Maybe is because in japanese there is no thing as a "Mirror force archetype" since all the cards that have that name in english have " xxxx barrier - yyyyy force" in japanese, I suppose that it would be difficult to give a card the ability to search every card with that description.
Well, during Duelist Kingdom, the top screen allowed you to see what was on the opponents field. So the fact that Weevil didn't notice that Yugi had a facedown is his own fault.
Fun note: during duelist kingdom whenever a monster is destroyed by an effect the controller takes half its ATK as damage meaning mirror force would double as a burn card
Do the math. Whatever monster is attacking and Yugi uses mirror force the damage is actually that monsters attack points against all other opponents monsters. In the pegasus duel it's easy to figure out the math cuz it's summoned skulls attack against red archer archery girl
In Duelist Kingdom, it wasn't Mirror Force that damaged Weevil. In the DK rule (yes there were some) if a monster is destroyed by a card effect the player takes damage equal to half of the monster(s) ATK points.
@@averytubestudios take note of the duels in DK, there were never any direct attacks. They weren't allowed, so damage had to be done other ways besides just attacking a weaker monster in attack position
The best part of Vrains to me will always be when Revolver was shown to have this super OP mystery card, only for it to turn out to be Mirror Force. Then from that point on they kept having him bring out old school trap cards like Magic Cylinder, Imperial Order, and even Mind Crush.
Janith Ernest I have the same issues in DL since Drowning Mirror Force is part of the meta I'm always worried to attack so I set some of my important monsters to defense.
Well, if you are surrounded with super-specific one-in-a-million cards that only work in this exact situation, a card that simply blows everything up may seem quite OP. There was this one card in 5D's, "Different Dimension Barrier - Lost Force". It was basically magical cylinder - as in, it had the exact same effect: negate the attack and do damage equal to the ATK of the monster - but you could only activate it if in the same turn, before the attack, a monster was removed from your field without getting destroyed. Or the duel between Yuma and Girag. Almost all of Girag's card's where stupidly specific with very little payoff. And don't get me started on Yusei...
I remember when I was in school before I learned how to play the game, I attacked and my classmate activated Mirror force and he said that the card reflected the damage back to me (like magic cylinder) then I chained my own mirror force (It was probably set that turn idk) to reflect it back once more, I thought that it was a good play.
DK Yugioh made shit up as they went along like the Paradox Brothers duel or attacking a magic card or using a magic card to fuse a monster to another monster and using and infinite supply of kuribohs to stave off attacks only to revive one of the dragon heads to full attack
I think the "sneaky" play was because he couldn't get a real word in so he played his turn normally while weavil kept talking and running his mouth, was it underhanded yes...was it techically legal...techically with how I think it was played out.
also werent face down cards visible on the field in the anime like you could see your opponent has a backfield. weevil should have been able to see a face down card appear on yugis side and it wouldnt be sneaky. weevil is just to arrogant to take the duel serious and didnt care what his opponent played that turn
Why would storming be the best when drowning can shove the cards back into the deck storming only does it for the hand there are many cards that benefit from on hand effects so the opponent can just do there combo all over again but this can't be said about putting the cards back into the deck with the added fact shuffling this can mess with there chance to get the cards they need
@@fork-man Drowning requires a direct attack. Storming doesn’t. Battle traps are already really bad in modern Yugioh but requiring a direct attack makes them even worse.
The way it appeared in Vrains made me laugh so hard. Like oh no what could thus mysterious new card be thats so devastating and it's just mirror force? So no one in this universe has ever seen this card before? The way they hyped it up i thought i would have been something different.
I actually loved that because against Ghost Girl, Ghost Girl attacked and then had all her monsters destroyed, so to me it was obvious and I loved that it was getting the royal treatment
I could say that Mirror Force Launcher technically work in some decks’ favor because you can discard a monster that can summon itself out the graveyard and continue your combos that way.
Shining silver force makes sense because, as a little trivia, mirrors used to be backed with silver to give them their reflective quality. We have since found other ways of doing it, but mirrors used to be made with silver, so silver force being a mirror force card makes sense.
Considering they’re using dueling machines it might be a case similar to Yugioh games/dueling simulators, so it’s Weavil’s fault for not paying attention.
Ranking very mirror force card from level power form worst to best 8: shining silver force 7:dark mirror force 6:radiant mirror force 5: drowning mirror force 4: mirror force 3:blazing mirror force 2:quaking mirror force 1: storming mirror force BTW I am not sure about the placement of quaking and drowning since they are weird compared to the others where drowning isnt as versatile since yoyiu need to control no monsters and quaking just doesn't effect link monsters
@@chrisallen9296 but drowning requires a direct attack. Battle traps are bad enough already but specifically requiring a direct attack is much worse than just declaring an attack.
