One fun little headcanon I've had for a while about the in-universe 'card lore' about all the archetypes that spun out of Yugi's deck is that Yugi's monsters were once all part of a classic D&D/JRPG-style adventurer party who went on all these big quests together, representing the arcs of the show. And when the party finally disbanded after their final adventure (ie; when the anime ended), each of the members would go off on their own solo adventures, representing all the archetype development they got: Buster Blader became the Destruction Swordsman and adopted Buster Whelp, Gaia formed his order of knights (my theory that many of the Gaia Knights are actually various members of an ORDER of knights founded by the og Gaia), Summoned Skull returned to the Dark World and became a powerful Archfiend, the Poker Knights formed their own order, etc.
So, funny story. You're not too far off. See, there's a series of monsters called the "Skilled Magicians". There's five of them, and they all share an effect. When they have three spell counters, they summon a different monster. The first two were the White and Black magicians. They summon the Buster Blader and the Dark Magician, respectively. Later on, we got Blue, Red, and Brown. They summon Gaia, Kuriboh, and any Archfiend (despite what TGS says, the Summoned Skull DID become an archetype).
1:05 you ask what those cards have in common: Kazuki Takahashi was into table top like DND, so Yugi's deck is really DND themed, at least in the beginning. Even Duelist Kingdom, if you consider tabletop roleplaying, is basically roleplaying so that's why the Castle Of Dark Illusions scene worked. It's stupid to us but not to a table top player trying to figure his way out of a situation.
This has been true for most of the series. Yes, they seemingly follow the rules more closely in Battle City, but most duels still revolve around one big boss monster being summoned and you having to find a way around their effects. In Battle City, those were mostly God Cards, but also Exodia or Bakura's ouija board deck.
i personally saw his duelist kingdom deck as a sort of odd D&D party, and then when they broke up after the 1st adventure, they ended up forming their own stories themselves this is just how i saw his weird hot pot of monsters personally though it would make sense with him being a king of games, and what not
If I recall, a few spin-offs like a fusion form, a ritual monster, an XYZ card, that all basically say 'this is Summoned Skull btw, and if it dies out comes another Summon Skull'. Be cool if Skull got a fusion with Dark Magician/Magician Girl, or some kind of new form forged by the Claw of Hermos.
I mean TECHNICALLY Summoned Skull was the first in the Archfiend archetype. The Chess Archfiends have a retrain of him with Skull Archfiend of Lightning and the Empire Archfiends have the retrain Archfiend Commander.
Little Yugi used both the Magnet Warriors and Gadget in the final duel against the Pharoah. He played the Gadgets at the beginning and then used the Magnet Warriors with the Trap Card to reflect Slifer's effect back at all 3 God cards.
@@scottmacaluso9102 I should clarify I mean he didn't use the Magnet Warriors. His final deck in the manga had Marshmallon, the Silent duo, Blockman, and Gandora. A lot things like Summoned Skull, Gaia, and many other classics were added in the anime.
Louise with Feral Imp and Griffore retrains into a new Horn of the Unicorn archetype or Louise tagging with Celtic Guardian into a vanilla warrior archetype (or both with Louise as the bridge piece) would be sick. Make it happen, Konami.
Dark Magician, Summoned Skull, Gaia the Fierce Knight, and Buster Blader are all relate to the light and dark chaos magic theme according to their lores. Dark Magician is a dark type that has its light type alteration/predecessor Mahad, Summoned Skull has the fiend magic attribute that can summon lightning, Gaia the Fierce Knight is the pre-evolution of chaos soldier (Black Luster Soldier), Buster Blader has dark element and is the fusion comrade of the aforementioned dark magician as well as the Yin Yang counter relationship to the infamous light dragon (Blue Eyes White Dragon).
I actually really wish we had seen more of YUGI in Yugi's deck. When you think about it, Yugi's deck doesn't really match his personality type, which is kind and shy and emotional. The deck they used throughout Battle City, among other arcs, more so reflected the Pharaoh, rather than Yugi. Or rather, their shared soul. It's why it was so flexible and easily changed around. It isn't until Yugi is truly on his own in the Memory World Arc that he has HIS own deck that reflects HIM. I like the use of the term "flavors" for each of his decks you can mold your own to be around, and honestly...ngl a stall/defensive strat isn't a bad one to rely on. The best offense, is a good defense. Plus some of HIS own monsters are just god damn cool asf and deserve more attention.
In a similar vein, I wish that Konami would make an Arkana Dark Magician deck. Maybe make it so that its magic cards only work on its version of DM (Darkening Magician?) and vanilla DM cards to prevent it from just being included in standard DM decks. Arkana has a line about designing his deck around taking Yugi's DM away from him, so maybe that could be its theme? You get your DM on the field and have to sacrifice it or your other cards to remove cards from your opponent? Maybe give the DM a recursion ability to bring it back from the graveyard if it's sacrificed to use its abilities? Maybe they can special summon themselves at the cost of some lifepoints like a built in Dark Magic Curtain?
Didn't the Silent archetype and Gandora get retrains + some support, quite recently? Plus, Yugi's DSOD deck fits him well too. Its basically all about defense and then counterattacking in huge bursts, with some OTK and tech options ,like the Gadgets thrown in there for good measure
@filipvadas7602 I did really like his DSOD deck. Let me tell you seeing the cards HAVE THE DESCRIPTION of what the cards do in the film took me by complete surprise at first. Then I realized "oh yeah this is post the Manga not the dub"
I think this is kind of what the Shining Sarcophagus deck was meant to do. Excluding Dark Magician, they are exclusively cards Yugi used without Yami during Season 5. Though, I do wish the archetype was a little larger, since there is more material to pull from there, but that is probably just a me thing.
@@Straven93it's as much a stretch as other decks listed here Red-Eyes Grandpas exodia deck etc. Also he literally listed Summoned Skull as not having an archetype so it's a reasonable correction
Even still, he has SS and had REBD, and there are tons of support that blends those two together, so there should be a REBD/Summon Skull deck here too.
@@blunk778 they were archfiends day 1 they just weren't translated properly. Plenty of early cards weren't dubbed properly into their archetypes because archetype synergy and support wasn't really a thing in the earliest days of the game. That doesn't make them any less part of the archetype. If you were to use that logic you could say any card that wasn't made with day 1 archetype support wasn't always a part of their own archetype but that doesn't make sense especially since a lot of them spawn around supporting one or two initial cards and building around them as is the case with the archfiends but the same is true for basically every card showcased in this video. You're argument hinges entirely on a solely Western and uninformed perspective it's entirely moot.
I feel like the Mushroom Man archtype isn't too far out of the realm of possibility because Yugi, in the OG manga, used Skull Servant in his first duel with Kaiba and now he has his own archtype. Additionally, Mushroom Man was in said first duel too.
Imagine a Yugi deck with all those vanilla one off monsters from like Duelist Kingdom that eventually got phased out once Battle City rolled around: Celtic Guardian/Elf Swordsman, Winged Guardian of the Fortress, Beaver Warrior, Feral Imp
I’d love to see a modernised Summoned Skull deck. There’s individual cards, like Summoned Skull, the Fusion, Synchro, Xyz and Ritual retrains, etc. but I’d love to see such an iconic card from the second ever full anime duel and an early metagame staple get its day in the sun once more.
