Catastor must be like that guy who lives alone and is completly ashamed of his family .

Ally of justice just needs an archetypal retrain replacing “Light” with “non-dark monsters”

"if a face up LIGHT attribute monster is face up on the field destroy this card" "what" idk why I thought that was so funny

"Maybe out there there is some person who won by topdecking cosmic gateway" There is, he's called TheDuelLogs

Almost a year after making this video and only now I realize I said Rudra gains 1700 ATK instead of 700. Mind you, the card would still be shit if it was 1700, but just thought I'd point that out.

Fun fact: In the anime, this archetype had a good consistency booster in the card Ally of Justice Tractor. It's a Level 1 monster 0 atk and def with an effect where if the opponent controls a light monster, you can tribute it to add 2 Ally of Justice cards from your deck to your hand.

You know what the biggest middle finger to ally of justice is? Honest.

Swear to God, Ally of Justice sounds like a subtitle for a Power Rangers show.....

I actually came back from the brink (200 LP) with Decisive Armor in Duel Links. I summoned him against a Blue-eyes player using Evilswarm Mandragora special, Junk Anchor, and Junk Servant all to an empty field to bring him out, with one card remaining in hand. I then discarded said card to activate his 3rd effect and discard 2 of my opponent's 3 cards in hand: BEWD and Dragon Spirit of White to deal 5500 LP and pull a complete reversal OTK. It was awesome...but that was the only time I ever summoned him where it mattered.

i never understood flamvell magicians effect...at this point it might as well be just a normal monster

"Staple in Ally of Justice decks" - What, it exist? Also, Unknown Crusher and how it's seemingly related to Yugi's Mammoth can be a reference to how Yugi used it to cripple Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon lol.

It's really unfortunate the ally of Justice are so weak because I like the lore they have and the art is very neat.

The "Blind Sucker" joke made me cough my LUNGS out

wait... decisive armor is lvl 10 generic... nordic alfar (lvl 2) can synchro with 2 nordics in hand to make this!!! They have a decent boss monster now!

Ally of justice qUaRinTiNe "You cannot special summon corona"

You know the best part about Ally of Justice, though? Like, the absolute most hilarious part? The thing that makes their entire archetype even worse that almost no one notices? They *can't summon their best monster if played normally.* I think we can all agree that Catastor is the most consistently good part of the Archetype, yeah? It's nothing nowadays but it was big in the Synchro era and even early in the XYZ era, because it's basically generic. But Allies of Justice... shouldn't be able to make it if they're using their cards as intended. Their lowest level Tuner is Level 3, and their only Level 2 is Unlimiter, which you're meant to be using to sacrifice for its own effect. And Catastor is a Level 5.

I just realized how hilarious Decisive Armor would be against Blue-Eyes decks, considering how much they just love keeping cards in hand.

Ally of Justice is the perfect example of what happens when top-down card design goes horribly wrong. (Top-down is when the lore comes first)

Since Catastor is a generic Ally of Justice, it can be played in a Flamvell/Laval/Fire King/etc. Rekindling Synchro Deck alongside Flamvell Magician, and Magician can gain the 400 ATK from its effect without ever actually running an Ally of Justice Deck! :)

The funniest ones are the ones that are literally just a different monster but worse and also an Ally of Justice. Garadholg, for instance, is basically a Mechanicalchaser with 50 less ATK, even against other Light monsters. But hey, it's clearly worth it! Look at all the great support being an Ally gives you! All... three cards. And even better, Allies of Justice actually kinda suck at fighting Worms. They try their best, but King Nebula flattens everything bar their best Synchros and Quarantine (and even then, Worms have plenty of cards that can get over Quarantine). Most of the Allies's cards are based around killing Worms that are already in DEF, but most smart Worm Duelists pack cards that can flip their Worms up. The best chance the Allies have is to bring out Decisive Armor somehow, and with their speed... it's not happening.

