First time I ever used Lightsworn, I accidentally set up a board that dumped my entire deck into the grave. With ONE attack. EDIT: I did not win.

Nova I'm surprised you didn't mention Judgment, the Dragon of Heaven

24:36 *OBJECTION!* Nova, you fool! White and Black (plus Red) DOES mix together to create Gold.......in Alchemy. :^)

I've been plotting,scheming, and praying for the day you covered my first "meta" deck as a kid. These boys got me to fall in with milling decks to this day, and the new support made me cry tears of victory as I hoped for the 4th waves

I keep the thought that lightsworns are the beta versions of tearlaments. They’re just much more fair in every department, which means I like them a whole lot more

Just got to the Jain part of the vid and heard your comment on running a Yu-Gi-Oh inspired tabletop session, and wanted to share that I actually am running a Dungeons and Dragons game where I'm incorporating Yu-Gi-Oh monsters, the items from archetypes, and even some of the in-card lore within this homebrewed world, with custom races inspired by YGO races we see on the cards and a wealth of homebrewed material!

8:10 This is why the GX manga and wiki wormholes should be assigned reading in high schools so other yugioh players can learn that fairy is the angel type. Then they'll know that Ghostrick Fairy/Angel is purposefully trolling them. 14:48 Funny that you recognize Raiden meaning thunder type yet were unaware of Ryu meaning dragon type.

I've been trying to make a DnD homebrew based on either Duel Terminal, Albaz, or World Legacy. Also a Yu-Gi-Oh theme based on DnD centered around dice rolls.

Been loving the upgraded display format & animations PS: MY GOOD BOI RYKO!!!!! Such a flexible card

In Cardfight Vanguard these would be Keter Sanctuary cards

I was ESPECIALLY curious to see your reaction to new Lightsworn lore cards! I'll give this a full watch later on!

3:13 Damn, I remember fighting my first Displacer Beast. The DM was so excited to pit it against us. Only 3 mins and you got me feeling nostalgic.

My God, Synchro Minervas name is a trainwreck.

Minerva really had her glow-up process documented hah. While the other Lightsworn monster was busy getting edgy with the Dark counter-part, my girl went from a small child to a hot XYZ teen to an even-hotter MILF Synchro. Cant wait to see the glowup of some other lightsworn monster too.

My main deck on master dual right now, playing it pure but gonna add tearlaments eventually.

Lightsworn Tearlaments Shaddoll was my Tear build of choice when that format got started. Raiden was extra Merrlis to get my mills going, Raiden and Felis gave me Chaos Ruler access, Xyz Minerva was a great way to keep digging, and Wulf made great material to send off Shaddoll Fusion with Beast to make Construct. Shame Tear was way too powerful for its own good 😭

This is the deck my brother used to hook me into the game. I was thrilled to see new support, since the deck had fallen out of favor before I even started playing. Still, angels, dragons, holy revenants, hard to go wrong theme-wise, and it was good for me to learn to play the game using the deck and lp as a resource from the start. Really helped me get past some classic mental blocks in tcgs.

You can also play 3 Galaxy Soldiers in Lightsworn. They fill up your grave and set you up to summon Cyber Dragon Nova and upgrade to Infinity.

Still happy that they're back and oh boy do they kick ass now!

thanks for sharing. my favorite cards of the archetype were Ryko & Judgement D.

My favorites are my ace cards, Judgment Dragon & Punishment Dragon; and by extension Enlightenment Dragon now. Violet and yellow are my favorite colors so ED really looks spectacular to my eyes. Also, I am mixing my Lightsworns with the Bystial Dragons instead of Tearlaments as I aim for the Lv 10 Synchros for negates when going first turn. And duhh, DRAGONS. 😂😅 I've been playing mainly Lightsworns since 2009.

Not only is it my favorite deck in Yugioh but I also got my wife to play the deck last year for valentines day. So it's nice little video one year later .

I've always thought the lights worn mill strategy is weird because usually, you'd think of grave recursion on this level would be a dark thing. I mean, it is in mtg.

After a decade of not playing the game, I came back in late 2013 and built a twilight deck during the time where Dragon Rulers and Spellbooks ruled the format. It was a mid deck that surprisingly got me almost as many wins as losses but boy, oh boy was it fun to play. JD, DAD, Gorz, BLS, imagine being able to pull out one of these boss monsters once every turn (And that's not even getting into the extra deck!).

