Wheeler's 9 - Monstahs Made by Joey - The Unknown Side of Yu-Gi-Oh 

Little D. will always be remembered as the secret sixth piece of Exodia.

Saying those Joey card flavor text without doing a Joey impression should be illegal.

If you needed the real Power 9 in Yu-gi-oh here you go

Ngl I'd love to see Wheeler's 9 get retrains. I don't care if they're made to be Red-Eyes support or a new set, I'd just like to see them again.

I knew that the 19 minutes couldn't just be the vanilla card text, but I wasn't expecting a detailed analysis of the Tower or Babylon or the municipal support provided to the boroughs of New York.

Even MBT said it couldn't be done, yet here we are

"they saved Joey countless times. and by countless I mean 10" that got a good chuckle out of me

I don't think Pegasus can be called an amateur painter as he literally works as a painter too. Painting among others the Egyptian Gods and Rainbow Dragon.

I want them to reprint Red Eyes Dragoon but the effect text is written as though Joey were reading it

About Hitotsu-Me Giant's name change, it's actually not censorship. Back in the early days konami changed some of the more western sounding names into japanese names to make the cards feel more unique. Cyclops exists in every form of fantasy but Hitotsu-Me Giant is yugioh only. Same with Meotoko, Sangan, Raigeki and many more.

I was not prepared for this video. When it got to the section talking about 'Little D' my wife said from the other room: "They named a card after you?" Can I send you my hospital bill after I get out of the burn ward?

I've always liked Kageningen as a card because in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelists of the Roses it has a FLIP effect to make a copy of itself Plus another effect to reduce all damage involving battles with it to 0.

Babylon could be censored because religion, meanwhile Kuribabylon: *looks around nervously*

The early game had a lot of instances where the translators figured, "Well, this word is in English in the Japanese version so we should make it Japanese in the English version" which is not a STRETCH as far as the logic goes. Some are censors (like Kumootoko is Spider Man in the Japanese but obviously there's a reason that couldn't be brought to the West), sometimes its a wordplay that they either didn't catch or didn't think would translate well (Gokibore is a pun on cockroach and ball and I don't think "Cockball" or something to that extent would fly) but in some cases it seems just that the staff didn't think that the original name sounded very good so they changed it to a Japanese word. What would stick in someone's head more: a monster called "Leviathan" or "Kairyu-Shin"? The translator figured, "Well, a sea dragon god is BASICALLY the same idea." Even if you like the sound of "Leviathan" you must admit that you can play with something called "Leviathan" in a million games but only one with "Kairyu-Shin." In my opinion, overall it did give Yugioh a bit more of a snappy language that sticks with you. There are probably some people who haven't played the game in decades who still remember Raigeki, but if it were translated 1:1 and just called "Thunder Bolt" would that have been as memorable? Maybe, but it's less likely.

Yakub in the lab: "I've done it. I've created a Duel Logs top 9 video"

Ya know what's strangely ironic about Wolf? It's basically a carbon copy of Silver Fang. Same Attack and Defense stats, same attribute, same type, same level, and it's a normal monster. Also, I always thought Alligator's Sword was a Beast-Warrior type monster, since it's an anthropomorphic Alligator, with armor and a sword.

Interesting fact about Kageningen. While in English, he has a Japanese name, but the Japanese version has an English name. His name in Japan is literally Shadow fighter (just written in katakana which is how English and other foreign languages/words are written in Japanese).

I love how there are some cards in Joey Wheeler’s voice. It’s hilarious 😂

7:43 Abridged Rex: (butthead laugh) you said little d (butthead laugh)

Y'know, this video feels more like something you'd see go up on April Fool's, rather than New Year's, with the whole serious analysis of the language used in the flavor text.

It was really fun tracking the 9 down while I was working on collecting Joey's cards

Don't worry Little D. I'm sure one day you'll get a retrain and become a staple of dinosaur support. Then you can show them what the temper of a Tyrannosaurus Tot is like.

