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Hsy nova so the word Cerberus is actually a modern version of the ancient Greek world karnataka wich roughly traditional is spotted so hades named his dog spot
Something I appreciate about Endymion's "lore" is that whether he's good or evil is up for debate. On one hand, his project to crystalise magic, letting even people with next to no aptitude for it use it is a net positive. And he actively regulates it to make sure noone with more malicius intentions misuses it. But at the same time, you could argue that the authority went to his head and that raiding what was basically a magical university who's only crime was teaching magic indiscriminately instead of, I dunno, forming some sort of commitee or governing body to weed out the bad apples, really shows how, for better and for worse, he doesn't trust anyone but himself with this knowledge. Its basically a question of whether you think things would be worse *without* Endymion and , in my opinion, most definetly.
I think it's not really that deep honestly, i think that the raid happened because aleister is the fuel for the accademy so it was more of a "First of fuck you aleister, second oh god aleister is teaching them how to use invokations to spawn monsters from hell, I don't like that"
@@gamingproject5601 I thought how it went is that they trapped Aleisteer in the basement as a bettery to power their spellbooks? Did I misread the wiki translations?
@@HazmatSam oh no i dont really know the lore because i cannot find anything about it online (geo blocking) so i didn't know that, i ade the assumption with what i know which is "aleister is in the spellbook tower oh god oh no"
@@HazmatSamThe tank Aleister is in is slowly undoing his corrupted transformation, and the card is titled "Crowley, the FIRST Propheseer", implying that he actually founded the tower before embarking on his villain arc, and the Tower administration are seeking to restore him in the aftermath.
I still uphold the theory that Endymion and Selene are the parents of Dark Magician, who rejected his father's controlling tendencies and ran away to explore the true depths of magic without parental supervision, inspiring a bunch of talented apprentices of his own to join him. This would lead to the Dark Magician Girl club, Illusion Apprentice Magician, Breaker, Magician of Dark Chaos, and several others, to spread out over time, forging bonds with other groups like the Blue Eyes tribe, Buster Blader, and the Legendary Knights.
This archetype will always hold a special place in my heart. Original Endymion was my schoolyard boss monster back in the day and when I got back into YuGiOh in 2020, one of the first decks I built (and which helped me understand Pendulums) was a pure Endymion deck. Hell, I can recite Mighty Master of Magic’s entire text from memory.
My founding holy magical king of the spellcasters Endymion was based and counter-pilled for storming the spellbook tower. There is a reason why Aleister got locked in the basement and their lack of regulation caused the whole Fool of Prophecy disaster. That along with Zoroa’s betrayal, you can’t blame the man for wanting to put restrictions on magic for the sake of the world and for the sake of spellcasters, who were already feared for their powers. Sure, he could have been more chill, maybe do a vote or have a civil convo but considering how all four of the magistus were acquaintances I’m sure those talks happened before, and that mechaba merchant didn’t want to listen obviously, so his institution had to face a six negate Endymion board irl. Remember, Endy was on board with everyone learning magic through his power stones until they started acting out of turn. They did it to themselves.
Endymion, the Master Magician is the entire reason why I was the most hated man at my high school Yugi-Group. I got Spellcaster's Command for my birthday and made it everyone else's playground problem
I think my favorite part of the 'lore' of this set is how they are almost certainly CLOSELY connected to YUGI's monsters, and the Dark Magician in particular. I mean, the dark magical circle is ALL over the place in the card BGs (including seemingly ringing the Magical Citadel itself multiple times), the Skilled Magicians are each tied to one of Yugi's five most iconic monsters while ALSO clearly being part of the Magical Citadel via their use of Spell Counters and Power Stones, Crusader looks a LOT like a Dark Magician cosplay while also sporting a potential 2500 ATK, the list goes on. Like I wouldn't be surprised if we got some lore reveal that Dark Magician was closely involved in the creation of the Magical Citadel and/or Endymion's creation of Spell Counters.
It's actually theorized now that witchcrafters, Endymion, magistus, and the "magicians" are all in the same universe lore wise. With all of the small details you mentioned plus some others makes it pretty plausible
I can only say, my god is it painful to read their OCG stories, every time they can, they show how Endymion used to be a really kind person and wished to use the magic to help all the people he could. Now he's a cruel ironfist ruler.
You're overstating the situation. He continued his project to allow anyone to use magic, but due to the bad experiences of certain individuals wielding it, he concluded that it must he regulated and managed carefully, thus he nationalized it. He has become overzealous in the extent to which he prevents magic from falling into the wrong hands, but he's not oppressing the people.
Endymion is brother's favorite archetype. With Invoked being one of my favorites. We both honestly hope that Konami makes the Magical Nations lore into an anime
I think the “1000 or More ATK” cause is to prevent it from searcher “Forbidden One” cards. Add searchers essential have to tip-toe around that 5-Card instance win. That why we can’t have a “Reinforcement Of The Army” equivalent for Spellcasters.
The magical nation lore is so incredibly deep and interconnected! It's insane. And also I think she first was a secretary and then became Endymion's Servant, unless I'm missing a confirmed timing thing that the witchcrafters come after a downfall of endymion. If I'm not mistaken there are 2 other cards that are also clearly her.
