It kind of sucks because how it's written in the OCG is with the Japanese translation and the English word, which sounds much cooler. They could have kept the "Ryu" part in dragon. Same thing happened with Black Luster Soldier- Super Soldier.
Yeah, but it's in a local. Any deck can win at locals. I once won a local tournament with Token OTK while everyone else is playing Thunder Dragon, Salads, Striker, Hero, Cyber Dragon, and etc. Plus local events don't usually get enough attention that often.
@@edu4rd04nt with tens of millions of players I would think that duel links is a legitimate different format of the game that is definitely worth mentioning.
@Young what do you even play. Literally every card he mentioned as such did see competitive play in DL. Maybe not RIGHT Now but the point is at points in time said cards were played
Granted it was basically a pure Control Deck that only had Celtic Guardian because they didn't care about monsters. But good on them for almost winning locals, With what's essentially a meme deck.
@@BramLastname incorrect. I thought the same as well when I made the deck as a meme. But I eventually fell in love with it and for a good reason. The deck can draw u a ridiculous amount of cards per turns. Which allows u to go wild with dinomiscus and ice dragons prison. U can go first and set 3 and live or even play the rock statue. U actually have a better chance of winning over standard statue stun because they can just happen to draw u 1 to 4 cards (nobles can special themselves and it’s not hopt, so u can keep going till u summon the normal one). Anyways the deck is actually good it’s not a joke.
Number 0: Skull servant. I mean, it went from the most laughed card to the only deck that became 100% win rate in the history of Yu gi oh. If it was me, I would have at least done a Honourable mention. Great video as usual anyway.
The interesting thing about Skull Servant, Is that the retrain was designed to work with the old card, Instead of replace the old card, like these examples do.
@@ThePageofRage That's the point. This video focuses on cards meant to replace the older version instead of including it and working along with it, like Skull Servants. Good ol' silly me forgot about that and made a joke comment about Skull Servant, instead of mentioning Giant Soldier of Stone (which would be more fitting, but apparently its evolutions are not good enough)
Kaiba: “I summon Battle Ox in ATTACK MODE!” Yugi “That card sucks. My move, your move. Get on with the duel, play a good card….” Kaiba: “Well, i summon Enraged Battle Ox…” =/ >=( Yugi “That’s one of the best cards in the game!”
I feel like lately the most common words TheDuelLogs is saying is, "But in Duel Links..." This is not a complaint. I think it's interesting how different Duel Links works compared to the physical card game.
@@BramLastname Turns out, the lack of a Main Phase 2 after battle is pretty huge, and it's really been showing over the addition of newer and newer cards to the DL format.
@@SongbirdOfficial Sometimes I wonder what Konami thinks when designing cards. Like do they actually have an idea of what could be good or affect the meta? Or do they just throw on random effects and see what their players do with them?
@@vullord666 Feels like a mix of both. They definitely have improved, but things like hard once per turns and other checks let them feel like they can run wild with the actual effects. Plus, I have a hunch that they purposefully make the anime character decks underpowered because the people who are dedicated to those decks have a surprising amount of overlap with the people who cry "meta sheep" when they lose to a good deck.
@@vullord666 Or maybe it's a sign that the game itself isn't healthy when today's definition of good is basically "broken card with 4 different effects"
@@akiradkcn AND that's waaaaay too much reading for a tiny card. i don't really like any kind of card printed after synchros. As far as i'm concerned, that's when the game started going down hill.
@@StarkMaximum Well, the Celtic Guardian kinda looks like Link so I guess that makes- Oh. Yeah, that’s probably the worse way to say it. Getting two characters names wrong at once
As someone who was away from Yu-Gi-Oh from 2006ish until very recently, I just realized Dark Grepher can instantly set up Dark Armed Dragon all by itself. Jeez Louise. Also, I never really knew Strike Ninja was a retrain of Ansatsu. That's neat
Mikazukinoyaiba and Tri-Horned Dragon deserve retrain/evolution cards. Both of them have really cool looking artworks and since they are dragons, they already have support cards.
Tri Horned Cursed Dragon This card can be special summoned from you hand by tributing one dragon type monster on the field. This card can make up to three attacks per battle phase at the cost of 500 lp per attack except the first
I ran Obnoxious Celtic Guard and trolled my opponent really really hard. My play group (at the time) really only played Beat-Down decks. So I devised a scheme that would have them think outside of Beat-Down. Run Obnoxious Celtic Guard, and a bunch of Equip Spells. And no, it wasn't to pump OCG, it was to pump the teeny monsters my friends played! After that, it was just stall, because I had no draw cards in my deck, I legitimately relied on luck and wall cards. They drew themselves into oblivion trying to find an answer, any answer, and I'm just sitting there, wiping their sweat off their foreheads with a towel. I broke Beat-Down inside of a week in my play group, and I have no regrets.
I remember someone trying to defeat my tiny silentswordsman with an obnoxious celtic guardian... then i activated rush recklessly and powered up the tiny one, it went straight to 1600, just enough to defeat Celtic guardian without activating the effect, then he asked me if I was going to evolve it to the 1900 atk version... nope, didn't had that one in the deck, had just the tiny one to get rid of flip monsters.
I lowkey want cards like Wind guardian of the fortress or mechanicalchaser to get evolutions eventually, either due to their once upon a time formidable status, or their nostalgic designs. I'd also love to see all of the monsters in law of the normal getting at least one effect alternative (specially Haniwa). I'm glad Summoned skull got support although most of it is shockingly mediocre. I'd love if they gave him a new fat boss monster with a scary effect like "This card can only leave the field if its destroyed by battle, and can't be targeted by monster effects.". A nice reminder of how scary he use to be.
