The State of Pendulum 

Something else I have also always thought as stupid is that Gemini's were never combined with pendulums. You could print some strong effects on them since you have to place 2 in scale to Special summon them, then use your normal summon(s) on your Gemini's on the field.

The Performage support got announced in such a nice timing to this video lol

I too got into the game by pendulums. These crazy colorful cards that are capable of using all extra deck mechanics really excited me in a way other mechanics cant. I used to main odd eyes and then DDD till i stopped playing again.

Arc-V was the textbook definition of "Starts strong, falls off hard towards the end"

I'm surprised it took me so long to find this. But its kinda crazy that someone made a video essay with many of the same points I often make when it comes to expressing my opinion that the pendulum mechanic shouldn't be shackled to links, or that summoning 5 (now theoretically 6) monsters from the ED doesnt really matter because most decks can make a dozen bodies easily, and so forth. One of the big things I often focused on was that it was a blatant double standard that most decks now have a level of recursion that pendulums could only dream of even in MR3, and that pendulum card design often... Just doesn't work anymore. Smile universe being a personal favorite just because it seems like it could be a fantastic butt saver. But other cards like wavering eyes kinda being... Useless. Unless I search EXACTLY astrograph, I don't wanna go -3 because I can only summon back ONE MONSTER. Also the "Pepe lite" playstyle as MBT coined it, of pop search, pop search, pop search, stack your ED for a fat pendulum summon just... Doesnt exist anymore, like you said with Igknights. BUT THANK YOU FOR SAYING WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING. That Konami DESIGNED these cards to play this way. They designed them with the inherit recursion to come back from the FU ED because of their scales, but NEVER gave them much in the way of summoning themselves. Then, Konami punished the mechanic for playing the way they designed them. I've been saying that for AGES. THANK YOU. Anyway, Odd-eyes is my favorite archetype, free the pendulum.

It's ironic that a mechanic that receives hate for being able to *theoretically* summon 5 monsters at once, when every modern deck consistently summons way more than that. At least when it happened with Pendulums, you didn't have to wait for your opponent to combo for 10 minutes into an already predictable board state.

Konami right now just views pendulumns are just the rough draft for Rush duels. Now that rush duels exist, they have no reason to fix pends.

I think the main reason why Konami has been hesitant for pushing Pendulum card design further is that they basically eradicated the original Pendulum design philosophy of being able to bring back face up Pendulum monsters in the extra deck with MR3 which for some reason isn't still reverted when MR4 happened. Soo unlike Fusion, Synchro and Xyz; where they continued the card design they left off during the end of Arc-V with the Link restrictions not being anymore the issue (like Zoodiacs), Pendulum have to be basically designed from scratch as a lot of them is basically non functional.. Konami doesn't really have an idea how to build off Pendulums since they wiped the old mechanics out and tied them with Links which can function perfectly fine with out any more advancements. Soo they basically just designed these new Pendulum support cards like they were like Link support, but instead of special summoning themselves to Link climb ad nauseum, it is just more consistency to offset that Pendulums are still handicapped.

i LOVE pendulum, as much as i don't love the current just "combo into generic bosses" gameplan and wish more intresting pend decks like solfachord were better i still love my half spell half monster guys as much as i go 1-3 at locals with them. also holy shit 999 music was used, binding blade referenced this is peak ygo videos

I think D/D does pendulum well. The existence of Gilgamesh allows for use of the mechanic while realistically only needing to run 3 scales

Omg, as pendulum player i felt this vid on so many levels

>a deck that plays on two different axis They technically tried to do that with Valmonica with each scale gaining counters from either taking effect damage or gaining lifepoints. Then if you get enough LP counters on the Fairy scale, you can link summon the offensive angel to pop your enemy's field and attack multiple times, and if you get enough damage counters, you can link summon the defensive Demon who protects your cards from destruction and banishes your Spells/Traps to apply/reapply their effects. This is kinda just me shilling them because they're the first Pendulum deck I want to play, but honestly, the design choice for them is actually interesting I'll argue. Now, is it a good deck? That's something I'm less inclined to argue.

