Gimmick Puppet - Failed Cards, Archetypes, and Sometimes Mechanics in Yu-Gi-Oh 

Watch as they release gimmick puppet poplar and make gimmick puppet tier 0

@@drewwilson9938 they gave it a consistent ftk so close enough I guess

@@streetgamer3452 Quattro was an OTK-ing scumbag in the show so that's actually on-brand

@@streetgamer3452yup, already won multiple local events and eyeing regionals. Plan on taking the UK dub and cementing my name

They already have Gimmick Puppet Martha,don't gave them ideas to make their version of Poplar

Content farm

What was the other archetype that had this happen? Sounds interesting

@@mueezadam8438 Right before this video he made two with Ice barrier (That will have new support this month in TCG a will become a good rogue), and Melodious (Just before the support was out in TCG and they are now T1 meta deck). And month ago he made a video for Genex the day they announced new support in OCG, that were the meme started

@@Animexdraco thank you very much!

There is no happiness with Ojamas.

Oh, they know. And they're already doing it, I think we got the pink Ojama recently.

PINK ​OBAMA

It’s sad to inform you that all the other ojamas seen in Ojama country are all canonically dead as you can see in the artwork of solidarity

According to the art for solidarity, the other ojamas are dead.

"Despite having gimmick in the name of the archetype, this is one of the most standard and least gimmicky archetypes ever printed, with the playstyle being to spam out Rank-8 and Rank-4 material for in-archetype XYZ plays."

They literally didn’t have a unique gimmick for years

@@qty1315 I see another RATA enjoyer

(Because they dont have one, thank you for solidifying the joke, comment section)

@@ShadedSamael damn that was totally an obvious joke

Someone did that to me in EDOpro....and i was playing Gimmick puppets myself

@@drakofox1362you forgot about the deck you were using?

@@Deathmare235 no I was just laughing at my screen while my friend playing on discord was confused as hell till he saw me drop a Gimmick puppet gear changer

To be fair, if you’re playing against Branded and don’t expect them to try it at this point, that’s on you.

At this point, it's their only win condition. Ash Branded Fusion and they try to use Cartesia only to lose to imperm lol.

Actually faced some gimmick puppets in a pre-release tournament here in our area (ocg is our format) and yes you're screwed if you don't have hand traps and if your opponent knows what they're doing but it's nothing that crazy if you know its choke points. Outside of a ftk, it's end board is not that good in today's standards.

@@speechless1887 if i remember correctly their field spell gives protection just like the tenpai dragon one, so it's gonna be hard to deal with those monsters if you don't have the right cards, but yeah the deck have so little interactions with the opponent that u either ftk or lose

​@@speechless1887it's nice having four different ftks that you can switch to on the fly based on what you have and what your opponent does

@@Ulquiorra_Cifer a good deck I saw played through 3 interactions and still could combo well enough. Surprisingly this deck can run handtraps too so you need to be quite lucky to stop their combo since only a handful of your cards work on them.

branded, best support

they're very uninspired, even doll of demise is creepier than any of them

A shame that the TCG is heavily censored so we can’t appreciate them.

@@nedrostram2360 Yeah, mostly when it comes to their names- Their japanese names are absolutely psychopathic and I love it.

@@Luna-Starfrost Gimmick Puppet - Serial Killer is such an awsome name, too name the TCG change it to Giant Hunter

@@nedrostram2360considering one of the puppets is based on The Brazen Bull, I don’t blame them.

Personally I would like a video that talks about potential ways to improve the game against current and future power creep. Some ideas I had would include: ⚪️Giving both players an extra normal Summon/Set, but ONLY for Normal, Gemini and Flip monsters, and that said monsters summoned by this second free summon can’t be tributed or used as material the turn they hit the field. ⚪️Increasing the starting LP to anywhere between 10-20K, and/or a once per Duel lifeline to halve any single instance of battle and/or effect damage. ⚪️Players will often keep their decks as small as possible to boost consistency (unless they have cards that specifically NEED a big deck), so some built in incentives to running a bigger deck would be nice, like, say, if you’re running a max sized deck, you can, before the first turn starts, shuffle your starting hand into your deck and draw an equal number of cards.

@@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire That's a neat video idea, but if you're curious and havne't seen them yet check out Logs' videos on banned cards, since he goes into how those cards COULD work. It's not exactly what you're asking for, but it does go into ways to make cards that are overall very good and add their own things without going too far.