Uni-Zombie can target your opponent's cards, too, btw. If your levels are already where you want them, but still want to discard a card or Foolish Burial a zombie, you can mess with your opponent's monster levels. This can do something since the level increase is permanent. It might mess up their Synchro or Xyz plays.
Armored Kappa is probably one of my favorite retrains alongside Uni-Zombie. Even though Armored Kappa never saw any play ever, I do appreciate them creating an Xyz version of Psychic Kappa, an old normal monster that most players probably forgot existed
It's funny how "crowned by the world chalice" died at the beginning of the World Legacy lore and it revived at the end as a broken as fuck synchro monster. Like, she got mad she died and activated a ton of cheat codes when she respawned.
As someone who never really played beyond the first Yu-Gi-Oh generation, the thing about not having 3 copies often, very true. Only blue eyes or dark magician were something you had more than one copy of.
Enraged Battle Ox is one of my favorite cards. The set it came in had a number of good Beast and Beast-Warrior monsters and support so I ended up making a Beast deck. To this day I mainly play with Beast/Beast-Warrior archetypes. I do play others like Salamangreat and Crusadia but I will always gravitate towards Beast decks because of this card.
It got 2nd place in local, but good for the player who almost won local with basically meme deck. Though considering the floodgates i doubt Celtic guardian really that useful in that deck.
Celtic guardian lore: he was an elf who wants to protect the people of a castle town he was raised in, then the Noble Arms come to fight off a strange enemy, while Celtic guardian fights to protect the towns folk, the Noble Arms sees Potential in Celtic Guardian. As weeks past as enemies came to assault the town, Celtic Guardian got an offer to help and assist the Noble Army (he is being Obnoxious because he is helping and was eager to help the Noble Arms AND due to his constant fear of enemies attacking the town) than years later, after being mature enough and he is no longer obnoxious, he now got the title of being part of NOBLE ARMS... Note: I am so proud of him...
I keep being reminded of Link whenever I see Celtic Guardian, lol. 😊 Anyway, I still like using him for my rank 4 XYZ summons sometimes. Obnoxious Celtic Guardian can be somewhat good if you have a boss monster that has more than 1900 attack points and you place him in defense mode.
how about a video of the best monsters that can special summon themselves from the hand if you control a monster of their Archetype, like BlackWing Bora, the Spear?
Great vid DuelLogs! Curse of Dragon is my favorite monster, I hope we get Cursed Dragon in Duel Links alongside the xyz and ritual versions of Call and Manifestation.
this might surprise you, but someone in the OCG came 2nd in a regional tournament with #10 this month, granted it is a control deck but the fact he use every single one of Celtic Guardian and ended up as 2nd with only 1 loss is really mind boggling.
I thought this was going to be boring and I was going to stop watching the video and play duel links but you opened my eyes to so many strategies, I had to watch to the end and subscribed with a thumbs up.
YAY CELTIC GUARDIAN!!!!! my fave card ever. Have so many copies. Don't follow ocg news (especially when the game started). So didn't know it was strongest level 4 for a while. AWESOME!! (Probably why it came as a secret in OCG's LOB Pack, which I have a few copies of)
0:18 THat explains WHY Yugi used Celtic Guard 2:25 AND Cursed Dragon AND Celtic Guard 4:49 AND Mystical Elf 6:50 AND Summon Skull 12:24 Huh. Not bad for a card Yugi used once in the filler episodes / the Dungeon Dice Monsters episodes. Strike Ninja surely had it better than Beaver Warrior, or Silver Fang, or Big Shield Gardna
Celtic Guard of Noble Arms has the potential to draw 15 cards, as it isn't once per turn and can even Special summon another Noble Arms. So if you had 3 Noble Arms and 2 other Celtic Guards, then each Noble Arms that deals damage would draw you 5 cards
I really wish they made more ridiculous named Celtic guard cards 😂 like annoyed Celtic guard, ridiculous Celtic guard, outraged Celtic guard, salty Celtic guard. There could be a whole archetype of them. Itd be sick.
Didn't mention Toon Summoned Skull, but I can't blame him. Pretty sure Toon was only truly competitive in my Grade School as a kid because no one ran S/T destruction because most of the cards worth worrying about were Normal Spells. Enraged Battle Ox also got an Aqua counterpart that supported Aqua, Fish and Sea Serpent monsters with Umitauros in the Zexal era. Abyss Rising if I recall and not really worth running as WATER decks were either going for Xyz summoning or Mermail.
I know that I’ve commented this already before I want these two videos to be done: Top 10 Monsters that let you banish a monster from the graveyard for an effect. Top 10 Spells that let you control an opponents monster for a turn
You are wrong about obnoxious Celtic Guadian. It was a warrior monster. Because of that fact, it fit in perfectly with the Gilford the legend starter deck. Which gave it a lot of use.
King of the Skull Servants, while kind of a silly gimmick, is still pretty good. He can easily OTK with all the Skull Servant/Zombie Support. Plus, it actually saw competitive play!
I remember back before Air Marmot of Nefariousness was an Archfiend. Honestly, changing the card's name at all was an evolution. Also, not sure what I was expecting with this video, but was definitely thinking of the four Gagagigo cards. A tragic story, but a complete epic. I wonder if they ever added more to his story...
