation?
Sparrow isn't a TCG card, Phoenix isn't good with the physical effect
Didn’t Harpie’s Feather Duster become limited to one copy in the TCG?
After this video was made, yeah
@@Dzeeff I think they’re gonna update the ban list in the next couple weeks.
3:11 well that aged well
Obligatory posting of "Meh fancard, please love me":
*Harpie’s Psychic Perfume Armor* - Equip Spell
Artwork: A Harpie Lady but with clouds of thick colourful perfume instead of armour.
Can only be Equipped to a “Harpie Lady” or “Harpie Lady Sisters”.
The equipped monster gains ATK/DEF equal to the total level of all the “Harpie Lady” Monsters you control multiplied by 100.
The first time, each turn, it is destroyed (by battle or by card effect) it is not.
The equipped monster can make a second attack, during each battlephase.
If a monster battles the equipped monster, negate that monster’s effects and said monster can no longer declare an attack. These effects remain, even if this card leaves the field.
If this card, in the owner’s possession, leaves the field because of a card effect. You can take one “Harpie” card (or one card which lists “Harpie Lady” in it’s text) from your deck or GY and place it on top of your deck, except “Harpie’s Psychic Perfume Armor”.
Empathises on "Pretty"
Can you do video on Jayden please.
Sincerely,
Hero player.