This is an Updated Version of the Old Gate Guardian Video now featuring all the new cards that got announced like one month after I made the first video.
A little surprised how long it took for this archetype to get more support. It was pretty iconic and little bummed we never got additional Guardian Pieces. Like a Fire piece, Earth, Dark, etc.
Similar to how Novelles and recipe cards are combined into one archtype, we beee more Lab support. Like a card that allows one to special summon lab wall from the hand or deck, as well as use it as a defensive tank Like it gives it protection effects from card effects so you can only beat it with brute force
The Gate Guardian archetype definitely deserved the upgrade it got and it makes the archetype a bit better than before. I like how the Fusions are made up of two pieces and the attack is half of the combined attack of the two pieces they’re made up of. It’s really unique in my opinion
I wish the fusions got one type from one monster, and the attribute from the other to emphasize the fusion was a mix of the two pieces. The way it is now is like one part is completely dominate over the other rather than a collaboration. So close to perfection in my eyes.
I haven’t played yugioh in YEARS. This might be what brings me back. I love the gate guardian cards, and I’ve always wanted to use them. They were just SO BAD!! The new support looks awesome!
1. I'm genuinely suprised to this day that this and the Yubel archetype weren't a thing like 15 years ago! 2. Credit where its due to the design team to be honest. They took full advantage of how much the game has evolved over the years and took one of the worst boss monsters in its history and turned it into a cohesive, fun strategy with an actual win condition that also doesn't sacrifice the unique flavor of the original monster/s that helped make them so iconic to begin with. Them remastering the Labyrinth/Paradox Brothers cards to also give the deck consistency is *much appreciated*
They kinda were. But never in a Cohesive Manner. Especially when you consider how they just tossed Cards out into the game Willy-Billy back then. Though they still do so today, they just have given any restrictions to these effects. They seemed to stop trying these days.
I really like that Konami decided to retrain old bad, but iconic archetypes into new form, keeping original flaw but better suited for nowadays meta. Looking forward for new Yugi deck review!
Hey hey now old n bad back in the day I always had a suigin in my deck cuz I thought it was once a turn n not once a duel lol I cud always spellbinding cicle a card so that's what I did id argue wit ppl that said otherwise I used 2 say read the card good times my lil cheater teen self lol
Fun fact: the best combination monster (in my opinion) functions very similarly to Anime Gate Guardian: the boss monster of the White Aura fish archetype, White Aura Bihamut. It’s a giant fish with a WICKED high attack, and its card art has two heads. This is represented with this part of its effect: During your turn, when this card is Synchro Summoned: You can Special Summon 1 "Divine Dragon Token" (Fish/WATER/Level 10/ATK 3300/DEF 3000) in Defense Position. Also, it’s got a Hydra-type effect: Once per opponent's turn, while you control no Tokens (Quick Effect): You can Special Summon 1 "Divine Dragon Token". If this card you control is destroyed by an opponent's card effect and sent to your GY, while you control a "Divine Dragon Token": You can Special Summon this card in Defense Position. Seriously, if you are making a WATER deck, try Bihamut out. Even if you don’t use the whole (or any other members) archetype, Bihamut is a BEAST, and since they’ve been getting more support, maybe we can get a whole deck?
I was so happy to see the support from Maze of Memories, it only made sense to make a monster that's made from other monsters to be a Fusion monster, and the amount of special summons you can make with them can get ridiculous - and the support just making it super easy to summon them was the icing on the cake (unfortunately no Monster Tamer and Dungeon Worm retrains yet.)
Ikr with 2 burial from another dimension’s I got all three copies of combined XD, then thunder and windy search riryoku guardian for an otk 😂💯 when the deck gets shut down it gets shut down but when it pops off it goes brrrrr 🤣
there already exists a game where you can move your monsters on the field, which is in some ways similar. it´s yu-gi-oh duelist of the roses. has some nice mechanics. I can definitely recomend it.
@@dreamcream3738That exists too. In the manga volumes that featured the Meikyu brothers, the last few pages featured a printable version of the Labyrinth Duel field, some cards, and a ruleset
So a very small detail that I find interesting is these new fusions seem to have Kazejin with its limbs intact. Original Gate Guardian Kazejin was just the middle section as just a ball even after it was destroyed in the anime it still remained JUST that ball with a mouth and cheeks , but each of the new fusions you can see his hands or arms still there. I thought it was a cool little detail.