Now I want a group cards of Yugi's monsters coming together for a reunion for a gathering with their archetypes, like a family reunion. I know it sounds goofy, but I think it's a nice way to connect them all
I think it would have been cool if BLS got other monsters for each extra deck type. It’s really random how there’s a link monster and nothing else. They could be centered around using the level 4 beginning and evening twilight knights. The gimmick could be they each need 1 light and 1 dark to be summoned. The synchro could have the ability to make one of the knights a tuner, similar to the summoning condition of cyber slash harpie. The XYZ would be rank 4 instead of 8, but could be a search or banish from the graveyard to activate the effects of the level 4 knights
For a new Yugi Deck idea, I think it'd be cool if he got one based directly on Spell Counters and would contain retrains of all of Yugi's/Yami's Spellcasters. This would be based prominently on Breaker the Magical Warrior along with the Silent Magicians, but would also have Mystical Elf, Magician's Valkyria, Odd Vindictive Magician, and possibly Magician of Faith. Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl would also be included, of course. And Maybe even a Sorcerer of Dark Magic retrain to act as an alternate Spell Counter boss monster, so you wouldn't need Endymion.
I think a Feral Imp deck would be a cool idea. They could expand further on the idea from that one scene where Yugi equips horn of the unicorn to feral imp
The Archfiend archetype for Summoned Skull. There are plenty of Archfiend “subarchetypes” like the chess and more generic Archfiend cards like Archfiend’s Palabrynth, and it has one variant of Summoned Skull for every summoning mechanic other than Pendulum.
I think it was because of your trivia videos that got me into your content in the first place and the fact that you basically nearly touched on every arc type Yugi used, definitely proves that your content is great. With that said now that you've mentioned that there's a couple of these that you haven't done I think a good restructuring is in order but great job with the video!
BTW There is a "Yugi" Deck you can play. the "Shining Sarcophagus" Archetype encompasses a few Yugi cards into one archetype. Dark Magician, Gandora,Silent Swordsman,Silent Magician,Stronghold, Summon Skull and a few others have variants in this archetype.
Celtic guardian got into Noble knight support, summoned skull into archfiends and red eyes, marshmallon and gandora are in the silent one, mystical elf betrayed yugi for blue eyes support, Big shield gardna became a family man and has an entire series, archfiend of gilfer is...well, an archfiend, and even mirror force got support in the form of mirror force launcher.
I just wish they gave us more support for Sorcerer of Dark Magic Blue-Eyes Shinning Dragon is already easier to summon with recent cards but not Yugi's Movie ace monster.
I've played with a Summoned Skull deck. They have ritual, fusion, synchro, XYZ. It was kind of fun. I mixed it with red dragon archfiend. Yes, see who else had decks that branched off into their own archetypes. Might want to combine those videos, depending on how many decks
You know I believe it especially if you think about his grandfather owning a card shop and him being the king of games he probably just get support for any of his cards that weren't archetype. I like to believe that each tournament yugi entered he wanted to showcase his new cards
Summoned Skull does not have an Archtype but it does have a Fusion Synchro XYZ and Effect Monster Counterparts that i think represent Different stages of Evolution for him.
I'd mix the following up: Summoned Skull + Archfiend of Gilfer = A fiend deck that focuses on destruction and weakening enemy attack power. The Summoned Skull retrain will be the main hitter while the Archfiend retrain is a sort of a support card that can equip to Summoned Skull or an enemy target. Giant Soldier of Stone + Feral Imp + Winged Dragon of the Fortress + Beaver Warrior + Big Shield Gardna = A deck that resembles sort of a fortress defense wherein Giant Soldier of Stone is like the defensive fortress/wall, Feral Imp is the gargoyle perched on top, Beaver Warrior/Big Shield Gardna is the generic footsoldier and Winged Dragon of the Fortress is the offensive defender which shoots fireballs at approaching forces. Gandora kinda exists as a deck already, i'd probably make Koumouri Dragon a support (Maybe a searcher for Gandora?) since its actually a Dark-Dragon type which fits with Gandora.
Speaking of their drive to release cards that reference the show, and build on Yugi's deck, they just released a new Kuriboh monster in the TCG: Detonating Kuriboh, a card which pays homage to the moment Yami Yugi used his Kuriboh and Multiply against Pegasus! The card's effects read "If a "Kuriboh" Monster Card is on the field: You can Special Summon this monster from your hand. When your opponent activates a monster effect on the field (Quick Effect): You can equip this card you control to that opponent's monster as an Equip Spell with this effect: •The equipped monster's effects are negated. You can only use "Detonating Kuriboh's" effect once per turn."
Palladium Oracle Mana came out in the same tin set as red eyes alternative black dragon, Blue eyes alternative ultimate dragon and other cards with Kazuki Takahashi’s signature
Kite has two Kuribohs both to represent Galaxy and Photons which the Photon one is seeing a lot of play because of Tenpai Dragon that is Kuriphoton along with that Detonating Kuriboh is the most recent one
I really would love to play a full Gandora Deck. And I really want a Komouri Dragon Archetype Deck. Its such a simple but iconic Monster. So iconic in fact it even existed before the actual TCG in the Manga. And I would love to see a revitalized card of that little dragon. Be it an effect monster, an extra deck version, Fusion, Synchro, Ritual would be so awesome and I guess Ritual would fit the best because of its Darkness Nature. Whatever, I want to See that little iconic critter brought back into the modern day.
This is making me so nostalgic. Dark Magician and Kuriboh were such favorites of mine. I liked that you mentioned Celtic Guardian first as a card that could get a deck too. That card did not spend the entire series being sacrificed to protect Dark Magician only to be payed dust by Konami like that 😂.
Mushroom Man deck concept; Cards that, whilst you have Mushroom Man on the field, transforms all other monsters into Mushroom Men, basically infects them with spores and they become fungi people. Nice boss monster you have, now it's a Mushroom Man.
Honestly, I just want to see retrains for a lot of Yugi's Duelist Kingdom monsters that haven't yet gotten it. Yes, it was from a time when Kabuki Takahashi was just writing card game duels because it was what they wanted but had free reign to design the rules and monsters as he wished, which is why there's virtually no monster overlap, unlike even just by Battle City when monsters usually came in duos or trios (Gazelle and Berfomet, the Magnet Warriors, the Poker Face Knights). Only the most significant single monsters from that early got retrains over the years (Summoned Skull, Gaia/Curse of Dragon, Giant Soldier of Stone, Celtic Guardian). Give me a cool redo of Beaver Warrior, Winged Dragon Guardians of the Fortress, Mammoth Graveyard, Feral Imp and the rest.
Not really its own Archetype yet, but I played Dark Paladin (technically a Buster Blader archetype card) a ton, I think it's one of Yugi's iconic monsters and I kind of hope to see it get renewed with more modern support
I hope that we get a deck based on Season 0 mechanics if that makes any sense. Say, a deck revolving around a field spell that could equip special tokens to monsters revolving around different field spots, or make each column count as a unique field. The monsters would gain very powerful effects if equiped with the proper token/in the right column. The monsters would be based on Yugi's Season 0 cards. Now THAT would be an awesome Yugi deck. Not the most practical, but definitely cool and novel.
What I kinda love, is that a good few of these archetypes have grown so large that you can make like 2 or 3 decks out of them. Also the Summoned Skull, does sort of have its own deck. With the various Archfiend cards of different types that all count themselves as Summoned Skull when on the field, but that series needs more support to be able to play on its own.
Honestly cards aside, image a reanimated/retold story of duel monsters where yugi & the crew use their new decks/cards - that would be insanely fun to watch
Summoned skull had an archetype for itself (It's cool but it needs a lot of generic support because it's that bad), mystical is not a hyped monster (she only got a retrain to support blue eyes its not even good), big shield gardna is still waiting its retrain.