With Memento archetype had been realized by Konami, im not surprised if the Joey 9s got retrain under his circumstances..say, gamble theme, or generic support to their level/attribute/type, indicating Joey's "Potential" status

Little D is the double forbidden 6th piece of exodia

JOEEE WIIILA

An interesting thing about Wolf is it has the same stats as Silver Fang, one of Yugi's early monsters and I think at least once Silver Fang used Wolf's art in the manga too!

This video didn't have to be 19 minutes long, but I'm really glad it was. The dialect examinations, naming comparisons, and censorship sidebar were a lot of fun. Great vid!

Fun Fact: The LCJW Mega Pack was the first set to reprint 7 of the 8 Archfiend cards w/o "Archfiend" in their names with the Archfiend archetype condition errata on them. The other one, Axe of Despair, already had that archetype condition erratum printed earlier that year in Battle Pack 2: War of the Giants.

Missed opportunity to have LukeVonKarma as voicing cameo. He has that proper brooklyn-joey-esque accent, even his duel live punishment includes such as.

Babylon was a Society in Ancient Mesopatamia... You know, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the lost Wonders of the World? Hell, its most famous Legend is even in the D/D/D Archetype... Gilgamesh.

The Karen quote at the end i love it

Your Joey voice sounds like the average 40k ork, love it

That last pokemon Gold reference caught me off guard. Nice work man!

2:05 CMON TDL, it's spelled as Bonz but is pronounced "Bones", every old-school player/anime watcher knows this, like watch the episodes he featured in and listen to how the cast pronounced his name 😂.

1:40 6 Errata's to modulate Scapegoats Power? Yes its had 6 Errata's but, its effect has been the exact same. The Errata's have just cleaned up it's wording.

Really love your dissection of the transliteration of English into Joeyphonics

fun fact : Wolf "twin", Silver Fang is owned by Yugi, Joey's best friend 😁

Being an amateur implies he's not making money from his work or is still new. Pegasus made millions from his artwork and had worked for years in the field making him a professional artist.

A video that I didn't know I needed, thank you Mr. Logs

I love how meandering this video is. So many lovely tangents 💜

Fun analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

I'm living for the analysis of Joey's written accent tbh

I always remember those cards because they were available for play in the early stages of Yu-Gi-Oh forbidden memories and they had their original japanese flavor text but yeah, they really needed to be printed as the availability to get them before Joey's world was nearly impossible so to speak.

9:07 Little D is also performing Wheeler's pose. that pose with the funny smile

I am very proud this video was made! A true masterpiece!!!

You might be my first TCG RU-vidr! Love some lore like this

Honest want the Wheeler 9 done as Gearfried and Gilford support

Now I know where these silly, yet neat cards came from! Thank you!

