@@nexus5253 What they really need is some good retrains. The OGs are too obtuse and just plain bad to play in modern Yugioh. Plus, when the cards the archetype are revolving around are bad, then what's the point of playing them?
Funny enough they had an anime exclusive trap (that came to duel links) that allowed you to special summon one from the hand deck or graveyard if a lvl 5 or higher monster is destroyed but it's effects are negated for that turn and can't attack for that tool, floating effects work though.... That would at least give it some potential as a comeback tool or if you have a way to pop it a reusable rageki with burn. no wonder it wasn't printed.
Goodwin: "Played College duel monsters ya know" Yusei: "At some cushy duel academy" Goodwin: "Try North Academy. Could've gone pro if I hadn't joined Sector security "
The biggest problem is that, even in the anime, they were never supposed to be a cohesive dedicated strategy They were meant to be extra bosses to a couple of characters decks, most of which used their own field spell, in a show we're a field spell was usually active by default
It makes sense: They were either Turbo Duelists who used Speed World, the in-anime exclusive field spell that generated counters to pull a various number of effects and had anime-exclusive spells associated with it, or regular duelists who's archetypes had anime-dedicated Field Spells for their deck. Even the Dark Signers all had archetypes with much better performances without focusing on Immortals: Infernities Reptilianes Fortune Fairy/Ladies Reactors Monkeys Some Spider-based deck Even Goodwin used those looping Synchros as a primary strategy whilst his Earthbound just did the anime LP-reduction effect.
Yeah, the whole vibe of Earthbounds, as far as I'm concerned, is that they're _apart_ from other monsters. Like, other God Cards are powerful, but it's a kind of power where they come across as a monster, but much bigger and scarier. Meanwhile, the Earthbounds don't even feel like real monsters, between their all-CGI silhouette visual design and their titanic scale. Giving them their own archetype would probably just reduce their grandeur.
@@MrSolomonGaming Yeah. The Earthbound were even almost designed for Turbo Duels, given Speed World was a default undestructible field spell which, for earthbounds, would be great. Problem is in real life, almost all decks related to earthbound immortals either have a field spell that don't benefit them (the deck just happens to have one), or don't have one at all, or in case of spiders, aren't even a real deck
Earthbound Immortal Nanomachines Continuous Spell This face-up card is also treated as a Field Spell. All of your face-up monsters become Machine-type, also Level 10 or higher Machine-type monsters you control are unaffected by your opponent's card effects.
Earthbound Immortal University of Texas Field spell All face up monsters you control go to University of Texas. The archetype could've gone pro if they hadn't joined the navy.
"Stalling the opponent while getting strategies together" good god might be my second favourite line from the yugioh wiki. Right after the 10 card ojama king otk ofc
@@outtaideas849 oh wow havent checked messages on this account for a long ass time. Ye like another commentor already said he explains it in the vid on ojamas
Even some of us peruvians have problemns every now and then. And quechua is quite well preserved compared to aimara and our other more obscure languages.
>Stall the opponent while getting strategies together I guess midlife crises usually take place when you are playing decks like Earthbound Immortals, stall the opponent as you get your life together.
Funny thing, true king dinos could use it for an FTK alongside Linewalker. Spoiler alert it's difficult to do and completely useless since you could have just dropped Calamities and Quetzacoatlus with a little less set-up and without having to worry about carrying garnets.
Funny thing is in the anime the effect said if there was no field spell It just had the immortals effects negated. They would've been MUCH better if they kept that effect
Well... this Archetype came out, when good effects still had to be hidden behind a dozen negative Side Effects. Or are completely broken and have to get banned.
All that does is make them not die to MST, they're still barely possible to summon and die to everything else. The only reason they qualify as anime boss monsters is because nobody in the anime ran basic removal like Smashing Ground or Bottomless
@@selectivepontification8766 At least according to the Wiki, the Earthbounds apparently had Spell/Trap immunity while under Field Spell Protection, which would make the only way to pop them being the Field Spell removal in non-Speed Duels (where Speed World is there by default) or Monster effects which I don't know the commonality of during 5D's anime years. It's more a case of the cards not retaining the Boss-Monster level protection despite not giving them any way to speed up/reduce the investment to summon them when you're not an anime character with the writer on your side for the turn.
Fun fact: the earthbound immortal arc actually took place in 2020, if we go by the various signs that say "2021" in the later seasons of the show combined with the fact that Yusei ages about a year since the start of the show, according to the few times his id is shown. Explains a lot, doesn't it? By the way, a new Nazca line was discovered a few weeks ago...
@ULGROTHA So it would be..... Duel Monsters / classic anime: mostly real time of anime / manga publication: aka 1990's near 2000 GX: Most likle 2000 or 2003 given it only takes place some couple of years post Duel Monsters. 5D's: 2020....... ZEXAL: 2XXX .... Arc V: We don't talk about it VRAINS & SEVENS: Just assume is "same year it started airing" but set in an alternate universe where tech is more advanced
@ULGROTHA You're right, but we have proof. Yusei is 18 when he gets checked into prison. He's later 19 when Illiaster looks up his information, so a year has passed between seasons. There are a lot of signs in neo domino city that say "2021", most notably one of the WRGP logos, meaning the arc takes place in 2021. He's timeline placement is fuzzier. It could take place immediately after dm, (which begins in the mid-90's and lasts for 3-4 years) or at the very latest, 2010. If it's 2010, we still have time for the reactor to blow. The biggest link is Trudge, who was a year or two older than Yugi in DM and is still fairly young on 5ds. It makes sense that about 20 years have passed.
@@babysinclairfan 2021 is likely a mistake. GX takes place from 2004ish to 2007ish and the Zero Reverse would have to happen around 2002 judging from Yusei's age, this contradicts Domino City being present in 2005. Also, there is no way technology developed that fast and Ushio could easily just be a decedent. It's more logical to assume that it takes place in 2059 or later, there was a date given in the Polar God Duel that implies that.
It's curious how accurate this is. The immortals are just worse Malefics in every way. Malefics at least have searchers, a way to protect field spells, and a way to bypass their own restrictions.
@@wickederebus that wasnt a dedicated malefic build...it was gravekeepers with 2 malefics thrown in. Malefic stardust to protect necrovalley and malefic cyber end dragon because...it was difficult for gravekeepers to put out that much attack in one monster at the time.
@@wickederebus very, very true...although the thought of someone tributing 2 to summon sucillu then attack direct using wild nature's release for game, would be awesome Edit: remembered the name of wild nature's release
I mean, it held meta dominance for a good long while with Summoned Skull in nearly every deck for like, a decade. Not many archetypes can claim that. Kaijus, maybe? Gem knights?
roar of the earthbound is such a useless card, i have no idea why they made it real, since in the anime while you cant attack an earthbound immortal monsters, you could still attack directly, and this dumb trap was made to counter that...and since thats impossible to do in TCG, this trap serves no purpose at all
In Duel Links, I usually have a Linewalker next to my Immortal so the opponent will try to destroy it by battle which Roar can prevent and its burn effect will usually drop their LP to zero (you only have 4000 LP in Duel Links) but it's definitely my least favorite card you can get from the skill Earthbound Charity (allows you to randomly set either Roar, Whirlwind or Wave from outside your deck once per duel if you have an Immortal on the field), I'd never waste an actual card slot in my deck for that thing.
