@@TGSAnime since you did Legendary Dragons/Knights, Gandora, Gadget, Silent Swordsman/Magician, Dark Magician, Magician Girl, Mirror Force, Egyptian Gods, Exodia, Kuriboh, Magnet Warriors & now Knights of Face, the only archetypes left in Yugi's deck to cover are: Archfiend, Gaia the Fierce Knight, Black Luster Soldier, Phantom Beast (if you count Gazelle & Chimera) & Destruction Swordsman (Buster Blader)
@TGS anime. Do you think you could do Reiji Akaba's deck (D/D/D) i really enjoy them and i like what the cards are based off of. I already know what some monsters are inspired by (The monsters are based off of either the way the world could end example Armageddon,Apocalypse or the extra deck monsters are based off of Historical leaders or ruler's like D/D/D Flame king Ghenghis is based off of Ghenghis Khan.) Thank you!
I believe the "Joker" in the 3 Arcana Joker cards are a reference to how sometimes the Joker as a wildcard can be seen as more valuable than a King. Would love to see an Ace card
I could see an Ace YuGiOh card being used for XYZ summoning. Ace card in the playing cards games usually can be either worth the least or highest value, like BlackJack. I could see the Ace card also being for Synchro and being a Tuner. It could work either like Gagaga Magician or Speedroid red eye dice
@@WhiteRaven696 Yeah the effect is OP if they don't nerf it because it basically just Harpy Feather Duster and Raigeki with cost, which is still worth it considering the effect.
I wanted a new fusion, the could have turned slasher into the new fusion with the spell card effect that came with it into his effect and then give him another effect and bam, a brilliant fusion monster
@@leeeyles1864 I also wanted a new fusion monster, when I first saw the cover card of Kings Court I assumed that Joker was a new fusion monster, turns out the new boss monster was just queens knight in a new outfit.
Don't worry. With all this support the Royal Knights of Face have now, I'm sure they'll make him in a future set. His effect to destroy everything on the field (and I'm sure it's not targeting) is really sick.
I just looked him up. That cards selectively mill 5 from the deck seems pretty damn powerful. Considering stuff like painful choice is banned and foolish burial is at 1. If he does come out, I think he'll have a nerf.
Technically this is still a series. They have cards clearly made to support them, but an archetype is defined by having support that specifically mentions a shared name. For example "Gimmick Puppet" is an archetype as there are cards that specifically mention "Gimmick Puppet" as opposed to individual card names or shared traits like Type, Attribute or in some cases ATK and/or DEF. I apologize for the nerd moment, but some new players don't quite understand the difference and thus deserve some clarity. On a side note: Have you covered Mathmech yet?
@@MansMan42069 Yeah. Sometimes what is clearly intended to be legacy support for a certain card or archetype is made more generic either to improve the card's usefulness or because they have a reason to not make a series into an archetype. Melody is a case of the former as searching for a Dragon with a certain stat line means a lot more options than being restricted to "Blue-Eyes" monsters.
@@MasterArchfiend Perhaps for the case of the Poker Knights monsters, they simply never had a categorical identifier attached to their family of related cards. Konami simply didn't have the foresight to give it an archetype name. Maybe future reprints will have errata text that says these are always considered "Poker Knight" cards.
@@MansMan42069 Well archetypes are dictated by the OCG name which is why cards that support the Warrior archetype or Magician archetype have to clarify that they support the synchro and pendulum monsters respectively and it is also why a lot of old cards needed a name change due to not being part of an archetype introduced years later. While turning a series into an archetype is possible and has been done before, it would require some behind the scenes discussions and a lot of reprints which Konami tends to only bother with certain cards.
@@MasterArchfiend The most prominent I can remember being Buster Blader becoming an archetype and Destruction Sword technically being different archetype with inter-related cards.
I'm pretty late saying this but an interesting fact I'd like to mention is that these cards came with 7 cards per pack instead of the usual 5 or 9 like most if not all do. In any Card game like Poker, 7 is usually a lucky number. Just thought I'd throw that out there. Also this deck is made up of more Jokers than actual knights so it should definitely be a Joker Deck 😂
Modern decks are no longer based on anyone however the original designs which came from France were said to be based on kings David, Alexander, Charlemagne, and Augustus. In those days they were made on wood and the King of Hearts lacks a moustache because the carver made a mistake
@vietthanhnguyen815 It's mostly folklore But The King of Spades is Said to be King David of Isra-el The King of Diamons is said to be Julius Ceasar of Rome The King of Hearts is said to be Charlemagne of the Franks And the King of Clubs is said to be Alexander the Great of Greece
I guess Arcana Knights could cause confusion with the Arcana Force archetype. Even though no cards that just mention an "Arcana" archetype by itself exist. Still, new people might think Force and Knights would be sub-archetypes of the Arcana.
The one thing I can say why Jack's knight is the strongest is maybe he went from a paultry knave to a member or even head of the elite guardsmen, after he showed potential and skill with a sword and shield, in charge of protecting the royal family aka king and Queen's knight.
