Chronomaly has a "treat as 2 tributes" monster and zero monsters that take 2 tributes

anti-synergy is one of my biggest pet peeves, mainly because I'm testing it and then discover "oh it's bad"

I absolutely adore the Ally of Justice monster that is allergic to light monsters.

Never forget that Infernity Randomizer forces Infernity Archfiend to miss timing if it draws one, thanks to its burn effect. Criminally insane.

Malacoda funnily enough DID see play and spawned a BA deck of his own... in the OCG. Djinn still roaming around meant that if you could mill Djinn Releaser of Rituals and get access to malacoda and good & evil it was a very good floodgate that you had... consitent-ish access to at the time. The text was completely irrelevant, it was just a perfect storm of djinn being legal, it being a ritual and it being a ba.

To this day, I cannot explain Heraldic Beast Berners Falcon. It’s a card that drops all level 5+ monsters to level 4, IN AN ARCHETYPE WHICH ONLY HAS LEVEL 4 MONSTERS

Shout out to Pend Call for protecting my scales from destruction in a deck where my scales want to be destroyed

Ironically, Crystron Halqifibrax is in a deck who's best way to summon its tuners from the deck locks you into machine type synchro monsters. There are ways around it but its funny to me crystrons specifically have it harder to use their link monster that every other deck effortlessly makes with one card.

7:20 Ah, yes, my favorite reason to create anti-synergy, lore. The funniest part is that it's probably the least egregious case of it in the entire game since Nadir's Servant depicts Albaz falling into the Dogmatika Nation.

I do love that Herald Of The Arc Light is an amazing card on its own but is awful to have on the board for ritual decks

Batteryman C is still the wildest to me. It wasn’t a bad design, they just literally didn’t look at the other monsters when reviewing the archetype

A lot of B.E.S. cards have the problem that the deck wants to cycle through its monsters by special summoning them with Boss Rush. The problem? Most of the names only get their counters if they're normal summoned, so you rapidly deplete your resources as they instantly die after combat. On top of Boss Rush actively preventing your normal summons.

6:06 Galaxy Satellite Dragon wasn't designed for Galaxy/Photon, it was designed for Galaxy-Eyes Tachyon Dragon. This is apparent based on the art and its effect which is most effective when used with Number 107, the Number with the largest number in it's name other than the Numeronnious monsters. I was for a Mizar deck that uses various Dragon Monsters that can achieve Lvl 8 Xyz and Rank-Ups.

Crazy how no one talked about crystal beasts pendulum cards or chimeratech being literally a support and the best counter to cyber dragons

7:36 Looks like someone forgot that there are three sides to the Cubic archetype it has a stall side (Cubic Seeds), burn side (Cubic Kings) and OTK side (Cubic Beasts). Dark Cubic Deity is the combination of those: stalling by being unaffected by monster affects, burn damage from the Cubic Kings, and multi-attack from the Cubic Beasts.

I'm sure this was mentioned somewhere in the twitter thread but shoutout to the Fur Hire field spell. Skipping your draw phase to just add a Fur Hire monster and also being able to just nuke the board if you have five or more fur hire monsters which in theory is extremely easy, but there's so much wrong with the card. You have to send the field spell to the graveyard to clear the board, clearing the board stops your opponent from taking battle damage, and on top of that you have to DRAW THE FIELD SPELL cause the field spell does not have "fur hire" in it's name. Fandora, Fur Hire Flying Furtress is too long but we can have Training Fur Hire, Fur All Your Training Needs.

In defense of Air Neos, you can at least cut your Life Points in half with A Hero Lives. But yeah, the effects are still odd.

I'm still salty at how they made Verte Anaconda - the archetype's best spell locks you into fusions, but every other deck ever can abuse it.

8:07 Making an archetype support card anti-synergistic with the rest of the archetype is 1 thing. Making a card anti-synergistic with itself is a completely different story of "wtf were they thinking?"

Buster Blader the Dragon Destroyer Swordsman only negates your opponents dragon monsters, so the dragon monsters in its archetype do still work.

