Like this comment if you want to see a new series called “Spot the Synergy”

"Spot the synergy" is unironically a good idea for a future series.

The one thing Nikachu loves saying is "You've activated my trap card" so next time have him rate Trap Card decks like Traptrix and Labyrinth

I literally never knew that Atlantean dragoons had an onfield effect

Nikachu is our Visas Star Frost, visiting each Archetype planet and calling them"cringe" or tier minus 1😂😂😂

I want "spot the synergy" as a series! There's so many cool combinations between archtypes and that's what makes yugioh specifically very enjoyable to me over the many years.

A little clarification: poseidra's type IS dragon like its name suggests... but only in japanese. Konami's translators for the TCG did a little edit to not just card names, but type names as well. The direct translations from the intended type names are: Zombie - Undead Sea Serpent - Sea Dragon Fairy - Angel Fiend - Devil Wyrm - Ghost Dragon/Spirit Dragon So now you know why "zombie" type includes ghosts and vampires, why anything with devil horns is a "fiend", why most fairy types are angels, why wyrms look like translucent dragons most of the time or are people possessed by dragons, and why zero "sea serpent" monsters are sea snakes (but ACTUAL sea serpents like giant red sea snake tend to be a mix of reptile, aqua, and fish)

I am pretty sure the reason some mermails are fish and some are aqua is because all the male mermail monsters are fish, all the female mermail monsters are aqua, and i think all extra deck or boss monster mermails are sea serpents. Not 100% certain, but i think it tracks for the most part ? PS: Today we are teaching these fish to synchro summon it seems.

If water's still the theme for Nickachu's later episode, show him frogs next. Would love to see how he evaluates those cards, could even be a segment of guess the synergy since they work with so many decks, mainly paleo. Swap, Dupe, Ronin, Sub, Toad are the 5 cards you can show him

When Nikachu was asking why you'd want to banish a card from the GY for White Aura Monoceros on destroy effect, I think he actually just didn't understand that the banishing was an additional *cost* required to special summon the card back from the GY. He thought banishing a card was the reward, when actually it was part of the requirements.

Pegasus has a special ability that allows him to know what's in his opponent's hand at all times (really powerful). However, Yugi's special ability is to always draw the card he wants, which is stronger in my opinion

With the focus on the battle phase being a point of distraction I think a good idea would be an episode themed on the battle phase, with Glad Beast, War Rock and Tenpai. Or Dinowrestler. For a bonus question, ask the guest to, taking into account power creep, guess which archetype is the oldest.

"Piercing battle damage, that sounds more dangerous than regular damage" well no

Showing Atlantean and Mermail separate to each other is Hilarious to me as somebody who played Neptabyss decks in BOSH format after the PEPE emergency banlist.

I remember when prince first came out, one guy on my locals pointed out "this is the prince, imagine what the king and quern does"

😭 I wanted to see Marincess in this video (the art on the cards is sooo pretty! - and my only criteria to evaluate a card is how cool is the artwork)

19:26 Fun fact: Monoceros is Greek for unicorn, mono = one, ceros = horn Likewise,, rhinoceros is simply Greek for nose horn

Regarding the reanimator allegations, it is worth noting that the zones in yugioh have different meaning depending on the archetype. For example, graveyard in yugioh is considered the sea in the water archetypes. The field is the earth or surface of the water and the banish pile is the deep sea. That explains many gimmicks like tearlaments, white aura and gothi.

I'm sure no one here actually cares but "banish" in Yugioh usually means being sent to the "Different Dimension," or D.D. This is why it's not impossible to return from banish, you just have to cross dimensions again. The "Shadow Realm" is a concept that only exist in the Western dub. In the original Japanese, the "Shadow Realm" lines were supposed to be mentions of dying but since Westerns LOVE to censor anything that comes out of Asia and thought the concept of death was to dark for kids, they invented the "Shadow Realm."

it's worth noting that merlanteans weren't really the result of players cooking behind konami's back. the proper atlanteans ( aka, the ones that actually have the atlantean playstyle, instead of the random water monsters the archetype was based on like atlantean pikeman and atlantean attack squad ) were released in their own dedicated structure deck, which was followed up _a month_ later by the introduction of a bunch of water monsters that discarded other water monsters for cost in abyss rising. incidentally, they all had abyss in their name in the set that also had abyss in its name, which also happened to have a significant chunk of it dedicated to a water theme. and in case all those coincidences still just seem like coincidences instead of konami intentionally designing releases that play well with each other, the supplementary master guide of the era outright elaborates on the atlantean and mermail lore ... and as part of the same storyline hell, it genuinely would not surprise me if the prerelease articles for abyss rising hyped up mermails by outright guiding players towards their synergy with the recent atlantean structure deck. it's just one of those things that's so blatant that they really have no reason to be subtle about it

