Pretty much, yeah. I've got a soft spot for them since I think they've got some fun ideas, but they need a lot more before they can really be considered good. Also it was just fun to use an excuse to talk about old Yu-Gi-Oh's adaptation weirdness.
Fossils honestly has one of the funnest concepts for a deck and a cool matching design theme. I'm so happy they got printed in this era rather than a few years ago or else they would be hot garbage. But I gotta agree they really need a lot more stuff so the deck can stand on it's own two legs.
The Fossils need to get more personal Effect Monsters, Fusion Monsters, Spells and then Traps as well as the next new back-up Fossil Fusion+Time Stream respective cards in order to finally shine and then truly shine for the sake of the Yu-Gi-Oh competitive realms’ eras for the first time, even if it also means over and over again
3:10 Actually I believe the reason for this was that there were multiple cards in the Zexal anime whose effect treated them as two materials, and when they were printed they got them changed to summoning another copy of themself, or in this case something from the GY. Photon Caesar special summons himself from the deck if he is normal or special summoned, and Heroic Challenger Double Lance does it from hand or GY. It seems like they were really hesitant to add in monsters that treated themselves as two overlay units.
Personally, I think we're better off for it... well as far as the later double material adaptions go. The first ones (Including the ones you mentioned)... Yyyyyeeeeeeaaaaah...
I think one of the major problems is that you would have to address how you handle an effect that counts for 2 Materials while attached(vs just being two for the sake of an Xyz Summon), in terms of like, detaching, muchless everything else, god there's so many ways this could get clumsy that the anime just never had to address
No, it was bad. It made me want to stop watching. And this is the first video I've seen on this channel, so the intro made me think that the whole video (and possibly every video on the channel) was going to just be replays. Lucky I stuck it out.
There's still a good amount of anime cards left they can adapt including two maindeck monsters and a field spell. They can easily round the deck out with those.
At first I thought why do I have a video about fossil in my subscription? Then I realized you were the funny guy that did the funny thing with galaxy eyes and predaplant
I know I said it before but I really do love your art and comedy, it’s always worth the wait to see your videos pop up. Fossils is actually one of my favorite decks in duel links cuz Jim was so badass and had a mysterious energy to him, even went to KoG with it in that game. Anyway I hope you’re having a great holiday and I love you so much.
double fin is annoying but konami seems terrified of printing 2 material as 1 cards. look at gimmick puppet nightmare, double fin, photon lord, literally any other card that acted as two materials in the anime. they're either not printed or given effects to summon copies
It is shame how much Yugioh suffered from Anime only syndrome and Anime inaccuracy syndrome compared to card game media that came later (atleast in Japan). It only really now with Rush Duel anime that such syndromes are now rare in the franchise.
A lot of it is rooted in the simple fact of where YGO started as a game Launch year YGO was uhh, not very tense at a turn to turn basis, so they had to make shit up to generate tension that had better back and forth compared to "I resolve Raigeki and Mirror Force to solve all my problems", its also why they kept doing "Normal Summon in Defense Mode face up", blank cards don't work very well in a narrative and visual format unless you're specifically playing on the surprise tool aspect rather than "I use Clayman to not die, I also use Big Shield Gardna... to not die" Pretty much every iteration of the series you can see it slowly approach the real game because power level and dynamics slowly become more capable of enabling the pacing, Digital World and Waking The Dragons play the actual game generally, GX has tons of actual gameplay, same with 5Ds, ZeXaL primarily cheated with the Numbers Rule(and of course the unreleased cards) rather than randomly snapping the rules, though some Numbers cards did do that, and by the time we hit VRAINs the problem wasn't that decks were too slow or weak to make good drama out of without cheating and unforced errors, the issue was that they were TOO powerful, Salamangreat and Trickstar both saw terrible usage out of supposedly really good players because the actual real core decks were goddamn amazing and they didn't want to write someone playing Trickstar Burn OTKs so instead she just misplays the deck a bunch
Lowkey, I'd love to see a video about Evilswarm, or its shit cousin Steelswarm. *(Thank Slifer there are cards that use "lswarm" in their description so I can use them in Evilswarm instead of Steelswarm.)*
6:55 How the hell are you counting Triamid as a legit rock deck, but calling Koa'ki a mistake? Have you READ Triamid "We have Marauding Captain at home" Sphinx?
Honestly, I think if you printed the Sacred Beasts completely unchanged from the anime in the mid-GX era, it would be at most a fun gimmick deck. Going -3 for a monster with big stats and otherwise not much else is an unpleasant tradeoff on the best of days. Miserable though it might have been to see shit like Firewall go completely unmolested, I don't miss the days of seeing a potentially rad-as-hell monster show up in the anime and then looking at its actual effect and realizing that printing it actually reduced the value of its own cardstock.
So galaxy-eyes is from zexal Predaplants is from arc v Fossils are from gx Which the next video is about either from vrains or 5ds or dm Also make a video about red-eyes
2:41 *Blacksting Wow, you really do cover all the rogue-ish Archetypes I like and I'm all for it. I'm sure I'm not the only one who saw the potential in a gimmick that lets you Super Poly with the grave. With the current state it's only harder to plan around a best case going second...and still relying on your opponent somewhat. I'm not sure how many fixes could make them relevant but if Predaplant can get some of that magic you never know. (Also if they were introduced I could totally have seen Jim playing Predaplant.)