What a fantastic video. Great work. It's starting to look slightly up for Pends but Konami still has a lot of work for making up past mistakes with the way they've handled the mechanic.

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46:05 that's an actual thing in the ARC-V manga, there is an evolution of pendulum summon that can only be performed when the two cards in the pendulum zones have matching scales. In the actual game this is not as cool as it is just a pendulum effect monsters, that can special summon itself from hand or extra deck face up (doesn't actually require them to have matching scales) and prevents you from doing an actual pendulum summon.

As a pendulum player, I can confirm that I can read. And that we love Electrumite and Beyond.

you made a banger with this one! nice video.

What if to use links, you needed to have Pendulum scales…

This is a cathartic rant, thank you. A lot a hadn't thought about before, but a lot I definitely felt validated by to hear from someone else. On the subject of Pends not being as complex as people make them seem (except the stupid extra deck/graveyard stipulation), I have always wondered why nobody also complains about Xyz materials literally not existing in a named location. Sure, they're designated as "materials", but they're not considered on the field despite that being the location of the monster they're attached to. If people can understand that just fine, I think understanding scales and continuous spells (nobody complains about crystal beasts) isn't a tall ask.

15:00 this entire segment is also a discussion I have had with someone not too long ago. Almost exactly word for word. They go "Weh pendulum guy summoned some kinda bullshit card" you look at the card and it's a floodgate cheated out or added by an extra deck monster EVERY SINGLE TIME.

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at this point i have been playing pendulums for almost 10 year's exclusively odd-eyes , to the point people that know me ask if i am ok since i only play this singular deck . yes i have been there ... Even during the spyral meta ... -ygo in general is a very complex game , compared to the others , and pendulum is the most unique mechanic but the card design goes from you exist (the pendulum effect of odd-eyes persona is so funny i dare you to manage to trigger that , or odd eyes venom scale effect) to why were you made to piss people off ( performapal gentrude scale effect or GOD-EYES/All-eyes ENTIRE EXISTENCE) - and i belive pendulums need to have like some sort of passive effect while face up in the extra to justify that stupid design and stupid punishment in mr4/5 (like odd eyes double battle damage be for all pendulum cards)

vaalmonica and melodious have been incredibly fun (and good, for the latter) pendulum decks this year, im really glad theyre playable and not just soup

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i'm legit suprised that there is no archetype that wants to pendulum summon with as small a scales as possible, like gaining benefits and plusses if your scales are exactly 2 apart.

One crime you didnt mention against pendulum is how the vaylantz field spells *require* you to place the other field spell from the deck, and only the deck, and are otherwise unplayable. That means you have to play more than 1 of each field spell else you risk opening both and being locked out of the game, but doing so risks opening more than 1 in your hand, and now you have unplayable bricks in your hand. This is worse when one of the decks only spells and play makers on release (the one that searches senet switch), requires you to add a field spell from deck. That meant before they made the other searcher for the deck, shinonome's effect was basically "add a vaylantz field spell to clog up your hand from your deck to your hand" if you drew 1 of them. God forbid you search one from deck later in the duel while having the other last one in your hand. Oops now these cards are unplayable. You're also underselling musecia's effect for solfachord. It's not niche. It's *embarassingly* bad and the card has no reason to exist after beyond was printed. It's first effect is a search *after* pendulum summoning, and the only solfas that can summon itself from the hand are coolia (with its secret effect) and dreamia. Dreamia is a hopt and you probably already used her to summon musecia in the first place. So surely the intended way is to search coolia and tribute 2 pendulumed solfas to summon her right? Guess what, the only way to search coolia with musecia is to pend cutia, you know, the level 1 monster.... in the deck that has no 0 scale.... i am absolutely baffled as to why they made this effect this way. So it's only use is for follow up i guess? But solfachord isnt really a deck that needs follow up as it already has multiple ways to have them. And besides the only monster that would be good for follow up is dreamia and cutia... and cutia can only be searched if you pend coolia. So dreamia is the only real good option. Musecia's second effect is completely and utterly redundant. It swaps pendulums between your hand and extra deck. Except solfa already has a way to recycle cards from the extra deck, as a +1, in their field spell. Sure it can recycle any pendulum rather than just solfachords, but... what pendulum would you want in your hand that isnt just better off pendulum summoning in the first place? Freaking harmonizing magician? (For Turn 3+ btw) This is not to mention this card was released while electrumite is still legal in the ocg. Oh yeah and its summoning condition is the same as electrumite's, rather than beyond's more lenient one, so you can use trias hierarchia as material for it like you can for btp. The ONLY use for this card, is literally in a format where both btp and electrumite are banned. As just something you can go into, and which might swap an unplayable scale from your hand with the cutia that you just used for it so you can place it in your scale. And i guess you could play it as a turn 3+ option before btp was released in master duel because electrumite is limited, i guess? But i think i can count the amount of times i summoned her in master duel before btp was released. After btp, i can count the amount of times i summoned her on an amputated hand instead. Well no, i may have summoned once in some event where the aforementioned apology links to pendulum were banned but not musecia. It's a really big shame because musecia's art is one of the best in the archetype.