I'm pretty sure the Vehicroid Connection Zone restriction was intentional. The card artwork is a three way railroad turntable, implying that it wants 3+ materials to fuse things with. All the non-vehicroid Roid fusions are only 2 materials. We didn't get a proper Vehicroid fusion with only 2 materials until Mobile Base, but even he requires an entire fusion, rounding out the total materials to at least 3.

I know this doesn't exactly count because the cards were made before Dark Magician found out what it wanted to be, a fusion focused control deck, but there are SO many good cards that just aren't searchable because they don't explicitly mention "Dark Magician". Sorcerer Of Dark Magic is a pretty cool card with a nice effect but it's essentially a 4th,5th or 6th copy of Dark Magician as it bricks just as hard and isn't searchable. I'm especially mad about Eye Of Timaeus because it's so close to being everything the archetype needs but it mentions a "Dark Magician" *monster* not Dark Magician himself and thus, isn't searchable. There are only *three* Dark Magician monsters; DMOC doesn't have a fusion, Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight sucks ass and Amulet is just as bad. The only targets worth making are Dark Paladin, Dark Magician The Dragon Knight and, ofcourse, Red-eyes Dark Dragoon. You could change the card to work on Dark Magician and only Dark Magician without losing anything of value.

Earthbound Immortal Cusillu's battle protection effect is a carry over from the anime. See, in the anime Earthbound Immortals do not destroy themselves when there is no field spell. Instead, they lose their effect that lets them attack directly and lose their E that prevents them from being attacked. So Cusillu could avoid being destroyed by battle when the field spell was down.

6:35 the funniest thing is that they made a whole speed duel skill to allow you to fusion summon any roid fusion with it

My personal favorite is Fabled Soulkius, which SENDS 2 cards from your hand to the graveyard in an archetype solely focused on discarding And then there is also The Fabled Peggulsus, which after being discarded summons itself in FACE DOWN DEFENSE in a synchro spam strategy Gotta love Hidden Arsenal archetypes

Shoutout to prior of the ice barrier, a monster in a synchro archetype that revives a monster from grave and locks you into lv4 or lower monsters for the turn...in a deck where even main deck monsters are lv5 and above.

For Raidraptors, there's the entire rank 3 branch of the deck with the exception of maybe Heel Eagle.

Vanisher is 9 for VFD. He absorbed True King Vanisher's power. It has the same effect. You're not meant to Pend it.

6:26 In the new Speed Duel box, they printed a Syrus skill card that lets you use Connection Zone to Fusion Summon any "roid" fusion, meaning Konami actually realized they messed up. Also, 7:53 Starving Venom isn't part of Predaplants, no? It's related to Z-Arc.

Vendreads all have antisynergy with themselves. All the ritual spells are crazy and let you use monsters from your graveyard, deck, etc. for rituals. The effect monsters give the ritual monsters bonus effects when they are used as tributes, BUT ONLY IF THEY ARE TRIBUTED ON THE FIELD.

From my understanding of effect text: If an Armed Dragon Thunder's effects are negated for whatever reason, its name should be Armed Dragon Thunder on the field since the name change text is not in parenthesis and therefore isn't a constant. Would THAT let you pull out a ADT with the same name?

Luna Light Perfume is a great archtypal Monster Reborn and monster searcher by banishing from gy even in the same turn... But you have to draw it because Yellow Marten can't search it due the gab between Luna and Light in Perfume's name. Thanks Konami!

Nadir Servant/Fallen of Albaz were definetely meant to be like that for both balance and lore. Still a shame, though.

In Batteryman C's defense, back when it was printed, the only other Batteryman cards that existed were "Batteryman AA" and "Battery Charger" (C was printed in Cybernetic Revolution, the other two came in Lost Millenium and the archetype wouldn't actually see the rest of its cards until Light of Destruction)

About the last comment you made.... Tear actually can end on Macro Cosmos (Ariseheart) in OCG, and it's a play that they can side in. Thank you crossover lore cards, limiting Pelerino but printing the Kashtira field spell and a card that is both a Tear and a Kashtira :)

I want people to know that _"Aesir"_ is in fact plural. Singular would be _"Ass"_ which means that when Loki called Odin an ass, he was indeed not offending him.

5:35 Shoutout to the stray pube on The Nordic Lights' effect text box.