I'm still 100% sure the monkey being so incredibly bad, even for Earhtbound Immortal standards, was an inside joke about how the character who used it appeared out of nowhere and was so irrelevant to the point where it's the only Dark Signer that doesn't reappear for the rest of the anime. Even in Tag Force they made jokes with that.
I doubt it was intentional; more realistically it's just Hikokubo's brain dribbling out of his skull again. It is, however, fitting. Because man, Demak sucked ass.
Demak didn't appear out of nowhere tho. He's the only Dark Signer who's actually foreshadowed in the Fortune Cup arc (the hand holding Ancient Fairy Dragon).
@@jeandehuit5385 true, but he's still a non-character. We know nothing about him. But then, her personal antagonist being a literal who is just consistent for Luna.
@@wyveriusblackfire3834 I don't dispute the handling of his character, merely that he didn't, for all his faults, 'come out of nowhere.' He was set up perfectly fine, they just never *went* anywhere with the setup. By this point 5D's had already begun its long, slow descent into the toilet, and so a certain amount of inconsistency is already to be expected. Parts of it remain good for a while after E26, but the show never fires on all cylinders again after that episode.
@@jeandehuit5385 True. I heard they rewrote parts of the script when Blackwings proved super popular, as Crow was rewritten from main antagonist to hero. Maybe the writing changes that resulted left Devaks character undeveloped?
Greater Linewalker is so swole from holding two completely conflicting theme's together. Unfortunately, even his vast might is not enough to save these disasters
When i was using chacu, in those days, i also had stealth bird, bowganian and dice jar on the field. Note that it was 2011 and i still wasnt on the tournament level yet, still new to the game.
Well, this one might be because they weren't designed to be played together in the first place. No one in the 5Ds anime ever used more than one in their deck. With like 4 support cards dedicated to it, max.
Laughed out loud a bit with that end to the field spell part, “run three” while sighing, great comedy as usual. And wow, would’ve expected the modern support to do at least a little bit more to make a strategy like this viable, especially after how much effort seemingly went into the new Sacred Beast cards with how awful they were before.
All they needed for the field spell was "While you control [something relating to Earthbound Immortals] this card cannot be targeted. You can tribute summon Earthbound Immortal monsters without requiring tributes." Perfect for casual mondays, but somehow that was too tough for Konami.
@@haruhirogrimgar6047 Or, hell, if they wanted to do a Synchro thing, why not have "once per turn, while you control a Synchro monster, you can Special Summon an Earthbound Immortal from your hand"? Why not make the search effect hit Earthbound Immortal cards, rather than spells and traps? Like, one of the things I found while trying to playtest the given deck profile is that no matter what, an Earthbound Immortal Inca deck is always going to be short of something. Even with a great hand (Dawnwalker, Duskwalker, Geoglyph, Linewalker), you still can't do the full combo unless you get one of the Synchros into the Graveyard first somehow. And if one of the pieces is missing, you may as well just quit.
Since the release of number monster’s Aesthetic I’ve been listening on repeat, waiting, wishing, for the release of your next video. Thank you for this blessing my lord.
Only time will tell, my friend. I'd prefer they give us some way to get multiple Immortals on the field and gave them a decent synchro line-up and engine. Hell, I'd take retrains of Synchros, Dark Signers used but with added Earthbound flavour.
@ULGROTHA Yeah. Infernity, Reptiliane, Fortune Ladies, you have those options besides the Inca deck. And I guess.... Reactors.... and whatever the hell Devack's and Roman's decks were
Loved the opening, with the 'lost' Legacy of the Worthless XD That small series is always fun to look back on, especially the War of the Worthless videos. Loved the video overall as well, and I can't wait to see what archetype will be next. Take care Rata
Your pronunciation was better than most, just one thing the "cc" sound is pronounced as a deep "K" more than a "kuk". (I'm peruvian and took quechua in school)
Thats nice to know since i pronounced the "cc" names as an s. Thats gonna be a hard habit to break as i have been doing it since their release...sapac apu and srayhua forgive me...
@ULGROTHA Yep it's from the Andes(Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and some others) It's not common to know it, but in some universities you have it as an elective.
@ULGROTHA Yep, it was the language of the Inca Empire! Since the Spanish didn't bother trying to wipe it out for ages it's still spoken today by many today!
@@Drakorre Funny thing is, that one is an obvious pun, and not like Buster Rancher or Trap Dustshoot. They named him "Jerry". Somebody allegedly knew him irl. This could be like Great Mammoth of Goldfine.
13:35 It is extra dissapointing givenin anime, the geoglyph meant the coming of the earthbound. so one would think this would be one of the few field spells justified on having a "Add archetype monster when activated"... but somehow, it didn't
To this day, I wonder if the EBI would've been potentially okay if their effects were closer to the clause on the anime versions, where instead of needing a Field Spell to live, their effects on the field were simply negated if there was no face-up Field Spell. That way, they just become vanillas when the Field is popped, instead of fucking dying.
They probably still would've sucked since you still need 2 tributes to summon them and a field spell to make them actually worth summoning (and there weren't many good ways of putting them onto the board that couldn't have been used for, say, a Monarch like Raiza or Caius instead), and they still have no actual protection
@@selectivepontification8766 They were also immune to the opponent's Spell/Traps, an immensely useful protection at a time where monsters with removal effect were far from the norm.
These guys really need a tribute engine. Pity they never adapted Sergey's cards from Arc-V, they didn't really relate to the boss monsters but at least they'd have other Synchros and small monsters to sacrifice.
zeoxyman Earthbound servants was basically Arc V doing the right thing with the Earthbound Immortal Archetype. Sergei wasn’t even a Dark Signer and even he used Earthbounds effectively.
Burning Abyss was a good tribute engine if your field was empty. I never said the deck Iran years ago was good. it was an edgy mess. 1 of each Immortal, a Malefic Stardust, the random Gold rarity BA's i opened back then, and some random dark type support, with like 10 field spells jammed in to make sure I had something to activate. Geartown and Dragon were good tertiary won cons
And also make a series of cards showing Kathy from the Zexal anime finding out about the Dark Signers due to sneaking into the back of the Heartland City Museum and having her go mad after finding out Yuma chose to stay in the Astral World alongside Bronk and Tori. Resulting in say Anna dueling her. With Kathy vanishing after the duel never to be seen again.
I'm just waiting for Konami to release retrains from all the Synchros used by the Dark Signers which have effects to synergise with their respective Earthbound Immortals. Tragedy Dragon, Zeman the Ape King, Dragon Queen of Tragic Ends, Hundred-Eyes Dragon, etc. A small effective synchro engine could go along way, in this. I get this would be like gluing on 5 pairs of training wheels to a rusted unicycle but what else can they do?
