Utopia Explained In 64 Minutes [Yu-Gi-Oh! Archetype Analysis]

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Alternate Title: A Veritable Jenga Tower Of Xyz Material
Hello everyone! GoldenNova here! At long last, the pact has been fulfilled! We conclude our long journey to Explaining Utopia by covering the monsters proper, all their support cards, as well as the Zexal Weapons and Servants that tie everything together! We're Halfway To Forever, so let's cover the other half today on Utopia Explained!
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0:00 Intro
1:15 Utopia Monsters
2:13 A Brief Overview Of Utopia Baseball
3:14 Okay, Back To Utopias
22:16 Utopia Support Monster/Spells/Traps
40:44 Zexal Weapons
53:34 Zexal Servants/Broader Support Cards
1:01:18 A Little Combo For Your Troubles
1:02:46 Outro
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@Solzer7 2 года назад

I actually have an anime-like story that happened to me: my friend and I decided to have a duel outside during high school. He was playing meklords and I was playing a warrior deck. After some turns had passed, he had Meklord Dragon Asterisk (4600 ATK) on his side and I had Colossal Fighter on the field. I had no way to defeat him at hand until I remembered the effect of utopia ray in my extra deck. He decides to attack my Colossal Fighter with Asterisk. I activate Fighter’s effect to summon himself back from the grave. He activates Asterisk’s effect: when I special summon a synchro monster, I take 1000 points of damage. I decide to use this to my advantage: I purposely summoned colossal fighter until my life points were just under 1000. He attacks colossal fighter again with Asterisk. I tell him that I activate his effect again. He says “if you summon him again, you lose. “ I told him “I’m going to win and it’s thanks to asterisk.” I summoned one of the level 4 warriors in my grave instead and he ends his turn. I draw one of my favorite level 4 warrior monsters, evocator chevalier, and normal summon it. I overlayed both evocator and my level 4 warrior to summon number 39: utopia. Then I overlayed number 39 into number c39: utopia ray. The look on my friend’s face was priceless when he realized what I meant. Utopia ray can only use his effect when I have 1000 or less life points. I used all his xyz material to lower asterisk’s atk, increase my utopia ray’s atk, and hit him for game.

@JP_...__.__.._ 2 года назад

Nice, that story has a lot of protagonists energy

@estebancanizales3303 2 года назад

Nice

@gx9183 2 года назад

Heart of the cards were strong with you

@alexmoon3844 2 года назад

Well played

@VylonOblong Год назад

Hype as fuck

@truthspreader1996 2 года назад

Yuma's signature card is similar to Yusei's "Stardust Dragon" in that both monsters have a protective negate effect and the most evolutions and counterparts of their archetype.

@christopherhale3140 2 года назад

...you know, it took me until this comment to realize not only this pattern, but also the fact that Yuya's signature monster _not_ having an effect that protects its companions (and in fact having one that focused on dealing as much damage as possible) should have been a major red flag from the start of ARC-V.

@dvynal2964 2 года назад

@@christopherhale3140 not to mention all the yu boys’s dragons only have destructive effects not protective. Yuya beats you by doubling the damage, yuto, yugo, and yuri take what makes you strong and uses it against you. Nothing heroic about it

@obinnaodoemenam8762 2 года назад

@@dvynal2964 welp zarc was a pretty destructive guy if I do say so myself 😂

@StarlightMagician 2 года назад

So, fun fact: When me and some friends of mine were going to a local Card shop to buy some things that could power up our decks (we generally did free for all duels), I saw Utopic Zexal for, get this, $1.00. Yup, for just a Single buck, I got a monster that I knew had the potential to be busted (this was back in MR3 however, when the Numeron gates weren't printed). And let's just say that when I made it with 7 materials, one of my friends who played Dragons was NOT happy when I started shutting down his plays and everyone else's plays (everyone else was meanwhile trying to find ways to get rid of it).

