I legitimately love the idea of when of the ice barrier fighters just comes across this bug in the middle of their wall and instead of fetching a can of raid decides to pick it up and call it a friend.
Oh and about that Mirror business and why Ice Barriers would have something to counter their boss monster. The whole point of the Ice Barrier tribe is to keep the three dragons sealed forever. Worlds tend to end when they're free, especially good ol' Trish. Funnily enough, this might even explain why they're so bad at summoning their Synchros : with the exception of Dewloren because fuck if I know where he fits in all this, IBs never intended to bring them out in the first place. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE
good job me, replaced the pic of the pre-errata Brionac with ANOTHER pre-errata Brionac but with updated PSCT, just ignore that little piece of dumbshittery
You sound really tired, I recently lost passion for the game because the community's point of views are medieval. I'm afraid that might be happening to you because of everyone hounding you to make vids. Keep your head up man. And if you need to take a big break to focus on your health rather than the whims of the never-ending flood of people who hate themselves and everything else. Do it man
Overrated maybe but I actually find the deck pretty fun. I feel like if more decks were capable of easily combating it it'd be more of a fun strategy than something that gets annoying seeing everywhere
@@borby4584 Gotta love it. Konami: Its been almost a decade, no way those paypigs even *remember* this vard. Let 'em off the banlist. *Literally 4 months later* Konami: TRISHULA IS BACK TO ONE YALL! TRISHULA'S AT ONE!
I’m coming back to this video after watching a few “Duel Terminal storyline explained” videos. And I’m thinking about how, to stop the Worms, the Ice Barriers released the dragons one at a time and only made things worse. Brionac, Gungir, and Trishula all just made things worse, Trish even causing a second Ice Age.
I seriously love these videos. I fell out of Yu-Gi-Oh around the start of GX so War of the Worthless plus Archetype Archive have been great to catch up on all the decks I missed. Granted, there are like 8 billion more archetypes out there, but these videos are both informative and really entertaining so keep up the good work Rata!
Spirits... birds... foxes... priests... sorcerers... bugs... dance princesses... samurai... knights... tribal warriors... tigers... dragons... This archetype is just _everything,_ it seems. As long as it's blue.
Ice to see this archetype finally getting the spotlight it deserves. You woulda been on thin ice with me if you continued dodging these guys for any longer. This video's more than enough to suffICE. Welcome to the ice pun part of this comment thread, rock bottom.
GCD Eh, more like a flashlight on a string. This archetype is only as good because of its Synchro line-up! Other than that, its just really shotty and terribly structured! It really sucks how most of the archetypes involved in the Hidden Arsenal packs got shafted with such mediocre effects!
Daniel Ramsey Sheesh man, stop being so cold. Ice Barriers are cool, even though they have glacial speed, they are pretty chill. Snow some respect. OK, puns aside, I love me some DT Archetypes, but it's clear they were designed kinda like teams on a vacuum for the DT videogames. Ice Barriers are an interesting idea of an Archetype that slows the game down to make its plays, and the real payoff is on making the Archetype's Bosd Monsters instead of the monsters themselves, which totally works if your opponent is Allies Of Justice or some shit, but not all cards were made for the DT Games, and they totally dropped the ball on the outside support. Worms got Nebula Meteorite, Flamvells got Rekindling, Mist Valleys got Divine Wind, Ice Barriers got... Medallion and Triangle. Ugh.
I wanted to say something funny, or at least a cringe-worthy pun, but I can't think of anything, so I'll just say excellent video Rata, keep up the good work :)
Saw that your comment on my GX abridged was hugely popular so i thought id see what the fuss is about, im happy i did! Great vid man, interesting idea too, gonna check out the rest cant wait to see more :D
The reason that people make fun of ice barriers is that despite having some of the strongest boss monsters in the game, they struggle REALLY HARD to summon them, and since that hasn't changed I guess we'll still make fun of them for the time being. I mean heck, you know something ain't right when Genex are able to spam your boss monster a lot easier than you.
Well, its for lore reasons they can't summon them. They aren't supposed to. They keep the three sealed, or end of the world. They have to release them to defeat the Fabled, and then after Trishula freezes the world, Vylons fix the ice problem. Then steelswarms happen.
@@Sassaparilla people dont realize how lore is important.One more example is because Nekrox rekt shit in duel terminal lore they wreck everything in game.
@@pinkpidgeon6926 nekroz get rekt at least not extinct like the tellars and yangzing shurit is the only one who dies in nekroz family while the beast tamer has no missing member besides wen which turn into immortal loli
The sad thing is that Ice Barriers are just 1 or 2 monsters or spells away from being a legit good swarm/synchro spam archetype due to their graveyard setup and bounce effects which suffer simply for being too slow to pull off. Just a spell that allows for easy summoning of Guntala and a monster that has a beneficial low level monster special summoning effect for discarding (since a lot of Ice Barriers discard as their effect) would make them a formidable Trish and Brionac engine. That doesn't stop like 90% of their monster lineup from being completely useless, but Prior and Strategist with some kind of support that allows their effects to be spammed is all that's needed to make up for so much of the archetype's horrid problems.
