Black Luster Soldier - Failed Cards, Archetypes, and Sometimes Mechanics in Yu-Gi-Oh
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
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In 2004, the world was introduced to one of the most terrorized and powerful cards to ever be printed. Black Luster Soldier- Envoy of the Beginning. The card literally caused so much chaos that it was banned the next year after its release. So when Konami announced that an archetype based around BLS was being made in 2015, people were terrified and excited about the potential it would have. It's too bad that the archetype was more focused on retraining that gross blue retrain of the Great Value BLS that we barely acknowledge. So now that we knocked down one reason for why the BLS archetype blew chunks, let’s find the other reasons why this deck incited the wrong sort of chaos.
Script by Victor Guidford
Edited by S
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Boys, we all know what this means. Konami about to announce some busted Black Luster Soldier support soon.
Only if they be less subtle that BLS is a Gaia evolution.
Please! I love this deck and would really enjoy some support
Black Luster Circular confirmed
@@thatman666wdym
I WAS GONNA WRITE THE SAME AS SOON AS I WAS ENTERING THE VIDEO xdddddd
"oh... Black luster soldier no one can ever know of our forbidden Love"
A fellow LittleKuriboh enjoyer 🤝
Knew it....😂😂😂
LittleKuriboh definitely have major impact to Yu-Gi-Oh community~
No training montage for you!
You beat me to it.
Didn't think I'd EVER see a reference to theretroreplay's Yugioh Forbidden Memories review (Oh. It was a Yugioh Abridged Series reference that was used in said review. Okay)
DuelLogs summoning more support to a failed archetype
Oooh, yet another one from the DM era again.
Why couldn't he have done this for Vendread :(
It’s worth noting the connection to Gaia the Fierce Knight is because in the Duelist Kingdom arc, rituals seemed to be used to evolve specific monsters.
So Yugi uses Gaia in the ritual to evolve it into BLS the way Dark Magician similarly rituals into Magician of Black Chaos
Big Luscious Soldier
😭
💀
Lack Luster Soldier 💀
Booty-Licious Soldier??
That hair do be luscious tho
What still puzzles me up to this day is how Konami decided to make BLS - Sodier or Chaos as Earth attribute 🤔
Agreed. Said card is more a retrain of Envoy of Beginning.
Because for some reason do all BLS monsters with blue borders have to be chained down to Konami's decisions in 1999 to make the original card and earth attribute.
BLS is the evolution of Gaia the Fierce Knight, who is earth.
@@EheroglasiarDragon Champion, who is wind, is merely Gaia with a different mount.
@@danielschott4639He's Gaia flying on a dragon.
Fun fact: “Beginning Knight” was originally called “Black Luster Soldier - Child Soldier” but had to be changed
Don’t forget, the original, _normal monster_ version of Black Luster Soldier is now in the game and completely legal alongside its ritual version, down to having the exact same name. Meaning that Blue-Eyes White Dragon is tied for being the strongest normal monster in the game as far as ATK goes.
Is that in rush duels?
@@nazeersadek6705
No you’re thinking “Black Luster Soljersey”
This is an actual Warrior/Normal version of the Warrior/Ritual Black Luster Soldier.
@@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire i didn’t even know Konami released that card I guess that means summoning the black luster and blue eyes ultimate fusion is now easier but the card still sucks lol
@@nazeersadek6705 It was a Japanese prize card that was never released in English. Not surprised you don't know of it.
@@MagiRemmie not surprised lol
And now we wait for Konami to make support for the deck…
Can't wait for chaos ash and luster popler
No need, just make Drytron mechanics like on BLS
I’m surprised that they never made a SYNCHRO Chaos version of BLS.
choas angel fits the bill, kinda
I'm surprised they didn't bother with bls xyz or pendulum
synchro bls and xyz when konami
Me: [finds a archetype I like in duel links]
DuelLogs: Now lemme tell you why this archetype is a failure
Also DuelLog: Now to explain how the deck commits war crimes in Duel Links.
@@Magnet_Chaos Excuse you, but it's not a war crime if you win.
At least its pretty good in DL tho
@@hey_its_branden definitely, I don’t have a full tier build and still enjoy playing it. rn I just have x1 Super, x1 Legendary, 2x Envoy and it still gets work done
Threw in a Gaia origin to avoid being crept over and it makes for some funny plays against decks like ra when they forget I drop it in gy early
Oh, Black Luster Soldier. No one must ever know of our forbidden love.
I recall it was ruled for awhile that the lv 4 Knights would not give their inherited effects to a BLS Ritual monster if you used Synthesis since it sends and not tributes for the summon. Even lost a round at locals back in the day since the judge ruled it that way and checked with other judges about it. I guess its finally cleared up or my local judges were just stupid.
