Remember how the first wave of equip spells was "increase creature type's attack and defense by 300" and that's all they did? Good times.

I always see "Black Pendant" as a good example of how an equip spell should be made. It has an effect to do burn damage to your opponent when it is sent to GY. A lot of equip spells should have GY effects to make them a little bit more effective on game...

I don't think equip cards failed the game, the game failed the equip spells. The game just evolved too quickly and left them behind. They were fine back in the day but the power creep and newer metas just leave them behind. They need to start making equip spells better to let them evolve with the game rather than just leave them behind.

I agree that equip spells are kinda failed in terms of competitive Yu-Gi-Oh, especially nowadays. People are saying that there are some cards that are so good they're banned, but I imagine that's like, 1% of equip cards. With all of that said, United We Stand use to tear up duels with my family.

You forgot to mention Saqlifice, Konami put that card into the limited list because it was so strong for qliports back in the day, nowadays isn't that amazing(mainly because pendulums are nerfed beyond recognition) but back then it was the total package: searcher, battle immunity, tribute fodder, Konami should make more cards following Saqlifice steps, equip cards that punish your opponent for even attempting to remove them in any shape or form from the field while at the same time giving you an option to removing them yourself by furthering your plays and netting advantage by doing so.

A real shame. Equip Spells are IMO the easiest cards to understand for complete beginners who spam vanilla monsters. Source: I was one myself.

This video has convinced me that if it wasn't for the manga/show Yugioh would never of taken off. This game seems so broken and unbalanced it would never do well if it came out as a brand new game.

The Weather’s continuous spells and traps basically function like equip spells that stay on the field, granting abilities to archetype monsters placed directly above or beside them.

Magic actually has a one-to-one analog to Equip spells in the form of Enchantment Auras. They are a type of Enchantment spell that has to be attached to a specific permanent when being cast and are destroyed if said permanent is destroyed. I'm not a competitive player, so I couldn't really tell you how common Auras are competitively, but only white and green have regular access to enchantment destruction while blue can bounce anything.

13:44 You know Yu-Gi-Oh! has a mechanic that failed so hard when the person brings up a mechanic from Magic: the Gathering to show why the latter did things better. Granted, Auras are more analogous to the Equip spell cards, but even they have several advantages. Namely, the Bogles deck.

Konami recently introduced the new Mikanko Archetype that's heavily centered around Equip Spell cards. It may become a solid rouge deck in TCG.

To make them function like MTG they could just add in a line that says "Once per turn If this card (name/hard OPT) would be destroyed because the monster it was targeting is no longer on the field, you can Set this card face-down instead.". That way spell removal would actually act as a proper counter while other forms would just temporarily turn it off. Equip version of Scrap-Iron Scarecrow basically.

Megamorph is still one of my fav equip cards to this day, mainly for its meme potential with cyberstein.

Failed Cards definetly: Flip Monsters. There are Flip Monsters with straight up broken effects but because they are Flip Monsters they can get these strong effects because Flip Monsters have to be set first and then your opponent has to attack it or can get rid of it before attacking it resulting in the flip monster not getting its effect

I wish that equip spells had either floating effects as the standard add-on to them, or a degree of immunity to effects like "cant be targeted, or can only be affected by non-targetted effect"

I mean the biggest problem is that Magic had to come up with that fix on it's own, because Equip artifacts are relatively new. By the time Yu-Gi-Oh was made. They saw their equip spells as analogous to Magic's Auras. Which is why they follow a lot of those same rules.

to be fair, i run 2 grid rods in my marincess deck because im confident that as long as i draw into a single marincess monster, i have no problem going up to great bubble reef and adding another layer of protection with grid rod is no problem to me

I agree with everything in this video. Also, Moon Mirror Shield's effect paying 500 LP is not optional. If it is sent from the field to grave you have to pay 500 LP, the only exception is if you have less than 500 LP.

When I first started playing YGO, I originally was under the false impression that Equip Spells did not occupy your back row, and you could put as many of them on the board as you liked (I stacked them under the monsters they were equipped to like how XYZ materials are attached). I also didn't know face-down monsters couldn't be equipped at all, or that the equipment went to the GY when the equipped monster left the field. I figured they worked like Crystal Beasts and became Continuous spells until you reequipped them to something.

