Archetype Archive - Harpie 

When the world needed him the most... He was shitposting on Twitter actually

The title and art of Harpie's Hunting Ground imply that Harpies either eat Ojamas or hunt them for sport. Either way is a net positive for the Yugioh universe.

Every time Rata returns (and ignores his comment section), my dead heart beats just once. I don’t care what he posts, I just love Rata’s content.

Ah, you must have watched the international release of DSOD. In the original cut, it's revealed that Mai was just a long-term experiment run by Harvard University to see just how bad you could make a sexy card before people stopped buying them.

Ah yes, another episode of Ojama Limes bizarre adventure with a yugioh archetype review at the beginning

PRO TIP: You can up the consistency of this deck by spraying the cards with different perfumes

I like to imagine that Bird Face is literally just a Bird monster that is a obsessed Harpie Stan and the Harpies just tend to ignore him whenever he's around

...i just noticed that the artwork on "Elegant Egotist" is literally faces as parts of the kaleidoscope...wow

Ah yes, the _"I'm not into Birds BUT..."_ Deck

Sorry about the inconsistency of OCG artwork in TCG cards near the end, I had to use digital proxies that feature OCG art because the scans and photos of the most recent TCG releases look like they've been ran under a sheet of sandpaper. I assume most people *prefer* the OCG art but I just like to be accurate.

Shapesnatch couldn’t make it to this video because he caught Harpies… the one Rod he shouldn’t have used…

Once per turn: You can only use each of the following effects of "Elegant Egotist" once per turn, and only once that turn. Once per turn, during your Main Phase: If you control "Harpie Lady": Once per turn, you can Special Summon 1 "Harpie Lady" or "Harpie Lady Sisters" from your hand or Deck, but only once per turn. This effect can only be used once per turn, and only once that turn. You can only activate 1 "Elegant Egotist" per turn. If we find out you activated this effect twice per turn, your fucking life is on the line, but only once per turn.

“If we find out you activated this effect twice per turn, your fucking life is on the line, but only once for turn.” A line you can only get from reading the modern rendition of Elegant Egotist.

Reminders for Harpie players out there: - Always use OCG art - Be careful around spike tits - Douse your cards in perfume - Don't attack during Royal Invitation

1:20 Don't worry, Mai's just offscreen having a drink with Launch

Old Ojama Country While this card is on the field, special summon as many "Harpie" monsters as possible from your deck. If you control more than three "Harpie" monsters, you can tribute any number of them to special summon as many monsters reasonably resembling a robotic dragon as possible from your extra deck, ignoring their summoning conditions equal to the number of "Harpie" monsters tributed. If this card is in your graveyard, you can banish it, and if you do, return up to 10 banished "Ojama" cards to your deck.

THE LORD IS BACK! AND HE BROUGHT ICONIC WAIFUS!

Remember when the Harpies' Hunting Ground was animated in the Tag Force games and it just shows the Harpie Lady mauling one of the Ojamas? It's great.

Rata, if you're reading this, just know that I ABSOLUTELY LOVE your content and dry humor.

I’ve always like harpie’s pet dragon. I think it works a lot better than other out of place dragons, partly because it isn’t a show horned and poorly designed boss monster, and because it looks pretty unique and the idea that the harpie’s just keep her around as a pet is a cool bit of lore.

I always thought it was funny when Alexis dressed up as a Harpy Lady for Spirit's Day.

Wow, one of the most iconic archetypes ever.

Harpie's Hunting Ground is one of my favorite artworks in the game. I don't care about Harpies, but the image of them hunting and slaughtering Ojamas is very satisfying.

I remember when I was a kid, I had no idea about the censoring between the OCG and TCG, so when I somehow ended up with both arts of Harpie Girl, I was very confused and uncomfortable, lol. I put the uncensored one behind the censored one in my binder like it had to be hidden away. Good times.

Harpie's pet phantasmal dragon, a great part of a balanced four material Divine Arsenal AA Zeus

Ah, yes, the Dommy Mommy archetype.

