FUN JAPAN FACTS: Angel of Mischief's Japanese name is Ghostrick Fallen Angel, though the "Fallen" was written with a kanji that also read as "Idiot". Before the official TCG release, she was translated by YGOrg and YGOPro as "Ghostrick *Dork* lord" as a pun on the Darklord archetype.
The aesthetic reasoning for Angel of Mischief's win condition is that it's an archetype themed around 'spookiness, without real scares' or perhaps just 'Halloween', and compiling the largest horde of spooky bois is the competitive element of Halloween. You don't win Halloween by actually scaring people, that's more something you just do out of tradition. You DEFINITELY don't win Halloween by starting a fight. You don't even really win Halloween by ensuring nobody gets past your spooks to take your stuff. You win Halloween by Halloweening more than everybody else you can find. You win Halloween when nobody can tell you have a house anymore beneath your giant pile of bats, demons and skeletons. Angel of Mischief's win condition completes the Halloween theme by making your endgame "be that smug rich girl who goes around everywhere showing off the 10,000 dollars of festive - but totally useless - crap she's stockpiled over her home."
That's a pretty interesting perspective, I kinda just took it as a trick or treat kind of logic where when the stockpile is done then Halloween- which in this case is the duel- is complete
You can also think of Mischief as that one kid you knew that showed off how much more candy they got than everyone else because their costume was the best looking one.
The Lore of Rank 10 yugioh (so far) Young Rata was once your average slavic yugioh player, whiling away his time trying to understand the myteries of life such as Konami 's localisation devision and awaiting the ever distant arrival of his beloved trains. But at some point boy of Europe discovered both his greatest companion and his mortal enemy. It was a seemingly unassuming card, a Lv 5 Vanilla with a seemingly useless 1200 attack. But it was in fact the soul container of the being simply known as 'The One' who had gambled away his shape eons ago Slowly Rata began his yugitubing career, slowly accumulating a following from those of us that desired dry humour in our childrens card game. Unknown to rata at the time but he had began to tap into the mysterious power known as 'review energy' causing The One to wake from his slumber Time marched on for the Lord of trains, with him making a plea to release the falsely imprisoned being of 1000 eyes before he utilised his powers to stare into the darkness of shitposting to create what many scholars debate as the "Legacy of the Worthless" From the Synchro killing Meklords to the Allies of Justice, Rata's power bloomed until finally the one with 1000 eyes was released from captivity. He even attempted to answer the oldest and most important question in yugioh. Sadly I fear even Rata was not able to decode the secrets of the Greedy Pot Konami, likely in fear of the bubling review energy originating from Montenegro, decided that Rata needed to be stopped, they conspired to create a waring shot to scare off Rata, perverting his namesake into a horrid rank 4 train. While Rata contemplated suicide at this revelation, placing a pistol against his head, he toughed it out with his infamous Noodle skills. After treversing the asinine Neo space and trekking through the jungles of Amazonian Thiccness, Rata was finally able to take his faithful ace, "The One" into battle though he was soon acosted by a foe who was toadily NOT awesome. Having siphoned off enough review energy, 'The One' was able to finally manifest and utilise one of his many Rods to inspire Rata in the final legacy of the Worthless. Though an altercation between "the one" and Konami led to the release of B.E.S support. Organising a tornament between the dregs of worthlessness, Rata decided to use his review energy based powers to construct the "Architype Archive". Though in a horrifying accident, Rata used two review energy based battery men Industrial for a pun that resulted in the destruction of an entire city and creating the Malformed species called "Superlight Vikings" Realising that he enjoyed tormenting the slav, "The One" split into two beings one who joined the crusade to build bilberry a house and threatened rata into making a Cyber dark archive but he disappeared when the true "One" returned After the Link train Fiasco 2017 and "The One" waging war on some wasps. This alowed "The One" to finally regain his true voice, changing his name to Shapesnatch in mockery of the one who he gambled his shape away to. Now with a much more gluttonous approach to his energy intake, Shape threataned Rata at Rod - point to make a Ice Barriers video while he relaxed watching the dub of GX in the next room He was then informed that his shape was up for sale but the buyer(probebly konami) would only take review energy as payment, he revealed to Rata his nature before vanishing. Rata used his review energy to open a portal between world's, unfortunately the only thing to step through it was Ojama Lime, who travels the omniverse to this day. It also created Malefic Rata but he accidently blew up his own field spell and died Shape pressured Rata into making an ancient gear video as Konami were beginning to get antsy about payment this caused a downturn in Rata's mental capabilities to what we see today, convinced he is a Kaiju and Shape is Scottish Will Shape ever recover his shape, will Ojama Lime ever find happiness? Find out on the next episode of Rank 10 ball Yu! Edit: by popular demand I was going to recount the events if the great 'Genex is crap' phase but seeing as it resulted in the Meklords saving Blue eyes from hot glue I'm pretty sure we can all call it a success
Not to be that guy Rata, but Warwolf does 100 for every set CARD on either side of the field. If you set some traps and flip your opponent's monsters face down he could be as powerful as two Abakis! Maybe even a Firecracker!