Could you explain Lightray? I heard they were often associated with Lightsworn so I'd like to know them in detail. They're also remakes of other monsters. I also wonder what is the lore behind that if there is any.

14:34 Raiden: A good friend of Orcust in Duel Links after they many bans and limits 15:43 the one that always appears in your hand!

One of favorite archetype, imho. I'm glad that we get some new support on the Lightsworn. Not to mention, I nearly had written a few things involving my own YuGiOh fanfic, but sadly, that was in the past in my younger years. Fun memories, though and even why I hold Lightsworn as one of my favories.

Someone designed Wulf and thought "I wonder what a werewolf with a Ponytail looks like"

Loved tgis deck when it came out. Still use it in Edison. And now, i can use it in current format too!

Lightsworn in one of my favorite decks and a tech pick I like using is Avramax using Trisbana and a spent Exalted

Now we need Enlightsworn who shuffle back from banishment to complete the circle

A weird thing is that Athena is already its own card..like most Minerva including the Athena one, it is a light Fairy. It also focuses on graveyard control like a lot of fairies but in a different way and..thats where the similarities seem to stop. It's a level 7 tribute with 200 less atk than the lightsworn synchro and 1000 whole less Def. They visually look very different and Athena is just generic fairy deck fodder, not really belonging to any specific named archtype. Fairys had a lot of Greco-Roman mythology theming at the time, that she seems to fall under. They also had focuses on graveyard control, lifepoint protection and countertraps. Athena falls into the GY control by allowing yoy to discard a light fairy to the GY to special summon another one from the GY. It was the light fairy counterpart to a few different zombies at the time but a little beefer with the atk and level. Honestly, not the best card, even at the time. You'd think perhaps the Mivera card is supposed to be a retrain or lore reference considering how much lightsworn and other cards from the era of their inception loved that..buy I can't see any. Perhaps you could argue the name is because Athena is such a big mythological figure that Mivera IS wearing it as a title in a situation where she may have very well met up woth some genuine Athena? They do travel to alternate realities to recruit their members so considering there is at least one other Athena in the duelist multiverse, Minerva could have taken inspiration? The alternatea thing does also seem to be a possible theme..not only are there different Minerva "evolutions" depending if you go synrcho or XYZ but there seem to be others..obviously Judgment and Punishment dragon representing justice through artifical consequence VS more vengeful action..you also have Wulf and felis being counterparts but also Ryko and Riryan seeming opposite counterparts to each other in a very similar pattern..and thus potentially also related? Wulf and Felis seem to be more humanoid versions of Ryko and Riryan respectfully? I used to belive the idea was that these were adult versions but now, especially thanks to another babified version ironically, I feel this may hint at something else. We have the younger judgment dragon as a lightworn but not a younger punishment dragon..and the fusion is just that, splitting back to TWO when destroyed. I feel Punishment and Judgment Dragon are the same dragon from different realities. I also feel Ryko and Riryan are alternate reality versions of Wulf and Felis with the varying extra deck Minerva following suite. This could even explain why you would have a lightsworn and twilightworn of the same character together. They hop through different dimentions and alternate timeline crossings are not soemthing new to yugioh. Not only have we seen alternate path versions of quite a few iconic monsters in the past but some like the evolved warrior de grepher have met each other in shocked passing. It wouldnt be too much to assume that there are different Minerva depending if they went down a synchro or XYZ path. We also have another young female fairy related to divine judgment/punishment as well as light and dark alternative forms..i would not be shocked if they try to pull the tips of these lines and lace all the different lore storylines togther eventually. Judgnet is god's escaped pet dragon and thats why the banished maiden is able to get vengence with the darklords! And..archfiends/archlords are in there somewhere..darklords invited them all over for the weekend maybe..mazera devil is in zombie world now so who knows or CARES anymore! Its all connected and WHO CARESSSSSS!!!

6:16 well thematically yes, they are all from different worlds

also, since celestia say "those targets" it means that if one leave the field before the resolve, the other is safe.