IT'S HAPPENING, MY FELLOW RUFFIANS! A structure deck was announced in 2020. But my suggestion for how to get Ice Barriers to work is just 4 cards: 1) The big thing it needs is an engine that makes sense. What I came up with is a Continuous Trap where up to twice per turn, you can return an Ice Barrier card from your GY to your Deck, to special summon one Level 6 or lower Ice Barrier monster from your deck in defense position. -- This works for: Raiho, Dai-Sojo, Dance Princess, Warlock, Defender, Secret Guards, Geomancer, Cryomancer, Strategist, Spellbreaker, and Prior. -- It's set up by: Strategist, Spellbreaker, Prior, Gungnir, and Brionac. 2) A once per turn Trap that negates any effect or summon, either from the field or by discarding itself, if you control an Ice Barrier card. 3) A field that makes it so you don't have to Tribute for the big monsters. If the field is sent to the GY, you can special summon one Ice Barrier monster from your hand. 4) A Link 1 that requires ANY Tuner as material (they have 4: Geomancer, Defender, Cryomancer, and Dewdark), that searches 1 Ice Barrier Spell or Trap when it's summoned. The overall strategy is to swarm monsters, and play defensively but not overwhelmingly, combining cards for a variety of defensive options. Remember that Trishula is the enemy they're holding back (see Medium, Mirror), so the playstyle is to form a barrier. Or as Or as Stan Van Gundy might say, "Form a ... WALL!" Based on the monsters' stats and playstyle, they also work with Salvage, Surface, Aquarium Stage, White Howling, or Spiritual Water Art - Aoi.
I was just about to do a fun little legacy duelist pack idea for ice ideas Ice barriers White night And ice counter monsters This helped inspire me for some nice cards for them. I already had some ideas for swarming and locking up cards(but they mainly worked with mirror judges effect) but this helps me even more.
In duel terminal lore what was left of the Gishki became the Nekroz. Besides the 3 cards that the Ice Barriers had that did "become" the Nekroz were Gungir, Trishula and Brionac who need no redeeming due to how good they are.
Heckels of Sheckels You do realize Gishikis were descended from the Ice Barriers right? Hell, if their overall theme didn't make it obvious enough the game spells it out for you by having all 3 generations based around the use of shamanic/ritualistic spells channeled through the good, old IB Aquamirror. Nekroz are quite literally Neo Neo Ice Barriers
It isn't obvious, because not only do Gishkis and Necroz (Ritual spamming) have a much different play style compared to the Ice Barriers (Lockdown with Synchros), thus implying difference, a ritual theme is only prevalent in a couple cards of ice barriers out of a total 18-20 Ice barrier cards, and in terms of what does connect them when it comes to lore, its mostly just a bunch of crappy to decent cards that aren't connected to any archetype which you would overlook and forget about as a result.
I also forgot to mention a single tidbit of information that connects them to the Ice Barriers whilst not outright stating they are descendant from them, this is also considering that the final event in the first duel terminal story line was Trishula freezing the entire planet. Which presumably caused immense casualties, as you never hear of several archetypes from the first story ever again. So forgive me if I didn't think that the Ice Barriers became Gishki.
@@heckelsofsheckels326 All lore about the gishiki and the necroz says they use the relics from the ice barriers to mutate themself in distorted monster, gishiki, and to use the power of legendary monster with enfase on the ice barriers dragons, necroz. The ice barriers become some kind of legendary tribe wich the relics have some power that allows for rituals.
+Wolffox I'm pretty sure that if they didn't turn that thing into fried frog legs then a group of rabbid modern Yu-Gi-Oh haters that can't stand puns would not only barbecue that thing. But if they had any cannibals with them they would devour all the members of PETA they could knock into the fire for good measure.
LivingShadow 35 we haven't got all of the level 2s yet, wetlands Ice Barriers could be meta again. Honestly, could be a very good format for them to shine.
How doez that help? Almost all of the duel terminal cards were complete dogshit aside from dragunity which later got its own structure deck and that busted as fuck dragon ravine. Genex who the fuck knows,Allies way too obsessed with light, mist valley was incomplete. Flamvells did nothing and worms were only used for joke builds. Fableds were decent but was mostly pointless with automatic discarding. That whole first season was mind boggling
I keep having dreams that I'm tag dueling with The One Whose Shape was Snatched; things look good until he summons his boss monster, Shapesnatch and we lose.
I mean shock troops was used in shaddolls, to fusion the water fusion to prevent future ritual summons. Plus the deck wasn't really reliant on its normal summon besides mathematician or star seraphs. It was an alright tech
sd sd Actually, if you read the flavor text then it explains that "ShapeSnatch" is the BowTie and "The One Whose Shape Was Snatched" is the monster. The Bowtie is a machine, the creature itself is unknown, as it's shape has been snatched
I came here after the Ice Barriers 2: Freezing Boogaloo video to see how were after they got their support and... yeah they pretty much went from barely playable to okay-ish playable.
Thank you. I fuckin fell in love with ice barriers over duel links and I’m so glad you decided to clear the air about ice barriers. Love your videos and the refreshingly funky accent.
