Oh god the text on Ancient Gear Duel is the same as Ancient Gear Advance!!! It actually makes Golem and monsters that mention it unaffected by activated monster effects and it lets you Miracle Fusion a monster that mentions Golem and gives it 3 attacks per turn. Super sorry about that, I had to proxy a bunch of cards for these three vids and it slipped through.
By text you mean effect? I'm not sure what the error is. Probably a bad time to ask but can you please do a Legacy of the Worthless 5Ds edition: Iron Chain, Skull Flame, and Piece Golem?
@@dadocta5168the text on the card Ancient Gear Duel that he shows on screen, is what he is referring to. And those 3 probably don't have videos for the same reason Malicevorous ended up not getting an actual feature a few years back: so concise and boring it's not entertaining enough to talk about (I know Piece Golem certainly isn't, and there are arguments to be made for 80% of the cards that exist for the other two to the same effect).
I love how Konami occasionally jump scares us with Arcana Force support. The support in question is always underwhelming and so few in number it really doesn’t change anything, but hey, at least it’s there.
@@cat100ize my bingo sheet says dumon star seraph support, a random Cnumber upgrade (betting on c44 as dumon connections to it), armatos legios (lightning AI deck) Arcane support covering the remaining arcana forces that are STILL NOT PRINTED. vylon maybe?
Honestly, The Fiend/The Devil was suprisingly solid support, but ,like Rata said, I was fully expecting him to just be the start of a full *wave* of support instead of just being an I.V. drip for the forseeable future.
"Well unless you really liked the dragons, but i'm kinda glad they decided to forget about this" And three days after this video they revealed a new dragon-like monsters for Ancient Gears.
The bootleg translation of Ancient Gear duel accidently has the effect Ancient Gear Advance. Let this be a lesson to never buy cards from homeless Goblins.
Volcanic Emperor really is one of the best archetype boss monster designs: it doesn't have an omni-negate, it doesn't floodgate, it isn't an Extra Deck monster, and it has a specific summoning condition that prevents other decks from cheating it out, but it still works with and enhances the archetype's playstyle instead of going in some random completely different direction. I really wish they had made all the Ancient Gear support all "normal summon an 'Ancient Gear' monster from your deck without tributing" instead of special summoning. Not only would it let them get around the older cards' "can't be special summoned" text without having to tack on "ignoring summoning conditions", but it would make the archetype more unique, lean into the theme of them being Ancient and thus powered by normal summons instead of specials, and let them play around things like Maxx C. I do love how Commander is literally Crowler, Duel Disk and all.
@@ZeothTheHedgehog Most extra deck boss monsters end up with generic material or summoning requirements, and extra deck monsters are just overall far easier to cheat out. I'd rather have more Volcanic Emperors and far less Borreload Savages or Accesscode Talkers or VFDs in the game.
@@ZeothTheHedgehog Yes but also no. The exclusivity of main deck boss monsters is absolutely something that makes them more likeable but also main deck boss monsters are more likely to remain in decks dedicated to them and be the primary win-con of the deck. So it's not just that a main deck boss monster is more unique for the person who is not using it, but it's more unique for the person who is using it. Look at something like Superheavy Samurai - you could be a huge Superheavy Samurai fan and when you hear that they're top tier due to legacy support you get excited then look at the end board you're supposed to make and say, "But where are the Superheavy Samurai cards?" It drags the experience down for people who actually LIKE the deck if your win-con relies on not actually using the cards that you enjoy the deck for. Something being a main deck boss monster means that more of the deck needs to be molded around it. A lot of Extra Deck boss monsters get stolen because either they have generic requirements or they're so simple to make that you can get to them by throwing in like a single E-Tele or something. tl;dr Less abusable by people who don't like the deck and more encouraged for people who do like the deck. It has more "soul" for lack of a better term.
@@LadyTsunade777 It straight up isn't possible to give a card an effect that allows you to Normal Summon a monster from your deck. Yu-Gi-Oh's mechanics simply don't work that way. The only workaround would be to write it like "add 1 Ancient Gear monster from your deck, then Normal Summon it without tributing." Additionally it really doesn't make that much of difference and special summoning ignoring summoning conditions is an simpler solution than adding a card and then normal summoning it without tributing. Yeah you would play around cards like Maxx C (but who cares we are the TCG) but lose hard to Droll instead. The big plus would be that you lose les to cards that lock special summoning or cards that only work against special summoned monsters.
There's a tendency in recent years to Make a support card for an archetype modeled after the character who used the Deck or a representative element Like with Fortune Lady Past (Dark Signer Carly) or Signal Warrior (Yusei's D-Wheel)
@@JABRIEL251 there are those who Look almost like the duelist (Numeral Hunter) and those who might Not Look the same (like AG Commander) and just include representative aspects of the duelist Look at Kaibaman or D/D/D King Rage Kaibaman Looks almost exactly like Jaiba While Rage only has Reiji's scarf and its head Looks like His hairstyle
@@condedepiamonte93 I guess, but I'm not even seeing that much. It's really does look like some random dude. I guess if I squint hard enough and drink a little, the gun kind of looks like Axel's.
Hey, remember when Rata Said that Konami seemed to have forgoten about the Ancient Gear Dragons? What do you think about that Next V promo card? Ancient Gear Dragon: Rata is a Prophet and a Giant B-word.
Agreed ...which makes it an annoying shame that they are the least frequent to get in Soulburning Volcano, cuz 90% of the time you are getting Battling Boxer. Like holy shit, Konami of America
Rata, I've been watching you since Legacy of the Worthless, and I gotta say...I really appreciate your work. You pretty much single-handedly rekindled my interest in Yu-Gi-Oh.