@stardust8797 2 года назад

That sounds like an intriguing set up and an extremely evil strategy Do tell how?

@StarlightMagician 2 года назад

@@stardust8797 Actually, I might be misremembering, I got him up to 5 Materials, but the set up was as follows: Have a Face up Xyz Change Tactics. Use 2 level 4 Monsters with one of them having a Draw effect (My set up was either Sacred Crane from Summoner Monk or Star Drawing with either Kagetokage or Wyverbuster/Collapserpent since I played a Chaos Varient that included BLS as a Back-up for if Going Unga Bunga with Utopia didn't work). Use the two to summon Utopia (2 Materials and draw two). Evolve it to Utopia Ray (1 Extra Material and an Extra Draw). Rank up into Utopia Beyond with Astral Force (Another Material and Draw). Optional: Use an XYZ Agent in your grave if you have one (assuming you decided to include it) If you have another Rank Up Magic in your hand, drop it and BAM, High attack Utopic Zexal.

@stardust8797 2 года назад

@@StarlightMagician Yeah That makes me more sad now that Hope Zexal is banned Could have made Hope an at least good meta deck Now you can still make insane plays It’s just Hope Zexal could have made it even better

@StarlightMagician 2 года назад

@@stardust8797 I blame the Numeron cards for being able to just vomit out the Numeron gates with only one or two cards.

@stardust8797 2 года назад

@@StarlightMagician It actually wasn’t that It’s ban was done because of the lightning overdrive support With decently consistent ways to search normal RUMs they prebanned before that could happen DESPITE THE FACT THAT IT WOULD REQUIRE A ZEXAL/HOPE DECK FOR IT TO BE CONSIDERED BROKEN

@stardust8797 2 года назад

MY FAVORITE ARCHETYPE HELL YES My favorite design is Future Hope Dragon cause Future Hope’s design is Hope Ray V + Beyond the Hope * Hope Dragoon

@holydiver4988 2 года назад

ikr utopic draco future looks so cool utopia dragonar is a close 2nd for me even though it's practically the same thing, except utopic dragon is equipped on utopia beyond instead of F0

@GreatBigPillock 2 года назад

One of the funniest things I've ever done in this game is drop Nibiru on my opponent giving them a 10,200 ATK Token. I proceeded to kill it with Utopia Ray V and wipe out all of their LP in one shot. It was glorious. XD

@stardust8797 2 года назад

That is the greatest use of V Blade Shoot I have ever heard

@user-mu9ki8mw1y 2 года назад

Utopia ray v: and i took that personally

@8480108 2 года назад

Exactly as Kaz Tak had envisioned the game

@teamkozmicabyss512 2 года назад

I'm just gonna say before I watch this video, that you're soooo underated. Like so much. You make so much good content. That literally can rival and is better than some of the big yugitubers. You give out info and your videos are so fun and not boring. Some yugitubers I literally fall asleep because their boring. Keep up the amazing work 🥰🥰🥰

@okami2580 2 года назад

Yet again. My favourite anime deck. And personally, you did it justice. This was worth the wait and I’m so happy to see it come to life. Thank you Nova, and all the people who helped him make this possible. I guess for once lately, *I’M FEELING THE FLOW!!!*

@theskullboy8700 2 года назад

I remember watching the first episode of zexal and I remember my first thoughts on yuma. It went a little something like “You are making so many dumb mistakes five year old would make……..wait”

@hectordubon3487 2 года назад

I’d like to see Galaxy-Eyes explained, but that’s just me

@drakofox1362 2 года назад

Galaxy photon you mean

@yusheitslv100 2 года назад

Not just you.

@andrewhawthorne210 2 года назад

I don't even care about photon but give Hector what he wants.

