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Something I appreciate about Endymion's "lore" is that whether he's good or evil is up for debate. On one hand, his project to crystalise magic, letting even people with next to no aptitude for it use it is a net positive. And he actively regulates it to make sure noone with more malicius intentions misuses it. But at the same time, you could argue that the authority went to his head and that raiding what was basically a magical university who's only crime was teaching magic indiscriminately instead of, I dunno, forming some sort of commitee or governing body to weed out the bad apples, really shows how, for better and for worse, he doesn't trust anyone but himself with this knowledge. Its basically a question of whether you think things would be worse *without* Endymion and , in my opinion, most definetly.

This archetype will always hold a special place in my heart. Original Endymion was my schoolyard boss monster back in the day and when I got back into YuGiOh in 2020, one of the first decks I built (and which helped me understand Pendulums) was a pure Endymion deck. Hell, I can recite Mighty Master of Magic’s entire text from memory.

You are a complete Chad for reading mighty master of Magic’s entire card text.

Endymion, the Master Magician is the entire reason why I was the most hated man at my high school Yugi-Group. I got Spellcaster's Command for my birthday and made it everyone else's playground problem

25:04 fun fact: in Polish, both Medusa and jellyfish are called "meduza", and this monster does somewhat resemble a jellyfish, so... Yay Poland...?

Counter Fairies, meet Counter Spellcasters.

My founding holy magical king of the spellcasters Endymion was based and counter-pilled for storming the spellbook tower. There is a reason why Aleister got locked in the basement and their lack of regulation caused the whole Fool of Prophecy disaster. That along with Zoroa’s betrayal, you can’t blame the man for wanting to put restrictions on magic for the sake of the world and for the sake of spellcasters, who were already feared for their powers. Sure, he could have been more chill, maybe do a vote or have a civil convo but considering how all four of the magistus were acquaintances I’m sure those talks happened before, and that mechaba merchant didn’t want to listen obviously, so his institution had to face a six negate Endymion board irl. Remember, Endy was on board with everyone learning magic through his power stones until they started acting out of turn. They did it to themselves.

I think the “1000 or More ATK” cause is to prevent it from searcher “Forbidden One” cards. Add searchers essential have to tip-toe around that 5-Card instance win. That why we can’t have a “Reinforcement Of The Army” equivalent for Spellcasters.

I can only say, my god is it painful to read their OCG stories, every time they can, they show how Endymion used to be a really kind person and wished to use the magic to help all the people he could. Now he's a cruel ironfist ruler.

I think my favorite part of the 'lore' of this set is how they are almost certainly CLOSELY connected to YUGI's monsters, and the Dark Magician in particular. I mean, the dark magical circle is ALL over the place in the card BGs (including seemingly ringing the Magical Citadel itself multiple times), the Skilled Magicians are each tied to one of Yugi's five most iconic monsters while ALSO clearly being part of the Magical Citadel via their use of Spell Counters and Power Stones, Crusader looks a LOT like a Dark Magician cosplay while also sporting a potential 2500 ATK, the list goes on. Like I wouldn't be surprised if we got some lore reveal that Dark Magician was closely involved in the creation of the Magical Citadel and/or Endymion's creation of Spell Counters.

It’s funny because I was trying to look up to see if you made a Endymion explained video yet and here it is.😂

Endymion is brother's favorite archetype. With Invoked being one of my favorites. We both honestly hope that Konami makes the Magical Nations lore into an anime

I still uphold the theory that Endymion and Selene are the parents of Dark Magician, who rejected his father's controlling tendencies and ran away to explore the true depths of magic without parental supervision, inspiring a bunch of talented apprentices of his own to join him. This would lead to the Dark Magician Girl club, Illusion Apprentice Magician, Breaker, Magician of Dark Chaos, and several others, to spread out over time, forging bonds with other groups like the Blue Eyes tribe, Buster Blader, and the Legendary Knights.

The perfect tuner to summon arcanite magician would be dracoslayer majesty peagus if you play a dracoslayer engine.

For some reason, I wanted to try out this deck a couple of months ago in MD. Man, it was so fun (when the opponent didn't have anti-spell or shifter). Honestly surprised there was no mention of astrograph sorcerer. 12:30 I love this part so much.

I was just looking for this stuff the other day and was surprised you hadn't done it yet.

Thanks for giving Endymion some love! I’ve been playing Endymion for a long time and still love to play it today. Mythical Bestiary is actually a really good card in the deck. I doubted it for a while but I tried it out and it’s awesome. Institution is also really good. Endymion needs a fusion with Mythical Beasts that’s also a pendulum scale 9. That would be soooo good

I feel like Endymion would be played randomly in Arc-V S1 by some random character (maybe even as 1 of Sylvio's decks) and doesn't do anything but is crazy irl.

