THE HISTORY OF YU-GI-OH! - GRAVEKEEPER'S ARCHETYPE 

Heretic does not gain atk by Necrovalley cause its unaffected by all cards effects including Necrovalley

Because they're all Spellcasters, cards like "Wonder Wand" and Magician's Left(Right) Hand fit very well in this deck. Also, Spiritualist can Fusion Summon ANY Fusion Spellcaster. If you get Quintet Magician out with its nuking effect, that's game over.

20:34 this card is meant to be a lower power single card version of all 3 Egyptian goods. The top effect is Ra The middle is obelisk The bottom is slifer If you look in the card artwork you can actually see the gods behind him on the tablet

Finally, my favorite archetype. I love them so much. Also, I used to think gravekeeper's Spy was a female. I still do actually

20:35 The card says any, meaning you could sacrifice one gravekeeper and still use the last affect

I played gravekeepers in the beginning era, & crushed the meta in my area. When. Talking about the stats, you're forgetting that necrovalley is supposed to always be on the field. So 1500 atk is actually 2000 atk 4star with piercing. It's actually REALLY good for the period.

I run all Gravekeepers which allows me to use Solidarity as well as soon as any of them go to the Graveyard. Necrovalley+Solidarity equals a 1300 ATK boost for any monster and Visionary can become way OP depending on the time of play. If I get the right hand (Spy/Guardian/Recruiter/Nobleman, Necrovalley, Solidarity, and Visionary) I get a 3500 ATK monster with protection turn two. Not to mention that Solidarity stacks so running three and Necrovalley is a 2900 ATK boost if I can get it.

I liked using the gravekeepers because they reminded me of some characters from the show.

18:30 heretic is unaffected by all other cards, including necrovalley. So he does not gain the stat buffs. Thats why he's a "heretic"

Love the Gravekeepers. Was one of the first archetypes I ever used and boy was I good at using them. A few reasons to why I love them. It completely shut down my brother's Dragunity deck. I excelled at controling my graveyard with Visionary and Stele. And to throw in a little extra damage I felt was definitely needed I added Coffin Seller to really make people regret sacrificing and or discarding their monsters. I really loved using them and I definitely want to build another Gravekeeper deck.

I like to run 1 Spy in case I don’t really need anything else and I have Headsman ready, but that’s just me

24:47 how is it not amazing?? I run this at 3 in my GK deck. It let's me take pretty much any card I want from my deck(hands down one of the best searchers in the game). It protects necrovalley and itself. Making combo plays with hidden temples much easier to pull of. It's stats can be insane if you play it right: Starts at 2000 Gains 500 from valley 2500 Gains equal to the levels used for summon: Use a spiritualist and an oricle they combine to 14 so add another 1400 Gives you - 3900 attack - 3900 defence - can't be destroyed by card effect. Now if you have locked your opponent out of special summons with hidden temples they are going to find it incredibly hard to get around this monster.

You can chain noblemen to spy and recruiter you can chain that 1 card with its effect 3 times in 1 turn if your enemy can attack enough

As someone who is getting back into dueling again after stopping for a while, I am loving the ideas some of the comment section is giving me on building my deck. I've been running my personal deck in ygopro and Master duels and having a lot of success

you can choose which effect you want from oracle, even if you just tributed for 1 gravekeeper, you can choose the 3rd effect

They should release a lvl7 xyz made using 2 supernaturalist that is titled “ The Gravekeeper “. Or maybe release a synchro instead and a new tuner to summon it. Another fusion monster would also be cool

While opening packs in Legacy Of The Duelist, thought about making a deck of this archetype, yet from now on not sure how good it might be at all.

Gravekeeper chief looked like a rapper.

Hi there, nice video but..., Heretic does not get field boost You can use either of oracles effects by tributing 1 gravekeeper

Is konami still in control with yugioh? Been wanting to revamp the gravekeepers. Donate some of my trucker money to redo all gravekeepers. I want them to have everything but I want them to be competitive again. Normal, effect, tribute, 2 tribute, 3 tribute, special summon, ritual summon, pendulum summon, union, xyz, fusion, link summon, synchro summon, fusion summon. I want them to be just as good as the dark magician, blue-eyes, red-eyes, exodia archetypes.