Well but atleast they have 3 level 4 Spellcasters (and all of them are OK atleast) and 4 lvl 2 Aquas (Full wetlands beatdown setup i guess?). And you will propably only play these and maybe Defender other than any kind of boss monster.
Good episode on Ice Barrier. I would love for other Duel Terminal archetypes to be covered. Since Flamvells were done LOTW, it would be cool to see their (arguably) successor Lavals be covered. As well as Dragunity.
Eh I wouldn't call it upper tier. Its just a fairly decent otk deck as it can pop a card and bring out around 6k damage a turn. though it also bricks a lot, making it a bit less than top tier.
Surprised that you didn't bring up Water Hazard helping with swarming and Synchro Summons, but as someone who played Ice Barriers, I agree with what you said. They're largely obsolete, but still better than the LotW archetypes
And then the Arcana Forces did eat that medallion 3 years later. Until it promptly turned upside down and made them spit out whatever their opponent needed at that very moment. It's like finding an oasis in the desert, only to discover shortly after drinking that there was a 50/50 chance to feel refreshed or start pissing battery acid.
Well I prefer the original The One Whose Shape Was Snatched, but this one is a nice support Monster for the archetype that keep the Shapesnatch meta consistent.
I love these videos. They're great to have on while multitasking (making food, folding laundry). Could you do a video about Watts? They're pretty unique as the only direct attach archetype to see play (Earthbound's never caught on), they have a collection of double-attackers, and the Watthopper lock used to be infamous during the days of the Samurai and Inzektors.
I can't wait for the structure deck to be released! Mostly for the synchros and the artworks, but also because I really want to try to see how it manages against the Sacred Beast structure deck (which I found to be amazingly good).
Man, way to strike while the iron is cold, rata! I think you need to chill with these archetypes from as far back as the ice ages. I'm sorry if this comes across as a bit cold, i actually think your content is very cool, and you seem like an ice guy.
I play ice barriers casually, mostly bc I love the artwork. With the new Graydle Slime and Eagle, Aqua Spirit and Undine, they're actually fairely decent. Obviously nothing near any Tier 1 (or even Tier 3) Decks but fun to mess around with with your friend. It's fun to pull of a complete lock with the dog, dai-sojo and guards.
Clem de la Clem also running the aquarium cards for added protection, and the barrier statue of the torrent to lock out all non-water SS, my build wrecked locals back then.
Give them pendulum summoning support and problem solved. A scale of 1 and an opposite scale of 9, this way you can spam the field for their synchros and use their mediocre effects more effectively.
Lore wise, the ice barrier dragons were never meant to be released which explains why A. That mirror bullshit exists And B. Why they suck at summoning their synchros
I had sh*t loads of fun with a hybrid ice barrier/frogs lock down and Wetlands beatdown deck. If I remember correctly, it had a fair share of direct attack options and 'nope' cards.
Reason they can't easily summon the ice dragons is because they were never meant to be released since they were pretty much flying WMDs that would end the world if they were released. Same reason why mirror hard counters the ice dragons because it is what they used to keep them sealed. Mirror is actually supposed to be a hard counter against a player who you know will be summoning the ice dragons.
Reminds me of Evently Matched and its adjacent cards countering Six Samurai despite being Six Samurai themed cards. Its a reference to the storyline the cards are depicting, where the kagemusha challenges and duels Shien in an attempt to kill him.
A good video as always, got a ton of laughs out of this one, but Blizzed was a secret rare in Hidden arsenal, which was an all holo set where every pack had a secret rare so it wasn't THAT bad.
xseaver I think Iron Chains had a really cool idea but they just never expanded on it. Given what they already have, it would be incredibly easy to make new support for them.
I actually used an ice barrier deck in Duel Links, and it worked really well in ranked. This was quite a while ago though, back when the game was much slower than it is now. It was very gimmicky but worked well enough. It relied on the Magic Triangle spell along with the monster that removes spell/trap cards.
@@dracometeors3010 how is it better card? It can't sustain itself and must be pendulum summoned, spellbreaker? you can even link it or xyx it of to bahamut shark if you want to turn it off.
@@dracometeors3010 trust me they just need a continuous spell that give them extra normal summon then search water monster equal to it's level/atk if an IB monster is summoned. If they got that it will be a really nasty deck to deal with like guru control.
The mirror's bizarre effect was another case of lore theming. The mirror was the magic item used by the ice barriers to entrap Trishula. That is why it seems to counter its effects despite being an ice barrier card and having Trishula designs in the card art.
You're hilarious man I was dying!!!!! I've been playing ice barriers when I got back into yugioh about 4 years ago and when I first picked them up I thought that they were one of the most incredible decks ever created and to my disappointment I was tragically mistaken lol. I still have them to this day and honestly I can say without being biased that this deck is far from terrible it just lacks speed and consistency. If this deck could swarm then they would have a huge chance to be a deck worth noting. Their leffects are semi decent and they're able to provide many different options and boards. They just take too damn long and aren't even worth it when you finally get the board you desire, granted you've had the chance to do so. I love this deck to pieces and I don't think I can ever give them up no matter how much people hate the archetype they will hold a special place in my heart so leave them along or I'll crush you :3
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fun fact: if you summon royal knight in wetlands ,the token would actually be stronger than royal knight itself
The token's Level 1, not 2.