I went against Volcanics at my first ever YCS and if I wasn't someone who had tried building the deck, I probably would've lost. My opponent was really cool and it was very funny seeing my side of the tables playing meta and the other side playing what was considered rogue as to my right, someone on Cubics, to my left, Nemleria 2-0ing Floo. It feels so good to say the words "Volcanic is competitively viable." For the first time in years.
It's even worse, you can actually normal summon the other ones. Some of them die without the field spell on board, but that is still preferable to playing Arcana Force.
You know what’s really sad about Arcana Force? Konami has since made *another* Tarot-based deck in the form of Prophecy/Spellbook. And that one DOES have every single major arcana represented. And Prophecy, if only for Spellbook of Judgement, had much more time to shine than Arcana Force ever did. So it sometimes feels like, do they even care about finishing Arcana Force after Prophecy?
I really appreciate that at this point half of the Ancient Gear monsters are just Ancient Gear Golem but with a new artwork and an extra word added into the name. All the cool military ideas that they could slap in there and Konami is like "Nah now we get to see Golem from the right side on a RED background!
1:04 Hehe. Local Alcoholic 3:41 A phrase to remember 6:26 Gadget: I Will search for food 7:24 Is it just a different Card in a new pose? 9:24 I love this card's artwork 9:47 RATA's favorite support philosophy
@@runningoncylinders3829 Yep. While giving support to other light attribute archetypes (Or creating one. Since one of my potential candidates is to make Tachyon a proper archetype so that Mizar can have his own deck separate from Kite's stuff)
@@Rabbitlord108 I think it’s Dumon’s Star Seraphs in this pack. I also had it down to Melodious beforehand, but now that this theme was in LEDE I can see an adaptation of Luna’s cards including a new AFD or Trickstars which is equally deserving of an encore showing. The year ahead will hopefully see an adaptation of Armatos Legios, though not in this set, and if not I’m sure to be lamenting my entire experience with the card game.
@@runningoncylinders3829 Okay. Though since Konami loves mixing stuff up now I can a new AFD representing her being powered up via the aid of Life Stream Dragon (AKA Power Tool Dragon's true form)
It's funny seeing the cards based on Axel's mom & dad in the same artwork. Though if they were to make another Ancient Gear card referencing something from the anime. I wouldn't mind seeing a card showing Ancient Gear Golem pummeling Toy Emperor to reference the man who wears his Napoleon references on his sleeve Jean Louise Bonaparte (AKA the guy who left after season 3 to spend time with his son Marcel. Which is a more dignified exit than Bastian's)
I have seen people pull of Emperor Combos that burned for 4000-5000 lifepoints.. Volcanic is an extremely fun rogue deck to snatch some wins in Regionals and a cool deck to win Locals with :D
"It's treated as Ancient Gear Golem while on the field" if I had a drink in my mouth I would have spit it out, I'm one of those players that lives and dies by Chaos Giant so that was like music to my ears
I'm glad that Konami remembered that Crowler WASN'T a GX character brought back for Arc V (Though considering his dark turn in season 2 of GX. I'm STILL shocked Zane wasn't a high rank member of the Obelisk Force)
@dunnester98 yeah but Golem on the field means you can activate Ancient Gear Fusion's second effect which means you get access to every Ancient Gear fusion monster which means you get access to ANCIENT GEAR CHAOS GIANT with only a two card set-up, both of which can be easily searched
I like to imagine the people in charge of what archetype/retrains get made breaking out a shovel at the OG card graveyard (Not the GY) and just tossing it in the air over them (They're very compact graves) and wherever it falls they just start adigging. Every now and then the Reaper of the Cards comes by and they run off, not out of fear, but because he's always begging them for his own archetype.
Yet they surprisingly haven't made cards that answered the question of "What if Neos & the Neo-Spacians got corrupted when Jaden became the Supreme King?" (One idea I still have is giving Aqua Dolphin design cues taken from an Orca. AKA the KILLER WHALE)
@@Rabbitlord108 We've still got elemental heroes and Jaden staples left to corrupt, do we have to go straight (heh Jaden) to the S2 space aliens from nowhere? Sorry for exposing you to my one Yugi boomer trait.
@@goodpeople25My reason is because I think the Neo-Spacians need retrains. And as Rata said in his archetype archive on Cyberdarks "You cannot fix what was made broken. You can just rebuild it from the ground up if you want it to be functional" yes. I know there's exceptions to that like SPYRAL Double Helix. But still.
“1500 damage becomes more than an inconvenient chunk when it happens repeatedly, you know” Yup! And that’s why I love Heavy Borger in Vanquish Soul. Burn for 1500, then do that again as soon as the turn passes to opponent.
Yeah. But 1500 becomes 750 in Duel Links since all effect damage effects cut the amount done by half now (Which I admit was necessary so Anna could be added since her Ace in the anime was Gustav Max. And a game with 4K life points can't have an XYZ with an effect that would end the duel if it got to successfully go off twice)
@@kichiroumitsurugi4363I know. I was just pointing out a scenario where I can stomach the idea. Unlike all the cards that already only dealt a pathetically small amount to begin with.
Just be glad they didn't make it look like the Obelisk Force grunts from Arc V. Call it "Ancient Gear Trooper" and gave it a burn effect that mirrors Hunting Hound and ends the turn after being activated.
I haven't played in so long that each Yu-Gi-Oh card is just a huge paragraph of random words to me at this point, but Rata's videos are still must-watches, just because he's that charismatic and likeable.