Thanks for giving Endymion some love! I’ve been playing Endymion for a long time and still love to play it today. Mythical Bestiary is actually a really good card in the deck. I doubted it for a while but I tried it out and it’s awesome. Institution is also really good. Endymion needs a fusion with Mythical Beasts that’s also a pendulum scale 9. That would be soooo good
I feel like Endymion would be played randomly in Arc-V S1 by some random character (maybe even as 1 of Sylvio's decks) and doesn't do anything but is crazy irl.
Once tried (keyword: TRIED) reading a fanfic where the MC for it had an Endymion deck. It was good… until Battle City where several characters don’t act like themselves and we get introduced to more multiversal shenanigans IN THE MIDDLE OF BATTLE CITY BEFORE THE FINALS. I had to drop it after that because of the out of character moments, random plots that get thrown, duel scripting to even the breaking of the lore of how the cards were created (I.e Synchro, Xyz, Pendulum and Link monsters were printed by Pegasus years in advanced despite Kaiba being responsible for Synchros, Yusei for Xyz, and Yuya for Pendulums. Oh- and the MC gets a Millennium Item despite not having an Egyptian past). But I loved his (first) Endymion deck.
Counterpoint for Cerberus. It doesn’t mean “3 headed dog” the original Greek word means “Spotted”. So Cerberus in Mythos basically just translates to “Spot”
For some reason, I wanted to try out this deck a couple of months ago in MD. Man, it was so fun (when the opponent didn't have anti-spell or shifter). Honestly surprised there was no mention of astrograph sorcerer. 12:30 I love this part so much.
This is the one archetype that got me to become competitive years ago when the deck came out. It was the only chance my friends had of getting me into pendulum monsters, and it worked. Now years later, Spellbook of Judgment came off the banlist. I have been back at full power. This is the only archetype I like to play now, and I have stood on business behind Jowgen, Secret Village Endymion, and his Mythical Beasts alongside Spellbook of Fate, Wisdom, and a hand full to go again. It does fold to some strats, but it is unbeatable going first. Nothing has broken that board without intense resource usage, and the refill from Judgment makes the archetype beyond unfair. It is ONLY locked behind the fact that they are pendulums and there is too much in the meta that can prevent you from going off, plus a well timed Droll and Lock/Brick stopped by Spellbook Magician obviously deleted the strat. But I will never stop pushing the limits of this strategy. As an avid wizard player in every game this is the exact kind of thing I love. Value from casting spells beyond just casting them. Thanks for doing the episode. Hopefully it'll help people revisit the archetype. Its got exploitable holes so it'll never be tier one, but the shut down it provides when I play is something else. Plus I never go into my extra deck. It's just big dudes and spells that back them up. It's so damn cool! Plus It reflavored the way we look at pendulum monsters, gaining value from the fact that they also count as spells. This is something I don't see a lot of people talk about. They are the only archetype that directly utilizes them as spells more than monsters, but they are still monsters that can be summoned to beat face. I even play this in Edison format. Magic Citadel is a house in that format where there isn't as much to deal with it. I made the pendulum Endymion my deck master for domain format too. This guy is just the GOAT for spellcasters in Yugioh. Dark Magician is the grand daddy who we all pay our respects to, but Endymion in my eyes is something else. There is so much here I love it so much. This video brought so much joy to me. Thank you!
Slight correction since im an Endymion fanboy: My guy is pretty socialist policy wise! His project was to crystalize magic to let everyone use it (in the form of spell counters) even if they are not born with a unique talent for it. My guess is that he's regulating its use to prevent (another) magical apocalypse, and raiding the tower was justified since, yk, any tom dick and harry can go there and become unstoppable conduits of arcane power (see the fool's story)
See, in general, that makes for a pretty good narrative. But when Endymion decided launching an assault against a learning institute was the best way to help regulate widespread magical usage instead of petitioning some kind of joint-oversight committee, I start to think the guy may be a WEE bit tyrannical!
@@GoldenNovaYugioh I mean. They were using human labour in the form of using Aleister as a power source and the Fools story showed that anyone could become a weapon of mass destruction
Endymion lore is interesting because the only organized group in the endymion universe we haven't seen regularly perform magic that's either immoral or dangerous are the Witchcrafters, so you can see why "oi mate, you got a loicense for that magic?" is a perfectly reasonable stance to have. (and as for the Wtichcrafters, let's be honest: Verre is grossly irresponsible so...) The invasion of la Maison is where it gets iffy because trapping Aleister in the basement as a magical battery would be a good enough example of immoral magic to liquidate them, but we don't know if Endymion was even aware of that or if he just wanted to shut them down for aforementioned loicensing reasons.
So you admit Endymion's use of magic is immoral and/or dangerous but you think that gross oversimplification is reasonable. Also that comment on Verre is circular logic that assumes everyone must have a strong man dictator.
