DIGI-ARMOR ENERGIZE wait, what? [ New Card Live Reaction ] [ Metalmorph ] 

The two refences you mentioned: For Devil Zoa's summon effect, it's when Keith "accidently" dropped his Devil Zoa from his "hand" during the duel, and proceeded to summon it, baiting Jounoichi into attacking it only to use Metalmorph and counter. Copycat was indeed how Jounoichi used Metalmorph to transform Red-Eyes in to Red-Eyes Metal Dragon, making it immune to "magic effects", such as Keith's Revolver Dragon since as per the DND nature of Duelist Kingdom, Machine monsters were immune to magic.

The double take I did when I saw what looked like a new Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon on the thumbnail...

Joey used Copycat to copy Metalmorph. In the anime/manga, Copycat was *completely busted*: it could replicate any monster spell or trap card the opponent had on their field or grave. Later on in the same duel he used Grave Robber to steal Time Machine.

Wait a minute...Dark...Fiends and Dragons...Normal Traps...Tributing??? Lair of Darkness, let's go! 😁

Zoamon digivolve to... METALZOAMON. Had to. 😁

Yes! I love the new Red-Eyes card! Personally I always wanted a “Metal Dragon” sub-archetype, link monsters that set traps, but I’ll take this! Thanks man, this is how I found out we get a new Red-Eyes for my birthday. (It’s actually tomorrow but still) Finally, a negate that’s not Dragoon! (probably just as competitive though)

its actually a sick af egine design. the redeyes and zoa dont brick. you can run any amount of them from 2 to 9 to splash. and you can use a spent interaction to go into the bosses.

Can it even brick with how the bigger monsters can just return itself to deck to search the metalmorph? This to me sounds like a theoretically better assault mode deck, though with the exception that this has no spell that cheat out the metalmorph the same way assault mode has. Well, I guess if we draw all the metalmorph trap without anything to use it on...

Well, they did not straight up replace Metalmorph, but the OG Metal counterparts were. Also, hope we could somehow get more Metal counterparts, besides Heavy Metal King..

Anime reference: Keith summoned Zoa in defense, “accidentally” showing the card to Joey to goad him into summoning a magic-using monster to attack it. At which point he flipped metal morph and reflected the monster’s magic attack.

I was among the first to see this announced in the Yu-Gi-Oh subReddit. Seeing Red-eyes Metal Black Dragon seemingly get a retrain got me excited, then I read the effect and saw it's actually usable in Red-eyes. I was real overjoyed

Just by playing any number of red eyes metal dragon and any number of enchanted metalmorph you have an engine that turns any bystial or phantazmay into an Omni negate

Yey a machine type Red-Eyes monster how useful for Red-Eyes.......

Labrynth with Bystials playing the metal dragon, zoa x, and the traps.

Red-Eyes is EATING with primeoredial and now fullmetal so fucking hyped

This theme looks so cool, and that is all I need

Yeah, he used Copycat to copy “Magic Metal Force” also known as Metalmorph, basically it and doppelgänger were ‘copy any card your opponent played this duel’ cards. Also, Red-Eye’s attack being 3400 here is due to it being Red Eyes Black Metal Dragon equipped with Dragon Nails (which is a legal play in the game due to being able to equip to any Dark Monster.)

For theming, I’m running this with Red-Eyes. And since I’m playing Vanillas, I can slap in the new Primoredial cards too. This can be really stupid, but it’ll be hella fun.

Metalmorph retrains LET'S GO! Bizarrely cracked trap for it's time and the metallicized forms were a cool concept even if they were almost objectively worse to summon than just keeping their base vanilla w/ Metalmorph equipped, I always thought it was a shame they barely touched them. We got REDMD and REFMD which are good, and Black metal Dragon was a loose reference that imo should call itself "Metalmorph" while equipped just to enable REBMD, but it was always a bit of a shame it never expanded beyond Red-Eyes support. It's nice to see and these look pretty cool. Red-Eyes Black Full Metal -Alchemist- Dragon having "Dragon Nails" visible in the art and the stat line to match is a nice touch but if the name changes with the official English release it will be a major blow imo. My old decrepit creature self somewhat would've liked the "legacy support" version that works with the OG metal forms but it's not a terrible loss. It's cool that Enhanced tributes a monster and equips to the metallicized form, that's probably closer to how the anime/mange version worked. I was imagining a retrain that counts as "Metalmorph" on the field and a grave effect which grants the effect protection to monsters that mention "Metalmorph" in their effect text but but I didn't really expect that to happen, this is more than I thought we'd get frankly. My only complaint of sorts is that it's so "safe" in it's nostalgia and isn't actually fleshing out the Metalmorph concept much (yet), which tbf is pretty standard practise but it's a shame since Metalmorph as an idea has a lot of room to work with. We have some nice retrains of the only two existing metalmorphed monsters, a retrain of the less popular associated vanilla, and some support spell/traps with art that feature those two monsters. Strictly speaking we currently still only have 2 metalmorphed monsters, however the loosening of requirements to "Level 5 or higher [Type]" as tribute rather than a specific named monster paves the may for future support giving us metalmorphed insects/ fish/ beasts etc. The way the story handled it gave the implication that Metalmorph was a card you could use on any non-machine to make it a machine and give it a power boost, much like how in-story Toon World turned regular monsters into Toons and was not limited to specifically printed Toon monsters, and it's just that we only got to see in in one duel where it was used twice so we only had the two in-story examples. I've been hoping for some years now that some day we'll see it used with other monsters, like a Perfectly Ultimate Metal Moth or Harpie's Pet Metal Dragon, or even something that isn't DM era.

Now I have to splash a copy of metalmorph and red-eyes into my tachyon + light and darkness dragon deck.

