In defense of Electrum, that's just how super heroes were drawn in the 90s so making him look like that makes some amount of sense.

I can't bring myself to hate old YGO art, it's so goofy, sincere and creative even with some cursed results lol

I'd like to point out that those aren't blades on Giant red hand but devil horns to signify that its an evil hand

I love Small World because it justifies using some forgotten, wack ass monsters with the most bonkers art because it’s a bridge.

As someone who does custom artworks for a living, classic yugioh backgrounds are so fcking popular for some reason. Every time I ask someone what they want for a background, they refer to their favorite (or an appropriate one for whatever they want)

I've got one for you: look at Twin-headed Thunder Dragon, especially in 3D. Absolutely NOTHING about its anatomy makes any damn sense.

Lord of the Heavenly Prison is meant to mimic fractal construction. I love the art, the card art space is just too small for it.

I genuinely wonder why Konami never credits the artists for cards. I love some of the art styles I get exposed to.

One card that legit was reminded of art that was so out of place I thought it was strange out of MTG. I recommend searching up Prophecy Destroyer. I'm shocked no one brought it up

Scareclaw's Funko link monster feels like a fucking fever dream everytime I see it. Old cards? Of course they're shit. A 2022 CARD ON THE OTHER HAND.

My favourite example is Ice Water. I can’t seem to find it on Yu-Gi-Oh Neuron for some reason, but it *is* in Master Duel. Her elbow bends backwards, and based on her flavour text (which says she attacks enemies with the spikes growing on her body), she canonically thrusts to attack her foes. Aggressively, might I add.

Surprised no one posted those Hieratics that were just the same monster, but flipped

7:15 absolutely slaughters me. i can see ooguchi being like an ojama style duel spirit, whoevers fucking haunted by that thing probably wants to smother it to death with a pillow.

Lord of the heavenly prison has one of the coolest card artworks ever in my opinion. It looks like a cosmic horror being

The fact some YGO monster designs are so undecipherable actually makes me love it. Just like the game itself, the art has gone to an abstract level of complexity.

Banksiogre is a seed pod from a plant in Australia, Banksia spinulosa. Heavy duty shell around the seed allows it to reproduce by having its seed survive fires by being too tough to break or burn so when its over they grow in the ash that came from the fire around them. They also look kinda like a bunch of clams on a corncob as they get dry yes.

5:07 yugioh monsters who look more like Mega evolution digimon just like all the code talkers

As someone who plays a red dragon archfiend deck(which includes the red monsters), it took me ages to realize red sprinter has human hands instead of hooves. when i did, i felt my mind shatter.

In defence of Lord of Heavenly Prison, he gets WAY MORE epic when you're able to tell what was the art depicting, same with Spychic End Punisher

okay but the " he may attack your opponent directly " part killed me like that effect is the funniest one iv ever seen lmao

Nah you cant hate on whoever made toad master, that shit made me laugh for like 3 minutes straight first time i saw it on pathetic aesthetic and anything that can do that deserves praise

If you do a good art you have to include: Dingirsu Shuraig Eldlich alt art Zeus Infinite Impermanence Ultimate Conductor Tyranno Forbidden Droplet Bardiche Some classics: Chaos MAX Night assailant Blue eyes Imperial order

1/2 of me wishes Koaki Mieru Crusader made the list. The other 1/2 is so thankful I didn’t have to hear Joseph pronounce Koaki Mieru

More twitter threads! Forever!

The morphing jar in the thumbnail gets me every time

I don’t think I can appropriately convey how hard this made me laugh. I legit felt like a kid again. Absolutely brilliant

A card that always botheres me is gene-warped Werwolf, the artwork itself is pretty cool but one of his hands is so weirdly twisted, it just looks painful

2:10 - Okay, with the secret rare foil removed, I gotta say: this guy looks great. It’s like if a Soulsbourne artist designed a Colossus.