We also now have the new horus cards. Which is basically pendulum, if it only needed one scale and it's pendulum card allowed you to search your pend monsters and dump them straight into the extra deck. But, can pend summon more than once per turn. Yeah great move Konami, if horus is perfectly acceptable card design unleash the pendulum boyz and give them full powah.

the runick section is so true, this deck could have been based

They were a little tricky but I got a decent idea what they were like in the beginners guide.

I played D/D/D and remembered not even bothering with pendulum summoning for the longest time until the new support released and the loss of Halqifibrax. Pretty wild that one of the most prominent decks of Arc-V didn't even bother pendulum summoning until their capacity to spam synchros got kneecapped. Even more wild since Gilgamesh allows you to bypass Anti-Spell Fragrance.

I really hope Konami does supports pendulums properly at some point the hate for the mechanic feels super unjustified when nowadays the game has reached a basically unplayable state oh well I can only hope my main Odd-Eyes Dragons can reign supreme in a modern format.

Everything you said is what I argue with when people say pendulum needed a nerf. Soon as links dropped, link summoning just damn near a mini pendulum summon 💀

Digital devil saga music? Amazing taste. And great video, man

We could have a field spell that gives a specific pend archetype MR3 Pend Summon.

Ive always felt that Pendulums suffer because of their versatility. They double as spells, so they're weak to backrow hate and spell negation, they focus on monster combos so they're weak to nib, you need 2 scales to do anything so they're weak to hand traps, your scales can be cleared by the opponent so you often get no follow up and on top of all that, it's an extra deck mechanic, so it gets hit by bullshit like d barrier for no good reason.

One of my favorite things I did on the “playground” with my pals was pendulum summoning 3 random cards to then go into Ra and just basically win from there

I'm glad I found this channel. It frustrates me to. As someone who got into yugioh because of pendulums(specifically Endymion) it annoys me that they basically said "screw this mechanic" links seriously infuriate me because of this.

The window of banishment rule wasn't always a thing, and I'm pretty sure the cards can still dodge the Virtual World macro on legs

Metalfoes was my favorite pendulum deck. Searching for scales by combining Magician's Souls and Metalfoes Combination was so good, and surprisingly hand trap resistant. I would keep playing pendulum, if the game as a whole didn't stop being fun.