Ok, so we got retrains for Gate Guardian and various lesser combo fusions between 2 of the 3 components… BUT what we _didn’t_ get were retrains of "Sanga of the Thunder", "Kazejin", and "Suijin", whom all have the shared effect of *_Once while face-up on the field, during damage calculation in your opponent's turn, if this card is being attacked (Quick Effect): You can target the attacking monster; make that target's ATK 0 during damage calculation only._* *_I’d_* personally like to bounce off some retain ideas for each GG component monster that A: Play around with the above original effect, B: Help get the other components out faster, C: Provide some passive support for their respective attributes, and D: Tie into the Paradox Brothers “Labyrinth” archetype: SO, for each of them: _Suijin of the Gate Guardian_ (WATER) Level 7 Spellcaster/Effect _This card's name is always also treated as "Suijin". Can be normal summoned without tributes while you control a face-up “Labyrinth Wall” card. If this card is summoned, or inflicts battle damage to your opponent, you can add 1 Level 7 LIGHT or WIND monster to your hand (from your deck or GY). While this card is face-up on the field, players can use WATER monsters in their hand as tributes for their normal summon/set of a monster. If an opponent’s monster declares an attack: You can decrease that monster’s ATK or DEF by 2500._ ATK/2500 DEF/2400 _Sanga of the Gate Guardian_ (LIGHT) Level 7 Thunder/Effect _This card's name is always also treated as "Sanga of the Thunder". Can be normal summoned without tributes while you control a face-up “Labyrinth Wall” card. If this card is summoned, or inflicts battle damage to your opponent, you can add 1 Level 7 WATER or WIND monster to your hand (from your deck or GY). While this card is face-up on the field, players can use LIGHT monsters in their hand as tributes for their normal summon/set of a monster. If an opponent’s monster declares an attack: You can decrease that monster’s ATK or DEF by 2600._ ATK/2600 DEF/2200 _Kazejin of the Gate Guardian_ (WIND) Level 7 Thunder/Effect _This card's name is always also treated as "Kazejin". Can be normal summoned without tributes while you control a face-up “Labyrinth Wall” card. If this card is summoned, or inflicts battle damage to your opponent, you can add 1 Level 7 LIGHT or WATER monster to your hand (from your deck or GY). While this card is face-up on the field, players can use WIND monsters in their hand as tributes for their normal summon/set of a monster. If an opponent’s monster declares an attack: You can decrease that monster’s ATK or DEF by 2400._ ATK/2400 DEF/2200
Great ideas for retrains. Only thing I'd add for consideration is by having "Gate Guardian" in their names, that makes cards like the new Riryoku and Double Attack significantly more powerful. I imagine Konami intended for those cards to only work with the combined variants given that, particularly in Riryoku's case, can end a game by itself.
If there were ever to be a crossover between Yugioh and Pokemon I would love for the Regis to be merged with this archetype. The resulting aesthetic would be awesome.
Hopefully Greiger's "Reactor" deck is the next archetype to get this kind of love as assembling the three pieces to summon Skyfire is just as annoying as trying to summon Gate Guardian used to be.
@@spicymemes7458 It would be cooler if Flattop can shuffle SKY FIRE into the deck before summoning it. Or if SKY FIRE was retrained to be a Fusion Monster.
In my opinion, I think these are some good retrains and support for Gate Guardian the Labyrinth cards. They did an especially good job retraining Gate Guardian itself and the composite fusion forms its three pieces can create, including ones we never got to see.
3:35 By the way, the same is true for Blue-eyes Ultimate Dragon also (although the DEF is supposed to be 3750, not 3800) and it *might* be a common theme for fusions back in the early era of Yu-Gi-Oh. I need to fact-check this though.
The duel of Yugi & Joey vs. The Paradox Bros will always be a favorite duel from the series. And I think a large part of that is due to the cards the Brothers played in that duel.
10:17 additional clever thing to note here. The trap monster's ATK matches the English anime's Jirai Gumo rather than the real one because of the 400 damage Joey took for it killing Axe Raider, however it still has the real world one's DEF because the Japanese dub never had a stat to compare for that while the English dub did. Side note, fun personal fact, Jirai Gumo was my first ever card given to me by a total stranger that thought me how to play with his cards when I was a kid.
Looking at the Jurai Gumo makes me think about what kind of horror materials the illustrators had back then to draw those monsters because some of them sure are nightmare fuel.