@@goodpeople25 What exactly is my "gross oversimplification?" I've said that the circumstances of the Tower/Endymion conflict are unclear. That's the opposite of simplifying. As for the Verre situation, you certainly free to give an alternate interpretation of what happened in Witchcrafter Confusion and its aftermath besides "Verre randomly abandoned her comrades with no warning" but I cannot imagine what that interpretation would be. Me, I hold that the events are what they appear to be and that that Verre can be fairly characterised as "irresponsible." Finally, if, as you seem to imply, you believe that responsible leadership necessarily requires dictatorship, I'd advise you to de-Americanize yourself.
@@HazmatSam Endymion is not a responsible leader and your attempts to treat others as if they deserve to be conquered by him is circular and horrid. You are projecting in so many ways.
@@goodpeople25 Deserve to be conquered? No, I clearly said that that the la Maison war could very possibly be an unjust war depending on whether Endymion was aware of their more dangerous works or if it were just done to maintain his monopoly on magic. Aside from that, what exactly would I be "projecting" when I say the indisputable fact that even an evil ruler can in theory wage a just war? (something even an American-brain can admit; the case of Winston Churchill's war against Germany, for example) Am I a secretly dictator's sockpuppet trying to vicariously justify my tyranny? That's what "projection" would mean in this circumstance. I responded to you at first because there was the possibility I overlooked something and was open to being proven wrong, but If you continue to ignore what I actually write in favour of your imagination's caricature and continue using buzzwords whose definitions you don't understand then this will be my last reply.
The unfortunate downside of Medusa's revive is that it kinda sucks if you're running mostly or entirely Pendulums as your maindeck monsters, since those (usually) won't be going to the GY for Medusa to revive them. That leaves the Extra Deck monsters, and I guess you can use it on the couple of Spell Counter Links, but those lose a lot of utility if thrown into an MMZ. Really, your best options are the Synchros like Tempest Magician (RIP) or... Arcanite Magician is probably still my favorite card in the game, ever since I got facerolled by it when playing Over the Nexus. It's kinda wild how it's changed in usefulness, though. Originally, you could build up into a kind of boss if you had ways to keep plopping counters onto it, since it gains a massive 1000 ATK for each one; it didn't even need to shed its own to pop opponents' cards, since it can take counters from your whole field. Nowadays, it's much more disposable due to its lack of any protection, but being able to pop as many cards as you have counters to burn still comes in handy, and it can be a cheeky thing to revive off Selene sometimes. I'd still like to see a new form of it in the future, even if it's just to see how much bigger its armor will get (or, ideally, to get a better look at what's underneath than what Assault Overload shows us).
god i wish endymion got some more support. Dinos got theirs in archesaur. ABC just got their own support. Give this stucture deck some more love komoney
Endymion is my favorite card in the game. I look forward to his next evolution where he becomes pure text. Wait... Spell counters and a book length amount of text... Is Endymion becoming a spellbook?!
When i was a kid, my starter deck didn’t come with the field spell, but I did get a test card, which really confused me. Also meant I couldn’t summon Endimyion…
It very strange cuz in early year mainly synchro era it hard to summon it despite it release while everyone still play synchro cards alongside fusion cards.
You can replace Mega Ton Magical Cannon with Quintet Magician and Pendulum Fusion. As long as you use five differently named Spellcasters, it has the same effect.
35:40 For me, I use Kai-Den Kendo Spirit when i want my deck to have a 9 scale for Master Cerberus. It even goes back to the hand after pendulum summoning so you can put it or another pendulum on the scale again to supply more counters.
I'm really wondering what kind of relationship Endymion have with Selene. Maybe Selene is the one controlling everything and Endymion just a tool to her. Meh, I'm reading too much into it.
They're a love couple afaik. I remember their name in Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon is Serenity (Selene) comes from moon, and Tuxedo Mask is Endymion comes from Earth
@@alfhifauzan4307 The names originally come from Greek mythology, where Selene is the divine personification of the moon (which is a distinct thing from the "moon goddess" Artemis, same deal as Helios and Apollo for the Sun), and Endymion is her mortal lover.
@@DarkeLourd Isn't in Greek mythology Endymion is constantly sleeping and Selene is none stop having children from him? She likes him, some other god brings him to her, to make sure he doesn't run away they keep him in constant sleeping state.
Iirc they are together. Endymion reached the point he is at through good intentions of wanting to open up the benefits of magic to the common man, while preventing madmen from doing irreparable damage to the world. He's not doing a bad job per say either, just overstepped his bounds recently.
Actually "seh-LEH-neh" is a more accurate pronunciation especially in Hades as that's the Greek pronunciation. The more commonly heard "suh-LEEN" is due to the English silent E as Greek doesn't have this phoneme.
@@motxmod Suh Leen has been around for far longer than that and Greek even uses it, do bear in mind like Latin it has several accents which drastically change how it is said however the one Nova uses here is NOT one of them.
Likely "suh-LEEN" isn't the correct pronunciation as the Japanese spelling is セレーネ "Serēne" as opposed to セリーン which is closer to "suh-LEEN". The more Greek pronunciation connects to the myth of Selene and Endymion where she fell in love with him and has Zeus give him eternal youth and sleep.
Personally I like the mythical beasts more than the Endymian cards, and wish they got more support. Plus, they look like they would have fusion monsters because of all the chimera versions Jackel is apart of.
