Just realised Playmaker won here using his first Xyz monster by attacking, negating his own attack and then using his follow up to snag the win. Yuma would be proud.
Yeah, I feel like a lot of episodes in Vrains including some Cyberse Monsters is a callback to other series. Yusaku's Ritual Cyberse Magician, Cyberse Quantum Dragon that look likes Shooting Star Dragon and now this Xyz Dragon's effect mirroring Yuma's combo with Hope(Utopia) negating his own attack to deal more damage.
0:32-1:06 if you listen closely, you can hear Yuma’s xyz theme from the eng dub playing (specifically for Utopia roots and Utopia Beyond). I love how they made this small connection.
Is it fair for me to say that for a show that’s supposed to be a ‘kids’ series, Yu-Gi-Oh VRAINS in the dub is the most darkening series compared to all the rest because even though it’s still about saving the world, it doesn’t even talk about the true meaning of dueling. And also you don’t see ‘a lot’ of smiling in this series from beginning to end, especially from Yusaku.
A-Link I can see your point. I’m just saying it is because GX eventually came to the conclusion that dueling is about having a fun time, but VRAINS doesn’t do that. It’s always so serious and there’s a fair bit of ‘negative emotions’ in this series. But I can see where you are coming from
I know, right. "The boundary between order and chaos break down to manifest as the fangs of devastation. I Xyz Summon! Rank 4 Firewall eXceed Dragon!" Doesn't get better than that.
I know they aren't Firewall monsters, but we do have Cyberse Clock Dragon and Cyberse Quantum Dragon. Until or unless they give us a Firewall Fusion or Synchro monsters, those two are as good as it gets.
@@sethsholtis5297 Well yeah Clock and Quantum are both great. But if Borraload gets to have other extra deck type versions as well as a ritual, it just feels fair that Firewall gets them down the road.
@@Magenta.000 during the time in it’s pre errata state, it essentially changed the entire game into whoever goes first wins the match as every game ended in actually 1 turn. Essentially what happened is because it could make infinite loops with stuff like cannon soldier, most of the trickstar archetype and more. It quite literally broke the game for the time it was unlimited. For the canon soldier one you needed to do was have firewall point to a card that can return to the hand (A-assault core was common as it was the easiest) and then have cannon soldier continuously tributes it because every time it’s tributed, a assault core returns to the hand (with a second copy in the gy) and then firewall special summons it, which gave canon soldier infinite Ammo and continuously burn your opponent. It was not a good time for Yugioh. Also for reference the game isn’t balanced around the casual setting it’s balanced around the competitive.
I hope one day there will be a rank up magic for cyberse so that that exceed dragon can have an evolution. So much possibility for even more cyberse support
I was surprised as well to hear that summoning music again from Zexal. I still miss the Zexal series to this very day and that music just brought back some good memories from that show.
this is probably the one duel I don't understand the outcome of, Gore says several times his monsters can't be effected by other effects, yet Firewall Guardian's effect is what causes him to lose?
They never actually explicitly say it as far as I can tell, but the card text shown when Dino Domain is first activated does say "face-up monsters on your field are unaffected by the effects of monsters on the field"
I personally hate the art style but man that is a great summoning animation, probably not as good as most of the top zexal ones but man this one has reminiscence to 106's initial summon.
I don't. It's ability is powerful, but it only works when Firewall Dragon is co-linked, and it only works once while Firewall Dragon is face-up on the field. If you ask me, you should only be allowed to have one copy in your deck.
Firewall was banned because of it's other effect; which is when a monster it points to is destroyed you can special summon a monster from your hand (and maybe graveyard but I don't remember off the top of my head). In any case, when Firewall first came out that effect had no restrictions on it so people found ways to loop it to give something like cannon solider enough ammo to burn their opponents LP away in an FTK or something.
firewall guardian should have banished itself after it was sent to the GY the 2nd time but lets not talk about it. this can be our happy little accident
It only gets banished if it leaves the field. When monsters are used as xyz materials, they do not leave the field, they become material. When materials are detached, they aren't treated as leaving the field either, so using monsters like Firewall Guardian in this way is a good way to get around their self-banishing effects. Using monsters like Salamangreat Spinny or Sea Archiver as xyz materials is similarly effective
