Why Nobody Plays Egyptian God Support 

It still blows my mind how God slime and immortal phoenix has summon animations in master duel but the God cards don't.

Finally. The commenters will understand. They'll ALL understand.

The return of "Why Nobody Plays"!! Welcome back in proper Dzeef. I hope the break was good for you.

It’s still so funny to me that Slifer had its name changed. For anyone that doesn’t know, it’s real name is “Sky Dragon of Osiris”. When they localised it in the TCG they decided to name it after Roger Slifer, the executive producer of 4Kids at the time (hence the “Slifer the executive producer” joke in YGO Abridged). He also co-created the DC comics character Lobo.

this felt more like an archetype archive than a why nobody plays video

blaze cannon being treated as a blaze accelerator is one of the most random things konami ever printed on a card... so it TECHNICALLY is vulcanic support. Eat that payne96!

Ra sphere mode being a normal summon and not a special summon, thus going through stuff like the barrier statues and vanity's ruler is peak comedy.

It’s me, I’m nobody

Obelisk did see niche play in dragon ruler format as that was actually a point where untargetable beat sticks were hard to out.

I do think it's kind of frustrating that the Egyptian Gods don't have the same level of support as the Sacred Beasts. The fact that we don't have universal access to these cards really sucks for Obelisk and Slifer, both of which could really use a True Sun God equivalent to top off there support

Fun fact about Horakthy, its a promotional card printed only once in Japan for the 15th anniversary of the franchise, and only 10k copies of it exist total.

The big issue with the God support decks are that half the cards are for getting a God of your choice onto your field and the other half is for when you have said God. Resulting in various mismashes of engines which are sometimes live but more often than dead in your hand. The Slime & Joker Knights can offer a quick chuckle before getting curb stomped by any tier 3 or above deck. A hand full of God -only cards are pretty useless without said God. It's just too top heavy of a strategy to be consistent.

Little known fact about Blaze Cannon: due to weird OCG naming shenanigans, you can search the card out with Volcanic Rocket, because it has "Blaze Accelerator" in its name LOL

You know it really sucks that Structure decks for the God card's didn't really give the God Card's any support besides like..what 4 cards?Heck even the Sacred Beast's got a lot more support than that which is kinda sad.It would've been cool for The God card's to have gotten an actual Real structure deck with New Cards.One Idea I personally love would be new Servant's being introduced like Obelisk's Servant and Slifer's Servant.

If Ra's disciple allowed you to tribute them to summon a God card from the hand (and/or deck) the same turn you normal summoned, they would have been good for a little bit

Fun facts for anyone who played duel links - Ra's disciple was also used as cheese strategy in this format by using Neos Fusion to send it to the graveyard and Give and take to special summon it on your opponents field - Obelisk actually ended up seeing competitive play in Resonators of all decks with Crimson Resonator being able to turbo out 3 bodies without a normal summon. During this time period, untargetable 4k beatsticks were extremely hard for the meta to out.

Well the Title is a lie because I play it.

Let's go! I had been hoping for this one. Slifer's trap reads crazy and I have seen a lot of people hyping it up even though it never saw play.

I think it's high-time that Konami makes archetypes for each individual God card. They can absolutely do it. Like, give Slifer, Obelisk, and Ra their own separate support cards in the form of a combination of Monsters, Spells, traps and Extra Deck monsters that work well for each God card. Similarly to how Dark Magician and Blue Eyes have their own support Monsters, Spells and traps, I'd like to see the same thing done to for example: Slifer. Now, the support cards don't need to make them broken, I'd just honestly like to see a playable Slifer, Obelisk, or Ra archetype in the same caliber as a Dark Magician deck.

Finally, the Why Nobody Plays series is (monster) reborn Next you'll tell me that Doug will make another Commenters Don't Understand video...

For the Revived Sky God card, its pretty cool it has Silent Magician there since her effect similarly revolves around her attack points being dependent on the Number of cards in your hand.

They'll never make good Divine Beast cards so that the fans of the show will always come back hoping their decks will be good. Konami are perfectly capable of making very strong cards as much as people think they're big dummies.

Tell that to the average Gold ranked player on Master Duel

A RATA video and a “Why nobody plays” video coming out on the same day, what are the odds?