Arctangent Wetlands affects all level 2 OR LOWER
I fap 3 times daily so you played yourself
Holy crap
You just gave me a reason to run Royal Knight. Thanks for saving my life.
I legitimately love the idea of when of the ice barrier fighters just comes across this bug in the middle of their wall and instead of fetching a can of raid decides to pick it up and call it a friend.
The saddest part is that it's a grub but we never got a metamorphized version. No "Majestic Frost Moth in the Ice Barrier" or anything.
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Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth in the Ice Barrier.
Funny how said random bug can swing over a good portion of them
Oh and about that Mirror business and why Ice Barriers would have something to counter their boss monster.
The whole point of the Ice Barrier tribe is to keep the three dragons sealed forever. Worlds tend to end when they're free, especially good ol' Trish.
Funnily enough, this might even explain why they're so bad at summoning their Synchros : with the exception of Dewloren because fuck if I know where he fits in all this, IBs never intended to bring them out in the first place.
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE
Hyuuga2109 you must be fun in YCS events
Well they actually free ALL of the dragons. They free Trish when Brio and Gungnir weren't enough.
Hyuuga2109 holy shit I did not know this...I may need to actually check out some lore
Sooo, is that somehow part of duel terminal? Like happening before or something? And someone know a page to look up the full lore?
Hyuuga2109 do you know the rest of the lores?
God that Royal knight rant was as priceless as shapesnatch himself!
That was He who had his Shape Snatched.
good job me, replaced the pic of the pre-errata Brionac with ANOTHER pre-errata Brionac but with updated PSCT, just ignore that little piece of dumbshittery
You sound really tired, I recently lost passion for the game because the community's point of views are medieval. I'm afraid that might be happening to you because of everyone hounding you to make vids. Keep your head up man. And if you need to take a big break to focus on your health rather than the whims of the never-ending flood of people who hate themselves and everything else. Do it man
So why did Shape ate a drunk brit?
RANK10YGO Quick, run before the Ghostricks flip your fridge face-down and awaken Shape in his primal form!
Fan of Little witch academia? Love that show... Good job on the videos too. I enjoy your sense of humor.
We all make mistakes mate, you pointed out the errata which is good enough.
Ice Barriers won and now have a structure deck coming. lmao
And 50% of the cards are mediocre or trash
@@patrikmiles9342 what did you expect? I mean, we are talking about Ice Barrier here
@@Dr.AvenVon Yes but Konami is able to give trash archetypes great support like they did with digital bugs
@@patrikmiles9342 Digital Bugs got great support?
Years later, there was more Ice Barrier support and it was ok I think
ROCKS OUTDATED
ELDLICH OVERRATED
LONG HAVE WE WAITED
TRSH TURBO REACTIVATED
I'm loving this comment tbh.
Overrated maybe but I actually find the deck pretty fun. I feel like if more decks were capable of easily combating it it'd be more of a fun strategy than something that gets annoying seeing everywhere
T R I S H C E N A
Remember when they had Trish at 3?
@@borby4584
Gotta love it.
Konami: Its been almost a decade, no way those paypigs even *remember* this vard. Let 'em off the banlist.
*Literally 4 months later*
Konami: TRISHULA IS BACK TO ONE YALL! TRISHULA'S AT ONE!
I’m coming back to this video after watching a few “Duel Terminal storyline explained” videos. And I’m thinking about how, to stop the Worms, the Ice Barriers released the dragons one at a time and only made things worse. Brionac, Gungir, and Trishula all just made things worse, Trish even causing a second Ice Age.
I mean, it solved the issue, kinda.
I seriously love these videos. I fell out of Yu-Gi-Oh around the start of GX so War of the Worthless plus Archetype Archive have been great to catch up on all the decks I missed. Granted, there are like 8 billion more archetypes out there, but these videos are both informative and really entertaining so keep up the good work Rata!
Are you me?
@@vinnythewebsurfer no he isn't
*A B A K I*
*burps
Screw Exodia, *THIS* is a god!
2:38 : “[blizzed], the worst of their cards”
Royal knight of the ice barrier: allow me to introduce myself
Spirits... birds... foxes... priests... sorcerers... bugs... dance princesses... samurai... knights... tribal warriors... tigers... dragons...
This archetype is just _everything,_ it seems. As long as it's blue.
This aged well after Georgius existed (they also was own a Mist Valley/Dragunity possible creator).
You forgot about the church
@@g.n.a4871what
Insert Eiffel 65 here
You did it, you absolute madman.
Now we only need Archetype Archive: Blackwings and we'll have gone full circle.
Timeghost bruh, blackwings are still able to be ran today, like pure
Well, any one of us could make it happen through the power of -bribery- Patreon
Timeghost
Why?!
Louis Grant It's just so he can make a 1 Hour special, Rata could do HEROs instead
That would become a movie with all of the support blackwings have.
The Analysis In this video is on point Rata. Jokey Jokes are great most of the time but I appreciate how you can mix both of them together.