.....wrong!!!
Am I the only person who originally thought Black Luster Soldier was female based on the original ritual monster's card art? The more slender-looking figure and the long ponytail made BLS seem more feminine to me, but then I saw the anime episode where Yugi summoned it and the card art of Envoy of the Beginning and was like "oh wait that's a dude".
It's more obvious it's a guy when you realize it's meant to be a direct evolution of Gaia.
On todays episode of duel logs makes you want to play an archetype
Black Luster Soldier was always my favorite. Here’s to hoping for a future
Oh, right. Chaos Soldier. The Soldier of Chaos, the Soldier chosen especially to be Chaotic, Black Luster Soldier...
Whoa.... when did Duellogs change their avatar from Aki to this cool spider-thing?
It’s been their livestream PNGTuber for a while now
I like it too ^w^
There was a community poll a few days ago. It was the option that won.
He changed it over copyright reasons
Despite it's failings, BLS has always had awesome artwork. So cool that it makes one tempted to add it to your deck despite how unreliable it can it be.
No ritual spell should, under any kind of circumstance, require to match the monster's level with the materials, nor be hard to seek with generic support.
Unless they have monsters that treat itself as the entire material, if I were to say
Black Luster Soldier - Soldier of Chaos is the only Black Luster Soldier with a build in protection that is also good enough to not get destroyed after beeing summoned. It is and most likely will stay the best one for a long time.
I was waiting for this archetype
You should do a why amazoness failed video
Yes!
For the record, the Chaos cards randomly name BLS without doing anything with it because its Japanese name is "Chaos Soldier." So it's stuck in a bit of a reverse "Frog the Jam" situation. (Though I don't know why they don't just give it the "this is always treated as a Chaos card" treatment like Summoned Skull.)
Because UNlike Summoned Skull, this affects more than one single Card.
As shown in the Video, Master of Chaos and Chaos Form both say "BLS Ritual Monster" in general. Which means they work on not just the original, but ANY Ritual Monster Named "Black Luster Soldier - (insert here)" like Super Soldier and Legendary Swordsman aswell.
If they made a "this is always treated as a Chaos Monster" Clause for BLS, they would have to put that one on OG, SSoldier, LSwMan AND every future Ritual BLS.
@@agitpolat1061 Well, those are all "Chaos" cards in Japanese too. So yes, they would have to do that, and it would be a good thing.
And besides, the "Archfiend" text affected more cards than just Summoned Skull too. Like Toon Summoned Skull. And a bunch of other non-Summoned Skull cards that got that text at the same time, like Axe of Despair. And all the Summoned Skull retrains with effects that have to include "This card's name becomes 'Summoned Skull' on the field, but is still treated as an 'Archfiend' card," but those were at least created years later.
Idc if it was bad, the name "Black Luster Soldier" is the most raw thing in Yu-Gi-Oh for me
BLS - awful deck, but at least two amazing cards that have seen solid play
Ironically can't even note this as a rare localization win because the japanese name made more sense, even if it was argubly less cool.
@@lpfan4491 well what is it?
@@BB_Promoter The original name is "Chaos Soldier". Not only are other "Chaos" monsters an actual thing and were not renamed in localization, but it also makes more thematic sense because "Chaos" the way it is used here is often used as meaning a power that is a fusion of light and darkness in fiction, as per CS's original summon condition in the manga and anime's version of the duelist kingdom arc.
"Black Luster" just invokes the visual effect of a black material that remains reflective.
The duel links portion of this video is wrong though. The skill doesn’t put the level 1 monster in the graveyard. It puts the ritual spell that can banish itself and a dark and light monster to summon a BLS monster. It is still very good though! Not a tier 1 atm, but very good
if you carefully hear how he read the skill theres a lot wrong there xd
@@Priestelar Frankly I'm just glad he threw in any Duel Links acknowledgement. a lot of his failed cards videos are interesting, but always talked about depressingly as if you're always playing against meta threats and have lost the duel before you even started simply cause you're playing the deck. Not his fault, as he goes into good detail about how the strategies simply don't work even within the archetype, but it always depresses me when he says "You can't play this card cause it's just "too slow" for the modern game" as if implying "If you're not playing Tears or Spyrals, you're not getting past the first turn." but Duel LInks doesn't usually end games on the first turn (it CAN sometimes but trap cards are actually useful still as most board clears require a good hand or coverage and spell/trap negates are extremely rare) so therefore it's possible to see these "failed archetypes" actually stand a chance, whether due to a boosting skill (like Kite's Galaxy XYZ that gives him a head start) and thus you can see some of these failed cards actually thrive at what they were trying to do.