I love that when BA was released on Duel Links, they only gave us Malacoda for a payoff. The ideal opener in the strategy in konamis eyes was open: BA, BA, Good and evil, malacoda. Ritual summon malacoda and just pass with no cards in hand.

I use Vanisher in my metalfoes deck cause you can summon it on opponent's turn off Mythrilium effect after linking them with I.P. away for Unicorn and discarding it. I search it with Bismugear in the endphase.

Another great example is the Beetrooper fusion. It's way too difficult to summon to ever be useful, instead just becoming a liability as a super poly target against them if they ever got good.

Literally the beetrooper fusion released in burst of destiny. Its counterproductive to the decks strategy of being a link climbing mid-range deck that can resource loop with strong toolbox by giving them a card that allows your opponent to SUPER POLY YOUR BOARD!! Plus, it's an "end of battle phase" effect that seems pointless when, if you are summoning a 4K body - the opponent should be dead by the time it can trigger. The second wave generally made me super triggered.

I had some fun with a copy of Metalfoes Vanisher during my brief stint of playing the deck casually in Master Duel. You mainly aim to tutor it with Counter to banish something, then Mithrilium can float into it for extra disruption. It definitely would've benefited from being a 6 or 7 with reduced stats though; being able to be Pendulum Summoned even if it can't trigger its effect would be nice

my favourite thing about reverse breaker is that for the downside of dying if there is a light monster it's a drillroid with less atk but has the marginal upside of destroying flip monsters before they flip face up

The "Armed Dragon Sneeches" is the hardest ive laughed in a bit

So MBT already mentioned Nekomusume, but I also wanted to throw shoutouts to Ghostrick Nights and Socuteboss since they, similar to Neko, require you to keep a Ghostrick face-up for their effects to apply.

I’m a bit of a Nordic apologist. I won’t for a second try to convince anyone that the deck is GOOD, but it is FUN. Something I realized while labbing the deck is that Tyr, Fenrir, and Jormungardr along with Lights form the backbone of an alternate win condition. Again, it’s NOT good, but it exists: During your Main Phase 2, while you control any Aesir synchro, you can Special Summon Fenrir and Jormungardr to your opponent’s field. How these two work is: They both die without an Aesir on the field. Fenrir, at the start of the Battle Phase, forces all of its controller’s monsters in Defense position to change to Attack Position, AND both players take battle damage from battles involving it. Jormungardr, if it’s changed from face-up Defense position to Attack position, burns its controller for 3000. So here’s where the Tyr and Lights combo comes in. Tyr can protect other Nordics from being attacked, and dies if there aren’t any other Nordic monsters on the field. This isn’t a problem if your opponent controls Fenrir or Jormungardr, since THEY are named Nordics. The other part of this is Lights, which prevents Nordic on the field from being destroyed by battle. So what you do, and not all at once but over a few turns, is: Make your own Aesir Synchro monster and lower your opponent’s LP as much as you can. Then, summon Fenrir (in Attack position) or Fenrir and Jormungardr (in Defense position) to your opponent’s field. If your opponent turns Jormungardr to Attack during their Main Phase or they enter their Battle Phase while they still control Fenrir, they’ll get burned for 3000, and any battle damage they inflict with Fenrir will be dealt back to them. If they wise up, but don’t have a way to get rid of those two (much easier today than it was back when these cards were released, I know), then you can summon Tyr (or any Nordic) and attack into Fenrir yourself to reverse-OTK your opponent. Under Lights, all Nordics can’t be destroyed by battle, so if it is Tyr, you have an invincible wall that’s inflicting 2000 damage to both players every turn. Would you play this “combo” in a normal Nordic deck? No, absolutely not. But you could play a deck specifically designed to make this “reverse OTK” work, if you wanted to. So yeah, Lights ISN’T “Nordic” support: it’s “Tyr-Fenrir-Jormungardr-reverse OTK” support.

id like to point out the Mecha Phantom Beast Counter Trap at the cost of destroying all your Mecha Phantom Beast Tokens you get 1 Omni Negate (I think its an Omni negate but I could be wrong) which sounds good and all but Mecha Phantom Beat effects usually rely on you having said Tokens on field

Shout out to Mellow Madonna, an amazing scale 0 that can search any Abyss Actor from the deck and locks you into only Abyss Actor PENDULUM MONSTERS, meaning that if you use Madonna's effect first you can't even summon any of the 2 Links afterwards, just amazing

The ursarctic fusion monster that is meant to work with drytron, but drytron uses xys monsters natively which the ursarctics lock you out of

Shoutout to Destiny Hero Departed for just giving the opponent a free body with no draw backs.