First thing I did was check how long the video was, didn't want to be bamboozled again
41:Your Alcoholic Dad
@Me dude
man..these artworks though, the archetype got some top waifu material
spellbreaker's OCG artwork is 20/10 with that small skirt
Ya, that version is the best. Fuck censored version
Nah fam, Dance Princess is where it's at.
well ice barriers not directly
but nekroz of Gungir ist still a great MILP
Brionac is so sexy
Yeah....Numbing Grub ~w~
Wakey wakey Rata, time for your semi-annual video containing ice barriers.
Ice to see this archetype finally getting the spotlight it deserves.
You woulda been on thin ice with me if you continued dodging these guys for any longer.
This video's more than enough to suffICE.
Welcome to the ice pun part of this comment thread, rock bottom.
GCD
Eh, more like a flashlight on a string. This archetype is only as good because of its Synchro line-up! Other than that, its just really shotty and terribly structured! It really sucks how most of the archetypes involved in the Hidden Arsenal packs got shafted with such mediocre effects!
More like Ice Bottom ammirite?
Daniel Ramsey Sheesh man, stop being so cold. Ice Barriers are cool, even though they have glacial speed, they are pretty chill. Snow some respect.
OK, puns aside, I love me some DT Archetypes, but it's clear they were designed kinda like teams on a vacuum for the DT videogames. Ice Barriers are an interesting idea of an Archetype that slows the game down to make its plays, and the real payoff is on making the Archetype's Bosd Monsters instead of the monsters themselves, which totally works if your opponent is Allies Of Justice or some shit, but not all cards were made for the DT Games, and they totally dropped the ball on the outside support. Worms got Nebula Meteorite, Flamvells got Rekindling, Mist Valleys got Divine Wind, Ice Barriers got... Medallion and Triangle. Ugh.
GCD Too many puns in one comment. You have to CHILL out.
I'd say it's more like an Iceberg than "rock bottom", but okay.
Rewatching both videos as celebration for the new support
And thus! The Ice Barrier video was memed into existence!
I wanted to say something funny, or at least a cringe-worthy pun, but I can't think of anything, so I'll just say excellent video Rata, keep up the good work :)
At least you were able to keep it cool!
HardLeg Gaming hi hard leg love your dual videos
Thank god, I despICE cringe-worthy puns.
nICE pun friends.
HardLeg Gaming this was a cool video
Who’s here after the new Ice Barrier structure deck announcement?
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Dude I've been laughing for 2 weeks ever since I heard about that. Rata been rolling in his tomb.
That happened??
@@BasicallyGoblin
Yup! And I'm still laughing
*Holy mother of Ra!*
I swear, the Abaki cracks me up every time for some reason.
Saw that your comment on my GX abridged was hugely popular so i thought id see what the fuss is about, im happy i did!
Great vid man, interesting idea too, gonna check out the rest cant wait to see more :D
The reason that people make fun of ice barriers is that despite having some of the strongest boss monsters in the game, they struggle REALLY HARD to summon them, and since that hasn't changed I guess we'll still make fun of them for the time being. I mean heck, you know something ain't right when Genex are able to spam your boss monster a lot easier than you.
Well, its for lore reasons they can't summon them. They aren't supposed to. They keep the three sealed, or end of the world. They have to release them to defeat the Fabled, and then after Trishula freezes the world, Vylons fix the ice problem. Then steelswarms happen.
@@Sassaparilla LOOOOOOORRRRREEE
@@Sassaparilla people dont realize how lore is important.One more example is because Nekrox rekt shit in duel terminal lore they wreck everything in game.
@@pinkpidgeon6926 nekroz get rekt at least not extinct like the tellars and yangzing
shurit is the only one who dies in nekroz family
while the beast tamer has no missing member besides wen which turn into immortal loli
The sad thing is that Ice Barriers are just 1 or 2 monsters or spells away from being a legit good swarm/synchro spam archetype due to their graveyard setup and bounce effects which suffer simply for being too slow to pull off. Just a spell that allows for easy summoning of Guntala and a monster that has a beneficial low level monster special summoning effect for discarding (since a lot of Ice Barriers discard as their effect) would make them a formidable Trish and Brionac engine.
That doesn't stop like 90% of their monster lineup from being completely useless, but Prior and Strategist with some kind of support that allows their effects to be spammed is all that's needed to make up for so much of the archetype's horrid problems.
0:00 Ah, yes. Here we can see the beautiful Train mating dance.
IT'S HAPPENING, MY FELLOW RUFFIANS! A structure deck was announced in 2020.
But my suggestion for how to get Ice Barriers to work is just 4 cards:
1) The big thing it needs is an engine that makes sense. What I came up with is a Continuous Trap where up to twice per turn, you can return an Ice Barrier card from your GY to your Deck, to special summon one Level 6 or lower Ice Barrier monster from your deck in defense position.
-- This works for: Raiho, Dai-Sojo, Dance Princess, Warlock, Defender, Secret Guards, Geomancer, Cryomancer, Strategist, Spellbreaker, and Prior.
-- It's set up by: Strategist, Spellbreaker, Prior, Gungnir, and Brionac.
2) A once per turn Trap that negates any effect or summon, either from the field or by discarding itself, if you control an Ice Barrier card.
