Despite it being an absolutely degenerate card, VFD is one of the coolest cards from a design standpoint. True King of all Calamities is just an awesome boss monster name and its effect and artwork also just scream final boss monster.
Honestly I like true dracos as long as you limit them to their own cards. The hate for me came from the floodgates they run with them that I can't even fault people for cause they actually synergize well with their mechanics.
As a big true draco fan I often enjoy the games more where I don't flip a single floodgate, but at the same time I feel no guilt about doing so against a meta deck such as despia or watching a pend player go off with some degenerate electromite combo only to clear their field turn 2 and drop Domain on them. Funny enough, given how well True Draco works alongside Eldlich I feel True Draco vs Eldlich is one of the more enjoyable skill match ups with floodgates coming down on both sides and largely being ignored. One often overlooked card that works perfectly with true draco is the great revolution is over, given the bane of your existence is harpies feather duster. Also yes, to people saying this deck is frustrating it is because its very specifically an anti-meta pick, it doesn't do many of the things meta decks are built to shut down, like lots of on-field effects and in turn can thus run all the cards that shut those things down while at the same time having big enough bodies to cause issues, along with near endless recursion and the ability to consistently pull off several pops on the opponents turn. It completely laughs at Maxx C turning it into a dead card which in itself seems reason enough to run it.
Technically the True Draco/King archetype debuted in The Dark Illusion, but the archetype that every casual player loves and remembers from the end of the Arc-V era came out in Maximum Crisis.
Could use "Niddhogg, Generaider Boss of Ice" it's also a level 9 Wyrm, and you get a summon negate out of it as long as you have Wyrms(or Generaiders) to power it
Trust me on This, as someone who plays Generaiders, Nidhogg is not nearly as useful as its effect makes it seem, since it only stops inherent summons, meaning that it doesn’t do nearly as much negating as you’d think and that is if you have enough monsters to sustain it.
@@the24thcolossusjustchillin39 Fair, I've played them a few times, against my friend and they get really annoyed with Jormangandr, because I keep taking their things, got it up to 14K the one time
@@the24thcolossusjustchillin39 Nidhodd is very good to stop Pendulum decks, and it can prevent some monster effects because it negates the summon like Mirrorjade. Nidhogg "kills" extra deck monster too because that monster becomes "not properly summoned" and they cannot summon it again from GY. It costs only 1 Generaider/Wyrm, at least the cost is very cheap too.
Not sure if anyone else has mentioned it before in the comments but in either case, here's some fun trivia: "True King of all Calamities"' name in the OCG, "V.F.D." is a neat little reference to a very convoluted in real-life Christianity, the title of "Vicarius Filii Dei", latin for "Representative of the Son of God". The exact meaning and attributed position varied over time and faction but one thing in particular was quite the coincedence. When written in the roman latin alphabet, it would be: "Vicarivs Filii Dei" And as you might now, the romans had a number system in which certain letters had a certain numerical value attributed to them (I=1, V=5, X=10, etc.) with some being the first letter of the number's word, e.g. "Centum" = lat. "One-Hundred", therefore C=100. Now if you added up all the numbers given by the letters in "Vicarivs Filii Dei", you'd get 666 which is the "Number of the Beast" in the "Book of Revelations", a sign for the Devil's off-spring who they will convince the remaining humanity to pray to as a "false idol", in short the "Anti-Christ". And as Bonus, the first letters of the titles of the True Kings that end up summoning the True King of all Calamities are V for "Vanisher", F for "Fathomer" and D for "Disaster", forming V.F.D.
7:41 But consider this Swordsoul combo: First bring out Baxia and Yazi, then have Yazi pop itself to bring out Mariamne who you can then destroy with Baxia to get Mo Ye, Tai A, or Ecclesia back, in addition to Mariamne searching Longyuan (or whatever else you want besides Tai A and Tenyi Spirit Nahata).
Thanks for finally doing this archetype! As a legend of dragoon fan I always found myself leaning toward this archetype even with the general bad vibes coming from the community (with good reason mind) And actually as a returning Yu-Gi-Oh player, I was wondering if they were other dragoon style archetypes that might be fun to play? :3 if any of you guys have opinions on this I'd appericate it! As always thanks for the great videos nova!