Good thing most of the Earthbound Servant cards from Arc-V are finally going make it to the real life card game, and while they won't make the Immortals meta, at least you don't have to run the Incan deck if you don't want to use it
Yep. They weren't supposed to be played together at all (that is how they were originally designed) and the only few earthbound cards were meant as support for your SINGLE earthbound. Then after years later, Komoney decided "hey, let's make them an achetype where you can play multiple earthbounds at once". Like why. Why! Earthbounds monsters would be cool and decent (if you would run ONLY 1 on a fun casual deck) if it wasn't for the fact that the blow themselves up if there wasn't a field spell on the field. In the anime this never wasn't a problem because speed world was always there and well... You can't really GET RID of speed world. But irl this was just a disaster.
I remember watching 5Ds on and off as a kid so I was never really sure of what was going on. What I was sure of however, was that I was absolutely terrified of Ccapac Apu because I just so happened to tune in one morning when it’s debut episode was on and I didn’t know what the hell was going on aside from “protagonist bikes away for his life from giant dark figure covered in weird glowing lines”.
It still irks me that the Earthbound immortal archetype is still missing about half of the spell/trap lineup from the anime and the card from Duel Links, which is actually competent (if not a bit slow).
My main memory of Wiraqocha Rasca is the enemy AI in Duel Links having a weird tendency to shuffle back the field spell to activate its effect, immediately destroying itself.
To be fair, they were really immortal in the anime, as the speed duels had a Permenant Field Spell that was active from turn0. So, once you never needed to bother about field spells. Its like achilles replacing his legs with robotics so he has no heel.
@@carpedm9846 Furthermore, their spell/trap immunity in the show is honestly not half bad, really nice even. That too makes them actually quite threatening boss monsters in the show, specifically. Which is an even further shame that it was removed for the physical card game. (Also, please print Earthbound Servant's Konami!)
As clunky as this archetype is, it’ll always have a lot of appreciation from me for getting me interested in the Nazca Lines way back in Middle School and showing me the unique inspirations Yugioh takes with its card designs. Here’s hoping they’ll find a way to round out the deck in the future.
At least 4 of the 7 decks they were played in already had a field spell. Then recent support gave Rex one. Although, I was disappointed the new Infernity support didn't give them a Field Spell. It means there's still two decks without field spells for their EI to survive on.
@@ScionStorm1 Well, that's the anime specifically. Most of the Earthbounds don't really synergize with their respective Dark Signer Decks much, any more than any other large beater that shares their type or attribute. And, hell, most of the field spells involved don't really synergize with Earthbounds either, with the only real exception being that Future Visions can trigger Asilla Piscu.
I built an Earthbound Deck in the 2011 DS game by cheesing them with Mausoleum of the Emperor. A field spell that got around the tribute requirement was pretty great. I felt like a goddamn genius. Then when I tried it in YGO Pro, I got mushed into oblivion. Obviously.
Late to the part but fun to see this video! Thanks Rata! Konami looked back at Earthbounds and Meklords, laughed and created Timelords. Not any better but hey, they're OP-ish.
fun fact: the best earthbound immortal card is a non-infernity infernity staple synchro monster which is mostly if not exclusively used as a way to loop mirage
I have spent all this time trying to understand why geoglyph only searches earthbound immortal back row and I physically can’t find a reason. It can’t be so it can’t search itself. Because it could just specify it can’t search itself in its effect text, or not have earthbound in its name. The only other option would be to stop it from searching call of the earthbound. But there are so many other ways they could have gotten around that naming quirk without limiting the field spells usefulness that much. I guess the only remaining explanation is they didn’t want earthbounds to be meta so the crowd wouldn’t get their souls stolen during an event.
Rex Godwin: "Nanomachines, son." Rata: "XYZ Armed Ojamas. SON." Shapesnatch: " 'ow are you not dead after watching this vi'eo?" Lime: "Am I becoming Pumpking?"
Looking at the cards proper, alongside their use in the 5D's anime, I fully feel like the Earthbound Immortals are meant to be a "Splash In" kind of deal. Like, you don't build a dedicated Earthbound Immortal deck. You build a different, separate deck, and if the deck strategy and synergy has an accompanying Earthbound Immortal with an effect that works well, you could add it in for an additional boost. Especially in an era where being able to pull out Tribute Fodder is as easy as breathing. Also, seems like modern Yu-Gi-Oh has more of a reliance on Field Spells, so in theory, one "Earthbound Immortal" presents a bit of a potential play. Since the cards check if *Any* Field Spell is present, and recent Master Rules permit Field Spells on both sides of the field, it presents your opponent with another problem if they can't deal with the Boss directly: Lose their own Field Spell and yours to quickly pop the Immortal, or try to eat through the Immortal's attacks. However, this is still a massively lessened strategy due to easier field control. Like using Ra-Sphere Mode and Kaijus (From what I hear). For instance, I've experimented with a Fortune Lady deck, and Aslla Piscu works well because the Fortune Lady's Field Spell "Future Visions" is one easy way to trip Piscu's floating Front Row Destruction/Burn effect easy. Also, her last effect is a dangerous effect your opponent doesn't want (unless their front row is empty anyways) as it triggers when Piscu leaves the field. And considering a Fortune Lady deck is most likely running "Interdimentional Matter Transporter" and even "Compulsory Evacuation Device" to combo with Lady Light, they can also act as on-demand triggers for Piscu's "Destroy as many face-up monsters your opponent controls and inflict 800 damage for each monster destroyed." effect easy. Also, in an arguable sense, you could include Hardened Armed Dragon as a tribute to make Earthbound Immortals more difficult to deal with while also giving Self-Protection (When Hardened Armed Dragon is used in a Trubute Summon to summon a Lv. 7+ Monster, that monster cannot be destroyed by Card Effects. Including its own effect),
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, konami please make spiders and sharks an archetype already We've had these two being an actual thing in the manga and anime since Duel Monster and became a big deal in Zexal
What if they still had their anime effects: They are unaffected by spell/trap cards (not monster effects though) and without a field spell their effects are negated but they stay on the field.
I don't understand why Konami thought it was smart to give these monsters multiple restrictions. Even for '09 standards, requiring 2 tributes and a field spell for a beater with a battle oriented effect was not a fair trade of input for output. They probably only made these to be villainess boss monsters for which our protags could struggle to beat over until something something Synchro Summon. It strikes as more marketing the new hot mechanic and restricting it for only the good guys, for this reason. Its why all the effects are based on burn or whatever so the protag can have that 100LP comeback, we've seen a million times.
to be fair, they were legitimately better in the context of the anime, where costs matter less, and specifically 5ds with it's weird series-specific rules that the immortals took advantage of. though, yeah, they were designed to be anime boss monsters first and foremost.
I remember trying make them work in tag Force 5 in 2012, i was really good in these days with deck building.. Man they sucks, like really hard, every single engine felt just better without them, even an engine with no win condition were better lmao
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Earthbound Immortals: The archetype where everything but it's gameplay is pretty cool.