Actually in MTG they do have cards exactly like equip spell cards called Auras which are a form of enchantment. The reason they work is because some cards can return enchantments from the grave and by rule an aura would then attach to any creature you choose ignoring even untargetable effects of creatures.

While you looked at how equip cards work in Magic, they could also go the way of tool cards in Pokemon, and have them stack under the card to take them out of the spell/trap zone, sort of like how xyz materials work. This could potentially make it sort of part of the monster, and be removed only if the monster was destroyed.

"You may equip this card to a monster ignoring card effects. If this card leaves the field, the monster it is equiped to is banished face down." Equip it to an opponents boss monster, and suddenly it becomes real scary to wipe backrow.

Rush Duels fix like half the problems in Yu-Gi-Oh and reset the game to a point where it's reasonable to draw 5 cards a turn. I really hope that it becomes a modern standard one day. Because you can draw up to 5 cards a turn if you draw an equip spell that's essentially a +1 if you play it. The more fluid your deck plays the better it does in Rush Duels. It even makes "Bounce" effects more powerful because it is a -1 in card advantage for your opponent if you bounce a card to their hand.

I still think Toon Monsters and Flip Monsters would be great for this, even though Toons have a few good monsters, now, and Flip monsters were some of the best cards in the game back in the day. Now, Flip Monsters are like battle traps but worse.

That new waifu bait archetype with ritual mechanic and equip spell mechanic revealed, your video totally gives good insight of why that archetype is just another Konami's failure on experimenting equip spells.....

Mtg's Auras are moreso "Equip cards" than Equipment, and they have the same problems. There are only three ways they can be successful: -They target an opponent's creature as a form of removal -They are played onto a creature with self-protection (hexproof mostly) in a one or two-turn kill all-in combo. -They are so over the top good that they are kinda worth the risk of getting 2-for-1'd. These include ones that recur themselves or get you card advantage, because even those get cancelled if the creature is removed in response.

This feels very much like a "Why Modern Yu-Gi-Oh is Falling Apart" type video...

The only main problem is the cards didn't keep enough time in the field to do something, unlike the magic the gatering equip cards than stay in the field

I used Grid Rod with the Marincess archetype and I tell you what! This card made that deck damn near top tier, with the speed you can achieve with Marincess on turn one and because they're all cyberse monsters, Grid Rod makes a great turn one defense to make sure your monsters stick around if they ever got wiped out.

The whole time I was watching this video, I was thinking about "I:P Masquerena" in that she gives an effect to a link monster when she is used as a material for said link monster, IE, a floating effect. If we made equip spells act in that way, I think they would see a lot more play, but how much more would depend on the mechanics of the cards themselves and how ruling changes would work if a card is flipped or removed temporarily.

Can we get a failed mechanics video on the battle phase in modern yugioh?

I feel like adding a field spell that either shuffles equip cards into the deck or adds them back to your hand would improve them a lot.

Interestingly, an archetype that tackles equip spells in its own way that gets around some of the issues here is Magistus. Rather than actual equip spell cards, Magistus focuses on equpping its archetypal Extra Deck monsters to its regular deck and boss Synchro monster to provide both bonus effects(like extra Atk/Def, protection from Spell/Trap destruction, and multiple attacks on monsters) and personal activated effects while they are Equip Spell cards(such as searching, Spell/Trap removal, and effect negation). Furthermore, the win condition of the deck, the boss monster Magistus Calamity, locks your opponent out of Extra Deck monster effects based on which of the Magistus ED monsters you have as equip spells. Rounding this out, the archetypal reborn card(which can be searched) has a GY effect to protect your backrow by banishing itself, which can completely counteract a Duster or Lightning Storm. Its by no means a particularly strong deck, probably not even rogue, but I find it a really cool take on the matter.

giving them graveyard effects like tailwind of gusto could be good too if tailwind is in the graveyard it can banish itself and discard a gusto monster to search for another tailwind or any other gusto spell or trap card