I feel like you got the divine and light attributes mixed up. Radiant Mirror Force seems to be more in line with Divine beasts requiring 3 tributes, hence the requirement for 3 attack position monsters for its use. Shining Mirror Force is more in line with the whole light fairy counter trap Sanctuary in the Sky theme
Personally I think the OG Mirror Force, based on it's japanese name is supposed to be the light inspired one, while yeah, Radiant is the Divine one, and Shining is more a support or inspired card (still has force and barrier in japanese, but isn't a regular trap like the others, nor does it activate on attack declaration).
I personally believe the OG mirror force is meant to not have an attribute. In GX there’s the clear arctype whose gimmick is that they have no attribute as they’re see through. Since mirror force in Japan is the only one with “mirror” in the name it can be assumed that it was meant to be see a non attributable version.
Dark Mirror Force would've been better and seen a lot more play if it affected Attack Position monsters instead of Defense Position monsters. Personally, I feel that the Mirror Force cards have different niches to fill. You wouldn't want to use Storming Mirror Force against a Deck that relies heavily on Summoning from the hand or the standard Mirror Force against a Graveyard oriented deck.
Dark mirror force is the best in a lot of situations because it punishes your opponent for trying to work around mirror force, or can ruin a defensive deck
The divine mirror force perfectly represent the God cards. When the gods are summoned they can't be affect by card effects on the turn they 're summoned.
Well, no, cards/ effects can't be activated in response to their normal summon, and their normal summon can't be negated, but they aren't protected beyond that, except for Obelisk also having the effect that it can't be targeted by the opponent's card effects. But while you can't trap hole/ torrential tribute them, since those activate in response to the summoning, you can absolutely pop them with Mirror Force or Card Crush/ Deck Devastation Virus even on that same turn.
During the duelist kingdom arc of Yu-Gi-Oh duel monsters, the fields where you place your cards on had a screen on top showing the opponents field. So technically yugi didn't do a misplay. It's just weevils fault he didn't notice yugi set a card, THEN he could've responded. Other than that I don't see how yugi performed anything wrong.
Weevil was overconfident. Truthfully, with the acces to cards they had in the anime, you couldn't really remove the monsters he used that easily. The decks were very specialized. Splashable cards weren't really that available.
I can’t lie when Revolver used mirror force for the first time I was like “OH SHIT” and just purely shocked and then thought “Man what kind of cheese is this?” 😂
I think the dub turned what was actually a sort of montage of multiple turns going by into just the one turn. Either that or it’s Duelist Kingdom having less defined rules like with all the other shenanigans Yugi got up to in season one.
Idk about the anime but in the manga, weevil attacked and set one card and passed then in yugi's turn, he set mirror force and passed so it was legal play. Weevil also took multiple turns to built his board without attacking so yugi could have set mirror in between those turns anyway.
@@mttic55 What rules? They made shit up out of nowhere like Mammoth Graveyard being fuse to Ult Dragon, the Paradox Bros duel, or the end of Panics duel
Mirror Force was the first UR i ever pulled in a physical pack. It will always have a place in my heart. With that said, Quaking Mirror Force is probably my favorite card in the archetype. I love cards that force monsters face down and remove the ability to flip them back face up.
Now we have Dark Magic Mirror Force coming out as part new support for the Shining Sarcophagus archetype, specifically for the Dark Magician retrained monster.
My lord, mirror force dragon was such a beast when i played yugioh at school... Everyone has an out, but if you can draw these cards is another story, and even if you do, it's gonna blow up your field... My personal out was bloom diva the melodious choir
i love drowning. in duel links its saved my butt so many times against the combo decks that wipe my monsters out before going for kill. they either play smart and destroy the trap or stupid and watch their precious synchro and xyz go back to the extra deck leaving them open for a beatdown.
I really love Quaking Mirror Force. You just waste your opponent's monster zones with face down monsters they can do very little with. It is also non-targeting which is a nice bonus.
As far as the fairness level of yugi setting Mirror Force on his opponent's turn, Weevil tossed Exodia off the side of a boat and by proxy nearly caused his best friend to drown while trying to recover them. Between slyly setting the card here and the Monsta Cardo episode later, yugi got even.
That was actually how Duelist Kingdom worked. Pegasus straight up made the rules for his tournament "If you think it'd make sense for it to happen if it was real, then go for it!"
Whenever I think of Mirror Force appearing in the anime I think of 5Ds when Crow has it set but doesn't use it and loses the duel as a result but it was to boost the guys confidence or something
How each element mirror force match each attribute: Blazing: Deals effect damage to both players, which we call "burn" damage so it's painful and damaging like fire🔥. Dark: Banishes all defense monsters, which can be seen as attacking the helpless which is a dark move⚫. Drowning: Sends direct attack monsters to the deck, which can be imagined as being pushed back by a flood💧. Quaking: Permanently chages attack monsters face down, which is basically barying them beneath the ground🌎. Radiant: Destroyes all attack monsters if there's 3 or more, weaker OG version, but it's still viewed as reflecting light💡. Storming: Sends attacking monsters to the hand, which can be imagined as being lifted up by a tornado🌪. Shining: Counter trap that negates trap damage and destroyes face up S/T, can be considered as an act of God 😇.