Look into Dogmatika or Dragunity. Mermails kinda fit what you’re looking for too I guess. And they’re all at least somewhat viable decks, especially Dragunity. The Gaia/BLS stuff is sort of Dragoon-ish too but I think I’d play just about anything else before them despite how cool they are.
Nekroz might be up your alley. It's a Ritual archetype with four different non-Ritual monsters and the Ritual monsters are different forms of three of them which they assume by donning armour made from some powerful monster from their world (such as the dragons of the Ice Barrier).
I play True Draco Eldlich. It contains the standard Eldlich engine and a few staples/floodgates because there is not much spaces if you combine both arctype. Eldlich can give a backup if your opponent wipes all cards in field and Eldlich can use spell/trap Draco for cost when he come back from GY. It's a big advantage because you can summon your big body and destroy 1 card in the same time, and if you have Draco spell, you can use their effect to draw. . In pure True Draco, Card of Demise and Anchamourfrite are a good support. Ancha can be an Upstart and tribute fodder.
Honestly with VFD banned from all official banlists i think an erata to his effect could be considered, maybe to make his summoning requirement be wyrm monsters cause it sucks that you can't play True Kings pure but then again i'm probably the only sucker that plays archetypes in their pure form
This. THIS is the archetype that pushes me over the edge. I cannot express how much I hate Dracos. It's not even a question of being able to beat them or not - I've beaten them by the past - but there is not a single drop of fun in that. It's always a slow and painful struggle. Maybe it's more because of the mountain of floodgates it's constantly played with? Or is it because that deck's ability to do card advantage is so incredible, even with a single card left it's never over? Weirdly enough, some would say Floo has replaced True Dracos, but I feel like I appreciate way more to play against the birds. Unlike with Floo, I've tried to play against TDs with a hundred different decks and I can't recall a single good experience. I've seen players using the most absurd cards like Performapal Five-Rainbow Magician, just to be sure to have at least 12 potential copies of Skill Drain in there. And let's not add the cherry on top that is Mystic Mine. This might seem like over the top, but this is my devil deck. Nowadays, when I face True Dracos at locals or wherever, I scoop the match, immediately. Because I don't want to subject myself to that. It doesn't seem worth it to me. True Kings, on the other hand, are pretty cool. They are interesting cards to experiment with in many archetypes - for example with the Cologne support, to have alternative ways to destroy Box of Friends, or with good stuff FIRE cards like Nine-Tailed Fox to generate easy tokens.
Same with me: I’ve almost never had a good experience with True Dracos. Not only does my card shop’s head judge run the deck, but I ran into it quite a few times on YGOPRO when it was still available, and overall, I’ve only beaten the deck…max 3 times.
If you want to fix vfd just change the material to require non extra deck monster since it is easier to get level 9 monster from the extra deck then in getting them from the main deck Fuffal/frightfur can do it and level 9 synchro monster
My absolute favorite thing I have ever done with True Draco is use them with Seal of Orichalcos. Is it good? No. Seal is a bad card. Objectively. But it *was* funny as hell to hear the surprise in my opponent's voice as they wonder aloud why in the hell I was playing that card. Meanwhile, I'm hamming it up and talking all villain like. Good times.
7:54 Ah yes, the "Very Fun Dragon". Considering it was VIRTUAL WORLDS that ended up being what managed to make it a True Nightmare, Would it be appropriate to say True King of All Calamities was basically X.A.N.A?
I used to play True Draco (mostly because I play every deck involving wyrms) but after seeing it so much in the Master Duel events I dropped the hell out of it. I never ran a super floodgate version of the deck...so I guess you can say a bad version, but seeing these people with Skill Drain, Gozen, Rivalry and etc.... really turned me off to the whole thing.
Eh, the support cards may cover both Dracos and Kings but thematically they are opposite forces, after all. In light of this, I like how Master Peace can be immune to VFD's floodgate effect as well as able to destroy him.
Sees True King of Calamity * blood begins to boil* Sees Master Peace * PTSD flashbacks to his reign of terror* There really was no proofreading or any push back when designing these. Hell the Entirety of True Draco is still to this day one of the worst balanced archetypes in the game. Yet Some how True Kings, the main villains of the arc, only have the one badly designed card and the rest are okay for the most part.