Finally I can talk about that one Harpie Girl card that I had under my bed as a kid because I had a crush on how she looked 7:29 thank you Rata for talking about my childhood waifu. I can rest peacefully knowing she wasn't a fever dream.

In tag force 3 and onward they added some animations when harpie hunting ground was activated; the Ojamas actually fight back, and then it loops with Harpie coming back, trying to attack them, then ojamas countering

You're the only "yugituber" I legitimately get excited to see an upload from, the amount of work that goes in is clear and the humour hits me right in the life points.

i Love HarPIE, it tastes so good

Rata is the ERB of Yugitubers. Inconsistent and infrequent uploads, but when he does, I drop everything and watch a master at work

There’s a card named Hysteric Party that’s in a archetype about bird women… huh.

Two things I learned about Ojamas in this video: 1.) Their weakness lays in their toes. 2.) They’ve been dodging taxes w/ their artworks & will likely continue that trend in the future.

Cant wait for an actual card called "Harpie's Brother". I wish I were that dragon.

“Goodness I’m quite jealous of that Dragon, **laughs like Team Rocket James** ” -Someone in the comments probably.

The harpies, A.K.A the most censured archetype in TCG

Saw it was Harpies, liked immediately (grave-keepers when?), love you Rata.

Friend: "What are you doing?" Me: "Bird watching." Friend: "Those are harpies." Me: *_"DID I STUTTER?!"_*

This is the obligatory comment saying that for the span of a couple of weeks the Duel links meta was completely dominated by Harpies and Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Bane. They were only removed from tier 1 because easier access to Digital Bug Rhinosebus pushed Gagagas basically into tier 0. Duel Links is one hell of a drug.

Here's the most interesting piece of Harpie trivia you won't care about: They misprinted Harpie Girl during her original release by using the OCG artwork instead of the "censored" TCG artwork.

God, I wish I had a pet dragon. What? The bird women? Sure whatever, I want a dragon.

I absolutely love the "Once per turn" Elegant Egotist parody.

1:21 Mai's hanging out on the beach with Joey, according to a piece of art Takahashi himself posted to instagram last year. What a fucking cradle robber.

0:29 I recognize that OMORI somethings sfx anywhere. Good game :)

Fearsome Fire Blast is one of those cards that's absolutely broken, and we're kind of collectively holding our breaths while we all figure out _where_ it's broken (because it certainly isn't its native archetype). I will note, however, that it sends Nervall, which is probably the most relevant thing for it to send ever, because that lets you start whatever dumb tribrigade combos you want.

Ahh everyone's favorite BDSM monster girl archetype. It'll make sense when looked at closely and smelt. See? Even RATA made the joke.

Honestly, it would be interesting if Rata makes a video about Sunavalons at some point. The amout of memes and Specter content will be great 😂

Harpies are great archetype but they all share one distinct weakness - they've all been censored by 4Kids.

Fun fact: did you know that "Harpie's Feather Storm" was translated in French as... "Le Dragon de Compagnie de Dame Harpie", which literally means "Harpie Lady's Pet Dragon"? Even though Harpie's Pet Dragon came out ages ago and had been translated as "Dragon de Harpie"? anyway no one mentions Duel Links please

Love how you can easily see the change from older to newer support cards just by looking at the length of the effect. Seeing Harpie Queen having not even 3 lines of texts, then next seeing Channeler with 6 lines of text always makes me laugh.

It’s nice to see more Archtype Archive. Harpies are an interesting set of cards and I had fun playing them in Legacy of the Duelist reverse duels.

7:45 Harpie Girl was among my first waifus and probably one of the key things that led me down the path of weeb, WHY DID I NEVER SEE THE MASTERPIECE THAT IS HER UNCENSORED ARTWORK UNTIL NOW ;-; Oh how happy the seven year old me would've been to see her like this 9:23 well you didn't say it this time so... _god I wish that were me_

I always saw the name "Triangle Ecstasy Spark" and, maybe it's my degenerate mind corrupted when I saw the uncensored art of Dian Keto the Cure Master, but...anyone else beginning to wonder what they're implying when they call it an "Ecstasy Spark"? Is the joke that they're well...uhhh...you know...doing something from a different genre of Japanese animation?