@@ShyRanger I mean it’s one thing to make and remake cards that are better for the CURRENT rules, but I think another good approach for the game’s health would be to amend some of the rules themselves to help support cards that have fallen off and help address the growing power level of the game WITHOUT needing to nerf any existing cards (directly). Maybe having such changes as opt-in “Boons” would help in a more interesting way.

Master rule was made to kill Pendulums. So it was succesful.

The short answer of why it failed was because rather than restrict Pendulums specifically they gutted EVERY extra deck combo that didn't have enough spare resources to make Links first meaning a ton of strategies that weren't problems like the Chronomaly OTK could no longer be played at all. You also had stuff like Dandylion and Level Eater get banned early on in 2018 simply because they enabled too much since we still had Foolish Burial so you could mill Dandy and get 2 tokens for free or loop Level Eater since we had Blackwing Sohaya so you had stuff making multiple Quasars left and right. This was around the time I dropped the game completely so I don't remember a lot of the details, we also had Soul Charge around that time so yeah.

Who cares?

@@peepeevs Me and everyone else who’s said more or less the same thing since the vid came out😁

​@@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire to be fair, tends to happen when talking about ongoing games, never know what'll get support or what'll come up next

​@@SapphireKnight675 except we've known about the puppet support for litterally weeks and he even MENTIONED it in this video

🎵”The Duel Logs” *simpsons theme plays*

It's true, though; during the Zexal era, Konami barely gave anime archetypes any game original support and hardly ever buffed them when they released them. It did not help the anime loved to give characters 3-4 main deck monsters and call it a day. That's why a lot of characters like Vector, Rio, Number 96, V, and Droite are left with very undeveloped decks.

While I take offense to those statements I can't deny that they have a point, most ZEXAL archetypes were some variant of "badly fill up the field with monsters of the same level to make exactly one Xyz Monster" in the anime and then ported directly to the card game without any additional support

How many Numbers were printed? How many did you actually consider using?

Dream mirror goated 🙏

That was one of those trap decks where the cards read good but in actual gameplay it just doesn't do anything. Super sad cuz I liked the idea of it.

Years of wait already for a Koaki Meiru video

Nah...we needed gimmick puppets first before we really start getting into the gimmicky decks

This actually needs to be a video

Cute profile

Hutao rocks xD

Could go into dinos as a everything but the type itself is a failed archetype

That's 90% of Zexal's archetype. Badly, XYZ spam was their gimmick.

Ngl I kinda liked the xyz spam and lv8, though their boss monsters sucked

To be fair, in the world where all mighty monsters that can't be destroyed normally are also the most powerful protection against interdimensional energy beings that was to destroy all worlds, XYZ spamming was really the only answer to fight against it. if only they were like Galaxy-Eyes in terms of main deck they'd be more useful. Somehow Onomats are better because of their effects

Yeah these videos can be great help in making you sleepy

9 hours!?? 😂

@@dani2572 i believe if you’re a certain kind of subscriber you can get early access to videos as long as they are uploaded but have an unlisted or private setting

@starwarzfan71 Subbing let me watch 3 mins after it was posted so I think I was the first too watch it plus gimmick puppets are my fave archetype 🙏

@@BrandedJester gimmick puppets are kinda cool mostly looking

Humpy 😆

Those cards are still awful also what the hell is a wall card, this ain’t humpty dumpty, it’s gimmick puppet Humpty Dumpty

@@Deathmare235 I was going for a sorta mythology gag. “Humpty Dumpty sat on a “Wall”” and all that.

@@Deathmare235 As for “Wall”, I was thinking ANY card with “Wall” in its name? Labyrinth Wall? Imperial Iron Wall? Numeron Wall? Humpy’s planted his Dumpy at the top of it already.

⁠@@Deathmare235 As for Gear Tuner, I think that one could be pretty useful… Multi-Attribute, makes all your machines targets for Machine Duplication AND Rekindling (if FIRE), and can (Quick Effect) manipulate the levels/Ranks of monsters in the field, including it’s tuner self. Plenty to play with for anyone with the right deck and some imagination.

So the second effect is useless, are there any non gimmick puppet dark machine monsters that are level 8?

@@Deathmare235 In the TCG at least, there are apparently 26 such monsters, yes. Some Ally of Justice cards, some Cyber and Chimeratech cards, Genex, orcust, D.D, some Jinzo and Cosmo, the “Metalmorph” Zoa and Red-Eyes, a couple of World Legacy, and a various other cards that are and aren’t part of other archetypes. Even if you weed out the ones that “can’t” use this card as Tribute or Marerial, there should still be enough variety for a slew of unexpected and interesting dirty tricks with the right setup.