Same. While magic cards effect are easily understandable and "predictable" (you know exactly what a blue-black counter spell is going to do before you read it, you can tell from the mana value and colors) ygo keeps getting worse and worse in its text (and as a game) and all these effects blend together.
I'm baffled by one particular line on Commander: he could've let you send Golem from your face-up field, but instead you can send Golem from your face-up Monster Zone specifically? As opposed to your face-up backrow? What exactly is this meant to prevent, Instant Fusioning Thousand-Eyes to suck up a Golem that your opponent Snatch Stole?
Yeah Turn 1 Ancient Gears relies entirely on setting up some Synchros with Anchor Drill, getting Regulus or doing some XYZ/Link stuff and even then it falls apart.
An Arcana Force monster could have a level 4 with a 3000 atk/def body, omni negate upon flipping heads, a free field wipe of the opponent’s board on either turn as a tails with majespector protection and they still wouldn’t be playable as an archetype
@@abdulpadela4738 yeah…exactly. It wouldn’t help arcana force in the least bit because they’re such a bad deck it wouldn’t bump up arcana force as an archetype. My point is that there is no updating arcana force with new support because they’re too underwhelming to be of any use. Just let the archetype die
Don't be silly now. They're still so much money to steal from the depressed 30yo people who watched GX when "times were better" (aka: they were too dumb to know how bad was the situation already)
Volcanic support was awesome, hope that they keep supporting the archetype once in a while now that the deck has solid foundation, instead of forgetting about it for another 8 years
The fact the burn per special summon on Volcanic Emperor stacks if you have more of them, meaning if your opponent special summons six times, they lose is also a hysterical concept.
Konami might have finally remembered that Pyro exists but they still haven't fully registered that they don't need to attach types and attributes at the hip even if they're elemental-focused (or rather, making some types exclusively elemental-focused was just a bad decision). The setting restriction remaining on Ancient Gear cards is extra funny when you consider Konami is fine with Triple Tactics Thrust being an entirely generic search for any Spell. People are expecting the LIGHT pack will likely include Arcana Force so there's that.
Channeling my inner Rata: So AG Dragon just got revealed, and finally gives them some negation, while can’t be special summoned is an easy work around, is searchable with Box, and gives them a good first turn play with Therion Regulus, they still need a better foundation for first turn, but this is better than nothing
Honestly, I think I can see why my brother was so excited to try the new support for Ancient Gears and Volcanics now that I've seen them. This entire video was a series of "Holy fuck, they actually printed this!?" just over and over again. It's... beautiful. Magnificent even.
The text on Ancient Gear Duel is the same as Ancient Gear Advance. Suggestion: Print the full text of the card next to it (like you do for the regular archive videos) so they are easier to read.
I am amazed at how good the Volcanic stuff is. The old burny boys were always close to being good but they always just missed it. And now here they are, they made it.
Very minor note about Volcanic Blaze Accelerator: You have to send the original BA to activate it. Still a non-factor since it provjdes food for Rimfire's effect to slap a Reload on the field, but worth noting.
I look at Volcanic Trooper and wonder how other archetypes would do with some searching like that. Like SPYRALs.... How would SPYGAL feel, being left out of the club?
Woa woa, careful there with the verdict "we don't see legacy support like this very often". We are waaaay beyond pack filler cards for several years straight now. Don't know if anyone read the newest T.G., Galaxy or Red Dragon cards but they are also incredibly insane. And it's been like that for a good while now for all the decks they've neglected mercilessly over the years.
Konami once again about to release support for an archetype 5 minutes after Rata brought it back to the collective consciousness (Arcana Force in Duelists of Brilliance)
"And if you are trying to do Turn 1 settups with Ancient gear, then I am sorry but the deck just turns off if you have nothing to beat over" *Clears Throat* (Starting hand: AG Advance + Geartown + 3 ???) Activate Advance. Search Catapult. Activate Geartown. Activate Catapult. Special Summon Wyvern and Dark Golem. Wyverns Searches Box. Box searches Infinitrack Anchor Drill. Dark Golem Searches Commander and Tanker. Discard 1. Normal Anchor Drill. Special Commander. Anchor Drill target Wyvern (Both lvl 8 now). Overlay into Number 90 for Nibiru Protection. Activate Commander. Mill Golem. Summon Tanker. Tanker summon Box. Link into Ballista with Box and Dark Golem. Ballista gets Geartown. Play Geartown. Tanker blows up Geartown. Special summon Dark Golem. Commander activates. Special Summon Golem. Overlay into Sargas (Golem + Dark Golem). Search Regulus. Play Regulus. Attach whatever. Link Ballista + Tanker + Commander into Apolusa. End Board: Number 90: Negates a Monster effect. Regulus: Negate. Apolusa: 2400 attack and 4 Monster Negates. Sargas: Can bounce your Advance back to your hand when Nr 90 negates. + 2 Cards in hand. The new support lets Ancient gear set up some decent Turn one Boards.
Huh, your comment about defense mode got me thinking. Monsters are sooo not played in defense mode these days that the DEF stat might as well not exist! When those 2000 ATK level 4 monsters for each type startet to come out I didn't think 'Oh they are really strong but their low DEF stats keep them balanced'. But that started very early. 2500 DEF never mattered for Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Nobody cared that Dark Magician had more DEF than all other main character's ace cards but people would if he had more ATK. As early as the original manga the DEF stat and defense mode became less and less relevant as it went on. Sure some monsters were summoned in defense mode here and there but it didn't impact the duel in any way and it shows. The very few cards that are known for their DEF stat had their time in the sun long time ago like Mystical Elf or Big Shield Guardna. If you think about Gaia you think 2300 not 2100. So bottom line: If a modern YGO card has piercing damage it's worse than a vanilla because they atleast have a lot of support.