The dilemma is two main reasons: One, besides Obelisk, they have poor or no protection. Bring them out only to be targeted by a simple monster effect and taken out. So much for being “gods and divine” The second is lack of support outside Ra. Look at Sacred Beast support. Not only do they have a monster to search any of them easily but a field spell dedicated to them, which also protects them from destruction On top of the trap and magic cards they have Mound is what is mostly used in a god card deck but it doesn’t have enough effects, whether to search for the god cards or protecting itself from destruction. Imo the best and easiest way to fix them is not just more support like better search options but retraining them, giving them all the effect along the lines of: “Cannot be targeted and/or destroyed by card effects l, Except by another divine attribute monster”

Why is it always ra😂 seemed like 80% of the cards where ra

The yugiboomers are coming

All they had to do was reerrta the cards once again so that All God Cards cannot be Targeted or Destroyed by your opponent's card effects, and if they're special summoned, they're returned to the Graveyard at the End Phase of the turn. That's it. That's fucking all. But Nooooooooooooooooooo. Konami had to be greedy and instead of fixing the problem, they wanted to print more cards for more money.

At 11 am last night, I matched against a Ra deck in Master Duel... and lost. And then cried myself to sleep.

Im playing them in master duel , Fun is the most important thing

The only support the Egyptian Gods ever needed was an erata: 1- they are unaffected by other card effects 2- both obilesk and Ra have their effects quick effects no further changes required

Yooooo!!! That first video was what got me into YGO again. Ok, I'm not playing TCG/OCG or Master Duel, I'm just playing Duel Links But, still, thanks for the good content, Doug

Obelisk, ruin god and Soul Energy combined with Ishizu support provide some crazy combos. Easy to summon Obelisk and OTK your opponent.

It’s too late 🤷🏼‍♂️ everyone else’s deck is so fucking bat shit crazy hard to follow that when I came back to the game saying “DAMMM LOOK AT WHAT THESE CARDS DO” I’m left thinking “it’s just too late..” it would have been nice for gods to live up to the hype back in the day, but they didn’t. And still don’t :( Sucks

You always HOLD Blazecannon until someone activates an effect that kills Ra BTW. Then you just OTK with Ra

I play it well Ra's disciple anyway but only against friends

Probably cause The Egyptian gods never really got something as good some of the cards they’re Sacred Beast cousins have gotten like for two examples the Chaos and Dark Summoning beast.

Metal Reflect Slime will also let you get Egyptian God Slime on the field.

Finally some good fucking content

What I genuinely do not comprehend is why the fuck konami is so hellbent on giving the God card support such outlandish restrictions. Are they afraid that the god card engine is gonna be meta or what? Ot just doesn't make sense, just give them some actual good support with no stupid unnecessary restrictions.

My theory on why no one plays Egyptian God support is also because nobody plays the Egyptian God Cards in general. I honestly believe the God Cards and God Card support are tailor-made more for a completely different market from that of the competitive scene. Specifically the more old school throwback sort of crowd.

It's funny how Egyptian Gods were supposed to be unstoppable, but they're trash. They only made support for Ra because it was supposed to be the strongest lol😂

1.Still holding out hope for the Wicked Gods to get some support 2. Never understood why the God cards didn't get the same caliber of support as the Sacred Beasts. Ra got a fair amount of it tbf, actually making the card function similar how it did in the anime, but Obelisk and Slifer are barely functional gimmick boss monsters.

It’s God of War Obelisk, Osiris the Heaven Dragon, and Sun God Dragon of Ra.

IF they made Blaze Canon Spell Speed 4, aka cannot be chained to, it would make Ra decks busted.

I know why they did give ra support but he is the worst one to give this stuff to compared to obelisk and slifer

The gizmek’s can use obelisk the tormentor because they’re fairly good at getting monsters on the field and searching monsters whose attack equals their own defense Throw GIZMEK MAKAM, THE FEROCIOUS FANGED FORTRESS in an obelisk deck as a janky searcher

Am I the only one who thinks Konami doesn't want to give consistency to these decks? Their logic could be that if decks could summon gods in 99% of cases turn 1, would they be special?

The new support feel like fan-made cards: Has a bunch of 'unaffected by card effects' effects yet it still sucks because they don't help the main issue of the gods.

If anyone gets their attention. For me It used to be competitive, but for a very SHORT PERIOD, when the new support tins showed up. I even ended 3rd place in YCS in December in my country, Because CURIOUS, was a huge help to summon all 3 Egyptian gods. But thanks to TearLaments that card got banned, and Egyptian god suck now.

"Why Nobody Plays the Egyptian Gods" has always been my favorite in this series, great to see a follow-up!

Because its trash. Just add some of the anime effects and immunity to the cards already........................................................

Over a month ago, i got my ass beat so badly on Master Duel by an obelisk desk so since then i crafted Runicks because i couldnt get over the fact I lost to Obelisk

Who doesn't love a 28 minute video on saying they're bad.