This was really interesting. It's awesome with Master Duel, seeing these cards, being surprised by all the new ones then watching a video like this can clear up a lot of the "why was this added" or "what's going on"
I'd love to see Konami's meetings when deciding which monsters deserve evolutions. Did someone who was just a fan of some of the random early design just think "hey, let's make that one forgettable marmot viable this time. Turning him blue didn't do anything" and pitch it to their boss? Three-Legged Zombie was a card that I always thought was kinda sweet, though, so I was on board with them getting an upgrade.
there aren't even 10 main characters, also the archetype might belongs to them, but they never played it in the anime/manga. Granted if you just strictly speaking about the archetype that belongs to them, we will have plenty of things to talk about, but it is such a headache to sort especially with Judai.
@@CrnaStrela i mean, talk for the archetypes that belong to them, so dark magician may be on the top, but magnet warriors dont, undestood? Like its the archetypes they played, including the support, and manga too i guess. Btw he just need to choose the top 10 bests and thats it
@@CrnaStrela main characters don't specifically mean the protagonist, it can be people like Kaiba aswell. So there's plenty of archetypes to choose from.
Loved using IB Justiciar in my world legacy lore deck. I had it search monstrosity and used it as material for World Gears. Good times. It still can never come back.
Just wanna say that when Celtic Guardian released and 1400 was the strongest a level 4 monster had, Celtic Guardian was still not that important because Kanan was in the game and level 5 and higher monsters could be Normal Summoned and Set without requiring tributes. These were the original rules until Volume 2. There are a total of 5 formats with these rules. If any of you curious, there's a playlist on my channel called History Challenge Season 1. Edit: Celtic Guardian was still playable and meta for a couple OCG sets though. Being Warrior was also good because Legendary Sword saw play in the early formats. As for TCG, it does have a place in the meta in the more aggro decks if you play a Legend of BlueEyes format, but its still just the 3rd strongest monster .
Curse of Dragonfire wasn't technically a retrain. It would be better to describe it as an Anime reference. In the Anime Curse of Dragon on one of its first appearances has an an effect; Yugi refered to as "using his Curse of Dragons Fire". The effect was simply that it could destroy field spell cards. I am pretty sure that these appearances were before the main release of the actual card game. In the early anime Cure of Dragon nearly always removed a field spell before being fused upto Dragon Champion. The fusion effect was propbably added due to how the game has changed since those days. Making this card more like a correction.
I know it has to be called that for the support cards but Cursed Dragon- Curse Of Dragon sounds like someone stuttering on an ancient legend they only half remember
Even if the videos would be longer, It would be nice if you showed all versions. I stopped playing back when synchro came out so seeing the new versions of cards is honestly interesting.
Fun fact: Archfiend Marmot of Nefariousness is quite poppular in Thai Yugioh community. It's has a somekind of nick name translated as Lord of Great Deity Demon Beaver (Demon Beaver is ocg name). (not) everyone in community worship him as a sacred object.
It occurs to me, Skull Archfiend of Lightning chooses to roll a die instead of flipping a coin, even though the odds are identical, in a meta attempt to corrupt the user by introducing the player to gambling, an activity historically deemed evil. Dice are one of the earliest forms of gambling that is still used today, alongside playing cards. I'm probably overthinking it, but damn, that's so on brand for Summond Skull, "A fiend with dark powers for confusing the enemy." *I wonder if there is a correlation between Dark Fiends and using dice. Do light fairies use more coin flips?
Honestly waiting for summoned skull to have it's own Archetype cause it's just really awesome to look at. Yeah you can kinda make one buuuuuut... its not very good on it's own.
Honestly surprised BM isn't on the list since both Dragoon and Magician's souls could both be considered card evos (though both are more like combined evo of two separate monsters so I'm not sure if they would count...then again Dark Counterparts qualify to you so I don't see why these wouldn't)
Dark Magician (And Red-eyes and Blue-eyes) kinda has a full archtype dedicated to it though, so while it does have evolutions,it kinda goes beyond just that.
If I recall Curse of Dragonfire was a reference to the anime Battle Kingdom arc in which Yugi used Curse of Dragon to burn the forest in his match with Weevil via the tournament's unique rules.
I think it's hysterical that Konami legit prints upgraded cards for random ass jank combos that happened in season 1 of the anime like "Gaia the Dragon Champion + Catapult Turtle" and they're just like "yea that's an archetype now" 🤣🤣🤣
Can't wait for them to release an evolution of La Jinn called something like "La Jinn the Lamp-Bound Genie of Mysticism - Mystical Genie of the Lamp"
Man their is a genie deck but non of them are an evolution to la jinn the mystical genie of the lamp
He has a fusion fire upgrade
@@glitch1785 only on the anime, sadly
La jinn never had a friend like him
Nice id try that architecte
"Cursed dragon - cursed of dragon" sounds like somebody doing a 5000+ words essay
More like 10 page paper
500 words ain't much
Guys I think he meant 5000+
It kind of sucks because how it's written in the OCG is with the Japanese translation and the English word, which sounds much cooler. They could have kept the "Ryu" part in dragon. Same thing happened with Black Luster Soldier- Super Soldier.
Creativity 100
I remember someone in the OCG actually made a Celtic guardian control deck and won 2nd place this year. Was hilarious
The Ocg is a wild place lol
Yeah, but it's in a local. Any deck can win at locals. I once won a local tournament with Token OTK while everyone else is playing Thunder Dragon, Salads, Striker, Hero, Cyber Dragon, and etc. Plus local events don't usually get enough attention that often.