Im loving the linguistics analysis

Ok, I’m going to try and challenge myself here and make effect monsters out of Joey’s 9, based off of their flavor text and artwork (God help me it’s like trying to learn a new language)… Maybe I’ll even tie them to some of Joey’s more currently relevant archetypes… 2:13 Kage here looks like he has some sort of stand, so I’m thinking “low stat monster with multiple attacks and is surprisingly stubborn against destruction”: _Kageningen, the Red-Eyes Shadow Warrior_ (DARK) Level 2 Warrior/Effect _The first time this card would be destroyed by battle or card effect each turn, it is not destroyed. This card can attack all monsters your opponent controls, once each. If a “Red-Eyes” monster you control attacks a Defense Position monster, inflict piercing battle damage to your opponent. Once per turn, you can tribute 1 card from your hand or field: Add to your hand or send to your GY 1 “Red-Eyes” card._ ATK/800 DEF/600 _Summoned Skull Stalker_ (DARK) Level 3 Warrior/effect (This card is always treated as an “Archfiend” card.) _This card’s name is also treated as “Summoned Skull” while on the field or in the GY. If this card destroys a monster by battle, it can attack again in a row. This card is Unaffected by the effects of monsters it battles (until the end of the damage step). Monsters this card battles have their ATK/DEF halved (Until the end of the damage step). Negate the effects of monsters destroyed by battle by this card._ ATK/900 DEF/800 3:25 _Stone Soldier Armadiller_ (EARTH) Level 3 Rock/Tuner/Effect _Cannot be destroyed while in defense position. This card’s attacks cannot be negated, and If this card you control attacks an opponent’s defense position monster: inflict piercing battle damage to your opponent. If your opponent would declare an attack or activate a card or effect, you can change this card’s battle position._ ATK/800 DEF/1200 _Red-Eyes Jinzo-Saurus_ (EARTH) Level 3 Dinosaur/Effect _Unaffected by your opponent’s trap cards or effects while face-up on the field or in the GY. Can be treated as 2 tributes for the summon of a “Red-Eyes”or “Jinzo” monster. Once per turn, you can shuffle 1 Trap card from your hand, field or GY into your deck: Apply 1 of the following effects:_ ⚪️Change the types and/or attributes of any number of face-up monsters on the field. ⚪️Add 1 “Red-Eyes” or “Jinzo” card from your deck or GY to your hand. ATK/1000 DEF/850 _Red-Eyes _*_BIG D!_* (EARTH) Level 3 Dinosaur/Tuner/Effect _If Your life points are decreased by an opponent’s attack or card effect (Quick Effect): You can special summon this card from your hand or GY. Gains ATK/DEF Equal to any decrease in either players LP. Once while this card is on the field (Quick Effect), you can discard 1 card: Until the end of the turn this card next attacks, it gains additional attacks per battle phase, equal to the number of:_ ⚪️Cards or effects your opponent activates or negates. ⚪️Cards your opponent summons, sets or places on the field. ⚪️Attacks your opponent declares. ATK/1100 DEF/700 _Red-Eyes (Or, well, EYE) Meotoko_ (EARTH) Level 2 Beast/effect _This card can attack your opponent directly. You can apply each of the following effects of “Red-Eyes (Or, well, EYE) Meotoko” once per turn:_ ⚪️Target 1 other “Red-Eyes” monster you control: It can attack directly this turn. ⚪️Declare 1 card type (Monster/Spell/Trap), then Randomly select 1 card from your opponent’s hand for them to reveal. If the revealed card is of the card type you you declared, draw 2 cards. ATK/700 DED/600 _Flame Swordsman of the East_ (FIRE) Level 3 Warrior/Effect _This card is also treated as EARTH attribute while face-up on the field or in the GY. If this card is summoned, you can equip 1 equip spell from your hand or deck to this card. Equip Spells that are equipped to this face-up card are unaffected by other card effects. This card’s declared attacks cannot be negated. Gains additional attacks per battle phase equal to the number of equip spells equipped to this card._ ATK/1900 DEF/200 _Red-Eyes Alpha Wolf_ (EARTH) Level 3 Beast/Effect _You can only control 1 “Red-Eyes Alpha Wolf”. If this card is summoned, you can normal or special summon any number of level 4 or lower “Red-eyes” or “Wolf” monsters from your hand. Your face-up “Red-Eyes” and “Wolf” monsters gain the following effects while you control this face-up card:_ ⚪️If this card battles an opponent’s monster, it gains ATK and DEF equal to that monsters original ATK and DEF (During damage calculation only). ⚪️If a card you control is targeted of an opponent’s attack or card effect: You can make this card the target instead if possible. ⚪️If this card leaves the field by an opponent’s card or effect: You can add 1 card from your deck to your hand (from your deck) that mentions “Red-Eyes” or wolf in it’s name or effects. ATK/1200 DEF/800 _Alligator Flame Swordsman_ (FIRE) Level 4 _Reptile/Tuner/Effect_ _This card that is face-up on the field or in the GY is also treated as EARTH-Attribute and Beast, Beast-Warrior and Pyro type. Your EARTH and FIRE monsters can be normal summoned with 1 less tribute. Once per turn (Quick Effec), you can discard 1 card from your hand: Apply 1 of the following effects depending on that discarded card’s card type:_ Monster: Special summon 1 EARTH or FIRE monster from your hand or GY who’s ATK or DEF is 200. Spell: Set 1 Spell/Trap from your hand or deck that mentions EARTH or FIRE in its effects. Trap: Excavate the top 2 cards of your deck; If any of the excavated cards are EARTH or FIRE monsters, or mention EARTH or FIRE in their effects, add them to your hand, otherwise shuffle them into your deck. ATK/2000 DEF/200