It's so odd to see at last. Wall Shadow in particular was my favourite monster period, and the maze duel was one of my favourite events too. This is an odd revival of childhood
That tag duel and this archetype are a favorite of mine as a kid. I remember me and a few of my friends who love playing actually handmade the labyrinth wall field so we can play it at one of our places. Eventually making rules and conditions to make playing it. Have to see if any of them still have the pieces to that old collection.
i like that the two-piece fusions arent just "backups" in case your combined guardian fails,as all 3 of them have very useful effects that,in some situations actually makes them better that GG combined. wind-water in particular is very useful...if you manage to have it as well as GG combined out thats a pretty good desruption wall... a little protip...Magicians souls,fusion deployment and keeper of dragon magic fair well in this deck as they can help get your fusions out turn 1
With these Duelist Kingdom cards getting retrained, I wanna see Rex get his cards retrained as well as Bonz having Pumpking getting a new form where he doesn't need Castle of Dark Illusioins and instead gets power from other zombies and Castle of Dark Illusioins becoming a field spell that powers Dark monsters as well as shielding them from an attack. Also a new Harpy Sisters card and Harpie Lady 1-3. Harpie Lady Sisters can attack 3 times and is a fusion monster that can be Contact Fusion. Harpie Lady 1-3 dont suffer from the early Harpie Lady Curse of being always a copy of Harpie Lady. And a Orichalchos version of Harpie Lady, Dark Magician, Guardian Eatos, monsters that were under the effects of the Orichalchos to fill up the Orichalchos archetype and a new seal of Orichalchos that if a Orichalchos monster is destroyed or destroyed a monster, it gains a counter and with enough counters allows you to summon Orichalchos Dragon, Leviathan.
I love these cards! Been dying to get them in master duel to really give them a go. Now the helilos cards and the guardian cards needs new cards to make them not garbage
This archetype had one of the most powerful monsters in the early game and didn’t get much attention until just a few years later!! Who else is curious about which archetype will be getting their turn next?
@@johndexterzarate6663 or maybe some extra deck Support for the toons Like say a Potential toon gem Knight pearl or possibly some extra Lore in the Form of a Fusion Monster which would be the very First toon WHO was a failed creation and scared children instead of MAKING them laugh so Pegasus banished the First toon and went Back to the drawing Board
Fun fact: Dark Guardian's OCG artwork is the first time where they use the English Version of Yu-Gi-Oh as inspiration since the Sub didn't showcase it for some reason in the episode it debuted in, and the second time they reference the Dub.
I am so happy that one of the OG archetypes finally got some sort of support. I don't know why it took so goddamn long for Konami to do so but FINALLY it happened. Now I don't know how good it is when it comes to tournaments but honestly I don't care about that gate guardian is one of the coolest boss monsters I've ever seen
I came up with alternate versions of these monsters for fun, but focusing more on the elemental side Sanga of roaring thunder- does shock effects and effect damage kazejin of bellowing gales- returns spell and trap cards to the hand and forces a reload effect Suijin of storming floods- force changing of battle positions the three becomes tempest gate guardian combining effects even the labyrinth monsters are based off elements terra trapdoor gumo- earth- now based off a trapdoor spider for the extra earth and trap effect firewall labyrinth tank- fire- for defenses that weaken monsters of a certain element labyrinth casting wallshadow- dark- can attack over specific elemental monsters and are unaffected by card effects so long as a labyrinth wall exists on the field elemental wall labyrinth- labyrinth wall- but can boost the abilities of monsters/ stats of a declared element once per turn
An old revamped archtypes that actually considered the possibilities of what happens on the field? Amazing Most of those older card collections that sought to work with each other were often to situational and inconsistent. This archetype actually retains that consistency with synergy in-game. I really hope that we get some labyrinth traps that trigger like Jiri Jumo with the column effects. They could also have references to other cards the paradox brothers used like Magical Labyrinth, Beast Tamer, or Tribute Doll, judgement of Anubis, dungeon worms, worm beast, guardian of the labyrinth. Magical labyrinth could summons “labyrinth wall” as long as you have labyrinth wall shadow in the field zone. Tribute doll could be a continuous trap that prevents Gate Gaurdian and his materials from destruction while also allowing you to summon those materials from the hand or grave. Monster tamer could be a trap that equips to an opponents monster in the same column and allows you to take control of it until the card leaves the field. Worms of the labyrinth (dungeon worms and worm beast) could be a trap card that negates the effects of cards in that column for as long as this continuous trap is on the field, also summoning a worm token to your side of the field each turn. A lot of creativity with this, excited to see where it goes.
They even left a bit of extra room for support, since Monster Tamer and more importantly, Dungeon Worm, are yet to be retrained. Love the Labyrinth support!