@@rand6412 still impressive for a 40-man locals when everyone else is probably using meta decks lmao
Hilarious, more like obnoxious (there I said it)
Yeah it wasn't that long ago I believe
"this card is a complete trash and no one will ever use it in this game... BUT IN DUEL LINKS"
Well, duel links is it’s own distinct meta
@@paulpower9959 i know. it's just bc he always says that
@@edu4rd04nt with tens of millions of players I would think that duel links is a legitimate different format of the game that is definitely worth mentioning.
@Young what do you even play. Literally every card he mentioned as such did see competitive play in DL. Maybe not RIGHT Now but the point is at points in time said cards were played
@Young I've absolutely faced decks using that synchro Archfiend within the last few months
Fun fact : Celtic guardian control did see 1 competitive deck that won an event in the ocg
Granted it was basically a pure Control Deck
that only had Celtic Guardian because they didn't care about monsters.
But good on them for almost winning locals,
With what's essentially a meme deck.
yea that was hilarious
-actually he got 2nd place. MegaCapitalG video
@@BramLastname incorrect. I thought the same as well when I made the deck as a meme. But I eventually fell in love with it and for a good reason. The deck can draw u a ridiculous amount of cards per turns. Which allows u to go wild with dinomiscus and ice dragons prison. U can go first and set 3 and live or even play the rock statue. U actually have a better chance of winning over standard statue stun because they can just happen to draw u 1 to 4 cards (nobles can special themselves and it’s not hopt, so u can keep going till u summon the normal one). Anyways the deck is actually good it’s not a joke.
@@zz_boo if you say so
"I summon the Sexually Frustrated Celtic Guardian!"
"I'm so sexually--- OH F$$K I'M ON A TRAIN!!"
Lol Ygotas
Aayyyyy
Celtic guardian has more s-e-x than u
Moth celtic guardian
Agnostic Celtic Guardian
Obese marmot of nefariousness needs another retrain:
Absolute Unit of Nefariousness
Don't you mean Big Boss Unit of Nefariousness? Gotta do the last FFV rip off.
Nice
Big ol’ heckin chonker of Nefariousness
@@RunicSigils or these goddamn squirrells
How about a support card called S.I.M.P. That make them easier to bring out
Number 0: Skull servant.
I mean, it went from the most laughed card to the only deck that became 100% win rate in the history of Yu gi oh. If it was me, I would have at least done a Honourable mention.
Great video as usual anyway.
The interesting thing about Skull Servant,
Is that the retrain was designed to work with the old card,
Instead of replace the old card, like these examples do.
@@BramLastname Fair enough. That explains why he didn't include him on the list. Almost forgot that honestly.
@@BramLastname Then what about all the Summoned Skull cards? They don't replace it, but work with it.
@@ThePageofRage That's the point. This video focuses on cards meant to replace the older version instead of including it and working along with it, like Skull Servants. Good ol' silly me forgot about that and made a joke comment about Skull Servant, instead of mentioning Giant Soldier of Stone (which would be more fitting, but apparently its evolutions are not good enough)
@@ThePageofRage that's after they tried to replace it 3 times.
"Cursed Dragon - Curse of Dragon"
"The poison. The poison for Kuzco. The poison specifically designed to kill Kuzco...
Kuzco's poison."
"Oh yeah it's all coming together"
“That poison?” “YES, that poison”
*gasp* MY SPINACH PUFFS
Black Luster Soldier - Soldier of Chaos
TN: black luster soldier is already Chaos Soldier in Japanese
"Pull the lever Kronk!"
I totally didn't realize Black Dragon Ninja was a retrain of Strike ninja until now.
Pretty much the only Dragon Ninja not based on the OG flip Ninja monsters.
Didn't realize Strike Ninja is a retrain of Ansatsu
@@thatman666 yellow dragon ninja
Top 10 cards that were hyped up to be really good, but ended up being really bad and not being played
You mean Instant Fusion Tuner
The whole Naturia archetype
dragonmaids
@@javierlatorre1792 dragonmaid is still going
They did a lot in ocg because they are very resilient to handtraps
@@r3zaful It's just dragon link with maids
Kaiba: “I summon Battle Ox in ATTACK MODE!”
Yugi “That card sucks. My move, your move. Get on with the duel, play a good card….”
Kaiba: “Well, i summon Enraged Battle Ox…”
=/ >=(
Yugi “That’s one of the best cards in the game!”
“Cursed Dragon - Curse of Dragon”
This name brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department
I feel like lately the most common words TheDuelLogs is saying is,
"But in Duel Links..." This is not a complaint. I think it's interesting how different Duel Links works compared to the physical card game.
It's also fun to see how they released Cowboy in Duel Links,
And everyone was like, that's nice, but we'll just play Number 39: Utopia.
@@BramLastname Turns out, the lack of a Main Phase 2 after battle is pretty huge, and it's really been showing over the addition of newer and newer cards to the DL format.
@@Gender_Ascender yeah,
I think even if they didn't half the damage,
Nobody would play Cowboy,
Just because of that.
@@BramLastname Exactly.