Drowning mirror force is the best cause things rarely negate shuffling back into the deck next would be wind as it returns too hand but that only means Ur oponent can pop off again tho the earth and dark mirror force would work well
My order of best to worse storming mirror force, quaking mirror force, drowning mirror force, og mirror force, blazing mirror force, radiant mirror force, shining sliver force, and dark mirror force
7- Radiant Mirror Force, Only activates if your opponent has 3 or more attack position monsters 6- Dark Mirror Force, only punishes opponents who wants to play defensive and Super Heavy Samurai decks The list gets harder to rank, as the other mirror forces are great In their own ways 5- Mirror Force, while it can be searched, it just has the base mirror Force effect, but it has a ton of nostalgia 4- Storming Mirror Force, It only returns them to hand, punishing mostly extra deck monsters 3- Quaking mirror Force, It sets the monsters facedown permanently, making them unusual for most summons 2- Blazing Mirror Force, Not only does it destroy the monsters it also does damage, giving the chance to actually end duels with it 1- Drowning mirror Force, while it could be obvious sometimes, other times it can be used as a last resort if your opponent kills all of your monsters during the battle phase and thinks they can just go for game. The last 4 are amazing in their own rights, and are practically interchangeable, but some are just more game ending than others, and they have their own weaknesses, Storming only returns to hand, not hurting decks like monarchs much, Blazing is a destruction effect and can be ignored, plus if your opponent runs effect damage negation the card dies, Quaking Doesn't stop Fusion, Tribute and I think ritual summons, and Drowning only works on direct attacks
Small Trivia: From all normal trap mirror forces, drowning mirror force is the only who activates only when an opponent's direct attack is declared when all others can be activated when any opponent's attack is declared.
Against Weevil, Yugi placed the trap during his opponents turn. In Duelist Kingdom a lot of people activated spells and traps from their hand on the opponents turn, as well as setting monsters in the Spell/Trap zone as a trap. Also ground monsters can't hit flying monsters unless they are on a horse and machine monsters have immunity from spellcaster attacks. Duelist Kingdom was the wild west of yugioh, anything goes.
Mirror force rankings (my take) 1-og mirror force to helpful especially on links 2- Drowning mirror force is helpful but risky to use (especially in duel links 3- Quaking mirror force Definitely useful against non link decks a multi floodgate 4-Storming mirror force non targeting monster removal even non destructive to so bonus 5-Blazing mirror force is risky to use but can be a game ender in some ways. 6- Radiant mirror force situational but can be helpful against swarm decks 7- shining silver force very useful against spell/trap heavy decks that resolves around burn effect like trickstars for example. 8- mirror force launcher while not a real mirror force card still a great support card. 9-Dark mirror force only useful against Super heavy samurais and that's it Summary all pretty good cards and I would love to see a monster archtype based off these cards
Back in '08 - '09 Mirror Force could've gotten you a hefty sum. I was at a Locals and the shop was looking to pay 40 dollars for a Mirror Force back then.
you could clearly see weevil looking at the console so he didn't really HAVE to ask for a response since if weevil did have one he would have looked at the console and responded when it was set
the 4 kids dub didnt explain this but in japan at the star of duelist kingdo it says you take lp damedge from destroyed monsters based on attack points if i remember right
wow earth mirror force can be pretty brutal in some situations than mirror force since it can perma face down mean that it can prevent any further effects that require monsters to be face up and make bricks on opponent monster field unfortunately because it’s the effect that can only be activated in battle phase tons of deck mostly has immunity to this
I really like the original Mirror Force. No matter how advanced the game has gotten, it's always a good feeling to bop all of my opponent's monsters with one card. Plus, it's a great get out of jail free card.
Small error in the Video; Mirror Force Launcher can only add the O.G. Mirror Force.
Sorry for the mistake 💜
Can you do the photon archetype please?
Maybe is because in japanese there is no thing as a "Mirror force archetype" since all the cards that have that name in english have " xxxx barrier - yyyyy force" in japanese, I suppose that it would be difficult to give a card the ability to search every card with that description.
do toons archtype next
@@machoguy6727 that’s already been done
JUDGE!!
Even if Atem/Yugi did announce that he's setting a Trap Card I'd doubt that Weevil would have heard him over the sound of his own ego anyhow
Everybody gangsta until you bust out mirror force
@@swiftstrike4044
Or berserker soul and attack a guy 30 times AFTER you beat him
@@DrakeKnight99 DOROOOO, MONSTA CARDO!!!!
Plus all the cards make really loud hologram noises whenever they’re played
SAY GOODBYE TO EXODIAAAAAAH!