Seems like Nikachu's experience with Merfolk in Magic got in the way of his analysis of the WATER Archetypes this time. It really seemed like he was trying to get the cards to fit his view of how Merfolk is supposed to play I also noticed that Nikachu was saying that Defense position monsters keep your LP safe. While that isn't wrong, high ATK monsters also do that since direct attacks can't happen unless the defending player has no monsters

50:40 Both the archetypes released at the same time so it wasn't too difficult to figure out

30:54 actually it does depend on what is in play, the ability to atk directly doesnt get stopped by effects that can redirect atks on monsters since you wouldnt be atking a monster but the player instead, however it can get stopped by atks that limits what can be atked such as on cards like crusadia vanguard and rock of the vanquisher which restricts atk targets to either crusadia monsters or monsters with the highest atk and WILL prevent direct atks effect from functioning properly as restricting atk targets does include the player too

I think the graveyard focus that many if not most water decks have is thematically supposed to be the graveyard representing the ocean so they're diving in or being fished out.

As soon as you said there was a twist while he was looking at the mermails, I knew you were going to present the Atlanteans as a separate archetype. Nice twist to include the find the synergy part at the end. If you are going to do more like that, it might be a good idea to have a duel replay showing a simple playline to show them at the end. Essentially just showing what you explained to him at the end, but it might be easier for guests to follow if they can see the cards that you're talking about rather than trying to remember which one was heavy infantry vs marksman vs dragoon etc.

My favorite YGO "card name and type don't match" is an old vanilla (don't think it was ever printed for TCG) named Dragon Statue. Dragon? Of course not. Wyrm? Rock? Winged Beast? That would make too much sense. It's a Warrior... "with the heart of a dragon".

Nothing makes me love MTG more than reading Yu Gi Oh Cards

Tricksy hobbitses, combining the fishes into one deck - except it's the deck exclusively focused on fish was left out, I guess.

I've been playing Mermail since Dragoons came back to 3, and the entire video I'm just like "wait... these are all just in the same deck."

One of my favorite things about this deck was that it had an interaction that none of the other decks had.: "Activate before end phase, special summon linde. Do you still enter end phase?" lol

The archetypes might make more sense to your guests if you relate their effects to their themes. For example, the "White Aura" effects are meant to mimic a school of fish -- hence why they tend to swarm with multiples of the same name, and why you're rewarded for doing so.

31:50 to be fair, most of the types yugioh do contain "dragon" in the japanese name(ryu), sea serpent is kairyu (yes like kairyu shin, means sea dragon), dinosaur is kyoryu, wyrm is genryu (phantom dragon) etc That's what many cards are called "dragon" without being dragon type, normally they are "dragon something"-type in the japanese version of the game

based on the theming, surprised the white fish were here instead of something like marincess, gishki, or tearlaments (though i'm guessing he's already familiar with tearlaments)

I love the idea of showing archtypes that worked together and having them guess which were used together. Please do more like this one.

RE: Dragoons: "This is strictly a Yu-Gi-Oh! thing!" bro's never played a Final Fantasy game in his life

Funniest Yugioh typing vs. naming: Leviair the Sea Dragon is actually a wind sea serpent.

I just love nikachu episodes... He is a great entertainer.. 😊 Hope we get more episodes from him.. 😊

When he kept asking about how to win, and said Attack with lvl3 monsters, I was losing it lol. Mermail had access to Dracossack, Big Eye and Moulinglacia to start off/finish the game, who needed to attack directly with small monsters? lol

It's kinda funny cause Mermail and Atlanteans have such strong synergy and I associate them together so much that I sometimes forget they aren't actually the same archetype. It's interesting to see an outsider perspective on that kinda stuff.

i wish you showed gothi one of the archetypes with the coolest looking artworks in the game.

Ghoti Nation bros they forgot about us. Also I guess you didnt show him UMI due the amount of cards.

I think it was probably also worth mentioning that the White Aura stuff is brand new and seeing some competitive success in the OCG

Mermail Abyssteus is very Iconic to me, or how I like to call it "High-Five Mako Shark"

The deal with the graveyard related effects with these cards are like they’re diving into the deep sea to activate their effects. The white aura ones like the Whale revives from the GY as if a Whale resurfaces from the deep ocean to breath

Imagine almost giving away that Mermails and atlanteans work together very well on the first atlantean card

These videos are so entertaining! Thank you for continuing to make them!!