When it comes to tech picks, the Sky Striker engine also goes pretty hard with Endymion, now with Engage at 3 even more.

Lets see if the goat still sharpens his senses @GoldenNovaYugioh @GoldenNovaYugioh @GoldenNovaYugioh I am begging you for a psy-frame video

"Selene" is pronounced "Seh-Leen", not "Seh-Lee-Nee", Nova!

The Video i was waiting for After unlocking the endymion pack in MD. Thank you

Finally! Been waiting on my spell counters to be heard

Once tried (keyword: TRIED) reading a fanfic where the MC for it had an Endymion deck. It was good… until Battle City where several characters don’t act like themselves and we get introduced to more multiversal shenanigans IN THE MIDDLE OF BATTLE CITY BEFORE THE FINALS. I had to drop it after that because of the out of character moments, random plots that get thrown, duel scripting to even the breaking of the lore of how the cards were created (I.e Synchro, Xyz, Pendulum and Link monsters were printed by Pegasus years in advanced despite Kaiba being responsible for Synchros, Yusei for Xyz, and Yuya for Pendulums. Oh- and the MC gets a Millennium Item despite not having an Egyptian past). But I loved his (first) Endymion deck.

Just like triff once said. PEND BEST DECK BABY!! *throws the chair onto a wall*

Queen of the master magicians is my favorite. Also, I am finally caught up on all the episodes

I had to do a double when you got to Selene because wow did you say that funny XD

My first deck was the endymion deck and with that deck I learned how to play yugioh

This is the one archetype that got me to become competitive years ago when the deck came out. It was the only chance my friends had of getting me into pendulum monsters, and it worked. Now years later, Spellbook of Judgment came off the banlist. I have been back at full power. This is the only archetype I like to play now, and I have stood on business behind Jowgen, Secret Village Endymion, and his Mythical Beasts alongside Spellbook of Fate, Wisdom, and a hand full to go again. It does fold to some strats, but it is unbeatable going first. Nothing has broken that board without intense resource usage, and the refill from Judgment makes the archetype beyond unfair. It is ONLY locked behind the fact that they are pendulums and there is too much in the meta that can prevent you from going off, plus a well timed Droll and Lock/Brick stopped by Spellbook Magician obviously deleted the strat. But I will never stop pushing the limits of this strategy. As an avid wizard player in every game this is the exact kind of thing I love. Value from casting spells beyond just casting them. Thanks for doing the episode. Hopefully it'll help people revisit the archetype. Its got exploitable holes so it'll never be tier one, but the shut down it provides when I play is something else. Plus I never go into my extra deck. It's just big dudes and spells that back them up. It's so damn cool! Plus It reflavored the way we look at pendulum monsters, gaining value from the fact that they also count as spells. This is something I don't see a lot of people talk about. They are the only archetype that directly utilizes them as spells more than monsters, but they are still monsters that can be summoned to beat face. I even play this in Edison format. Magic Citadel is a house in that format where there isn't as much to deal with it. I made the pendulum Endymion my deck master for domain format too. This guy is just the GOAT for spellcasters in Yugioh. Dark Magician is the grand daddy who we all pay our respects to, but Endymion in my eyes is something else. There is so much here I love it so much. This video brought so much joy to me. Thank you!

24:07 dude probably still had to pay rent somehow while building his evil amnesiac army

I just made Endymion in MD, first pend deck. Great timing!

When i was a kid, my starter deck didn’t come with the field spell, but I did get a test card, which really confused me. Also meant I couldn’t summon Endimyion…

As expected of the leader of the shadow wizard money gang

I mean, one of them What If? moments if Yugi holds Endymion instead of Dark Magician, as i can brainstorm a bit of such. 😉

Loved the tales of vesparia bgm just finished playing definitive edition ❤

What’s a good tuner to use then for arcanite magician

Endymion lore is interesting because the only organized group in the endymion universe we haven't seen regularly perform magic that's either immoral or dangerous are the Witchcrafters, so you can see why "oi mate, you got a loicense for that magic?" is a perfectly reasonable stance to have. (and as for the Wtichcrafters, let's be honest: Verre is grossly irresponsible so...) The invasion of la Maison is where it gets iffy because trapping Aleister in the basement as a magical battery would be a good enough example of immoral magic to liquidate them, but we don't know if Endymion was even aware of that or if he just wanted to shut them down for aforementioned loicensing reasons.

Can you make a video summarizing all the lore in the magical citadel of Endymion?

35:40 For me, I use Kai-Den Kendo Spirit when i want my deck to have a 9 scale for Master Cerberus. It even goes back to the hand after pendulum summoning so you can put it or another pendulum on the scale again to supply more counters.