Ah, the parody-cards! That's what I'm here for! Yeah...Types that have a ridiculous amount of support because they aren't limited to any particular archetype really have it way too easy. Aren't we still waiting for Snake Rain to get broken? What about Ogdadoics or whatever their name was? Did anything happen to those snakes in Vylon armor?
I stopped playing this god forsaken game once I realized how bad it was and once I outgrew the cheap artstyle (I'm eating SO good with magic nowadays, playing commander only) but I still watch your videos cause you're entertaining. Been following you since Legacy of the Worthless.
At this point, they just print Arcana Force cards to say " Hey, remember this piece of shit archetype? Me too, and it's staying that way. This crap is unsalvageable!". I respect the raw, no fucks given energy they have for this group of cards.
Well, I think we can safely say the volcanic support is lit. On an unrelated note - if you're still picking up new archetype archives, have you considered monarchs? I was just playing them the other day and thought about the unorthodox levels/release order and surprisingly wide backrow list. Thought it would be fun to go through in your usual style.
Hopefully with the announcement of the Light duelist pack, Arcana force will finally be able to get the support it truly needs. Please Konami, just, Please
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Oh god the text on Ancient Gear Duel is the same as Ancient Gear Advance!!! It actually makes Golem and monsters that mention it unaffected by activated monster effects and it lets you Miracle Fusion a monster that mentions Golem and gives it 3 attacks per turn. Super sorry about that, I had to proxy a bunch of cards for these three vids and it slipped through.
By text you mean effect? I'm not sure what the error is.
Probably a bad time to ask but can you please do a Legacy of the Worthless 5Ds edition: Iron Chain, Skull Flame, and Piece Golem?
@@dadocta5168the text on the card Ancient Gear Duel that he shows on screen, is what he is referring to.
And those 3 probably don't have videos for the same reason Malicevorous ended up not getting an actual feature a few years back: so concise and boring it's not entertaining enough to talk about (I know Piece Golem certainly isn't, and there are arguments to be made for 80% of the cards that exist for the other two to the same effect).
advance also makes Engineer and Beast playable....well...more playable...
For the volcanic support you didn’t mention fire recovery.
@@valinorhero7128 That bastard!
I love how Konami occasionally jump scares us with Arcana Force support. The support in question is always underwhelming and so few in number it really doesn’t change anything, but hey, at least it’s there.
few in numbers is understating it. I'm pretty sure it's always been one card at a time so far
we have light anime support coming later
@@cat100ize my bingo sheet says dumon star seraph support, a random Cnumber upgrade (betting on c44 as dumon connections to it), armatos legios (lightning AI deck) Arcane support covering the remaining arcana forces that are STILL NOT PRINTED. vylon maybe?
@@cat100izeit’s def not being apart of that
Honestly, The Fiend/The Devil was suprisingly solid support, but ,like Rata said, I was fully expecting him to just be the start of a full *wave* of support instead of just being an I.V. drip for the forseeable future.
"Well unless you really liked the dragons, but i'm kinda glad they decided to forget about this"
And three days after this video they revealed a new dragon-like monsters for Ancient Gears.
If you can really call that thing a dragon. It's more like a snake with acid reflux.
@@thatmspaintgirlIt's literally Ancient Gear Cyber Dragon; it is a dragon despite everything.
at this point, i feel like konami are well aware that arcana force are just a meme, hence why they give them a single new card every few years
Imagine living long enough to hear Volcanic support might be "too good"
The bootleg translation of Ancient Gear duel accidently has the effect Ancient Gear Advance. Let this be a lesson to never buy cards from homeless Goblins.
I can't wait for the "Payne who?" Tweet
Volcanic Emperor really is one of the best archetype boss monster designs: it doesn't have an omni-negate, it doesn't floodgate, it isn't an Extra Deck monster, and it has a specific summoning condition that prevents other decks from cheating it out, but it still works with and enhances the archetype's playstyle instead of going in some random completely different direction.
I really wish they had made all the Ancient Gear support all "normal summon an 'Ancient Gear' monster from your deck without tributing" instead of special summoning. Not only would it let them get around the older cards' "can't be special summoned" text without having to tack on "ignoring summoning conditions", but it would make the archetype more unique, lean into the theme of them being Ancient and thus powered by normal summons instead of specials, and let them play around things like Maxx C.
I do love how Commander is literally Crowler, Duel Disk and all.
Why does not being an Extra Deck monster got to do with anything? At best, I assume that's because "it's unique"
@@ZeothTheHedgehog Most extra deck boss monsters end up with generic material or summoning requirements, and extra deck monsters are just overall far easier to cheat out.
I'd rather have more Volcanic Emperors and far less Borreload Savages or Accesscode Talkers or VFDs in the game.
Kinda like UCT
@@ZeothTheHedgehog Yes but also no. The exclusivity of main deck boss monsters is absolutely something that makes them more likeable but also main deck boss monsters are more likely to remain in decks dedicated to them and be the primary win-con of the deck. So it's not just that a main deck boss monster is more unique for the person who is not using it, but it's more unique for the person who is using it.
Look at something like Superheavy Samurai - you could be a huge Superheavy Samurai fan and when you hear that they're top tier due to legacy support you get excited then look at the end board you're supposed to make and say, "But where are the Superheavy Samurai cards?" It drags the experience down for people who actually LIKE the deck if your win-con relies on not actually using the cards that you enjoy the deck for.
