YU-GI-OH'S BEST (AND WORST) LORE 

i cant believe they forgot about goblin of greed and the duel monsters economy crashing, and then the goblin trying to live an honest life but always succumbing to his dark impulses, its like better caul saul but with a goblin

Duel Terminal lore becomes a lot more understandable when you realize that the story follows 3 separate generations.

No marauding captain lore? His relationship with gagagigo is legendary

The lore of Akashic, Slacker and Alchemic magician being roommates

So a bit of meta lore with the S-Force. The S-Force are like an interdimensional police that apprehends criminals across space and time. As it turns out, said criminals all have this motif of blinking themselves out of the field. Psy-Frame perform quick synchro summons, I.P. links summons herself out, Redoer just banishes himself temporarily. As it ALSO turns out, a majority of the S-Force effects counter these kind of decks. Gravatino perma banishes them, orfist pops them as they attempt to blink out. The aesthetic that they went with is actually pretty well done in building a shared but loose lore between their nemesis and them

I liked how the dark world is an actual place that gets mentioned in a couple of flavor texts. it's the topic of kozaky's research, dark blade originates from there,woodborg inpachi was built there oh and folks there like to eat mad lobster.

How about vendread? The story is super anime cliche, but the man coming back to slay the horde and dying once more at the crack of dawn is such a cool concept to see in card art, even if the archetype isn't fantastic.

I thought the generaider and Runick lore was that the generaiders are the dungeons and bosses of an RPG and the Runick cards show the nameless protagonist’s view. This is shown through the quick play spell artwork featuring a first person view of what look like many JRPG moments and fights, such as Tip halving a skill tree being opened.

It's pretty insane how much the spell counters ties to alot of cards and archetypes. The spellcaster-verse is REAL!

I don't know the original source, but Dzeef mentioned in his Pot of Greed video that the Pot will have the thing you desire most inside it, but will explode when you grab it. Everyone of the charmer monsters have a associated "spiritual art" trap. The dark one is called greed and features the pot. Now guess who is missing an arm.

I love the burning abyss lore, they should make it into a book

Visas lore becomes a lot cooler when you realise (unless I’m heavily mistaken) that visas is Vishnu and all the hearts are different avatars of Vishnu with the planet number in the ocg names informing which reincarnation of Vishnu they are

Dont let this video fool you for the fact this video's true purpose is to show that we need more Terrorking Salmon support.

I personally quite like SPYRAL lore. It's a fairly short and cliché story, but the fact that it's neatly contained within a few cards and doesn't drag on makes it cool in my opinion.

I'm living for the various intros the editor keeps putting into these.

fun fact: due to the existence of Zefra Metaltron, it is entirely possible that all the dracoslayer/true draco lore is WITHIN duel terminal.

Now the vendread lore hits different

Dinomorphia have a fun story where many of their trap cards are press coverage of their raids.

I posted the Warrior Lady vs Dai Grepher cards. There's so much lore between both of them getting stuck in different dimensions, and while Warrior Lady learned to harness the dimensional power, Dai Grepher was corrupted by it. Also Marauding Captain is involved at some point because he's involved with everyone from that generation.

Duel Terminal and Gagagigo lore is so good. Gagagigos lore is really heartwarming and with his redemtion arc i love it and Duel Terminal has very much an interesting storyling, although a confusing on. But the thing I love the most about it is the subtle card design that went into duel terminal cards. E.g. Evilswarm was wrecking Gem-Knight, because they all are Lv5 or higher, so they made Gem-Knight Pearl who is a Rank 4 so not affected by Ophion who has 50 more attack than it. (2600vs2550)

2:13 Something else I love is how the canon order of the Solemn Counter Traps reduce God's LP to 0 First there is a Solemn Warning to not seek forbidden shit(8000 - 2000 = 6000) Then there is a Solemn Scolding since she ignored him (6000 - 3000 = 3000) Then a Solemn Judgment when she continues to do so (3000/2 = 1500) And finally, a Solemn Strike when she tries to rebel (1500 - 1500 = 0)

I love the forbidden solemn lore and its relation to Jesus and the items he was buried with; the cup used at the last supper, the robes he wore as he was crucified and the Lance that pierced his side.

The Dai Grepher lore reminded me of the most recent history of jank ep where MBT played Archfiends. Falling Down depicts Warrior Dai Grepher “falling down” to his dark side and becoming Dark Lucius. Never ever would have put that together without the wiki lol

Magical scientist is not just making any ramen. It's both instant and ready fusion.