Celtic Guardian definitely needs a dedicated deck. Also yes continue doing these. After you're done you'll most definitely get more ideas for arctypes you're missing
One series of cards that is directly related to Yugi's amalgam are the Super Magical fusion monsters. They're are directly support for Dark Magician, but they are meant to represent the entirety of Yugi's monster lineup. It's very sad to me that that connection gets lost in translation since the "Super Magical" part of the cards are cut entirely. I still want a Super Magical card for Osiris. Would be a cool "ultimate boss" for Yugi's deck. Though the symbolism of that might make it unlikely to happen.
Would be nice to see a family tree deck chart as a series for every duelist from the classic trilogy yugioh series(DM, GX, 5DS) where every video it shows us decks and how through the years the deck evolve, and when archetypes became a thing see the decks that were born from it, and their win condition.
Also: 3:22 I can’t believe I own a card TGS Anime didn’t know about! 😄 It was pretty cheap when I bought it, but the foil was really beautiful. Not that good for a DM deck, but it was a great Millennium World reference!
mystical elf could make for a cool archtype, play into her defensive style and make monsters loose attack to do damage back at them. It could be a whole elf kingdom with different elves as the monsters or even doing something like the danger!! cards and base all the monsters on celtic or old medieval "mystical" creatures.
Technically Mirror Force was used as the ace card and main strategy of Revolver in the Yugioh Vrains anime so that's plus Mirror Force Launcher is the closest we've gotten to a deck
13:38 I really hope they focus in on making Red-Eyes a true burn deck, it would fit with the three main vanilla ace monsters having three different styles of play. Blue-Eyes beat down, Dark Magician control, and Red-Eyes burn.
I'm legitimately surprised that they didn't try to mix them all into one deck, like with Joey. "Dark Magician's Knight/Dragon Knight - Gaia", "Dark Magician's Dragon" that counts as any dragon used for a Dark Magician fusion, stuff like that. Even "Dark Magician's Familiar - Kuriboh" would've been a nice card name, at least.
of all the cards that are left the Celtic Guardian or Summoned Skull would be the most reasonable and predictable ones. They already have some random supports or new forms so why not make them into a proper deck. Also Gazelle being a "Phantom Beast" essentially means it is part of the Phantom Beast archetype and also technically the Mecha Phantom Beasts as well, just a little fun fact
Yugi never got to use it, but the deck (which was originally Grandpa's) had Blue-Eyes White Dragon in it, so technically one could say Blue-Eyes decks also spun out of this deck.
Personally, I would like to see a Mystical Elf Archetype. They could probably make other mystical elves with special effects while in defense mode. Like negating Attacks or reversing them or preventing cards affects that attack you directly or allow your monster to attack directly. This could work well with swords of revealing light and mirror force. making a nearly impenetrable defence.
Big Sheild Gardna has its own archetype actually. Similar to Kuriboh were it has variations of itself of archetype for different series. Like there is Red Garfna for Red Dragon Archfiend/Resonator, Ghost Gardna and Junk Gardna for Yusei's Junk Archetype, and some others. Celtic Guardian could be attributed to Noble Arms loosely since there is that variation of him along with obnoxious but doesn't connect that well. Marshmallon has some other similar cards like Marschmacaron and maybe some others that i dont know of but its very little like the Silent Swordsman/Magician archetype. And random note: I'm surprised Konami never made a fusion between Big Sheild Gardna and Millennium Sheild. I always thought those to went together when I had them in my deck when I used to play Eternal Duelist Soul on my Gameboy Advance SP
Hey idea for a what if video. I been thinking about Yu-Gi-Oh GX and rewatching it and two things occurred to me during it. 1: in the duel with Aster and Jaiden before Jaden gets neo spaced And Aster summoned Pheonix enforcer, Sebastian explained that all the hero fusions have an alternative form like pheonix enforcer. So what are those fusion's. 2: What are the rest of the hero fusions we are missing. Like what if Necroshade could fuse Burstintrix or Clayman Fuse with Avian. So on and so forth with the rest. I think both of these ideas are worth a ponder 🤔
There are only 2 cards I’d love to see get their own archetype, Celtic Guardian and Magician of Black Chaos. Celtic Guardian is just Link from The Legend of Zelda so it would be pretty cool to see a deck in reference to it like Celtic Beast, Princess, and so on but it feels very overdue to have a Magician of Black Chaos deck considering how little support it has while also being part of the Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl cards.
I was hoping you were going to look at all the different Yugi structure decks. Maybe that could be a future video, exploring the structure decks of the anime cast. I still have my OG Dark Magician.
I always loved the character design of Breaker the Magical Warrior. I'm not sure it would be possible to build an archetype around him (I know he has a handful of related cards but I don't think a full archetype) but I'd love to see them try.
As someone who has cataloged and organized every printed card from the manga and anime used by almost every character, Yugi has at least 300 cards attributed either to him directly, a branch of support, an effect related to a card, or through shared use in a Tag Duel. (85 to Yugi and 245 to Atem) From the top down, Yugi/Atem alone have access to these archetypes and decks: •Dark Magician •Dark Magician Girls •Summoned Skull •Gaia the Fierce Knight •Kuriboh •Palladium •Face Knights •Magnet Warriors •God Cards •Celtic Guardian •Archfiends •Black Luster Soldier •Spell Counters •Legendary Knights •Toys •Gadgets •Silent •Gandora •Buster Blader •Chimera •Exodia •Red-Eyes(Technically) •Chaos Magicians
Kaiba has 205, minimum, attributed to him, with the affiliated archetypes being: •Blue Eyes •Union Machine •Virus Traps •Chaos Dragons •Vampire •Thunder Dragon •Obelisk the Tormentor Joey has roughly 148 cards to his name, with affiliated archetypes being: •Red-Eyes •Gearfried •Summoned Skull •Flame Swordsman •Goblins •Jinzo •Legendary Fisherman(Umi) •Fortress Whale(Umi) •Penguins •Battleguard •Fire Warrior Mai Valentine has 64 cards so far, split between Harpies and Amazons along with the other offshoots she played. Marik Ishtar has 55 cards to his name currently, but very little in terms of archetypal support outside of Ra. Bakura has roughly 59 cards to his name, including the most recent support. Surprisingly Bonz has at least 59 cards to his name, but this is more so due to the Wight deck and his focus on a more generic Zombie deck. Mako has 40 cards, again generic Umi and Water support along with offshoots. Weevil has roughly 55 cards to his name, he really loved his insect cards. Rex has barely 30 to his name directly, but it’s generic Dino so it’s definitely more. Tea has roughly 33 cards to her name, mostly Magician Girls. Though, through a major technicality with Seiyaryu, she can also have the Starry Knight deck.
And because I nearly forgot, Pegasus has 54 cards to his name, mostly Toons, honorary Toons, and Relinquished. The Paradox Brother have collectively 40 cards, though I’ll admit I may have missed at least 2.
I'd argue that summoned skull actually does have an archetype, it's an archfiend deck, because summoned skull is actually a summoned archfiend and has some retrains and upgraded versions.
