ELEGANT EGOTIST IS HARPIE LADY'S FACE IN A KALEIDOSCOPE Oh my god that card is decades old and it took me until this zoom on it to figure out what the hell that illustration was supposed to be

Big Brain: "I'll use Convulsion of Nature in case my opponent uses Parasite Paracide. When Parasite makes it's way to the top of my Deck, I'll activate Convulsion to send it to the bottom :)"

I remember being dumbfounded as a kid when I learned that Metalzoa HAS to be summoned from your deck - if you actually draw it, it becomes a completely worthless card that does nothing but clog your hand. All these years later it still sounds like a mistake to me. Konami makes some boneheaded effects sometimes, but I can't believe they'd intentionally design a card that way. I'm surprised they never changed it

What's also weird about Red Eyes Metal Dragon (and Metalzoa) is that they are worse than the original card equiped with metalmorph.

Parasite paracite just was from a time where noone used sleeves lol

The only reason Parasite Paracide was given the effect it has was because they wanted to replicate how Weevil sneaks it into Joey's deck in Battle City. You obviously can't legally put one of your cards in an opponent's deck before a duel without them knowing it, so that's what they came up with.

7:40 Swords of revealing Light is also "breaking" the normal rules. Its a normal Spell but stays on the field. Especially when Nightmare's Steelcage exists

Red eyes B metal dragon: Tribute two cards for a 100 ATK boost on your opponents turn, and significantly less ATK when attacking (losing metalmorph's effect that boosts the original red eyes by half the ATK of the monster that it attacks) on your own turn!!!! OP OP OP STAPLE

I didn't realize the "treated as other name" effects apply to deck-building. It's kind of unintuitive for card text to indirectly effect deckbuilding.

A minute of silence for the Darkness Approaches memes, killed by Link monsters.

If the Harpies aren't gimmicky enough, you have the Neo Spacians you summon with Nex. The same, but with Extra Deck monsters whose name is treated as the one of a Main Deck monster.

In about 5 years, when Yu-Gi-Oh becomes a digital-only card game because none of us are allowed to leave our hermetically sealed habitats ever again, I hope we get a whole parasites archetype with a bunch of different monsters that go into your opponent's deck and have interesting effects when drawn.

I always find the ruling on cards like Harpie Ladies 1-3 and Fusion Substitute to be incredibly bizarre. It's like the effects are active before the duel even starts.

They should really change the "always treated as _____" ruling.

I've never noticed the face in Elegant Egotist till now

Cyber Harpie, Harpie Lady #1, Harpie Lady #2 and Harpie Lady #3 set the precedent for name-based cards when it was ruled that their treated names counted towards the deck limit of "3 cards of the same name". In my opinion, it's only when the duel starts that the names change and therefore do not count when constructing the deck. It's like saying you can use the effect of a card that's not in the duel (like your side deck). It's too bad they decided that the effects apply outside of the duel as well.

It'd be interesting if they made a metalmorph archetype.

I think face down attack position would be an interesting effect to bring back, especially considering the effect it might have on Link monsters

Speaking of “harpy” cards do a top 10 total name change clip. Eg: “harpy’s brother” was changed to “sky scout”

Sweet, I love laughing at old Konami / Upperdeck cards. What the heck were they going for with Dankness Approaches?

Oh my god. It took me this long to realize that the kaleidoscope image on Elegant Egotist is made up of a bunch of lady faces.

I don't know, you wouldn't just pick up your deck randomly to pull out Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon, you would tribute the required cards and declare to your opponent that you're special summoning the card first, so it really isn't that awkward. There's also a few cards out there that can combo with Convulsion of Nature, but nothing so ground breaking that it will ever see competitive play.

Speaking of Harpie naming shenanigans The NEX Counterpart of Neo Spacians shared the name with the OGs. Which mean the card limits apply to the cards that are supposed to bring it out

I find Convolsion of Nature is the perfect counter to Convolsion of Nature! That's why I always play three copies of in every deck!!!

I never understood why Parasite Paracide was such a big deal. Your opponent can just take a card on their graveyard out of the sleeve and put it in there and shuffle it into the deck.