@@MarioMastar oh im not criticising it, duel links IS my yugioh. its just when i heard the incorrect info im like damn.
BLS really needs its own field spell/some form of union monster/equip that keeps card effects in check, an xyz/synchro retrain that's easier to get out then ritual summoning, a reliable searcher, a good generic monster.
At this point I'm waiting for him to call out the Harpie Ladies, since he's hit basically every Duel Monsters archetype
That pre-preparation of rites really pissed me off. If it had worked with BLS Super Soldier and they got better counter traps, I think it would have done so much better.
DuelLogs presents
The NEW Desperation from Chaos Booster Pack
featuring
" Maxx Chaos "
" Soldier's Respect (Effect Veiler)
" Queen of Lusters ((Zeus + Dragoon + Destiny Wing) × Rhongo)
" BLS Part Time Soldier " (10000 ATK 1 turn only XYZ beater)
" Chaos Circular "
" Gaia The Slighly Menancing Knight "
" Soldier's Regret " (all BLS cards return to your deck and you can't ritual summon for the rest of the match)
" BLS Retirement Soldier (Tribute this card in your Main Phase. Your opponent wins the match)
I wish that rush duel or speed duel can be more popular because I like how these old decks are good like 70% of these failed decks are or were good in duel links
As a Gaia player i only play BLS as a extension of Gaia. But I can't wait for the New Blue Eyes fusion card that ties in to the BLS deck
With that closing line you MUST do a video essay about why it's alright to feel that about a 10+ year old monster but not a fresh new monster in a new archetype.
Black Luster Solider is my favorite card of all time :) looks so amazing as an actual card. That and toon world look so good
Favorite card in the game. Still have my old BLS from the 2004 Yugi starter deck!
Watching this video while building my BLS deck with card that just arrived :')
One of the best things about Duel Links are the skills that allow lower tier archtypes to thrive. While BLS has fallen off in usage, it's still super powerful. Battle Chronicle makes a combo Dark Magician/Blue-Eyes deck ultra successful. Eternal Hero allows you to summon whatever Yubel form or Neos fusion you want on Turn 1, including Wiseman/Kluber. Tachyon Dragon was so strong they had to nerf the skill and ruin its viability.
Of course, the current scourge is Shiranui Style Successor, which gives you four Shiranui Synchros in your Extra Deck plus Spectral Sword already in your Graveyard to start, then allows you to send a Level 4 to the Graveyard for a Shiranui Monster from your deck or return all your Synchro/Link monsters in the Graveyard/Banish Zone back to the Extra Deck.
Bls is one of top 3 favorite monsters up there with red eyes black dragon, and the time wizard
Classic Yugi cards.
Classic Kaiba Cards.
Classic Joey Cards.
All Failed Decks.
Such a shame because they're aesthetically the coolest archetypes in Yugioh.
Won't stop me from running them though...
@@Danlight1911 year.
@@Miranha-SupremoV172024?
Probably because of them all being from the *DM ERA.*
@@Bezaliel13 GX Era: Failed Decks.
Roid(GX Version).
Ojamas(Attack Version).
Ancient Gear.
Cyber Art(Director Shephed Version).
Hero and Neo Space(GX only).
Cyber Girls(Asuka Tenojin Base deck).
Armored Dragon(GX Version).
You forgot to mention the BLS normal monster, though at the moment it doesn’t change much until Konami supports it
It is interesting with Fusion Substitute cards and Dragon Master Knight
@@Hanmacx or the new Dragon Magia Master
I'd suggest Archfiends for one of these, but there are so many cards with Archfiend in their name that aren't really part of the actual Archfiend archetype. To narrow it down, Summoned Skull is overdue. I can't think of any other card that's been retrained, like, 8 times and *none* of them are good.
summoned skull could easily get its own separate video
_God, help me._ I wanted to make a summoned skull deck work so bad.