"Red-Eyes don't see competitive play out of Duel Links"
Hold my Inferno Fire Blast
*opens with B. Chick, B. Dragon, 3x IFB, Dragon's Gunfire*
@@TripDering I initate my SCOOP PHASE
Sad that the summoned skull retrains and evolutions don’t get much attention he’s such an iconic monster : (
They should make them actually good if they want people to play them :P
@@SongbirdOfficial Sometimes I wonder what Konami thinks when designing cards. Like do they actually have an idea of what could be good or affect the meta? Or do they just throw on random effects and see what their players do with them?
@@vullord666 they've gotten FAR better with card design, look at some spells from about 15 years ago
@@vullord666 Feels like a mix of both. They definitely have improved, but things like hard once per turns and other checks let them feel like they can run wild with the actual effects. Plus, I have a hunch that they purposefully make the anime character decks underpowered because the people who are dedicated to those decks have a surprising amount of overlap with the people who cry "meta sheep" when they lose to a good deck.
@@vullord666 Or maybe it's a sign that the game itself isn't healthy when today's definition of good is basically "broken card with 4 different effects"
Top 10 Level 3 Monster 🥉
1.
2.
3. Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring
Hmm I guess Ash might be 3 actually seeing as 2 rank 3s are banned
That entire list would be taken up by hand traps, burning abyss, and phantom knights.
@@dustinvance243 he'd probably ban handtraps or put all handtraps at number 10 so he can do other cards
1st copy of ash
2nd copy of ash
3rd copy of ash
As a Yugioh fan that just play on Duel links, I find your videos so informative that I make it my reference on how to spend my gems.
Celtic Guardian was always one of my favorites. I like the way it looks, especially in the show.
I agree man great memories.
Link from legend of zelda
The Celtic Guard series feels like foreshadowing a set themed around them one day
I do miss the lore from the old normal cards
Seconded.
One more reason to love Pendulum, you can have lore AND effects in one card
@@akiradkcn AND that's waaaaay too much reading for a tiny card. i don't really like any kind of card printed after synchros. As far as i'm concerned, that's when the game started going down hill.
@Mike 9001 Spell ruler? Did some madlad tech the dragon rulers into a spell counter deck?
@Mike 9001 oh, I thought you meant someone built a deck that decided a format back then
I didn’t know what a Celtic was, so in school I’d be like “I summon the Electric Guardian!”
Well it's better than saying "I summon Zelda!"
@@StarkMaximum Well, the Celtic Guardian kinda looks like Link so I guess that makes- Oh. Yeah, that’s probably the worse way to say it. Getting two characters names wrong at once
I knew what celtic was because I had a NBA videogame. A celtic is a basketball-playing leprechaun
"I'm so electric"
@@albertorodrigomolinasortiz471 As an Irishman, I can confirm what you've said as true
As someone who was away from Yu-Gi-Oh from 2006ish until very recently, I just realized Dark Grepher can instantly set up Dark Armed Dragon all by itself. Jeez Louise.
Also, I never really knew Strike Ninja was a retrain of Ansatsu. That's neat
Who is Louise
@@lolwhat19 It's Beaver Warrior
@@HybridAngelZero I have a beaver warrior deck all because my friend and I love the idea of a monster called Louise
Cursed Dragon - Curse of Dragon made me laugh really hard, hadn't seen that one before, thanks Konami
Mikazukinoyaiba and Tri-Horned Dragon deserve retrain/evolution cards. Both of them have really cool looking artworks and since they are dragons, they already have support cards.
Tri Horned Cursed Dragon
This card can be special summoned from you hand by tributing one dragon type monster on the field.
This card can make up to three attacks per battle phase at the cost of 500 lp per attack except the first
Cool, Obnoxious Celtic Guard! I remember using one in a Warrior-type toolbox deck alongside Fusion Sword Murasame Blade as a decent 2-card combo.
I ran Obnoxious Celtic Guard and trolled my opponent really really hard. My play group (at the time) really only played Beat-Down decks. So I devised a scheme that would have them think outside of Beat-Down. Run Obnoxious Celtic Guard, and a bunch of Equip Spells. And no, it wasn't to pump OCG, it was to pump the teeny monsters my friends played! After that, it was just stall, because I had no draw cards in my deck, I legitimately relied on luck and wall cards. They drew themselves into oblivion trying to find an answer, any answer, and I'm just sitting there, wiping their sweat off their foreheads with a towel. I broke Beat-Down inside of a week in my play group, and I have no regrets.
I remember someone trying to defeat my tiny silentswordsman with an obnoxious celtic guardian... then i activated rush recklessly and powered up the tiny one, it went straight to 1600, just enough to defeat Celtic guardian without activating the effect, then he asked me if I was going to evolve it to the 1900 atk version... nope, didn't had that one in the deck, had just the tiny one to get rid of flip monsters.
What if hear me out...
Volcanic rat gets a effect monster evolution...
Were never getting new support are we
What day is it since you've been waiting vor Volcanic support?
@@pandaman1331 like 2 years ago ive wanted new support but I'm not stealing Paynes spotlight
@@mikaelamonsterland yes becuase that take 1k is so needed in volcanic
I lowkey want cards like Wind guardian of the fortress or mechanicalchaser to get evolutions eventually, either due to their once upon a time formidable status, or their nostalgic designs. I'd also love to see all of the monsters in law of the normal getting at least one effect alternative (specially Haniwa). I'm glad Summoned skull got support although most of it is shockingly mediocre. I'd love if they gave him a new fat boss monster with a scary effect like "This card can only leave the field if its destroyed by battle, and can't be targeted by monster effects.". A nice reminder of how scary he use to be.