I remember Convulsion of Nature being used in SPYRALs

Only real players will remember the torture of Convulsion of Nature on Dueling Network

If an entire archetype could use an errata, it's the Harpie archetype. The change to the four monsters mentioned in this video would be to make them more like the more modern harpie ladies and be treated as such on field and in the GY, and EE changes its text to read "Special Summon a 'Harpie' monster from your Deck or Hand" This would allow the other Harpie Ladies to be used all together (whether or not they'd be relevent) and EE gets a boost to what it can summon

Is Cyber Harpie Lady technically an effect monster? She technically has no effects. Even if you negate her, her name is still treated as Harpie Lady.

I remember entering a local tournament with Harpie Lady 1, 2, 3, and Cyber Harpie Lady and upon inspecting my deck they made a big deal about it. I only had 1 of each, mind you, not like I had a super competitive Harpie deck. I'm still flabbergasted they gave two shits.

Self-Destruct Button. Was in a Regional back in the day and there was a guy piloting a draw deck. Every round he would have to play 4-5 games in a match because he would draw the game if it was going bad for him. I heard him complaining because every round was going to time for him.

I once made a deck based around convulsion of nature, question, and a few other very odd cards that deliberately tried to throw people off with bizarre mechanics while reducing the game to guessing games and dice rolls. As with many gimmick decks, it sucked butts, but was really fun to watch or play with. It was practically like watching a game show. lol

Cyber Harpie Lady is an effect monster without an effect xD

I actually would love if the parasite archetype got support. The other parasites are quit strong (summon any level 7 or higher insect from hand, ignoring summoning condition or be able to fusion summon during opponents turn) and I would love to see a theme revolving around parasites that manipulate the opponents hand, field or deck. Think about it, adding bricks to your opponents deck, while maybe mind control monsters, let switch hand cards that give you his resources while he needs to play with those parasites or let the opponent attack its own monsters. There would be quit some intresting interactions. The shuffle problem could be solved by ruling it, that your opponent cannot look at his decks while shuffling. This would be a lot of fun and a kinda hard counter against combo decks that actually need to see some cards, also against decks that are drawing a lot, cause it would give those negative downsides if they actually draw it. We would need a fusion monster that can use any insect plus fusion parasite and a synchro parasite that adjust his level like destrudo and use a monster your opponent controls to synchro summon and of course a link monster with floodgates effects. This could also lead that opponent can have up to 60 cards in the deck, even if they are playing a 40 card deck. God this would cool

Y'know, I've always thought a Parasite archetype would be pretty dope within DL, as a deck centred around putting cards within your opponent's deck would be some bullshit with physical cards. Also, the skill was nerfed so you need at least 4 Insects with different names to make it work, so nearly no one uses it anymore.

The original text of cyber harpie lady was also weird: "for the purpose of the rules, this card is always treated as harpie lady"

Every time I see ,Weather Report' I think it looks like it's farting out the cloud behind it. Is it just me?

The anime broke the rule for Harpie Lady. Mai had multiple copies of Cyber Harpie and regular Harpie Lady in season 4. They should just errata the old ones so they share the name on the field and GY only; boom, trouble averted.

just realized elegant egotist is a face

wow, ive been using 3x poly and 1x fusion substitute in the same deck for the last 2 years, didnt even know i cant run them like that

8:21 also neo spacian marine dolphin and twinkle moss.

It's been over 20 years, and I just now noticed that there are faces on "Elegant Egotist" 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

Convulsion was actually ok in spyrals before double helix came out

Cyber Harpie also breaks regular conventions by being an effect monster without an effect or summoning conditions/restrictions. It's functionally an effect monster with a completely empty effect box, since the name "effect" is not supposed to be seen as an effect but just as a "we wrote the wrong name in the name text to differentiate it, please ignore that wrong name though and pretend it has always said Harpie Lady from the beginning", considering Skill Drain doesn't change the name back.

WEATHER REPORT! Changing the entire game like a CHAD

Cards that summons themselves from the deck should have been extra deck monsters from the start, but at the time they were designed, the Fusion Deck was very restricted (XYZ Dragon Cannon being the first exception to my knowledge).

For convulsion of nature, I had a deck that had me shuffle my deck a lot, and I would shuffle the deck until I had the card I needed on top of the deck.

to be fair to red eyes black metal dragon, if you have a red eyes with metal morph on the field and you start looking through your deck, your opponent is almost certainly gonna know why you are doing so. but thats because of how well known that summoning is

The harpy lady 3 copy thing is the most technically speaking on the rules I've ever seen. HL #1 & HL are different cards so you should be allowed to have 3 of each.