Something being a main deck boss monster means that more of the deck needs to be molded around it. A lot of Extra Deck boss monsters get stolen because either they have generic requirements or they're so simple to make that you can get to them by throwing in like a single E-Tele or something.
tl;dr Less abusable by people who don't like the deck and more encouraged for people who do like the deck. It has more "soul" for lack of a better term.
@@LadyTsunade777 It straight up isn't possible to give a card an effect that allows you to Normal Summon a monster from your deck. Yu-Gi-Oh's mechanics simply don't work that way. The only workaround would be to write it like "add 1 Ancient Gear monster from your deck, then Normal Summon it without tributing." Additionally it really doesn't make that much of difference and special summoning ignoring summoning conditions is an simpler solution than adding a card and then normal summoning it without tributing. Yeah you would play around cards like Maxx C (but who cares we are the TCG) but lose hard to Droll instead. The big plus would be that you lose les to cards that lock special summoning or cards that only work against special summoned monsters.
I just realized that Volcanic Trooper has a gun and a human face.
Wait a minute.
Me: I thought you were no guns.
Konami: This is a gun? (Sorry I couldn't resist)
There's a tendency in recent years to Make a support card for an archetype modeled after the character who used the Deck or a representative element
Like with Fortune Lady Past (Dark Signer Carly) or Signal Warrior (Yusei's D-Wheel)
@@condedepiamonte93 Why does it look nothing like him then?
@@JABRIEL251 there are those who Look almost like the duelist (Numeral Hunter) and those who might Not Look the same (like AG Commander) and just include representative aspects of the duelist
Look at Kaibaman or D/D/D King Rage
Kaibaman Looks almost exactly like Jaiba
While Rage only has Reiji's scarf and its head Looks like His hairstyle
@@condedepiamonte93 I guess, but I'm not even seeing that much. It's really does look like some random dude. I guess if I squint hard enough and drink a little, the gun kind of looks like Axel's.
Konami heard you talking shit about Ancient Gear dragons
Hey, remember when Rata Said that Konami seemed to have forgoten about the Ancient Gear Dragons? What do you think about that Next V promo card?
Ancient Gear Dragon: Rata is a Prophet and a Giant B-word.
I’m glad Volcanics finally got the long awaited support they needed. The great wait is over.
Payne96 is finally happy
The great eye roll you mean
It be nice to have a extra deck boss monster that turbos out doomfire/queen from grave or deck
Agreed
...which makes it an annoying shame that they are the least frequent to get in Soulburning Volcano, cuz 90% of the time you are getting Battling Boxer. Like holy shit, Konami of America
2023 was The Year of Fire.🔥🔥
ANCIENT GEAR SUPREMACY
😂😂😂
ANCIENT GEAR SUPREMACY NA NO NE
Was this from the anime?
Na no nee
@@ChadKakashi Na no nee
Rata taking us back to GX, referencing the Bush Administration, and quoting Flame Hyenard... That certainly was a period of time.
I like the idea that the Fiend with its tails effect will fold to a fucking Ojama attacking it
And in true Ojama fashion, they failed, spectacularly
@@raydhen8840as is their Emperor given right..... the only one actually
i don't know why but the part where he goes "it thinks it's an Unchained" caught off guard and i just burst out laughing
so thanks for that
I burst out laughing when I got to that line. One of Rata's funniest line deliveries ever.
10:35 well, it IS a Fiend!
XD
Rata, I've been watching you since Legacy of the Worthless, and I gotta say...I really appreciate your work. You pretty much single-handedly rekindled my interest in Yu-Gi-Oh.
I went against Volcanics at my first ever YCS and if I wasn't someone who had tried building the deck, I probably would've lost. My opponent was really cool and it was very funny seeing my side of the tables playing meta and the other side playing what was considered rogue as to my right, someone on Cubics, to my left, Nemleria 2-0ing Floo. It feels so good to say the words "Volcanic is competitively viable." For the first time in years.
I like how The Fiend is a discard beater that searches the field spell, really showing where the archetype is still at.
It's even worse, you can actually normal summon the other ones. Some of them die without the field spell on board, but that is still preferable to playing Arcana Force.
Nah, the most telling part is the card is "good" by Arcana Force standards. I mean, how sad is that?
Reminds me of how Saio didn't know how duel disks worked at first and played his first duel on a table that he pulled out of nowhere.
You know what’s really sad about Arcana Force?
Konami has since made *another* Tarot-based deck in the form of Prophecy/Spellbook. And that one DOES have every single major arcana represented. And Prophecy, if only for Spellbook of Judgement, had much more time to shine than Arcana Force ever did.
So it sometimes feels like, do they even care about finishing Arcana Force after Prophecy?
I really appreciate that at this point half of the Ancient Gear monsters are just Ancient Gear Golem but with a new artwork and an extra word added into the name. All the cool military ideas that they could slap in there and Konami is like "Nah now we get to see Golem from the right side on a RED background!
1:04 Hehe. Local Alcoholic
3:41 A phrase to remember
6:26 Gadget: I Will search for food
7:24 Is it just a different Card in a new pose?
9:24 I love this card's artwork
9:47 RATA's favorite support philosophy
at 1:04 he actually said "aquaholic" since she drinks water, not alcohol.
@@maltenuchter7134yep the bottle says water.
People weren’t expecting support for Arcana Force in Legacy of Destruction. They’re expecting it in the Light Duelist Pack.
And we just got new ancient gear support lol. Ancient gear dragon. An ancient gear cyber dragon crossover
And a much worse one at that
I cannot wait for this year to fill in the gaps with Arcana Force.
Duelist Pack Light confirmed!
Sartorius is the best suited for the cover of the pack.