I like the Witchcrafter lore, which is another part of the spellcaster-verse. They all use magic to craft things and they're all very specialised, but they collaborate to make things they couldn't do alone. Also Servant of Endymion is there. I think she retired from working with Endymion to become Witchcrafter Genni instead, which is probably what I'd do in her situation tbh. Genni even has a spell counter icon in her card art.

Dire is probably one of the greatest editors of all time. This is not an alt account

I got lost on the Albaz lore after the adition of Sprights, i really though that Spright were part of the Tear lore but it seems to be part of the albaz lore lmao

S-force lore is actually interesting and a little different from other YGO lore. When another lore more like fantasy or magical stories. S-force lore use Sci-fi as background of their world. I hope S-force have more cards to make them playable and become a central of YGO next Sci-fi lore. . I believe Evil Twin is in the same world as S-Force too. They're thieves and their evil arts remind me of I:P art style. . I want to see more stories about S-force and Magistus lore. They're very interesting. . [Addition] new S-Force Fiend monster, Lapcewell. He has same style with Archfiend monster. So, maybe S-force have connection to Archfiend too.

We can no longer ignore their unmatched battle prowess.

3:19 MBT misses the amazing fact that this Goblin kid becomes *king and crime lord of the underworld.*

I like that, lore-wise, the DarkWorlds only look scary and evil but they really are good guys with honour

Suship lore is kinda dope tho, a minimum setting of a food reviewer and chef, placed in a restaurant/ship dock can create a short yet creative story

Holy *shit* D.D. Warrior Lady and Warrior Lady of the Wasteland are the same person. I literally never noticed until watching this video

Id say best way to do a duel terminal story would probably be from the perspective of the charmers. It could start out hunky dory and then shit gets dark. Possibly around when D’arc shows up. It’s easy to forget that the light and dark charmers are wearing shackles and one of the charmer’s tribe was brought to the brink of extinction and her sister got turned into a puppet zombie.

I personally like the duel terminal lore. It encompasses SO MANY archetypes, and really makes that series of cards feel like a living world, with a lot of history. So many big bad evil things sealed away all over the place. A lot of it is also just normal shit you'd find in reality. Like terf wars. I believe the mist valley cards fight the gustos for control of the gorge that I believe is also dragon ravine. I'm probably misremembering a lot of it, though. And then the worms show up from fucking outer space, and ally of justice has to take them down, with help from the genex, but in the process they unleash the evilswam virus, which it turns out is what the ice barrier was protecting, and so they have to awaken all these legendary ice creatures to help the constellars fight the evilswarms, BUT all the ice barrier dragons (along with most of the constellars) get corrupted by the evilsawarm virus, so now they're stronger than ever, and so the constellars create the yang zings to help with the fight, but it's not enough, and so I believe deng long is sent to contact the satellarknights, and with there help, they finally take out the evilswarms. But during the fight, they destroyed the base of the naturia world tree, which was the prison for shaddoll core, and we're right back where we started. Shaddoll corrupting everything and taking over, and we need to do something. But it's worse this time, because the shaddolls aren't just mindless beasts like the evilswarms were. They have a goal, and they know exactly how to achieve it. That goal was destroying the rest of the naturia world tree, which it turns out is the prison for the qliphorts, which themselves are mechanical vehicles powered by the imprisoned infernoids. So the infernoids get released, because thats what happens when el shaddoll shekinaga gets destroyed. (Because shekinaga is just apoqliphort towers with construct on top.) And I genuinely don't know where it goes from there. I don't know how they end up beating the infernoids.

I like that the lore purpose of Spright is to power up the Tri-Brigade when Spright Brigade is one of the best variants of Tri-Brigade in real life. Labrynth and Unchained are both very simple lore-wise right now, but I could see them having fun lore in the future.

I shocked nobody mentions the Risebell lore. You know the one were the villian is literally a card called Hipnosister. Hipno Sissy?

I think the storyline of the Royal cards is quite neat, as it depicts the story of oppressed people, running about and forming a united resistance, leading to a huge revolution against their king. It also cameos the Marauding Captain and the Goblin of Greed.

U.A. and F.A. cards are cool too. They're not super heavy on lore, but the small references are really neat, such as Sonic Meister being overtaken in Dead Heat and using the same trick to get back in front in Downforce, Locker Room showing that the U.A.s have an equivalent to Auto Navigator that presumably provides match analysis and Man Of The Match announcing racing to be next on the program. And speaking of Man Of The Match, it also includes my favorite factoid about U.A.s: Player Manager doesn't just play with the others, he apparently *bodies them* and clutches out a win. My man is doing double duty and still the best on the pitch.

so much cool lore in the game and we got things like beetrooper talking about their weapons in the solo mode?