3:20 The link DOES work with the fusion since it says "Buster blader" monster, the idea is that if your opponent doesn't summon any monsters you can just burn him since the fusion cannot attack directly. It was made to be used with the fusion and it does work

Abyss Actors locking you out of summoning Abyss Actor link monsters will forever plague me

*My own entry* Frightfur nightmary: Ah yes, exactly what fluffal needs... a big beater on your turn only and mills your monsters that have NO MILL EFFECTS and doesn't mill the one card you WANT to be in the graveyard. Oh, and it only negates if that specific card is targeted.

Vanisher is really good when you combo it with other cards that can summon it on the opponent's turn like Fullmetalfoes fusion fusing away mitrhilium a very standard play I like to do. Galaxy Satellite dragon is supposed to be a mizaar support card (the tachyon dragon guy that plays generic lev 8 dragon spam) and NOT for kite who plays photon/galaxy. The Ghoti synchro is meant to be a way to out something in a pinch that then tags back out so that you can still use all the material for something else.

Metaphys executioner sort of fits the bill here. Its summoning condition is banishing 5 metaphys cards from your field or *GRAVEYARD* with different names. Which is counter intuitive to how the deck wants to be played, under Marco. So in the best case scenario you can't even summon their boss monster without going -5. Although the deck will recoup most of this with some of their banished effects.

Fun fact about Spygal Misty. She was actually played in Zoodiac Spyral pre-MACR as her alongside Resort, Agent, and Tough were a level 4 engine that helped you deal with your worst matchup being Paleo. Misty being unsearchable obviously still sucked but her effect was good enough that you just played her anyway.

In Junk Connector's defense, it is used to pump the Junk synchro monsters for otk, pretty hilarious from time to time if you ask me. As for Satelite Dragon, I believe it is Tachyon support more than galaxy-eyes support. If it survive until end phase of opponent's turn, it can fetch rank up magic the seventh one so you'll draw it on your draw phase to summon any chaos number of your choice (probably 107).

Given the occasion I want to quickly shout out EN - Engage Neo Space for the Neo-Spacian/HERO hybrid deck Konami wants to be played now. It’s a card which locks you into Fusions and forces, that’s right, forces you to search Polymerization in a deck that a.) has its best searcher for Neo-Spacians be a Link monster in Infernal Devicer, and b.) has none of its Neo-Spacian fusions summonable by Polymerization. Not to mention they printed Favorite Contact, a search for Spirit of Neos aka Engage’s number 1 fan, in the same set, which while absolutely fantastic cards, encourage you to summon Cosmo Neos on the opponent’s turn, which you can rarely do without going into Infernal Devicer. And the worst part is they didn’t even feel the need to give us a good fusion monster that’s summonable with Neo-Spacians and Elementals to, idk, make the Poly search matter, and instead leave us with Brave Neos which is a searcher, but only if it destroys a monster by battle. The POTE support is just a confused bunch of cards design wise that could’ve been hype for finally bridging together the Neo-Spacians and HEROs that Jaden used, and while it does technically do that, they didn’t need to put so many restrictions on cards for a deck as bad as Neo-Spacians

There is a Blackwing monster that I can’t remember off the top of my head, that if it is special summoned cannot be used as a synchro material… IN A SYNCHRO DECK… it also can’t special summon itself so you have to put resources into special summoning it for no payoff…

I want to give shoutouts to the Synchro retrain of Summoned Skull, Archfiend's Call. It floats into a Summoned Skull from your GY, which would be awesome if it wasn't a level 6 and therefore CANNOT BE SYNCHRO SUMMONED WITH SUMMONED SKULL.

Somehow nobody managed to say, "The entire Red-Eyes archetype."

This hasn't fit in to any of these but something I found interesting was Rafflesia. It literally obsoleted Traptrix for a long time. The whole draw was that they could make 4s and back them up with a bottomless. But why normal to search a bottomless when you could just make a Rank4 with any 2 4s and achieve the same thing in a better archetype?