For the battle system explanation, I would have said, "You can't attack face unless they have no creatures. Otherwise every creature battles like a fight spell is being used on them, so you can have any creature attack any creature until they have none left. Defense position just means you don't take trample damage." I think it's also worth mentioning that almost every archetype in yugioh is a graveyard archetype. The graveyard is called "The Second Hand" for a reason.

My guy sounded so enthusiastic about the synergy between Atlanteans and Mermails and I'm here for it

Awesome video, you and Nikachu are awesome together 😊 i actually owned this deck back in the day and ive never owned many at all so couldnt believe this actually came up haha

pretty sure a monster's type and attribute flavor wise is simply just any aspect of the monsters themselves, like look at albaz and aluber; in human form they're a dragon and fairy type respectively when 1 doesnt even have any outward dragonic traits and the other is ironically demonic which is then reflected in their fusion forms where aluber as masquerade the blazing dragon is not a dragon but a fiend despite having dragon in its name and albaz's dragons have various types from beast, winged-beast, machine and wyrm alongside dragons and they both changes attributes between light and dark depending on their current form, another examples is visas starfrost's alternate world's counterparts being warriors like him but their evolved forms showing their true nature is of a different type like reinoheart becomes a fiend as kaleido-heart showing how hes a tyrant, riumheart becomes a fairy as prime-heart because hes visas' pure nature while riseheart becomes machine as arise-heart since hes now mechanically armored types and attribute is probably just any aspect that a monster can be represented by both on the surface or their hidden aspects of themselves which is why monsters can completely change attribute and types from card to card so in this case the mermails can potentially be fish, aqua and/or sea-serpent but they're represented by different types that is most fitting to them in some way or another so with some exceptions the types is represented in terms of increasing power among them

I discovered your channel today and have been binging these videos all day! Food stuff, can't wait to see more! :)

With the Merfolk theming I half expected to see Tear, but forgot you already showed him that in another episode. However, Mermail and Atlantean definitely did fit a fair bit better and show a synergistic nature of some WATER Monsters. Also thinking on other interesting WATER archetypes one which would be a bit wierd for him would be showing him the Icejades. They are definitely an odd bunch. Could show him Aegirene, Ran Aegirene, Kosmochlor, and Gymir Aegirene. (And Ran would probably really throw him off if he connects the easy Gymir summoning aspect of her)

"So you send the Sardine to summon the Sardine, then you summon the Sunfish and the Sardine, and the second Sardine is a tuner" YGO everyone.

i need him to try master duel, but with older cards or non meta cards at least

This episode was really fun to watch! I have had an absolute blast watching your content. ❤

To be fair, Pegasus wasn't using banned cards (in the USA version at least), he was using unreleased cards. MTG has a few of those too, where they printed them but never released them to the public (Richard Garfield's cards to propose to his then girlfriend, for example). They designed them, then decided the toon monsters were too powerful and never released them. Pegasus printed them and uses them, since his company made the card game in the anime.

With how many videos Nikachu has been in I think it’s time to play a game, or if you wanted an “April fools” idea just show them rush duel cards. That could also just be a funny thing to do anyway.

A cool idea to help, especially with more complicated archetypes, would be to show dueling book/ master duel / edopro replays of the turn 1 combos.

if you showed him the kicker in Moulinglacia the Elemental Lord which is the perfect one-of in this deck he probably would've thought this deck we busted 😭

I'm still in the hospital :3

I need him on more simply to hear his thoughts on his anime watch along

12:50 Gotta love when you explain to the MTG guy why the entire community makes a meme out of not reading the cards. When the people actually playing the game don't want to read everything going on, that's when you know there might be a bit too much.

"Like Blowing up a beached whale" I just love the way he thinks about things. Anyways... YOOOOOOOOO! I can't believe I was offline for this one!!!! I finally get my wish. I kinda feel obligated to do the patreon now (don't hold me to that). At any rate, great video. That Dragonlord thing was cool, very Yu-Gi-Oh like. The discussion of synergy was the best part. I find that with these one game to another discussions, the worst is when it's just pure memes, the best is when it's actually discussing gameplay mechanics and strategy.

You should do this with field spells. Extra points if you can get him to say a card is nuts like giant ball park and another one is crap but saw a lot of play like dragon ravine

I hope for more of this. maybe with Kaijus.