Yugi: *Places trap down*
TGS: "Is that legal?"
Yugi: "I will make it legal"
Well, during Duelist Kingdom, the top screen allowed you to see what was on the opponents field. So the fact that Weevil didn't notice that Yugi had a facedown is his own fault.
fans chalk it up to Lu -- I mean, the heart of the cards
@@betterlatethannever4529 Heart of the cards? More like heart of my @$$.
@@krfan5459 yeah, i don't think i wanna believe in that
@@krfan5459 exactly it's like Yami said Weaver was being too cocky and assured of his victory to even pay attention to his opponent's plays.
Fun note: during duelist kingdom whenever a monster is destroyed by an effect the controller takes half its ATK as damage meaning mirror force would double as a burn card
It was inconsistently applied though. Sometimes a monster's full atk would be deducted. Sometimes only half. Sometimes none at all.
Mirror Force really didn't have the damage effect, it was just the destruction of the monsters that inflicted damage per the rules
So THAT'S why it happened. Thank you
Isn’t that Blazing Mirror Force’s effect (partially)
Do the math. Whatever monster is attacking and Yugi uses mirror force the damage is actually that monsters attack points against all other opponents monsters. In the pegasus duel it's easy to figure out the math cuz it's summoned skulls attack against red archer archery girl
In Duelist Kingdom, it wasn't Mirror Force that damaged Weevil. In the DK rule (yes there were some) if a monster is destroyed by a card effect the player takes damage equal to half of the monster(s) ATK points.
Thanks for the Bonus Trivia!
I didnt know that but thats cool
I guess this was so that you could end duels quicker w/o direct attacks.
@@averytubestudios take note of the duels in DK, there were never any direct attacks. They weren't allowed, so damage had to be done other ways besides just attacking a weaker monster in attack position
@@NekoGamerplay That’s what I meant. That rule was put in place BECAUSE there were no direct attacks.
The best part of Vrains to me will always be when Revolver was shown to have this super OP mystery card, only for it to turn out to be Mirror Force. Then from that point on they kept having him bring out old school trap cards like Magic Cylinder, Imperial Order, and even Mind Crush.
Never forget the classics.
That was a cool moment
And now he has the Magic Cylinder version of Mirror Force Launcher!
I watched this video before it was revealed and it still suprised me
Wait mind crush a trap card in vrains? Did Pegasus made that into a card?
Mirror force is the reason why everyone in yugioh has trust issues
Magic cylinder says hi
Janith Ernest I have the same issues in DL since Drowning Mirror Force is part of the meta I'm always worried to attack so I set some of my important monsters to defense.
Gorz says hi
@@placeholdertag What?
@@somebodywhobreathesair2807 Wasn't necessarily replying to your comment, I was adding on to the "magic cylinder says hi" comment.
Ahh yes the uno reverse of yugioh
ReVeRsE CaRd OpEn
No that would be magical cylinder
@@JamTHEdog True
Called it
Dark hope says YEET
I love how in vrains this card is such a powerful card Along with magical cylinder and others
Can't beat over the classic
Well, if you are surrounded with super-specific one-in-a-million cards that only work in this exact situation, a card that simply blows everything up may seem quite OP. There was this one card in 5D's, "Different Dimension Barrier - Lost Force". It was basically magical cylinder - as in, it had the exact same effect: negate the attack and do damage equal to the ATK of the monster - but you could only activate it if in the same turn, before the attack, a monster was removed from your field without getting destroyed.
Or the duel between Yuma and Girag. Almost all of Girag's card's where stupidly specific with very little payoff.
And don't get me started on Yusei...
@@TheChiog
And that's why Pot of Greed is perma banned
With Vrains in Revolvers hands, all classic cards are OP as heck. Even a card like Mind Crush was great if Revolver used it.
And now he can reload Magic Cylinder.
I remember when I was in school before I learned how to play the game, I attacked and my classmate activated Mirror force and he said that the card reflected the damage back to me (like magic cylinder) then I chained my own mirror force (It was probably set that turn idk) to reflect it back once more, I thought that it was a good play.
Hey man, playground rules
Savage
If you take into account duelist kingdom’s version of Mirror Force that is exactly how it would’ve worked.
Screw the rules I have lunch money
@@DimkaSulegnaa yeah fr
No you can see the Opponents Layout on your screen so if weevils not paying attention that’s his fault
DK Yugioh made shit up as they went along like the Paradox Brothers duel or attacking a magic card or using a magic card to fuse a monster to another monster and using and infinite supply of kuribohs to stave off attacks only to revive one of the dragon heads to full attack
You are right. Weevil was too cocky for his own good. The anime worked like a compilation. The duel actually was over multiple turns.
@@DrakeKnight99 Okay, what does that have to do with the things they're dueling on displaying the cards your opponent plays on the screen?
Mirror Force is one of the greatest and legendary trap cards to ever exist.