I loved this archetype! Their effects of controling the board and the way spell and trap cards can be recovered to use them as fuel is pretty good. Great video, I liked a lot the explanations about the rol of each card in the real world.
When using playing cards, Jokers are either considered wild cards or they are stronger than the face cards (like if they were used in a game of Spades or War). The jokers can also be used to replace missing or damaged cards, or if they aren't being used sometimes people will designate face cards to be wild. Thus making them the "jokers" as it were. So there being more than 2 Jokers makes sense as it's referencing how people got around damaged cards without buying more.
Would be neat to see 52 cards each based on each card in the deck. Make so having 60 is better then 40 cards. Also the “wining hands” could be neat as well.
@@the24thcolossusjustchillin39 I would imagine it would be something akin to having field or hand presence to make Poker hands, with successive tiers getting more powerful effects. I'd imagine they'd retrain Royal Straight Slasher to be the ultimate Boss Monster for the archetype, since if you could actually pull that off in a game, you'd need a HEFTY reward.
For Jack, Queen, and Kings Knight, like tgs said I think they started as spades. But looking at the artwork of the upgrade cards it seems they went to Diamond's.
In a lot of anime and games, JACK is actually quite powerful, even against a king or Queen. I suppose if we’re going by cards, it does beat every card other than ace, King; and Queen so perhaps anything below them would be vulnerable to a Jack. Jack is also surprisingly a very overused name as I’ve seen
It must be noted that Jack's Knight had been compared to the Jack of Spades, which is depicted in a standard deck of cards as a one-eyed Jack. In some Poker games, the one-eyed face cards ( Jack of Hearts, Jack of Spades, and King of Diamonds) are designated as Wild Cards! This can explain why the Jack's Knight card in Yu-Gi-Oh is considered stronger than King's Knight and Queen's Knight!
@@deathechovii Oh that Person.......even after Centuries I still remember him.....remember the terror he has done.....remember what he has done to my Family.
Fun fact: Jack in the playing card sense is actually a combining of two cards from tarot, where there is a Knight and a Page (sometimes a Knave) of all 4 suits.
Really liked this overview of the Knights archetype. Ever since I drew all three from a box of Elemental Energy back in the day and gave them a try in a deck focusing on Ra, I've fallen in love with playing with these cards. So naturally, I love seeing them get any kind of positive attention that I feel they deserve.
I remember playing the OG trio when I was a kid. Yep, you did this series justice. Glad they received modern support. I was really hyped when I heard of King’s Court.
When Yugioh and G Gundam lowkey taught me about playing cards and I still suck at normal cards lol. Still it is nice that the Knights also have an archetype.
The fact that there are 4 monsters with "Joker" in their name could be a reference to the more modern inclusion of 4 Jokers in each deck of playing cards.
Hopefully, if they ever print Royal Straight Slasher they either make him a ritual monster or get rid of the spell card and give him another summoning condition.
I think a ritual would work extremely well, make the ritual card require 3 light warrior monsters to use. It would allow him to be added to another deck but it would be easiest in his own series.
And in even more anime, JOKER is very versatile. It’s not many shows or games and such that depict Jokers as inconsistent in terms of weaknesses, as a Joker is supposed to be random in terms of being powerful or being weak.
When King's Knight, Queen's Knight, and Jack's Knight first appeared in YU-GI-OH, I found myself wishing that the makers of the game would eventually release the cards Knight Ace and Knight Ten with the following special ability: If after the player's fifth turn, but before drawing any cards, Knight Ace, King's Knight, Queen's Knight, Jack's Knight, and Knight Ten are in your hand, you may reveal these cards to your opponent. If you can cause this to happen, you WIN the game!
I’m used to calling them the Poker Knights from when I was a kid and they were some of my favourite monsters to see Yugi/Atem use other than the Dark Magicians so I was very happy when kings court was shown off and made them into a proper archetype. Even bought a whole box of KICO and pulled a CR rota. It’s a shame they’re not exactly meta bending/defining but I love ‘em all the same and that’s all that matters.
I dueled someone on Yugioh Nexus who had set the cards drawn in the draw phase to 15, so I always got Arcana Triumph Joker and the original face knights. By going first, I could get my monster to over 55,000 ATK
Another interesting thing is each upgraded knight has twice the attack of the base. Aside from Queen's knight however she can reach 3000 atk so long as you have 6 cards in hand
I wonder if there will ever be an “Ace Knight” that could be added to this archetype, that can kinda act like the King and Queen’s Champion Knight, maybe it would be the strongest monster in that archetype, but what do you think?
Imperial bower is the ace of the poker knights, look at the feet in the card art, both feet make an ace symbol and they let you pull out kings and queens, which in turn pulls out jacks - it is the literal ace card
@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="582">9:42</a> Actually, it does. Two jokers in the Extra Deck, referring to the two jokers when not in use with the other 52 cards, while you also have two jokers in the main deck, referring to the 54 card deck variant. You can only have two jokers in the deck, but you also remove them from the deck when they are not part of the normal game. Thus… balance is maintained of 2 jokers each.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="273">4:33</a> the card you show probably explains why..there is diamonds and clubs on the artwork of that specific queen of spades..can't find a heart unless you wanna count her hair parting as that which I wouldn't.