@@alfhifauzan4307It's more that Selene and Endymion are referencing Greek myth where she fell in love with him and has Zeus give him eternal youth and sleep. "Seh-LEH-neh" is the Greek pronunciation as Greek doesn't have a silent E while English does. Serene/serenity has Latin roots but that connection is more a quirk of Japanese linguistics. Sailor Moon references the same myth as she and Tuxedo Mask's past lives were Queen Serenity and Prince Endymion.
Endymions Lab: Magi Cat and Magi Dog are holding two artifacts.. WHAT ARE THEY.. the closest i have found is the magic carpet squirrel card... and blue medicine ?
I just wish they make a spell that could lower or increase pend scales to help pen summoning the awkward 4 scale made me do mental backflip when I tried playing mystical beast monster I just wanted to play them to understand this summoning mechanic
Rouge is completely justifiable cause it's a Lv 3 . To search and use spell card same turn is not possible on a Lv 3 bro . They would never put this effect on a stronger monster with more resources to summon cause it will be broken in the future and banned 🚫 . Mythical Bestiary is better , getting 6 counters is easy in today game , in 1 turn you getting a spell card , the cost is it's a trap 🪤 and sometimes a brick 🧱 you might need a spell card to boost your counters
Now, I've always been curious: Is that circle behind Endymion, the "Dark Magical Circle " or a different variation? Edit: My mistake, I meant behind "Empress of Endymion"
what I want to know is what happens between Crowley and endimyon... one become a super tyrants and the other first started the invoked then started the prophecy and become enemies...but they were friends
funfact endymion in greek mythology is a guy aphrodite fell in love with so she cursed him with eternal sleep and made a bunch of childrenw ith him ... while he slept
Even for 2009 standards Endymion was subpar... 6 S counters for S summon too much resources+ it's not 3000 atk and trading a spell card to pop something is bad 😔 thank God spell counters were saved with new M beats and new structure deck
opponent: I got a pendulum deck that revolves around spell counters and can make 90 negates. all thanks to me 4.0 GPA me with dark ruler: count this you ugly teacher's pet
I feel like you mispronounced Selene on purpose here... Edit: Also, with regards to Mythical Beast Medusa, it's actually based off of the Medusa form in a jellyfish's life cycle (ie, the stage where the jelly is free swimming). (But for those who don't know, Selene isn't pronounced as "Seleenie", it's "Suh-leen".)
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Hsy nova so the word Cerberus is actually a modern version of the ancient Greek world karnataka wich roughly traditional is spotted so hades named his dog spot
Something I appreciate about Endymion's "lore" is that whether he's good or evil is up for debate.
On one hand, his project to crystalise magic, letting even people with next to no aptitude for it use it is a net positive. And he actively regulates it to make sure noone with more malicius intentions misuses it.
But at the same time, you could argue that the authority went to his head and that raiding what was basically a magical university who's only crime was teaching magic indiscriminately instead of, I dunno, forming some sort of commitee or governing body to weed out the bad apples, really shows how, for better and for worse, he doesn't trust anyone but himself with this knowledge.
Its basically a question of whether you think things would be worse *without* Endymion and , in my opinion, most definetly.
I think it's not really that deep honestly, i think that the raid happened because aleister is the fuel for the accademy so it was more of a "First of fuck you aleister, second oh god aleister is teaching them how to use invokations to spawn monsters from hell, I don't like that"
@@gamingproject5601 i think it depends on what happens in the recent OCG manga
@@gamingproject5601 I thought how it went is that they trapped Aleisteer in the basement as a bettery to power their spellbooks? Did I misread the wiki translations?
@@HazmatSam oh no i dont really know the lore because i cannot find anything about it online (geo blocking) so i didn't know that, i ade the assumption with what i know which is "aleister is in the spellbook tower oh god oh no"
@@HazmatSamThe tank Aleister is in is slowly undoing his corrupted transformation, and the card is titled "Crowley, the FIRST Propheseer", implying that he actually founded the tower before embarking on his villain arc, and the Tower administration are seeking to restore him in the aftermath.
I still uphold the theory that Endymion and Selene are the parents of Dark Magician, who rejected his father's controlling tendencies and ran away to explore the true depths of magic without parental supervision, inspiring a bunch of talented apprentices of his own to join him. This would lead to the Dark Magician Girl club, Illusion Apprentice Magician, Breaker, Magician of Dark Chaos, and several others, to spread out over time, forging bonds with other groups like the Blue Eyes tribe, Buster Blader, and the Legendary Knights.
This archetype will always hold a special place in my heart. Original Endymion was my schoolyard boss monster back in the day and when I got back into YuGiOh in 2020, one of the first decks I built (and which helped me understand Pendulums) was a pure Endymion deck. Hell, I can recite Mighty Master of Magic’s entire text from memory.
I respect your dedication.
My founding holy magical king of the spellcasters Endymion was based and counter-pilled for storming the spellbook tower. There is a reason why Aleister got locked in the basement and their lack of regulation caused the whole Fool of Prophecy disaster. That along with Zoroa’s betrayal, you can’t blame the man for wanting to put restrictions on magic for the sake of the world and for the sake of spellcasters, who were already feared for their powers.