Speaking of artwork, how a bout a twitter thread about monsters whose type and/or attribute don't match what the monster looks like in the artwork? Ones I can think of, off the top of my head, are: Hayabusa Knight (anthro bird knight, NOT a Winged-Beast or Beast-Warrior but Warrior), Koa'ki Meiru War Arms (big armored bear with axe, Warrior instead of Beast or Beast-Warrior), Fire Fists and Ancient Warriors (Don't care what they're based on, they're human oriental warriors, but they wind up being Beast-Warriors instead of normal Warriors), Rude Kaiser, Garoozis, and Alligator Sword (all reptilian critters; first two are Beast-Warrior instead of Dinosaur, Reptile, or Dragon, third is a Beast instead of a Reptile). This kind of thing is a trend that just baffles me to no end, and I demand some satisfaction out of it, damnit! *kidding, but seriously, this would be a good Twitter thread to base a video on*

The dude on the ground in the art of Begone, Knave! looks like Rance. Also, it's not just the guard's hand that's really huge; it's his entire arm that's really huge and long.

Nah, Lord of the Heavenly Prison has some of the sickest art. Really not that hard to tell what's going on if you look at it without the foil.

I'm sure theres a good reason why one of the scareclaws is chibi i just have no idea what that reason is.

Pine needles growing out of top, brown layered body. "This is a corn cob"

i think the art of prophecy destroyer is the most out of place yugioh art, really looks like a custom card

when i was a kid i used to make custom cards and to imitate the random lines and shapes in the bg of old ygo card art i just took screenshots of windows media player

When it comes to the orbs Odd-Eyes aren’t even the worst of it

Imagine working as a playmat artist and being commissioned to draw Despian Quaertitis or Lord of the Heavenly Prison... I don't think my work is cheap, but it is at this times that I feel like I don't get paid enough...

3:51 Finally someone else who understands the beauty of Twin Long Rods #2

that ending to the video. dire wanted a little payback.

I know the orbs are noticeable but can we talk about the arc-V dragons' weird fucking hands?

I really feel like LotHP could have gone without the wingclaws and lightning. The claws are complicated enough as is and the lightning obscures the angels and the chains wrapped around it. You have to spend minutes staring at it to figure out what's going on. The art really doesn't get across that it's a creature struggling against its chains. (As an aside, the massive wing-arms that are each grasping a single seraphic wing are incredibly complicated and could have made a single piece of art amazing on their own).

Shoutout to Koaki'Meiru Ice whose posing is not only awkward, but it also makes it impossible to tell if he's face toward or away from you

I remember i sketched out Eldlich and LOTHP and let me just say... That was one of the hardest sketch i've ever drew.

Well, I guess I've got my Zefra Thumbnail all figured out.

Honorable Mentions To: C96: Dark Storm for being the epitome of "where does this thing start and end". And Kotodama for being one of many random classic cards I got from a friend and for being the card I found so repulsive as a kid I immediately threw into the back of my closet just so I wouldn't see it anymore.

ooguchi will from now on be my favorite card art. forget your waifus, forget your dragons, its guchin time

Despian Quaeritis is doing his best JoJo pose.

Toad Master makes me think of that one reaction to its art: "It's me! The semen demon!"

Inspiration and Bashing shield, you cannot convince me they aren't ripped off magic artworks. Also Stardust had an orb problem as well.

I need a sequel to this right away. I was dying the whole time xD

I've never looked closely at some of these before. Like dancing fairy has a real flower or what the fuck Clausolas's armor is. I guess it makes sense based on how they're named but...it just looks different when it's small and there's a wall of text below it

Mbt's and his chat's level of irony and sarcasm is so high i genuinely could not tell which art he actually liked and which ones he was mocking when he went through the thread on stream ,though that has happened to me on pathetic aethethic as well, maybe i just need to create a twitter account to get this type of humour

I was thinking the same thing about the one before Twin Long Rods #2; even down to the shading, it looks like something that'd fit right in with MTG. :P

In forbidden memories on ps1 toad master looks like Pepe if you use him and go into that 3d battle animation mode.

I live for these videos, the editing is just amazingly fitted to the humour. Love it!!

2:42 brother, that's a pine cone

Angel of Zerus looks like it was painted by Alex Ross, the famous comic artist.