@juanrojas6063 2 года назад

1:03:17 oh my god this has to be the worst joke on the channel, it caught me so off guard I choked on my drink, absolutely amazing

@MidoriNatsume 2 года назад

Rata made a 4 hours long epic movie about all number monsters. This Chad arrived at 1 hour just by talking about Utopia. 😍

@MrSonicDoctor Год назад

I don't know if it the right word, but there's something very "inspiring" that the original names are King of Wishes, HOPE in japanese. Utopia is fine, just when you think of Yuma vs Don Thousand and he summons "HOPE", I just get tears in my eyes.

@thisgoddamusernamestoodamnlong Год назад

Utopia has some pretty heavy hopeful connotations tho? Something that's fundamentally impossible, yet everyone feels the need to try and achieve anyway. Also in a Utopia there would be no enemies, which ties into Yuma's whole schtick of making everyone his friend.

@TheOnlyMisterC 2 года назад

What I live about Utopia, or Hope, is that its also a non-official Onomatopea monster making him trully feel as a card made for Yuma. His japanese name "Nanbāzu Sanjūkyū Kibō'ō Hōpu" gets 3 "O" sounds back to back Kib"O" "O" "O"pu. Its just my personal head cannon that it was intended to be linked at one point but just remained a subtle hint ;P

@stardust8797 2 года назад

You know Zexal Alliance is just a reenactment of Zexal l’s (the character) appearance Pay to 10 lp to put you on the back foot Summoning a Hope with the anime numbers destruction immunity Then you preform Shining draw since you place any 1 card from your deck to the top

@thegreatscribbles960 Год назад

my favorite part about F0 is how much it relates to yuma like on surface its not very strong and really hard to get rid of but after each battle he makes the opponent his friend

@patrickporter6441 2 года назад

I would love to get a "Numbers" archetype omnibus someday

@jaernihiltheus7817 2 года назад

Same, though at the same time I kinda don't in case Konomi finally realizes that they only printed a quarter of the potential Chaos Numbers. All of the used ones were printed, but quite a few of them *should* exist, but were never summoned, such as Number 94: Ragnazero or Number 54: Burner Visor, Ragnazero being Marin/Rio's original number and Burner Visor being a Number Girag had *and* summoned (off screen), but never decided to rank it up. This wouldn't be bad but it's frustrating to me that we currently have 109 Numbers, will have 111 Numbers once the other 2 fake/barian numbers are printed, but only 25 of them have Chaos forms. (Also Number 37: Hope Woven Dragon Spider Shark and Number 38: Hope Harbinger, err, something, have Shining Numbers in the manga, though they are only summoned for Yuma to go into something else. So both of those should also get their "Number S" versions printed as well.)

@hayacopter9309 2 года назад

@@jaernihiltheus7817 If I'm remembering right (and I might be mistaken; I haven't read the Zexal manga in ages), the "Number S37/S38" thing was actually Shining Hope Road treating them as "Number S" monsters

@pedrorosa3300 2 года назад

After this we gonna get the Isekai, street art and Magical Sisters?

@beidou1925 2 года назад

You think the custom i made for sisters is too strong? A counter trap that instead of negating, changes the effect to "Banish 1 othet card from you GY Face-Down."

@Realdeal958 2 года назад

You honestly always go above and beyond with these and I just wanted to say thank you. Your videos are the highlight of my day and keep me entertained

@anthonythomas305 2 года назад

Man, Utopia is so awesome! It's the 1st-ever Xyz card which tribute to Yuma and Astral's bond

@danielramsey6141 2 года назад

If nobody has ever heard of Yugioh4RealMen. That video was the First in a series to introduce me to the OVERPOWERED and Manly Utopia Deck Builds! All of which boarder on insane! I had no Idea the amount of BOARD BUSTING POWER this Deck has! Especially with the Equip card "Stoic Challenge". A Card that not only Boosted the ATK gains but Really Hammered home how Busted this Deck can get when it can topple Your Opponent in One Hit! And even CRazier is the fact that "Ghosttrick Spoiled Angel" can Actually be Used in this Deck to Just Build materials and then Use its win Condition! That is Bonkers!