More like. Duelist pack: Power of the Light.
@@runningoncylinders3829 Yep. While giving support to other light attribute archetypes (Or creating one. Since one of my potential candidates is to make Tachyon a proper archetype so that Mizar can have his own deck separate from Kite's stuff)
@@Rabbitlord108 I think it’s Dumon’s Star Seraphs in this pack.
I also had it down to Melodious beforehand, but now that this theme was in LEDE I can see an adaptation of Luna’s cards including a new AFD or Trickstars which is equally deserving of an encore showing. The year ahead will hopefully see an adaptation of Armatos Legios, though not in this set, and if not I’m sure to be lamenting my entire experience with the card game.
@@runningoncylinders3829 Okay. Though since Konami loves mixing stuff up now I can a new AFD representing her being powered up via the aid of Life Stream Dragon (AKA Power Tool Dragon's true form)
It's funny seeing the cards based on Axel's mom & dad in the same artwork. Though if they were to make another Ancient Gear card referencing something from the anime. I wouldn't mind seeing a card showing Ancient Gear Golem pummeling Toy Emperor to reference the man who wears his Napoleon references on his sleeve Jean Louise Bonaparte (AKA the guy who left after season 3 to spend time with his son Marcel. Which is a more dignified exit than Bastian's)
I have seen people pull of Emperor Combos that burned for 4000-5000 lifepoints.. Volcanic is an extremely fun rogue deck to snatch some wins in Regionals and a cool deck to win Locals with :D
"It's treated as Ancient Gear Golem while on the field" if I had a drink in my mouth I would have spit it out, I'm one of those players that lives and dies by Chaos Giant so that was like music to my ears
I'm glad that Konami remembered that Crowler WASN'T a GX character brought back for Arc V (Though considering his dark turn in season 2 of GX. I'm STILL shocked Zane wasn't a high rank member of the Obelisk Force)
@@Rabbitlord108considering how much of a joke Aster was in Arc V, it’s for the best Zane wasn’t there.
Chaos Giant good!
What do you mean? You don't need golem for Chaos Giant. You only need Golem for Ultimate Golem.
@dunnester98 yeah but Golem on the field means you can activate Ancient Gear Fusion's second effect which means you get access to every Ancient Gear fusion monster which means you get access to ANCIENT GEAR CHAOS GIANT with only a two card set-up, both of which can be easily searched
I like to imagine the people in charge of what archetype/retrains get made breaking out a shovel at the OG card graveyard (Not the GY) and just tossing it in the air over them (They're very compact graves) and wherever it falls they just start adigging. Every now and then the Reaper of the Cards comes by and they run off, not out of fear, but because he's always begging them for his own archetype.
Ancient Gear Dark Golem feels like they asked themselves
"What if Yubel possessed Crowler instead"
Yet they surprisingly haven't made cards that answered the question of
"What if Neos & the Neo-Spacians got corrupted when Jaden became the Supreme King?" (One idea I still have is giving Aqua Dolphin design cues taken from an Orca. AKA the KILLER WHALE)
@@Rabbitlord108 We've still got elemental heroes and Jaden staples left to corrupt, do we have to go straight (heh Jaden) to the S2 space aliens from nowhere?
Sorry for exposing you to my one Yugi boomer trait.
@@goodpeople25My reason is because I think the Neo-Spacians need retrains. And as Rata said in his archetype archive on Cyberdarks "You cannot fix what was made broken. You can just rebuild it from the ground up if you want it to be functional" yes. I know there's exceptions to that like SPYRAL Double Helix. But still.
@@Rabbitlord108they made Supreme King Neos holy shit
“1500 damage becomes more than an inconvenient chunk when it happens repeatedly, you know”
Yup! And that’s why I love Heavy Borger in Vanquish Soul. Burn for 1500, then do that again as soon as the turn passes to opponent.
Yeah. But 1500 becomes 750 in Duel Links since all effect damage effects cut the amount done by half now (Which I admit was necessary so Anna could be added since her Ace in the anime was Gustav Max. And a game with 4K life points can't have an XYZ with an effect that would end the duel if it got to successfully go off twice)
@@Rabbitlord108The burn nerf hapoened way before Anna's release, actually. It was because people played shit like Lava Golem burn and stuff
@@kichiroumitsurugi4363I know. I was just pointing out a scenario where I can stomach the idea. Unlike all the cards that already only dealt a pathetically small amount to begin with.
@Rabbitlord108 Tbh, 1k burn was kinda problematic when it was on effectively a Kaiju
@@kichiroumitsurugi4363 Agreed. I'm referring to cards that deal like 500 or less burn damage.
I slowly await the arrival of sparkman’s wife into the tcg
Sparkwoman is exactly what HEROes needed to become tier 0
@@Rabbitlord108 is avians wife also sparkman’s wife
Ancient Gear Commander could've been called Crowlerman and it would be an instant 3 off. Jokes aside, love how weel AG are treated.
Just be glad they didn't make it look like the Obelisk Force grunts from Arc V. Call it "Ancient Gear Trooper" and gave it a burn effect that mirrors Hunting Hound and ends the turn after being activated.
I always loved that Grass + Volcanic boss was the FTK that took less steps in the entire history of the game.
Funny how Grass is banned and that I KNOW Bonfire is eventually going to be Limited.
Isn't Red-Eyes the FTK with the fewest steps? I mean, if you open perfectly.
@@Zetact_ if you open perfectly, Exodia is the fewest step FTK
I haven't played in so long that each Yu-Gi-Oh card is just a huge paragraph of random words to me at this point, but Rata's videos are still must-watches, just because he's that charismatic and likeable.