I was building a gimmick deck a few weeks ago that required an Equip Spell in its combo, and that's when I realized that despite there being a ton of searchers for Equip Spells, they're actually pretty bad. Hidden Armory uses your normal summon, which is a huge problem for some decks. Armory Call is a Trap, so it's too slow to use in combos, or even to make a monster big enough for an OTK. Gearbreed is even slower than Armory Call, and uses up your normal draw. Tool Box is actually pretty okay, but isn't out in the TCG yet. Power Tool Dragon is probably the best option in the TCG, but requires you to go into a level 7 Synchro, which isn't awful, but is a lot to ask for a simple search. And there are definitely better level 7 Synchros to go into. And so on

I wanna see you talk about the history of field spells. They are another type of cards you talk about how bad they are/used to be. Talk about how they used to only boost attack/defense of a type/attribute to now some being so good they are banned.

Great stuff explaining why a card or archetype is good or bad and why its competitively used, love these types of beginner types of videos.

Not about a "failed" mechanic, but with the recent support for D/D/D and release of Dinomorphia for Master Duels I would like a video on cards or archetypes that have a "risk vs. reward" effect, like putting you into a very vulnerable state (such as very low LP) in return for powerful effects.

This is my favorite series of yours (not that your other videos aren't great). idk why, but I can rewatch each of these multiple times.

Holy shit, the people saying that equip cards aren't a failed mechanic clearly didn't watch the video. In a card game with infinite mana/energy/memory/resources, 2-for-possibly-1s with twice the vulnerability, equip spells are definitely a failed mechanic. And no, giving them OP effects doesn't solve the issue because that just puts them on the banlist.

I remember in my youth when yugioh first came out finding equip cards way to detrimental and thus trying to come up with a way they could be improved. The way I settled on in my youth (again this was the early days of yugioh) was to make a rule that once per turn, when an equip spell card you control would be destroyed as a result of no longer having a valid target (equipped monster destroyed, bounced, face down, etc.) you can "Retrieve" (add to hand) that equip spell card instead, and then my thought was that if konami implemented this future equip cards could have things like "you must pay X to retrieve this equip" or "you may not retrieve this card" as ways of balancing out more powerful equip cards they wanted to make. Looking back now, I'm honestly not sure it would have been enough, one thing this video didn't really spend much time noting is that ANOTHER issue with all equip cards beyond their vulnerability, is that they on their own do absolutely nothing, they always require a target, so an opening hand full of equips is a dead hand, and top decking an equip late is almost always a death knell unless it targets an opponents monster or monsters in the grave yard. I don't know what modern yugioh is like, but back in the day it was very common for matches to end in a situation where both players controlled nothing and were top decking for their life, so the more cards you had which couldn't do anything on their own, the more likely you were to lose in top decking situations. As an aside, back in the early days I always felt like one of the rites of passage for new players was learning that equips were garbage, there were generally three tiers in tournaments, tier three was players who didn't have most or all of the staples that every deck needed to even be competitive (pot of greed, raigeki, etc.), they never made top 8, tier two was people who had the staples but still ran equips and or non-jinzo sacrifice monster, they often made top 8 but never won it all, and then tier one were people who had all the staples and had come to recognize equips and level 5 or higher monsters were inherently flawed game designs and thus had to have game breaking effects like snatch steal or jinzo to be worth using, and these were the people who actually won tournaments.

Nice video, clearing up the questions of many new players at once. I just wish you would've said something about archetype specific „Monster Reborn“ equip spells (partly with additional effects, like trickstars).

As an Evil Eyed player, I'm surprised the archetype wasn't mentioned I think Evil Eyed solves a lot of the mentioned problems with Equips as well: self-recursion, game changing effects, and innate combo engines. It's not the strongest archetype, but it's, imo, a great example at how a modern equip-centric deck should work, and overall an archetype that has a lot of potential.

The timing of you bringing up comic hand in this video came up at the exact time i got comic handed in a duel i was doing in Master Duel Strange cosmic timing but great video btw

Noble knights was the only fun equip oriented deck I ever played and it was pretty damn strong at the time.