A bit of an error at the end of the video, Summoned Skull does have a deck. It's not good, but the support is pretty fun and silly. Celtic Guardian also has a lot of support, although I don't know if it's enough to call a full deck
Palladium oracle mana has been out (US) wide since 2019 from the gold tins. I have so many I wish I didn't. Anyway. Crazy to see how many archetypes Yugi's deck has become
Summoned Skull does have an archetype of it's own. They're just called the Archfiend Skull archetype because Summoned Skull was a translation that didn't quite reflect the name of the monster. To be fair, at the time they translated it, the Archfiend archetype wasn't a thing yet, so the TCG didn't know they should've done a more faithful translation.
Summon skull has other support too, a ritual, fusion, synchro and XYZ monster who all count as summon skull (although i suppose that isn't many) A lot of his monsters have had retrains sush as marshmallon and celtic guardian but i totally agree i would be suoer hyped for them to get full decks!
OI! For the record Summoned Skull has his own archetype. Granted it's weird but there's a ritual, a synchro, a fusion, and an xyz, all counting as summoned skull out I think, and all have effects that do other things
Technically Summoned Skull and Celtic Guardian have archetypes that desperately need support, as in they can't really operate alone, but they exist. For some reason Mystical Elf is a Blue-Eyes support card. Magic Cylinder and Mirror Force has support with Kaiba having a monster for Mirror Force and Yugi's Dark Magician basically taking the Magic Cylinder and folding it into it. And notice that nearly every deck that's come from Yugi also has a Dark Magician fusion to pay homage to it. Also the Millennium Deck is Solomon's deck. That's why it has a Blue-eyes in it. It's Solomon's Blue-Eyes.
In fact, the deck of the same Jonouchi (Joey) is very fruitful for creating entire archetypes. I recently noticed that Jonouchi used such a monster as Battle Warrior until the very end, although it was useless, both in terms of defense and attack, it was useful only once in Duelist Kingdom, and then at most as material for tribute , but Jonouchi continued to use it, and since he was so attached to him and the audience, I think, remembered him well because of this, then why not turn him into a separate archetype or tie him to some other archetype, as for example was with Red-Eyes+Gearfried, but it never happened. A similar problem also applies to Alligator's Sword, Baby Dragon, Time Wizard, Swordsman of Landstar. And the first two can be turned into an archetype like Gaia + Curse of Dragon Yuga, you can also somehow tie Time Wizard and Thousand Dragon to them, but no. It’s generally a shame for Time Wizard, they tried to give something, but they abandoned it. And Swordsman of Landstar is generally an interesting situation, unlike Battle Warrior, it at least received a remastered version of the card, like Yugi’s Celtic Guardian, but unlike Celtic Guardian, Swordsman of Landstar had the same effect and most importantly, it had an archetype, in the anime, and all that remained was to transfer it and adapt it for reality, create more support, but no. And it's sad, I'm sure I named a smaller share of potential, maybe not effective, but at least interesting Jonouchi decks. (Sorry if English is bad, I used Google translator)
Oracle Mana was one of the promos in the 2019 mega tin. I don’t think it ever got a reprint and I don’t think they ever will without giving her an alt art
In addition to these, there's the myriad inspiration later decks took, i.e. protagonist ace cards and trends and series ballooning around them, that continues to this day.
... You know there are the Summoned Skull Fusion, Synchro and Xyz Deck. Honestly, that should ALSO count as its own archetype. They even have Skilled Magician based on Summoned Skull. Technically the 4 Gandora monsters do count as an archetype but I agree it needs its own archetype like you can revamp Beaver Warrior, Celtic Guardian, Winged Dragon Guardian of the Fortress, Silver Fang, Feral Imp; all those Normal Monsters into Gandora monsters and it would be OP when Giga Rays becomes banned or limited to 1.
BEAVER WARRIOR beaver warrior / feral imp / griffore All three used horn or the unicorn make them into a small archetype that searches and protects equip spells and retrain horn of the unicorn. Retraining all 4 cards will be a smash hit!
I don't think all of those cards will become their own decks, but likely will be apart of an established archetype already. For example, I can see Celtic Guardian being it's own deck but not something like winged dragon. They may in fact make the rest of yugi's cards be apart of the shinning sarcophagus deck.
Technically the archfiends are an archetype that branched off of Yugi's Summoned Skull - not to mention that he does have a couple of exclusive cards like the skilled red magician... As to your end question, I've really hoping for a full celtic guardian deck ever since obnoxious celtic Guard. Maybe mix him in with ancient elf and mystical elf since they're all basically elves.
Quick question: if my opponent takes control of galaxy eyes cypher blade dragon, and I destroy it, would I still get galaxy eyes cypher dragon back due to its effect (when it’s destroyed you can bring back a galaxy eyes cypher dragon from the grave)?
I really would like to see a deck spawned from Celtic Guardian and/or Obnoxious Celtic Guardian. There's a lot of potential there, especially Obnoxious Celtic Guardian's effect that prevents it from being destroyed in battle by monsters 1900 atk or more.
Summon Skull has an archetype. The archfiend one they were supposed to be related. I feel like Celtic Guardian needs an archetype he's pretty iconic in his own right
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Yugi has a card: Konami crafts an entire archetype around it.
Joey has a card: eh... slap red-eyes on it and clock out early
Still need the line star archetype
Dude time wizard is an archetype...and gambling deck 😂
the disrespect konami has towards my boy makes me so mad, at least make red-eyes better 😭
@@isamuddin1 i still dread the day we get "red-eyes time magician"
@@matthewpopow6647 Some protection effect with Brooklyn Rage counters, I imagine.
One fun little headcanon I've had for a while about the in-universe 'card lore' about all the archetypes that spun out of Yugi's deck is that Yugi's monsters were once all part of a classic D&D/JRPG-style adventurer party who went on all these big quests together, representing the arcs of the show. And when the party finally disbanded after their final adventure (ie; when the anime ended), each of the members would go off on their own solo adventures, representing all the archetype development they got:
Buster Blader became the Destruction Swordsman and adopted Buster Whelp, Gaia formed his order of knights (my theory that many of the Gaia Knights are actually various members of an ORDER of knights founded by the og Gaia), Summoned Skull returned to the Dark World and became a powerful Archfiend, the Poker Knights formed their own order, etc.
and kuriboh continued to be an eldritch abomination.
I would like to suggest Summoned Skull specifically became Archfiend Commander in this scenario. They have the same stats and lightning motif.
I like this headcannon.
So, funny story. You're not too far off.
See, there's a series of monsters called the "Skilled Magicians". There's five of them, and they all share an effect. When they have three spell counters, they summon a different monster. The first two were the White and Black magicians. They summon the Buster Blader and the Dark Magician, respectively. Later on, we got Blue, Red, and Brown. They summon Gaia, Kuriboh, and any Archfiend (despite what TGS says, the Summoned Skull DID become an archetype).
The original Gaia likely canonically became The Black Luster Soldier, so there's an added layer to that too
1:05 you ask what those cards have in common: Kazuki Takahashi was into table top like DND, so Yugi's deck is really DND themed, at least in the beginning. Even Duelist Kingdom, if you consider tabletop roleplaying, is basically roleplaying so that's why the Castle Of Dark Illusions scene worked. It's stupid to us but not to a table top player trying to figure his way out of a situation.
This has been true for most of the series. Yes, they seemingly follow the rules more closely in Battle City, but most duels still revolve around one big boss monster being summoned and you having to find a way around their effects. In Battle City, those were mostly God Cards, but also Exodia or Bakura's ouija board deck.
i personally saw his duelist kingdom deck as a sort of odd D&D party, and then when they broke up after the 1st adventure, they ended up forming their own stories themselves
this is just how i saw his weird hot pot of monsters personally though
it would make sense with him being a king of games, and what not
Summon Skull archetype TECHNICALLY exists, but not really
If I recall, a few spin-offs like a fusion form, a ritual monster, an XYZ card, that all basically say 'this is Summoned Skull btw, and if it dies out comes another Summon Skull'.