Lightsworn will always be a special deck for me, because it was the deck that got me introduced into the game. It's a very luck based deck, but that also makes it quite skillbased. Mill Wulf and Felis early on and it might be Game on the spot. Draw them and only mill charge and other cards that don't help in the Grave and you can just scoop. But on the other hand, every game looks a bit different depnding on the mills. If you think I'm biased, yes I am.

That combos is also for Master Duel, as Curious is legal in Master Duel too.

I was always fascinated by light-attribute monsters so Lightsworns were right up my alley. I was afraid that they would get a low N.O.V.A. scale because in my experience players seem to look at light monsters and mono-attribute decks overall with disdain. So I'm happy to see them spoken of in such a positive manner. Also, Lumina's pretty cute.

Never thought about this but what about lightsworn, tear, chaos deck?

Is there a translation error with Lightsworn Athena? It doesn't specify "other" card effects, so wouldn't it's first effect prevent itself from using it's third effect?

Lightsworn are in my Top 3 archetypes of all time alongside Gishki and Endymion.

Lightsworn is my favorite because I like send cards to GY for swarming and other effects

Hello yo. Lightsworn were my favourite. Wulf was the pre garnet

Why are all the Lightsworns so hot though?

MY FAVORITE ARCHETYPE thank you so much

Hopefully lightsworns get more support after this

I mixed Lightsworns with Cyberdark in Duel Links, it was pretty fun!

My brother can you please do Agents of Earth please

I never got to use this archetype mostly due to not being able to get a lot of these cards, only getting like 5 of the main deck monsters, and few of the supports. Edit: by the way, Nova, in your opinion which extra deck type do you think is the more versatile, diverse in gameplay & functionally more beneficial: Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, Pendulum, or Link?

I hated when I first used Lightsworn but now it’s one of the main decks I use in Duel Links along with an Aroma deck and a Gem Knight deck. It’s not a good deck and I don’t win all the time like when I use the other decks but it’s fun when I win with them

Hold up, are archfiends another form of Dark World, but not in name or something? Is this something I never knew or am I missing something here?

YES! My favorite overall archetype!

22:00 that sword is just Excalibur Morgan , tho.

We're getting close to blackwings

32:09 -It wasn't a failed military strategy but a poem recognizing a military company that had suffered a failure. This is key because the point of the poem seems to be the point of the cards name being the same. Lord Tennyson wrote the poem (under pseudonym) as national propaganda. He was commending the troops' bravery and valor, even in the face of certain defeat. Notice the effect..you send three cards straight from the deck to the grave for one low-level monster. This is greta in a yugioh lightsworn deck, but in a more militant sense, it is a noble sacrifice for a fairly low payoff. The implied alternative is a confirmed loss of the overall bigger war, however. Also, notice that it is Ryko who is charging forth. This is a great card but one that typically gets sacrificed itself since it must be set for its effect and is very weak in battle Stats. Also, it's effect sends three cards to thw grave in addition to destroying a monster..sound familair? You send three to add a Ryko, only to sacrifice that Ryko AND send ANOTHER three to take out one opponents monster..kind of a noble massacre rather than a sacrifice but still one to commend. Also..Ryko doesn't have the best time through a lot of his journeys..despite being a very loyal and good boy, the poor pup really gets put through the wringer..very fitting for the face of a card refeencing a poem about steadfast soldiers marching into death for their country.

I hear mention of card game tabletop session well guess what that exists and it's called Perfect Draw

Next add the Yubel support to your video lineup from LEDE

Shaddoll is great with lightsworns

Hell yeah dude PK fire ftw

6:00 Lumina Tri-lusion!

They need to errata curious to lightsworn only

Do code talkers next.🎉

Bros never met a professional Greg before - smh

Mill is my nightmare to encounter. _Dosn't own a single card with an in graveyard effect._

I'm very biased toward this gx era deck ever since it got me through the final boss rush of 5ds stardust accelerator.

Whats especially weird about "light of destruction" is that it is a pretty bad trap card for the archtype..the name of the pack the archtype debuted in..and a completly unrelated arch antagonist character from GX. It felt ao weird to me because the lore point of the archtype was to save through the light. The trap was aweful for th archtype..made little sense in a narrative sense and made things unsessarily confusing because of the character that came well before both the pack and card of the same name but no relation. There was no reason to use this once let alone twice for lightsworns like this.

Man I hated this archetype in the YGPRO online days...

As a Gregg I earn my money 😂😂

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