Frankly, I could see cards with effects comparable to Jersey becoming good if we were to get a card with a GY effect that allows you to equip them directly from the deck and/or swap them between monsters during the damage step. Honest and it's brethren saw play for a long time and still occasionally get used, and this would be no different.

Adventure's main issue is that, when using all your cards' effects, your ENTIRE backrow is filled. You have the two traps, searchable from the level 4. 3 equip spells, which are searchable by the continuous spell. The aformentioned continuous spell. And the field SPELLS, which search eachother and are searched by the water enchantress. Now they're adding Arametir, which is ANOTHER continuous spell! This deck is also being made pure due in part to GRYPHON RIDER being too good so now all Adventure support says "You can only special summon monsters with that mention 'Adventure Token'." ... I just hate that this deck, which has such a fun theme, is going to be killed because konami fucked up by giving the deck an omninegate from 1 card.

The Adventure engine kind of feels like they went from MTG auras to MTG Equipment without the Equip cost 🙃

the editing on this video is amazing! keep up the goodwork team B)

Ironic how go rush just announced them. However, in go rush, you can understand the point of them. Best one, sevens lance, while it can only be equipped to 1 certain monster, and can only control 1 of it, it's already said to be REALLY good, as it gives 400 per attribute and trap immunity

Resolving evenly with an adventurer token on the field would mean your opponent has to banish everything but the token, so that's not really a good thing and doesn't help equips but it's really funny

Easy to Fix equip spells: give them a secundary hand trap or graveyard effect that is good , to mitigate death hands and board wipes.

I think the biggest reason why equip cards are a failed mechanic in current yugioh is how exponentially faster the game got over time. Back in the day there were several decks that did rely on equips pumping up one monster in goat format but of course outside of a stun strategy "weapon" equips barely see any play with my favorite example of this being the Mathmech equip.

I'm not a competitive player nor anything of the sort, so what I'm going to say might come out as silly: I've only understood how equip spell cards work very recently, that's because my knowledge of this cards was based on Playstation One Yu-Gi-Oh games, were you would select a monster card in your hand, then a equip spell card, press x, and the equip card "fuses" to the monster: giving the monster it's effects without the card ever existing on the field, and thus being immune to any kind of removal. But I think if they do that, it might end up being kinda broken, but IDK. (For the ones that might have played that kind of games: I know the game didn't make sense, based on how you could fusion summon, but I just wanted to comment on that)

Even if you removed their flaws, Equip cards would still just be another victim of the modern fast paced meta, unless they really went out of the box with the abilities. If you're a card that doesn't help fill the field with extra deck monsters and/or lock down your opponent, you're just not needed. We are far past the point of just powering up one single monster. No. You want to summon 3 super powerful effect monsters in one turn instead. I don't like that fact but that's how the game has been played for a decade plus.

I agree, equip spells are one of the BASED cards on the game

As a long time M:tG player, I'm finding the comparisons between M:tG and Yu-Gi-Oh very interesting.

10/10 video once again commenting to boost. I also think that the thumbnails for this series could be improved as if feels too cluttered. Great work tho

“Like raidraptor ultimate falcon” ultimate falcon go to example for every thing

You know, in hindsight, the main problem with Equip Spells, is that, almost none of them have a "compensation" effect if theylave the field. AND IF they do, it is a really busted effect that gets abused for loops. MAYBE they could get to see more play if they were like the Adventurer Token deck, were the equips at least get recovery effects. or that alternatively, if they left the field they give you small compensations like "draw 1 card" but with the clause of "if this card leaves the field, except for the summon of a monster from the extra deck", so the equip spell don't gets abused that much. BUTcan still be used for advantage in decks like rituals, tribute summons, or even equip it to your opponent's monster, destroy it and YOU get the advantage

Redirecting attacks - failed mechanics. Please do this video. And this video is great

A once per turn effect to make an equip spell useful like "If this card is in your graveyard, you can place it on top of your deck, and if you do, if you draw this card during your next draw phase, you can draw an additional card" maybe?