Wait you can actually summon cyber slash with lady sisters and harpie girl. this is the future of harpie ladies how is this not tier 0

Rata: "Power gets a 3..." Me: "Chain Feather Storm to negate and smack all your plays for the rest of the turn."

4:17 I don't know what made me laugh here more, P.U. Great Moth appearing on the screen suddenly or that gentle continuous fart in the background xD

As someone who only started watching Rata about a month ago, I'm so glad he's back again!

Give harpie girl pompoms and a cute skirt, plus an effect and you have a perfect retrain of her "harpie cheerleader" perfect

I find it really funny that Harpie's Hunting Ground doesn't even depict any defining features of said hunting ground, and instead just shows a Harpie about to swoop down on the Ojamas.

The end artwork is so adorable :3 all of them, my favorite was the girl riding the dragon. I'm biased to harpies due to the retro style, though they barely got consistency until nowadays despite their potential. Ojama Lime's journey is always a treat. Where is Jeroid?

On top of the iconic Harpie look, gotta give a shoutout to the *mwah* Harpie Lady monster SFX. Harpys were barely on anyone's radar, so the anime wasn't making her sound like a Harpy - they were inventing the most iconic sound of a Harpy with her!

Back in the days of dueling network, I used to hybrid a Vampire Vamp engine into harpies as well as a Phalanx Pike. That no doubt sounds like madness, but it somehow won me many a game against meta decks of the era. Phalanx Pike is and has always been a meme instant death card for Harpies where you play it in the lategame and score a one hit kill, which was nice for a single copy of it, and if you drew it early, you'd just summoner monk it. Vampire Sorcerer and Vampire Vamp however opened some very interesting options. You had easy access to Dark Simorgh, could mill out spent Vamps with standard Harpie XYZ rotations, just consuming Dragon and Vamp instead of Channeler and Dragon. But, because Harpie could completely strip backrow and make attacking an absolute pain, and getting sorcerer killed was not very hard, you could at any time pull off a Vamp play once you had the enemy hand low and go for lethal. Later I added Red Eyes Flare Metal Dragon to the extra deck at one copy to set up a defensive scenario that would enable Vamp, since between the LP loss from REFMD and Vamp's ability to swing for giant numbers, you'd easily be able to take people to zero if they pushed into it. It won most of the time in rated duels and I actually got pretty high on the ladder with it. People just do not expect out of nowhere vamp instant kills.

I honestly wish all the archetype archives were like this, with everything being lumped together in one big chronology, it gives a much better idea of gow the archetype evolved over time

Can’t believe you actually hinted at it on your Twitter with the RT of yugioh card art

I enjoy wind decks a bunch, so it was surprising to see this. I miss the Ojamas....

Is this what it feels like when Dad actually returns from getting smokes?

I enjoy how Triangle Ecstasy Spark and Ojama Delta Hurricane have similar artwork, together with the fact that it's seen the Harpies hunt Ojamas, make it seem lore friendly. Oh, and we all know Harpie's Pet Baby Dragon is a clear Joey reference.

Me shouting from the top of the bleachers: "DO GLADIATOR BEASTS!"

how do they even dress up those claw hands look ridiculously impractical for everything except ripping and tearing ojamas

I actually pulled the de-censored version of Harpie Girl when I was a kid. Thought I still had it, but my tin of vanilla monsters appears to be missing. Eff my life…

And now Dawn of Majesty is going to make Rata cover the support for "Alien" and "Triamid" ,"Majestic", "Stardust", "Synchron", might need honorable mentions as well. Edit: realized Dimer was in the Archive video after all.