Be cool if Skull got a fusion with Dark Magician/Magician Girl, or some kind of new form forged by the Claw of Hermos.
Skull Archfiend should be its official name, since it is part of the archfiend archetype
Isn't archfiends his deck?
He was called Demon or Daemon in the japanese versión and that's how that archtype is called
I mean TECHNICALLY Summoned Skull was the first in the Archfiend archetype. The Chess Archfiends have a retrain of him with Skull Archfiend of Lightning and the Empire Archfiends have the retrain Archfiend Commander.
summoned skull also have a ritual,fusion, synchro and and xyz that float into vanilla summoned skull aside from archfiends
Little Yugi used both the Magnet Warriors and Gadget in the final duel against the Pharoah. He played the Gadgets at the beginning and then used the Magnet Warriors with the Trap Card to reflect Slifer's effect back at all 3 God cards.
Not in the original manga he didn't.
@JediKnight5641 Ah, ok. Didn't realize the decks were different
@@scottmacaluso9102 I should clarify I mean he didn't use the Magnet Warriors.
His final deck in the manga had Marshmallon, the Silent duo, Blockman, and Gandora. A lot things like Summoned Skull, Gaia, and many other classics were added in the anime.
You forgot about the Archfiend archetype since Summoned Skull is part of that archetype
Summoned skull does have archtype
He also mentions Archfiend of gilfer
Well for what it's worth. Archfiends are more of Titian's archetype
Summoned skull is a Archfiend card but he didn't inspire the archetype and isn't the backbone of it like DM or BE
Well yes but also no. It's only an archfiend on accident, it did not inspire the archetype
I'm still waiting for my Louise/Beaver Warrior meta deck (yes, the Beaver Warrior's name is Louise)
What... where is this information from?
Louise with Feral Imp and Griffore retrains into a new Horn of the Unicorn archetype or Louise tagging with Celtic Guardian into a vanilla warrior archetype (or both with Louise as the bridge piece) would be sick. Make it happen, Konami.
@@jamaldavis2480 It's Japanese name is literally just Louise
@@SirAsdf TIL, I guess
Beaver Warrior is a girl! 😮
Dark Magician, Summoned Skull, Gaia the Fierce Knight, and Buster Blader are all relate to the light and dark chaos magic theme according to their lores. Dark Magician is a dark type that has its light type alteration/predecessor Mahad, Summoned Skull has the fiend magic attribute that can summon lightning, Gaia the Fierce Knight is the pre-evolution of chaos soldier (Black Luster Soldier), Buster Blader has dark element and is the fusion comrade of the aforementioned dark magician as well as the Yin Yang counter relationship to the infamous light dragon (Blue Eyes White Dragon).
I actually really wish we had seen more of YUGI in Yugi's deck. When you think about it, Yugi's deck doesn't really match his personality type, which is kind and shy and emotional. The deck they used throughout Battle City, among other arcs, more so reflected the Pharaoh, rather than Yugi. Or rather, their shared soul. It's why it was so flexible and easily changed around. It isn't until Yugi is truly on his own in the Memory World Arc that he has HIS own deck that reflects HIM. I like the use of the term "flavors" for each of his decks you can mold your own to be around, and honestly...ngl a stall/defensive strat isn't a bad one to rely on. The best offense, is a good defense. Plus some of HIS own monsters are just god damn cool asf and deserve more attention.
This is something i actually was searching and found some that he used before the merging of deck
In a similar vein, I wish that Konami would make an Arkana Dark Magician deck. Maybe make it so that its magic cards only work on its version of DM (Darkening Magician?) and vanilla DM cards to prevent it from just being included in standard DM decks.
Arkana has a line about designing his deck around taking Yugi's DM away from him, so maybe that could be its theme? You get your DM on the field and have to sacrifice it or your other cards to remove cards from your opponent? Maybe give the DM a recursion ability to bring it back from the graveyard if it's sacrificed to use its abilities? Maybe they can special summon themselves at the cost of some lifepoints like a built in Dark Magic Curtain?
Didn't the Silent archetype and Gandora get retrains + some support, quite recently?
Plus, Yugi's DSOD deck fits him well too. Its basically all about defense and then counterattacking in huge bursts, with some OTK and tech options ,like the Gadgets thrown in there for good measure
@filipvadas7602 I did really like his DSOD deck. Let me tell you seeing the cards HAVE THE DESCRIPTION of what the cards do in the film took me by complete surprise at first. Then I realized "oh yeah this is post the Manga not the dub"
I think this is kind of what the Shining Sarcophagus deck was meant to do. Excluding Dark Magician, they are exclusively cards Yugi used without Yami during Season 5. Though, I do wish the archetype was a little larger, since there is more material to pull from there, but that is probably just a me thing.
I feel a deck that you forget is Archfiend because Summoned Skull and Archfiend of Gilfer are both Archfiend cards
That's fair but there is already a character that claims the Archfiend archetype so it's a stretch to say it's Yugi's archetype instead of Titian's
@@Straven93it's as much a stretch as other decks listed here Red-Eyes Grandpas exodia deck etc. Also he literally listed Summoned Skull as not having an archetype so it's a reasonable correction
Even still, he has SS and had REBD, and there are tons of support that blends those two together, so there should be a REBD/Summon Skull deck here too.
yeah but they existed before those two were even archfiends
@@blunk778 they were archfiends day 1 they just weren't translated properly. Plenty of early cards weren't dubbed properly into their archetypes because archetype synergy and support wasn't really a thing in the earliest days of the game. That doesn't make them any less part of the archetype. If you were to use that logic you could say any card that wasn't made with day 1 archetype support wasn't always a part of their own archetype but that doesn't make sense especially since a lot of them spawn around supporting one or two initial cards and building around them as is the case with the archfiends but the same is true for basically every card showcased in this video. You're argument hinges entirely on a solely Western and uninformed perspective it's entirely moot.
There is kind of a summoned skull deck considering he has like 4-5 more forms of himself and he also counts as an archfiend card as well
I feel like the Mushroom Man archtype isn't too far out of the realm of possibility because Yugi, in the OG manga, used Skull Servant in his first duel with Kaiba and now he has his own archtype.
Additionally, Mushroom Man was in said first duel too.
1:02 Skilled Dark/Black Magician
Skilled Red Magician
Skilled Blue Magician
Skilled White Magician
Bonus: Skilled Brown Magician(Kuribo)
Imagine a Yugi deck with all those vanilla one off monsters from like Duelist Kingdom that eventually got phased out once Battle City rolled around:
Celtic Guardian/Elf Swordsman, Winged Guardian of the Fortress, Beaver Warrior, Feral Imp
I’d love to see a modernised Summoned Skull deck.
There’s individual cards, like Summoned Skull, the Fusion, Synchro, Xyz and Ritual retrains, etc. but I’d love to see such an iconic card from the second ever full anime duel and an early metagame staple get its day in the sun once more.