Sangan got the WOTBF pregnant in prison and gave birth to that one fusion monster.

World legacy imo is still the best lore to ever drop in Yu-Gi-Oh. I hope it continues

Dark Blade goes hard af, I'd love more support.

I never noticed how caked up Dai Grefer is

I like how there are like 2 spellcaster "universes", dark magicians in one and literally 80% of all spellcasters thanks to spellcounters, magistus, witchcrafter etc in the other. I'd be interesting to map out the full "extended universe" as even the underworld is part of it thanks to the banned cards cameo art with sangan

i still cant believe they brought fleur de lis back at the last minute of albaz saga

I still don’t know how Konami hasn’t made a show based on the lore that like a anthology series with different lore stories that are seasons long

Fun fact! The World Gears of Theurlogical Demiurgy are pieces of Tierra rearranged into a new form, meaning the Duel Terminal and World Legacy stories are set in the same universe! And Zefra Metaltron's existence means that Duel Terminal and the Dracoslayer stories are also intertwined! You cannot escape Duel Terminal!

My favorite lore be the Charmers/Familiar-Possessed cards if only had solid lore. The cards' art are really evocative of their personalities and potential dynamics, but we don't know much about them other than them training in a school of some sort. You could legitimately write a charming and fun story even with what little we've been given, but Konami just doesn't for some reason. Also side not, I've come to suspect that Eria's familiar isn't meant to be the same Gigobyte from the Gagagigo lore. Like, none of the spell or traps that are clearly part of Gagagigo's story actually have Eria on them, which can't be said of any other creature that is involved in the story. They only ever show up together when it's a Charmer/Familiar-Possessed card. I wish they'd be a bit clearer on whether this is actually the case.

It's amazing that we still don't have an entire Charmer shounen/shojou manga.

This was way more entertaining than I expected.

Magical Scientist producing Ready Fusions cause they do what he does is peak lore

Laevateinn is pronounced "lee-vuh-tayn". Also, the Zera lore isn't one continuous story, it's different timelines, including shit like meeting his future self and the Guardian equip "Wicked Flamberge - Baou"

Oh, how can I forget the best lore out there? An epic of our time, a song as old as rhyme, Behemoth, the King of All Animals, and his crippling PTSD over how badly he keeps on getting bodied by a cute little rabbit in a rescue helmet.

Sad that the Vendreads weren't mentioned

Shout out to the story of Behemoth the King of all Animals getting curbstomped by every beast monster he crosses in the game

Runicks and Generaiders are connected because they're both meant to be first-person action-adventure video game references. Runicks are the spells and abilities being used from the perspective of the player, and the Generaiders are the enemies and bosses of the game. My personal favorite lores though have to be for two of my favorite archetypes: Exosisters and Madolche Exosisters are a group of young girls in a post-apocalyptic world that explore and look for survivors in the day, then using the power of their special infinity holy water, transform into mighty warriors at night to fight off the forces of darkness/chaos to protect what little remains of their world. Martha is the older mentor teaching the original 4 main deck girls how to use their tools, weapons, and powers; Pax shows them getting ready to set off at dusk for patrol; Vadis shows them getting ready to transform to fight a demon that appears; Arment shows their transformation using the infinity holy water; and Carpedivem shows them sealing the defeated demon. Madolche are exactly as their name suggests - "Madolche" being a portmanteu of Magi (a Japanese shortening of magical), doll, and dolce (Italian word for desert). So they're a bunch of children's dolls that a child is playing medieval kingdom with, pretending to be Puddingcess, and using to decorate deserts she (or her parents?) bakes. Madolche Nights shows the child asleep, having put the dolls away in her toy box, and Petingcessoeur is the child having a new little sister to play with. Konami has made at least 3 supermassive lore sets: Fallen of Albaz, World Legacy, and now Visas Starfrost. And I like all three. Oh yea, and I guess the Duel Terminal Qliphort/Zefra/Shaddoll lore.

I still can't believe they forgot the Vendred lore, that was like some sore of Marvel Punisher mix Batman mix Walking Dead mix World War z kind of story. Also the journey of the golden lord to obtain the golden rizz was interesting too.