You don't need to tribute 3 monsters to get the last effect, you can choose the one you want, with just one of them the last one can be activated

Back when I played competitively back in 2016 the best opening I could get was Necrovalley Spy Commandant Imperial tombs Royal tribute Going first, activate necrovalley, pitch commandant for a second necrovalley, set spy, set tombs, activate tribute. If I was playing against Burning Abyss this was essentially game. Plus, if they draw a monster and attacked set spy it would have 2500 def and give me a free descendant that I can use to pop any monster or card that worried me I loved my GK deck so much

Gravekeepers were my first archetype

I feel like necrovalley decks are slow but they'll slow your opponents down with them with Necrovalley and Secret Temples of Necrovalley effectively shutting down decks heavily reliant on special summons(Basically Meta Decks). Another advatage for Gravekeeper's Decks is the fact how cheap you can build it when buying as singles from local card shops. Spent less than 10 dollars and got all the core Gravekeeper cards, price may vary. Fill in plenty of negate cards(Solemn Series) and voila! You have a necrovalley deck.

Great video! A thing that i think not too many people realize is that Spiritualist can summon Shaddoll Winda if you have the materials. Also, a downside of the Supernaturalist is that is unable to search Rite of Spirit or Gravekeeper's Stele :c

I used Nobleman to set spy and spy to summon Nobleman or to set up other plays. It certainly came in handy more often than not

My favourite of all the deck archetypes! They deserve new support like a GL Link and XYZ monster and other Spell/Trap cards

the reason people don't tribute is because it's a pointless -1, but chief isn't because it specials a gravekeeper from the grave. Not to say it's amazing, but running 1 copy isn't actually the worst idea.

i know this is old video but heretic isnt affected by necrovalley since it's unnafected by everything WHILE necrovalley is on the feild, it doesnt say except necrovalley

Isn’t Heretic unaffected by Necrovalley’s 500 AP boost as well?

Made an extremely nasty GraveKeeper’s deck and my friend tried making decks to beat it cause I’ve locked down everything and even card effects that activate in the GY including Darklord Nurseburn couldn’t use her effect

I love these guys. I have a gravekeeper deck built for goat, Edison and hat formats. Soear soldier was also alot better than you gave it credit for. Under Necrovalley, it was bigger than Airknight Parsath

I run Gravekeepers and Spear Soldier was my only out to Crooked Cook with Right Hand Sharks effect. Beat that Exodia Deck because of it.

I found this video very informative and well presented. Thank you for you efforts 👍

I wish when you review an archetype you don't just say "No one uses it, it sucks, let's move on." When I click on a review I want to see the overall usability in today's meta (AND NON-META), because after all, one of the game's problem is that a lot of people play to win instead of playing to have fun. That's neither here nor there though, my point is that it seems you're "reviewing" this archetype through one lens. Please try to be a little more unbiased towards non-meta playstyles. Furthermore, there's WAY too many ads for a thirty minute video full of nothingness.

Gravekeeper decks used to be so annoying for me lol. Although I never used one myself, there's this one card called "The End of Anubis" that, while not part of the Gravekeepers archetype, its effect is pretty much that of Necrovalley. I used to run that card in my DARK deck back in the day before Synchros came out. Nice use of the Forbidden Memories OST btw!

My favorite archtype but I thought you were a bit harsh on gravekeeper assailant

I love spellcasters, but most I know about these is from GX. I use the spear guy tho. I like making equip decks in the video games.

I think you are too harsh on assailant and watcher by old school yugioh standards. Obviously they are not great now. But there were plenty of good cards with discard costs you could negate with watchman like lightning vortex, magic jammer, raigeki break, karma cut, tribute to the doomed, back to square one, etc. And there are definitely situations in older yugioh where assailant's ability could be useful. There were plenty of monsters with lopsided attack and defense that you would love to change the battle positions of as assaliant could destroy them that way such as gemini elf, la jinn mystical geni of the lamp, neo the magical swordsman, giant solidier of stone, mystical elf, summoned skull, etc.

When yugioh was actually good, now it's a fucking cess pool

3:28 I run a gravekeeper's deck and I love getting them into the graveyard to power up my visionary

Cool Video ! keep up the good work! Needs an update or deck profile 😎

Supernaturalist gains more atk/def depending on the combined levels of the monsters that summoned it. If you tribute Oracle from the hand, that's an extra 10 levels. With Necrovalley, that's likely a 3900 atk monster on the field that can't be destroyed outside of battle. I have one in my deck and I can get it to the hand with Recruiter or Throne.