Back in the day Qli decks used to abuse cards like Macrocosmos and Fissure, something that alongside being able to summon 5 monsters simultaneously proved to be too busted, so they made that window rule basically as a fk you to the pendulum mechanic.

wake me up when they give us genric scale it up when sent to grave or give an incentive to play pendulum treasure , cause until then i'll be sending bad duel links players to fortnite with sleight hand magician

I really like your alternate way of Vortex effect. I could really see this concept in a world where you have either a change in Master rule to free pendulums again (and maybe dumbing down Links) or a world where not every deck could pump out 8k damage and call it a day on turn 2. Like for example you have a fusion link deck that plays like follows: Main deck pendulums with an archetypal pendulum effect to bounce themselves to the hand if they get destroyed and then some minor effect (like two subsets of cards that interact with each other [searching the other half of themselves] on a hard once per turn). Then there could be an archetypal fusion that fuses by destroying monsters even in the Pend zone (like a shattered fusion that is a quick play). Then their monster effect is then when their counter part gets destroyed they interact with the opponent. While then the fusions could have extension effects as monsters and recursions when they get scaled. The main decks are low scale the fusions are high scale. Then finally their links enable otks. This would also then really go good together with Unchained so you need to be a little bit careful how exactly to phrase it (also I just realized I may have created Memento 2.0 at this point). But it is a fun little concept. Game plan would to be to scale them then to fuse rescale them with the fusion then pend summon to preap their effects. Then finally go into link plays to push for game.

The Runick section was actually so creative. It would make me hate the deck less.

i think they need to bring back the pendulum zones that was to much of a nerf

For your last bit about swordsoul, the spells when banished do change the level of the swordsouls, which is supposed to let them be more versatile to go into more levels. Though ive never seen that effect go off in a serious duel. Them being a synchro deck also has the obvious benefits of going into generic synchros like baxia and the other yang zing one on occasion

I desperately want to see dinomist get support. I even voted for them in the make a card contest back when that happened. They got such a cool vibe and some really fun cards, but man are they underwhelming...

They should just create a Pendulum Monster with two different Pendulum Scales on each end that can place it and a copy of itself from the deck and/or face-up Extra Deck into your Pendulum Zones. Preferably with Scales of 1 and 9.

I love me some pendulums

I play vaylantz in master duel and nothing hurts more than lab setting d barrier and calling pendulum on my first turn.

Pendulum has now been relighted to being a support card 😂

Woke my ass up with the purple guy yell

Endymion mentioned!!!

Why is every Pendulum Extra deck boss monster's pendulum effect just a worse flavor of mirror force?

Pendulum is, by far, my favorite mechanic. You hit the nail on the coffin with the Rank 4 point; it’s something I mention every time Pendulum hate arises. The mechanic is a longevity engine; Pending many monsters itself does not win you the game. When they were released, for you to quantify your summons into actual threats, you would need to need to use them as Tribute Fodder, or play an unsynergistic Tuner…… or overlay the 2 monsters, accessing pretty much every effect that’s ever been conceived with the most ubiquitous Level in 4. Without Xyz, Pendulum was meant to be a mechanic designed to help out the severely outdated Tribute Summoning. But, with 15 slots of Rank 4, it became too much. I do think though, generally, Pending a surplus of monsters is ridiculous. It’s way too much if the opponent can’t deal with it and I’m very much against having to main deck Spell/Trap removal in bo1 or playground settings. Thus, if I made the mechanic back in the day, I would make two fundamental changes: 1. You can only Pendulum Summon from the Extra Deck at a deficit of monsters, up to the difference. If you have 0 monsters and the opponent has 2, you can Pendulum 2 from the ED. Hand is unrestricted. This makes the mechanic feel like a Pendulum; when youre knocked down, you can get back up. 2. Every monster, universally, if destroyed in the Main Monster Zone, can be scaled. It wouldve helped make the mechanic feel less gatekeepy. To play Pends, you had to play an entire deck of them. This change lets Konami print utility stuff better. Imagine, say, a Ryko or a Monarch that scaled after they were dealt with. The mechanic would feel more natural and bricking on scales wouldnt feel as bad; just use them as monsters, get your value, and set yourself up eventually. These two together, I feel, wouldve sparred us from the guillotine of the subsequent Master Rules. Theyd be too slow now but I’d like to imagine that, if they didnt need to be taken out back in the Link era, we wouldve had natural progression to the mechanic in ways that every other mechanics do now. Lastly, the state of the Extra Deck is awful. I hate Beyond. I hate Electrumite. I hate how every Pend deck ends on Appo and friends. A big point of contention with the mechanic is how unrestricted the extra deck is. I fell in love with Pendulum because Yuya only had so many Extra Deck options to work with for the longest time: 2 situational Fusions and 1 singular Rank 4, and a magnum opus hail mary Rank 7. When Yuya tapped into the ED, it felt significant. Dennis also only having 1 Xyz Monster was cool too. I dont know what could be done to emulate this, but I feel like there shouldve been a master rule along the way that tribal locked your Extra Deck. You pick a monster to be your cover card and can only use monsters, in the Extra Deck only, of that attribute, type, or archetype. This would make Pendulum decks, or any deck really, feel unique again. I hate getting excited about say, the new Supreme King stuff in Duel Links, and doing my research to learn it and finding out the Dimension Dragons arent at all at the forefront and instead, youre looping Electrumite with Promethean and doing Raging Phoenix with Zealantis like every other deck has been doing for half a year. That’s not Yugioh to me.