TBF summoning straight from the main deck is similar to summoning straight from the extra deck

The OG Harpies absolutely should get an errata on that ruling, they're not over powered. It ruined my speed duel Harpie deck too, finding out it was 6 cards over the limit and basically making a pure Harpie deck impossible :(

Convulsion of nature is used for decks that wants to guess the name of the top card of the deck (like the true name)

I loved Convulsion in my Macrocosmos deck. It was useful to know what cards your opponent has.

Dang, now I want to see face-down attack as a deck idea. Like Shaddols, but more like Exxod Burn. Maybe some kind of hidden movement idea, you put all the cards in your hand then place them in face-down attack on the field wherever you see fit, and then your opponent has to risk whatever card they attack. Like some bounce both monsters, some flip one other card and some deal burn. Here's an idea for a name: 'Stealth Strikes'. They could all be Ninja based cards, but smaller than things like Six Samurai or SuperHeavies. Maybe they'd get some form of quick-play stuff that also lets you have some form of choice in battle, or something like 'All-Out Attacks' where any face-down attack cards are then flipped on the turn for some more input and control. They'd need something to move them around the board, presumably dealt with by returning them to the hand then shuffling that, then placing them in new positions. Some spells could swap 2 of them's positions as a trap to force certain effects, perhaps.

The original 1-2-3 and Cyber could all be changed to “This card is treated as “Harpie Lady” while on the field or in the GY. Can be Special Summoned with “Elegant Egotist”.” And nothing would change lol

I had a parasite paracide and used it in a tournament and I forgot about it in my opponent's deck lol

Parasite was designed way before everyone used sleeves like they do today. I remember playing with no sleeves on an old wooden jungle gym at the park.

Another confusing thing with Parasite Paradise, if I use it and it's now on my opponents side of the field. It's effect suggest that *my* monsters would now become insects. Cause he owns the monster now.

The only effect the card Solomon's Lawbook has is to skip your own standby phase- that's it literally nothing else, and as far as I can tell it's the only card in the game whose sole effect is to skip 1 of your own phases.

No one: Yugitubers: BUT, in duel links

I tried using Parasite Paracide back in the day I nearly forgot that card in my opponent's deck so many times

I built an illegal harpie deck when I was like 6 (2006) and was so mad when I found out I couldn't have a bunch of them lol

Convulsion of nature does reveal all top cards of both decks which can be a handy scry effect.

That Harpie Lady ruling blew my mind. So you're telling me that almost like every Harpie build I've seen is illegal? 🤔 That's sorta wack and I'm sad to know this. Lmao

While there is nothing stating that you have to say what your summoning in the case of the charmers and metal-morphed versions, it's still common courtesy to explain what your going to do before picking up your deck so your opponent at least knows you aint just going for a peak, atleast that's how I played it, but I get what you mean, its pretty weird how they made it inherent and not a trigger. Also fun thing about Convulsion of Nature, back when Dueling Network was a thing, there was no dedicated function to flip your deck, so people had to manually banish the top cards of their deck in exact order, and return them 1 by 1 to their deck face-up, and then repeat when C.o.N got taken off the field to put their deck back to normal, which resulted in a few rage quits as it took fucking ages to do so, only for an opponent to just destroy the C.o.N just to fuck with people.

I wanna say there was an interesting interaction between Inferno Reckless Summon and Harpie Ladies (at least on ygopro) where in a deck that I had running 3x Harpie Lady (vanilla) amongst other Harpie Ladies like #1, Cyber, etc. Whenever I activated Inferno Reckless Summon, targetted a vanilla Harpie Lady to special summon two non-vanilla Harpie Ladies, the game would pitch my remaining two copies of vanilla Harpie Lady to the graveyard.

Darkness approaches wasn't a mistake, the card is clear about not changing battle position

Parasite paracide goes into the opponent's deck face up, meaning that when it is on the top of the deck it would be similar to convulsion of nature and that you would obviously see it as parasite paracide. Therefore it doesn't matter what card sleeves you use because you will always know which card is the parasite because it's the only card that's backwards in the deck.

It took me a long time to realize that Elogant Egotist artwork is a kaleidoscope of Harpie Lady heads

Link monsters should destroy itself when forced to change battle position

One card I wanted you to talk about is Ritual Foregone. Basically it's Instant Fusion for Ritual Monsters except it doesn't ignore any summoning conditions, not does it treat the summon as a Ritual summon or a proper summon. Usually if we follow the rules you can't use a random card effect to special summon a Ritual Monster from the hand, but currently you're forced to break this rule to make use of Foregone, there's no other way you could use it.