Uni-Zombie can target your opponent's cards, too, btw. If your levels are already where you want them, but still want to discard a card or Foolish Burial a zombie, you can mess with your opponent's monster levels. This can do something since the level increase is permanent. It might mess up their Synchro or Xyz plays.
Yeah it’s a really useful effect even if there not running synchros you could fuck up an xyz material ot just not ruin your own set up
Armored Kappa is probably one of my favorite retrains alongside Uni-Zombie. Even though Armored Kappa never saw any play ever, I do appreciate them creating an Xyz version of Psychic Kappa, an old normal monster that most players probably forgot existed
Cursed Dragon - Curse of Dragon's next retrain will aptly be called, "Cursed Dragon - Curse of Dragon - Dragon of the Cursed"
It's funny how "crowned by the world chalice" died at the beginning of the World Legacy lore and it revived at the end as a broken as fuck synchro monster. Like, she got mad she died and activated a ton of cheat codes when she respawned.
That's not even her final form. She is the keyblade master after all.
'Top Ten Isekais in Yu-Gi-Oh'?
I mean Ib straight-up fused with a Guardragon to ascend into that Form, and the Guardragons themselves are the transformed World Legacy.
And this is why we need a World Legacy video game. Come on, Konami! Make it happen!!!
Just watched a video about 'Yu-Gi-Oh R' by JWittz. Pegasus was almost isekai-ed. XD
As someone who never really played beyond the first Yu-Gi-Oh generation, the thing about not having 3 copies often, very true. Only blue eyes or dark magician were something you had more than one copy of.
Enraged Battle Ox is one of my favorite cards. The set it came in had a number of good Beast and Beast-Warrior monsters and support so I ended up making a Beast deck. To this day I mainly play with Beast/Beast-Warrior archetypes. I do play others like Salamangreat and Crusadia but I will always gravitate towards Beast decks because of this card.
Fun fact, Celtic guardian control won second place on a ocg tournament this year not too long ago
Edit: misclicked early
It got 2nd place in local, but good for the player who almost won local with basically meme deck. Though considering the floodgates i doubt Celtic guardian really that useful in that deck.
@@ramaroy2408 it is, Celtic guardian is draw power in that deck
@@ramaroy2408 they played META decks in that local event where Celtic guardian won 2nd
I feel like Strike Ninja/Gran Maju would be one hell of a pairing.
2 of my favorite monster's especially Gran Maju
Also Mystical Elf has a Rush Duel counterpart, Bubbly Elf, along with other old vanilla female cards
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@@hamburgercheeseburger7959 ara ara even Dian Keto the Cure Master was a Goldigger
Celtic guardian lore: he was an elf who wants to protect the people of a castle town he was raised in, then the Noble Arms come to fight off a strange enemy, while Celtic guardian fights to protect the towns folk, the Noble Arms sees Potential in Celtic Guardian. As weeks past as enemies came to assault the town, Celtic Guardian got an offer to help and assist the Noble Army (he is being Obnoxious because he is helping and was eager to help the Noble Arms AND due to his constant fear of enemies attacking the town) than years later, after being mature enough and he is no longer obnoxious, he now got the title of being part of NOBLE ARMS...
Note: I am so proud of him...
I am too
@@miriammariarojaslopez1276 despite this being half a year ago, people looking through the comment section. You got a like
I keep being reminded of Link whenever I see Celtic Guardian, lol. 😊 Anyway, I still like using him for my rank 4 XYZ summons sometimes. Obnoxious Celtic Guardian can be somewhat good if you have a boss monster that has more than 1900 attack points and you place him in defense mode.
how about a video of the best monsters that can special summon themselves from the hand if you control a monster of their Archetype, like BlackWing Bora, the Spear?
I always loved Celtic Guardians original art ever since I was a kid.
A man of good taste
Great vid DuelLogs! Curse of Dragon is my favorite monster, I hope we get Cursed Dragon in Duel Links alongside the xyz and ritual versions of Call and Manifestation.
this might surprise you, but someone in the OCG came 2nd in a regional tournament with #10 this month, granted it is a control deck but the fact he use every single one of Celtic Guardian and ended up as 2nd with only 1 loss is really mind boggling.
This was one of my favorite videos of the channel. I liked a lot the explanation of the decks of the old days
Believe or not Celtic Guardian saw play in the OCG very recently.
"so"?
@@matteomigliore1477 you really can’t tell he meant to say saw?
@@cocatriceboy English is not everyone's first language.
@@BramLastname Yes, english isn't my first language sorry
He mentioned it in a previous video, he knows.
Now everyone else who read this knows
I thought this was going to be boring and I was going to stop watching the video and play duel links but you opened my eyes to so many strategies, I had to watch to the end and subscribed with a thumbs up.
Curse of Dragonfire's effect is based off the Burning Land combo Yugi used in the anime which is pretty neat
What I loved about retrains
Look at the upcoming gate guardian support
It’s based off the anime/manga effects
YAY CELTIC GUARDIAN!!!!!
my fave card ever. Have so many copies.
Don't follow ocg news (especially when the game started). So didn't know it was strongest level 4 for a while. AWESOME!! (Probably why it came as a secret in OCG's LOB Pack, which I have a few copies of)
He is so cool
Strike ninja was also useful with world lock by using it to banish 2 dd satalites to have 2 tributes for the world's effect.
