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

"Leo being the goat of making life stream dragon look like a threat" is one of my favorite lines of yours. Lol

What I find cute about Morphtronics is you can tell how long they've been around by what devices they reference as the years went on. When they first came out in the late 2000s you had Celfon being on old flip phone, then Smartfon came out once smart phones became a thing. There was Boomboxen being an old school portable stereo, then Remoten being an MP3 player/Wireless Remote looking device. Now we have modern day technology like Earfon being AirPods and Scannen being a 3D printer. Just goes to show how far electronics have come in such that last decade.

If normal summoning in face up defense position was a thing in the TCG, it would have helped Morphtronics.

I’m just gonna say it: This archetype NEEDS pendulum monsters. It’s way faster to just pendulum summon the cards you need and put them in the appropriate positions on the spot.

"Belonging to Leo who gave us the best moment in 5ds when he became a signer" "We will not be slandering Leo as he is the GOAT" "In 2022 konami understood that Leo was the best boy of 5ds HOLY BASED AND REDPILLED

Sadly, Morphtronics followed the same fate as their wielder, best boi and GOAT Leo, who got bodied everytime he dueled and, even when he did the most impressive comeback , still was sidelined to help Jack defeat Aporia instead of Leo beating him. PS: I love both his anime and DL themes

cannot believe they gave a card with such a cool name as Factory of 100 machines and a sick artwork that lackluster effect

I think Double Tool C&D probably stands for Chainsaw and Drill. Still wishing for A&B to come tho

Ah, Morphtronics; an archetype constantly being outshined by better cards and decks. It definitely has potential and is really fun to pull off but they really need something to be more consistent.

Morphtronics have the bones to be a fantastic deck with the right support cards. But then so do so many other archetypes. If I could ask Konami to do one thing for the next couple of years it would be to seriously scale back on new archetypes and focus heavily on making old ones viable in todays format. There are so many old decks that needs some love and deserve it. I for one would pay good money for a true Gagagigo deck. Imagine if we could have really strong decks based on iconic cards like Giltia, Flame Swordsman, Dark Blade, Chaos Emperor Dragon, Slot Machine and Pumpking the King of Ghosts ( Halloween tournaments should be a thing ). The list of iconic but useless cards is extensive....lets revive them!

"Leo didn't deserve this" is also a summary of his narrative treatment in the entirely second half of 5Ds (the same as any main character not called Yusei, Crow or Jack) This is partially because some writing rearrangement that changed the plot of some topics addressed in Dark Signers arc (including Arcadia Movement). And as a kind o f consolation price, the show remembered there was another signer dragon in flashbacks that was not Black Wing and made it appear almost out of nowhere (reckoning signers lore for the second time) in a duel with no previous exploration of Leo related to said Signer Dragon (or any Leo exploration at all during that arc/half of the show)

It wasn't meta defining or anything, but Duel Links made Life Stream Dragon more useful. Its healing ability was more effective with the reduced starting LP and Leo has an ability that gives you two Lantrons and allows you to Special Summon it from your hand when you summon Power Tool Dragon.

I still love and adore my funny little household appliance Transformers! I do hope they keep getting fun support or maybe even some retrains! See'ing Power Tool upgrade or transform to a true dragon is always cool! Guess I always root for the underdog decks xD

Writer really got to glazing with this script

Morphtronics best use was probably in the XYZ era where celphon was used to help turbo out Shooting Quasar Dragon, which is could do fairly consistently barring any interruptions.

Man i remember loving this deck so so much back in tbe 5d/synchro era of the game I was a child and just liked the decks of the twins so much

YESS Loving the Leo appreciation. My fav character in the ygo anime

Playing this deck in high school was so much fun because of the stalling with bind, the negate attacks and the morphtransition, along with the map and driver to boost attack for the otk. at locals rn, i still rock it with more modern cards and stuff but it does suffer from the interruptions or the dice roll. but adding things like the one for one, regulus, machine dup, have really been helping out. i will forever love this archtype

Labyrinth of nightmare is actually a soild non archetype card here can switch them to defense on thier turn. On your turn just switch them to atk mode and attack

I thank you for another great video! I love this whole video, especially the phone jokes and the part that starts at 19:09!

Scannen and Earfon are both interesting to me simply because they're based on technologies which, to the best of my knowledge, didn't exist when Morphtronics were first introduced.

I just wanted to say that i really like the energy and jokes you put into the script of this video. It felt fun to listen to and like you were enjoying yourself a lot ❤

Man I wanted morphtronics to be great

Might need to reread Morphtronic Accelerator my guy…

Fitting since Leo was screwed over in the anime, denied being a signer after it was heavily hinted at in the first season until the last five ep of season 2. And I think Power Tool Mecha Dragon is the manga version of the card, along with the other signer dragon variants.