Am I only the only one that can actually see what's happening in LoHP? I actually like the card art, at least the digital art cuz I can kinda see the secret rare being unrecognizable.

im not sure if it was dire or mbt but putting the DTL music in the background made me very happy

Shout-out to Prophecy Destroyer who falls in the "Looks like a Magic the Gathering card" category with Angel of Zera.

Water Spirit is so funky looking. It almost looks like a skull, there’s that bright red tongue, a body that looks like a slushie and a very strange antenna

Okay but the splight cards are pretty drippy (specifically blue)

Love how we point out the orbs on the odd-eyes monsters but ignore their hands and feet

Yugioh art is cool. Sometimes its a little janky and sometimes the contrast is a little off but its better than pretty much every other cardsgame in existence. When you see a Yugioh card you know what it is. Cannot say the same for other games.

Gravekeeper's Vassal unfortunately is borderline required to finish some missions in Duel Links, or it just speeds up the process of finishing absurd requirements like "Deal 500,000 effect damage." But, when I saw the card I had to double check that it actually looked like that.

Not a normal catd, but the tokens in the crystal beast structure deck are like the zefra card, just cut out copy paste

I actually quite enjoy a lot of these, especially the classic cards. There is a certain charm to them.

I feel like if you stare at Lord of Heavenly Prison for too long, you'll go mad as your mind tries to comprehend it.

There’s a strong correlation between being a lv3 WATER aqua type monster and having a disgusting artwork

2:18 they had the microsoft xp windows media player visualiser open in the background and just screenshotted a bit of it for that card background

Even with Master Duel giving Lord of the HEavenly Poison a summoning animation, I *still* don't know what I'm looking at, despite how sick it is.

Psychic Jumper was actually the Heroin addict that lived in my town, before he became a Yugioh Card His name is Steve.

4:28 you didn’t have to call out my man GoldenNova like that

Lost it at "Thanos C***ck". This videos are fking hilarious keep it up man.

Best one of these so far, I love this series

2:26 Fuck no wonder Earthbound (Mother 3) made me nostalgic despite never actually playing it as a kid. The final boss fight literally has the same type of miasma background as old Yugioh artwork.

That one girl on the stairs is a good lesson on always mirror the image to check for errors and reference fix your sketches before doing the final lines

Jesus these old Yugioh cards looks like those how to draw manga books

Appointer of the Red Lotus = Dedan minus the trenchcoat.

merch pitching for konami here: make an artbook containing concept art for all the cards they have released

I have a sweet long time customer and friend who likes random cards like twin long rods I'm going to give him a shout out. He's a little slower to be frank. He doesn't have many one for one Yugioh player scenarios but twin long rods #1 was his first card that he had to wait on from the ocg and he understands my pain from pile armed dragon

oh boy Pathetic Aesthetic is back!!!

That Ooguchi one had me rofl so hard omg that was too funny for words!

Now we need a good art video as well

post credits: HELL YEAH also great job dire u killed it on this one

Post credit scene, welcome to the MBT cinematic universe.

4:19 The same process was used for a Symphonic Warrior support card...

Great use of music for Machina Ruinforce, cool reference

Appointer of the Red Lotus has AWASOME art. The hand looks great and matches the rest of the card. In defense of most of these cards, I wouldn't say the art is bad but more poor design choices.

Surprised no one brought up the entities, why the fuck are they so horrifically realistic. No one needed that detail.

Old school card are amazing, they should make a special set with all the OCG exclusive normal monster

Lord of the Heavenly Prison looks like that one Eldrazi the others don't talk to.

Ray & Temperature tho

Odd-Eyes: Yuya, I'm beginning to Orb

God what does it say about me that the Dire L clip was set to the tune of Asking Alexandria's "Alone in A Room"

sad the Ecclesia bit didn’t make it in smh

I'm suprised no one brought up zorc ngl

6:40 I'M FUCKING SORRY LANCE OF LONGEENUS, I'M FUCKING DYING. SOUNDS LIKE OFF BRAND SPEAR OF LONGINUS

8:15 this part aged like a fine wine

2:41 you heard it here first, mbt has never seen a pinecone!