The unfortunate downside of Medusa's revive is that it kinda sucks if you're running mostly or entirely Pendulums as your maindeck monsters, since those (usually) won't be going to the GY for Medusa to revive them. That leaves the Extra Deck monsters, and I guess you can use it on the couple of Spell Counter Links, but those lose a lot of utility if thrown into an MMZ. Really, your best options are the Synchros like Tempest Magician (RIP) or... Arcanite Magician is probably still my favorite card in the game, ever since I got facerolled by it when playing Over the Nexus. It's kinda wild how it's changed in usefulness, though. Originally, you could build up into a kind of boss if you had ways to keep plopping counters onto it, since it gains a massive 1000 ATK for each one; it didn't even need to shed its own to pop opponents' cards, since it can take counters from your whole field. Nowadays, it's much more disposable due to its lack of any protection, but being able to pop as many cards as you have counters to burn still comes in handy, and it can be a cheeky thing to revive off Selene sometimes. I'd still like to see a new form of it in the future, even if it's just to see how much bigger its armor will get (or, ideally, to get a better look at what's underneath than what Assault Overload shows us).

Great video, Nova. A shame E.B.I. agents are now outside your house.

31:33 obligatory "secret village of spellcasters" suggestion

Can you do a Endymion lore video please I want to learn more!

Slight correction since im an Endymion fanboy: My guy is pretty socialist policy wise! His project was to crystalize magic to let everyone use it (in the form of spell counters) even if they are not born with a unique talent for it. My guess is that he's regulating its use to prevent (another) magical apocalypse, and raiding the tower was justified since, yk, any tom dick and harry can go there and become unstoppable conduits of arcane power (see the fool's story)

Counterpoint for Cerberus. It doesn’t mean “3 headed dog” the original Greek word means “Spotted”. So Cerberus in Mythos basically just translates to “Spot”

I’ve used mega ton magical cannon, it’s very fun.

ENDYMION LET'S GOOOO

i don't know anyone who plays Gemini monsters and knows how to use them that is not going for the master duel mission

I'm really wondering what kind of relationship Endymion have with Selene. Maybe Selene is the one controlling everything and Endymion just a tool to her. Meh, I'm reading too much into it.

god i wish endymion got some more support. Dinos got theirs in archesaur. ABC just got their own support. Give this stucture deck some more love komoney

Can you please do flame swordman and exodia?

what I want to know is what happens between Crowley and endimyon... one become a super tyrants and the other first started the invoked then started the prophecy and become enemies...but they were friends

The Medusa mythical beast is based on the Medusa, a jellyfish

Endymion is what people addicted to numbers count .

Endymions Lab: Magi Cat and Magi Dog are holding two artifacts.. WHAT ARE THEY.. the closest i have found is the magic carpet squirrel card... and blue medicine ?

I am so hyped to see my request here!

Pendulum make brain go brrrr (Odd-Eyes my beloved)

I just wish they make a spell that could lower or increase pend scales to help pen summoning the awkward 4 scale made me do mental backflip when I tried playing mystical beast monster I just wanted to play them to understand this summoning mechanic

Personally I like the mythical beasts more than the Endymian cards, and wish they got more support. Plus, they look like they would have fusion monsters because of all the chimera versions Jackel is apart of.

My fav archetype

Seleney, my favorite endymion card

I mean Slifer has two mouth lol Shouldn't be that unsettling

You wanna spell it out? Are you challenging me to make a counter argument?!

Mythical Beast Medusa doesn't make sense as a Octopus. A snake or Jellyfish would have been much better

Do you all remember the archetype that actually MADE people read? 😅

Nova had some bad experience against d master.

I feel like you mispronounced Selene on purpose here... Edit: Also, with regards to Mythical Beast Medusa, it's actually based off of the Medusa form in a jellyfish's life cycle (ie, the stage where the jelly is free swimming). (But for those who don't know, Selene isn't pronounced as "Seleenie", it's "Suh-leen".)

I just started to rebuild my endymion deck in mastsr duel lol

Im biggest Endymion fan and even I cant believe people are unironacally calling Endymion a socialist lmao 😂.

I'm typing this to help put this into the algorithm

4:58 I hate this card. Wasted potential. Sure, it could've been broken, but it's nothing now and forever

funfact endymion in greek mythology is a guy aphrodite fell in love with so she cursed him with eternal sleep and made a bunch of childrenw ith him ... while he slept

One of my favourite archetypes in one of my favourite storylines.

Came here to say Endymion has too much text

My favourite archtype

opponent: I got a pendulum deck that revolves around spell counters and can make 90 negates. all thanks to me 4.0 GPA me with dark ruler: count this you ugly teacher's pet

I see spellcasters I click ❤

Magic fish