The True Name has a nice combo: Using with Top Share or A Feather of the Phoenix. Reactor Slime is suppose to trigger Obelisk effect, tribute two monsters and destroy all your enemies monsters. And you forgot the Metal Reflect Slime, which you can tribute to summon Egyptian God Slime. one more thing- in the video you showed about summoning using Ancient Chant, you forgot the 3000 attack and defense of the Slime, which can be added by banishing the spell from the graveyard.

Someone at Konami must be a fedora tipping atheist or just has some personal beef with God cards because Konami literally choses what is meta and has decided that the gods will never be meta.

Gotta be honest, these cards were a lot better than I thought they’d be; I may end up building a Ra deck and Slifer deck for my wife and I. That said, holy shit some of these cards are expensive! Ancient Chant is $30 each, Egyptian God Slime is $50.. idk if I want to shell out that much cash for a meme/casual deck XD

if they really wanna help the God cards, then make retrains that share the names

True Sun God needs to be on Master Duel already!

Tbh I think that the game has changed enough to release versions of each egyptian god card with their anime effects.

Dzeef's video on the Egyptian Gods is what really gave me a slap in the wrist and made me start thinking about cards critically and truthfully. I'll still love Egyptian Gods as a casual deck, but have accepted that they're probably not ever gonna be competitive aside from a couple of cards. Also, God Slime is still a $50 card which is a crime.

It's neat hearing about TCG/OCG differences, but would also be cool to have mentioned in videos like these when a card is mentioned that's available in one or both of those but not master duel yet.

Could you do something competitively viable with Holactie + Runick? The True Name is Pot of Greed. (Let me cook) Runick loves cycling through cards. Runick struggles a bit with wide boards. Gods struggle with card draw/searches. Neither deck is good at setting up tribute fodder (can be gotten around) Slifer on its own is good board control. Thunderforce Attack takes care of both problems by wiping the board and drawing cards. The Revived Sky God draws cards and soft searches Monster Reborn hitting Slifer or Obelisk. If you don't have the God in GY then it sets up The True Name. Milennium Revelation is nice for the special and another Reborn search, not sure though Reactor Slime unfortunately locks us out of Holactie. Ra's Disciple is great. Mound of the Bound Creator can search Holactie or any God if popped, otherwise makes the God quick plays better since opponent can't chain anything relevant anymore. The Phoenix Ra package isn't playable with the goal of summoning Holactie. Soul Crossing is 1 free summon if Opponent has monsters. Here's the juice though: The True Name is Pot of Greed (copium) b/c we go so deep in the deck that it becomes very easy to call the card right. It also searches any god or Holactie. maybe I didn't cook anything, but I swear there's something here.

With Blaze Cannon, you can avoid opponents reacting to it, by activating it as the last card on a chain started by your Ra's attack. That way, Blaze Cannon is resolved first, making Ra invincible first. Attack with Ra first, wait for the opponent to react with their counter, then react with Blaze Cannon.

This is just Anti God propaganda video.

Slifer really went on to become the best of the Divine Beasts.