Sure, he could have been more chill, maybe do a vote or have a civil convo but considering how all four of the magistus were acquaintances I’m sure those talks happened before, and that mechaba merchant didn’t want to listen obviously, so his institution had to face a six negate Endymion board irl. Remember, Endy was on board with everyone learning magic through his power stones until they started acting out of turn. They did it to themselves.
Endymion, the Master Magician is the entire reason why I was the most hated man at my high school Yugi-Group. I got Spellcaster's Command for my birthday and made it everyone else's playground problem
I think my favorite part of the 'lore' of this set is how they are almost certainly CLOSELY connected to YUGI's monsters, and the Dark Magician in particular.
I mean, the dark magical circle is ALL over the place in the card BGs (including seemingly ringing the Magical Citadel itself multiple times), the Skilled Magicians are each tied to one of Yugi's five most iconic monsters while ALSO clearly being part of the Magical Citadel via their use of Spell Counters and Power Stones, Crusader looks a LOT like a Dark Magician cosplay while also sporting a potential 2500 ATK, the list goes on.
Like I wouldn't be surprised if we got some lore reveal that Dark Magician was closely involved in the creation of the Magical Citadel and/or Endymion's creation of Spell Counters.
And then they hit us with a Dark Magician / Endymion retrain. 😂
It's actually theorized now that witchcrafters, Endymion, magistus, and the "magicians" are all in the same universe lore wise. With all of the small details you mentioned plus some others makes it pretty plausible
@@southernflight5078really where?
Spell Counters are the result of Endymion's attempts to coalesce magic into solid form seen at the beginning of the manga, I'm sure.
@@chaotixthefox ...Shit, the Power Stones being an inverted triangle is totally a reference to the Millennium Puzzle, isn't it? XD
You are a complete Chad for reading mighty master of Magic’s entire card text.
I Am A Grown Ass Man.
I Have Read The Fucking Card Text.
So You Don't Have To.
25:04 fun fact: in Polish, both Medusa and jellyfish are called "meduza", and this monster does somewhat resemble a jellyfish, so... Yay Poland...?
And "medusa" is also a scientific term used to describe adult jellyfish in general.
Medusa is how you call a jellyfish in spanish too.
I can only say, my god is it painful to read their OCG stories, every time they can, they show how Endymion used to be a really kind person and wished to use the magic to help all the people he could. Now he's a cruel ironfist ruler.
It mirrors how we know that Crowley is going to end up being corrupted into Aleister, Invoker of Madness and beyond. Bad ends for everyone!
Do you know where I can find those stories? I would love to read them
@@andreavillani8993 mangadex
You're overstating the situation. He continued his project to allow anyone to use magic, but due to the bad experiences of certain individuals wielding it, he concluded that it must he regulated and managed carefully, thus he nationalized it. He has become overzealous in the extent to which he prevents magic from falling into the wrong hands, but he's not oppressing the people.
@@andreavillani8993 Yugioh OCG Stories manga, starting from chapter 20. Before that is the Sky Striker storyline.
Endymion is brother's favorite archetype. With Invoked being one of my favorites. We both honestly hope that Konami makes the Magical Nations lore into an anime
I think the “1000 or More ATK” cause is to prevent it from searcher “Forbidden One” cards. Add searchers essential have to tip-toe around that 5-Card instance win. That why we can’t have a “Reinforcement Of The Army” equivalent for Spellcasters.
except the forbidden one cards cant hold spell counters
@@windmirror7083 Less we forget they can win you the game instantly and there plenty of way to return cards from the Field/GY to your Hand.
It’s funny because I was trying to look up to see if you made a Endymion explained video yet and here it is.😂
Counter Fairies, meet Counter Spellcasters.
Ba dun tsss
That's actually clever
i use counterspell
Counter Warriors would destroy monsters that attack them, then?
@@wanderlustwarriorThey already have the battle guard traps and the warrior lady of the waste retrain.
The magical nation lore is so incredibly deep and interconnected! It's insane.
And also I think she first was a secretary and then became Endymion's Servant, unless I'm missing a confirmed timing thing that the witchcrafters come after a downfall of endymion. If I'm not mistaken there are 2 other cards that are also clearly her.
Thanks for giving Endymion some love! I’ve been playing Endymion for a long time and still love to play it today. Mythical Bestiary is actually a really good card in the deck. I doubted it for a while but I tried it out and it’s awesome. Institution is also really good. Endymion needs a fusion with Mythical Beasts that’s also a pendulum scale 9. That would be soooo good
I feel like Endymion would be played randomly in Arc-V S1 by some random character (maybe even as 1 of Sylvio's decks) and doesn't do anything but is crazy irl.
Once tried (keyword: TRIED) reading a fanfic where the MC for it had an Endymion deck. It was good… until Battle City where several characters don’t act like themselves and we get introduced to more multiversal shenanigans IN THE MIDDLE OF BATTLE CITY BEFORE THE FINALS. I had to drop it after that because of the out of character moments, random plots that get thrown, duel scripting to even the breaking of the lore of how the cards were created (I.e Synchro, Xyz, Pendulum and Link monsters were printed by Pegasus years in advanced despite Kaiba being responsible for Synchros, Yusei for Xyz, and Yuya for Pendulums. Oh- and the MC gets a Millennium Item despite not having an Egyptian past).