I do like the floo lore of this bird just going everywhere and meeting other yugioh birds

I like to pretend that after Sangan meet the Witch of the Black Forest they realize they have a lot of things in common (good searchers, dark atribute, three eyes, most popular cards in their format, get banned, get a shitty errata that makes them barely playable, got to 1, nobody care and they are a 3 now), they began to date each other after jail, they got married (I guess) and got a daughter (Sanwitch) whose chilling in the dark forest with her dad who's telling the tale about how he meet her mother.

So Geri, Freki, Munin and Hugin are familiars of Odin, or rather Harr since Generaiders uses one of his older names. Someone explained in another comment I read before (I think it was actually another MBT video) that the Runick cards show the first person perspective of someone playing a video game where the familiars are all helper NPCs and the Generaider Bosses are actually bosses of that video game, which is why Loptr, or Loki, is in Runick Allure making a deal with the player. Not sure how true this is, but sounds cool, either way the Runick monsters are all tied to Harr via their relation in Norse mythology.

Duel Terminal was awesome

What Joseph doesn't know the Dracoslayer lore links to the DT part 3 lore (Shaddoll, Qli and all of that) because of Metaltron XII and Zefra Metaltron.

So it’s very low key in comparison to the others but I love the lore for the Six Sam’s and Legendary Six Sam Cards While it’s not a “story” there is a line of progression. From the OG Six and there support to the Legendary. Each of the original support monsters. (like grandmaster, hand, spirit) are old “retired” versions of the legendary Six Samurai. Who have passed there titles and in theory trained the new generation. Nothing is explicitly told to us it’s all implied threw details like the Armour in the background of “Hand of the six samurai” being the armour worn by “Mizuho”

World Legacy and everything surrounding it like Orcust and Mekk-Knight and the like had just dropped initially when I got into yugioh for the first time properly (so since being a kid), and now when I got back into it Albaz lore was ongoing. Obviously helps that those two are some huge lore-archetypes, but still because of the timing, they are my favorite

7:11 I can't stop replaying 😂😂😂 The lore is too interesting

I can't believe you'd talk so badly about the Duel Terminal lore! To this day I think that the latter half is still some of the best story-telling through card art that we've gotten in this game. Sure the first part with the Worms and stuff is pretty mid, but once DUEA hits shit gets real.

Joseph, for some time you and Alex have kept me alive with your videos, not kidding. You two are literally the only creators i will switch youtube apps for to give you the ad revenue. Much love

I saw the video length was 8:51 and was scared it was actually 9 hours like the thumbnail implies.

excellent dire editing as always

Duel terminal is the og shonen anime, the kind that the autor throws whatever he wants into a wall and what fits, fits then he throws more at it, and the end result is complete and utter insanity abou robot fighting aliens that turn into a living moon, and the robots get a giant cannon and shoot it and then there's demons, dinosaurs bird people warriors and Ice dragons And then you realize its Just the First act of it

My favorite one is Shiranui/Mayakashi because Squire and Daki are supposed to be enemies but then they go “you know what, let’s just have sex”

Warrior of Zera also has some kind of connection to Zera the Mant, possibly he can summon it using his sword. And Warrior Dai Grepher has a split timeline, as seen in The Paths of Destiny - he only gets corrupted and becomes Dark Lucius on one path. DD Warrior Lady creates the Different Dimension Ground to banish him into the Different Dimension, where he encounters his alternate timeline self Knight Day Grepher, then a Dimensional Inversion occurs and a regular version of Grepher pops back out in Unexpected Dai, who immediately tries to seduce DDWL in Dai Dance.

I still think one of my favorite lores is still World chalice, it just sounds like a huge dnd campaign/rpg to the point that I wouldn't be suprised if yugioh made it a spinoff game, i just will always remember how hooked I was on learning more about it and it's one of the reasons I was hyped seeing it in master duel.

I'm a bit confused over Outstanding Dog Marron's lore; how did he get lost, in the first place? Why did he turn evil, and how did he die? And where does his support, Outstanding Dog Mary come into play in the story? Is she like the replacement dog for Marron? I wish there was more lore for the underrepresented archetypes. Like, how do the Bounzers or Beast-Warrior Phantom Beasts fit into their own archetype? What's the lore of the different versions of Gaia the Fierce Knight, or Celtic Guardian?