In short: Cuz it's friggen awful like the cards it supports

I have missed this series so much, this just made my day

Watch me play Ra to "counter" sphere mode in my deck

Ra's Disciple is good now because The True Sun God can search it and Ancient Chant, Soul Crossing, Thunderspeed Summon, or Soul Energy MAX can get you the additional Normal Summon required to summon your God card of choice. Mound is good because it gives you positive effects while on the field and your opponent is going to be hesitant to destroy it because they'll give you a free search. Sphere can be summoned to your side while tributing your opponent's monsters with Soul Crossing, so you don't have to wait for it to be passed back to you. Phoenix is great because you can use Sun God Unification to Tribute your own 7900 ATK Ra to gain your LP back AND proc the effect to summon Phoenix as well in the Battle Phase to attack again for 4000. The True Name sucks but was a required play back before the God cards started getting actual good support. At least it has cute interactions with Card Advance, but it's been powercrept out in favor of the other searchers I mentioned (Ancient Chant, Thunderspeed Summon, Soul Energy MAX). Dark Spell Regeneration is cute in theory and can be good in the mirror but the card only works if your opponent also plays Reborn AND has used it. At best it's a Side 1-of in Ra decks. Reactor Slime is like a better Ra's Disciple because you can use it as Tribute material and/or to search Reflect Slime to help turbo out Egyptian God Slime. Guardian Slime is a cool Gorz-like card that has good survivability, ensuring you get a chance to summon God Slime. Egyptian God Slime by itself is a serviceable boss monster and if you don't see your God card or can't get a search off, you can honestly win games with just this. Ancient Chant is maybe the most busted card out of this pack, it's a searcher, a Double Summon, AND gives Ra ATK without forcing you to pay LP, if you use three Disciples your Ra will be at 3300/1800 stats. Blaze Cannon is cute but it's at best a 1-of, you can win without it and it's really just a "win more" card. Millennium Revelation is like a Dark Spell Regeneration that's actually good. It's a way to dump Phoenix to the GY if you hard draw it, if you brick on Level 10s you can use this to get Ra in the GY and then summon it. Sun God Unification is nice for proccing Phoenix and keeping your LP at a healthy number and getting multiple attacks in the Battle Phase which is something you didn't mention which is not surprising since you aren't a pro Ra player like I am. Soul Crossing is such a W card. Any God card is basically a Sphere Mode except it goes to your side of the field, even Sphere Mode summoned by tributing 3 of your opponent's monsters with Soul Crossing can be summoned to your side of the field, removing how slow Sphere is on its own. Thunderforce Attack is okay, but it's a strictly worse The Revived Sky God, I still play it at 1 in most Slifer decks. It's a brick until you get Slifer on the field which is the main problem, whereas Revived Sky God helps you revive a Slifer you put in the GY. Ultimate Divine-Beast is a noob trap card, don't play it. It was passable as a 1-of until the mega tins gave us better cards. Fist of Fate is better, but again, it's dead until you have Obelisk on the field. Also a 1-of. Divine Evolution is so bad lmao, it's OKAY for Slifer since it gives Slifer a base ATK of 1000, fun fact but the effect doesn't even work properly on the Avatar or Eraser, their ATK values get reset by their own effects because of how they're worded, whereas Slifer's effect wording allows it to gain the 1000 ATK which is kinda nice. Thunderspeed Summon is crazy good for the Poker Knight Slifer Deck, immediately 3-of, it's in some ways better than Soul Crossing since it searches AND summons rather than just summoning. Soul Energy MAX is SOOO good but not for it's on field effects, that's irrelevant, it's broken because it's an easy Foolish Burial Goods target to search Obelisk. Opening Ra's Disciple + Burial Goods = a turn 1 Obelisk with just 2 cards. The Breaking Ruin God is one of the best cards here, you can pair this with Skill Drain in an Obelisk Deck to just keep the Obelisk around as a 4K beat stick. Combine this with Mound so it cannot be targeted or destroyed. The True Sun God was the card Ra decks needed to fix it. It can search all of the support, including Guardian Slime, Ancient Chant, Ra's Disciple, Sphere Mode, and it Foolish Burials Phoenix, it's so good. This can also search you Revelation to dump a Ra from your hand to search Reborn. The Revived Sky God is such an absurdly broken. I either play 2 or play 3 + 3 Trap Trick. Horakhty is cool but hard to setup and resolve. Magical Trick Mirror is like a marginally better Dark Spell Regeneration for Obelisk and you can get to it with Trap Trick if you want to. Ra is borderline rogue tier imo, the other two aren't quite consistent enough to be a threat yet.

obelisk the the tormentor, mega ultra chicken and , slifer the executive producer

Thank god your posting some of the stuff I subbed to this channel for. I like your collab series as much as the next person, but it’s not the reason I watch this channel. Meta and card analysis will always be what your best at.

I actually use Mound Of The Bound Creator in my Dino deck, it provides insane support for UCT and even allows you to still inflict 1000 damage without having to use tyrannos effect, which is nice cuz if you’re attacking a monster than can only me destroyed by battle then you can’t do the 1000 burn, but with the field spell you still can

Its a shame, Obelisk. The Tormenter, Slifer The Executive Producer and Super Ultra Hyper Mega Chicken haven't seen major Meta play

"Why nobody plays Egyptian God Support" Me as a Wicked God fan looking at Divine Evolution, "at least you GOT SUPPORT!"

Confused why Konami made support to get the Sacred Beasts out really easily and generic cards that can be used across all three… but the Egyptian gods have very specific support that doesn’t mesh super well if you want to play them together and still requires some extra setup to summon them…

Nobody will play ancient chant or Egyptian god slime because they're $50 cards that Konami refuses to reprint