Now I want a group cards of Yugi's monsters coming together for a reunion for a gathering with their archetypes, like a family reunion. I know it sounds goofy, but I think it's a nice way to connect them all
Let's see: Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl (both together & seperate), Mirror Force, Destruction Swordsman (Buster Blader), Phantom Beast (Gazelle & Chimera), Knights of Face, Magnet Warriors, Gaia the Fierce Knight, Black Luster Soldier, Chaos, Archfiend (Summoned Skull), Kuriboh Legendary Dragons/Knights, Shining Sarcophagus, Silent, Gadget, Grandora (more of a series), and Exodia goes to Yugi's Grandpa
I think it would have been cool if BLS got other monsters for each extra deck type. It’s really random how there’s a link monster and nothing else. They could be centered around using the level 4 beginning and evening twilight knights. The gimmick could be they each need 1 light and 1 dark to be summoned. The synchro could have the ability to make one of the knights a tuner, similar to the summoning condition of cyber slash harpie. The XYZ would be rank 4 instead of 8, but could be a search or banish from the graveyard to activate the effects of the level 4 knights
For a new Yugi Deck idea, I think it'd be cool if he got one based directly on Spell Counters and would contain retrains of all of Yugi's/Yami's Spellcasters. This would be based prominently on Breaker the Magical Warrior along with the Silent Magicians, but would also have Mystical Elf, Magician's Valkyria, Odd Vindictive Magician, and possibly Magician of Faith.
Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl would also be included, of course. And Maybe even a Sorcerer of Dark Magic retrain to act as an alternate Spell Counter boss monster, so you wouldn't need Endymion.
I never knew I need a Mushroom Man archetype till now.
I wonder what kind of deck it would be...
I think a Feral Imp deck would be a cool idea. They could expand further on the idea from that one scene where Yugi equips horn of the unicorn to feral imp
The Archfiend archetype for Summoned Skull. There are plenty of Archfiend “subarchetypes” like the chess and more generic Archfiend cards like Archfiend’s Palabrynth, and it has one variant of Summoned Skull for every summoning mechanic other than Pendulum.
I like to make yugi decks that use 2-4 of yugi’s archetypes, it’s a nice challenge for myself to find what synergies well together
I think it was because of your trivia videos that got me into your content in the first place and the fact that you basically nearly touched on every arc type Yugi used, definitely proves that your content is great. With that said now that you've mentioned that there's a couple of these that you haven't done I think a good restructuring is in order but great job with the video!
BTW There is a "Yugi" Deck you can play. the "Shining Sarcophagus" Archetype encompasses a few Yugi cards into one archetype. Dark Magician, Gandora,Silent Swordsman,Silent Magician,Stronghold, Summon Skull and a few others have variants in this archetype.
Celtic guardian got into Noble knight support, summoned skull into archfiends and red eyes, marshmallon and gandora are in the silent one, mystical elf betrayed yugi for blue eyes support, Big shield gardna became a family man and has an entire series, archfiend of gilfer is...well, an archfiend, and even mirror force got support in the form of mirror force launcher.
Actually, Summoned Skull became the Archfiend Archetype, Mirror Force also branched off into many different versions of Mirror Force.
I just wish they gave us more support for Sorcerer of Dark Magic
Blue-Eyes Shinning Dragon is already easier to summon with recent cards but not Yugi's Movie ace monster.
I've played with a Summoned Skull deck. They have ritual, fusion, synchro, XYZ. It was kind of fun. I mixed it with red dragon archfiend.
Yes, see who else had decks that branched off into their own archetypes. Might want to combine those videos, depending on how many decks
You know I believe it especially if you think about his grandfather owning a card shop and him being the king of games he probably just get support for any of his cards that weren't archetype. I like to believe that each tournament yugi entered he wanted to showcase his new cards
I can see Konami making some kind of mediaeval archetype from the monsters you mentioned near the end. That would be cool
I mean Summoned Skull has the archfiend archetype. There are also a lot of Gardna cards. And there are a few retrains of gandora
Summoned Skull does not have an Archtype but it does have a Fusion Synchro XYZ and Effect Monster Counterparts that i think represent Different stages of Evolution for him.
Summoned Skull and Beaver Warrior would be awesome!
I think a deck revolving around his vanilla monsters in Duelist Kingdom would be fun.
I'd mix the following up:
Summoned Skull + Archfiend of Gilfer = A fiend deck that focuses on destruction and weakening enemy attack power. The Summoned Skull retrain will be the main hitter while the Archfiend retrain is a sort of a support card that can equip to Summoned Skull or an enemy target.
Giant Soldier of Stone + Feral Imp + Winged Dragon of the Fortress + Beaver Warrior + Big Shield Gardna = A deck that resembles sort of a fortress defense wherein Giant Soldier of Stone is like the defensive fortress/wall, Feral Imp is the gargoyle perched on top, Beaver Warrior/Big Shield Gardna is the generic footsoldier and Winged Dragon of the Fortress is the offensive defender which shoots fireballs at approaching forces.
Gandora kinda exists as a deck already, i'd probably make Koumouri Dragon a support (Maybe a searcher for Gandora?) since its actually a Dark-Dragon type which fits with Gandora.
Summoned Skull's name is originally Archfiend Skull and that did get a spinoff
Speaking of their drive to release cards that reference the show, and build on Yugi's deck, they just released a new Kuriboh monster in the TCG: Detonating Kuriboh, a card which pays homage to the moment Yami Yugi used his Kuriboh and Multiply against Pegasus! The card's effects read "If a "Kuriboh" Monster Card is on the field: You can Special Summon this monster from your hand. When your opponent activates a monster effect on the field (Quick Effect): You can equip this card you control to that opponent's monster as an Equip Spell with this effect: •The equipped monster's effects are negated. You can only use "Detonating Kuriboh's" effect once per turn."
Palladium Oracle Mana came out in the same tin set as red eyes alternative black dragon, Blue eyes alternative ultimate dragon and other cards with Kazuki Takahashi’s signature
Kite has two Kuribohs both to represent Galaxy and Photons which the Photon one is seeing a lot of play because of Tenpai Dragon that is Kuriphoton along with that Detonating Kuriboh is the most recent one
Imagine how wild a Beaver Warrior archetype could be
I really would love to play a full Gandora Deck. And I really want a Komouri Dragon Archetype Deck. Its such a simple but iconic Monster. So iconic in fact it even existed before the actual TCG in the Manga. And I would love to see a revitalized card of that little dragon. Be it an effect monster, an extra deck version, Fusion, Synchro, Ritual would be so awesome and I guess Ritual would fit the best because of its Darkness Nature. Whatever, I want to See that little iconic critter brought back into the modern day.
As soon as I heard “berserker soul” I got flashbacks 😂 that scene gave me chills and it will always be one of my favorite moments in DM
Little Yugi used both the Gadgets and the magnet warriors because he had amazing taste. Atem used Chimera and the knights of face
This is making me so nostalgic. Dark Magician and Kuriboh were such favorites of mine. I liked that you mentioned Celtic Guardian first as a card that could get a deck too. That card did not spend the entire series being sacrificed to protect Dark Magician only to be payed dust by Konami like that 😂.
Mushroom Man deck concept;
Cards that, whilst you have Mushroom Man on the field, transforms all other monsters into Mushroom Men, basically infects them with spores and they become fungi people.
Nice boss monster you have, now it's a Mushroom Man.
Honestly, I just want to see retrains for a lot of Yugi's Duelist Kingdom monsters that haven't yet gotten it. Yes, it was from a time when Kabuki Takahashi was just writing card game duels because it was what they wanted but had free reign to design the rules and monsters as he wished, which is why there's virtually no monster overlap, unlike even just by Battle City when monsters usually came in duos or trios (Gazelle and Berfomet, the Magnet Warriors, the Poker Face Knights). Only the most significant single monsters from that early got retrains over the years (Summoned Skull, Gaia/Curse of Dragon, Giant Soldier of Stone, Celtic Guardian). Give me a cool redo of Beaver Warrior, Winged Dragon Guardians of the Fortress, Mammoth Graveyard, Feral Imp and the rest.