Here’s a fun interaction I learned, if you have a monster that requires a certain card to be on the field or they explode (say, malefic world for malefics). And then you remove that card in order to instantly active/summon that same card. Your monsters still blow up.

I think a decent thread would be Archtype cards that were expensive because it was new support and the Archtype was meta relevant, but the card was mediocre. This is specific to when Archetypes were often released across 2 (usually 3) main sets. I'm thinking cards like Mermail Abyssleed or Inzektor Exa-Stag. Have to think of a few more examples.

Shout out to all the melodious cards that need an empty field to special summon which turns the others off. Also the conflict between soprano and schuberta

Destruction Sword Memories can summon Buster Blader, the Destruction Swordmaster from the deck. The trap says that it can summon from the deck "Buster Blader" monsters. Key term here "monsters". If it was just "Buster Blader", then Buster Blader, the Destruction Swordmaster could not be summoned.

The worst one for me has to be the Beetrooper Fusion spell, "Beetrooper Landing" "You know what this Insect Link archetype based around swarming the field quickly and linking up into powerful monsters with powerful effects needs, a card that fusion summons Insect Fusion monsters, of which at the time of release there were only 2 of, one of which was already played in the deck with Ready Fusion and the other the only Beetrooper Fusion Monster, having a stupid 4 monster requirement. And let's also give it an effect that allows you to banish 2 monsters from the GY to add it back to the hand, and then what, chances are if its in the GY you've already used it to summon to the stupid Fusion monster, so what else can you use it for and there are better banishment cards in Beetrooper's." The only difference between this card and Polymerization is that it summons only Insect Fusions and has the 'recovery effect'. The Beetrooper Fusion monster is bad, but the dedicated Fusion spell is one of the worst cards in the game.

you know, my favorite part about starving venom, is that in the anime yuri summon it one time using ultra poly, and brought back the materials to make clear wing, the synchro, however due to rulings in the tcg, if you make starving venom with ultra poly, you cannot bring back the materials because the materials used to make starving venom only count while they are on the field.

As someone who constantly played ghostricks before links came out, nekomusume was one of the better cards i ran during the rank 4 spam era. I've had countless game won because my opponent couldn't use his normal summon to go into some rank 4 to break my board, you usually have a ghostrick xyz face up because they dont have the flip face down effect and if you get ghostrick nights on the field they literally couldnt do anything. Not to mention its one of the few ghostricks level 2s you had at the time if you wanted to summon socuteboss. Also a lot of the trap cards would flip your cards up during your opponents turn so the negative of having to have the card face up doesn't really apply because you were going to have to flip it up regardless.

I have to disagree with the take on Air Neos. The Neos fusions aren't straight upgrades from the Neo-Spacians. They just tackle the same problems in a different way. You're not supposed to use both cards' effects simultaneously because they are designed to expect that you no longer have the Neo-Spacian in the field by the time you get the Neos fusion out. If your LP is low, Air Hummingbird says that you should heal up but Air Neos just straight up turns your disadvantage into an advantage. You can also see this in Dark Panther and Dark Neos. How do you deal with your opponent's effect monsters? Dark Panther copies their effects but Dark Neos just straight up negates them. Aqua Dolphin gives you information at the cost of not guaranteeing to destroy a card from your opponent's hand. Aqua Neos guarantees the destruction at the cost of information. Glow Moss gives your opponent a card but their monster gets a random effect that could be bad. Glow Neos gives you a destruction effect but it's Glow Neos that gets the potentially bad effect. Grand Mole bounces a monster during the damage step. Grand Neos bounces a monster during the main phase. There are pros and cons to either. The only exception is Flare Scarab, where Flare Neos is just a straight up upgrade of it. I personally think Flare Neos is the odd one out but others could argue that all Neos fusions should have been like Flare Neos where it's just a strictly better upgrade to the Neo-Spacians.

As a Cyber Dragon fan, Cyber Ouroboros will misstime if used as fusion material with Overload Fusion for Chimeratech Overdragon, which is literally how it was used in the anime.