About time we got good Red Eyes support. Looks like Konami is focusing more on giving Red Eyes a burn strategy. I’m all for it. Justice for Jonouichi Katsuya.

seems like a perfect time for this since the heavy metal raiders field spell, *Heavy Metal Intensifies*

@GoldenNovaYugioh Do you think we'll get a retrain of Red-Eyes Black Dragon for this theme in the near future? I really like this Metalmorph theme, but I find so strange that Zoa was retrained and REBD wasn't, leaving the Metalmorph theme without a proper Level 5 Dragon monster to summon Fullmetal, especially when we've had retrains of Dark Magician and Blue-Eyes White Dragon in previous sets

Ngl, I'd love a Karn EX crossover of some sort to talk about ygo cards being Digimon or vice versa

Can't wait to tech this in Bystial Dragon Link

The anime reference is that, and paraphrasing here, metalmorph is a special anti magic alloy that is ineffective by time

I guess you can use zoa in lab but do they really need it? Also i was really disappointed on how they did this i would have like it like the og monsters summoning themselves from the deck

Red-eyes metal dragon was and old boss of mine in elementary school pile deck so you know what I’m going to make red-eyes and slap him into it

Love that red eyes gets a actually strong boss monster thats not dragoon. Not looking forward to dragon link stealing it like all the other good red eyes cards

FINALLY! The METALMORPH archetype! Now if we just get those armor (Vylon) cards....

You know, I'm honestly surprised they didn't put in a Graverobber retrain.

Kashtira get a new level 7 is kinda good

I saw Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon and I thought it was new support for Red-Eyes... While I liked what they did here with this new cards, I still feel baited an angry xD

Desperado barrel dragon time!! :D

Since "Metalmorph - Enhanced" is a Normal Trap, I could see some funny interactions with Labrynth. Since the big monsters are Dark, a Virus package could also work. Honestly, this looks promising.

Ape brain activated *WHAT A GLORIOUS DAY!!!*

Regardless of anything, it's not an arquetype and it's more of a tiny engine that would mix with any deck that uses high level fiends or dragons, you know what that means? MOAR SUPPORT TO JACK IT OUT WITH RED DRAGON!!!

Metal digitama boys!!

Finally, another Zoa card!

I legit had to do a double take when I saw it because no way did METALMORPH get a new line of support. konami really is just not scared anymore… (except for giving more darklord cards and making Archlord an archetype)

How everyone is forgetting that the bystial Dragons exists is crazy especially in a layers of darkness deck. Getting dragons to the field is easy.

Bystials looking kinda spicy with these

My jank brain trying to figure out how to put these in RDA or Yubel

These were some neat cards....In America

Metal Zoa X what is this an X antibody monster

What's next red eyes zoa fusion xD😅

Chaos space

Must play full metal in branded

I thought Spell was ttoc. Scared me ngl.

I really liked it and they seem to be minimally balanced, in their own archetype. I'm just worried about how players will use them. Day 900 waiting for NOT BROKEN support for Venom.

Only problem with this. Ash blossom. You can very easily Ash this card if their summoning from the deck.

Lair on darkness rouge player?

All I know is imma hate red eyes in duel links lmao

This deck screen duel links

Joey used Copycat against Bandit Keith to copy his catchphrase... in America.

fish

So, weirdly in fringe cases the older stuff wins me matches- more often than expected. Thunder Draon (Armed) with like one of each origional sometimes just makes old school level 7 or 10 and board wipes 'til they bust- the interaction was exhausted prior to this. Maybe the old Metalmorph stuff will do the same; at the very least named targets or fodder interactions are possible.

Metalmorph got support, now Cloudian is just a matter of time

If anything they will make support for Barrell Dragon and Slot Machine to be splashable with this.

2 things: • Metal Copycat is a LIGHT Spellcaster • Metal Copycat can make itself a LIGHT Fiend White Woods has access to Fiendsmith combos and an omni negate.

Alba Zoa has no connection to classic zoa

I can think of plenty of characters with decks in desperate need of support/retrains (Cyrus, Leo, Luna, lot of blue hairs, weird coincidence), but since Konami seems set on revisiting every DM character, I'm looking forward to Duke Devlin. I'm hoping they'll lean into his dice roll gimmick, but use cards that are already good with rolls making them great to excellent. I'm thinking effects that stack, so if you roll a 6 on a D6, you can get all 6 effects. And don't even pretend like this would be too powerful. We've got so many flavors of hand traps we're making Baskin Robin's jealous. We have boss monsters with near total immunity, omni-negates, and the ability to rizz out local cougars. If I have to rely on a literal roll of the dice for an effect, then even the weakest rolls should still be strong and fun.

Honestly, missed Opportunity to give the new Hand Effects the ability to shuffle themselves OR the old "Can be summoned from Deck" Metamorphs. And the Traps not also targetting the old Monsters instead of just the Enhanced version.

Why is METAL copycat a Light Spellcaster?? Why ruin the dark machine theme konami😭

What, no Metal Musician King?

I think what we are seeing here is Maximus / Alba Zoa, after being defeated and barely surviving, he uses the scraps leftover in the golganda desert to build an armor for himself, becoming Metal Zoa, and Fiendish Beast Zoa is him inside the armor, what his body has become after his many transformations, his attempt to return to his human form is unsuccessful, and he is left as a fiendish monstrosity. I dont know how red eyes plays into it, maybe it is one of Albaz's forms, or perhaps a dragon Aluber has found in the abyss and outfitted with metal after getting defeated by Sargas and Shuraig and deciding "I should use armor too". Or maybe an abyss corrupted version of the twin headed baby chair remains?

where is heavy metal king konami?! >:(

I'm so glad borreload is banned now

don't care. Weather Painter Red when?

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STOP SMACKING YOUR LIPS IN OUR EARS. it's disgusting.