Celtic guardian is fucking chad and also probably one of the best warrior monster in yu gi oh
Yes
0:18 THat explains WHY Yugi used Celtic Guard 2:25 AND Cursed Dragon AND Celtic Guard 4:49 AND Mystical Elf
6:50 AND Summon Skull 12:24 Huh. Not bad for a card Yugi used once in the filler episodes / the Dungeon Dice Monsters episodes. Strike Ninja surely had it better than Beaver Warrior, or Silver Fang, or Big Shield Gardna
Big shield gardna is so cool. He's had a couple related cards over the years but I wish there was a way to build a whole deck around him
Celtic Guard of Noble Arms has the potential to draw 15 cards, as it isn't once per turn and can even Special summon another Noble Arms. So if you had 3 Noble Arms and 2 other Celtic Guards, then each Noble Arms that deals damage would draw you 5 cards
Pure draw power
I really wish they made more ridiculous named Celtic guard cards 😂 like annoyed Celtic guard, ridiculous Celtic guard, outraged Celtic guard, salty Celtic guard. There could be a whole archetype of them. Itd be sick.
So basically, that one LittleKuriboh joke, but real *XD*
Aaaayyyy
Love your content, thank you!
I still remember the good old times. The simpeler times, when there were no weird stuff and text so small, it was for ants
Didn't mention Toon Summoned Skull, but I can't blame him. Pretty sure Toon was only truly competitive in my Grade School as a kid because no one ran S/T destruction because most of the cards worth worrying about were Normal Spells.
Enraged Battle Ox also got an Aqua counterpart that supported Aqua, Fish and Sea Serpent monsters with Umitauros in the Zexal era. Abyss Rising if I recall and not really worth running as WATER decks were either going for Xyz summoning or Mermail.
I know that I’ve commented this already before I want these two videos to be done:
Top 10 Monsters that let you banish a monster from the graveyard for an effect.
Top 10 Spells that let you control an opponents monster for a turn
He's already done a best and worst "mind control" cards list. Pretty sure that banish one hasn't been done.
@@melvinshine9841 oh but did the cards have a once per turn effect?
@@rainbowdragon168 Most of them did. Snatch Steal is the only Spell Card I know of that lets you take permanent control of an opposing monster.
@@melvinshine9841 Ok
You are wrong about obnoxious Celtic Guadian. It was a warrior monster. Because of that fact, it fit in perfectly with the Gilford the legend starter deck. Which gave it a lot of use.
Enraged Battle Ox is awesome to use with Ape Fighter, Voltic Kong, and Vampiric Koala.
Can't wait for the Link-6 Summoned Skull monster
King of the Skull Servants, while kind of a silly gimmick, is still pretty good. He can easily OTK with all the Skull Servant/Zombie Support. Plus, it actually saw competitive play!
I remember back before Air Marmot of Nefariousness was an Archfiend. Honestly, changing the card's name at all was an evolution.
Also, not sure what I was expecting with this video, but was definitely thinking of the four Gagagigo cards. A tragic story, but a complete epic. I wonder if they ever added more to his story...
They eventually made a Rank-4 XYZ called "Gagagigo the Risen", so there's that!
The duellogs should do top 10 field spells that search on activation
Mystic Mine: are you challenging me
This was really interesting.
It's awesome with Master Duel, seeing these cards, being surprised by all the new ones then watching a video like this can clear up a lot of the "why was this added" or "what's going on"
Me, that played the early days of yugioh and used Dark elf, Solemn Judgment and Jirai Gumo.
Kind of a masochist.
I like how you provide a background matching every card. It’s makes the video less jarring compared to others.
holy shit, YGOrganization just released a post with the entirety of the world legacy lore written out
How did they manage to do that?
I'd love to see Konami's meetings when deciding which monsters deserve evolutions. Did someone who was just a fan of some of the random early design just think "hey, let's make that one forgettable marmot viable this time. Turning him blue didn't do anything" and pitch it to their boss? Three-Legged Zombie was a card that I always thought was kinda sweet, though, so I was on board with them getting an upgrade.
More like, "Hey, the Nutkin and Soul Eater rip offs didn't do much and we still haven't ripped off Skull Eater. Let's make it happen.".
Top main character archetypes? Like dark magician, gagaga, odd eyes, performapal and on
there aren't even 10 main characters, also the archetype might belongs to them, but they never played it in the anime/manga.
Granted if you just strictly speaking about the archetype that belongs to them, we will have plenty of things to talk about, but it is such a headache to sort especially with Judai.
@@CrnaStrela i mean, talk for the archetypes that belong to them, so dark magician may be on the top, but magnet warriors dont, undestood? Like its the archetypes they played, including the support, and manga too i guess. Btw he just need to choose the top 10 bests and thats it
@@CrnaStrela main characters don't specifically mean the protagonist, it can be people like Kaiba aswell. So there's plenty of archetypes to choose from.
@@phantomnite villains can also apply as villains can be called main characters in their own rights.
Loved using IB Justiciar in my world legacy lore deck.
I had it search monstrosity and used it as material for World Gears.
Good times. It still can never come back.
I love how the first half of the list is pretty much just kaiba and yugi retrains
I love your videos!! 🎉🤘🏽
I don't know why people don't like your comment, It's quite encouraging
Just wanna say that when Celtic Guardian released and 1400 was the strongest a level 4 monster had, Celtic Guardian was still not that important because Kanan was in the game and level 5 and higher monsters could be Normal Summoned and Set without requiring tributes. These were the original rules until Volume 2. There are a total of 5 formats with these rules. If any of you curious, there's a playlist on my channel called History Challenge Season 1.