How about a “Sword Hunter” retrain that works with equip spells? _Relinquished Sword Hunter_ (EARTH) Rank 7 Pendulum Scale 0 Pendulum effect: _When a monster you control would be targeted for battle or card effects by your opponent, you can equip an Equip Spell Card or union monster from your hand or deck to that monster targeted. Once per turn, during either players turn, you can add 1 equip spell card or union monster from your deck or GY to your hand OR add 1 “Relinquished” and one ritual spell card to your hand from your deck. You can XYZ summon this card from your pendulum zone by using 2+ level 7 monsters OR 2+ monsters you control equipped with other cards._ Warrior/XYZ/Pendulum/Effect 2+ level 7 monsters _You can also XYZ summon this card by using monsters you control equipped with other cards as materials, and if you do equip those cards to this card. This card gains 200 ATK/DEF for every card equipped to this card and every XYZ material attached to this card. When this card destroys a monster by battle, this card can attack again in a row. At the end of the Battle Phase, if this card destroyed a monster(s) by battle this Battle Phase: attach all those monsters to this card. Once per turn: You can target 1 monster your opponent controls or in your hand; equip that target to this card (max. 1). This card gains ATK/DEF equal to that equipped monster's. If this card would be destroyed by battle or card effect, destroy that equipped monster instead. You can detach 1 material from this card, to choose one of the following effects (you can only use each effect once per turn);_ ⚫️Special summon 1 “Sword Hunter” from your hand, deck or GY. ⚫️Add 1 equip spell card or union monster to your hand from your deck. ⚫️Add 1 “Relinquished” and 1 ritual spell card to your hand form your deck. _After this effect resolves you can place this card in your pendulum zone._ ATK/2950 DEF/2200

Yu gi Oh! equips are like Magic the Gathering 's "Enchantment - Aura", therefore a continuous stuff would be the simplest solution, as You mentioned at the end

The big issue with equip spells is that they're bricks if you don't have the right monster on the field, and retaining their usage requires the monster in question sticking around both before and after you can equip it. The one good thing about equips is that they provide effects independent of monsters, so that you don't have to worry about things like Skill Drain or Effect Veiler. The only relevant equips nowadays are ones with floating effects or that recover other cards for extending. Being able to sac off Dracoback for free once per turn is actually kind of nutty, as you can use that in conjunction with things like Forbidden Droplet and Multirole to ensure most of your plays for the turn go through.

This is the perfect time for a top 10 equip cards list

I was taken aback by the statement that Tokens had an advantage because they're immune to Evenly Matched. I found that to be a major disadvantage, since if your opponent manages to resolve Evenly while you still have your Adventurer Token, you don't have a choice in what to keep on the field; you must keep the token.

The phantasm spiral equip cards also work pretty well when used with their archetype trap cards. You get the good destruction or negation effect when you use the trap card, and you can banish them from the graveyard to equip the phantasm spiral equip spells from the graveyard, from your hand, or shuffle them around on the field

I have an entire fan made extra deck summoning mechanic i feel could help the equip spells if Konami ever made it official: upgrade summoning. Upgrade monsters are essentially xyz monsters but instead of multiple monsters of the same level its conditions are one monster and a certain number of equip spells equipped to it (some need specific monsters and/or specific equip spells) The equip spells then overlay under the upgrade monster (referred as augments). In addition to the normal monster effects the upgrade monster gains all the effects it would have of being equipped to its augments but the augments are no longer back row keeping them safe and out of the way. Each upgrade monster if equiped with another equip spell can augment itself with that equip spell (overlaying it), each would have an armament level which would be the maximum number of equip spells your allowed to augment, any more then that would have to remain in the back row.

Note that in MTG auras work like equip spells, and equipment works differently but if we get an MR 6, it could be a cool new mechanic giving such buffing strategies a new life

We can see a lot of anime character use equip spell because of the attack boost, or for the protection But in reality, a lot of deck dont even need equip spell, they can just use the effect and attack The fact that they still make some characters use equip spell is just weird because how bad they are in real life

Maha Vailo, United We Stand & Mage Power was pretty tough to beat over.