@lightdarkunknown9898 Год назад

1:01:19 i just realized this is the base play for the Utopia structure decks in Master Duel

@simosgaming 2 года назад

I feel like Utopic Dark Infinity might be the evolution of Antitopian lore wise. They have some really similar effects.

@sora1008 2 года назад

The playmate view when discussong combos is interesting, it really helps out visualize your board and was wondering if animating the placement of the cards with some keyframes might help illustrate the order of the combo

@camilleharper3820 2 года назад

Yes thanks nova I genuinely think this will be my favourite video on RU-vid

@mathewricafrente5984 2 года назад

This video is a bigger hopefest than that time Utopia had 204,000 attack points

@devinarmstrong7857 2 года назад

Its funny you mentioned Earth Machines when talking about the Rank up magics, Infinitracks already have an archetype specific "rank up magic Astral force" card that you can use to rank up earth slicer into juggernaut liebe! Which is arguably the strongest earth machine xyz monster currently

@jackthenack3184 Год назад

19:05 my favorite strat with dragnar is punching the opponent in the jaw with number 100 after summoning dragubion and giving it one material with hope-force swinging for roughly 21k

@ZEDEX252 2 года назад

Man this archetype is so good! Just a little more and this deck can be meta, i can just feel it!

@shadowhunterevil8214 2 года назад

Not really…

@ZEDEX252 2 года назад

@@shadowhunterevil8214 Ok i'll admit i'm not that good of a archetype judger but what do you think this archetype still needs in order to be meta?

@shadowhunterevil8214 2 года назад

@@ZEDEX252 I words swarming

@Sad-Lesbian 2 года назад

@@ZEDEX252 The problem with it is that you need to run a Rank 4 spam main deck, and at that point it's just better to run better rank 4's in the extra deck. The Extra Deck space is already way too tight to be able to run an effective Utopia core in it.

@own2live 2 года назад

Basic utopia is the best card you could ask for an anime protag. A great way to feel the danger of the opponent, but having a ability that save him. The additional form are just an icing on the cake.

@maskkid 2 года назад

I'm a simple man , I see anything relating to Zexal , I click. My favorite Utopia moment was in Duel Links against my cousin. He was using Shinruai and had gotten me to 100 LP while he was at 2300. I had C39 at the ready and used its effect to make his lvl 6 synchro go down to 0 attack and hit for game. The duel itself is my favorite I've ever had.

@flexican5399 2 года назад

Number 98: Antitopian should’ve been called Dystopia

@Cwronaga216 2 года назад

You can actually use number 99 to summon number 97 then use number 97 to summon number 100 and go even bigger with with 21,000atk

@oussamalasfer4860 2 года назад

ik its zexal archtype but i wish they had some links and synchros they would be dope looking

@Hokag3Chrisku 2 года назад

One hour utopia vid let’s goo I’m feeling the flow

@KumaSelf 2 года назад

Keep it up bro. These are such good content

@alexzab11 2 года назад

Bruh I hate konami named it antitopian instead of dystopia. 21:50

@Jrpg_guy 2 года назад

With gagagaga magician you can make utopic future slash an 4000 double attacker witch is an awesome felling when it happens

@wert677 2 года назад

That moment when utopia is best deck

@lennyface8195 2 года назад

Why is ZW - Sylphid Wing a LIGHT Attribute? It's themed after a Sylph, so why isn't it a WIND Attribute!? Also, why is ZW - Ultimate Shield an EARTH Attribute? It's very clearly a turtle, not a tortoise!