Very true but over time there r better mirror force cards out there buuuuut the OG Mirror Force is a very good card to punish over extending decks
It's the famous UNO reverse card in Yu-Gi-Oh!
I’m pretty sure EVERYONE in the og series had this maybe even 2 😭😭
@Tasneem Akhtar What's that?
@Tasneem Akhtar but what does pot of greed do?
@Tasneem Akhtar but what does it do???
@Tasneem Akhtar you still didn't get the joke didn't you
@@emilior934 it’s let’s you send two cards to the gy allowing you to summon blue eyes white dragon
I think the "sneaky" play was because he couldn't get a real word in so he played his turn normally while weavil kept talking and running his mouth, was it underhanded yes...was it techically legal...techically with how I think it was played out.
also werent face down cards visible on the field in the anime like you could see your opponent has a backfield. weevil should have been able to see a face down card appear on yugis side and it wouldnt be sneaky. weevil is just to arrogant to take the duel serious and didnt care what his opponent played that turn
Well also that's the dub version, in the sub i believe he does tell Weevil but Weevil just forgets about because he's too busy being full of himself.
@@zamsaraguth makes sense
Ive always considered the Og Mirror Force to be Divine
I'd say storming is one of the strongest with quaking too. Drowning as well. Non destruct removal is always fun
True, true
Drowning mirror force is my favorite artwork wise.
Why would storming be the best when drowning can shove the cards back into the deck storming only does it for the hand there are many cards that benefit from on hand effects so the opponent can just do there combo all over again but this can't be said about putting the cards back into the deck with the added fact shuffling this can mess with there chance to get the cards they need
@@fork-man Drowning requires a direct attack. Storming doesn’t. Battle traps are already really bad in modern Yugioh but requiring a direct attack makes them even worse.
I was surprised when Vrains introduced a mirror force support, i thought that will never happen, now all we need is a magic cylinder support
Unfortunately the magic cylinder support is... not that great
The way it appeared in Vrains made me laugh so hard. Like oh no what could thus mysterious new card be thats so devastating and it's just mirror force? So no one in this universe has ever seen this card before? The way they hyped it up i thought i would have been something different.
Well it is a really old card they all probably thought it was archaic so they forgot it's effects
@@drakofox1362 In that case, please refresh me... what does Pot of Greed do?!
@@AliceIsSleepy I said old not THAT OLD!?!? Nobody knows it's effect it will always remain a mystery
I actually loved that because against Ghost Girl, Ghost Girl attacked and then had all her monsters destroyed, so to me it was obvious and I loved that it was getting the royal treatment
@@drakofox1362 Pretty sure everything post 5Ds is set in its own universe.
I could say that Mirror Force Launcher technically work in some decks’ favor because you can discard a monster that can summon itself out the graveyard and continue your combos that way.
Shining silver force makes sense because, as a little trivia, mirrors used to be backed with silver to give them their reflective quality. We have since found other ways of doing it, but mirrors used to be made with silver, so silver force being a mirror force card makes sense.
You activated my Trap Card!!!
You just activate my Mirror Force trap card.
You activated my Wire Tap counter!
@@jamiebarba5701 I respond to your Mirror Force with my Negate Attack!!(AKA one of the weirdest moves in all of Duelist Kingdom)
@@KinjiroTheThunder HAHAH yeah i remember that one. I was like, wait wha- thats not how that works, right?
Lmao
Considering they’re using dueling machines it might be a case similar to Yugioh games/dueling simulators, so it’s Weavil’s fault for not paying attention.
Ranking very mirror force card from level power form worst to best
8: shining silver force
7:dark mirror force
6:radiant mirror force
5: drowning mirror force
4: mirror force
3:blazing mirror force
2:quaking mirror force
1: storming mirror force
BTW I am not sure about the placement of quaking and drowning since they are weird compared to the others where drowning isnt as versatile since yoyiu need to control no monsters and quaking just doesn't effect link monsters
Mine would be:
8. Shining Silver Force
7. Radiant Mirror Force.
6. Dark.
5. Blazing.
4. OG Mirror.
3. Quaking.
2. Storming.
1. Drowning.
@@Windrake101 much better
No way, drowning is the strongest one for sure. it returns cards to the deck, Thats the best removal in the game
Imo
1: Drowning
2: Storming
3: OG Mirror
4: Blazing
5: Quaking
6: Radiant
7: Dark
8: Shining Silver
@@chrisallen9296 but drowning requires a direct attack. Battle traps are bad enough already but specifically requiring a direct attack is much worse than just declaring an attack.
Seeing your videos always brightens up my day! I love how positive you are and how I learn something with each new coming video! Thanks so much man!
Thanks for the kind words and for watching!