As a master dual player , calamities beginning to baned just shows that the ban list doesn’t always make sense in that game (verte anaconda is still not at 0) Edit : why do I feel the people who say peace should be unbanned are the people who are convinced max c isn’t in any ways broken
Kinda crazy calamities didn’t require a true king card , I really like the true Draco/ King would like to see what support they get in the future also FREE Master Peace
True Draco / True King was the first deck i went against when i came back to the game, with my cyberse starter deck Needless to say, i got my ass handled to me in a silver platter. And EVERYTIME i have went against this deck I have always lost no matter the deck, so i have always hated this deck
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Despite it being an absolutely degenerate card, VFD is one of the coolest cards from a design standpoint. True King of all Calamities is just an awesome boss monster name and its effect and artwork also just scream final boss monster.
FACTS........!!!
Definitely agree , it's also visually stunning.
Easy errata would be to just make its material requirements Wyrm only
Agreed. 100 thousand percent.
Honestly I like true dracos as long as you limit them to their own cards. The hate for me came from the floodgates they run with them that I can't even fault people for cause they actually synergize well with their mechanics.
As a big true draco fan I often enjoy the games more where I don't flip a single floodgate, but at the same time I feel no guilt about doing so against a meta deck such as despia or watching a pend player go off with some degenerate electromite combo only to clear their field turn 2 and drop Domain on them. Funny enough, given how well True Draco works alongside Eldlich I feel True Draco vs Eldlich is one of the more enjoyable skill match ups with floodgates coming down on both sides and largely being ignored.
One often overlooked card that works perfectly with true draco is the great revolution is over, given the bane of your existence is harpies feather duster.
Also yes, to people saying this deck is frustrating it is because its very specifically an anti-meta pick, it doesn't do many of the things meta decks are built to shut down, like lots of on-field effects and in turn can thus run all the cards that shut those things down while at the same time having big enough bodies to cause issues, along with near endless recursion and the ability to consistently pull off several pops on the opponents turn. It completely laughs at Maxx C turning it into a dead card which in itself seems reason enough to run it.
Technically the True Draco/King archetype debuted in The Dark Illusion, but the archetype that every casual player loves and remembers from the end of the Arc-V era came out in Maximum Crisis.
Could use "Niddhogg, Generaider Boss of Ice" it's also a level 9 Wyrm, and you get a summon negate out of it as long as you have Wyrms(or Generaiders) to power it
Trust me on This, as someone who plays Generaiders, Nidhogg is not nearly as useful as its effect makes it seem, since it only stops inherent summons, meaning that it doesn’t do nearly as much negating as you’d think and that is if you have enough monsters to sustain it.
@@the24thcolossusjustchillin39 Fair, I've played them a few times, against my friend and they get really annoyed with Jormangandr, because I keep taking their things, got it up to 14K the one time
@@the24thcolossusjustchillin39 Nidhodd is very good to stop Pendulum decks, and it can prevent some monster effects because it negates the summon like Mirrorjade. Nidhogg "kills" extra deck monster too because that monster becomes "not properly summoned" and they cannot summon it again from GY. It costs only 1 Generaider/Wyrm, at least the cost is very cheap too.
Not sure if anyone else has mentioned it before in the comments but in either case, here's some fun trivia:
"True King of all Calamities"' name in the OCG, "V.F.D." is a neat little reference to a very convoluted in real-life Christianity, the title of "Vicarius Filii Dei", latin for "Representative of the Son of God".
The exact meaning and attributed position varied over time and faction but one thing in particular was quite the coincedence.
When written in the roman latin alphabet, it would be:
"Vicarivs Filii Dei"
And as you might now, the romans had a number system in which certain letters had a certain numerical value attributed to them (I=1, V=5, X=10, etc.) with some being the first letter of the number's word, e.g. "Centum" = lat. "One-Hundred", therefore C=100.
Now if you added up all the numbers given by the letters in "Vicarivs Filii Dei", you'd get 666 which is the "Number of the Beast" in the "Book of Revelations", a sign for the Devil's off-spring who they will convince the remaining humanity to pray to as a "false idol", in short the "Anti-Christ".
And as Bonus, the first letters of the titles of the True Kings that end up summoning the True King of all Calamities are V for "Vanisher", F for "Fathomer" and D for "Disaster", forming V.F.D.