"Protection, yes I would love some" That came outta nowhere and was really funny thanks man :)

Garadholg and Rudra always confused the hell out of me. Konami, did you forget that you already released stuff such as Gemini Elf way back, which is more anti-LIGHT than Garadholg is? At least Rudra becomes 2600, but still: Frostosaurus, anyone?

I remember Allies of Justice as Catastor, Cycle Reader, and Core destroyer for their design. but every time I see their other cards, I'm reminded how it seems after making a few actual new artworks Konami must have went: "Eh, paying artists is for wimps. Let's look at what art we have stored up. Use that shit instead."

Idk who's watching this in 2021 (it popped up in my recommended so I decided to rewatch it) but I love how when we get lore related archetypes now, we get stuff like dogmatika and tri brigade

Watched all of LotW today, please do more, I do not know what to do with my life now.

The Blind sucker one killed me. Oh god.

>EVA references and I thought your vids were good already >katawa shoujo references NOW THIS IS PODRACING

Years later, this stuff is still gold. Very nice.

That Katawa Shoujo reference with Lily was perfect.

Cosmic Gateway should have been a continuous spell that allows you to special summon an AoJ once per turn with the same condition

Here's the thing...Ally of Justice Searcher's OCG's name is Ally of Justice RESearcher..yeah, blame the TCG naming convention for that.

If they ever decided to make support, they should make it not support Ally of Justice, but Allies, so Genex Allies get some synergy with them. Also because LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOREEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Its actually funny that of all Duel Terminal archetypes, Ally of Justice were used in the 5Ds anime and even got an anime exclusive monster called Ally of Justice Tractor which was a level 1 Dark Machine with 0 ATK and 0 DEF that tributes itself if the opponent controls a Light monster to add 2 AoJs from Deck to hand. The fact that AoJ got support like that makes me wonder what the deck would have been like if it were among their support. ofc, probably they would have had to change up the effect to maybe a search 1 AoJ but even then, it at least gives fucking Searcher a run for its money.

15:15 “an effect so long it would make most Noble Knights cry” haha funny i actually use this in a Noble Knights deck on Duel Links

well, with all the vanillas we're getting in CODE, i think the LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRE bit is relevant

Six years have passed and they have not received any support, I think.

*cue rock song* LOOOOOOOOORE!

Another excellent episode. I was one of the people that thought Castastor didn't belong to an archetype until I played a random Tag Force game.

I found a ripped wet Catastor in my yard at my old house a while back when I barely knew how to play Yugioh.

It's hilarious that Branded-Despia and all their lore associated tools like Dogmatica and Bystials is a better "Anti-Light, Anti-Extra Deck" than Ally's of Justice and Mekklords put tougher.

sadly flamvell magician is the best flamvell tuner in the archetype followed by neo flamvell hedgehog

Oh look a light monster what are you gonna do Catastor:destroying at the start of the damage step Good, and you garadholdg Garadholdg: gain 200 atk

I love these so much.

To be fair to Loreman, a lot of early level 4 tuners had drawbacks. The fact that you could just turn it and another level 4 into Stardust Dragon or something was actually sort of relevant, especially if you summoned both off Rekindling.

7:35 the moment when you start to love Rata much more than you already do because he knows Lily form Katawa Shoujo. Love you man

This archetype might be a threat to Melodious Divas. Keyword: "might"

8:13 hearing the name of this card in 2020 hits different

I used Decisive Armor in the WCT2010 video game as a way to get around all the decks that use Honest... accidentally FTK'd a Blue-Eyes player with its effect.

Genex got ally of justice big boy in them as support now . They are the last really big one

Nobleman of Crossout is a better Ally of Justice card than 95% of the Ally of Justice cards.

decisive armor is absolutely hilarious in the blue eyes match, but yeah that's about it

I remember running Decisive Armor in my old ass zombie deck and I'd summon it against lightsworn and discard all their shit lol Zombie Master revives Zombie Master which then revives Plaguespreader, of course you can use Book of Life/Mezuki and Plague's own effect to cut down the card costs but that was basically how I got to summon that thing...