3) A field that makes it so you don't have to Tribute for the big monsters. If the field is sent to the GY, you can special summon one Ice Barrier monster from your hand.
4) A Link 1 that requires ANY Tuner as material (they have 4: Geomancer, Defender, Cryomancer, and Dewdark), that searches 1 Ice Barrier Spell or Trap when it's summoned.
The overall strategy is to swarm monsters, and play defensively but not overwhelmingly, combining cards for a variety of defensive options. Remember that Trishula is the enemy they're holding back (see Medium, Mirror), so the playstyle is to form a barrier. Or as Or as Stan Van Gundy might say, "Form a ... WALL!"
Based on the monsters' stats and playstyle, they also work with Salvage, Surface, Aquarium Stage, White Howling, or Spiritual Water Art - Aoi.
Konami should hire you. These are all great ideas.
I was just about to do a fun little legacy duelist pack idea for ice ideas
Ice barriers
White night
And ice counter monsters
This helped inspire me for some nice cards for them. I already had some ideas for swarming and locking up cards(but they mainly worked with mirror judges effect) but this helps me even more.
Talk about a cold open.
Sora Shiun'in '-)
Heh
That royal knight rant tho
Tom Franck 14:00 meltdown threatened with avalanches!
I was about to make a joke but Rata broke the fourth wall and made me question my existence
I miss shapesnatch's old voice
Agreed. Same here.
It the one who shape was snatched, shapesnatch is the bow tie in the art
22:19 And in 2020 Arcana Force got a ROTA they could eat
For once aid to starving arcana force in Africa has produced some thing of value
If there is something to redeem the ice barriers is that they become the necroz eventually.
In duel terminal lore what was left of the Gishki became the Nekroz. Besides the 3 cards that the Ice Barriers had that did "become" the Nekroz were Gungir, Trishula and Brionac who need no redeeming due to how good they are.
Heckels of Sheckels You do realize Gishikis were descended from the Ice Barriers right? Hell, if their overall theme didn't make it obvious enough the game spells it out for you by having all 3 generations based around the use of shamanic/ritualistic spells channeled through the good, old IB Aquamirror. Nekroz are quite literally Neo Neo Ice Barriers
It isn't obvious, because not only do Gishkis and Necroz (Ritual spamming) have a much different play style compared to the Ice Barriers (Lockdown with Synchros), thus implying difference, a ritual theme is only prevalent in a couple cards of ice barriers out of a total 18-20 Ice barrier cards, and in terms of what does connect them when it comes to lore, its mostly just a bunch of crappy to decent cards that aren't connected to any archetype which you would overlook and forget about as a result.
I also forgot to mention a single tidbit of information that connects them to the Ice Barriers whilst not outright stating they are descendant from them, this is also considering that the final event in the first duel terminal story line was Trishula freezing the entire planet. Which presumably caused immense casualties, as you never hear of several archetypes from the first story ever again. So forgive me if I didn't think that the Ice Barriers became Gishki.
@@heckelsofsheckels326 All lore about the gishiki and the necroz says they use the relics from the ice barriers to mutate themself in distorted monster, gishiki, and to use the power of legendary monster with enfase on the ice barriers dragons, necroz.
The ice barriers become some kind of legendary tribe wich the relics have some power that allows for rituals.
PETA can't save you now. xD
as if they could before
+Wolffox I'm pretty sure that if they didn't turn that thing into fried frog legs then a group of rabbid modern Yu-Gi-Oh haters that can't stand puns would not only barbecue that thing. But if they had any cannibals with them they would devour all the members of PETA they could knock into the fire for good measure.
*ribbit*
"Save" is a very inaccurate word to describe it
We finally broke Rata everyone. I hope you're proud of yourselves.
yes.
Reporting from 2020. It only gets worse for Rata tbh
Fun fact: Ice Barriers were meta in duel links
And back to the trash they go.
LivingShadow 35 we haven't got all of the level 2s yet, wetlands Ice Barriers could be meta again. Honestly, could be a very good format for them to shine.
How doez that help? Almost all of the duel terminal cards were complete dogshit aside from dragunity which later got its own structure deck and that busted as fuck dragon ravine. Genex who the fuck knows,Allies way too obsessed with light, mist valley was incomplete. Flamvells did nothing and worms were only used for joke builds. Fableds were decent but was mostly pointless with automatic discarding. That whole first season was mind boggling
I don't believe you even if it was true
As a survivor of the dark time of IB being meta, lemme say, you kids don't need the PTSD of that war...
I keep having dreams that I'm tag dueling with The One Whose Shape was Snatched; things look good until he summons his boss monster, Shapesnatch and we lose.
I mean shock troops was used in shaddolls, to fusion the water fusion to prevent future ritual summons. Plus the deck wasn't really reliant on its normal summon besides mathematician or star seraphs. It was an alright tech
What the fuck happened to the voice of the one whos shape is snatch, did his voice was snatched?
ЇӍБЯөҜЄҋ BRING OG BACK!