I think you're missing the real potential. If you fill up every single zone, including both Extra Monster Zones and both Field Spell Zones, then he can deal 2300 burn damage. TWENTY THREE HUNDRED. That's slightly more than Gustav Max! And all it takes is flooding both fields, and your opponent having six set spell and trap cards, including their Field Spell! And that's why any Ghostrick build planning to win has to run Set Rotation. No wonder they stuck that HOPT clause on him.
@The Wail of a Dying Coyote It doesn't matter how casual or competitive you are,a deck that has a 99% lose rate, no matter how much you love it, is gonna be left by most people
you call it late Halloween 2018, I call it early 2019 also there was a small mistake on the elaboration of Socuteboss's effect but the card is still bad so who cares
But Rata, Your ignoring the fact that socuteboss is a genaric rank 2 to make. That clogs up monster card zones. You know what that means? Where is the Ghostrick/Ojama Chaos decklist?
If I had to guess the Aesthetic decision behind the win condition... It is that she manages to scare the opponent into surrender. Think of it like running out of a haunted house.
I think it's worth mentioning that the visual aesthetic of this archetype could be perceived as a pun itself, because the Japanese words for "cute" and "scary" are phonetically very similar.
I once lost repeatedly against a Mischief Angel/Bamboozling Shadow/Renovation turbo deck and I still haven't forgiven myself. Angel of Mischief isn't broken, but it's definitely open-ended enough to be a nasty left hook.
Socuteboss' effect does not require her to be on the field. As long as ANY Ghostrick is face up on the field, the zone lockdown works. It only ceases to work once there are no Ghostricks on the field.
Would look like this: Shape: I want you to cater to a meme. Rata: OK. The Abaki archetype consists of a single card: ABAKI is a Level 4 Fiend/fire monster with the following effect: If this card is destroyed by battle and sent to the graveyard, inflict 500 damage to both players. Obviously you want to use this as your main burn engine, but the level also gives you access to Mainphase 2 burn cards. Here is a deck: 39 Abaki 1 Sparks Extradeck: Cowboiiiiiiiiiiii for game Rata: I hate my life for you making me do this. Ojama lime: Ah home sweet home, oh what is that? A visitor? *Abaki appears* Lime: Oh here comes the burn damage *Explosion* *video ends*
One does not simply review ABAKI! One must live ABAKI! Breath ABAKI! Be one with ABAKI! Only then can they comprehend the sheer hidden brilliance of.....Pause for dramatic effect....ABAKIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!
Not until we get a new wave of Dark World support with the following card. Crimston (Almalgam of crimson and brimstone) ABAKI, Oni of Dark World. Level 4 Dark Fiend with the stats of the original ABAKI. If this card is discarded to the GY by a card effect. Inflict 1000 damage to your opponent. If the damage inflicted would make their LP lower than yours. You take 1000 damage instead (Done to prevent people from using it because of the time rules) You can only use the effect of Crimstone ABAKI, Oni of Dark World Once per turn.
Anyone else just here for Ojama Lime? He's so great, it's like he knows he's the absolute worst being in the universe but he sure as hell isn't gonna let that get him down
Attention! All Yu-Gi-Oh! gamers! Ghostrick Alucard is in danger and needs YOUR HELP to defeat the link monster menace! All he needs is your credit card number, three numbers on the back and the expiration date. But you better be quick or else Firewall Dragon will stay unbanned!
This is one of my favorite archetypes. The art, gameplay gimmicks, and the Halloween theme. Sure they aren't really good but I have a real soft spot for them.
The funny thing is I just beat a Trickstar Player with Ghostrick mill while watching this video. It got down to 1000 life points but thankfully he had no Reincarnations left to finish me off so I was able to mill him down in the late game in the face of three Licorice.
I'm waiting for the day we get Vampire Alucard which is based on Castlevania's Alucard. I mean we've already got Vampire Hunter which is a reference to the Belmont clan so why not go the full nine yards and make another Castlevania based monster?
@@GatorRay there is already one, Vampire Scourge (flagello vampiro in italian but i cbb to double check) has basically all the aestethics of our favourite lawful good sucky boy
YESSSSSS, before link monsters murdered this archetype I used to play them!! I am so hyped for this video Edit: I feel very inspired now to either rebuild mill or go for the slow win condition
I know I’m late to the party here, but I just want to say I’m really glad you covered my favorite archetype. I played them in college, and the group of friends I hung out with didn’t play meta and basically just built what they wanted, so it was a perfect environment for the deck. A lot of my favorite duels were played with them. The best part about it was that in nearly every game I played using this archetype, we had to look up rulings, because none of us were sure of how things interacted with face-down cards. Absolutely amazing deck to play if you like to be a troll like that. Also, they just got some new support that continues that trend of rule shenanigans. I’m pretty sure Ghostrick Festival is the only Link monster in the entire game that can use face-downs as material. It’s amazing.
Ghostricks could benefit from a Link-1, or even a Link-2, that enables swarming and bounces face-up opponent's monsters. A Link-2 would open up multiplie Xyz usage, and it wouldn't clog up your Main Monster Zones
Yeah Boi! I’ve played Ghostricks in DL before, and I can tell you it was funny AF to banish all of my opponent’s deck. They’re the only archetype that I have fun trolling with.