Harpies: Winged Beasts Harpies pet dragon: Dragon Dragunities: are these, ancestors?

Ah, yes, Birdface. My Deck Leader in Duelists of the Roses. Fusion Summon my Crimson Sunbirds and power them all up like crazy.

I only noticed today that elegant egotist has faces in the artwork. Always thought that was just some weird looking flower

Here is "God I wish that were me" number 326...love your stuff rata, can't wait for the next one man. Much love.

Also I just want to say, once all the jokes are done and the cards are analyzed, I love the end sequence where you give an overall summary of the deck while showing off the fanart. You always find the BEST, most evocative fanart that really gets me engaged and wanting to play the deck even if I normally don't care about it. Like I have a friend who stans Harpies, and I don't care about them, but that art was so nice and lovely that it just gets me ready to play some bird women. Even tho I won't. But I hope you know I appreciate the work that goes into finding just the right fanart to put under your voice.

This is what I needed today, just got told I'm doin jury duty and this is a beautiful mood booster

I'm a little disappointed you didn't mention the extremely consistent 2 card FTK (with like 6 searchers for those 2 cards) that harpie channler/dancer let you do.

Of all the graded Pokémon, Magic, and Yugioh cards I own, and I own way too many, my PSA 10 Harpie’s Pet Dragon will always be my favorite and I have absolutely no idea why. For like 5+ years now I’ve kept all of my graded singles in a safe except for Pet Dragon, a Shining Raichu I’ve never bothered grading but have in a screw-down case, and my PSA 3 Library of Alexandria that are all displayed on my desk. I have specific memories and reasons for the other two cards being there but I’ve never known why I liked Harpie’s Pet Dragon so damn much.

“Robot dragon” got me so good

On this the third day of my covid induced self isolation boredom the gods deigned fit to gift me with a RANK10YGO upload.

And of course if you're a Duel Links player (or at least were, I haven't touched it in months and don't know how much the meta has changed) then bump all of these grades to 5/5 and rage quits ensuing

Rata and summoning salt are the only you tubers where I legit get hype whenever I see a new upload. Keep up the great work man!

Mai had her own appearance in a 1 shot manga iirc , around when dsod came out, only a cameo again though

BASED RATA I’m so hyped for the new support next year. One day my Harpies will be viable.

I have a few requests: Cyber Dragons Skull Servants Monarchs D/D (and D/D/D by extension)

The second the notification popped up I made a noise that scared my roommate Ok 2 minutes in and "if we find out you activated this effect twice per turn, your fucking life is on the line, but only once per turn" killed me

It took me way to long to realize that Harpie Perfumer's name is a reference to Mai Valentine spraying her cards with perfume.

Ah Harpies, one of the few Yu-gi-oh archtypes that was fun to play, and call my ex-girlfriend when she was feeling really bitchy

RATA UPLOADED, NOBODY PANIC

Ah yes Harpies, my original card crushes from back in the day that may/may not have incited some...feelings from 12-year old me. I still have that Shounen Jump Cyber Harpie Lady promo card that came with one of their magazines on me to this day.

What is more delicious to see? *The malice and satisfaction in Rata's voice for the fact that Ojamas are being hunted to extintion Or *The hatred he keeps for TOAD. X'D

Ah yes, the BDSM Birbs

The fact that rata seems to be uploading somewhat consistently every 1-2 Months makes me so so happy

I imagine on Harpie's Hunting Ground that Harpie Lady's eyes are glowing as she swan dives Ojamas

I’ve been waiting for this video for like 28 years now (since I was born). Yes, I love this archetype so much that I loved it before Yugioh existed

it was a sad day when Harpie's Brother lost his Harpie status to be given his other more correctly translated name.

Nice to see Rata actually lives. Good to see you back man. There can't be just enough of your vids.

Thank you Rata you're the man who got me into Yu-Gi-Oh with your top tens of game I'm still playing to this very day

"Robot dragon!" **The entire fucking screen fills with monsters**