Cuccapaca up is one of my favorite cards in the game. They’re aesthetic is awesome.
Well your not that far off. They still need some legacy support. Earthbound servants please
@@nexus5253 What they really need is some good retrains. The OGs are too obtuse and just plain bad to play in modern Yugioh. Plus, when the cards the archetype are revolving around are bad, then what's the point of playing them?
Funny enough they had an anime exclusive trap (that came to duel links) that allowed you to special summon one from the hand deck or graveyard if a lvl 5 or higher monster is destroyed but it's effects are negated for that turn and can't attack for that tool, floating effects work though.... That would at least give it some potential as a comeback tool or if you have a way to pop it a reusable rageki with burn. no wonder it wasn't printed.
At this point, the best way to play Earthbound immortals is to just pick your favorite and build your deck around it, using the type that benefits it
Goodwin: "Played College duel monsters ya know"
Yusei: "At some cushy duel academy"
Goodwin: "Try North Academy. Could've gone pro if I hadn't joined Sector security "
Goodwin: “I could tear the king of games in two with my bare hands!”
They say my d-wheel is a tool of justice... Not used in anger. But now I am not so sure... And besides this isn't my d-wheel!
@@tazzreviews1578 Goodwin: "Don't fuck with this director!"
Signer Tattoos, son
The memes.
And now, Rata returns to the Netherworld where he sleeps for 2 months to regain his strength until his next video.
The Neatherworld is his house then? The lore is deepening.
it's been 4,999 years and 10 months already?
@@GameShark9000 The Netherworld is Montenegro
@@wickederebus what's the difference between them
@@Drakorre none. Thats the point. Hence "it is"
The biggest problem is that, even in the anime, they were never supposed to be a cohesive dedicated strategy
They were meant to be extra bosses to a couple of characters decks, most of which used their own field spell, in a show we're a field spell was usually active by default
It makes sense:
They were either Turbo Duelists who used Speed World, the in-anime exclusive field spell that generated counters to pull a various number of effects and had anime-exclusive spells associated with it, or regular duelists who's archetypes had anime-dedicated Field Spells for their deck.
Even the Dark Signers all had archetypes with much better performances without focusing on Immortals:
Infernities
Reptilianes
Fortune Fairy/Ladies
Reactors
Monkeys
Some Spider-based deck
Even Goodwin used those looping Synchros as a primary strategy whilst his Earthbound just did the anime LP-reduction effect.
Yeah, the whole vibe of Earthbounds, as far as I'm concerned, is that they're _apart_ from other monsters. Like, other God Cards are powerful, but it's a kind of power where they come across as a monster, but much bigger and scarier. Meanwhile, the Earthbounds don't even feel like real monsters, between their all-CGI silhouette visual design and their titanic scale. Giving them their own archetype would probably just reduce their grandeur.
@@misterbadguy7325 "would probably just"?
uhhh.... i think you mean "does just".
@@anonymousoff-brand7538 Fair point, yes.
@@MrSolomonGaming Yeah. The Earthbound were even almost designed for Turbo Duels, given Speed World was a default undestructible field spell which, for earthbounds, would be great.
Problem is in real life, almost all decks related to earthbound immortals either have a field spell that don't benefit them (the deck just happens to have one), or don't have one at all, or in case of spiders, aren't even a real deck
"Why do you die so easily?!"
"Lack of nanomachines son! we can't harden in response to physical trauma!"
“You can’t lose to us, Jack!”
Earthbound Immortal Nanomachines
Continuous Spell
This face-up card is also treated as a Field Spell. All of your face-up monsters become Machine-type, also Level 10 or higher Machine-type monsters you control are unaffected by your opponent's card effects.
Earthbound Immortal University of Texas
Field spell
All face up monsters you control go to University of Texas. The archetype could've gone pro if they hadn't joined the navy.
@@FlopperWorshipper If an "Earthbound Immortal" monster battles a "President" monster; you can halve your opponent's Life Points.
*-LP loss
"Stalling the opponent while getting strategies together" good god might be my second favourite line from the yugioh wiki.
Right after the 10 card ojama king otk ofc
Explain the ten card Ojoma otk
It's in the Ojama archetype archive video, Rata explains it better than any of us commenters ever could.
@@outtaideas849 oh wow havent checked messages on this account for a long ass time. Ye like another commentor already said he explains it in the vid on ojamas
Hey, the stall can help you get to that 10 card ojama otk lol
Maybe ojama earthbound immortals is the way to go
The only thing worse than Earthbound Immortals is the sounds people make when trying to pronounce their names.
Coco caca 💩
This is part of the reason I try to get people to watch 5D’s
CACUCUCAHCAHQUPOO!
Even some of us peruvians have problemns every now and then. And quechua is quite well preserved compared to aimara and our other more obscure languages.
@@sebastianchavez1225 wait it is quechua? I thought it was a made up language
>Stall the opponent while getting strategies together
I guess midlife crises usually take place when you are playing decks like Earthbound Immortals, stall the opponent as you get your life together.
The way to get your life together, when playing Earthbound Immortals is to stop.
Funny thing, true king dinos could use it for an FTK alongside Linewalker. Spoiler alert it's difficult to do and completely useless since you could have just dropped Calamities and Quetzacoatlus with a little less set-up and without having to worry about carrying garnets.
@@Nougatbars Stop playing Earthbounds or stop your life?
Funny thing is in the anime the effect said if there was no field spell It just had the immortals effects negated. They would've been MUCH better if they kept that effect
Well... this Archetype came out, when good effects still had to be hidden behind a dozen negative Side Effects. Or are completely broken and have to get banned.
All that does is make them not die to MST, they're still barely possible to summon and die to everything else. The only reason they qualify as anime boss monsters is because nobody in the anime ran basic removal like Smashing Ground or Bottomless
@@selectivepontification8766 At least according to the Wiki, the Earthbounds apparently had Spell/Trap immunity while under Field Spell Protection, which would make the only way to pop them being the Field Spell removal in non-Speed Duels (where Speed World is there by default) or Monster effects which I don't know the commonality of during 5D's anime years.
It's more a case of the cards not retaining the Boss-Monster level protection despite not giving them any way to speed up/reduce the investment to summon them when you're not an anime character with the writer on your side for the turn.
Back then, yes. Today? Debatable.
That exasperated, defeated “run 3” is one of my favorites jokes in this entire god damn series.
Immortal Earthbounds
More like
Immortally bound to disappointment
Ayyyyyyyyy
More like DEMORALIZING Earthbounds.
Goty
Just like me and all other Ojama players!
Just like my parents
13:36
I've never heard a more depressed "Run 3" in my life
Fun fact: the earthbound immortal arc actually took place in 2020, if we go by the various signs that say "2021" in the later seasons of the show combined with the fact that Yusei ages about a year since the start of the show, according to the few times his id is shown.
Explains a lot, doesn't it?