I remember running ally of justice in highschool because everyone started running either Cyber Dagons Bujins and Lightsworn.😅

Rudra gains 1700 Atk??????? Must be that broken God card invisible text bullcrap! I love that card

"if a face up LIGHT attribute monster is face up on the field destroy this card" This effect becomes really good if you have Desperado BD in your hand xD

Fun fact: The in lore reason that these monsters have almost no synergy with each other, is that the tribes who built them (Ice Barrier, Mist Valley, X-Saber, and Flamvell) apparently couldn't agree on what they wanted the Ally of Justice to be like.

Well Cycle Reader is finally seeing play again for the first time since 2016, so I decided to come back and rewatch this masterpiece

You said Rudra gains 1700 attack against Light monsters. If only...

I did not expect a katawa shoujo reference in my yugioh but I'll take it, they are rare enough as is. For those who haven't played it give it a shot really great introduction to VNS

the lore gets me every time I watch this video

"well, maybe someone out there won by top decking Cosmic Gateway... maybe..." - Rata Actually, while he didn't top deck, I saw TheDuelLogs win a match against a Lightsworn player via Cosmic Gateway XD enemy had really low hp, summons Judgement Dragon and one of the lightsworns (the one with 1850 ATK and draws you extra cards dependent on the # of lightsworns you mill). He then plays Cosmic Gateway and runs over that smaller Lightsworn for game! See? Cosmic Gateway is Tier 0 comeback card! Bump that grade up to green!!

4 years later and this Is still my favorite rata's video

Ally of Justice can be a potential counter to Blue-Eyes or Lightsworn, but the most impressive thing about them is still the Extra Deck.

"Cards that counter specific things like types and attributes will inevitably become irrelevant" *Bystials being the most broken cards ever printed, sitting in the corner:*

I love the Ally of Justice art. Id love to see them get legacy support

This was from before Rata had even 1000 subscribers. It has 480 thousand views. Rata is a god.

A monster that leaves on the arrival of a LIGHT monster?!?! Ojama Lime could beat that monster's ass with a flashlight.

3:20 Not to mention: why even play Unknown Crusher when D D Warrior does the same thing, but isn't restricted to specific type of monsters.

one of my few favorite yugioh series on youtube

I don't belive you didn't see this. This deck is obviusly meant to be used in conjuction with Arcana force. You hope your opponents opens up with a light monster, then summon Chariot, get his tails effect, and BAM! You can summon Gateway just like that!

The 200 ATTACK is the funniest thing about this episode

Is Ally of Justice Quarantine the reason that Worm Solid looks like it's trapped in a geometric shape?