Ah this is nostalgic. In casual play I had a decently performing Morphtronic deck. I'd stall using two Magnen or Boomboxen or Bind, then go for game with a bunch of buffed monsters.

THIS WILL NEVER STOP ME FROM RUNNING MORPHTRONICS AT MY LOCALS! lol. its nice to see some videos on morphtronics. love the videos btw!! LIFE STREAM actually made my opponent scoop the match when he realized i take no effect damage XD. he was running a VOLCANIC/RUNIC deck to mill and burn

I actually used Gadget Hauler in a Boot-Up deck, because it was a level 5 or higher EARTH Machine "Gadget" and was therefore an Urgent Schedule target. Meanwhile, Infinitrack Anchor Drill could summon it from the hand in an otherwise brick situation, and then make them both level 10 for Trains plays

Would’ve really loved if Morphtronics worked like equip cards to help support Power tool dragon. For example each morphetronic would be a synchro extended and get an additional effect when equipped to power tool dragon. Would’ve been a sick deck design as it could also work with unions.

Can’t wait for the morphtronic link 1

Funny thing is I just played someone who used these cards to looop synchro summoning.

I threw in boomboxin as a random tech in my machina beat down deck back in the day. A double attacking 4 star boosted by Gaia Power, Solidarity, and occasionally Limiter Removal was plain savage. Ah, the good ol’ times…

Morphtronics, more than meets the eye.

I love morphtronic and want them to be good in a competitive format. So, call me out if this sounds like a bad idea. Introducing………. Morphtronic Shreddon Link-1 (arrow points straight down) Effect- your opponent can’t activate any cards from the hand upon the summon or activation of a “morphtronic” or “power tool dragon” effect. Once per turn: you can target a “morphtronic” monster that was used for the link summon of this monster. Special summon it from your graveyard in either attack or defense position to a zone this card points to. You can only use this effect once per turn. Basically, a morphtronic based on a paper shredder to “shred” your opponents hand traps before playing them. Plus, if you use a celfon or telefon as the material, even if your opponent uses a hand trap to negate it, you can special it back to the field to continue your plays without the risk of a hand trap negating a summon or a search in your combo. PLUS, this support can be locked to exclusively morphtronic summoning so it can’t be splashed into any deck like the braver synchron was.

Please do a video on the seal of orichalcos/the orichalcos arc cards!

I don't care if Morftronics are good or no I will still always love them

Surprisingly good when they first came out in Duel Links.

"It's Celfon but with 5G and better camera" 🤣

not sure if you noticed but accelerator is from the hand not the field

I've ran then early and I loved stalling with it and control. It was one of my favorite decks I used to run

Keep in mind the era these cards released, double tool C&D was likely supposed to be a play on equipping them with a CD, obviously CDs were still mainstays back then and a main way to listen to music before streaming.

I liked Staplen. The defense was decent enough to keep you alive sometimes and if you had two out in attack or had another monster with C&D you could prevent attacks too

I once made a gimmicky equip card deck that did overall suck, but life stream dragon one time shone for me in the face of a burn deck that only used destruction effects for removal. And I got it out one turn away from losing, and ended up winning the game

Lots of support, lots of good cards and cards that are better in other decks than in their own archetype. Reminds me of Dark Magician.

I did love this archtype and its the one i mained until wind-ups came out. Though rng it randomly was explosive with the right Celphon rng into just a swarm from monsters from the archetype and depending on which ones you hit changed how the game went for me, from boarden/magnen locking the opponent, to synchro 7 spamming, to boomboxing beatdown, to just chilling on Naturia synchros since a lot of their earlier monsters where earth. Unfortunately the fact that it relied on a dice roll is what made it bad in the end and when it finally got a card like telephon well into the link era, it no longer needed any other card in the archetype to do well. 🙁

And now we wait for new Morphotronic support. Thanks for the jinx, Duellogs!

I am an enthusiast morphtronic player that knows the Deck is kind of really bad, but will still play it as one of their main decks. Thank you for making it more well-known as a Deck that actually has potential.

This is really making me want to go back on master duel and play my Morphtronic deck

Hearing Duel logs say "Leo is the goat" gave me actual whiplash

Morphtronics remind of Vehicroids if they were done only a little better. An archetype around the times when searching was harder than a setup of an unbreakable board nowadays, a weird focus on effects changing whether the monsters are in defense or attack, bad stats to boot, with the old Field Spell hopefully getting many counters to marginally increase the ATK, the most notable thing about them was that the character who played them in the anime had Power Tool Dragon as his main boss monster that can search Equip Spells (on a Level 7 Synchro).

More of this script writer please.

I’m pretty sure Double Tool C&D just means Double Tool Cutter & Drill. You know, because of the tools in the artwork.

