Opening the FIRST wave of Elestrals! - Pokemon Meets Yu-Gi-Oh?
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
- I'm always down for explaining the lore and design origins of beasts from Monster Tamers and Creature Collectors, but Elestrals is different in that it's a card game! I got sent the 1st Edition Elestrals box, and now I'm gonna open it up and explain what I see as I go! Completely BLIND!
Big thanks to @aDrive for sending me this box!
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Chapters:
00:00 Opening Introduction
00:58 Opening the Starter Decks
11:16 Opening Elestrals Boosters
21:40 Opening Shattered Stars
22:51 Opening the PRE-RELEASE Stuff
24:30 Gameplay Thoughts
Gnoggin, hosted by its creator Lockstin, is a show delving into the mysteries of Pokemon! (and other games sometimes too). Explaining everything there is to explain! Why is each Pokemon given the type it has? What are their origins? What is the lore of the Pokemon world and the design inspirations? And what does it all have to do with alchemy? Let's Go find out! - Ігри
12:50 the dragon fruit is also known natively as "pitaya", so Drataya is dragon + pitaya, or Dragon Dragonfruit lmao
Love how Lockstin just comes across as a loose cannon in this video it's hilarious
21:20 "I'm smart, I swear."
don't worry, we all have those moments lol
The little swirl on that first galaxsea is for stellar, which is elestrals version of shinies
BAKUGAN NEXT KING
This.
I SECOND THIS!!! OG BAKUGON PLS
That'll be interesting
YES. AND THEN MONSUNO OR SLUGTERRA MAYBE
@@Jormyyy IT'S SO OVERDUE HE'S BEEN DOIN STUFF NO ONE'S HEARD OF
PLEASE LOCKSTIN, TELL ME TIGRERRA IS A TIGER, AND TELL ME HE'S BEAUTIFFULLLLLL
Chrysoar = soar + boar + Chrysaor, the Golden Boar, son of Medusa and Poseidon, brother of Pegasus.
28:02 Sparta _was_ Greek. It was a city-state. One with armor colors being the same as the ones Ares is often depicted with for some reason, even though they weren't patroned by Ares (common misconception, it's the purely fictional Spartoi who worked for Ares)
Aquarius is an air sign, not a water sign. A lot of people make that mistake because of the name. Considering that one card has the word Aquarius in the name and it's a bird it's an air type of some kind.
It might not me a water sign but the name means Water Bearer, it's symbol is two waves, and the image is a person pouring out water. So it is associated with water.
the pelican bit was neat, Aquarius is the water bearer, normally its the spring wind that brings clouds and spring thaw floods, so an air sign associated with water, but so this is a magical pelican, a bird so air, but its using its big mouth to carry water, and so being a water bearer, its just neat
Glauby comes from "glaucus" (a latin name for the blue dragon sea slug) and possibly "baby"!
Edit: Drataya also comes from "dragon" and "petaya" (name for the dragon fruit in some languages)
* Jolten (Jolt + Tenrec) is defiantly a Hedgehog Tenrec it even has the same color scheme. Tenrecs are a group of mammals endemic to the island of Madagascar.
* Sinder seems to be based on the Satanic Leaf-tailed Gecko.
Both correct!
- Gushing over creatures ❌
- Gushing over card art ❌
- Gushing over the names ✅
This was so fun to watch, I would love to see you open more cards tbh
6:25 Glydesdale, especially the name, would make for a cool Flying-type evolution to a regional variant of Mudbray.
Love seeing Adrive's project he's been working really hard on it
8:19 Ion is an atom/molecula with an electrical charge. The reference that Toxion is smol.
I haven't really been keeping up with the Elestrals stuff but I do love that so many people have been hopping on board with aDrive's project
17:57 You're a kid now! You're a squid now! You're a kid! You're a squid! You're a kid! You're a squid! You're a kid now!
8:39 It could also be a reference to raiju, which doesn't have a specific animal associated with it. Though rhinoceros is not among the several it might be.
hell yeah indie tcgs
So cool to see you showing aDrive's project some love! It would be amazing to see you do an Elestrals explained video!
I absolutely love this video! Thank you so much for checking us out!