6:30 actually jackfrost is the lord of winter in norse and anglosaxon folclore, he makes snow fall, paints the leaves brown and yellow and makes the windows frosty. More modern folclore depict him as a fairy or a sprite of mischief that pranks people, this last being most definitely the inspiration for the card. AND that he's the mascot of the shin megami tensei franchise, which is almost as popular as pokemon in japan, and what pokemon borrowed part of the "catch" mecanic from, and there he's exactly described as a fairy that plays tricks on people during winter which usually involve freezing them.
Ghostricks might not be the best, but they are a contestant for Cutest Archetype. They're all so small and Halloween-y. I want to rep them just cuz they're so darn precious.
The card art for one of the upcoming "Amazement" Trap cards, which is based on Ghostricks, features a monster that i assume is an upcoming monster for the archetype. Likely a nex xyz or a link
I use to have a pretty decent build with these guys by combining them and one of their field spells with an old level 4 monster called Grave Ohja (think I spelled that right). Basically the end result was m opponent couldnt attack at all without spell/trap removal, then would have to hit ohja first (not very strong, only 1600, but still) before going after the actual ghostrick cards. Grave ohja burns for 300 or so whenever a monster is flip summoned, so with the ghostricks, werewolf, dark room of nightmare, and enough backrow, the burn per turn was pretty decent for the time (glares at the trickstar hoes of today). Still pretty fun in a super casual play, but thats about it.
I'm so amazed that Ghostricks aren't actually FLIP monsters, meaning that they don't recieve support from the very small amount of generic Flip monster support like Subterror Succession
@@runningoncylinders3829 Oh yeah. I forgot that one of Rata's friends voiced Tour Guide in a previous Ojama Lime skit. And that voice used here sounds like her.
Honestly, I just love this archetype 'cause all the art is so cute and I just want to hug it. Nekomususe (Did I spell that right?) in the artwork for Go-Round, Specter and Yeti anywhere, Jackfrost, Jiangshi, Stein's funny stoned face and Mary. Doll looks cute too.
0:29 There's a detail on the spanish translation of Ghostrick Lantern... it's called "Calabaza Fantastruco" in Spanish...wich can be directly translated as Ghostrick Pumpkin... you completed Shapesnatch's side quest without even realizing...and I just realized it after 3 years
I love Ghostricks and people at my locals hate playing me, and as so, i must add this little jewel: Since Ghostrick mansion has a "," on the differentiation between burn and combat damage, makes Werewolf burn also be cut in half, so, you need 10 set cards to reach Abaki levels of burn.
Yay more videos! Super funny as always Rata. I sometimes worry videos on this channel will be uploaded as frequently as ProtonJon’s channel, but I know YT sucks and it takes a long time to make this stuff. I love all your videos, keep shining on.
oh boy, the archetype that got me back into Yugioh(and funny enough, it was your top 10 best flip effect video that got me further back into the game). Now wait for OCG to release a link Ghostrick monster.
As someone who used to unironically main a ghostrick deck I can conclusively tell you that you are absolutely correct when you talk about how meh to bad they are. Which sucks, because I love gimmicky play styles like ghostricks
Remember arcana force ?? Yeah.....pretty terrible...... What if we giving another chance to tarot cards with spellbook/prophecy archetype ?? Can't be as bad as arcana right ??
I got into Ghostricks after using a couple of Ghostrick cards in a Primal Origins sneak peak tourney. I went home and spent all night finding all the Ghostrick cards me and my brother had and had 36 cards (I didn't have Stein at the time, it was a cruel time for a while. I put in Mask of Darkness, 2 Blizzard Prinesses and a Beast King Barbaros. I did this because I soon found out how quickly I could set up 3 monsters and Raigeki the field. It was hilarious. This was when I was introduced into the fun art of deck building. I STILLL have a Ghostrick Deck to this day. I don't care what anybody says, Ghostricks are amazing, I love them, and are so hilarious to play when you get to lock the field up, watching your opponents suffer in "Terror" 🤣🤣🤣
I think the thematic reason behind Angel being a win condition could be that in the arcana "judgement" is usually rappresented as an angel with a trumpet
*_Whooosh, whooosh, whooosh, yeah, yeah, here it comes, Steven, here it comes, yeah, Steven, whooosh, whooosh, well that was embarrassing, oh what's this? whooosh, whoosh, yeah, Steven, yeah, Steven, yeah, Stroong, whooosh, Here it comes, ouch, here it comes ouch_*
The artist of that picture is named Enfinity Garden; the only sites I could find the picture on were the rule 34 paheal site and Pixiv. I don't think that I could link it with the comment staying up, though I'll give it a shot in a different comment.
This one of my favorite archetypes to play. They're not very efficient at all, of course, but the flip effect shenanigans are really fun if you can live long enough to get stuff working Hopefully something comes along to make them more survivable because somebody clearly had a lot of fun coming up with them and it's a shame they're not better
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