True King, what the Dragon Rulers were trying to do as attribute support but Konami learned their lesson this time. Then they printed VFD...
Can please do more card lore. Those were the videos I really liked. The duel terminal lore is still unfinished.
Great choice of bgm
I need the DABL + PHHY albaz lore update pls
7:41 But consider this Swordsoul combo: First bring out Baxia and Yazi, then have Yazi pop itself to bring out Mariamne who you can then destroy with Baxia to get Mo Ye, Tai A, or Ecclesia back, in addition to Mariamne searching Longyuan (or whatever else you want besides Tai A and Tenyi Spirit Nahata).
6:59 Her stats also add up to the same number as the (main deck) True Kings' stats, 4800.
The Monarchs Erupt is a good trap card for Dracos. Essentially a 1 sided skill drain. Very good if you don't run an extra deck.
6:46 update, disaster is about to happen
Thanks for finally doing this archetype! As a legend of dragoon fan I always found myself leaning toward this archetype even with the general bad vibes coming from the community (with good reason mind)
And actually as a returning Yu-Gi-Oh player, I was wondering if they were other dragoon style archetypes that might be fun to play? :3 if any of you guys have opinions on this I'd appericate it!
As always thanks for the great videos nova!
Look into Dogmatika or Dragunity. Mermails kinda fit what you’re looking for too I guess. And they’re all at least somewhat viable decks, especially Dragunity. The Gaia/BLS stuff is sort of Dragoon-ish too but I think I’d play just about anything else before them despite how cool they are.
Nekroz might be up your alley.
It's a Ritual archetype with four different non-Ritual monsters and the Ritual monsters are different forms of three of them which they assume by donning armour made from some powerful monster from their world (such as the dragons of the Ice Barrier).
I play True Draco Eldlich. It contains the standard Eldlich engine and a few staples/floodgates because there is not much spaces if you combine both arctype. Eldlich can give a backup if your opponent wipes all cards in field and Eldlich can use spell/trap Draco for cost when he come back from GY. It's a big advantage because you can summon your big body and destroy 1 card in the same time, and if you have Draco spell, you can use their effect to draw.
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In pure True Draco, Card of Demise and Anchamourfrite are a good support. Ancha can be an Upstart and tribute fodder.
Free my man Master Peace! Also you can play True Dracos with Amano-Iwato. He kills the opponents boards!
Cyber dragon/cyberdark/chimeratech explained. It’s a really good archetype
now you have to make the dracoslayer video Nova
Honestly with VFD banned from all official banlists i think an erata to his effect could be considered, maybe to make his summoning requirement be wyrm monsters cause it sucks that you can't play True Kings pure but then again i'm probably the only sucker that plays archetypes in their pure form
No you’re not…
Though I do some DHALSIM YOGA for my Summoned Skull deck
XD
Trust, me you're not the only one.
I reflexively hiss and masterpiece
I can't help but feel that the true kings got shafted because they, specifically, did not get any new support.
The music was so relaxing that I ended up focusing on it more then him talking
Legend of Zelda I think
This. THIS is the archetype that pushes me over the edge. I cannot express how much I hate Dracos. It's not even a question of being able to beat them or not - I've beaten them by the past - but there is not a single drop of fun in that. It's always a slow and painful struggle. Maybe it's more because of the mountain of floodgates it's constantly played with? Or is it because that deck's ability to do card advantage is so incredible, even with a single card left it's never over? Weirdly enough, some would say Floo has replaced True Dracos, but I feel like I appreciate way more to play against the birds. Unlike with Floo, I've tried to play against TDs with a hundred different decks and I can't recall a single good experience. I've seen players using the most absurd cards like Performapal Five-Rainbow Magician, just to be sure to have at least 12 potential copies of Skill Drain in there. And let's not add the cherry on top that is Mystic Mine.
This might seem like over the top, but this is my devil deck. Nowadays, when I face True Dracos at locals or wherever, I scoop the match, immediately. Because I don't want to subject myself to that. It doesn't seem worth it to me.
True Kings, on the other hand, are pretty cool. They are interesting cards to experiment with in many archetypes - for example with the Cologne support, to have alternative ways to destroy Box of Friends, or with good stuff FIRE cards like Nine-Tailed Fox to generate easy tokens.