Cause its a hidden arsenal archetype and has no new card since 2011

I don't see any gimmick here

I do it all the time. It's effect really isn't as bad as Logs is making it out to be.

@@DaddyAnarky how so ? I'm curious

@arrozzblanco get NO.88 out on the field and keep activating its effect. There's nothing to it.

​@@DaddyAnarky And the opponent will just let you do that of course for 3 turns

@shizukousapostle1stapostle710 I'd say 80% of the time I get its effect off. Very rarely am I ever interrupted. Again, it's easier than you think.

Would be cool, but having a Flip effect alongside an effect that requires it to be face-up on the field seems anti-synergystic

@@peepeevs Well a lot of the already existing “Shadoll” monsters are kinda like that, although I suppose I could make it so the card can flip itself back up/down to get the effect through and/or reset the flip effect. I’m on the clock now so I’ll look into that modification later.

The field spell and XYZ monsters can summon monsters from any graveyard to the opponent's field and then destroy them to deal damage according to the destroyed monsters attack. With enough xyz monsters and rank up spells you can deal more than 8000 burn damage. Other monster effects in the archetype help with xyz summoning by swarming the field or add rank up spells to the hand to turn xyz monsters into cxyz.

"Some burn" is literally 8000+ damage

@highpriestessgabagool5170 but how? I don't see what's looping for that when everything has HOPT. How many "summon to your opponent's field" effects does the deck have?

@@wyrmid0n289 you literally could start with 1 card in your hand and if it's mansion you win. search little soldiers, summon it, mill bloody doll, bloody doll gets added to your hand, activate it's effect, reveal a rank 8, special summon it and cattle scream from your deck. summon fantasix makina specifically by overlaying little soliders and cattle scream, activate it's effect by detaching cattle scream. search argent chaos force, activate it to rank up into dark strings. activate cattle scream's gy effect to detach one from dark strings to resummon itself overlay bloody doll and cattle scream summon heaven's strings, argent chaos force returns to your hand. activate the effect of heaven's strings, place a string counter on dark strings activate argent chaos force again and summon a second dark strings it's effect on-summon will activate and destroy the first dark strings, -3300 lp. you draw one. fantasix machina triggers in the gy summoning itself back and adding argent chaos force back to your hand. mansion's effect allows you to detach a material from dark strings to special summon the first copy of dark strings to your opponent's field then rank-up fantasix machina. fanatix machina's effect searches servist puppet but that's irrelevant. detach a material from machina to summon heaven's strings from your gy to your opponent's field, link summon chimera doll with machina and dark strings, add terror baby to your hand with chimera doll's effect, you have an extra normal summon from earlier, so normal terror baby, it's effect revives cattle scream, banish little soldiers from the gy and its effect will make terror baby's level 8, and overlay cattle scream and terror baby to make giant grinder. giant grinder has a non once per turn effect to detach one material from itself in order to destroy a monster on the field, and if it is an xyz monster, your opponent takes damage equal to its atk, so pop both heaven's strings and dark strings, and that's -6300 for game. apologies for the essay, I just really felt like explaining.

@@wyrmid0n289 You only need two for the full ftk, with those you can do -6300 and then blow up your own monster for another -3000.

He already knew

@@Deathmare235 proof or be sent to the Internet guillotine

You mean the support we've known about for months that he mentioned IN the video?

Why the hell is it a flip

⁠​⁠@@Deathmare235 Because the Flip effect is another “Gimmick” to go along with the “Gimmick Puppet” thing. The Flip effect, if pulled off, would return your banished DARK and FIRE machine monsters into your deck, thus setting up more rounds of Machine Duplication and Rekindling. So assuming you have 1 Wicker Face-up and one facedown, you would have Machine Duplication proc, then use Rekindling to summon them again as they end up in the GY, and then flip summon the other Wicker to get those banished machines back into your deck to loop back into another Duplication and Rekindling. I’m taking the name “Gimmick Puppet” and am using it as a chance to make “Gimmick” focused monsters with a Rube Goldberg Machine sorta self-synergy.

Wasn’t cyber dragon tiered?

@@Deathmare235 Cyber Dragon as a deck? Not really. And even if they were, chances are they're extremely low compared to the current meta decks. I mentioned "cards", because I'm not talking about decks themselves. Cyber Dragon/Chimeratech specifically has "forever rogue" status as a tech option because of how they can easily disrupt certain link decks and any Machine decks with removal that can't be reacted to, often better than simply using a Kaiju.