"Pendulum Summon Now!" Right before he bogs up the activation of Timegazer Magician, classic.

I'd like to see a newer wave of Z-arc support that can get around the present problems, it would be fun to use clear wing and dark rebellion.

There's actually nothing preventing them from creating a pendulum target for Ready Fusion as pendulum normal monsters exist and they do work with any bit of normal monster support.

I feel bad for Pendulums because of how neat they are- either as support or a deck. Vaylantz was cool, and my friend is a big fan of Melodious. I tried to run the steampunk dinosaurs back in the day; only worked every once and a while though.

i love how i am basically the opposite of the yugioh fanbase when it comes to pendulums and links, pendulum is like my favorite summon mechanic after syncros and i hate links with a passion because i can't understand what they actually do

What you said around 8:35 makes me think you would appreciate Rush Duels; for as much as they put into this mechanic they really left it to die. Now all I do is summon Magician, get Monkey, set Dragon, kill Dragon, get Horse, wait for turn, get Lion, P.Summon all the stuff, hit hard with Dragon, use effects and end game after clearing.

Z-arc shout out yippee! Really good video pendulum deserves better.

I love Pendulum it's the first yugioh I ever played haha Timegazer and Stargazer structure deck and my first hand I managed to draw both of them and do a pendulum summon

Idc if they aren't the strongest, but i love running performapal and OG odd-eyes pendulum dragon using pendulum summoning as their own mechanic and not using it to support anything else. They have some pretty decent plays and the theme of the deck makes it feel fun and anime like. Unfortunately they lack a lot of protection when played this way but it's fun for the cool factor.

41:53 the show must go on! The support is real

i like the more unique ways of using pendulum cards in newer archetypes (plunderpatroll Jord, Nemerelia, Nouvelle etc.)

This is an incredible video. I’ve felt a bit warmer towards pend due to re-joining the game around their release time and not knowing better. Dinomist, Deskbot, normal pend, Abyss Actors are all some of my fav older decks. Yet it’s so painfully obvious Konami wants to eradicate them from the face of competitive play.

I used to run a Zarc deck like 4-5 years ago, it was really fun to be able to make a literal wall of monsters and even if wasn't that good it was hilarious to be able to play like 4 different strats and force my opponent to play fast or risk a board wipe in ehhh 3-4 of my turns. I still want to see if I could make a successful Zarc deck again but I honestly don't have the time. Honestly my only barrier of entry is just the annoyance of having to read all of the effects pendulums have. Like at some point Konami has to start making blanket terms for cards to be able to clean up cards right?