But I loved his (first) Endymion deck.
Chaos Effect, by Mr. Chaos? Yeah, I didn't like that either.
@@MageofSwords Yep. That’s the one.
When it comes to tech picks, the Sky Striker engine also goes pretty hard with Endymion, now with Engage at 3 even more.
Counterpoint for Cerberus. It doesn’t mean “3 headed dog” the original Greek word means “Spotted”. So Cerberus in Mythos basically just translates to “Spot”
For some reason, I wanted to try out this deck a couple of months ago in MD. Man, it was so fun (when the opponent didn't have anti-spell or shifter).
Honestly surprised there was no mention of astrograph sorcerer.
12:30 I love this part so much.
This is the one archetype that got me to become competitive years ago when the deck came out. It was the only chance my friends had of getting me into pendulum monsters, and it worked.
Now years later, Spellbook of Judgment came off the banlist. I have been back at full power. This is the only archetype I like to play now, and I have stood on business behind Jowgen, Secret Village Endymion, and his Mythical Beasts alongside Spellbook of Fate, Wisdom, and a hand full to go again.
It does fold to some strats, but it is unbeatable going first. Nothing has broken that board without intense resource usage, and the refill from Judgment makes the archetype beyond unfair. It is ONLY locked behind the fact that they are pendulums and there is too much in the meta that can prevent you from going off, plus a well timed Droll and Lock/Brick stopped by Spellbook Magician obviously deleted the strat.
But I will never stop pushing the limits of this strategy. As an avid wizard player in every game this is the exact kind of thing I love. Value from casting spells beyond just casting them.
Thanks for doing the episode. Hopefully it'll help people revisit the archetype. Its got exploitable holes so it'll never be tier one, but the shut down it provides when I play is something else. Plus I never go into my extra deck. It's just big dudes and spells that back them up. It's so damn cool! Plus It reflavored the way we look at pendulum monsters, gaining value from the fact that they also count as spells. This is something I don't see a lot of people talk about. They are the only archetype that directly utilizes them as spells more than monsters, but they are still monsters that can be summoned to beat face.
I even play this in Edison format. Magic Citadel is a house in that format where there isn't as much to deal with it.
I made the pendulum Endymion my deck master for domain format too. This guy is just the GOAT for spellcasters in Yugioh. Dark Magician is the grand daddy who we all pay our respects to, but Endymion in my eyes is something else.
There is so much here I love it so much. This video brought so much joy to me. Thank you!
Slight correction since im an Endymion fanboy: My guy is pretty socialist policy wise! His project was to crystalize magic to let everyone use it (in the form of spell counters) even if they are not born with a unique talent for it. My guess is that he's regulating its use to prevent (another) magical apocalypse, and raiding the tower was justified since, yk, any tom dick and harry can go there and become unstoppable conduits of arcane power (see the fool's story)
See, in general, that makes for a pretty good narrative. But when Endymion decided launching an assault against a learning institute was the best way to help regulate widespread magical usage instead of petitioning some kind of joint-oversight committee, I start to think the guy may be a WEE bit tyrannical!
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@@GoldenNovaYugioh I mean. They were using human labour in the form of using Aleister as a power source and the Fools story showed that anyone could become a weapon of mass destruction
Endymion lore is interesting because the only organized group in the endymion universe we haven't seen regularly perform magic that's either immoral or dangerous are the Witchcrafters, so you can see why "oi mate, you got a loicense for that magic?" is a perfectly reasonable stance to have. (and as for the Wtichcrafters, let's be honest: Verre is grossly irresponsible so...)
The invasion of la Maison is where it gets iffy because trapping Aleister in the basement as a magical battery would be a good enough example of immoral magic to liquidate them, but we don't know if Endymion was even aware of that or if he just wanted to shut them down for aforementioned loicensing reasons.
So you admit Endymion's use of magic is immoral and/or dangerous but you think that gross oversimplification is reasonable.
Also that comment on Verre is circular logic that assumes everyone must have a strong man dictator.
@@goodpeople25 What exactly is my "gross oversimplification?" I've said that the circumstances of the Tower/Endymion conflict are unclear. That's the opposite of simplifying. As for the Verre situation, you certainly free to give an alternate interpretation of what happened in Witchcrafter Confusion and its aftermath besides "Verre randomly abandoned her comrades with no warning" but I cannot imagine what that interpretation would be. Me, I hold that the events are what they appear to be and that that Verre can be fairly characterised as "irresponsible." Finally, if, as you seem to imply, you believe that responsible leadership necessarily requires dictatorship, I'd advise you to de-Americanize yourself.
@@HazmatSam Endymion is not a responsible leader and your attempts to treat others as if they deserve to be conquered by him is circular and horrid.
You are projecting in so many ways.
@@goodpeople25 Deserve to be conquered? No, I clearly said that that the la Maison war could very possibly be an unjust war depending on whether Endymion was aware of their more dangerous works or if it were just done to maintain his monopoly on magic.