Not really its own Archetype yet, but I played Dark Paladin (technically a Buster Blader archetype card) a ton, I think it's one of Yugi's iconic monsters and I kind of hope to see it get renewed with more modern support
Each time i watch your videos you bring back some memories. Thanks dude
I hope that we get a deck based on Season 0 mechanics if that makes any sense. Say, a deck revolving around a field spell that could equip special tokens to monsters revolving around different field spots, or make each column count as a unique field. The monsters would gain very powerful effects if equiped with the proper token/in the right column. The monsters would be based on Yugi's Season 0 cards. Now THAT would be an awesome Yugi deck. Not the most practical, but definitely cool and novel.
What I kinda love, is that a good few of these archetypes have grown so large that you can make like 2 or 3 decks out of them.
Also the Summoned Skull, does sort of have its own deck. With the various Archfiend cards of different types that all count themselves as Summoned Skull when on the field, but that series needs more support to be able to play on its own.
Honestly cards aside, image a reanimated/retold story of duel monsters where yugi & the crew use their new decks/cards - that would be insanely fun to watch
summon skull,mystical Elf
and big shield granda I want to see they become a deck
Summoned skull had an archetype for itself (It's cool but it needs a lot of generic support because it's that bad), mystical is not a hyped monster (she only got a retrain to support blue eyes its not even good), big shield gardna is still waiting its retrain.
Celtic Guardian definitely needs a dedicated deck.
Also yes continue doing these. After you're done you'll most definitely get more ideas for arctypes you're missing
One series of cards that is directly related to Yugi's amalgam are the Super Magical fusion monsters. They're are directly support for Dark Magician, but they are meant to represent the entirety of Yugi's monster lineup. It's very sad to me that that connection gets lost in translation since the "Super Magical" part of the cards are cut entirely.
I still want a Super Magical card for Osiris. Would be a cool "ultimate boss" for Yugi's deck. Though the symbolism of that might make it unlikely to happen.
Would be nice to see a family tree deck chart as a series for every duelist from the classic trilogy yugioh series(DM, GX, 5DS) where every video it shows us decks and how through the years the deck evolve, and when archetypes became a thing see the decks that were born from it, and their win condition.
Also: 3:22 I can’t believe I own a card TGS Anime didn’t know about! 😄
It was pretty cheap when I bought it, but the foil was really beautiful. Not that good for a DM deck, but it was a great Millennium World reference!
"Have you ever thought?" Never. My head is completely empty.
mystical elf could make for a cool archtype, play into her defensive style and make monsters loose attack to do damage back at them. It could be a whole elf kingdom with different elves as the monsters or even doing something like the danger!! cards and base all the monsters on celtic or old medieval "mystical" creatures.
Technically Mirror Force was used as the ace card and main strategy of Revolver in the Yugioh Vrains anime so that's plus Mirror Force Launcher is the closest we've gotten to a deck
13:38 I really hope they focus in on making Red-Eyes a true burn deck, it would fit with the three main vanilla ace monsters having three different styles of play. Blue-Eyes beat down, Dark Magician control, and Red-Eyes burn.
I'm legitimately surprised that they didn't try to mix them all into one deck, like with Joey. "Dark Magician's Knight/Dragon Knight - Gaia", "Dark Magician's Dragon" that counts as any dragon used for a Dark Magician fusion, stuff like that. Even "Dark Magician's Familiar - Kuriboh" would've been a nice card name, at least.
I would love a full Celtic Guardian deck.
"Oh god, what have I become." XD
of all the cards that are left the Celtic Guardian or Summoned Skull would be the most reasonable and predictable ones. They already have some random supports or new forms so why not make them into a proper deck.
Also Gazelle being a "Phantom Beast" essentially means it is part of the Phantom Beast archetype and also technically the Mecha Phantom Beasts as well, just a little fun fact
As a Celt myself I want a Celtic guardian archetype for sure!
Yugi never got to use it, but the deck (which was originally Grandpa's) had Blue-Eyes White Dragon in it, so technically one could say Blue-Eyes decks also spun out of this deck.
Personally, I would like to see a Mystical Elf Archetype. They could probably make other mystical elves with special effects while in defense mode. Like negating Attacks or reversing them or preventing cards affects that attack you directly or allow your monster to attack directly. This could work well with swords of revealing light and mirror force. making a nearly impenetrable defence.
Big Sheild Gardna has its own archetype actually. Similar to Kuriboh were it has variations of itself of archetype for different series. Like there is Red Garfna for Red Dragon Archfiend/Resonator, Ghost Gardna and Junk Gardna for Yusei's Junk Archetype, and some others. Celtic Guardian could be attributed to Noble Arms loosely since there is that variation of him along with obnoxious but doesn't connect that well. Marshmallon has some other similar cards like Marschmacaron and maybe some others that i dont know of but its very little like the Silent Swordsman/Magician archetype. And random note: I'm surprised Konami never made a fusion between Big Sheild Gardna and Millennium Sheild. I always thought those to went together when I had them in my deck when I used to play Eternal Duelist Soul on my Gameboy Advance SP
Hey idea for a what if video. I been thinking about Yu-Gi-Oh GX and rewatching it and two things occurred to me during it. 1: in the duel with Aster and Jaiden before Jaden gets neo spaced And Aster summoned Pheonix enforcer, Sebastian explained that all the hero fusions have an alternative form like pheonix enforcer. So what are those fusion's. 2: What are the rest of the hero fusions we are missing. Like what if Necroshade could fuse Burstintrix or Clayman Fuse with Avian. So on and so forth with the rest. I think both of these ideas are worth a ponder 🤔
I think that you can also count skull servant from the manga
Were getting updated Xyz dragon cannon support in the light duelist pack so can we maybe get some new magnet retrains?
There are only 2 cards I’d love to see get their own archetype, Celtic Guardian and Magician of Black Chaos. Celtic Guardian is just Link from The Legend of Zelda so it would be pretty cool to see a deck in reference to it like Celtic Beast, Princess, and so on but it feels very overdue to have a Magician of Black Chaos deck considering how little support it has while also being part of the Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl cards.
Palladium Oracle Mana was a 2019 tin card.
I’d love to see a video of every single card Yugi’s used throughout the anime and manga and which of them are still without real-world counterparts.
I was hoping you were going to look at all the different Yugi structure decks. Maybe that could be a future video, exploring the structure decks of the anime cast. I still have my OG Dark Magician.
I always loved the character design of Breaker the Magical Warrior. I'm not sure it would be possible to build an archetype around him (I know he has a handful of related cards but I don't think a full archetype) but I'd love to see them try.