Hope you've had a good day

Wow never ran Into the that summoner effect. Currently playing a nemleria yosenju deck. I think it's fun still, I've reinstalled m.d. and tried many decks, most of which are just too busy, so yosenju makes me chuckle when I send back whatever boards they set up. Is it busted? No. But playing a never lose decks also not enjoyable if you ask me.

it's wild to see somebody praising pendulum's for the engaging facets of their potenial verastility in being able to supply materials for otherwise clunkier summon types (Abyss Actors and Qli are big favorites of mine on the Pend archetype front). and so much yes on the topic of a pendulum ritual deck, though while i know this isn't how the rules work id love something like a pendulum ritual monster can be placed into scale as normal, but while in scale still abide all normal rules for their summoning, ideally whatever archetype that does this explicitly makes its ritual spell allow you to ritual summon a monster from pendulum scale/extra deck face up using pendulum monsters from face-up on extra deck or on field as materials. at some point in time i had a whole draft for custom cards themed around the non ritual monsters being Light Spellcaster monsters with the rituals as Dark Fiends, the idea being the spellcasters are the exorcist mages that are keeping the powerful fiends sealed in magical mirrors, but the influence of the fiends causes their jailers to assist in their jail break. with then for fun points a LINK/Pendulum card that requires a Pendulum Ritual Monster as its materials, with a whole maddening idea of link/pend monsters in a pend zone creating linked zones to pend summon from whilst leaving the extra monster slot open, gives a whole extra dimension of play with link arrows that would normally point to parts of your opponents field you don't normally have access to, if we're gonna keep the shackles of links as a mechanic on pendulums as a mechanic make pends able to do something special with it to recapture some of their pre-MR3 mechanics in a way normal use of links jsut can't. since quite frankly links have a home in pendulum's "Go Beyond the Pendulum" and into other summon types just as much as Fusion, Syncro, Ritual, or hell id even Argue *Tribute* as a mechanic belongs in the list Pends want to support. (can we please stop with XYZ pendulum stuff, XYZ is already unreasonable enough as it is.)

I think the predaplant pendulums are better than the SS/Meldious in terms of design space. While good for the deck it didn't become abused in a bunch of unrelated archetypes. I feel like there are lots of ways to design pendulums while avoiding the major flaws. Like what about something akin to dogmatika but placed the ED pendulums in scale, or something like VS that can tag out as a QE, copying spell/traps while in the scale. I feel like moving away from "summon a bunch of dudes for material" is something they're slowly moving away from and it would open up more interesting design space.

I wish pendulum zones came back I honestly think with how cooked the current meta is as long as new pendulum decks don’t mesh well with the meta slave decks it won’t be that bad

I always figured they put them face up in the extra because by the time thwy came out, if you specialed them from the graveyard there were probably already cards that would plus from specialing from the gy. And the only other spot was the extra deck. Doing that would also give them years of printing pack filler cards that specifically interact with the "face up in the extra deck" part of the mechanic. All of which is weird because it feels like they kinda abandoned pendulum cus its too hard to understand, hard to balance, and overall looks insane from a first look-visual standpoint

This video taught me that you have an unhealthy (but based) attachment to Avramax

There's a recurring joke in my friend group that I'm allergic to the heterochromatic cards. To the point when I play an interesting Pendulum deck that isn't the pendulum primordial soup combo pile, I do receive a lot of silly remarks, lol. I'll admit it's my least favorite summoning mechanic because it feel incredibly clunky and needlessly complex. However i do think Konami's treatment of the mechanic as a whole just makes me not like it more. However, their recent design choices to the mechanic have definitely made me appreciate it. I have played Vaalmonica and Abyss Actors multiple times in in-person event. I'm hoping Dinomist get the same treatement as Majespecter did

I really like Pendulums, but your completely right.

Ever since, I got back into yugioh in 2017, pendulum summon has been my favorite summoning mechanic, ever since.

We have Pendulum/Ritual, Pendulum/Fusion, Pendulum/Synchro, and Pendulum/Xyz. Still find it a little weird we havent gotten at least 1 Pendulum/Link, but hey that's probably for the best lol. but who knows, would be cool to see an archetype entirely built around it and locked into itself. Would offer the explosive fun of link climbing and pendulum summoning.