Kamenriderdecade105 Agreed.
what are you talking about
it's always been like that
Ricardo Narvaez
“did his voice was snatched“
It hink you got snatched long ago
sd sd Actually, if you read the flavor text then it explains that "ShapeSnatch" is the BowTie and "The One Whose Shape Was Snatched" is the monster. The Bowtie is a machine, the creature itself is unknown, as it's shape has been snatched
the bear sleeps for another month
Who else is watching this after the structure deck won the poll and are now preparing for a Ice barrier format?
I came here after the Ice Barriers 2: Freezing Boogaloo video to see how were after they got their support and... yeah they pretty much went from barely playable to okay-ish playable.
God man I just love this channel. I love ur well timed humor and intros. I can always count on a great upload. Keep doin u man.
Thank you. I fuckin fell in love with ice barriers over duel links and I’m so glad you decided to clear the air about ice barriers. Love your videos and the refreshingly funky accent.
For fuck's sake Rata, for many of us it's past 2 a.m. and this is 25 minutes of sleep we're going to miss.
Never change.
"Are we going to talk about Ghostricks or Vampires?"
I just love going back to old videos and have a laugh..
"patreon to get the chanel going"
fuck that, someone give this guy money to feed himself, that frezzer is fucking empty
Its cause the food got its shape snatched.
Came here today because new Ice barrier got new support, with a bigger Trish.
"Techs I'm Ties of the Brethren then realizes there different types"
Well but atleast they have 3 level 4 Spellcasters (and all of them are OK atleast) and 4 lvl 2 Aquas (Full wetlands beatdown setup i guess?). And you will propably only play these and maybe Defender other than any kind of boss monster.
The update video for this will be the coolest thing you ever do.
If he ever does
Something
I comeback from new video to hear he ranting about royal knight again :))))))))
Same XD
Good episode on Ice Barrier. I would love for other Duel Terminal archetypes to be covered. Since Flamvells were done LOTW, it would be cool to see their (arguably) successor Lavals be covered. As well as Dragunity.
Just came back here after seeing the new ice barriers especially the new Trishula in town.
Oh look: An upper tier Duel Links deck.
Also... ICE ICE BABY.
Eh I wouldn't call it upper tier. Its just a fairly decent otk deck as it can pop a card and bring out around 6k damage a turn. though it also bricks a lot, making it a bit less than top tier.
Surprised that you didn't bring up Water Hazard helping with swarming and Synchro Summons, but as someone who played Ice Barriers, I agree with what you said. They're largely obsolete, but still better than the LotW archetypes
And then the Arcana Forces did eat that medallion 3 years later. Until it promptly turned upside down and made them spit out whatever their opponent needed at that very moment. It's like finding an oasis in the desert, only to discover shortly after drinking that there was a 50/50 chance to feel refreshed or start pissing battery acid.
This is a really timely find for me cause I am currently loving Ice Barriers on Duel Links!
Thank you Rata this means so much to me! I love Ice Barrier
GX song, Noice, Also your comment on comments at the beginning ruined me xD
SHURIT, STRATEGIST OF THE NEKROZ You being here ruined it for me.
SGplaysIt Cool #StaySalty
SHURIT, STRATEGIST OF THE NEKROZ cool, #stayscum
SGplaysIt Cool #StayMadForNoReason
SHURIT, STRATEGIST OF THE NEKROZ this implies I don't have a reason to not like you.
Ice Barriers have always been my personal favorite decks.
0:07 The One Whose Voice Was Snatched (BTW love the new Shapesnatch voice)
i love you too
Mathew Ricafrente I prefer the old voice.
Well I prefer the original The One Whose Shape Was Snatched, but this one is a nice support Monster for the archetype that keep the Shapesnatch meta consistent.
Jimblus I heard of you?
"'Ave you become a fuckin' lardarse?!"
You have the best sense of humor! You’re my favorite UA-camr, keep up the amazing effort!
I love these videos. They're great to have on while multitasking (making food, folding laundry). Could you do a video about Watts? They're pretty unique as the only direct attach archetype to see play (Earthbound's never caught on), they have a collection of double-attackers, and the Watthopper lock used to be infamous during the days of the Samurai and Inzektors.
I can't wait for the structure deck to be released! Mostly for the synchros and the artworks, but also because I really want to try to see how it manages against the Sacred Beast structure deck (which I found to be amazingly good).
*Inserts quotes from Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze from Batman and Robin*
*THE ICE AYYYJJJJJEHHHHHHH*
CHILL!
Cool party.
Lets kick some ice!
OH MY GOODNESS!!!
Don't let your dreams be memes kids.
would love Vampire Archetype Archive for Halloween
i came home from a long day of work and school and im so relieved rank10ygo posted his monthly archetype archieve
14:00 - 14:59. THINGS LIKE THIS ARE GOLDEN!
Welcome back to Rata slowly but surely giving us a house tour.
Man, way to strike while the iron is cold, rata! I think you need to chill with these archetypes from as far back as the ice ages. I'm sorry if this comes across as a bit cold, i actually think your content is very cool, and you seem like an ice guy.
....... There is a god. I've found my soulmate!
And by that I mean someone else who loves bad puns.
1:40 number of archtypes worse than ice barriers: 11. Number of videos in legacy of the worthless: 13.
Genex and worms: I'M STILL WORTHY
Medallion may get limited in the future.