5:33 Well considering it's also a different color, I'm banking on it being this game's equivalent of shiny.
15:50 ♪He huuuurrrled his thunderbolt! ♪
Super cool to see you picking up Elestrals and seeing what it's all about. I recently played it with a group of Yugioh creator friends for the first time and had a blast. Definitely in a better state than the Yugioh TCG's meta and Pokemon's lack of interaction on your opponent's turn despite having a very solid and fun gameplay loop otherwise turns me away from it, so this blends both into a game that I adore. Just a shame that aDrive has lost a ton of subs because of the project, sometimes I guess Pokemon fans like what they like and don't want anything else from my experience.
4:42 It derives from that same animal you just saw, the glaucus atlanticus (the blue dragon sea slug)
Dude that galaxsea is a stellar, like a shiny but rare as hell
Elestrals has been my jam for almost 2years since it was announced, from public playtests to first ed release its been an awesome welcoming fun community and a great dynamic game. With set 2 dropping this month ive been more hyped than ever.
I’m interested about getting into it. Is there a box available to the public, like the one he got, that comes with all the stuff? It looks like a great place to get started and see if I like it
@BepisQueen not quite, there isn't a.y direct bundle products. Some stores that carry elestrals do sell bundles . Like paladin cards had a bundle for set two with 1 of everything etc. These boxes shown in thr video are care packages sent for free to a ton of creators
@@wertsTCG I see, well thank you! And recommendations on what stuff to get to start out?
@BepisQueen simple the starter deck of your favorite element. You can't go wrong as even if you don't like the deck they are jammed with staples and useful cards
@@wertsTCG thanks friend!
Didn’t think we get an unboxing on this channel especially with eldestrals ❤
Elestrals?! Hell yeah! I was hoping you will talk about it.
I remember aDrive talking about it on channel once to
@@leahluostarinenwell ofcourse he talked about it planty of times, he is literally one of its main creators.
Definitely do an Every Elestral Explained video!!
4:28 I looked that up and it's a sea slug?! Ocean life is wild man.
I first heard of it because one of my favorite fakemon artists made art for it. Its the guy who made the Centaurbor line actually. Bilsu Art. He's making a Zelda X Pokemon crossover region!
22:03 I drew him! My first card for the game!
Also magoriry of the monsters and the names come from the fan artists and the discord we're we all come up with odeas together
Which is what i absolutely love about this tcg
Aeolus gave Odysseus the bag of winds
I liked most of the grass types, especially the dragon fruit dragon. And I found out about/was reminded of the Chrysaora. Oddly, I didn't know of it/remember it because I am a kid of the 1990s, and the big thing (before it was downcast in the internet realm) was Harry Potter, and they had a flying boar as the school mascot. Also, thank you for showing me a game I could get my youngest nephew into.
17:12 Kind of reminds me of the Magispecter Yugioh archerype but those are all yokai.
Less go! Uploading on elestrals!
5:36 the stellars are the shinies for Elestrals. There's promos (like galaxsea) but there's also serialized, which are the /99 or the fa /10.
I tried to apply as an artist last year. I think their art is very cute. If they open up for hiring artist I want to try again.
Interesting game. No intetest in playing it, but I'm glad to see other indie card games out there trying to make their way in our current 3 game society.
I loved watching ADrive make this tcg he's been putting his heart and soul into it for a few years and im so glad to see it come to fruition
Thanks so much, James!
Lycavolt is inspired by werewolves in a story. zues turned a king lycaon into a werewolf, and the reason cyclops were also the children of persydon just watch mythology guy
Now I'm definitely curious to hear more about your interest in MTG, tbh. I'm getting into MTG EDH lately, and I'm having a blast.
If you look closely, the tails of Apheros are tied. It's a reference to the Pisces constellation
Correct! Aphrodite and Eros is the name inspiration
10:55 Dark Iron Dwarfestus.
Except taller than an Azerothian dwarf.
7:31 Pitcarus
4:42 The more scientific name of the blue dragon sea slug is “blue glaucus”, which is likely where that name comes from.
Unless I'm mistaken Sinder is based on a satanic leaf-tailed gecko hence the "sin" in it's name.