By the way, a new Nazca line was discovered a few weeks ago...
@ULGROTHA So it would be.....
Duel Monsters / classic anime: mostly real time of anime / manga publication: aka 1990's near 2000
GX: Most likle 2000 or 2003 given it only takes place some couple of years post Duel Monsters.
5D's: 2020.......
ZEXAL: 2XXX ....
Arc V: We don't talk about it
VRAINS & SEVENS: Just assume is "same year it started airing" but set in an alternate universe where tech is more advanced
@DuyDD Pham In Peru, it seems to be a cat iirc.
@ULGROTHA You're right, but we have proof.
Yusei is 18 when he gets checked into prison. He's later 19 when Illiaster looks up his information, so a year has passed between seasons.
There are a lot of signs in neo domino city that say "2021", most notably one of the WRGP logos, meaning the arc takes place in 2021.
He's timeline placement is fuzzier. It could take place immediately after dm, (which begins in the mid-90's and lasts for 3-4 years) or at the very latest, 2010. If it's 2010, we still have time for the reactor to blow.
The biggest link is Trudge, who was a year or two older than Yugi in DM and is still fairly young on 5ds. It makes sense that about 20 years have passed.
@@babysinclairfan 2021 is likely a mistake. GX takes place from 2004ish to 2007ish and the Zero Reverse would have to happen around 2002 judging from Yusei's age, this contradicts Domino City being present in 2005. Also, there is no way technology developed that fast and Ushio could easily just be a decedent. It's more logical to assume that it takes place in 2059 or later, there was a date given in the Polar God Duel that implies that.
@@babysinclairfan Wait...are we getting attacked by evil dueling bad guys?
1:38
Rata: *says he butchers an entire ancestral language*
me: *impressed because he actually pronounced it perfectly*
KOKAPAKUAPU!
@@bmac4 sEnD tHIs pAtHetiC siGner tO thE NEtHeRwOrLd
Can’t wait to hear Rata pronounce all the Earthbound Immortal’s names! They’re quite something
Exactly why I'm watching
He actually does better than most, as someone who loves to play earthbounds and know how to say the names, i'd say he gets a good 7/10.
I hate that the anime pronounced "CCapac" as /kukapak/ instead of /kapak/, so i don't blame Rata for pronouncing it wrong.
@@bolmo12 Well it's not a single C, and you pronounce both the Cs, so it sounds like Cucapac
At least Duel Links has taught us how to pronounce three of them?
Rata slightly laughing at himself while exclaiming "leave me alone, Earthbound Spirit" broke me.
Shapesnach has still not recovered, HE NEEDS MORE DUELING POWER!!!
Its duel energy
No wait its review energy
@@rashanmcrae9166 Maybe it's bakesale time?
@@runningoncylinders3829 Nah man, it’s time for a bakesale.
Earthbound Immortals? Don't you mean:
Malefics who can't special summon themselves?
It's curious how accurate this is. The immortals are just worse Malefics in every way. Malefics at least have searchers, a way to protect field spells, and a way to bypass their own restrictions.
@@noleeresto3473 and made it to Worlds once
@@wickederebus that wasnt a dedicated malefic build...it was gravekeepers with 2 malefics thrown in. Malefic stardust to protect necrovalley and malefic cyber end dragon because...it was difficult for gravekeepers to put out that much attack in one monster at the time.
@@GearGuardianGaming i know. It's still more than Earthbounds could manage.
@@wickederebus very, very true...although the thought of someone tributing 2 to summon sucillu then attack direct using wild nature's release for game, would be awesome
Edit: remembered the name of wild nature's release
We all know that the true cursed legacy of the worthless episode is every. single. archfiend.
Hope red dragon archfiend doesnt see this
Infernity Archfiend is good and so by extension are heiress and the field spell (in neutered Infernities - is Archfiend back at 3 yet?)
Chess Archfiends were my first deck in 2003...
I mean, it held meta dominance for a good long while with Summoned Skull in nearly every deck for like, a decade.
Not many archetypes can claim that. Kaijus, maybe? Gem knights?
Mine too
roar of the earthbound is such a useless card, i have no idea why they made it real,
since in the anime while you cant attack an earthbound immortal monsters, you could still attack directly, and this dumb trap was made to counter that...and since thats impossible to do in TCG, this trap serves no purpose at all
I guess the only purpose is to protect the Linewalker. But that would be legit in 2005. Way before this.
@@ominousmist960 protection they dont even need because every single main monster already can't be targeted for attacks in the first place
Love your art
In Duel Links, I usually have a Linewalker next to my Immortal so the opponent will try to destroy it by battle which Roar can prevent and its burn effect will usually drop their LP to zero (you only have 4000 LP in Duel Links) but it's definitely my least favorite card you can get from the skill Earthbound Charity (allows you to randomly set either Roar, Whirlwind or Wave from outside your deck once per duel if you have an Immortal on the field), I'd never waste an actual card slot in my deck for that thing.
@@ChryI decklist for your earthbound immortal deck? is it viable?
I'm still 100% sure the monkey being so incredibly bad, even for Earhtbound Immortal standards, was an inside joke about how the character who used it appeared out of nowhere and was so irrelevant to the point where it's the only Dark Signer that doesn't reappear for the rest of the anime. Even in Tag Force they made jokes with that.
I doubt it was intentional; more realistically it's just Hikokubo's brain dribbling out of his skull again. It is, however, fitting. Because man, Demak sucked ass.
Demak didn't appear out of nowhere tho. He's the only Dark Signer who's actually foreshadowed in the Fortune Cup arc (the hand holding Ancient Fairy Dragon).
@@jeandehuit5385 true, but he's still a non-character. We know nothing about him. But then, her personal antagonist being a literal who is just consistent for Luna.
@@wyveriusblackfire3834 I don't dispute the handling of his character, merely that he didn't, for all his faults, 'come out of nowhere.' He was set up perfectly fine, they just never *went* anywhere with the setup.
By this point 5D's had already begun its long, slow descent into the toilet, and so a certain amount of inconsistency is already to be expected. Parts of it remain good for a while after E26, but the show never fires on all cylinders again after that episode.
@@jeandehuit5385 True. I heard they rewrote parts of the script when Blackwings proved super popular, as Crow was rewritten from main antagonist to hero. Maybe the writing changes that resulted left Devaks character undeveloped?
Greater Linewalker is so swole from holding two completely conflicting theme's together. Unfortunately, even his vast might is not enough to save these disasters
"you can use the defense position effect to stall the opponent while getting strategies together" lmao 🤣🤣🤣
When i was using chacu, in those days, i also had stealth bird, bowganian and dice jar on the field. Note that it was 2011 and i still wasnt on the tournament level yet, still new to the game.
@@GearGuardianGaming Budget stall/burn, basically? You prolly ran three Solar Flare Dragon as well, right?
Honestly is easier to use Performapal Card Gardna pendulum effect to boost Chacu's defense and then burn for game.
phoenix eff?