I had a Morphtronic deck back in my high school years I think. Even had Junk Synchron in the deck and my go tos were Junk Warrior and Junk Gardna

There's always hope for an archetype, after all they recently released more Genex support, so anything ispossible.

The other funny thing, the BEST way to play telephon FTK it's to just play the telephon, machine dupe and a way to get it, the most popular was the tribrigate lyrilusc engine or how I play it, packed full with dangers, the dungeon dice cards and ferret to gamba my way into drawing something to start off the combo, also add an exodius as an emergency plan in case they imperm the canon soldier, that way you get infinte lifepoints and hold the exodius till you have one or two cards left in deck to refill and make your OP deck out, also works against runick since after you get infinte LP you tribute the whole field so they can't plus out of the spells (unless it's the draw one banish 4)

Morptronics remind me of dream mirrors that’s a similar but also equally terrible and failed deck I think people really wanted to be great but just didn’t happen. A shame because their artwork was amazing.

7:00 "D.D.R" shows a picture of Return from a Different Dimension 😅 Its even a trap not an equip spell 🤣

I miss playing this deck back in 2012

Speaking of cool electronics, You should totally do a video on digital bugs!

This deck is always fun to play with

Morphtronic Telefon is Yu-Gi-Oh!'s equivalent to Tibalt's Trickery. It's not powerful, but may Holactie have mercy if you CAN'T deal with it.

The Lantron could be really funny if comboing it with the Dice jar effect to guarantee your opponent takes the burn, but that's gimmicky.

Morphtronic Quasar was THE deck back in the day. Once they finally put my boys down, I went all-in with Deskbots.

can't wait for the morphtronics new support now

The Appliancers are the Morphtronics of the Link Era?

Okay I maybe not been active Yugioh player I more casual who play when I am in the mood, but this is first time I see this archtypes, even when I play Master Duel sometime I never see or even get this archtypes at all.

In the card art of Power tool C&D, it shows a drill and a saw. For the longest time, I thought the saw was a shield. I wish I was kidding, but.....

17:46 I will never forgive this card not having at least an additional effect if it was summoned using the original Life Stream Dragon, or at least floating into life stream dragon if Braver was destroyed (and that being treated as a proper synchro summon)

I remember going to locals when these guys came out and it was just everywhere 😭

I would love to see videos on black wings and lightsworn

What a coincidence. I was just re watching Rata’s Morphtronic Archetype Archive

My head canon is that Telefon is most likely the reason for Halqs downfall.

You have made a major mistake with Accelerator. It shuffles a Morphtronic from your HAND into your deck to destroy 1 and draw 1. Now this still wasn't enough to make Morphtronic tier 1 at the time, but it does make it a lot better as it doesn't chip away at your own board.

As much as I want Morphtronics to be good, they need a starter that special summons from hand, and simultaneously sets up GY or something, and a non-monster card that can search things out, like a ROTA. Gadget Gamer is almost there, but, it's a monster, so it's Imperm/veiler-able, and is a summon for Nibiru, on top of Ash Blossom stopping both effects, which can leave them with a starter in hand, but nothing on board. They need a spell like "Morphtronic Sale" which lets you add a morphtronic to hand, and send another to grave, AND a monster, like a "Morphtronic Desktopen" that can special summon itself with some cheap condition, and either add something to hand, or send something to grave based on position, because then you can semi-reasonably set up Telefon through an interruption while using Cellfon and Smartfon as a normal summon. They just REALLY need something to set them up. Hell even a field/cont spell that can stack the top card of your deck with a Morphtronic would help, but then they'd have to draw it and a starter, and still would die to an Ash or something. I do think that genuinely, if they had basically Cellfon, but as a free special summon from hand, they'd be eating good. Even if they made it out of Machine Dupe range, or EVEN if they made it the unheard of HARD ONCE PER TURN- they'd still be poking their head into rogue-

They need a combo route that put a card like Apholusa in the midle of their combo just to negate a hand trap to keep te combo going.

Oooo live the series. Maybe we get Duston next?

0:00 Hmm… Ideas for some “Morphtronic” cards that can help: _Morphtronic Duel-Diskon_ (LIGHT) Level 3 Pendulum Scales: 7⬅️➡️0 _During either players turn, you can place this card in your pendulum zone (From your hand, monster zones or GY) after you change the battle position of a “Morphtronic” monster you control. You can Normal Summon/Set “Morphtronic” in any battle position. Monsters that you summon/set gain the names of, ATK/DEF Equal to, and the effects of, any “Morphtronic” used as tribute(s) or material(s) for their summon/set while on the field._ Machine/Pendulum/Tuner/Effect _● While in Attack Position: Attack Position “Morphtronic” monsters you control gain ATK equal to their DEF, and cannot be destroyed by battle. ● While in Defense Position: Defense Position “Morphtronic” monsters you control gain DEF equal to their ATK, and cannot be destroyed by card effects._ ATK/1000 DEF/1000 _Morphtronic Department Store_ Continuous Spell _Unaffected by other card effects while you control 2 ore more face-up “Morphtronic” cards. You can only use each of the following effects of “Morphtronic Department Store” Once per turn, during either players turn: ● You can declare the name of a “Morphtronic” monster; Pay LP Equal to it’s total ATK/DEF, then Special summon the declared monster from your hand, deck or GY, and if that summoned monster leaves the field the turn it is summoned by battle or an opponent’s card or effect: You gain LP equal to it’s total original ATK/DEF. ●After a “Morphtronic” monster you control battles or activates any of it’s effects, you can change it’s battle position._