Edit: Celtic Guardian was still playable and meta for a couple OCG sets though. Being Warrior was also good because Legendary Sword saw play in the early formats. As for TCG, it does have a place in the meta in the more aggro decks if you play a Legend of BlueEyes format, but its still just the 3rd strongest monster .
Curse of Dragonfire wasn't technically a retrain. It would be better to describe it as an Anime reference.
In the Anime Curse of Dragon on one of its first appearances has an an effect; Yugi refered to as "using his Curse of Dragons Fire". The effect was simply that it could destroy field spell cards. I am pretty sure that these appearances were before the main release of the actual card game.
In the early anime Cure of Dragon nearly always removed a field spell before being fused upto Dragon Champion. The fusion effect was propbably added due to how the game has changed since those days.
Making this card more like a correction.
I know it has to be called that for the support cards but Cursed Dragon- Curse Of Dragon sounds like someone stuttering on an ancient legend they only half remember
Even if the videos would be longer, It would be nice if you showed all versions. I stopped playing back when synchro came out so seeing the new versions of cards is honestly interesting.
They really need to make a la jinn evolution.
When I was younger I always thought Ansatsu was Strike Ninja.
Shout out to that dice game Yugi played that made Strike Ninja cool.
Yeah, the show made dungeon dice monsters look awesome.
Monster evolution is the first step to creating the downfall of humanity, remember arc v
No, and I'm better off this way
@@evan-bunch-of-numbers Z-Arc: WAT?
@@Nagatem I cAn bAniSh AsTrOGraPh SoRcErer AnD ThE FoUR heAvEnLy dRagOns FRoM mY dEcK aNd ExTrA DeCk
Fun fact: Archfiend Marmot of Nefariousness is quite poppular in Thai Yugioh community. It's has a somekind of nick name translated as Lord of Great Deity Demon Beaver (Demon Beaver is ocg name). (not) everyone in community worship him as a sacred object.
How about "top 10 best spell/traps that bring a monster from the GY"? monster reborn, call of the haunted, etc.
It occurs to me, Skull Archfiend of Lightning chooses to roll a die instead of flipping a coin, even though the odds are identical, in a meta attempt to corrupt the user by introducing the player to gambling, an activity historically deemed evil. Dice are one of the earliest forms of gambling that is still used today, alongside playing cards. I'm probably overthinking it, but damn, that's so on brand for Summond Skull, "A fiend with dark powers for confusing the enemy."
*I wonder if there is a correlation between Dark Fiends and using dice. Do light fairies use more coin flips?
I think it represented the Faustian bargain of demon summoning, where they were powerful but would turn on you if they felt like it
Also light fairies are more themed around countermagic, giving you benefits for using counter trap cards or negating your opponent's cards themselves
Honestly waiting for summoned skull to have it's own Archetype cause it's just really awesome to look at. Yeah you can kinda make one buuuuuut... its not very good on it's own.
10:20
"I summon Enraged Battle Ox!" (attaches a pair of eyebrows on Battle Ox)
"That's one of the most powerful cards of the game!"
Top 10 cards that can miss timing/ top ten broken cards balanced by being able to miss timing.
Summoned Skull?? That's the name??
In Brazil it was localized to "Rei Caveira" wich means "Skull King"
Honestly surprised BM isn't on the list since both Dragoon and Magician's souls could both be considered card evos (though both are more like combined evo of two separate monsters so I'm not sure if they would count...then again Dark Counterparts qualify to you so I don't see why these wouldn't)
Dark Magician (And Red-eyes and Blue-eyes) kinda has a full archtype dedicated to it though, so while it does have evolutions,it kinda goes beyond just that.
If I recall Curse of Dragonfire was a reference to the anime Battle Kingdom arc in which Yugi used Curse of Dragon to burn the forest in his match with Weevil via the tournament's unique rules.
Top 10 cards that can be substituted as a fusion material.
All six Hex-Sealed Fusions
@@crazychristopher1989 And King of the Swamp
Mystical Sheep #1
I still use Dark Grepher and Armageddon knight in my Orcust deck when I play Master Duel
Ahh yes, this dragon has been cursed with dragon
Love how he keeps saying "they" like he's an archeologist/ historian. Thank you for making "us" feel old. Haha love the vids
Star boy evolves into Mistar boy using a hat and a moustache... I fuse them now using the power of the heart of the cards?
Warrior Dai Grepher has another evolution too! Knight Day Grepher where he is a gemini monster! Not sure how competitive is though
Since Geminis kinda suck, I wouldn't think so. There's also the currently OCG only Chaos Grepher.
lets all stop and appreciate the beautiful artwork YuGiOh has provided us with for over 20 years! :D
I think it's hysterical that Konami legit prints upgraded cards for random ass jank combos that happened in season 1 of the anime like "Gaia the Dragon Champion + Catapult Turtle" and they're just like "yea that's an archetype now" 🤣🤣🤣
You didn't mention Passive-aggressive Celtic Guardian
Celtic Guardian : I am so passive aggressive 🙄
Or the sexually frustrated celtic guardian, or the obnoxious poisonous moth, who is treated as a Celtic guard monster.
Great job on the video!
Mystical elf got another form. It's call bubbly elf.
More like Egotistical elf.
I had no idea Strike Ninja was Ansatsu's reworked version, I love it!