Same. While magic cards effect are easily understandable and "predictable" (you know exactly what a blue-black counter spell is going to do before you read it, you can tell from the mana value and colors) ygo keeps getting worse and worse in its text (and as a game) and all these effects blend together.
0:03 and it was ojamagnificent
3:42 I mean, have you seen the people going to Harvard?
you got to love the fact that litterally 2 days after this video they announced ancient gear support as jump promo in the ocg =)
And it is also an ancient gear dragon
9:21... don't look at the new V-Jump Promo.😂
I'm baffled by one particular line on Commander: he could've let you send Golem from your face-up field, but instead you can send Golem from your face-up Monster Zone specifically? As opposed to your face-up backrow? What exactly is this meant to prevent, Instant Fusioning Thousand-Eyes to suck up a Golem that your opponent Snatch Stole?
Sending an Ancient Gear Megaton Golem or Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem that was summoned to the Extra Monster Zone perhaps?
Rimfire is a type of bullet cartridge if anyone hasn't touched grass in a while
good to know.
Yeah Turn 1 Ancient Gears relies entirely on setting up some Synchros with Anchor Drill, getting Regulus or doing some XYZ/Link stuff and even then it falls apart.
It’s taking 1505 Days for this Support being a Legend
I love how all the ancient Gear golem art has just been leading up to punching flare scarab in the face (and utterly vaporizing them)
You could say 2023 is when the Payne for Fire type and Pyros finally ended
An Arcana Force monster could have a level 4 with a 3000 atk/def body, omni negate upon flipping heads, a free field wipe of the opponent’s board on either turn as a tails with majespector protection and they still wouldn’t be playable as an archetype
Everyone would take that arcana force monster and play it in decks that aren’t arcana force lol
@@abdulpadela4738 yeah…exactly. It wouldn’t help arcana force in the least bit because they’re such a bad deck it wouldn’t bump up arcana force as an archetype. My point is that there is no updating arcana force with new support because they’re too underwhelming to be of any use. Just let the archetype die
Don't be silly now. They're still so much money to steal from the depressed 30yo people who watched GX when "times were better" (aka: they were too dumb to know how bad was the situation already)
@@pascalsimioli6777this…this deserves more upvotes than i can give it
I mean, as long as Arcana Force the World exists, we won’t see any proper good Arcana Force support.
As a long-time Ancient Gear player; IT’S ABOUT TIME!!!
Ancient Gear Duel = Me when I fucking get you vibes
Volcanic support was awesome, hope that they keep supporting the archetype once in a while now that the deck has solid foundation, instead of forgetting about it for another 8 years
The fact the burn per special summon on Volcanic Emperor stacks if you have more of them, meaning if your opponent special summons six times, they lose is also a hysterical concept.
Konami might have finally remembered that Pyro exists but they still haven't fully registered that they don't need to attach types and attributes at the hip even if they're elemental-focused (or rather, making some types exclusively elemental-focused was just a bad decision).
The setting restriction remaining on Ancient Gear cards is extra funny when you consider Konami is fine with Triple Tactics Thrust being an entirely generic search for any Spell.
People are expecting the LIGHT pack will likely include Arcana Force so there's that.
Volcanics are the only FIRE Pyro archetype in the game.
Channeling my inner Rata: So AG Dragon just got revealed, and finally gives them some negation, while can’t be special summoned is an easy work around, is searchable with Box, and gives them a good first turn play with Therion Regulus, they still need a better foundation for first turn, but this is better than nothing
Every time a UA-camr references Flame Hyenard from Mega Man X7, I take 1500 burn damage.
At this point I would rather reference the song Die In A Fire when talking about burn damage. ESPECIALLY if it involves Machine monsters.
9:52 Ancient Gear Tanker has that Sans Undertale Blue Eye going on.
Yeah, this burn cool and all. But can it handle Barox beatdown ?
Flame Hyenard approved Volcanic supports.
6:00 I didn't even play that Mega Man game, but I love that meme.
BURN TO THE GROUND!!!
-can you hear me, Zero?-
BURN! BURN TO THE GROUND!!!
Honestly, I think I can see why my brother was so excited to try the new support for Ancient Gears and Volcanics now that I've seen them. This entire video was a series of "Holy fuck, they actually printed this!?" just over and over again. It's... beautiful. Magnificent even.
The text on Ancient Gear Duel is the same as Ancient Gear Advance.
Suggestion: Print the full text of the card next to it (like you do for the regular archive videos) so they are easier to read.
Year of the Pyro, LETSGO!
I am amazed at how good the Volcanic stuff is. The old burny boys were always close to being good but they always just missed it. And now here they are, they made it.
Commander's anti-Elemental HERO rant had me rising.
Just be glad it didn't prevent the summoning of Warrior monsters while in the graveyard. Don't want another Flamvell Ally Magician on our hands.
Volcanics in Master Duel LESGOOOOOOOOO
6:15 don't mind me just saving this for later
6:15
"Get your Elemental Hero playing a** out of the academy before you're OTK... NANONE."
GX support has been great
Me: still waiting for Venom and Cloudian support
Arcana Force The Fiend really doesn't change anything. Even stuffing this "2023 card" in a Goat Format duel, the deck still performs miserably.
you are forever my favorite yugituber
Very minor note about Volcanic Blaze Accelerator: You have to send the original BA to activate it. Still a non-factor since it provjdes food for Rimfire's effect to slap a Reload on the field, but worth noting.
I look at Volcanic Trooper and wonder how other archetypes would do with some searching like that. Like SPYRALs.... How would SPYGAL feel, being left out of the club?