Correct!!
Interesting concept and lore loosely based on greek mythology. (Yes, there's a lore video on their site.) I'm curious on what the other three "elements" may present since the starter sets only have the first five. We know that one of them is frost thanks to the Flurrmine tease, and I'm guess the last two are "light and dark" or "day and night" based on they vague sun and moon shapes.
If I have to guess what the other three "gods" are; they might be Persephone (her decent into the underworld created the first winter), Helios (a sun god), and Hades (ruler of the underworld and last of the "big three").
UPDATE: Just saw their Youtune channel, and the last two are defintely hinted to be "sun" and "moon" in one of their videos. I might be wrong on one of those gods though.
I don't know if he picks up on it after about the half way point of the video, but after a glance i realized that Sinder is called that because pun on cinder (fire), and yes, sin, because sinful and evil... but also because it is the serpent of eden that tempted Eve into eating the forbidden fruit! if it's a serpent why does it have legs? because it hasn't tempted eve yet (or at least not punished yet), as god took its legs away as punishment for tempting eve to commit the original sin
I’m so glad to see I’m not the only one who struggles with opening the promo boosters
Elestrials has a lot of potential, as I thought when I saw this launch, but I think they need to combine their physical game with a digital client and get ahead of the others already trying this but wanting to be "Flesh and Blood" style of 'we only print cards to play physically'. Like it was a nice idea but most card players I know even if they play in the flesh. as it were, often get more games in digitally. Playgroups take time to form, you need to schedule them almost as much as D&D if not more and on top of that when new people come in, as I was reminded by my Digimon TCG a few times, everyone has to take time to educate them and help the new people integrate. Digital is just a faster way to introduce your product and accumulate revenue to fund the physical releases.
day x of waiting Lockstin to present a Digimon explanation video he promised back in the day
Water phoenix sounds like a reasonable concept. Maybe reviving through changing water cycle stages
Nice finally ur at aDrives Pokemon series :D
19:43 I mean that's basically every card game isn't it?
"the big sad happened"
so real bestie
I may be a bit behind. What happened?
I like the designs! I’m pretty picky when it comes to tcgs, but I’m interested in this. I wanna watch a match of this game just to see how it plays to see if I wanna play this too.
You can open pokemon packs and read the Pokedexes entries in the cards
I loved the Sakuradaurus. Stegosaurus being my favorite dinosaur, hit a weak spot.
Someone else commented that, but Lockstin should DEFINITELY do a video on Bakugan next. Maybe in order, one video with the Gen 1 ones, then another with the 2019 gen 2, etc. Every kind of multiple-monster series should be evaluated by his wise knowledge.
12:52 Taya is the cut off word of pitaya which is in another language, I would assume dragon fruit because there is a cookie called pitaya cookie, and Cookie Run: Kingdom and oven break
3:52 this game actually has the entirety of the Greek gods well at least most of them
I was hesitant on buying a pack but now with how cool they look I'm interested into these.
20:17 Does not explain why Typhlant is named after Typhon, Father of Monsters.
Typhlosis is a word to describe blindness.
@@Elestrals I don't think that's it...
@@mattwo7 I think it actually is; the Frost Nexus of Typhlant is called Catarant, so it tracks lol
12:50 Drataya's name could be dragon and Pitaya, a more common name for Dragon Fruit depending on where you come from
This amused me, especially the 'fire'? deck
Wanna have Sinder (Vtuber wolf girl) look at this
I think her lore is a hellhound
Gacha game company when they see they ave a new player
"I hope is dis whale"
"Is dis whale" "nice"
I definitely like the aesthetics of this game. Not sure about the rules, but they really nailed the overall vibe.
2:03 Should note that this is not a d20, but rather a 20-sided spindown. You cannot use it for proper number randomization, but the numbers are sequential so that you can add or subtract easily.
NOOO WAYYY LOCKSTIN OPENONG TRADING CARDS
His voice and pokemon are the only reasons i watch his videos
The art on these cards is pretty good, and I appreciate the attention to anatomy. The, uh, pelican was what first stuck out to me as actually looking like a real animal, even if stylised.