I feel like you got the divine and light attributes mixed up. Radiant Mirror Force seems to be more in line with Divine beasts requiring 3 tributes, hence the requirement for 3 attack position monsters for its use. Shining Mirror Force is more in line with the whole light fairy counter trap Sanctuary in the Sky theme
Personally I think the OG Mirror Force, based on it's japanese name is supposed to be the light inspired one, while yeah, Radiant is the Divine one, and Shining is more a support or inspired card (still has force and barrier in japanese, but isn't a regular trap like the others, nor does it activate on attack declaration).
@@chronostrafe I think silver force is more in line with solemn cards
I personally believe the OG mirror force is meant to not have an attribute. In GX there’s the clear arctype whose gimmick is that they have no attribute as they’re see through. Since mirror force in Japan is the only one with “mirror” in the name it can be assumed that it was meant to be see a non attributable version.
A well reasoned argument
the fact both are the worst cards on the list when they should be the best-
Dark Mirror Force would've been better and seen a lot more play if it affected Attack Position monsters instead of Defense Position monsters.
Personally, I feel that the Mirror Force cards have different niches to fill. You wouldn't want to use Storming Mirror Force against a Deck that relies heavily on Summoning from the hand or the standard Mirror Force against a Graveyard oriented deck.
Well no shit
they didnt need dark mirror to effect attack position monsters.......thats what the OG does
Dark mirror force is the best in a lot of situations because it punishes your opponent for trying to work around mirror force, or can ruin a defensive deck
The divine mirror force perfectly represent the God cards. When the gods are summoned they can't be affect by card effects on the turn they 're summoned.
Well, no, cards/ effects can't be activated in response to their normal summon, and their normal summon can't be negated, but they aren't protected beyond that, except for Obelisk also having the effect that it can't be targeted by the opponent's card effects. But while you can't trap hole/ torrential tribute them, since those activate in response to the summoning, you can absolutely pop them with Mirror Force or Card Crush/ Deck Devastation Virus even on that same turn.
During the duelist kingdom arc of Yu-Gi-Oh duel monsters, the fields where you place your cards on had a screen on top showing the opponents field. So technically yugi didn't do a misplay. It's just weevils fault he didn't notice yugi set a card, THEN he could've responded. Other than that I don't see how yugi performed anything wrong.
Weevil was overconfident. Truthfully, with the acces to cards they had in the anime, you couldn't really remove the monsters he used that easily. The decks were very specialized. Splashable cards weren't really that available.
Weevil was cocky, yugi played it fair, besides, weevil most likely had zero counters, so it was all fair play.
This is such a classic card
Blazing has the best name, but Drowning has the best effect.
"Yugi does something shady"
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It's heart of the cards bro .
I can’t lie when Revolver used mirror force for the first time I was like “OH SHIT” and just purely shocked and then thought “Man what kind of cheese is this?” 😂
Any variant is devastating in Duel Links. We don't have Main Phase 2 so there's no way to set up a defense after getting board wiped.
Also the fact that you have a very limited pool for s/t removal.
we have drowning mirror force, i think the only problematic would be blazing force
@@starsz13 yeah, got that during the sale. Messes opponents real bad if they can't negate it.
Mirror force launcher only searches the OG mirror force right?
Because it doesn't say mirror force card
Oh damn your right, mistake on my part here 😅
@@TGSAnime no worries
I'll check the wiki to make sure
I love you btw ♥️
What a shame
@@TGSAnime all of the worries, I am absolutely unsubbing for this indiscretion
Did Yugi literally set a trap in the middle of Weevil's turn? 🤣
I think the dub turned what was actually a sort of montage of multiple turns going by into just the one turn. Either that or it’s Duelist Kingdom having less defined rules like with all the other shenanigans Yugi got up to in season one.
That's against the rules isn't it? 😉
Idk about the anime but in the manga, weevil attacked and set one card and passed then in yugi's turn, he set mirror force and passed so it was legal play. Weevil also took multiple turns to built his board without attacking so yugi could have set mirror in between those turns anyway.
@@mttic55
What rules? They made shit up out of nowhere like Mammoth Graveyard being fuse to Ult Dragon, the Paradox Bros duel, or the end of Panics duel
@@DrakeKnight99 If you ever watched Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged series, you'd know that I was making a reference.
Fun fact: In Yugioh Gx during season 2 Sartorios's sister used a bunch of mirror themed trap cards in a tag duel against Jaden and Aster.
Me: Going for game while having 3 monsters in attack position
My Opponent: Hahaha Mirror Force go brrt
Ah yes,"No you,"the archetype
I love quaking mirror force. Saved me more times than I can count because usually high atk monsters lack much defense.
Ah yes…. “Mirror Force”… Yugioh’s “Reflectga Spell”.
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Up makes me wish we could have did fusion spells for Elemental reflects in KH like the mirror force cards in Yu-Gi-Oh
@@drakofox1362 The fire spells in KH2 were kind of like that. Though KH 1 Aeroga fusion sounds dope
idk why but, I love the way you say "Known in the JapanESEEEE" lol
Mirror Force was the first UR i ever pulled in a physical pack. It will always have a place in my heart. With that said, Quaking Mirror Force is probably my favorite card in the archetype. I love cards that force monsters face down and remove the ability to flip them back face up.