Same with me: I’ve almost never had a good experience with True Dracos. Not only does my card shop’s head judge run the deck, but I ran into it quite a few times on YGOPRO when it was still available, and overall, I’ve only beaten the deck…max 3 times.
Skill issue
there thereson i amin feathduster annd other backrow hate
Besides floodgate, the card advantage is good, as well as recovery from the true draco spell
Hey nice video again and it would be really cool if you could do a video on the Nordic/Aesir Theme. Thanks in advance!
If you want to fix vfd just change the material to require non extra deck monster since it is easier to get level 9 monster from the extra deck then in getting them from the main deck
Fuffal/frightfur can do it and level 9 synchro monster
My absolute favorite thing I have ever done with True Draco is use them with Seal of Orichalcos. Is it good? No. Seal is a bad card. Objectively.
But it *was* funny as hell to hear the surprise in my opponent's voice as they wonder aloud why in the hell I was playing that card. Meanwhile, I'm hamming it up and talking all villain like.
Good times.
I wish there was a way to make a deck that focuses on the lv9 true kings
7:54
Ah yes, the "Very Fun Dragon".
Considering it was VIRTUAL WORLDS that ended up being what managed to make it a True Nightmare, Would it be appropriate to say True King of All Calamities was basically X.A.N.A?
A CODE LYOKO REFERENCE??!?!
I remember that Calamities will get an errata one of these days. Let's just hope it isn't as obnoxious as it used to be.
I used to play True Draco (mostly because I play every deck involving wyrms) but after seeing it so much in the Master Duel events I dropped the hell out of it. I never ran a super floodgate version of the deck...so I guess you can say a bad version, but seeing these people with Skill Drain, Gozen, Rivalry and etc.... really turned me off to the whole thing.
Diagram to 3 MP to 1
We really need to free Master Peace
for me the true kings are basically retrains of the dragon rulers they almost have the same elements too.
3:03 Was it ever such a day?
Eh, the support cards may cover both Dracos and Kings but thematically they are opposite forces, after all.
In light of this, I like how Master Peace can be immune to VFD's floodgate effect as well as able to destroy him.
I have a huge question, if I have two Dreiath IIIs on the field do they protect each other with their effect?
I don't see why they shouldn't. Golem Dragon also has a similar effect if you have 2 of them on the field at the same time.
0:12 What do you mean by no more themes?! Did the Halq ban just erase its archetype from everyone's collective memory?! What a tragedy
VFD for life
Just came to duel links, i like them.
If possible could your team do a video about the war in Zombie World between Red eyes zombie dragon and Doomking Balerdroch
Sees True King of Calamity * blood begins to boil* Sees Master Peace * PTSD flashbacks to his reign of terror*
There really was no proofreading or any push back when designing these. Hell the Entirety of True Draco is still to this day one of the worst balanced archetypes in the game. Yet Some how True Kings, the main villains of the arc, only have the one badly designed card and the rest are okay for the most part.
don't let this video bait u, you run true kings/draco w monarchs and floodgates
Can you do Dragunity next?
As a master dual player , calamities beginning to baned just shows that the ban list doesn’t always make sense in that game (verte anaconda is still not at 0)
Edit : why do I feel the people who say peace should be unbanned are the people who are convinced max c isn’t in any ways broken
That’s just you, I believe maxx c should stay and for masterpiece to also stay… locked behind bars
Kinda crazy calamities didn’t require a true king card , I really like the true Draco/ King would like to see what support they get in the future also
FREE Master Peace
Happy Halloween!
True Draco / True King was the first deck i went against when i came back to the game, with my cyberse starter deck
Needless to say, i got my ass handled to me in a silver platter.
And EVERYTIME i have went against this deck I have always lost no matter the deck, so i have always hated this deck
God I wish we got more true draco help. Like master peace unbanned
Today is the day my friend friend
I played against them once and could play nothing absolutely nothing.
Dracoslayer explained?
3:05 POW! You are dead!
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yang zing work better with true dracos
finally ffs
Ragamuffin might be the most racist-sounding non-racist term I’ve ever heard 😂
2017 was the one worst year in ygo history and you just reccaped why, haha
Bruh you drink my favorite drink and post about my favorite archetype in the same posts on different channels. Get out of my heaaaaad
Release master peace and rework it to say that it need a true draco/true king card to be tribute summon