So fun story: Uru's Tribute effect works with Lair of Darkness. Make of that what you will.
:O
Just play Diabolos instead.
@@AlexaRobin21 but why? When you can make your life harder for the memes.
@@monkey_blu Meme cred is more important XD
Tributing your opponent's monster to steal your opponent's monster under Lair is done better by Enemy Controller, but style points are style points.
We Dark Signers now?
We Dark Signers now.
Carly best girl
I'm still hoping someday we get Dark Tuners that simply have the option of being treated as Level 0 for a Synchro Summon of a DARK synchro.
@@ScionStorm1 ngl that'd be pretty dope
Oh cool another Archetype Arch- OH GOD THERE’S SOUP EVERYWHERE
"What store are you in?"
(I hope I'm guessing the correct reference.)
@@dungeonmaster3464 Nah, he was referencing to the Ojama Lime segment at the end of the video.
Finally. Another archetype that falls apart when put together - I needed that fix ever since the Malefics came and bricked over their synergy
kekw, what a hilarious way of putting it.
Well, this one might be because they weren't designed to be played together in the first place. No one in the 5Ds anime ever used more than one in their deck. With like 4 support cards dedicated to it, max.
If konami ever released the Earthbound Prisoners from Arc V, I'm sure they'd be top tier
But malefics were actually built to work together
Laughed out loud a bit with that end to the field spell part, “run three” while sighing, great comedy as usual. And wow, would’ve expected the modern support to do at least a little bit more to make a strategy like this viable, especially after how much effort seemingly went into the new Sacred Beast cards with how awful they were before.
All they needed for the field spell was
"While you control [something relating to Earthbound Immortals] this card cannot be targeted. You can tribute summon Earthbound Immortal monsters without requiring tributes." Perfect for casual mondays, but somehow that was too tough for Konami.
@@haruhirogrimgar6047 Or, hell, if they wanted to do a Synchro thing, why not have "once per turn, while you control a Synchro monster, you can Special Summon an Earthbound Immortal from your hand"? Why not make the search effect hit Earthbound Immortal cards, rather than spells and traps?
Like, one of the things I found while trying to playtest the given deck profile is that no matter what, an Earthbound Immortal Inca deck is always going to be short of something. Even with a great hand (Dawnwalker, Duskwalker, Geoglyph, Linewalker), you still can't do the full combo unless you get one of the Synchros into the Graveyard first somehow. And if one of the pieces is missing, you may as well just quit.
Yusei: Why wont you DIE!?
Rex Goodwin: SIGNER MARKS, SON.
Their search effect should have been "A Spell/Trap that mentions Earthbound Immortal" Would make more sense.
Since the release of number monster’s Aesthetic I’ve been listening on repeat, waiting, wishing, for the release of your next video. Thank you for this blessing my lord.
""Stalling the opponent while getting strategies together" XD
Wow, that line sums up about Earthbound Immortals playstyle.
Inzektor archetype archive -> new support card
Earthbound Immortal archetype archive -> Earthbound Servants printed????
Nah. New Reptilianne cards that tie it to Earthbound Immortals.
Only time will tell, my friend. I'd prefer they give us some way to get multiple Immortals on the field and gave them a decent synchro line-up and engine. Hell, I'd take retrains of Synchros, Dark Signers used but with added Earthbound flavour.
@@pickyphysicsstudent201 And I'd take *UGH* Retrains of Reactor cards Greiger used.
@ULGROTHA Yeah. Infernity, Reptiliane, Fortune Ladies, you have those options besides the Inca deck.
And I guess.... Reactors.... and whatever the hell Devack's and Roman's decks were
@@ianr.navahuber2195 Roman’s deck was the insect gimmick of switching things to defense.
The One Whose Shape Was Snatched: "Someone tried to watch this, and they died."
Me: "Guess I'll die."
That's not shapesnatcher. Thats the one whose shape was snatched.
@@Magile my bad
@@erikwoodruff5643 easy lore mistake
I can confirm. I am writing from Hell. It's like Heaven but without vanilla. But the Wifi is decent here.
Here is the 10 IQ play.
Summon BlackWingFullArmorMastsr and Wiraqocha Rasca, then overlay them for Raidraptor ultimate Falcon.
Except Ultimate Falcon needs 3 Level 10 Winged Beast monsters
Yashoku fine summon Blackwing-Aurora the northern lights as well.
Now we're talking ...
Except you are never pulling off Ultimate Falcons burn effect as that specificly requires a Raidraptor as one of its Overlay units
@@soukenmarufwt5224 who gives a shit about that? That’s not why we’re summoning it
“That said, Fire Kings fell harder than a hot potato" Oh who would have known
Ah, my favorite card trying to pronounce in school, earthbound immortal "Could-pack-a-poo"
He really could, and I don't want to be anywhere near him when he does.
Loved the opening, with the 'lost' Legacy of the Worthless XD That small series is always fun to look back on, especially the War of the Worthless videos.
Loved the video overall as well, and I can't wait to see what archetype will be next. Take care Rata
Your pronunciation was better than most, just one thing the "cc" sound is pronounced as a deep "K" more than a "kuk". (I'm peruvian and took quechua in school)
That's interesting!
yeah, the Japanese version was pronounced, Kuh-pak ahp-u (the u being a short, almost half syllable barely noticeable)
Thats nice to know since i pronounced the "cc" names as an s. Thats gonna be a hard habit to break as i have been doing it since their release...sapac apu and srayhua forgive me...
@ULGROTHA Yep it's from the Andes(Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and some others) It's not common to know it, but in some universities you have it as an elective.
@ULGROTHA Yep, it was the language of the Inca Empire! Since the Spanish didn't bother trying to wipe it out for ages it's still spoken today by many today!
Rata's awareness of Trout Mask Replica is giving me life.
Same, that's quite a reference lol
Level 10 monsters. Rata getting back to his roots.
No pressure or anything, but do you ever plan on doing another yugioh top 10 list?
I miss the days he complained about shitty localized card names.
@@succubastard1019 *Jerry beans man intensifies*
@@Drakorre Funny thing is, that one is an obvious pun, and not like Buster Rancher or Trap Dustshoot.
They named him "Jerry". Somebody allegedly knew him irl. This could be like Great Mammoth of Goldfine.
:)
13:35 It is extra dissapointing givenin anime, the geoglyph meant the coming of the earthbound. so one would think this would be one of the few field spells justified on having a "Add archetype monster when activated"... but somehow, it didn't
"Earthbound. Everyone's favorite undertale." 10/10
A late Halloween video from Rata is still a gift.
'.' wish he'd been later so could make 'a christmas gift' joke , . . close enough
So that's why you were gonna tweet about Earthbound Greater Dougwalker
To this day, I wonder if the EBI would've been potentially okay if their effects were closer to the clause on the anime versions, where instead of needing a Field Spell to live, their effects on the field were simply negated if there was no face-up Field Spell. That way, they just become vanillas when the Field is popped, instead of fucking dying.