Idea for an “Envoy of the Beginning” retrain (along with a retrain for Chaos Emperor Dragon):
_Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of Creation_ (LIGHT)
Level 12
Warrior/Fusion/Effect
2+ LIGHT monsters + 2+ DARK monsters
(This card is always treated as a “Chaos” card)
_Must either be fusion summoned OR special summoned by its own effect. If your opponent added to their hand (by card effect) and/or placed on the field 5 or more cards this turn (Quick Effect): You can banish 2 or more LIGHT and DARK monsters each from your hand, Field and/or GY, then special summon this card from your Extra Deck, GY or Banishment (This is treated as a Fusion Summon). This card can attack all monsters your opponent controls once each. You can banish 1 other card from your hand or field (Quick Effect): Banish 1 card from the field or either players GY._
ATK/5000 DEF/4500
_Chaos Emperor Dragon- Envoy of Destruction_ (DARK)
Level 12
Dragon/Fusion/Effect
2+ LIGHT monsters + 2+ DARK monsters
_Must either be fusion summoned OR special summoned by its own effect. If your opponent destroyed and/or banished 5 or more cards this turn (Quick Effect): You can banish 2 or more LIGHT and DARK monsters each from your hand, Field and/or GY, then special summon this card from your Extra Deck, GY or Banishment (This is treated as a Fusion Summon). This card can attack all monsters your opponent controls once each. Once per turn, you can pay 1000 LP (Quick Effect): Send all other cards from the field and both players hands to the GY, then if you do, both players draw 2 cards._
ATK/5000 DEF/4500
Feels like the archetype could use a Field Spell. Something that states something like "Once per turn you can add Black Luster Soldier or a card that mention it to your hand". Also provides some protection like "During the Main Phase, Black Luster Solider monsters you control are unaffected by your opponents card effects".
Tenpai Dragon? What do you mean Tenpai Dragon? I don't know them.
They need to errata all BLS support from only ritual to all BLS and give the normal BLS new support like blue eyes red eyes and dark magician
My favorite thing about black luster soldier is that the original one looks like a fusion between Warrior of light from the first final fantasy and the hero of the first dragon quest
BLS isn't tier 1 or 2 in DL to this day, but it's certainly still a threat
I loved Envoy of the Beginning since its release and I also really like the Soldier of Chaos Link Monster for how much of a powerhouse it is for being very generic for a combo deck.
It is a shame how the ritual retrains of BLS and the play style was very hampered by how slow it was and no quick interaction protection effects.
However, I am happy to see the deck actually faring well in Duel Links.
So, while Soldier of Chaos wasn’t a failed card and the play style itself is fine in Duel Links, the TCG environment is where the BLS retrains failed significantly.
With Evening Twilight and Sacred Soldier being a thing, I'm still waiting for a dark/demon soldier to come out.
Potential meta threats in the future
Starry knight
Darklords
Dual avatars
Cards starving for support
Materiactor
Cards that got nerfed hardddd
Meklord
Egyptian gods
Orichalchos seal
Number Cards
Unless you're talking about the anime versions, the Meklords, Egyptian Gods, and Orichalchos cards were never good.
@@melvinshine9841 yes
I would love to see a video on the burger arc type!!
Can’t wait for Black Luster Child Solider, banish 1 light and 1 dark from your graveyard to summon it to your opponents field, where they are promptly arrested for war crimes, devastating OTK
probably out of context but I wanted to point out that personally this video length was perfect !
Funny how BLS is one of the free-to-play decks in Master Duel but I've never seen anyone use it.
I've seen Magnet Warriors and Gaia decks used more often. How did they make Gaia work and not a ritual deck with Chaos support?
These videos have always been the highlights of my day
We need Black Luster Influencer - Envoy of the Trend. Your game immediately turns in to a series of shorts.
But he's so fucking cool...
I actually play BLS in Master Duel, well, not quite, i've mixed it with Branded, which, together, have a lot of synergy, but as a friend said, "Branded combines with everything" lol
I just play a go second deck where its just full of kaijus and backrow removal, 1 duster + kaiju + systhesis = OTK.
BLS is not tier 1 in Duel Links. BLS is pretty frequently seen in tier 1 Blue eyes decks though
that kinda shows how when this video was made.
I remember when Envoy of Chaos was printed, to say my local meta was warped is beyond simplifying it.
Imagine going to a tournament and having 90% of the decks being the same deck, like down to the last card in the sideboard.
This gives me an idea for a new mass summoning Ritual Spell:
_Super Soldier Supreme Ritual_
Ritual Spell
_This card can be used to Ritual Summon any number of “Black Luster Soldier”(s), and/or any number of other Level 8 or lower Ritual monsters from your hand, GY or Banishment. You must also Tribute monsters from your hand and/or field who’s combined Levels/Ranks/Links equal or exceed the combined levels of the Ritual monsters you summon. During either players turn, you can tribute monsters from your hand, field and/or GY who’s combined levels/ranks/links equal or exceed 8: Activate this card from your hand, GY or banishment._
Gonna invest in BLS now
The "failed cards" episode we've all been waiting for. Nonetheless, I love this black-clad guy, mainly his 'Envoy of the Beginning' for being a non-ritual monster who can be easily summoned and was relentless when it cames to attacks. There you have it, Black Luster Soldier, you deserve better.