Slight correction: Arcana Knight Joker is summoned in Yugi's duel not against Yakou, but against his brainwashed twin Tenma Gekkou the Fairy deck user. Yakou brainwashed him using The Wicked Dreadroot, but is not in control of the duel, he's only watching from the control room
Can I just kindly mention that the queen's knight comparison with her upgraded form kinda makes me think about how much the artists came along with drawing armored-plated breasts, I mean the old cards tend to just have circles, now there's an actual natural looking shape :3
Loved the video, as the face cards were my favorites when I started playing! I'd love a D/D/D trivia video, though i know the D/D/D archtype is quite big
Each suit did represent a real world thing, with Spades being swords for the Knights and Soldiers who protected the people, so it makes sense that Warriors based on cards would all favour the Spade motif. Hearts represented the Church Diamond the aristocrats, the wealthy And Clubs the peasants, the poor.
When I played Duel Links I used this archetype a lot and loved it dearly. I even added cards that I thought would support it well and I would destroy people at least 70% of the time in ranked.
Well I’m most card games it goes jack, queen, king this arch type is actually based on 5 card stud with a added role that one eyed jacks are wild. Just a bit of a fun fact it is pointing out in Jack’s knight evolved form by adding another cards effect.
Isn't Jack the highest in Sheepshead? Pretty sure that in Sheepshead it's Jack>Queen>King>10. Been awhile since I played, but I do remember that the King was barely above 10.
fun video man. Btw can you plzzzzzzzz make a video on the cyber angel archetype? Its one of my favourite and i think its a very interesting archetype to make a video on.
The design of the queen's helmet and her choker might also be a reference to the queen in Chess. Also the text mentions that the queen surprises her opponents, queens are the most dangerous piece in Chess because of their ability to make a grand entrance in the middle and end-game. All movements with the queen warps the rest of the moves of the pieces and it is very often for low to medium rated players to lose from a surprise queen move.
If King's Knight and Queen's Knight had EACH been given a Bishop and a Rook as a separate matching set of Summoning cards, you would have been able to create a deck based on the game of CHESS! Since they made King's Knight, Queen's Knight and JACK'S Knight, I found myself wishing that the game's creators would have ALSO created Knight Ace and Knight Ten, with the Ace and Ten having the following special ability mentioned on both cards: after a player's fifth ACTUAL turn, if ALL FIVE CARDS are in one's hand at the START of a turn, but BEFORE ANY MORE CARDS ARE DRAWN FOR THE CURRENT TURN, the player may show these cards to their opponent. If the player can do this, that player WINS the game!
As a follow-up to my earlier reply, I mention this idea as my vision of a CHESS themed archetype Yu-Gi-Oh! deck: King's Bishop and Queen's Bishop would EACH have the ability to Special Summon the Knight or Rook on its side to the field if the Bishop is already on the field with the matching Knight or Rook for its side. In this version, King's Knight and Queen's Knight would EACH have the ability to directly attack the opponent, as their CHESS piece counterparts do have the ability to jump over other pieces. The King's Rook and Queen's Rook would EACH have the following special ability: Castling! "If this card is on the field with a King card, once per game, this Rook can switch positions with the King card to destroy one spell or trap card on the field"! Your deck can have four Pawn cards and one King card, one Queen card, one of EACH CHESS themed Bishop, Knight, and Rook card, and at least one Queen's Double card (13 to 15 cards in total) TRAP CARDS En Passant: If an attacking card has the ability to directly attack an opponent, and you have a Pawn on the field, reveal this card! If you do, destroy the attacking card! SPELL CARDS Pawn Promotion: If you have a Pawn on the field, reveal this card and sacrifice the Pawn to SPECIAL SUMMON one Queen, Queen's Double, Bishop, Knight, or Rook to the field!
The fact that the Jack ends up at the King's right side might be a reference to the fact that, as the most loyal subject of the king, he can be considered the King's right hand man and the Queen being at the King's left side might refer to the fact that usually, the queen's throne is always at the king's left side. So, the Queen standing at the King's left side and the Jack standing at the King's right side makes sense and might not have been a coincidence.
Little tidbit about playing cards, the spade suit is regarded as the highest of the four suits, likely due to the ace of spades being the most decorative card of the entire set. This probably then explains why the Knights of Face and the anime spell Royal Straight are spades, they are the greatest of the four suits.
In games I played growing up the Diamonds were often considered the highest, probably due to a Royal Straight Flush often being depicted as all Diamonds. Spades also represent military might so it makes sense for Warrior monsters to favour that
No idea if ot is intentional or not but queen's knights collar has a chess board pattern (queen is the strongest piece in chess) and the king has a pattern in the same location reminiscent of a backgammon board, now I may be stretching but these cards became important parts of yugis deck the king of games and well what better to represent the mastery of all games than an series of cards that reference not only the obvious playing cards but also other classic games
trivia about thunderspeed summon, despite it being meant for triumph joker, the artwork is the outline of slifer's head, which is apt for the name as slyfer would always cause lightning, and thus also thunder, when summoned