As someone who has cataloged and organized every printed card from the manga and anime used by almost every character, Yugi has at least 300 cards attributed either to him directly, a branch of support, an effect related to a card, or through shared use in a Tag Duel. (85 to Yugi and 245 to Atem) From the top down, Yugi/Atem alone have access to these archetypes and decks:
•Dark Magician
•Dark Magician Girls
•Summoned Skull
•Gaia the Fierce Knight
•Kuriboh
•Palladium
•Face Knights
•Magnet Warriors
•God Cards
•Celtic Guardian
•Archfiends
•Black Luster Soldier
•Spell Counters
•Legendary Knights
•Toys
•Gadgets
•Silent
•Gandora
•Buster Blader
•Chimera
•Exodia
•Red-Eyes(Technically)
•Chaos Magicians
Kaiba has 205, minimum, attributed to him, with the affiliated archetypes being:
•Blue Eyes
•Union Machine
•Virus Traps
•Chaos Dragons
•Vampire
•Thunder Dragon
•Obelisk the Tormentor
Joey has roughly 148 cards to his name, with affiliated archetypes being:
•Red-Eyes
•Gearfried
•Summoned Skull
•Flame Swordsman
•Goblins
•Jinzo
•Legendary Fisherman(Umi)
•Fortress Whale(Umi)
•Penguins
•Battleguard
•Fire Warrior
Mai Valentine has 64 cards so far, split between Harpies and Amazons along with the other offshoots she played.
Marik Ishtar has 55 cards to his name currently, but very little in terms of archetypal support outside of Ra.
Bakura has roughly 59 cards to his name, including the most recent support.
Surprisingly Bonz has at least 59 cards to his name, but this is more so due to the Wight deck and his focus on a more generic Zombie deck.
Mako has 40 cards, again generic Umi and Water support along with offshoots.
Weevil has roughly 55 cards to his name, he really loved his insect cards.
Rex has barely 30 to his name directly, but it’s generic Dino so it’s definitely more.
Tea has roughly 33 cards to her name, mostly Magician Girls. Though, through a major technicality with Seiyaryu, she can also have the Starry Knight deck.
And because I nearly forgot, Pegasus has 54 cards to his name, mostly Toons, honorary Toons, and Relinquished.
The Paradox Brother have collectively 40 cards, though I’ll admit I may have missed at least 2.
I'd argue that summoned skull actually does have an archetype, it's an archfiend deck, because summoned skull is actually a summoned archfiend and has some retrains and upgraded versions.
A bit of an error at the end of the video, Summoned Skull does have a deck. It's not good, but the support is pretty fun and silly. Celtic Guardian also has a lot of support, although I don't know if it's enough to call a full deck
Palladium oracle mana has been out (US) wide since 2019 from the gold tins. I have so many I wish I didn't. Anyway. Crazy to see how many archetypes Yugi's deck has become
Summoned Skull does have an archetype of it's own. They're just called the Archfiend Skull archetype because Summoned Skull was a translation that didn't quite reflect the name of the monster. To be fair, at the time they translated it, the Archfiend archetype wasn't a thing yet, so the TCG didn't know they should've done a more faithful translation.
Yugi's Silver fang needs a deck
Also Yugi had a Black skull dragon in his deck, so he totally had his own red eyes
Knightmare magician and knight apprentice are illusion version of dm and dmg
Summon skull has other support too, a ritual, fusion, synchro and XYZ monster who all count as summon skull (although i suppose that isn't many)
A lot of his monsters have had retrains sush as marshmallon and celtic guardian but i totally agree i would be suoer hyped for them to get full decks!
OI! For the record Summoned Skull has his own archetype. Granted it's weird but there's a ritual, a synchro, a fusion, and an xyz, all counting as summoned skull out I think, and all have effects that do other things
Technically Summoned Skull and Celtic Guardian have archetypes that desperately need support, as in they can't really operate alone, but they exist. For some reason Mystical Elf is a Blue-Eyes support card. Magic Cylinder and Mirror Force has support with Kaiba having a monster for Mirror Force and Yugi's Dark Magician basically taking the Magic Cylinder and folding it into it.
And notice that nearly every deck that's come from Yugi also has a Dark Magician fusion to pay homage to it.
Also the Millennium Deck is Solomon's deck. That's why it has a Blue-eyes in it. It's Solomon's Blue-Eyes.
In fact, the deck of the same Jonouchi (Joey) is very fruitful for creating entire archetypes.
I recently noticed that Jonouchi used such a monster as Battle Warrior until the very end, although it was useless, both in terms of defense and attack, it was useful only once in Duelist Kingdom, and then at most as material for tribute , but Jonouchi continued to use it, and since he was so attached to him and the audience, I think, remembered him well because of this, then why not turn him into a separate archetype or tie him to some other archetype, as for example was with Red-Eyes+Gearfried, but it never happened.
A similar problem also applies to Alligator's Sword, Baby Dragon, Time Wizard, Swordsman of Landstar. And the first two can be turned into an archetype like Gaia + Curse of Dragon Yuga, you can also somehow tie Time Wizard and Thousand Dragon to them, but no. It’s generally a shame for Time Wizard, they tried to give something, but they abandoned it. And Swordsman of Landstar is generally an interesting situation, unlike Battle Warrior, it at least received a remastered version of the card, like Yugi’s Celtic Guardian, but unlike Celtic Guardian, Swordsman of Landstar had the same effect and most importantly, it had an archetype, in the anime, and all that remained was to transfer it and adapt it for reality, create more support, but no. And it's sad, I'm sure I named a smaller share of potential, maybe not effective, but at least interesting Jonouchi decks.
(Sorry if English is bad, I used Google translator)
Oracle Mana was one of the promos in the 2019 mega tin. I don’t think it ever got a reprint and I don’t think they ever will without giving her an alt art
In addition to these, there's the myriad inspiration later decks took, i.e. protagonist ace cards and trends and series ballooning around them, that continues to this day.
... You know there are the Summoned Skull Fusion, Synchro and Xyz Deck. Honestly, that should ALSO count as its own archetype. They even have Skilled Magician based on Summoned Skull.
Technically the 4 Gandora monsters do count as an archetype but I agree it needs its own archetype like you can revamp Beaver Warrior, Celtic Guardian, Winged Dragon Guardian of the Fortress, Silver Fang, Feral Imp; all those Normal Monsters into Gandora monsters and it would be OP when Giga Rays becomes banned or limited to 1.
A berserker archtype for the berserker soul card would be interesting. could be focused around battle and just non stop attacks
Jim Cook's fossil archetype could do with more support, especially if you could make it VERY OVERPOWERED overnight like with the harpies.
BEAVER WARRIOR
beaver warrior / feral imp / griffore
All three used horn or the unicorn make them into a small archetype that searches and protects equip spells and retrain horn of the unicorn. Retraining all 4 cards will be a smash hit!
I don't think all of those cards will become their own decks, but likely will be apart of an established archetype already. For example, I can see Celtic Guardian being it's own deck but not something like winged dragon. They may in fact make the rest of yugi's cards be apart of the shinning sarcophagus deck.
Technically the archfiends are an archetype that branched off of Yugi's Summoned Skull - not to mention that he does have a couple of exclusive cards like the skilled red magician... As to your end question, I've really hoping for a full celtic guardian deck ever since obnoxious celtic Guard. Maybe mix him in with ancient elf and mystical elf since they're all basically elves.
Quick question: if my opponent takes control of galaxy eyes cypher blade dragon, and I destroy it, would I still get galaxy eyes cypher dragon back due to its effect (when it’s destroyed you can bring back a galaxy eyes cypher dragon from the grave)?
I really would like to see a deck spawned from Celtic Guardian and/or Obnoxious Celtic Guardian. There's a lot of potential there, especially Obnoxious Celtic Guardian's effect that prevents it from being destroyed in battle by monsters 1900 atk or more.
Summon Skull has an archetype. The archfiend one they were supposed to be related. I feel like Celtic Guardian needs an archetype he's pretty iconic in his own right
They made a pretty decent celtic guardian deck that even won some tournament, i think. Still my favorite Yugi card (Red-Eyes excluded).