They probably still would've sucked since you still need 2 tributes to summon them and a field spell to make them actually worth summoning (and there weren't many good ways of putting them onto the board that couldn't have been used for, say, a Monarch like Raiza or Caius instead), and they still have no actual protection
@@selectivepontification8766 They were also immune to the opponent's Spell/Traps, an immensely useful protection at a time where monsters with removal effect were far from the norm.
Earthbound Immortals?
More like When the Hell are they Going to Add the Earthbound Archetype from Arc V.
Hopefully never, no hate for Earthbound Immortals I just hate Arc V.
@@chaotixthefox What an oxymoronic comment - more archetypes are always good.
@@DeltafangEX There are those that would disagree. Konami gives a lot of focus to archetypes.
@@DeltafangEX You also don't know what an oxymoron is.
only if they completely change the effects to actually support earthbounds because i checked their effects and all kinda suck and do nothing for them
These guys really need a tribute engine. Pity they never adapted Sergey's cards from Arc-V, they didn't really relate to the boss monsters but at least they'd have other Synchros and small monsters to sacrifice.
Eh, they were never intended to be used as a single deck in the first place.
zeoxyman
Earthbound servants was basically Arc V doing the right thing with the Earthbound Immortal Archetype. Sergei wasn’t even a Dark Signer and even he used Earthbounds effectively.
Burning Abyss was a good tribute engine if your field was empty. I never said the deck Iran years ago was good.
it was an edgy mess. 1 of each Immortal, a Malefic Stardust, the random Gold rarity BA's i opened back then, and some random dark type support, with like 10 field spells jammed in to make sure I had something to activate. Geartown and Dragon were good tertiary won cons
Something is wrong, two archetype archives in a 2 months
this has happened before.
@ULGROTHA I still remember that episode where Yami Marik was laughing at the "new episodes every week " part
2020 is preparing us for a big bomb, brace yourselfs ! winter is coming ...
Only a matter of time before they print the Earthbound Servants
Immortals badly need the Servants and the Synchro monsters
@@dragowolfraven3806 Given the track record with what happens after he posts videos, we might get an announcement for them soon
NO! I do NOT want another Ojama situation where they try to make the Earthbound cards from Arc V & 5D'S work.
Now that they found a cat nazca line they're gonna have to make a new earthbound immortal
Earthbound Immortal Owo Watsdis
And also make a series of cards showing Kathy from the Zexal anime finding out about the Dark Signers due to sneaking into the back of the Heartland City Museum and having her go mad after finding out Yuma chose to stay in the Astral World alongside Bronk and Tori. Resulting in say Anna dueling her. With Kathy vanishing after the duel never to be seen again.
I'm just waiting for Konami to release retrains from all the Synchros used by the Dark Signers which have effects to synergise with their respective Earthbound Immortals. Tragedy Dragon, Zeman the Ape King, Dragon Queen of Tragic Ends, Hundred-Eyes Dragon, etc. A small effective synchro engine could go along way, in this. I get this would be like gluing on 5 pairs of training wheels to a rusted unicycle but what else can they do?
“America’s first shirtless president”
Excuse you. I’m gonna need you to stop disrespecting the GOAT Funny Valentine. DOJYAAAAAAAAAN~
DOJYAAAN
dirty deeds done dirt cheap! (D4C)
@@zEr-ne5ri Filthy Acts At A Reasonable Price.
@@Alice-May Dimes for Crimes
@@mechatecha8514 I ain't gay but 20$ is 20$
Good thing most of the Earthbound Servant cards from Arc-V are finally going make it to the real life card game, and while they won't make the Immortals meta, at least you don't have to run the Incan deck if you don't want to use it
Update: All Earthbound Servants are oficially in the game, much to my delight
@@puppetmon9687I know right and they synergize with the immortals
Kinda. They add another strategy to the mix that also helps improve the earthbound consistency a bit.
“Their first continuous trap is roar of the earthbound immortal.”
“Ahhhhh!”
XD
Given the grades, this was supposed to be a Legacy of the Worthless video, wasn't it?
He actually briefly mentioned why he didn't do earthbounds before, which is that they weren't even really an archetype at the time
Yep. They weren't supposed to be played together at all (that is how they were originally designed) and the only few earthbound cards were meant as support for your SINGLE earthbound.
Then after years later, Komoney decided "hey, let's make them an achetype where you can play multiple earthbounds at once". Like why. Why!
Earthbounds monsters would be cool and decent (if you would run ONLY 1 on a fun casual deck) if it wasn't for the fact that the blow themselves up if there wasn't a field spell on the field.
In the anime this never wasn't a problem because speed world was always there and well... You can't really GET RID of speed world. But irl this was just a disaster.
@@JoseVasquez-vj3lo Reminds me of Malefics, but at least Konami has made it playable. Earthbounds on the other hand.......
Ccapac apu looks like a regigigas, but blue and black
It kinda does
You're not wrong!
About as viable too
@@luminous3558 best reply
Or is it gold and white
15:47 Can’t wait for a support report when this guy will be brought up as the return of Frog the Jam 🐸
I remember watching 5Ds on and off as a kid so I was never really sure of what was going on. What I was sure of however, was that I was absolutely terrified of Ccapac Apu because I just so happened to tune in one morning when it’s debut episode was on and I didn’t know what the hell was going on aside from “protagonist bikes away for his life from giant dark figure covered in weird glowing lines”.
This guy's edits are on another level. I literally died when he started to sing the chowder theme song
I know right!?
I LITERALLY SAID "OH MY GOD" out loud and hit the button when I saw this. Thanks for the early birthday present!
Guys Rata grew a mane.
Good news, we finally got the Earthbound servants 😉
The Chowder reference was my favorite part. I didn't see it coming.
I know right!?
Congrats supay. You now have a use.
When the world needed him most, he came fashionably late
He avoid Ojama pink
Very impressed with the upload time on this one Rata. Also impressed with that hair.
As the only remaining Fire King player, I’m glad you acknowledged me
It still irks me that the Earthbound immortal archetype is still missing about half of the spell/trap lineup from the anime and the card from Duel Links, which is actually competent (if not a bit slow).
17:33 Well guess what!? I swear they waited for you to make this video to finally print them
It’s been 2 and a half years, buddy
@@Poppipower Konami is very slow, give them a break
I'm always pleased to see your videos pop up in my feed, Rata.
My main memory of Wiraqocha Rasca is the enemy AI in Duel Links having a weird tendency to shuffle back the field spell to activate its effect, immediately destroying itself.
Funny how the card archetype called "Immortal" dies so dang easily 🙄
Now they're rolling in your GY.
Why no GY effects for us? Oh yeah, we can't banish ourselves. WE'RE Earth Bound!
To be fair, they were really immortal in the anime, as the speed duels had a Permenant Field Spell that was active from turn0. So, once you never needed to bother about field spells. Its like achilles replacing his legs with robotics so he has no heel.
@@carpedm9846 Furthermore, their spell/trap immunity in the show is honestly not half bad, really nice even. That too makes them actually quite threatening boss monsters in the show, specifically. Which is an even further shame that it was removed for the physical card game.
