Yu-Gi-Oh's! FAILED Ice Mechanic! 

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"dinosaurs are reptiles" ok now a group of angry palentologists is going to go on a rampage. We all now dinosaurs are birds (so whynged beasts) and not reptiles

"What's going on in there?" "We're trying to get enough ice counters, Jerry!"

I truly like when people are talking about forgotten cards , I was searching cards like this for a game night with my friends which is about everyone only playing bad niche decks with cards such as Moja , burning skull head or ice counters based deck , thnaks to your video , I will definitely consider building an ice counter deck for the next game night ps : if you or anyone have other idea of forgotten "archetypes" like this , I will be glad to hear about them ( my pet deck was dark scorpion btw)

Imagine if we have Ice Type. There will be a lot of "Ice" arctype, but with no Ice type monster. . I think they can have a solid gimmick, ice prevent opponent's monster from using their effect and changing battle position for 1-2 turns. . I read the Ice Counter cards. I think they effect isn't not bad. They just need some support and they will be playable.

“Jerry, this is a load bearing ice counter!”

The cruicial mistake Mommy Konami made was never allowing counters to have inherent rules attached to them. Not every counter needs this, but ice counters restricting attack and/or battle change position being codified woulda given us a real thing on our hands. Magic has +1 and -1 counters that modify stats, poison counters that kill you if you get too many, and even counters that grant a keyword ability (imagine there being a piercing damage counter, it’s like that)! This is also the same with Aliens’ A-Counters lowering atk. Not only do they not do it on their own despite most aliens mentioning it, but if you have multiple aliens mentioning it they lose 300 attack for each a counter for each effect. It wasn’t supposed to stack idt but it’s not reminder text. The text is the only thing making the counters do as much.

Hello there, the topic regarding having an ice mechanic in Yu-Gi-Oh is interesting. A themed deck can be done, starting with White Knight Dragon & White Knight Queen. Ice Master & Cold Enchanter are good additions to a themed deck. Additional support cards, Blizzard Dragon & Snow Eater. These could be deck starters!

This might just be ignorance on my part, but where does it say anywhere on these cards that it has to be your monsters the tokens have to be on? Cold Enchanter says to target 1 face-up monster and put a counter on it. Seems to me that could be enemy monsters, too.

This video taught me that illusion is a monster type that exists…for some reason I really hope that Ice Counters can get some more support to at least make them somewhat playable, even if only being a casual strategy. If Watts could get new cards, I have hope

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by, and that made all the difference." *Robert Frost

If it was just Asuka's cards from the manga I would just say they were printed as pack filler like many of the non-protagonists anime decks but then they randomly got an xyz monster for seemingly no reason. It's like Konami wanted to do something with the theme but gave up before even starting.

Honestly for the most part the types for elements are completely redundant because Konami doesn't want to explore the concept of a lot of types and instead just treats them as extensions of attributes. It's why it took them like 20 years to make an actual noteworthy FIRE Aqua or how people unironically talk about Bonfire as FIRE support when it specifies Pyro-type which is not mechanically forced to be FIRE, just that the lack of creativity makes it default to FIRE. Making an "Ice-type" would just add to the number of redundant types that Konami thinks are just an extension of an attribute. And it's not like you can't have Ice elementals be something like Aqua-type or if you want to squint a little maybe Rock-type. If you were designing a game and wanted to add some new category/tag to give something, you'd want it to have some sort of mechanical justification. The first new type, Psychic, added a lot of design space for unique visual identity and effects that hadn't been explored yet. Wyrm, Cyberse, and Illusion while they have a lot of overlap with the Dragon, Machine, and Spellcaster types, you can very much get when you realize that Dragons, Machines, and Spellcasters are historically overrepresented types and so making "spinoff" types just helps to add variety and prevent unintended combos (imagine if Swordsoul was focused on Dragon-type instead of Wyrm). For a spinoff type that isn't related to an already existing type, I'd think it would be better to do something more like a type for some sort of niche that we've seen fairly frequently but hasn't been perfectly suited to the type it's usually put in (like something like a type for "mostly normal humans that currently are defaulted to Warrior or Spellcaster just because other types for humans don't really exist" such as U.A. or Spyral) or just import Galaxy from Rush Duel. The game has kept ice thematically used as just generic stun effects. Ice Barriers have their stun effects (that Konami treats kinda more like jokes nowadays) and Icejade has stun effects as their game plan. They just get tied to the monsters themselves rather than the flavor of having to actively place ice on other monsters.

It’s an idea that got freezer burn 😂

I guess I predicted what this video would be lol