The Curious Case of Counterpart Cards! 

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LaMoon/Dark Witch/PenduLuMoon

Maybe it's a bias, for me it's the Chaos counterparts; The Chaos Creator, Chaos Mirage Dragon, Chaos Grepher, etc.

@@chos7631 They are pretty cool!

@@dragonmaster613 True!

@@NecromancyForKids Attic Ghost is up there for me too!

A lot to love!

Lore? I wouldn't call "This monster has razor sharp claws to shred enemies" lore.

I still wish they got a bit more going than just [monster name] no. 2. Palette swap enemies were and still are a common theme in JRPGs, and were pretty much guaranteed to appear in late 90s RPGs with that era's limited cartridge space (to the point where I'm surprised Pokemon _didn't_ throw a couple palette swaps into the mix in Gen 1 - although shared audio was very well a thing in those games), so Yugioh getting a slice of that pie is excusable and in a way feels almost nostalgic at least for me. But with how many games had enemy sequences like "Wolf," "Dire Wolf," and "Monster Wolf," it makes me wish Yugioh followed suit for all their no. 2 cards. Dark Elf and Wretched Ghost of the Attic are some of my favorite early Yugioh cards idea-wise, and that would have definitely not been the case if they were Mystical Elf no. 2 or Kuriboh no. 2 instead. Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress no. 2 could have been Flying Wyvern, Guardian of the Fortress to fit its Japanese name and its lack of having the Dragon type. Steel Ogre Grotto could have been Alloy Ogre Grotto to mirror it being a bit stronger. And so on.

Yacine656's are is really not doing the cards any favors.

@@christiancinnabars1402 Yeah they probably should have given them different names in the TCG, though as you see they did have different names in the OCG

My favorite of the name change has to be what they did to Harpie's Brother, where Konami didn't want him around the "family" for say, so they completely changed his name to Sky Scot, does removing him from any of the Harpie support out there. Or a more recent one is that that Equip card Rafael used for his Eatos apparently also doubles as a Noble Arms card, even though it makes no sense to put that card in a deck like that

@@Lucario1121 It's not really for no reason, it's that the TCG and OCG need to maintain consistent card interactions, the OCG being the head of the card game gets to decide what is or isn't part of certain archetypes. Harpie's Brother isn't as silly but the Noble Arms and Noble Knights cards are pretty ridiculous. They were TCG exclusive cards so not intended to be retroactively applied to cards like Celestial Sword - Eatos but when they were imported to the OCG they were given the title of "Holy Knight" and "Holy Sword" which made some OCG cards need to be marked or imported as part of the "Noble Knight" or "Noble Arms" archetypes. One of the weirdest cases is Celtic Guard of Noble Arms since that's a real mess of names. "Celtic Guardian" was how the TCG localized "Elf Swordsman" and the name was never relevant until Celtic Guard of Noble Arms made "Elf Swordsman" (in the OCG) into an archetype which made the TCG need to use "Celtic Guard" but in a weird case this time the OCG needed to mark Celtic Guard of Noble Arms as a "Celtic Guard" monster (or rather, they needed "Elf Holy Swordsman" to specify that it counts as an "Elf Swordsman" monster) while the TCG didn't. And the use of "Celtic Guard" rather than "Celtic Guardian" is also a localization weirdness because Arsenal Summoner specifies that "Guardian" is an archetype so because of this singular support card for a horrible archetype nobody actually uses they can't use the very common word of "Guardian" unless the OCG has already used it in a card name. EDIT: oh right principug also supports "Guardian"... For some reason

Great and insightful comment that allows me to save time not typing it up myself, while simultaneously satisfying my weirdo brain's requirement of ensuring this clarification is available to all who are curious. Thank you for your service lol

Another fun fact... Wolf and Silver Fang are not part of this set, as they're both in DM1, and, they actually look different! And they're the same color too. They're also functionally identical and completely redundant. I mention this not because they appear in this video but because I also thought they were counterparts until I looked things up.

They're pretty cool!

@@maliksmith9003 Its OCG name translates to Baby T-Rex, so it's not too far off all things considered

@@JanjoZone and that makes it better 😭

@@TiagoODuelista They added some cool details about them!

Ultimately it would end up causing problems as well, as it would facilitate either an absurd amount of forward planning or numerous reprints just to gather archetypal modifiers. An obvious example is HERO - the TCG did not expect to need to change "Hero" to "HERO" because at initial release they were only Elemental HERO cards. The earliest card to my knowledge that referenced "HERO" as a distinct archetype rather than separating it into Elemental and Destiny variants was Elemental HERO Stratos, released in the OCG in 2008. Prior to that, even the OCG may not have known if they wanted to make cards that would support both of the sub-archetypes and if every archetype was to be given a tag this wouldn't really work. Either they would need to have the unified "HERO" tag and specify archetypal connections anyway by specifying ("Elemental" HERO monster) or they would need to make tags for every archetype they're a part of, and be aware of how many tags they might put on a card. It's easier to just use the name as a marker for an archetype since those parts of a card are not going to change. The issue of unintentional archetype members is only really a thing in the TCG where their early localizations forced addressing the OCG's names. The only time it really was silly was when the Noble Knights cards got localized to the OCG as "Holy Knight" and "Holy Sword" which forced some newer TCG cards to change their names to put them as part of the "Noble Knights" or "Noble Arms" lines. Otherwise, the TCG tends to be more dedicated to noticing when the OCG is making a specific naming convention and sticking with it in the localization, as well as making sure that they aren't overlapping with some random old card. And you'd have a sort of "reverse Frog the Jam" conundrum for a lot of decks. There are many cards that didn't initially start as an archetype and later were made into one - cards like Resonators, Penguins, or even something as ubiquitous as Blue-Eyes were not directly given support as archetypes until many years after their initial releases. To use Penguin as an example because it has the most volume of old cards. The first card that made Penguin into an archetype was The Great Emperor Penguin, released in 2011. All that you really needed to drop in its set was the monster itself. If you wanted to give each archetype a text box tag you would have had to reprint the extremely old five Penguin (Bolt, Flying, Knight, Soldier, Nightmare) monsters in addition to The Great Emperor Penguin just to give them a tag.

All of them except the king cards are new versions of old cards. They were essentially dead monsters that the king of the underworld breathed new life into

Yep!

And plenty more too!

It actually looked pretty cool!

@@valutaatoaofunknownelement197 Yep that was me!

@@JanjoZone Quite a damn good palette swap and lore for a vanilla counterpart.

@@valutaatoaofunknownelement197 thanks!

Yeah I was gonna leave a comment on how on-point it is, but I'll just dogpile on here. Dark Baron goes hard AF lol!

Yep! A lot of them in there!

@@miloscarapic4502 Sounds like Ancient Jar

Thanks.

This was made before that haha