Okey, this may be only one archetype but Magical Muskets men, 7 bullets 6 at the wielder's control and the last one at the devil's will. I wanna know how everything resolves since the bullets appear at the end of Act 1 and the play has 3 acts.

i genuinely want a deul terminal anime (i'll even take a manga or LN). anything so that i can see my girl winda in her full glory

Something that came to my direction is that the monster Supply (a (bad) fusion monster support) is looting up stuff in Fusion Recylcing Plant, which is in the Citedel of Endymion. Fusion Recycling Plant also employs Monster Eyes. Always wondered why it searched out Poly.

the Goblin Kid shirt 'shopped onto Joseph is a great touch.

One of my favorite running gags I recently discovered is "Behemoth, the King of All Animals" getting his ass kicked in like 90% of the cards he appears in. Poor guy.

Dire killing it with the intros to these videos.

Don't know if someone talked about it in the stream, but the red-eyes zombie dragon vs the dark world dragon mini lore was interesting.

That billy and mandy intro gave me life

Yugioh has had so much potential material for a lore-based anime, its a shame it took Konami so long to even consider the possibility.

The coolest thing about Duel Terminal lore are the team-ups. That's how we got the likes of Lavalval Chain, Daigusto Emeral, and Gem-Knight Seraphinite. Also, speaking of Duel Terminal has anyone ever thought about how Malefic might be the prototype version of Shaddoll and Nekroz (and maybe even Metaphys)? Correct me if I'm wrong but Malefic might be the very first archetype to be composed of some sort of alternate versions of cards from various archetypes. (You could argue that Evil HERO preceded Malefic but Evil HERO only had alternate versions of cards from a single archetype, not multiple.)

7:12 the editing is so good here

"Dark Ruler Ha Des is the leader of the underworld I suppose" Literally named Hades

You could probably make a duel terminal anime, if any monster in it had even a shred of character. Or the cards themselves illustrated a story apart from “this fights that”

I tend to like the lore that's either about just a random lvl 1 from 2002 or ones that aren't a part of an archetype specifically, but more like a collection of cards based on themed effects. Stuff like the Solemn lore, Sangan's journey, Dark Ruler's negate-CBT or stuff like characters like Uni-Zombie or Zombie Master being separate parts of the Skull Servant cinematic universe. Yeah, World Legacy and Albaz were fine and all, but nothing to me beats the comedy of these random throwaways getting the limelight in small stories printed over time. It'd be like if MTG in their new set printed the Wood Elemental redemption-arc after having cannibalized the forest around him for power.

Runicks are the players/heros side Generaiders are the (obviously) Bosses/villians

I want to say Magikey is my favorite Lore deck and my Pet deck, it's just my favorite in everything and every summon. Clavkiys having the tools to discover new worlds, where some of them are deadly, others are somewhat peaceful and he's overcoming all of them, even going through transformations and finding out that his allied gun has a physical form and they both fight a massive lion that somewhat people though it was Evil Eye related because of the symbol in Vepartu's artwork is just peak for me. We may think Ashtartu was Clavkiys' Final Form, though we had a Non-Magikey Trap Card that's just Vepartu riding a big blue-red bird and I want to see it being printed in an actual Magikey support.

2:37 “you POISONED THE CAT?!”

The adult goblin in Hatsugai is actually not the sad goblin kid, because all the goblin children in that card are noticeably all his friends. ANOTHER card in the same set, Bunny Ear Enthusiast, has the sad goblin kid on it waiting in line to meet some weird bunny mascot. So all his friends got to go get toys while he has to sit in line and meet a furry.

@direYGO keep up these great intros!

Aleister is really out here getting mogged by the entire Magistus archetype ngl

Loved the intro, billy and mandy are a huge part of my childhood ❤️❤️❤️❤️

i'm a big fan myself of early vanilla pends - especially the draconia cards and their 3 front war and wish they would make more

I genuinely want to know what the heck they're doing with Darl Magician lore. Realistically that plotline wrapped up over 10 years ago when Duel Monsters ended but that only focused on Dark Magician and Dark Magician lore. What about all the other cards like Breaker, Dark Valkyrie, whatever the heck is going on with Chaos and how it all fits together with Taemius, Gaia and various other dragons. So much of it goes unexplored in and I'm pretty sure that's because their is no cohesive lore and they're just making DM cards that look cool.

Aside from this main lore, I also like tiny detail lore on some card effect like albaz losing his ability to fusion after get eject from his fusion or all dogmatika hate extra deck card cause they are just forbidden in the religion. Or how infinitrack xyz monster suck monster they destroy by battle because they just got ran over and absorb into machine to become more fuel for them.

I loved this vid 😂 what a great way to end my day