I remember thinking equip spell cards were so game changing when I used to play back in like 2007. Watching a modern tournament gave me whiplash.

Imagine how broken your game is that most of the type cards lost against the staples cards

It's ridiculous now how modern cards basically took all the functionality of union and equip cards as a monster effects like Red-Eyes Slash Dragon. Power of the guardian, (infer)noble arms cards, and united we stand are like the only equip cards I ever see used nowadays. Everything good spell card now is either a continuous or quickplay.

A video talking about equip cards taught me that there is an entire archetype around tokens and there are even token monsters in the game. I have been out of the major look of yugioh for too long lol

I think that equip cards also often just don't get the good effects other types of spell cards get to have. One card that would surely see competetive play if it's archetype was any good is "saqlifice" but you just don't get omni searches or cool GY effects on equip spell cards for obvious reasons. The thing is that there are things that we look for in Monsters that would be worth playing a potential brick for. like omni negates or just generally good quick effects that can serve as disruption and also perhaps more importantly could immediatly be chained to whatever disruption might try to get at them by destroying the monster they are equipped to or them. I also feel like you should have touched on isolde since that card is seemingly responsible for 90% of equip spell use outside of the adventure engine nowadays.

How many mechanics have there been that were considered a "failure" because no one ever used them in a competitive enviroment, but then Konami made rule amendments or released new cards and suddenly those mechanics were finally viable for competitive play? I guess Ritual and Fusion monsters would enter that list, although in both cases it seems the solution Konami arrived at was "make absolutely busted overpowered cards that justify the massive resource investment (and clunky summon mechanics in the case of Rituals) to summon them".

I came up with an idea for an archetype that focuses around equip spells while watching this video actually. What if the equip spells of the archetype had two separate effects, one effect for when it’s played in the same row as a monster you control and that functions like an equip spell and then another for when it’s played outside a row of a monster you control, then it functions like a traditional spell card. It’d be a neat way of making equip spells more versatile and you could make the monster’s of the archetype universal effect to bounce the spell back to the hand if they had one on them so the actual equip spell doesn’t need to have its own recursion bc the monsters provide it. That might create some infinite loops tho, so the archetype probably can’t have much access to its graveyard to special summon their main deck monsters back.

I like watching these vids because I've just recently got into Master Duel and haven't played since late 2000s, so I learn about a lot of the stuff I've missed. Buuuut because I don't play competitive all the time, regardless of how modern Yu-Gi-Oh is, I'll still use cards that no longer have much value with the competitive players.

Equip spells were designed for a slower format, in which they were decent and there were some that were incredibly good. A way to fix them in today's format is to make them bounce back to the hand if the monster they're equipped to leaves the field, as a baseline effect for all Equip cards. Although this could be abused, but they could make it so they can't be reactivated the same turn? Or they can make the cards stay on the field if the monster is removed and then you can re-equip it without counting as an activation.

Equip Cards, and by extension nearly all Battle Phase-focused effects, are inherently weaker because the Battle Phase is largely a formality nowadays. You don't go into battle to try and clear monsters anymore; nuking your opponent's field (or never even letting them get established if going first) and then hitting face for game is far more efficient thanbattling their monsters & giving your opponent a chance to come back.

Basically everything that doesn't help you summon 5 Monsters a turn is a failed mechanic at this point.

There are good examples of this, like that adventure engine you made a vid about

A quick note on MTG and a comparison for equip spell cards: In Magic the more accurate comparison would be comparing Yugioh's Equip Spell Cards to the Enchantment-Aura type of card. They have pretty much the same disadvantages and, like Yugioh's equip spells, need recursion to be useful if they are affecting your monster. There are some that affect your opponent's stuff, which are genuinely pretty decent in certain circumstances, but it's still a fair comparison. On top of that, the Equipment subtype of Artifacts didn't exist in Magic until Mirrodin block in 2003, a full 10 years into Magic's lifespan, whereas Enchant Creature spells existed even in the very first set of the game.

Caught a fresh off the press DuelLogs video. Beautiful.