Now we have Dark Magic Mirror Force coming out as part new support for the Shining Sarcophagus archetype, specifically for the Dark Magician retrained monster.
Can you do the Summoned Skull Archetype, if you can??
Archfiend is the type and yes he should
@@spacemanju7 archetype
I always love Mirror force since Gen 1, then ever since then, I like every Mirror Force card of different types. My favorite mirror force is Drowning.
My lord, mirror force dragon was such a beast when i played yugioh at school...
Everyone has an out, but if you can draw these cards is another story, and even if you do, it's gonna blow up your field... My personal out was bloom diva the melodious choir
Drowning mirror force and the legendary fisherman is such a fun troll deck in DL
Listen, weevil threw his exodia off the boat. Yugi setting a card while he isn't looking is fine in my book.
Mirror mirror on the wall which archetype will rule them all
i love drowning. in duel links its saved my butt so many times against the combo decks that wipe my monsters out before going for kill. they either play smart and destroy the trap or stupid and watch their precious synchro and xyz go back to the extra deck leaving them open for a beatdown.
It's an iconic card mirror forces to trap cards like monster reborn is to magic cards.
I think theres a greedy little pot who disagrees
Personally, even though they are long, the Japanese names for these cards sound better!
Nah bro
I really love Quaking Mirror Force. You just waste your opponent's monster zones with face down monsters they can do very little with. It is also non-targeting which is a nice bonus.
“I’ll fuse the fang of Critius with Mirror Force!!!”
Did my guy just fuse a trap card with a dragon?
In Arc-V era quaking mirror force is the one that gave me PTSD. I main Blackwing, and Fluffals that time. It's such a nightmare
these archetype videoes are one of my favorite series on youtube
As far as the fairness level of yugi setting Mirror Force on his opponent's turn, Weevil tossed Exodia off the side of a boat and by proxy nearly caused his best friend to drown while trying to recover them. Between slyly setting the card here and the Monsta Cardo episode later, yugi got even.
The only trap card that I'll ever remember.
Once it's used on you you'll never forget it
The funny thing is that the worst attributes got the best mirror forces while the best attributes got the worst ones overall
Mirror Force Dragon can be destroyed by Mirror Force. *_LET THAT SINK IN._*
Drowning mirror force was like my dark magican card everytime I was in stock situation playing against my friend
I really hope Mirror Force makes a triumphant return in Sevens just as it did in Vrains. Next to Yugi, Revolver is the king of Mirror Force.
Can you do trivia for all the utopia xyz monsters?
Over the span of a hundred videos maybe
"I feel like my logic makes sense. I'm gonna go with that."
This is literally how Yami/Atem played the card game in Duelist's Kingdom.
That was actually how Duelist Kingdom worked. Pegasus straight up made the rules for his tournament "If you think it'd make sense for it to happen if it was real, then go for it!"
"HOLD YOUR FIREEEEE!" I mentally say that everytime I fall victim to a mirror force too Weevil..
Mirror Force one of the OG Trap Cards. It took me awhile to get that card back in highschool.
When you said we'll start with...
I dont know why I was expecting a Monster
Whenever I think of Mirror Force appearing in the anime I think of 5Ds when Crow has it set but doesn't use it and loses the duel as a result but it was to boost the guys confidence or something
How each element mirror force match each attribute:
Blazing: Deals effect damage to both players, which we call "burn" damage so it's painful and damaging like fire🔥.
Dark: Banishes all defense monsters, which can be seen as attacking the helpless which is a dark move⚫.
Drowning: Sends direct attack monsters to the deck, which can be imagined as being pushed back by a flood💧.
Quaking: Permanently chages attack monsters face down, which is basically barying them beneath the ground🌎.
Radiant: Destroyes all attack monsters if there's 3 or more, weaker OG version, but it's still viewed as reflecting light💡.
Storming: Sends attacking monsters to the hand, which can be imagined as being lifted up by a tornado🌪.
Shining: Counter trap that negates trap damage and destroyes face up S/T, can be considered as an act of God 😇.
Yup, Mirror Force was used in Yugioh SEVENS as well, time for GO RUSH! to use it next
I've always liked the way "Holy Barrier - Mirror Force" sounded, I kinda wish they kept that name in the English version of the card
Revolver/Varis just enjoys screwing around with old cards especially Mirror force.
Ol reliable, simple but super effective 👌
Funny I just watched the old mirror force vid yesterday
2:00 for the one who DESTROYED OTHER PERSON’S PROPERTY FOR HIS OWN BENEFIT
*NO MERCY*
We need an actual mirror force deck, I don't care how cancerous it would be, we need it
5:55
Ha ha ha, yeeeeeeeah about that......... It can't. Never could.