I'm willing to bet folks are going to cry that this is, "yet another pokémon rip-off", but from what I've so far seen, it looks like a really nice, pokémon-inspired array of creatures. I'm curious if there's any world building that would help shape this opinion.
EDIT: I'd be happy to see an "explained" video on this series :3
There are a couple of lore videos on the elstrals youtube channel. one is a 20ish min audio book with still images. the other is a short few min animation if you are curious!
@@wertsTCG Oo~! Thanks for pointing this out because yes, where there's lore, I'm happy to explore! ... huh, that wasn't supposed to rhyme.
I'm assuming if I just search "Elstrals", it ought to be pretty easy to find the official channel. :3
The design are wonderful!
Plant giraffe please!
Hell yeah, I've been following this series since adrive announced it
Also he's one of the greatest shiny hunters on youtube
16:35 I tried the mobile version, it's still in beta, very early from the looks of it. Evolving or in this case "ascending" seems to work closer to the Digimon Digial Card Game where monsters of the same color can evolve into other monsters of the same color except these ones don't seem to have levels???
Anything can ascend into anything, regardless of type or level! "Evolution lines" are more of a lore thing, gameplay-wise there's usually some "special summon" rules for Elestrals in the same family but other than that, ascent your Penterror into Tadpuff if that's what your heart tells you lol
I really like the names on some of them are really inventive and I like the art to. I think some of them are pretty darn cute 🥰
This art is GORGEOUS
Thanks so much, our artists are super talented and it gets SO much better in future sets!
2:52 spiny
3:12 lynx
4:40 Glaucus
4:46 smol+molten?
5:08 Aphrodite+Eros (Pisces)
7:02 altair?
7:56 imperial
8:15 cygnet
9:06 tenrec
12:50 pitaya
13:05 carrion?
that's like the two best things
I don't know if it gets clarified later in the video, but Aquarius is the "water bearer" or "water carrier"
Glad Dan (aka ADrive) is getting some good representation from a great poketuber
Might have already checked but ...
Glauby is a baby Glaucus (the Blue Dragon mentioned a bit before. It's its scientific name ... and I adore this nam-)
Also : Drataya ... the '-taya' part is from 'Pitaya' ... who's just another word for "Dragon Fruit" hehe
Dragon fruit in Brasil is called Pitaya
12:53 Drataya is a Dragon Pitaya
9:08 I think he's a tenrec!
1:27 Did cs188 edit that shot?
Try Nostalgix next! It’s basically if Pokémon and Hearthstone had a baby!
You go oh is what I’m into
cards look sick. I hope the elestrals video game adrive is working on comes out soon so I can play it because I am not gonna buy the cards but I would buy the game
The flying pig one is from Greek mythology.
When’s Yo-Kai Watch?
4:40 Glaube (with an e) means "belief" or "faith" in german. Maybe that helps.
13:31 maybe also Typhon, since this is filled with greek mythology
Actually the taya might come from "pitaya" the portuguese word for dragon fruit!
Correct!
Actually, an ice type Cerberus is more accurate to Greek Mythology than fire as Hades was very cold. Modern delicious of the underworld/hell being hot comes from Dante's Inferno
1. you play magic?! that makes you even more likable!
2. why dont you take a look at the Spectrobes? its disneys try at the pokemon cake. its first title came out in 2007, got three of em, and even though they did get better, they sold less with each one, with the last title releasing on the Wii.
i know there are 23 different lines, plus i think 6 or 7 ""legendaries"" called ultima-spectrobes in the first game.
anyway, it'd be really cool if you rated them all, based on design.
Nice 😎
Seems pretty nice, I might consider it if more Dinos appear, a big sucker for 'em! Just not the other guy, I think he needs a bit more sunbasking to grow.
We will have some great Dino’s in the future!
@@aDrive Yoo! Nice to see you here aDrive and also, nice, to that piece of info right there. And congrats on your launch of Elestrals(bit late I know), and I do hope this makes a big splash in the scene!
Reminds me of NeoPets cards for some strange reason.
More like this!
I want a Foamie now!! It's so adorable & I'm a Capricorn!