Also, when Parasite Paracide it flipped in battle and destroyed, its effect activates but doesn't resolve. Confused the hell out of me as a kid.

Just noticed the harpy lady faces on elegant egotist for the first time. I've been looking at that card art for years, wow.

Anyone else think that some of these cards should get retrains to have better effects? Because I think that they do.

What happens if you activate pot of desires when convulsion of nature is active? Would the banished monsters have effects/types because both players have seen what the cards are?

I had a lot of arguments because of parasite paracide back in the day. It did help me win because my opponent forfeited the duel. It’s not my fault that you put that card in your deck so it can get into mine. I always shuffled that thing to the bottom, hence the arguments. I did get a free parasite paracide because my we both forgot about it

You should talk about how fusion tag works differently in the tcg from the ocg

Wait... So you can't run 3 Blue Eyes White Dragon and 3 Dragon Spirit of White!? I've been cheating against the CPU. Edit: It says it's treated as a "Blue Eyes Card" not Blue Eyes White Dragon. Got it.

They should have made an archetype that could set in facedown attack position. They got close with the pharaonic guardian zombies that could set themselves after being flip summoned but it never happened.

Speaking of cards being upside down, speaking of cards being upside down

Yu-Gi-Oh was/is a nonsensical nightmare. When I was a kid, my brother and I watched the show, and when we got toon cards, it was clear they were OP, presumably because they were ‘toons’, so when we got a card that could change a monster’s type(?) we would turn our creatures into toons, which implied they get all toon powers. Is that how it’s supposed to work? Who knows!

What always confused me is that Parasite Paracide's effect doesn't activate if it's attacked and destroyed, at least in Duel Links - so you have to either flip summon it yourself or have it be attacked and NOT destroyed.

I thought the point of Harpy Lady #1-3 was so you could have more harpies in the deck and still use the older support cards on them.

Still haven't mentioned the ultimate rare air neos effect 😭

Is it worth noting that Convulsion of Nature not only lets you see what you’re going to draw next but also lets you see what your opponent will draw next? Granted it gives the same benefit to your opponent.

yo but when parasite dude got used, nobody even knew what sleeves were LMAOO. me and my cousins would just make the person shuffling the deck close their eyes while shuffling so they couldnt purposefully send it to the bottom. that shit was intense

As a kid i got very confused by the contact fusion summoning effect of XYZ Dragon Canon: "Removing the above cards from play..." So i just special summoned it whenever I wanted just by removing all my cards on the field from play.

Cure of fiend is so weird! You're 100% right, the effect makes complete sense if it's a quick play spell.

Neo Spacian Twinkle Moss and Marine Dolphin are even weirder, because they are extra deck monsters but are treated as their normal counterparts limiting the number of copies you can use in the deck

Something that has irked me about Paracide, when I played the card in a couple Yugioh video games, was that it didn't seem to get its flip effect when my opponent attacked into it, and destroyed it, while it was in facedown defense position. I believe the situation was emulated in the anime, battle city arc, Joey vs Mako. Anyways, the Paracide situation seems to make no sense to me, especially when cards like man-eater bug or cyber jar could still resolve their flip effects, after an opponent's monster attacks and destroys them. Maybe there's some special reasoning for Paracide, can't recall for certain.

Found this gem: Call of Darkness: Continuous trap card All monsters restored with "Monster Reborn" are sent to the Graveyard. "Monster Reborn" also cannot be played as long as this card remains on the field. "Restored"? I didn't even know that was a thing.

Are we just gonna ignore how weird was Pot of Greed effect?

I dunno how Last Will didn't come up. It sort of just lets you summon a monster from the deck whenever you meet the condition. Very awkward.

I accidentally stole someone's parasite paracide but they were the kind of person who bought cards directly and I do just boosters so by the time we both remembered we didn't care anymore.

I've been playing charmers since he GX days and any new support they get is like an oasis in the desert for me. lol

To be fair the harpy lady retrains were kinda the introduction of name changing cards. I believe the nex neo spacians have the same problem

As kids playing harpie ladies we ran 3 of 1, 2 and 3 as well as a couple vanilla. Also we thought hysteric party was a multiple use effect which turns out would be broken, reusable soul charge on a trap

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Yeah I remember playing Grave Lure against someone I knew from church. He just “shuffled” it to the top of his deck 🙄

Convulsion of nature would fuck around and ruin you in the old YuGiOh games.