Drowning mirror force is the best cause things rarely negate shuffling back into the deck next would be wind as it returns too hand but that only means Ur oponent can pop off again tho the earth and dark mirror force would work well
ME WHEN VIDEO COMES OUT: YAY A NEW VIDEO LET'S REV IT UP
Theirs no trap card more iconic then Mirror Force.
Jinzo is already waving at the distance.
Go TGS
Ah yes, an ad, the strongest of all mirror force cards
My order of best to worse storming mirror force, quaking mirror force, drowning mirror force, og mirror force, blazing mirror force, radiant mirror force, shining sliver force, and dark mirror force
7- Radiant Mirror Force, Only activates if your opponent has 3 or more attack position monsters
6- Dark Mirror Force, only punishes opponents who wants to play defensive and Super Heavy Samurai decks
The list gets harder to rank, as the other mirror forces are great In their own ways
5- Mirror Force, while it can be searched, it just has the base mirror Force effect, but it has a ton of nostalgia
4- Storming Mirror Force, It only returns them to hand, punishing mostly extra deck monsters
3- Quaking mirror Force, It sets the monsters facedown permanently, making them unusual for most summons
2- Blazing Mirror Force, Not only does it destroy the monsters it also does damage, giving the chance to actually end duels with it
1- Drowning mirror Force, while it could be obvious sometimes, other times it can be used as a last resort if your opponent kills all of your monsters during the battle phase and thinks they can just go for game.
The last 4 are amazing in their own rights, and are practically interchangeable, but some are just more game ending than others, and they have their own weaknesses, Storming only returns to hand, not hurting decks like monarchs much, Blazing is a destruction effect and can be ignored, plus if your opponent runs effect damage negation the card dies, Quaking Doesn't stop Fusion, Tribute and I think ritual summons, and Drowning only works on direct attacks
Small Trivia: From all normal trap mirror forces, drowning mirror force is the only who activates only when an opponent's direct attack is declared when all others can be activated when any opponent's attack is declared.
Against Weevil, Yugi placed the trap during his opponents turn. In Duelist Kingdom a lot of people activated spells and traps from their hand on the opponents turn, as well as setting monsters in the Spell/Trap zone as a trap. Also ground monsters can't hit flying monsters unless they are on a horse and machine monsters have immunity from spellcaster attacks. Duelist Kingdom was the wild west of yugioh, anything goes.
Can you do Ogdoadics next they seem really interesting and are based around Egyptian Myths.
I remember when everyone was running almost every version of mirror force in their decks.. Attacking was NEVER safe
Mirror force rankings (my take)
1-og mirror force to helpful especially on links
2- Drowning mirror force is helpful but risky to use (especially in duel links
3- Quaking mirror force Definitely useful against non link decks a multi floodgate
4-Storming mirror force non targeting monster removal even non destructive to so bonus
5-Blazing mirror force is risky to use but can be a game ender in some ways.
6- Radiant mirror force situational but can be helpful against swarm decks
7- shining silver force very useful against spell/trap heavy decks that resolves around burn effect like trickstars for example.
8- mirror force launcher while not a real mirror force card still a great support card.
9-Dark mirror force only useful against Super heavy samurais and that's it
Summary all pretty good cards and I would love to see a monster archtype based off these cards
Yugi in season 1 just had the prototype of blazing mirror force. Lol. But my faves to use is blazing mirror force and storming mirror force.
Back in '08 - '09 Mirror Force could've gotten you a hefty sum. I was at a Locals and the shop was looking to pay 40 dollars for a Mirror Force back then.
shining silver force makes sense since mirrors back in the day were silver-backed mirrors.
IMO the best ones are Quaking Mirror Force and Storming Mirror Force, no destruction, no banishing, nothing your opponent monsters can do.
you could clearly see weevil looking at the console so he didn't really HAVE to ask for a response since if weevil did have one he would have looked at the console and responded when it was set
I can alredy hear Jinzo's laugh
the 4 kids dub didnt explain this but in japan at the star of duelist kingdo it says you take lp damedge from destroyed monsters based on attack points if i remember right
Yugi’s move was legal. If Weevil can’t be bothered to respond to Yugi playing a card, he gets what he deserves.
wow earth mirror force can be pretty brutal in some situations than mirror force since it can perma face down mean that it can prevent any further effects that require monsters to be face up and make bricks on opponent monster field
unfortunately because it’s the effect that can only be activated in battle phase tons of deck mostly has immunity to this
6:42 "EVERY BRIDGE WE BUUUUUIIIIIILLLLD!!!! YOU THINK IT'S YOURS JUST TO BURN IT DOOOOWN, BURN IT DOOOOWN!!!!!"
I really like the original Mirror Force. No matter how advanced the game has gotten, it's always a good feeling to bop all of my opponent's monsters with one card. Plus, it's a great get out of jail free card.