This is one of my favorite things about Yu-gi-oh. Other card games do it too, but the often have flavor text on top of the effects. Yu-gi-oh has to tell the stories through effects and card relationships. Archtypes are a given, and lore arcs like Albaz and Visas generally have whole cards which explain the lore, but are other wise not really playable. Even still there are more details to find. Spirit monsters return to hand because they can't remain in the living plane. Suships are all toppings for Shari. Shari is necessary for all the plays, and their Continuous spell has your opponent select a topping for a ship after you first give them the chef's recommendation. It even has your opponent pay the bill. This seems like a good series to continue. I'll be keeping my eye out.

Condemned Maiden: "First time?" Condemned Witch: *nodding*

Loptr is another name for Loki, and please do not look up how Loki and Sleipnir are related.

@@theburger1072 oh no 💀

​@@theburger1072 too late😔

@@theburger1072 Bit late for me, I knew that years ago

@@theburger1072 TIL Loki is a horse girl

I think ashened was supposed to be the dark souls archetype

​@@danielparsley3675thats not what they said. they want a game inspired by yugioh lore, not the other way around

I'll do you one better; an entire archetype based on Armored Core series with Nine Ball Seraph being either a main deck boss monster or extra deck boss monster.

I've had this idea for years in my head😢

"An entire game based off the card gradius" 😂

Nahhhh not bro tackiling his waifu to fuse into Sanctifire 😭😭😭

@@straypaper and I wouldn't have it any other way

The funny thing is that the MC is technically fighting you as the opponent. The deal is that the MC does damage via a concept known as "life-decking", which essentially is using the number of cards in your deck as HP, hence why you die via deckout rather than via damage. There's a video essay somewhere on here that discusses the concept in card games and why it's not implemented all that much due to how annoying it is for players.

And before that, we also had Condemned Maiden.

And Pacifis the Phantasm City

Paleozoic Opabinia also let you play traps from the hand on either players turn within archetype.

Or makes the nordic relic traps into equip spells

I love super quantal, I think they are very funsies

i think loptr is actually tricking you and harr is the one whos actually trying to help you in the journey but idk

I get the feeling that the twist will be that the quest exists to either let Harr or someone else take control by getting the other bosses out of the way in some power struggle, OR it is supposed to make the player grow stronger and go mad with power until they become a new Generaider. The latter seems more in line with typical YGO storylines and also would explain why Loptr and Harr, who *should* be your enemies, seem to be involved with helping you on your quest instead.

@@drewbabeI agree. Munin and Hugin are the companions of the main character from Runick, and are the Ravens that accompany Odin. Harr is the Generaider stand in for Odin, so it is entirely plausible that the main character *is* Harr since he’s the only Generaider without a Runick spell showing his defeat. Laevatein is Loptr, so maybe after defeating the other Generaiders and becoming one, Loptr reveals he was just helping you to become more powerful and betrays you. Curious to see how Vala and Jorm fit into this, hopefully both will get future support (Generaider needs it more than Runick tbh, give them some better spell/traps and potentially another ED monster).

More already on the way!

Wait they are??? Which archetype?

@@HazeEmry they're not, the person who posted this is wrong. A lot of people think that the anniversary celebration animation that came out a few months ago was an announcement of an anime, but it's not, it's just a little OVA. They do, however, have a manga that covered the Sky Striker lore and is now covering the Endymion lore.

But they are making manga for these though. Skystriker is over and now magistus arc is going on

The fact that both the Runick Fountain and Harr have a single glowing red eye implies a connection, and it's the opposite eye too, almost implying that Harr's using his left eye to remotely view you through the Fountain. It seems like it's a setup, like he's controlling things behind the scenes with Loptr's help. But idk.

He might be a secret boss or something like that

If they make it generic, then it IS intended. They're more than capable of cutting the legs and arms of cards if they want to make them avarage, look how many cards and archetypes are wasted just by having stupid conditions. Runick was supposed to be speshable, otherwise it would have had limitations on summoning and effects activations; and let's be real, even without the effects being HOP it would have been utter garbage.

It couldn't have been more intended. They literally printed a deck that's full of Instant Fusions. What on earth did you think Instant Fusion was used for during its legality? They also fully intended it to have synergy with Xyz strategies, given that most of the ED monsters are levels that are normal summonable. And while one of the two that aren't level 4 or lower is level 5, kinda awkward to work with, the other is level 9 and goes great with the Generaider Xyz bosses by obvious design. (Honestly I think Freki only exists to help you make a level 10 synchro with a yokai girl hand trap normal summon, but idk.) What's more surprising is that the deck has the alt win condition of deckout with BP lockout as the drawback. Avoiding battle is not a very "RPG protagonist" thing to do. But maybe the twist, lorewise, is that this obnoxiousness is meant to make you grow powerful in an evil way, which is why Loptr and Harr seem to be behind the whole thing. Or maybe it's supposed to be, like, trying to survive a boss' attack pattern until they run out of steam, idk. Or maybe it's not lore connected at all and is just the way they balanced the deck around the fact that it's full of Instant Fusions... the only other way I could see it being balanced is if they took out Fountain entirely while also taking out the BP lockout and milling, so that the cards don't recur so the 1-for-1 trades they are don't give you advantage, and then make it so that you could only summon a Runick ED monster once per turn using one of the spells. That probably doesn't go well with the story they're trying to tell, so...

I don’t know he ain’t lore 😎