Arcana Focre support is so weird. They're still missing 0, 11, 16, 17, 19 and 20. They're fresh out of all the cool numbers except 0.
I understand it's like that all Arcana Force are all the same type, but seriously you have a monster called "The FIEND" and he's a fairy type?!?!?!
They finally printed the fucking Fiend only for it to mean fuck all.
Wait for Legendary Duelist LIGHT when Arcana Force becomes tier 1 :)
First
I was hoping for New Batteryman support instead of Arcana Force
But we got New Lightsworn
Not complaining, though
Woa woa, careful there with the verdict "we don't see legacy support like this very often". We are waaaay beyond pack filler cards for several years straight now. Don't know if anyone read the newest T.G., Galaxy or Red Dragon cards but they are also incredibly insane. And it's been like that for a good while now for all the decks they've neglected mercilessly over the years.
Complete your HERO video already.
Never happening. It's no use, Give up
First like first comment nobody cares but I care so shaddup
Konami once again about to release support for an archetype 5 minutes after Rata brought it back to the collective consciousness (Arcana Force in Duelists of Brilliance)
10:03 Best first turn play is summon Howitzer and pass while your opponent can’t read and spending all resources to remove it
As someone who has played about with the new AG cards, I can tell you that their best turn 1 play is a 4 match Apollusa and pass
Just wait until duelists of brilliance drops, aracan force will get support!
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Where is my ZTK?
Yubel
I bell
We bell
To get well
Sad we won’t be getting more of these. These are so fun to watch live and in the vod later
"And if you are trying to do Turn 1 settups with Ancient gear, then I am sorry but the deck just turns off if you have nothing to beat over"
*Clears Throat*
(Starting hand: AG Advance + Geartown + 3 ???)
Activate Advance. Search Catapult.
Activate Geartown. Activate Catapult. Special Summon Wyvern and Dark Golem.
Wyverns Searches Box. Box searches Infinitrack Anchor Drill.
Dark Golem Searches Commander and Tanker. Discard 1.
Normal Anchor Drill. Special Commander.
Anchor Drill target Wyvern (Both lvl 8 now). Overlay into Number 90 for Nibiru Protection.
Activate Commander. Mill Golem. Summon Tanker.
Tanker summon Box. Link into Ballista with Box and Dark Golem.
Ballista gets Geartown. Play Geartown.
Tanker blows up Geartown. Special summon Dark Golem.
Commander activates. Special Summon Golem.
Overlay into Sargas (Golem + Dark Golem). Search Regulus.
Play Regulus. Attach whatever.
Link Ballista + Tanker + Commander into Apolusa.
End Board:
Number 90: Negates a Monster effect.
Regulus: Negate.
Apolusa: 2400 attack and 4 Monster Negates.
Sargas: Can bounce your Advance back to your hand when Nr 90 negates.
+ 2 Cards in hand.
The new support lets Ancient gear set up some decent Turn one Boards.
Yo, all my homies HATE Fairy Guardian. Beta-ass garbage. My homies only play Vehicroid OTK.
10:10 Too bad EARTH Machine players don't like that.......
2 rata vids in as many days is unheard of. Really looking forward to part 3 in 3726!!
Huh, your comment about defense mode got me thinking. Monsters are sooo not played in defense mode these days that the DEF stat might as well not exist! When those 2000 ATK level 4 monsters for each type startet to come out I didn't think 'Oh they are really strong but their low DEF stats keep them balanced'. But that started very early. 2500 DEF never mattered for Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Nobody cared that Dark Magician had more DEF than all other main character's ace cards but people would if he had more ATK. As early as the original manga the DEF stat and defense mode became less and less relevant as it went on. Sure some monsters were summoned in defense mode here and there but it didn't impact the duel in any way and it shows. The very few cards that are known for their DEF stat had their time in the sun long time ago like Mystical Elf or Big Shield Guardna. If you think about Gaia you think 2300 not 2100. So bottom line: If a modern YGO card has piercing damage it's worse than a vanilla because they atleast have a lot of support.
Im happy for Volcanics i ended up using them with Snake Eyes and Horus together...ended up making a 60 build 😂
Ah, the parody-cards! That's what I'm here for! Yeah...Types that have a ridiculous amount of support because they aren't limited to any particular archetype really have it way too easy. Aren't we still waiting for Snake Rain to get broken? What about Ogdadoics or whatever their name was? Did anything happen to those snakes in Vylon armor?
I stopped playing this god forsaken game once I realized how bad it was and once I outgrew the cheap artstyle (I'm eating SO good with magic nowadays, playing commander only) but I still watch your videos cause you're entertaining. Been following you since Legacy of the Worthless.
Arcana Force XV - The Fiend allows The World turn skip with Dryton much more consistent.
Ancient Gear Tanker left out the 600 point burn effect from Gear Tank.🔥😅
Darn, it would have gone great with the Gadjiiton burn deck.😏
At this point, they just print Arcana Force cards to say " Hey, remember this piece of shit archetype? Me too, and it's staying that way. This crap is unsalvageable!". I respect the raw, no fucks given energy they have for this group of cards.
Well, I think we can safely say the volcanic support is lit.
On an unrelated note - if you're still picking up new archetype archives, have you considered monarchs? I was just playing them the other day and thought about the unorthodox levels/release order and surprisingly wide backrow list. Thought it would be fun to go through in your usual style.
Hopefully with the announcement of the Light duelist pack, Arcana force will finally be able to get the support it truly needs. Please Konami, just, Please
0:08 You're welcome, fangirls, queer fanboys. All seven of you that exist for this guy.