I caught that Spongebob anchor arms reference. You can't fool me

Ally of justice with dark world would be lit

Since I hate good artwork being screwed over by konami, I redesigned most of their cards focusing on killing "Set cards". The main deck monsters still keep the LIGHT hate effects, but somewhat buffed: -All main deck monsters are lvl 3, except for the main tuner Cycle Reader, which is a level 2. -Gazer is now lvl 7, Marshall is still 9 and Decisive is now 11. Cyclone Creator is no longer a tuner. -The way I planned the archetype is so you can synchro climb from Catastor to Decisive, so you start with Catastor, climb for Gazer, then Marshall, and finally Decisive. AoJ Quarantine: 3☆ 2000/0 Neither player can Special Summon LIGHT monsters. During either player's turn: You can discard this card, then target 1 "Ally of Justice" monster on the field; it gains 2000 ATK until the end of this turn. Pretty good against LIGHT decks since it stops any sort of Special Summoning. Otherwise it's always an amazing hand trap. AoJ Nullfier: 3☆ 1800/0 Effects of non-DARK monsters that battled this card are negated. During the turn this card was Normal Summoned, you can Normal Summon 1 "Ally of Justice" monster in addition to your Normal Summon/Set. (You can only gain this effect once per turn.) Can stop floaters and effects in general, even if it suicides into a monster, which is nice. The extra normal summon allow you to kickstart your plays in combination with Cyclone Creator and Cycle Reader. AoJ Searcher: 3☆ 1600/1200 If this card is Summoned: You can add 1 "Ally of Justice" monster from your Deck to your hand, except "AoJ Searcher". Simple search effect that goes nice with either Nullfier, which you can follow with a rank 3 play after searching, or with Cyclone Creator, which you can use to summon this guy. AoJ Cyclone Creator: 3☆ 1400/1200 Once per turn, you can discard 1 card from your hand to return Spell/Trap Cards from the field to the hand equal to the number of face-up "Ally of Justice" monsters on the field. You can Tribute this card to Special Summon 1 "Ally of Justice" monster from your Deck or GY. The return backrow effect got buffed, so you can now return some more crap and don't forget you can return your own cards... So you could return a dead Fiendish Chain, Safe Zone, or whatever. It's mainly here to get rid of annoying cards before your main monster can step in. The tribute effect speed up the deck SOOO much . AoJ Core Destroyer: 3☆ 1200/200 If this card battles a LIGHT monster, destroy that monster at the start of the Damage Step. When this card is Normal Summoned: You can send 1 "Ally of Justice" monster from your Deck to the Graveyard. Once per turn: You can target 2 "Ally of Justice" monsters in your Graveyard; shuffle both those targets into the Deck, then draw 1 card. A 1 card synchro in combination with Cycle Reader. Still destroys LIGHTs it battles. AoJ Cycle Reader: 2☆ 1000/1000 During either player's turn: You can discard this card to the Graveyard, then target up to 2 LIGHT monsters in your opponent's Graveyard; banish those targets. If you control an "Ally of Justice" monster you can Special Summon this card from your GY. You can only use this effect of AoJ Cycle Reader once per turn. This guy is what makes the deck access the synchros. Combo it with Nullfier and you can go for a level 7 play right away (Normal Nullfier, extra Normal Cyclone Creator/this, synchro for Catastor, use this cards's second eff to revive itself, synchro for Light Gazer). It even makes Iron Call a good choice, since you end-up saving this card's effect and so you can synchro climb for Field Marshall by simply having Nullfier, Cyclone/Reader and Iron Call in hand. If you look at how good I made Marshall you'll understand why a 3 card combo like this is worth it. AoJ Light Gazer 7☆ 2400/2000 1 "Ally of Justice" Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters Monsters your opponent controls cannot change their Battle Position. Once per turn, during either player's turn: You can target 1 face-up monster on the field; change it to face-down Defense Position. Locks monsters into face-down so you can e-rekt them. Places monsters facedown by itself. Need anything else? Still keeps the Worm hate theme going while being much more relevant in the current game, a better Invoked Raidjin I'd say (even though it's harder to summon). AoJ Field Marshall 9☆ 3200/2600 1 "Ally of Justice" Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner Synchro monsters This card can attack all monsters your opponent controls once each. Once during either player's turn: You can target 1 Set card on the field; banish that target. If this card attacks a face-down Defense Position monster, you can banish that monster immediately with this card's effect without flipping it face-up or applying damage calculation. Fuck yeah talk about Worm hating! It's decently hard to summon if you don't use the 3 cards combo I mentioned above, it's archetype specific just to prevent it being summoned in other archetypes and also I had to take out the 2 non-Tuners requirement somehow (and also to keep trishula as the best generic lvl 9). Summon it against a backrow-clear field and your opponent will have to set at least 2 backrows to try and kill this (or they can just set solemn strike LUL) because you'll banish their set stuff before they end their turn. Yeah it has no inherent protection, but it has no special summon restriction now, so have fun with revival cards (WHICH YOU SHOULD RUN CONSIDERING SEARCHER IS A STRATOS), still really disruptive and a true force to be reckoned with. AoJ Decisive Armor 11☆ 4000/4000 1 "Ally of Justice" Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner Synchro monsters During either player's turn, when a Spell/Trap Card or Monster effect that targets this card is activated: Negate the activation, and if you do, destroy it. If an "Ally of Justice" monster you control attacks a Defense Position monster, inflict double piercing battle damage to your opponent. If this card attacks or is attacked, your opponent cannot activate cards or effects until the end of the Damage Step. This card can attack twice during the same Battle Phase. Ok so I wanted to take the "Decisive" pretty serious. Yeah it no longer does the awesome OTKs by discard all your opponent's lightsworn crap, but nowadays you won't really get a chance to summon this against lightsworns and if you do they'll have Fairy Tail Snow to fuck it over... SOOOOO I made this card an (almost) unstopabble OTK enabler. So far I've coded most of these cards for personal use on YGOPro, and keep in mind I designed them in a ways to work in link format without you having to use links (synchro climb is awesome). If anyone is still here and not sleeping, I'd gladly share the scripts once I'm done with all of them. Also keep in mind I'm shit at scripting, so the more complicated cards like the last ones could end up not having 1 or 2 effects I wrote down here, simply cause they probably didn't work in the YGOPro client and it's very slow to get help from anyone at the YGOPro forums for me to bother posting there.