5:58 Although Galaxy Satellite dragon has galaxy in his name he is a dark because in the anime there was a second character using the galaxy cards (but no photon cards) who had Number 107: Galaxy-eyes Tachyon Dragon as his ace monster and used a lot of dragons such as Schwarzschild Limit Dragon, Radius the Half-moon dragon, Parsec, the Interstellar Dragon, Heliosphere Dragon, Galaxy Stealth dragon and many more, many of which are indeed dark. The photon sanctuary card you mention was used by the regular Galaxy user in the show who only used Light monsters. In other words, since this card was clearly made to be used in a deck focused on Tachyon Dragon (and you may go check, he has about 15 support cards for that purpose alone) your argument and his inclusion on this video is simply invalid...

Performapals. What is the focus of the archetype even? Pendulum summoning? Battle tricks? Extra deck summoning

I'd like to add Rinyan, Lightsworn Rogue. On flip it returns a Lightsworn from your graveyard to the deck and draws you a card. Just what the deck focused on sending cards to the graveyard to summon their big boss needed, a way to not deck out! /s

I run a Gravekeeper deck. The wording of "Heretic" is weird, but the judges told me that "Necrovalley" is the ONLY card that affects Heretic. The power booster Gravekeepers don't work on it, and apparently you can't use "Rite of Spirit" to bring him back when he's destroyed. The only way to beef him up while "Necrovalley" is on the field is through "Necrovalley" itself. When "Necrovalley" isn't on the field you can use whatever cards you want to beef him up and revive him, though I recently got "Gravekeeper's Priestess," who acts as "Necrovalley" on the field, and I have no idea what happens to "Heretic" when they're played together.

I just came from Jank because I remembered one. During MR4, the Super Quantal Link 3, made summoning Great Magnus using only material from the field (which was needed to get all the effects) impossible

2:15 To be frank Connector was released in a Link VRains pack before Speeder got made, so hold ya gahtdayum horses, he had reason.

Tbf, Galaxy Satellite Dragon was never supposed to support Kaito but Mizael, the other Galaxy Eyes user from ZeXal. Same goes for the LV8 Chaos Dragons.

Flamvell magician was played a lot in flamvell decks. Because it was a level 4 tuner. It's effect to boost ally of justice monsters can be used on the occasional catastor played in the same deck.

oh boy here we go -the timelord synchro -the windwitch fusion that u summon by being evil in arc-v since the deck focuses on synchros whose effect really only is used in cyberstein ftk -Shoutout to star GT by becoming the absolute biggest powerhouse of the F.A. archetype and with a negation, but cant deal damage -The non effect metalfoes fusion monsters whose only real purpouse is being a bad super poly target -red wyvern by being fire cant be summoned under most of the resonator deck since most good effects locks you onto DARK dragons -Raidraptor wild vulture by special summoning 2 raidraptor monsters! whose total level equal 6... on a mostly rank 4 and higher deck... and vulture himself is a level6... -wattkey and wattcastle by existing and i cant come up with more

Shoutout to 'Centrefrog'. A frog that cannot be used to xyz summon is about as useful as a chocolate teapot. Not to mention the weird ojama shit where it can lock out opponent monster zones (?). I just have no idea why it exists, and that sucks, because it's a really cool looking frog

6:06 Ah yes, because as we all know Kite was the seventh Barian Emperor with 107. Boy I sure do love the heartfelt duel where Kite duels Kite to figure out who the better Kite is. *IF IT WASN'T CLEAR THIS IS TACHYON SUPPORT NOT PHOTON SUPPORT FUCK OFF!!!*

Also Prologue GY effect only protect Destruction Sword cards in a deck where your end board is just Buster Dragon and fusion Buster Blader....2 monsters who are not Destruction Sword cards by name. It can protect the link... but you rather that die than have it sitting on the field being a target to OTK through

Don't forget Verte Anaconda. Being the Halq of fusion decks, it, too, is a link monster in a deck that locks you out of them.

The F.A. link gains counters that can be used on a HOPT monster negate when F.A. spell/traps are activated, when most of the F.A. spell/traps you'd use after getting it on board require changing the battle position of and level modulating an F.A. you control, and gains the attack equal to the levels of F.A.s it is pointed to, when the archetype has a hard enough time getting bodies on board on its own that would likely be wasted on the link instead of going into their synchros.