(Also, please print Earthbound Servant's Konami!)
@@spectral5939 welp, it's the God treatment.
@@xCorvus7x Hilariously enough, yes. How many Yu-Gi-Oh 'gods' have been actually threatening?
As clunky as this archetype is, it’ll always have a lot of appreciation from me for getting me interested in the Nazca Lines way back in Middle School and showing me the unique inspirations Yugioh takes with its card designs. Here’s hoping they’ll find a way to round out the deck in the future.
They could've had multiple field spells, searchers or a durable monster that counts as field spell but nope, bad synchro monsters.
At least 4 of the 7 decks they were played in already had a field spell. Then recent support gave Rex one. Although, I was disappointed the new Infernity support didn't give them a Field Spell. It means there's still two decks without field spells for their EI to survive on.
@@ScionStorm1 Well, that's the anime specifically. Most of the Earthbounds don't really synergize with their respective Dark Signer Decks much, any more than any other large beater that shares their type or attribute. And, hell, most of the field spells involved don't really synergize with Earthbounds either, with the only real exception being that Future Visions can trigger Asilla Piscu.
The brief little snippet of metal gear rising music made me happier than it should have
Having a rough time. A Rata upload is exactly what I needed. Thank you sir.
I built an Earthbound Deck in the 2011 DS game by cheesing them with Mausoleum of the Emperor. A field spell that got around the tribute requirement was pretty great. I felt like a goddamn genius. Then when I tried it in YGO Pro, I got mushed into oblivion. Obviously.
Was not expecting this, but im glad its here
They made new earthbound support
Late to the part but fun to see this video! Thanks Rata!
Konami looked back at Earthbounds and Meklords, laughed and created Timelords. Not any better but hey, they're OP-ish.
fun fact: the best earthbound immortal card is a non-infernity infernity staple synchro monster which is mostly if not exclusively used as a way to loop mirage
I have spent all this time trying to understand why geoglyph only searches earthbound immortal back row and I physically can’t find a reason.
It can’t be so it can’t search itself. Because it could just specify it can’t search itself in its effect text, or not have earthbound in its name. The only other option would be to stop it from searching call of the earthbound. But there are so many other ways they could have gotten around that naming quirk without limiting the field spells usefulness that much. I guess the only remaining explanation is they didn’t want earthbounds to be meta so the crowd wouldn’t get their souls stolen during an event.
So the ending skits basically continue to affirm that Ojama Lime is the Zoidberg of the YGO universe
When I was 8 years old I thought they were saying "Earth bounding Mortal"
Rex Godwin: "Nanomachines, son."
Rata: "XYZ Armed Ojamas. SON."
Shapesnatch: " 'ow are you not dead after watching this vi'eo?"
Lime: "Am I becoming Pumpking?"
im just happy to see you uploading stuff again
Shapesnatch banning all the tuners, and protecting us from the cursed Legacy of the Worthless video, truly a misunderstood villain
Looking at the cards proper, alongside their use in the 5D's anime, I fully feel like the Earthbound Immortals are meant to be a "Splash In" kind of deal. Like, you don't build a dedicated Earthbound Immortal deck. You build a different, separate deck, and if the deck strategy and synergy has an accompanying Earthbound Immortal with an effect that works well, you could add it in for an additional boost. Especially in an era where being able to pull out Tribute Fodder is as easy as breathing. Also, seems like modern Yu-Gi-Oh has more of a reliance on Field Spells, so in theory, one "Earthbound Immortal" presents a bit of a potential play. Since the cards check if *Any* Field Spell is present, and recent Master Rules permit Field Spells on both sides of the field, it presents your opponent with another problem if they can't deal with the Boss directly: Lose their own Field Spell and yours to quickly pop the Immortal, or try to eat through the Immortal's attacks. However, this is still a massively lessened strategy due to easier field control. Like using Ra-Sphere Mode and Kaijus (From what I hear).
For instance, I've experimented with a Fortune Lady deck, and Aslla Piscu works well because the Fortune Lady's Field Spell "Future Visions" is one easy way to trip Piscu's floating Front Row Destruction/Burn effect easy. Also, her last effect is a dangerous effect your opponent doesn't want (unless their front row is empty anyways) as it triggers when Piscu leaves the field. And considering a Fortune Lady deck is most likely running "Interdimentional Matter Transporter" and even "Compulsory Evacuation Device" to combo with Lady Light, they can also act as on-demand triggers for Piscu's "Destroy as many face-up monsters your opponent controls and inflict 800 damage for each monster destroyed." effect easy.
Also, in an arguable sense, you could include Hardened Armed Dragon as a tribute to make Earthbound Immortals more difficult to deal with while also giving Self-Protection (When Hardened Armed Dragon is used in a Trubute Summon to summon a Lv. 7+ Monster, that monster cannot be destroyed by Card Effects. Including its own effect),
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, konami please make spiders and sharks an archetype already
We've had these two being an actual thing in the manga and anime since Duel Monster and became a big deal in Zexal
WHY HAVE THEY NEVER PRINTED OUT "Altar of the Bound Deity", ITS EVEN IN DUEL LINKS!!!!
The anime version of Offering to the Immortals didn't even have the stupid life points requirement, what the hell? Why would they have added that?
If Konami doesn't like an Archetype they just make it or most Support as threatening as Thousand-Eyes Idol Beatdown
At least Supay Duskwalker is cute.
What if they still had their anime effects:
They are unaffected by spell/trap cards (not monster effects though) and without a field spell their effects are negated but they stay on the field.
Ok this video is excellent but is no one going to mention how majestic Rata's Mane is
The only person on the platform that matters. Awesome surprise to see a video go up!
Halloween indeed, Ojama Lime, Halloween indeed...
On an unrelated note, chainsaw go brrrrrrrr
It's always Halloween somewhere.
thank you so much for the new video. Appreciate it :)
I don't understand why Konami thought it was smart to give these monsters multiple restrictions. Even for '09 standards, requiring 2 tributes and a field spell for a beater with a battle oriented effect was not a fair trade of input for output. They probably only made these to be villainess boss monsters for which our protags could struggle to beat over until something something Synchro Summon.
It strikes as more marketing the new hot mechanic and restricting it for only the good guys, for this reason. Its why all the effects are based on burn or whatever so the protag can have that 100LP comeback, we've seen a million times.
to be fair, they were legitimately better in the context of the anime, where costs matter less, and specifically 5ds with it's weird series-specific rules that the immortals took advantage of. though, yeah, they were designed to be anime boss monsters first and foremost.
I remember trying make them work in tag Force 5 in 2012, i was really good in these days with deck building.. Man they sucks, like really hard, every single engine felt just better without them, even an engine with no win condition were better lmao
Perfect analysis as always, presented in an entertaining way and finished with a jumpscare by that creepy hellspawn.
Thank goodness, Rata has answered our prayers once more.
I always starve for more content for you. I love your videos.