@jasperjavillo686 2 года назад

Can’t explain Sylphid Wing, but Ultimate Shield can be explained in that it’s designed is a bit more complex than just “turtle”. Ultimate Shield, along with Phoenix Bow, Lightning Blade, and Tornado Bringer, are based on the Four Symbols of China. In order of anime debut, they are the Vermillion Bird of the South, White Tiger of the West, Azure Dragon of the East, and Black Tortoise of the North. And while they aren’t one-to-one, (Tornado Bringer is red instead of Azure) Ultimate Shield is actually pretty accurate in that despite its name, Genbu the Black Tortoise of the North is actually commonly depicted in art as a turtle. The one part of their design that isn’t consistent with their inspirations is their Elements, mostly because Yugioh Elements don’t line up nicely with the Chinese Five Elements that the Four Symbols are associated with.

@iamthereddemon20 2 года назад

Kernermi

@SheruMuko 2 года назад

I have been experimenting with Utopia for an OTK deck. I found a nice combo in Phantom Knights.

@darkstarplays6315 Год назад

I quit Yu-Gi-Oh or YGO as I’ve seen it he called now, that’s how old I am, and am so happy it has survived and evolved. Something I grew up with still brings enjoyment to people, couldn’t ask for much more

@wiggy5209 8 месяцев назад

It is not ..what you grew up with lol

@darkstarplays6315 8 месяцев назад

@@wiggy5209 oh I know and I love/hate it. It’s evolved so much

@zeliga 2 года назад

just found your channel and I love your content 😄

@Bezaliel13 2 года назад

Nice to hear Unions get some love, but ZWs being Unions would prevent Utopia from dual-wielding.

@eduardomunoz4387 2 года назад

Or quintuple-wielding

@maxwellorryn3380 2 года назад

A monster can have as many unions equipped as fit in the spell/trap zone, unless the union monster itself says that it can only have one.

@alejandroaviles6814 11 месяцев назад

@@maxwellorryn3380it's a joke

@michaelkowal3230 2 года назад

I just listened to the intro, so ZW and ZS stand for Zexal Weapon and Zexal Servant respectively?

@franthehonest-eyes4883 2 года назад

I love Utopias so much and this video

@wingtype0078 2 года назад

Such a good content!

@u-topic4795 2 года назад

2 Level 4 monsters That's it

@TheJaredPunch 2 месяца назад

To be fair, you can have a level 4 tuner and a level 4 non tuner monster and you can summon Stardust Dragon. Debris Sragon doesn’t count, but still…

@Circ00mspice 2 года назад

The image of Utopia using a fucking RPG is golden🤣

@eddievrfan4245 Год назад

You forgotten about Ultimate Leo Utopia Ray from duel links 2 effects When using a overlay unit select one of the ZW Monsters and Equip it onto Leo Utopia Ray Second ability is to negate your opponent's monster effects and Cutting it's Attack in half

@psquared2020 2 года назад

Halfway to Forever is also the theme song of Yu-gi-oh! ZEXAL season 2.

@BeffJezoz 2 года назад

I would love to build a utopia deck but geez there are so many cards!!

@tora4180 2 года назад

There is, but it’s pretty simple to build

@mrbowserm5071 2 года назад

Utopia vs code talkers in a battle shonen anime kind of fight would be cool they have a lot of different forms and I love both of their designs

@deonhall22 2 года назад

You deserve more subscribers bro

@jaythephoenix Год назад

So Dragner + Zexal Field = any chaos# 1-100 is set up with its extra effect!

@nimrodkeren783 2 года назад

That opening was hype ngl

@nami-nami4 7 месяцев назад

Master Piece Video♡

@cnssegura 2 года назад

1250 is 1/2 of OG Utopia attack points which is why that number got chosen.

@DeezCards 2 года назад

This must have taken some serious research time!

@fabianbeteta5795 2 года назад

Waiting for the six samurai archetype video.

@ReidMcCorkle 2 года назад

I just ran into one of these decks in master duel and holy wtf the turn 1 board was like 37 paragraphs of card text. Almost ran the timer out trying to read them all 😅

@bombatomica_6449 2 года назад

And you tell me that after the structure deck this isn't going to be at least rogue.

@zenone9698 2 года назад

You should do a video on Fortune lady cards.