The Soul of Light and Darkness doesn't add Super Soldier Soul to the graveyard, just the other 6 monsters
Legendary BLS is crazy. I love pulling off that card
Advanced Ritual art made BLS Legendary Swordsman a menace for Duel links, Gateway into Legendary use Legendary to pull Advanced Ritual art and you can then yeet a blue eyes white dragon to summon it, this makes running BLS somewhat viable since you can also run loads of BEWD Support instead of just praying BLS is enough but having BLS Legendary Swordsman is usually a strong extra strategy for the deck, unfortunately even duel links is catching up to the TCG in a big way and there are quite a few ways to counter this strategy since Konami thought it would be great to put Effect Veiler into the game. 🥴
This deck is so good in DL that even the otherwise incompetent auto duel AI can play it with ease.
From blackluster to lack luster real quick
I’m running chaos synchro + Bystials + ritual BLS, but the deck is not consistent, it would be great if Konami one day make a retrain for this archetype just like voiceless voice
I remember one of the rare times I went to locals with my Hopeless Dragons (Future Fusion live, 3x Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon). I had a Blackwing kid top decking, and he ripped BLS. I dealt with it, but then he top decked Monster Reborn bringing it back and ended up winning. Either extremely lucky, or he stacked.
It is also funny when Konami releases retrains that don't even power creep (BLS vs 2014 Twilight). I don't envy the position their in trying to come up with new/retrain cards that are somewhat balanced, but they definitely way overstep or way underwhelm sometimes.
Also, I do kind of like how some Yugi archetypes mesh together (BLS w/ Gaia or latest Sarc/gadgets/Gandora). Might limit them ultimately, but I always wished there was a deck that could utilize most of the favorites while still being somewhat competitive/synergized.
It hurts to see my favorite cards next to failed cards😔
Deck Idea
A ritual deck whose gimmick is to place and summon ritual monsters from the extra deck.
Example: A ritual monster with the effect if you draw into it, place it face up on your extra deck and draw again. If the card is a ritual card then you can choose to instantly activate it without having its effect negate.
Buster Blader would be another good early-monster-turned-failed-archetype
Failed in OCG and TCG make it viable in Duel links. Konami truly milk out all their creations.
Plans to do any Lightsworn/Twilightsworn video? Best of, worst of, history. Anything really. One of my favorite archetypes
Meta BLS in Duel Links was great
The moon spider in the Intro and the ad without segway felt pretty off
Glad to see the option 2 cute spider got used for the pokemon channel! :)
The worst part of Black Luster Soldier is the fact that they didn't make it a typical chaos archetype
And now we wait for a BLS Poplar.
Primal Seed might not be BLS exclusive, but it's exceptionally powerful for loops.
I would like to see Crystal beast, in a later video if posible, always love the deck and now is in a good position, but it was a failed archetype when it came out.
I still like the archetype and artwork. I hope they continue to support it.
konami really be putting the most amazing artwork on the most unplayable cards.
Me and my brothers used to put rituals in the fusion deck to make them more accessible.
You take that back! BLS is not a failed mechanic, you’re a failed mechanic!!!
I use a couple of these cards that mention Gaia along with the og BLS in a Gaia deck in MD, not even close to meta but it's fun and always keeps me in platinum so not awful either.
You should consider doing eyes restrict/relinquished next!
BLS is a card who feels it was released in 2013 with its effects. Seriously, the hability of being special summoned from hand with a moderately easy condition, having 3K attack and being able to attack twice is only comparable to D.A.D, Kristya (Require specific deck AND timing, and also kinda too good back then), Judgment dragon (Takes way longer to appear), Goyo Guardian and Trishula (Got banned during that time period). Yeah, Quasar Dragon is better, but said card requires 4 synchro summons.
But as is the case with many bad/meh cards, at least BLS can be saved thanks to the cards-which-shall-not-be-described from the site-that-won't-be-named.
Ah yes , The song "Secrets of the Earth" by Lama House in the background.
I recognized it.
Black luster soilder envoy and the chaos emperor dragon saved my ass on many occasions back in the gap.😂 2004 was a good year
I just realized what a nosedivbe the cardart took, after the OG series.
At least it got insanely good model kit for me to build.
Ok but legendary swordman with advanced ritual art
Konami where is our Chaos ritual spell Chaos Max Synthesis and our Magician of Black Chaos Legendary Master of Dark Magic Ritual Monster.
I knew this day would come… but it still hurts
Next video: Tachyon or Heraldic Beast
Does anyone want to see "Black Luster Soldier" & "Gaia The Fierce Knight" appear in a tag duel ?
We in store for a banger 💥
Cubics gotta be next!!!!