Aside from that, what exactly would I be "projecting" when I say the indisputable fact that even an evil ruler can in theory wage a just war? (something even an American-brain can admit; the case of Winston Churchill's war against Germany, for example) Am I a secretly dictator's sockpuppet trying to vicariously justify my tyranny? That's what "projection" would mean in this circumstance.
I responded to you at first because there was the possibility I overlooked something and was open to being proven wrong, but If you continue to ignore what I actually write in favour of your imagination's caricature and continue using buzzwords whose definitions you don't understand then this will be my last reply.
@@HazmatSam You are projecting again.
You and the fictional strong man you are latching on to are inherently pathetic.
Magical Citadel of Endymion is such a wonderful card. I built a whole Spellcaster’s ensemble around it. It does well against most decks.
24:07 dude probably still had to pay rent somehow while building his evil amnesiac army
Finally! Been waiting on my spell counters to be heard
I just made Endymion in MD, first pend deck. Great timing!
The unfortunate downside of Medusa's revive is that it kinda sucks if you're running mostly or entirely Pendulums as your maindeck monsters, since those (usually) won't be going to the GY for Medusa to revive them. That leaves the Extra Deck monsters, and I guess you can use it on the couple of Spell Counter Links, but those lose a lot of utility if thrown into an MMZ. Really, your best options are the Synchros like Tempest Magician (RIP) or...
Arcanite Magician is probably still my favorite card in the game, ever since I got facerolled by it when playing Over the Nexus. It's kinda wild how it's changed in usefulness, though. Originally, you could build up into a kind of boss if you had ways to keep plopping counters onto it, since it gains a massive 1000 ATK for each one; it didn't even need to shed its own to pop opponents' cards, since it can take counters from your whole field. Nowadays, it's much more disposable due to its lack of any protection, but being able to pop as many cards as you have counters to burn still comes in handy, and it can be a cheeky thing to revive off Selene sometimes. I'd still like to see a new form of it in the future, even if it's just to see how much bigger its armor will get (or, ideally, to get a better look at what's underneath than what Assault Overload shows us).
god i wish endymion got some more support. Dinos got theirs in archesaur. ABC just got their own support. Give this stucture deck some more love komoney
The Video i was waiting for After unlocking the endymion pack in MD. Thank you
Endymion is my favorite card in the game. I look forward to his next evolution where he becomes pure text.
Wait... Spell counters and a book length amount of text... Is Endymion becoming a spellbook?!
The perfect tuner to summon arcanite magician would be dracoslayer majesty peagus if you play a dracoslayer engine.
When i was a kid, my starter deck didn’t come with the field spell, but I did get a test card, which really confused me. Also meant I couldn’t summon Endimyion…
It very strange cuz in early year mainly synchro era it hard to summon it despite it release while everyone still play synchro cards alongside fusion cards.
I was just looking for this stuff the other day and was surprised you hadn't done it yet.
My first deck was the endymion deck and with that deck I learned how to play yugioh
Queen of the master magicians is my favorite.
Also, I am finally caught up on all the episodes
You can replace Mega Ton Magical Cannon with Quintet Magician and Pendulum Fusion. As long as you use five differently named Spellcasters, it has the same effect.
35:40 For me, I use Kai-Den Kendo Spirit when i want my deck to have a 9 scale for Master Cerberus. It even goes back to the hand after pendulum summoning so you can put it or another pendulum on the scale again to supply more counters.
As expected of the leader of the shadow wizard money gang
We LOVE casting spells!
Lets see if the goat still sharpens his senses
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Yes
Just like triff once said. PEND BEST DECK BABY!! *throws the chair onto a wall*
I'm really wondering what kind of relationship Endymion have with Selene. Maybe Selene is the one controlling everything and Endymion just a tool to her. Meh, I'm reading too much into it.
They're a love couple afaik. I remember their name in Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon is Serenity (Selene) comes from moon, and Tuxedo Mask is Endymion comes from Earth
@@alfhifauzan4307 The names originally come from Greek mythology, where Selene is the divine personification of the moon (which is a distinct thing from the "moon goddess" Artemis, same deal as Helios and Apollo for the Sun), and Endymion is her mortal lover.
@@DarkeLourd Isn't in Greek mythology Endymion is constantly sleeping and Selene is none stop having children from him? She likes him, some other god brings him to her, to make sure he doesn't run away they keep him in constant sleeping state.
Iirc they are together. Endymion reached the point he is at through good intentions of wanting to open up the benefits of magic to the common man, while preventing madmen from doing irreparable damage to the world. He's not doing a bad job per say either, just overstepped his bounds recently.
I had to do a double when you got to Selene because wow did you say that funny XD
What can I say, I've been going deep on Hades 2.
@@GoldenNovaYugioh I mean fair but that's not they don't even get that right XD
Actually "seh-LEH-neh" is a more accurate pronunciation especially in Hades as that's the Greek pronunciation. The more commonly heard "suh-LEEN" is due to the English silent E as Greek doesn't have this phoneme.
@@motxmod Suh Leen has been around for far longer than that and Greek even uses it, do bear in mind like Latin it has several accents which drastically change how it is said however the one Nova uses here is NOT one of them.