White fish were more fish than merfolk. Then again, it's better than having tearlament as the other merfolk to compare to

It would have been interesting to see archetypes that were released in the same time period and see if the guests can evaluate their standing against each other. (ex. DUEA Format, TOSS Format, etc.)

really enjoyed the finding the synergies part

At some point you’re gonna have to get Nikachu to actually play a game of yugioh with you, maybe play Goat or Edison to help him understand how one plays spell cards and summons monsters lol

Oh, I really like the concept for this one. Making a theme off the other guy's specialty? Very fun. I'm not as versed on MTG pros/youtubers so I don't know how broad this could go, but if anyone likes soldiers, I think Tri-Brigade or Zoodiacs could be good play for that possible video. (Also quick plug for Elementsabers again)

Definitely bring him back and have him do Ghiski and/or Nekroz. Actually wait Have him do Ghiski, Nekroz and Ice Barrier. That could be fun as a thematic lore thing, which as a Magic player he would probably appreciate a lot.

Basically the reason why most cards state their entire name in the card effects is because otherwise they couldn't limit the number of times the effect could be used. Older archetype cards don't reference the card name, allowing you to repeat effects if you are able to get more that one of the same card.

Love your videos!

Mermails always was and will always be my favorite deck. I remember i got top 8 at a tournament when dragon rulers and spellbooks were all other 7 decks. Mermails with 3 tidal was nuts

One suggestion I can make for this series is to show them what the combo of the decks looks like (after they rate all 3 at the end of course). Or if it's too long maybe just the "currently good" deck. I would love to see their reactions at the combos the decks can pull off. Also someone said this in another video but a "rate the endboard" video would also be cool. Something that shows actual yugioh gameplay. Although one of the funny things about this series is that the guests don''t know that much about yugioh so seeing too many gameplay might "ruin" it in the long run. I'd really love to see the reactions tho.

35:41 never introduce this man to pendulums.

I want to see you show them a replay of the deck and ask them if they think it’s good.

Ah mermails were my baby back in the day, all the way from the early builds with linde to crazy diva into prince into bam bam bam trish, elemental lord, rip 3 cards outa the opponets hand... it was the best

Gunkan Suships, Aqua monsters with fire attribute and surprisingly strong in Master Duell. Propably because you have enough space in your deck for Ashes, Maxx Cs, Impermanenses and other interuptions.

Well, the Next announced set is supposed to have support for a bunch of these archetypes, so I guess this is good timing.

Spot the Synergy would be wild with the full extention of the deck or you can talk about zombies

nikachu: "how do people find these synergies" me: OMG please nooo it's sooooo obvious one wants to discard waters and the other wants to be discarded, the synergy can be seen from another planet how he missed it is beyond me also they interact with the graveyard because for these cards the grave is more like an analog for the ocean, when they get to the grave it's like they go under the water, and when they "reanimate" it's not reanimation but coming up from the deep

Let's goo. Featuring my favorite deck of all time. Funny enough, white aura whale was my going second board clear. Soo triple synergy?

Dragoon is also a class in Final Fantasy and a type of historical calvary unit.

11:23 A Tuner is someone with a British Accent saying Tuna

Should do a reaction playlist where you and Nikachu watch through Battle City

Nikachu's background gives me banlist anxiety :P It's the exact color of orange.

This is what ive been waiting for

For the most part, the difference between the Aqua/Fish/Sea Serpent typing usually has to do with a given characteristic. If it swims, but doesn't have gills, it's an Aqua. Think Yorishiro of the Aqua.

Nikichu, this channel's favorite magic the gathering player to bring on to bamboozle. What's next on the magic attribute wheel? Light, Dark, Fire or Wind?

If he enjoyed the first arc he will love GX where they actually played by the rules for the most part :'D

He really should watch vrains after the first series. It really does dumb down the game while still making good plays.

Great video! One card suggestion for the future would be Lord of the Heavenly Prison. It is confusing art-wise, if you don't read the (convoluted) effect properly, you might overrate the card by a bit (you could think that this is able to use both effects in succession, e.g.). Also, it makes them ask themselves the question of value vs value of traps vs tempo

Must've been hard to resist saying Tuna

If i might recommend showing a card specifically to Nikachu i need to see his reaction to the artwork of Eater Of Millions. A yuigoh card that is just straight eating other cards that reaction i know will give me a good laugh. :)

Thought Gishki was finally going to make an appearance, maybe one day.

The irony of him saying it was "Deep"

Tearlaments are sirens,I guess? Thou, you already did that one.

I think it might generally be helpful if you explain when an effect in yugioh actually ends and when a new one starts. Because this seemed to cause a lot of confusion here. What I mean is explaining the meaning of the punctuation in ygo card effects. Nikachu seems to have at least twice thought and effect ended at a semicolon and was confused why the effect only consisted of a cost.

If MTG players tries a yugioh tournament here. Nikachu will most likely play this deck given the fact he's already been thought how this deck work.