I wasn't expecting a phonetics class from this channel 😂

Woah woah. Babel and Babylon are simply not connected at all

Yes! Awesome video!

Seeing some of Joeys cards make it into other peoples decks because he traded with them makes so much sense when you realize he got cards like time wizard and considered them an upgrade lmao.

You should have also mention these card's OCG flavor text.

My god you are funny, i was exhaling air out of my nose and smiling so much. i like your style! great video!

My legs really hurt I work for 8 hours on my feet stocking shelves from 11pm till 7am But like don’t your muscles get stronger if u do something over and over Why do my legs still hurt as bad as the first time Eh yugi

I swear I remember seeing these cards before a long time ago, like in one of the video games. Were they in the Gameboy game?

Wolf is probably some weird specific character from the Dark Lord timeline tbh

Duel logs forgot to mention you can fuse alligator sword with baby dragon to become alligator sword dragon(original huh) with 1700 atk 1500 def and effect that let's you attack if the opponent if only has face up are earth fire and wind, but also if opponent are all face down. Sucks, but niche

It's so nice of Pegasus to fulfill Kaiba's request of associating Little D with Joey.

I appreciate the extra info :)

the lack of sensorship on new cars referencing babilon or babel , mey be representative of the lesser sencibilitys of the market for it now a days

That last quote from Pokémon is exactly why I still nearly exclusively use Machina decks. I like Machines, and of the Machine archetypes, Machina is my favorite.

This video was such a bizarre experience. Like, it keeps itself completely straight while covering a very meaningless topic. It keeps derailing into specific explanations and going back to many specific points of the story in the anime. It thoroughly covers every aspect it could about every card mentioned, as if to simply extend the length of the video but it goes way above the required time for midrolls. It captivates the viewer with the sincerity, seriousness and passion put behind this deep dive while also staying shallow enough that it can be understood by even the most casual of fans. I admire the way this is presented and how off putting it is. Truly a work of art keep it up 👍

Little D is the 6th piece of Exodia. 🏆

I have some of these cards and I know they’re crap competitively but they’re wonderful additions to my collection specifically because of the Joey text that makes them special and also rare

Hearing DuelLogs breaking down Brooklyn-nese is something I didn't want but needed

18:55 - Not gonna lie, I love [and still go by] Karen's quote in Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal, especially the "Truly skilled [People] should try to win with their favorites" part of said quote. Say what you want though, DuelLogs, I still love the "Jurrac" archetype, and in spite of them getting flack of being a so-called "failed" archetype [according to most people's general competitive opinion], I still hope they'll get some more support someday. Someday, J. Giganoto. Someday... "Jurrac Giganoto/Assault Mode," anyone?

Happy new year mr. Duel logs

First! Happy New year's logs. Hopefully you manage to post Worst Classic cards 7: Ancient Sanctuary or Top 10 worst warrior type monsters soon

Being me both a Yu-Gi-Oh Nerd and a linguistics nerd, this video is absolute pure delight to me

So this is why in more modern reprints/games the descriptions sound like Joey talking instead of the original versions

I was in a budget tournament where I was running beastdown, and somewhere between using normals for monk of the tenyi, level 3s for rescue cat, and having just enough wiggle room budget wise, I upgraded from silver fang to wolf. Wolf saw play. Wolf saw wins. Wins against decks that Wolf should have no chance against. Wolf is a legend to me.

next you could do joeys worst cards

And despite what smogon, or a smart@$$ owl says, winning with your favorites is possible. Its just a road to hard work

Holy crap Louis!! Duel Logs created a top 9!!