One idea I have is perhaps adding a new type of equip spell that is put into your extra deck rather than your main deck, that can perhaps be played directly from your extra deck onto the field if it meets whatever arbitrary conditions are printed. It’d have all the same drawbacks of current equip spells when actually in play but wouldn’t suffer from hampering your main deck’s consistency or requiring searchers to clog up the hand to function, it’d just always be there available to use. And being part of the extra deck would be in itself a balancing factor since even using a theoretically powerful equip in this manner would have to be weighed against using that slot for another extra deck monster.

As soon as you explained modern yugioh with needing hand traps, board wipes, and one or two card combo pieces just to play the game at a fairly competitive level I made the decision to never try to pick this game up again. That just doesn't sound very fun at all. Lol. Id much rather play united we stand on my maha vailo and just beat stick.

One equip card that I think shows promise is Saqlifice. Because it has the effect that the monster it is equipped to can be used as 2 tributes for a tribute summon and when it goes to the graveyard you can search for a Qli monster. That makes it work as a combo tool that actually worked it being an equip spell into a benefit. I think more equip spells in future should try and work that way.

Pretty relevant since mikanko is a new architype that came out recently in the ocg

This is super sad but true. I have a Gradius Light Machine deck and Noble Knights deck focused around Equip Cards but man I just cant keep up with more meta decks in Master Duel.

MtG Equip spells are auras in terms of gameplay mechanics, in terms of flavour, they are equipments. But Auras get support in order to counteract their negative tempo effect and generally have better effects than equipments to compensate. There's also Hexproof, an ability which I'm not exactly sure has a YGO equivalent that stops opponents from targeting the card with spells and abilities. So a lot of Aura decks will use Hexproof to stop disruption. However, the counterplay to this is edicts which make the opponent sacrifice creatures.

I like the analogy to Magic, but there are a couple of thing that is left out. Magic doesn't have zones or a limit to how many cards can be on your side of the field. So an equipment spell staying on the board isn't a huge detriment compared to Yugioh where it has to take up a slot on your spell and trap zones, even with the suggested mechanic. On top of that, most equipment are either used because they have a busted effect (like skullclamp), or can be cheated out and attached to a creature of your choice (like collosus hammer). Equipments are barely used outside of those since they are too slow. Also Enchantment Auras are the equivalent to Equip Spells in Yugioh since attaching to your creature and it dying would cause you to lose auras. They barely see play in unlimited formats outside of Bogles since Slippery Bogle has hexproof, which gives it evasion. Outside of that, it sees niche play unless you play commander and run a commander that takes advantage of cheating out Auras (Like Zur the Enchanter). Despite all that, Auras and Equipments do serve a purpose in a limited format like Draft, where everything is weaker and slower. Most removal spells in limited are so slow and expensive, that you are guaranteed to have value if you do play your auras and equipment the proper way. Unless you are playing a faster draft pool, like cube or masters sets, the two mechanics are fine. But Yugioh sets on the other hand is never designed around draft at all. So most useless cards serve no purpose other than to take up space.

This was a fantastic video.

honestly I have seen a few cards like axe of despair and black pendant used here and there but they are not used by high level players. I remember the days when they was much more useful and still try to find a way to get some in decks when I feel they can be helpful.

Nah the real problem with equip spells is that the opponent can very easily destroy the equip spell and dodge all its effects

Accidentally well-timed with Rush Duels introducing Equips lmao

Equips don't offer much other than ATK boost. That was nice in Caveman Yugioh times - especially with United We stand, Megamorph and Mage Power. Most decks can do what Equip Spells do but better. Borrelsword or Utopia Double are better beaters to OTK with, than anything you can do with stacking equips. The equip spells that see play are some combination either in-archetype searchable and generate advantage other than big ATK values. I'd argue most equip cards are actually Monsters in the Dragunity sense. Even some Traps are useful in equipping to Monsters for the surprise factor of interrupting an opponent's play. It's just that what Equip Spells do, every other card type does better.

In duel links I had a gimmick deck that relied on boosting Maha Vailo with equip spells

The United/Scapegoat combo back in the day was one of the best troll moments I can remember