🇪🇬Hmmm.. If I had to make _more cards_ that were support for the god cards (and support for their support I suppose…) _Disciple Of True Divinity_ (LIGHT) Level 4 Pendulum scales: 13⬅️➡️0 _You can tribute 1 card from your hand or field during either players turn: Place this card from your hand, deck, or extra deck into your pendulum zone. Monsters you pendulum summon with this card count as 3 tributes for the normal summon/set of a monster, but cannot be used as materials for the summon of an extra deck monster. You can activate each of the following effects once per turn:_ ⚪️ If a DIVINE monster you control would be removed from the field or negated by a card effect: You can Tribute 1 card from your hand or field instead. ⚪️ You target 1 card you control: If that target is used as tribute or material for the summon of a monster, increase that summoned monsters original ATK/DEF by the ATK/DEF of the target. ⚪️ You can declare the name of 1 DIVINE monster from your hand or field: add 1 card to your hand that mentions the name of that DIVINE monster in its effects from your fiend, deck or GY. Spellcaster/Tuner/Pendulum/Effect _(Quick-effect) You can Tribute 1 card from your hand or field: Normal summon/set or Special summon this card from your hand, deck or extra deck. This card counts as 2 additional tributes for the normal summon/set of a monster. Cannot be used as material for the summon of an extra deck monster. If this card is used as tribute for the summon of a monster, that summoned monster gains the following effects:_ ⚪️Once per turn, if this card would be negated or removed from the field by card effect: You can tribute 1 card from your hand or field instead, then you gain 1000 LP. ⚪️If either player tributes a monster: Increase the ATK/DEF of this card by the ATK/DEF of the tributed monster. ⚪️This card gains 500 ATK/DEF for each card in either players hand. ⚪️This card gains ATK/DEF equal to any decrease in either players LP. ATK/1500 DED/1500

I do… in fun anime what if characters type deck for back when my little brother and me used to play making 3x structure decklist games

I know this won’t get as many views as the Master Saga or Master Roulette but honestly these are my favorite videos. Thanks for continuing to make them! I know they require a lot of work!

I kinda wish they'd just retrain these cards rather than print weird cards that try to fix their effects. Its not going to work.

Ok i have personally witnessed pure egypt god decks wipe out series of meta decks baxk to back in person and online. It might be rare, but is by no means an illegitimate strategy. And trying to run all 3 god supports and,all,3 gods is not the right way to use,them,anyway because its too inconsistent. -1

Maybe one day konami had enough about the complaint, they release one broken field spell that give them immunity, permanent 4000atk/def search any god support, draw cards base on the number of god cards on field...

IMO ra is 2 cards away from being an actually viable deck

To this day Ra is the only god with a deck. Slifer and Obelisk only has smatterings of unsearchable support. They're so close to being playable but i'm pretty sure Konami purposefully leaves it half baked so they always have god support to fall back on in they know a set is gonna be dog shit.

Actually, breaking ruin god is pretty good bc it can protect obelisk from Omni negates, so Dragoon and Barrone or skill drain wouldn’t affect Obelisk whatsoever.

I will never understand how Konami can't fix the god cards. Just apply the following... 1. Unaffected by other card effects. 2. Cannot be Tributed, nor used as material for Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, or Link Summon. 3. Obelisk > Tribute 2 monsters to destroy ALL cards your opponent controls and change ATK/DEF to 5000/5000 4. Slifer > You may draw 1 card for each monster destroyed by Slifer. Easiest fix ever. Ra on the other hand could use some more work.

In contrast, what _would_ it take for people to play Egyptian God Cards? Have you considered the converse series where you examine legacy support that WAS enough go make an archetype competitive (e.g. Blue Eyes)

Konami: "Make support that synergizes will the trio and allow them to get on the field consistently? NAAAAH let's make separated support for each of them that barely helps them continue their plays"

Just give the egyptian gods retrains already! Make it so that you SPECIAL summon them by tributing 3 monsters (like D Hero Plasma) and give them revamped, better effects than their TCG originals! Also, make it so that Slifer can blow up monsters with 2000< even if not in attack position upon summon. Going into defense mode is an easy way to play around his unique disruption effect.

...For a bunch of cards that constantly say "cannot be negated" over and over, its kinda easy to like... negate them.....

Need slifer and obelisk disciples too

"Babe get up, it's time for Dzeef's annual dunking on the gods."

Lol for them to see play they'd need broken support that are locked into the Egyptian gods. Otherwise they'd just see use in other decks

"The activation of this card, or its effects, cannot be negated, nor can its effects be negated." The classic Konami move of putting in an overly wordy clusterfuck of text instead of simply "Cannot be negated."

This is probably the most Doug has ever read cards! Lol❤😂

konami see this . video how many supports do we have to keep printing to teach you a lesson old man

Osiris is the good card then obelist or ra, but the suport is worst.

With how strong some cards are these days. I think giving them their anime effects would be fair

I remember when Billy Brake used sphere mode and summoned Ra while chanting.