MBT said we'd never get it but loggy woggy finally came through

Finally, after all these years, I know why alligator's sword has such weird text

I remember the first time I saw one of these in Duel Generations (after I spent years away from the game). I think it was Tristan summoning Kageningen, and I laughed my ass off in confusion.

I need a full video explaining what pot of greed does!!

The current support for his deck is pretty good but it falls short of more evolved decks like Kaiba's support who incorporates more summoning options

Man Staten Island truly is the forgotten borough. Mr. Logs can't even pronounce it right. 😢

I feel like so many classic fusion monsters would have been so much better if they combined the statlines from their materials, being as they were specific materials. Like Alligator's Sword Dragon, it would have had 2700ATK/1900DEF with an effect that wouldn't see it have much use today but back in the day it would have been one of the top extra deck monsters in the game.

I'll always remember Anthrosaurus from the Drawfee episode where they drew Yu-Gi-Oh cards based off their name and flavor text.

As a fan from Staten Island, I am both incredibly amused and in pain over this video. I'm assuming that as just a typo. Just can't catch a break. Quite funny to see some of these unpronounceable flavor texts and wondering what makes them so hard, seems perfectly clear to me! Fun video, thanks for posting.

Top 10 times Joey played scapegoats?

Alligator Sword Dragon is interesting because flavor-wise they were clearly trying to emulate the way the Flying keyword works in MtG, but with WIND attribute as a substitute for Flying. Unfortunately they seem to have forgotten to make it also able to bypass the two most powerful attributes in the game, LIGHT and DARK.

More than anything I'm surprised Alligator Sword isn't a Beast Warrior or even Warrior given how Joey's deck is warrior focused.

12:09 🎶 There sat a seven headed beast, ten horns raised from his head. 🎶

Honestly I feel like this should have come out on April 1st with how in-depth you're going on the flavor text on these normal monsters lmao

We got a "nyeh" in card text. Fantastic.

I never realized how narrow a fandom I might be in when I expected there to be a reference to “Thank you for having me, it’s great to be here.”

since some of these are implied to be cards joey traded away for the faintest amount of deck variety, i like to imagine the flavour text is what he said to try and convince other kids to trade for them.

I love how unnecessarily long and overly explained this video is. You have such a soothing voice that I could hear you yapping away for eternity

WE SAID IT COULD NEVER BE DONE, BUT HE FOUND A WAY

15:42 "In this dream duel, and never in his waking life on the show, Joey Wheeler summons 'Hero of the Far East.'" Actually, Jonouchi (Joey) does use it during his waking life on the show. Because that dream sequence is actually a tournament he took part in off-screen during the Japanese version of episode 2! You know that TV duel between Ryuzaki (Rex) and Haga (Weevil) to become the national champion? The tournament that Jonouchi took part in was a regional where the winner would get to compete in the national championship. AND, fun fact, while he obviously didn't win, he did make top cut! So yeah. In the Japanese version, this dream sequence tournament has a lot more significance since it's something that actually happened. But I know what you're thinking. If this tournament takes place off-screen in episode 2, how is "Shield and Sword" in his deck if he doesn't get it until episode 3 via trade? I dunno, continuity error, I guess? Oversight by the writers? Probably something along those lines. Hell, maybe he traded for a second copy and has been running two copies in his deck the whole time. Who knows?

Would love to see duel logs comment on competitive Pokemon

if this video had as a guest litle kuriboh to read the cards would been epic

I believe the “Tot’s” in Little D is supposed to be said with a long O like the word “Totally” which I’m guessing is what it’s shortening.