I was running dark dragon thingy. Its been too long. I still have my deck in a ultra pro deck box just sitting there. I rarely ever touch it. It's the hell hole where my money used to go to lol. Anyways used to use stuff like that. Have 3 darks in the graveyard use it effect, allure of darkness was a good one. Even used starlight road. Eh you want to destroy everything. Poof negated and special summon a stardust dragon. Was wanting to run that crittious dragon fusion in my deck. You know the one that fuses with a crush card virus is a dark dragon. Suppose to be a good control card. I was running xyz material utopia warrior's in my deck. Was working. Easy to grab up 2 lv 4 monsters. My issue was getting them on the field fast enough. There was a magic card that allowed you to double summon. Most effects of gravekeepers was from their card's and more likely I was trying my best to OTK if I could. Was even thinking about the forbidden pieces since most gravekeepers would thin out your deck anyways.

Also heretic will not get boost of necrovalley. Also nobleman and soy is a good combo, visionary is good for later game, and oracle is good for using as fusion material with spiritualist

YOU WATCH YOUR MOUTH ABOUT GRAVEKEEPERS VISIONARY IT IS AMAZING I CAN POP OFF WITH LIKE 6.5K ATK FROM IT

Does grave keepers recruiter only get its affect while on the field ? Or can it be sent with foolish and still happen?

Sadly Heretic doesn't gain the boost from Necrovalley

5:33 consider the fact that most GK decks want to have valley out first turn all GKs get extra 500 attack so level 4 with 200 attack is not shit(especially for early years yugioh)

This video is kinda pissing me off. I got to commandment, one of the most used cards in my deck..... and he’s just badmouthing it. Think about this, what if your entire deck was only graveKeeper monsters. I will send a graveKeeper to the graveyard to keep it alive from a dark hole, or another affect, which in the end will just boost its attack even more. Pair it with Recruiter and suddenly you have a way to get whatever monster you want from your deck while protecting your boss monster/boosting him *continues watching to Hertic and pounds my head into the wall* Thank you for giving it more credit than it’s due, but once again you can’t F’ing read. As long as Necrovalley is on the field, it’s immune to all other card effects.... INCLUDING NECROVALLEY!!!! It stays at 1800 *breaths into bag as I get into noblemen* You... omfg........ geez, if only *Coughs spy* there was a very good *Coughs spy* GraveKeeper that is *coughs spy* best utilized facedown *coughs spy* for its flip affect....... SPY!!!!!! *WANTS TO PUNCH YOU THROUGH MY F’ING PHONE* READ!!!! READ THE F’YING CARD WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!!!!!! “You can activate ANY!!!! Of these affects” not just,” you can only take away 2,000 if you sacrifice 3. Plus, let’s say you have two Comandments and a spy on your side of the field and decide to sacrifice all three with Necrovalley. That’s 20 levels times 100, so now it’s at 4,500 attack and even if your opponent had a blue eyes Ultimate dragon, it’s attack goes down to 2,500 and then the opponent gets hit with 2,000 points of damage. I came back to this video and realized after I said all that you actually commented on for oracle. I’m sorry I got angry, but their my favorite cards I won competitions with. You can understand, I hope, why I get so postal about it.

Is this song "shifting sands" from Mario??

Necrovalley AKA Ghost Belle On Crack!

I disagree with you about Visionary. That card beats over most cards with 3k atk in 2010

honest question but seriously, are flip summons really not relevant at all anymore? imagine summoning 7+ monsters in one turn to get to a high-level monster and then being bounced by Gravekeeper's Guard just like that. i mean, forget the win/lose for a moment but can y'all imagine the feeling? :(

Why are gravekeepers associated with marik?

Breh you lost me when you said don't run Poly , your not a duelist lol

You uploaded this 3 month's ago so you should be able to help with what card's can go into this deck in order to make it a pro tournament deck. I've faced pros before. I stopped playing because of this crap with most people playing meta deck's no matter whose turn it was the opponent would be I special summon this to your side of the field destroy your field special summon to my field attack end of game. Note this was when link started and I was like very confused because I've played since the show was on tv.

Man these takes have aged terribly.