He became a signer... For all of like 3 episodes. But it was an awesome scene.

Good video ! Sadly gadget box and impact return will Always be forgot...

Please do a failed archtype video on the Alien cards and support; been trying to get that deck to work so badly after the Link support, but keep getting stomped

The main cool thing about Power tool mecha dragon is that it can share the equipment.

I used to play this deck in the 5ds ds game

Man I still play morphtronics despite its flaws. Next he'll do watts, which was another one of my babies in the synchro era but a probably worse archetype

You should do a Dark World video, it's my favorite archetype in YuGiOh Legacy of The Duelist. It's so overpowering against the OG and GX campaigns. The engine is so easy to access but it can't defend against card effects

i honestly don't care if they're a failure or not I still love the Morphtronic Archetype

One other tragic thing in the 5Ds era was how inadequate Power Tool Dragon was as a true boss monster for the archetype. Generically it was great for fetching a utility equip spell at a time when the 7 pool was really shallow, but it kind of suffered for the sins of Stardust Dragon and the dream of closing out games with Power Tool stacked with 3+ equip spells just wasn't a thing; non-destruction removal was just too ubiquitous, not even considering the other specific counters that were incidentally common.

I need a top 10 leo cards with DuelLogs praising Leo the whole episode

Morphtronic Desktopen- In atk position roll a die any even number choose 1 morhtronic card and add it to your hand. In def roll a die, any odd number add 1 morphtronic card from the grave yard or banished zone to your hand

When you bring Rev Synchron back and your opponent expect Crystal Wing but you instead Synchro for Enlightenment Paladin and place a Secret Village on board turn one. Good luck!

why do i feel like amazoness and war rock is gonna get there episode here

To this day I still remember shutting down a Malefic deck by using Vacumen

Kinda tragic how this deck didn't find a place in history. From the sound of it, Morphtronic isn't even *bad,* they just can't compete with top decks. I kinda hope Konami can turn it around some day, but at least now it's a capable casual/rogue deck.

I wouldn't mind, but the episode where Yusei meets Leo and Luna and where we first see Morphtronics in action was the very first episode of 5D's I ever saw as well! I was surprised when they then became regulars, although admittedly, I shouldn't have been, given the talk of the Fortune Cup, I jus didn't expect them to be SO regular, you know? And Mecha belongs in that little group of Manga Signer Dragons, being their Manga counterparts, along with Ancient Pixie Dragon, Hot Red Dragon Archfiend (the dire one we don't talk about and is so bad no Demon's player plays it, not even me), Black-Winged Feather Dragon, Black Rose Moonlight Dragon and Stardust Spark Dragon! And is no one else going to mention the fact that that Revolution Synchron can make Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss? I'm sorry, I've jus been playing Demon's Dragon on Master Duel, plus what with the Structure Deck, so much lately, I think it's infected my brain, especially what with how one of my favourite Synchro Archetypes got a DARK Dragon Synchro! (That's T.G., by the way and Dragunar, which fulfills the conditions FOR Hot Red Dragon Abyss! And, Spoiler Alert, I didn't pull one, even though I opened two boxes... Don't have a Mighty Striker, either... Got Glaive Buster, though and a Quarter Century Rocket Salamander and one of each Spell, plenty of Traps and the "dark Zeus", so it's not all bad! Still have to say, though, I think I prefer Digimon Boosters to Yu-Gi-Oh!'s... Better odds!)

Small error, Accelerator shuffles the Morphtronic from your hand, not the field... so it is slightly better then you were saying it was. Also, I got a feeling that these were designed with anime-rules in mind... as summoning monsters in face-up defense position was still a thing in 5Ds and definitely would have made some of the defense mode effects more threatening... like Vacumen, which wouldn't have needed any sort of setup to Relinquished an opponent's monster as a Normal summon.

6:59 shout out to my favorite equipcard Return From The Different Dimension :)

also i love this series of video

Morphtronics! Robots in disguise! Morphtronics! More than meets the eye!

I use power tool braver for my mikoanko deck , never even considered using him for something like morphtronicks

You should do video on failed cards on Fortune Lady and Faries.

At least Morphtronics where playable and super cool in the video games