@fabianbeteta5795 2 года назад

He may not, I asked for the six samurai archetype video and waited for months. No six samurai archetype video.

@witchy90210 Год назад

Did this person just make a bara/twink joke? I love them

@jeffreybyrd2081 2 года назад

Utopia Ray Victory needs a reprint!!!!!

@VacadoRay 3 месяца назад

Leo utopia Ray is my ACE/BOSS monster for my master duel deck (I also have victory, lightning, and other versions)

@charlestonpanther 2 года назад

The reason why are you getting 1250 life points is it half of utopia attack

@starscorpia4005 Год назад

i found a funny combo with utopia double where if i use onomatopeia bancho and dwarf i can summon any utopia monster, then use bancho's effect to get a utopia and that way i can utilize double or nothing with ANY utopia....preferably with utopia leo after getting a zw card on it or 2

@alexrazmus1798 2 года назад

I always thought V Salamander wad an anime only card like the other V cards Vector gave Yuma in Zexal.

@Lobomaru02 Год назад

Raidraptors can get some decent use out of Astral Force.

@holydiver4988 2 года назад

zexal to 1 copium but in all seriousness i am very excited for this

@ethanhostetler4007 2 года назад

I run pretty much only Utopia... My only issue is if my hand doesn't start with two level fours that summon each other I'm screwed.

@ethancasem8259 2 года назад

So does Utopia Beyond reduce monsters Atk to 0, for as long as he's on the field, or is that for just one turn.

@brad5204 2 года назад

Its the guy who opens my master duel card packs sometimes

@ernieflores6638 Год назад

I have a gaga magician deck and utopia I’m questioning if going full utopia is good or not I wanted to see this to know all these cards

@Lobomaru02 Год назад

Utopic Zexal... AKA quick play Cold Wave.

@lewisspring35 Месяц назад

8:44 What I dont understand is why they were willing to mess around with Life Point values of base 10 for Utopia Prime but didnt do the same for manga Utopia Prime and Wiraqocha Rasca and its 1 ATK Point, though with the amount of burn in this day and age, dropping your opponent's LP to 1 at the cost of skipping your battle phase would have led to FTKs out the ass.

@lukasmaschlinski8229 2 года назад

Is it possible to summon utopic Dragon with Utopia Double?

@nightsider2705 2 года назад

You did an Oopsy with the effect Text of Armsage!!1!1 How could you just do a mistake! That is unforgiveable! I hope this will never happen again, or there will be consequenzes, young man! Just kidding. Great video! Keep up the good work!

@jeremymorris345 2 года назад

Wait there are 2 number 99s what?

@chelsymcclinton8799 2 года назад

2:15 Heard about this😂

@a_man_with_a_plan 2 года назад

I am disappointed you didn't explain this in 39 minutes

@themarshian5124 2 года назад

Next shark pls

@ianr.navahuber2195 2 года назад

2:12 YES!! SEVENS Reference! 33:40 ACTUALY that is sadly not true. the ZW cards to be be equipped by their own effects or equipped by effects that treat them as equipped by their own effects. otherwise you don't get the full advantage 41:03 seriously, why not make them union monsters?

@jasperjavillo686 2 года назад

I believe ZWs are not Union Monsters because Union Monsters specifically because of their universal, copy/paste effects. Each ZW is meant to be a unique problem solver card, and all Union Monsters have the effect to protect the equipped monster by destroying themselves. Plus, Union Monsters specifically had to be equipped from the field and could special summon themselves from the S/T Zone. Most Union Monster archetypes have effects to circumvent this by having Monsters with effects that equip other Monsters to themselves from the hand, grave, or deck. Utopia wasn’t able to do that until Dragonic and Leo Utopia Ray released. Archetypes like Dagunity and ABC Dragon Buster were built around the Union mechanic, while ZWs were meant to be tech picks. Basically, ZWs style of equipping is so unique it wouldn’t make sense for them to be Union Monsters.