Likely "suh-LEEN" isn't the correct pronunciation as the Japanese spelling is セレーネ "Serēne" as opposed to セリーン which is closer to "suh-LEEN". The more Greek pronunciation connects to the myth of Selene and Endymion where she fell in love with him and has Zeus give him eternal youth and sleep.
Do you all remember the archetype that actually MADE people read? 😅
I do
Im biggest Endymion fan and even I cant believe people are unironacally calling Endymion a socialist lmao 😂.
31:33 obligatory "secret village of spellcasters" suggestion
Personally I like the mythical beasts more than the Endymian cards, and wish they got more support. Plus, they look like they would have fusion monsters because of all the chimera versions Jackel is apart of.
I mean, one of them What If? moments if Yugi holds Endymion instead of Dark Magician, as i can brainstorm a bit of such. 😉
That would be a wild reality
You wanna spell it out? Are you challenging me to make a counter argument?!
"Selene" is pronounced "Seh-Leen", not "Seh-Lee-Nee", Nova!
I think he's not wrong at all. Japanese name of hers pronounced seh-leh-neh
I understand because her name is based on Serenity, seh-reh-nee-tee
@@alfhifauzan4307It's more that Selene and Endymion are referencing Greek myth where she fell in love with him and has Zeus give him eternal youth and sleep.
"Seh-LEH-neh" is the Greek pronunciation as Greek doesn't have a silent E while English does.
Serene/serenity has Latin roots but that connection is more a quirk of Japanese linguistics. Sailor Moon references the same myth as she and Tuxedo Mask's past lives were Queen Serenity and Prince Endymion.
i don't know anyone who plays Gemini monsters and knows how to use them that is not going for the master duel mission
Endymions Lab: Magi Cat and Magi Dog are holding two artifacts.. WHAT ARE THEY.. the closest i have found is the magic carpet squirrel card... and blue medicine ?
Loved the tales of vesparia bgm just finished playing definitive edition ❤
I’ve used mega ton magical cannon, it’s very fun.
ENDYMION LET'S GOOOO
Endymion is what people addicted to numbers count .
I just wish they make a spell that could lower or increase pend scales to help pen summoning the awkward 4 scale made me do mental backflip when I tried playing mystical beast monster I just wanted to play them to understand this summoning mechanic
Card is called soul pendulum.. your welcome
Great video, Nova. A shame E.B.I. agents are now outside your house.
This comment made me snort, thank you
Endymion's Bureau of Intelligence?
Nice one.
Can you please do flame swordman and exodia?
Can you make a video summarizing all the lore in the magical citadel of Endymion?
4:58 I hate this card. Wasted potential. Sure, it could've been broken, but it's nothing now and forever
Mythical Beast Medusa doesn't make sense as a Octopus. A snake or Jellyfish would have been much better
Seleney, my favorite endymion card
Rouge is completely justifiable cause it's a Lv 3 . To search and use spell card same turn is not possible on a Lv 3 bro . They would never put this effect on a stronger monster with more resources to summon cause it will be broken in the future and banned 🚫 . Mythical Bestiary is better , getting 6 counters is easy in today game , in 1 turn you getting a spell card , the cost is it's a trap 🪤 and sometimes a brick 🧱 you might need a spell card to boost your counters
The Medusa mythical beast is based on the Medusa, a jellyfish
What’s a good tuner to use then for arcanite magician
Now, I've always been curious: Is that circle behind Endymion, the "Dark Magical Circle " or a different variation?
Edit: My mistake, I meant behind "Empress of Endymion"
what I want to know is what happens between Crowley and endimyon... one become a super tyrants and the other first started the invoked then started the prophecy and become enemies...but they were friends
Can you do a Endymion lore video please I want to learn more!
Nova had some bad experience against d master.
funfact endymion in greek mythology is a guy aphrodite fell in love with so she cursed him with eternal sleep and made a bunch of childrenw ith him ... while he slept
I'm typing this to help put this into the algorithm
My fav archetype
Even for 2009 standards Endymion was subpar... 6 S counters for S summon too much resources+ it's not 3000 atk and trading a spell card to pop something is bad 😔 thank God spell counters were saved with new M beats and new structure deck
I am so hyped to see my request here!
Pendulum make brain go brrrr (Odd-Eyes my beloved)
opponent: I got a pendulum deck that revolves around spell counters and can make 90 negates. all thanks to me 4.0 GPA
me with dark ruler: count this you ugly teacher's pet
Counter Trap: Cursed Seal of the Forbidden Spell.
@@markirizarry4851 counter: counter counter
Secret Village Of The Spellcasters: 🗿
@@theskullboy8700 Which printing of counter counter?
@@goodpeople25 the one where it’s actually a counter trap
I just started to rebuild my endymion deck in mastsr duel lol
I mean Slifer has two mouth lol Shouldn't be that unsettling
My favourite archtype
I see spellcasters I click ❤
One of my favourite archetypes in one of my favourite storylines.
Came here to say Endymion has too much text
I feel like you mispronounced Selene on purpose here...
Edit: Also, with regards to Mythical Beast Medusa, it's actually based off of the Medusa form in a jellyfish's life cycle (ie, the stage where the jelly is free swimming).
(But for those who don't know, Selene isn't pronounced as "Seleenie", it's "Suh-leen".)
Magic fish