Yeeeeees!!! I’m so excited to watch you play with this deck. As I was watching this video I was legit thinking “oh, this kinda fits with the kind of decks he likes to play (non-meta decks that can still do something pretty well) I should comment saying I think he should play this deck!” Then you say you’re gonna play it soon and I was so excited
I just rewatched the Tag team duel episode. Regarding why the Paradox Brothers didn't use the water on the field after they saw Yugi do it with Summoned Skull, the attack Yugi made destroyed Suigin, which took all the water away when it was destroyed. They never got the chance to do it
With the way these Duel Monster archetypes get revamped Imagine the day we get to Panik's monsters All those odd attack points values Yugioh players will learn to hate values that don't end in 50 or 100
It would be nice if they did similar things with some of the cool but terrible in the IRL game archetypes, there are a lot that they've tried, and mostly failed with, like Red-eyes, Toon, Union, and one of my personal favorites Possessed/Charmers, but I just want some of my favorite underappreciated archetypes and cards to be more usable and hopefully, popular.
The Charmers Links are pretty useful. If you're playing mostly or entirely one attribute, there's room to splash them in. It was never going to function as an archetype on it's own anyway
Oh I just realized why Labyrinth Wall Shadow stops you from attacking on the turn a monster is summoned unless it’s level 5 or higher. In the anime, monsters could only move spaces up to their level. So, if you treat each zone on the field as 1 space, a monster in your hand moves across the monster zone, EMZ, monster zone, and spell/trap zone, in order to reach your opponent’s space.
I really hate the wording on it though. I assume it doesnt do anything to monsters that don't have levels, but everything that doesn't have a level technically does not have a level of 5 or above.
It's cool that they're actually making Dark Guardian since it was the most surprising part of Gate Guardian not getting support for so long, since it was literally right there in season 1 of GX, but to this day I do not understand it. Dark Guardian feels like a prime example for weird GX support for DM cards, it goes the "make it DARKer" route, and it only really exists because it's a "stronger" variant of a DM era boss monster that Yugi faced down to serve as "the secret true final boss monster" because we've already seen the original go down before, so they feel the need to have another bigger threat behind the one we've already seen like disney in their twist villain phase. What really gets me though is what a complete departure it is from Gate Guardian. GG is literally 3 monsters stacked on top of each other that somehow couldn't pool enough finances between them to afford a trenchcoat, and so the combined form looks just like it's materials, but you could show a yugioh player who doesn't already know about Dark Guardian a picture of Dark Guardian, tell them it's name, and they probably wouldn't ever draw the connection to Gate Guardian; They'd just as likely connect it to Celtic Guardian thinking it's like a Warrior of Zera development, or Vorse Raider's final form. There's simply no resemblance whatsoever and it's always been really weird to me, it's not even some guy wearing the broken parts of the elemental trio it's just a big drider with armour and an axe. Even dark Element doesn't show anything GG related like Riryoku Guardian, it's just ~some guy~ with a generic gloopy dark aura and a horned skull, this art could be anything from an ATK boost to a ritual spell. That aside the new support is very cool, they nailed the fusions imo, I like the Shadow Ghoul cards and between them and Jirai Gumo they really nailed the flavour of turning the weird anime manoeuvres into actual effects. Shadow Ghoul "diving into the wall" by dumping itself for the search, and hiding in the walls using ambush tactics with the field spell's effect to pop monsters weaker than Shadow Ghoul's original ATK, which itself distracts from how the monster itself also has a one time use pop that doesn't have the stat restriction. Imo the deck is probably the best way to create a "dungeon crawl experience" for your opponent available, the labyrinth preventing low level monsters from attacking the turn they're summoned being akin to them hesitating due to intimidation, and GG is like a climactic dungeon boss with multiple phases that gets built up as they "explore the labyrinth". It feels incredibly fitting given that the DK arc duels were like ttrpg encounters using yugioh cards as prompts and characters.
Thanks for the video. I do want to point out two things you were off on: The first is Sanga of the Thunder can get a quick tribute off of Kaiser Sea Horse. Second is Metal Raiders was released between 2002-2003. I know because I actually did a near-impossible, pulling a random pack of Metal Raiders, and I pulled Gate Guardian. Needless to say...I had to run out the store, because people were chasing me.
Really inconvenient that new support came right after your first video. But I'm glad for you that you at least could check this off of your to-do list now. Thanks for the video Sam :)
I just thought of something; consider that monsters like Labyrinth Tank, Jirai Gumo and Shadow Ghoul/Wall Shadow received retrained version that have tie-ins with Labyrinth Wall and the Gate Guardian monster, I'm surprised that Dungeon Worm and Monster Tamer didn't.
I hope they come out with an xyz gate guardian I feel like fusion, they fits with their theme of combining too But I rly wanna see more support for Lab wall itself
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