Just let that sink in...
Dropped shit at work just to watch this
Regret nothing
Hopefully you at least remembered to pick it up afterwards and washed your hands thoroughly.
Keep bathroom floors clean.
Runningon Cylinders you can't tell me what to do. You're not my mom anymore
Didn't you already make an ice barrier video hurr, so subversive
Wait this is new? I was watching a random Archetype Archive and I clicked on this randomly. What a treat huh?
You know the reason we all are here
good vid Rata, glad to see ya tackle one of the most prominent races of the duel terminal saga
I play ice barriers casually, mostly bc I love the artwork. With the new Graydle Slime and Eagle, Aqua Spirit and Undine, they're actually fairely decent. Obviously nothing near any Tier 1 (or even Tier 3) Decks but fun to mess around with with your friend. It's fun to pull of a complete lock with the dog, dai-sojo and guards.
Clem de la Clem also running the aquarium cards for added protection, and the barrier statue of the torrent to lock out all non-water SS, my build wrecked locals back then.
I would've adored a Ghostrick video. It's one of my favorite archetypes of all time.
the GX theme gives me so much nostalgia
Give them pendulum summoning support and problem solved. A scale of 1 and an opposite scale of 9, this way you can spam the field for their synchros and use their mediocre effects more effectively.
Lore wise, the ice barrier dragons were never meant to be released which explains why
A. That mirror bullshit exists
And
B. Why they suck at summoning their synchros
I had sh*t loads of fun with a hybrid ice barrier/frogs lock down and Wetlands beatdown deck. If I remember correctly, it had a fair share of direct attack options and 'nope' cards.
Reason they can't easily summon the ice dragons is because they were never meant to be released since they were pretty much flying WMDs that would end the world if they were released. Same reason why mirror hard counters the ice dragons because it is what they used to keep them sealed. Mirror is actually supposed to be a hard counter against a player who you know will be summoning the ice dragons.
Reminds me of Evently Matched and its adjacent cards countering Six Samurai despite being Six Samurai themed cards. Its a reference to the storyline the cards are depicting, where the kagemusha challenges and duels Shien in an attempt to kill him.
A good video as always, got a ton of laughs out of this one, but Blizzed was a secret rare in Hidden arsenal, which was an all holo set where every pack had a secret rare so it wasn't THAT bad.
Here after Freezing Chains: Revengeance of Trishula.
Am I the only one who keeps coming back to this video to listen to Rata going in on Royal Knight?
Archetype Archive: Iron Chains. 'Nuff said.
dude yes please I honestly an interested in iron chains and like them glad someone acknowledges them
xseaver I think Iron Chains had a really cool idea but they just never expanded on it. Given what they already have, it would be incredibly easy to make new support for them.
yep good thinking also excellent profile name
Not sure if he will ever cover it given that it seems to be one part mill & one part burn. Also they've got an out of place dragon.
I actually used an ice barrier deck in Duel Links, and it worked really well in ranked. This was quite a while ago though, back when the game was much slower than it is now. It was very gimmicky but worked well enough. It relied on the Magic Triangle spell along with the monster that removes spell/trap cards.
If this becomes meta with the structure it’s gonna be poetic
It will be like ok
Never they gonna make this Tier 1
@@dracometeors3010 you know spellbreaker?
That girl can do something nasty
@@r3zaful
Ok but even Amorphage Lechery for example is a better card...
@@dracometeors3010 how is it better card?
It can't sustain itself and must be pendulum summoned, spellbreaker? you can even link it or xyx it of to bahamut shark if you want to turn it off.
@@dracometeors3010 trust me they just need a continuous spell that give them extra normal summon then search water monster equal to it's level/atk if an IB monster is summoned.
If they got that it will be a really nasty deck to deal with like guru control.
I love these guys. Their design and all that "ice" motif, makes them rather (no pun intended) "cool".
well ice barriers won so they got support incoming. So guess u did it again, thank you
Ice barriers easily have some of the best artworks in the game
Anyone ever tell you you're the Filthy Frank of Yugitubers?
that's a compliment if i ever heard one
U know it.
The mirror's bizarre effect was another case of lore theming. The mirror was the magic item used by the ice barriers to entrap Trishula. That is why it seems to counter its effects despite being an ice barrier card and having Trishula designs in the card art.
D-Does this mean Gustos are next? Gib it to me Train-Daddy!
You're hilarious man I was dying!!!!! I've been playing ice barriers when I got back into yugioh about 4 years ago and when I first picked them up I thought that they were one of the most incredible decks ever created and to my disappointment I was tragically mistaken lol. I still have them to this day and honestly I can say without being biased that this deck is far from terrible it just lacks speed and consistency. If this deck could swarm then they would have a huge chance to be a deck worth noting. Their leffects are semi decent and they're able to provide many different options and boards. They just take too damn long and aren't even worth it when you finally get the board you desire, granted you've had the chance to do so. I love this deck to pieces and I don't think I can ever give them up no matter how much people hate the archetype they will hold a special place in my heart so leave them along or I'll crush you :3
The madman, he's done it!
I used to play Ice Barrier Lockdown a few years ago. Ah... the glory days