you have to be one of the best speakers ever. major subscribe! love these vids

I had a Machina deck with AOJ synchros... Loved it and still play it today.

archetype created to kill lights and it can't even do that best lines ever

these are the best. You need more recognition.

Ally of justice thousand arms seems like a fun card to boost with equips vs like Blue eyes or Lightsworn maybe. That's about it really

7:37 That Lilly Satou though

I really loooove this video series "LEGACYYY OF THE WORTHLESSSSSS"

Enough monsters to make a Level 9 generic Synchro that needs 2+ non-Tuners? FiEld MaRsHaLL What's a trishula

Remember if this was real early Yu-Gi-Oh... The attack points on the level 5s would probably be more like 1530 for no reason.

Ally of Justice Quarantine is a staple card of 2020

To say something positive about Garadholg... It might've seen play if it was released during Legend of Blue-Eyes days... providing that your opponent wasn't sporting 3 La Jinn's.

Hmm... Maybe a few you could look into in the future: ~Toons ~Jurracs ~Cyberdarks ~Reptiliannes ~Steelswarms

it's obivous how they can be improved, 1.make their effects counter non-dark type monsters just like caustor does 2. make their card effects powerful but not too powerful(example:If their is a non-dark type monster on the field, discard this card and draw 2 cards)( when this card attacks a face-down monster, flip effects are negated and this card does damage equal half the difference between it's attack and the other monster's defense) 3. Give them trap/spell support 4. New synchros, new tuners, new effect monsters etc

They got their gate in MasterDuel!

Here is my pitch: Ally of Justice Swarmer Lvl 2 Tuner If your opponent controls a light monster, you can special summon this card from your hand. During the main phase 1 of your turn, if you control a dark monster, you can special summon this card from your graveyard. You can only activate each effect of "Ally of Justice Swarmer" once per turn.

The Lost Horizon - highlander epic moment at 14:12 got me

14:09 I will never get bored of the 20000000000000000000000000000000000 ATK boost pronounced by RATA

I really like the duel terminal storyline. It's really cool.

I'd like to say that while your points are great and you definitely know your meta etc, the main draw as you mentioned for this deck was to combat the rise of light based decks. Now you and me both know which are the two most powerful attributes outside of divine, yes light and dark. It's actually true they could be less relevant now and I think you articulated it well, but these guys can still be awful to light based decks still well done for the content and good luck with your channel and making a unique series, wish we had more people doing that :)

5:10 "what" XD

Ay in Duel Links Clausolas is a pretty good beater.

people other than me actually read katawa shoujo? or are you doing it for the mem?

And here I thought they LOOK cool before I played yugioh, till I played yugioh, alot of them pretty much suck.

Nice vid! I like Clausolas, I use it in Duel Links paired with Ancient Rules.

I was today years old when I realized Enemy Catcher looks like that because it's disguised as Worm Tentacles.... LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRREEEEDDEEWIWJFGNBMN!!!!