7:34 ok i can explain this one. In the DSOD movie the character that plays cubics named Aigami uses the cubic stall strategy to burn and lock the opponent out of the game, however at the end of the movie Aigami becomes possesed by the evil spirit inside the millenium ring and turns into a monster that now changes his duel strategy to a hyper aggresive one creating Crimson Nova as well as the fusion crimson nova trinity, so Crimson nova feels like an outsider to its archetype's playstyle...because it's meant to.

The Buster Blader ones aren’t exactly accurate. The only one that doesn’t fully synergize is Whelp with Destruction Swordsman due to the name. The Link has perfect synergy with the fusion as the whole point of it aside from summoning a regular Buster Blader, it lets you burn your opponent with the fusion since it can’t attack directly. It’s the only way to deal damage with the fusion when it’s an open field. Also all the others do work together if you aren’t just doing Prologue Turbo.

Shout out to springans branga, a card that banishes itself and another one of your monsters from the gy to search the whole archetype. The problem ? You want them in the gy to recycle as xyz material. I guess the idea was that you'd use exblower to pop stuff then banish and search for a trap. It's not a bad card at all but it horribly drains you of resources unless you open well. It'd be leagues better if it only banished itself.

Other than the usual main deck hieratics that saw competitive play (ie Su, Eset, Nebthet, Tefnuit) the others have basically non consistent effect with eachother. The funniest is the Gemini one, that cannot be brought to the field from the deck by tributing a hieratic monster, since it's a gemini. But at least it has a bad effect when it's normal summoned, that also doesn't synergise with the rest of the deck.

2:34 “Duos Megistius” where does the extra i come from?

I am very surprised that nobody mentioned Aurkus, Lightsworn Druid. That card is literally an anti-Lightsworn card, built right into the Lightsworn archetype, for whatever ungodly reason.

Twilightsworn almost seem tailor made for this kind of Twitter thread, because out of their 5 monsters that were printed all the way back in 2017 you don't really see any of them outside of some casual experimentation or Chaos jank

I got one. Looking at their main deck monsters shows that “ice barriers” was clearly meant to be a synchro control strategy, where you put multiple names on board to stun with your small guys and out value with their big guys from the main deck and extra deck. Their best swarming tool, “Prior of the Ice Barrier” is a lvl 2 water Aqua that specials himself if you have another name and can tribute himself to revive another “Ice Barrier”. Makes sense. Swarm for synchro plays and revive something large for value, like Gantala, a lvl 7 with 2700 atk that revives something during the end phase. Solid for its time and would make for a strong resource loop with Prior. Get Gantala to GY, revive with Prior, revive Prior with Gantala, repeat until you win. That is until you reread Prior and realize that this swarming tool for a synchro control deck, locks you out of lvl 5+ monsters if you use his special summon effect. This includes his own revival effect AND every Ice Barrier synchro. What?

spygal needs a dark magician-esque, meaning an effect that search an in-archetype monster (spyral super agent in this example) or a card that lists it.

Junk connector was printed when you couldn't summon extra deck monsters to Maine monster songs without a link arrow pointing to them. Although I wish that speeder read "for the rest of the turn after you activate this ability you can only Synchro summon.". But I guess it would be a little too good with a Link and Synchro Synchron strategy for Konami.

I do kinda love that Spygal doesn't synergize with her archetype specifically because she's a traitor in the lore.

How the hell did no one mention Royal Knight of the Ice Barrier? DID RATA TEACH US NOTHING!?

I think a huge one that MBT missed being a hero player, is cross keeper. The little bugger let’s you extend hero plays through hand traps or if they stop your normal summon, and gets you more cards if you fusion summon (which the deck spams out like no one’s business) AND YET HE DOES NOT HAVE “HERO” IN HIS NAME SO HE CAN’T BE SEARCHED BY OTHER “HERO” EFFECTS!!!!!!!!!!!

As someone who desperately tried to make Nordics playable the Field spell pissed me off more than any other card in the game has. It like they made a card that shuts the whole archetype down on the off chance they ever became good.

Spygal is a bad example. Shes the perlereino of spyrals: their unreachable power card (or at least she was before links came out. Double helix requires 2 spyrals, so... yknow.)