I still applaud the employee in Konami who invented Pendulum while working high 😂

Pendulum rituals sounds really interesting

I'm glad you touched on how pendulum became a deck rather than its own summoning mechanic, other decks often make use of multiple summoning mechanics like XYS, links, synchros or fusions, while pendulums have just become pendulum piles which is sad. Also something you didn't touch on, pendulum cards look ugly, don't get me wrong every YGO card already doesn't look great thanks to konamis outdaded card formatting when they've shown they could do better with rush duels full card art, but then you have pendulums with the pedulum space in the cards ommiting the card art even more, it sucks man.

Donkey for gorz has got to be the saddest thing I’ve heard. I’m praying for you my man.

Back when I was trying to find a Pendulum deck that I enjoyed, I came across Mythical Beasts, and after my friends had just learned what Pendulums could do, they freaked out because I was using a Pendulum Deck that didn't pendulum summon. They couldn't seem to wrap their heads around why such a deck existed lol. Kinda wish I still had it, for funsies.

36:15 Yk this wouldn't be so bad if we had a dumb ruling like shifter so if our opponent buts them in the pendulum zone we can use thier pendulum effects and pend with em

I am a simple man, I see Solfachord, I click

wow, i've never seen someone defend pendulums before

So glad more support and love I'd coming to this poor mechanic

My favorite card type is pendulums and I want to see them be cooler and more interesting. I hope for the future but we may never see anything like your ideas sadly. Welp, I guess custom cards still exist...

Great video, i agree with most points you presented, i wish more people saw this video. One suggestion i would give konami is to start printing strong pendulum ONLY utility cards, cards like handtraps or boss monsters meant to be played in pendulum decks only, imagine a pendulum version of ash blossom that can ONLY work in pendulum decks, it can be used as an utility handtrap OR a pendulum scale with a good effect, obviously it would need heavy restrictions but i think it would be worth the try, id also like to see more boss monsters like odd-eyes vortex dragon that tie together strategies while also being locked to pendulum decks only (so we don't see them in every combo deck), the biggest example of a card like this would be a strong link 4 (or 5) that's worth making and is exclusive to pendulum decks. There is potential to salvage this dogshit mechanic, what needs to happen is for konami to care.

Endymion is honestly one of the most unique things they did. Problem is honestly the fact that the Pendulums don’t actually count as Spells. Which feels real odd for what the deck wants.

they should make a dragonmaid pendulumn support that ties in with odd eyes and make it similar to idunn

4:34 This is a targeted psychological attack against me, specifically. I don't know who you are, but we are enemies now.

Oh god I already have fire emblem brain rot, you dont need to add that to my Yu-Gi-Oh addiction😭😂

Been playing master duel for 3 months now. The few times i went against the pendulum decks i had enough negates that they couldn’t set/search the scales or got drained of resources and pendulum summoned 1 single monster. When i started playing i herd the mechanic was broken, etc. from what i saw seem kinda underwhelming on its current state.

15:57 Ritual Monster : No, I was Flip Summoned.

Spot on about the Performapals, Magicians, and Odd-Eyes being seperate decks. I never liked how all of them were sewn by the hip, with Performapals especially being the weakest link of the bunch. There's no reason why they shouldn't be independent, they literally only exist to be part of the Pendulum soup pile despite said soup pile not even needing them.

I loved Pendulums! The Pendulum Structure Deck was the 2nd one i ever bought, and i LOVED the Mechanic. Also, Arc V is the best yugioh anime. Hands down

Well made video. My only hate for pendulum is that the best decks tend to be spellcasters. Otherwise. I miss my old deck. Pendulum made normal monster beatdown a strategy again. Even against stronger decks. And I miss Tyrant Throes. Best floodgate ever.

stop hating pendulum people, its not fair to give love to everything else when they have their own charms

You gonna talk about the state of rituals next?