I actually had no idea Drill Synchron and Warrior were fan designs from a kid. Seeing them become mainstay parts of Yusei's deck must have made him quite happy.

For April fools you should pick a tier zero strategy and make a “why no one plays” video on it. Going over every card in the strategy and explaining why they are terrible and ignoring all reason of them being amazing XD

The biggest weakness of this archetype is its reliance on normal summons.

"These are kinda good cards, but "FAILED" cause they aren't broken." Yugioh series in a nutshell

All these ass zombie based deck will come back in style one day when vendread, vampire, zombies, and doom king all come together with their werid ass support all comes together to make a rouge deck.

The fear of overpowering the vampire archetype especially zombies type is usually why archetype becomes mediocre or even failed......

Vampires might just be one of my favorite archetypes in the game tbh. Not just because of the Castlevania inspired designs and lore, but also because its just so rare for an archetype to COMPLETELY change course and be rebranded the way this one has. Going from an inefficient and slow "bleeding" effect that helps your opponent more then anything else nowadays, to one focused on losing and gaining LP , reviving themselves and each other , GY manipulation as well as potentially devastating Monster snatching. You gotta give Konami credit, they did a good job reviving a decade old archetype, even if it did take a while.

I feel like the editor purposefully just showed “Vampire Suc” in the opening roll

I have ten decks in the TCG. Currently two of them are in the failed cards list. Gimme 8 more, so I can brag about playing failed archetypes and still win.

Vamps were my first ever structure deck, I still love them and no matter of negatives will ever change my mind. Even if the effects aren’t “meta” worthy, you can never deny a lot of the cards artwork is just awesome

Also something worth noting about Voivode. The negate window is constant which means that hand traps like ash that discard themselves for cost can be immediately negated without another copy in any gy

Lost it at "Vampire Circular." Lmao

Something important to note about Vampire Ghost is that it GY effect to Normal Summom is a Quick Effect. That means that, if you have both Sucker and Zombie World on field, you use it to Tribute Summon Voive by using 2 opponent's monsters

Shoutouts to Vampires being lumped in with the "Has difficulty summoning its own best card" archetypes like Aromas. Gotta be one of my favorite genders.

Fun fact: Vampires Curse is a reference to Kain/ Raviel from the Legacy of Kain / Soul Reaver series, a popular series of video games that deal with some hefty philosophical topics while playing with vampires.

Aw come on! If there was ever a “But in Duel Links…” episode, it was this one!! 😝

You know, I knew they were going to have to show up eventually (being Zombies not named Eldlich), but man, does it still hurt to see. Who knows though, if Gimmick Puppet can get the support they just got, maybe Vampire can get something just as batty

I had a programming assignment years ago where I needed to make a "choose your own adventure" story and I invented a story that included the Vampires and Golden Land monsters. Thought I'd share this unimportant information.

Me: nice! I just finished my Vampire deck for master duel! I can’t wait to play it! TheDuelLogs: I’m about to end this man’s whole career.

If the make a card that allows you to normal summon as many vampires as you want per turn (probably with a like 500-1000 LP cost), this deck would probably take off in a heartbeat

Hell will freeze over before Konami decides to give zombies a good archetype.

I really love this archetype, I hope he will get some love in the futur !

Vampire Lord has been my favourite card for a long time. The wave of support that Vampire Shadow was in was a travesty especially compared to what other decks could get away with at the time. I loved how the archetype played after Retainer wave of support (In fact 2 of my Master Duel decks are Vampire variants)... and with Ghost I believe they came so, so close to being T2-3 viable. Hopefully they'll do more support one day but without changing the entire strategy again; Adding a Link 1 (even a vanilla one) to play through Ghost being Ash'd and some way so either circumvent or protect your normal summon would go a long way. Oh, and if I were to ask for the moon, give them a Rank 2 and/or Rank 3 XYZ so you can use Vampire's Desire with Retainer + Familiar to make it and "reset" their "banish when it leaves the field" part.

I'm very old-school when it comes to YGO, so the Zombie-type cards are my favorite to deck build since the mid 2000s when I was in high-school. No matter how many new cards, archetypes and strategies kept coming out, and I tried them all, Zombies were my staple deck choice with consistent reliable fun for me, so Vampires have a special place in my heart. Sadly, I dropped the game before I got the enjoy the newer support which would have fit my playstyle perfectly, even if they weren't the most viable. I still love Zombie decks, regardless of competitive relevance.

I ran this deck in MD for a while. I got so much satisfaction when the moons aligned and I got a win. But that satisfaction more so came from “oh! It worked!” Rather than me actually making a good deck. It sucks because I love some of those effects! But like you said, its lacking that one card that ties it all together with a nice bow.

I tried to cook with this deck in master duel with snake eyes and had some success but it also showed the real issue of not only vampires but the zombie type as a whole. points being -zombies/vampire requires alot of graveyard set up with little pay off, which snake eye helps by a bit -recovery is not that great -majority if not all of popular hand traps stops a zombie/vampire card -Extra deck monsters you summon don't really extend your combo except for the higher level ones -Any zombie support is bricky and requires them to be in the grave and another turn to see any real effect

With the way they pushed Gimmick Puppet, Raid Raptor and Fire King into being good, there is hope for Vampire to finally become a good deck

They need a special summon that can enable the Tribute Summon monsters. Something that not only searches the high level monsters, but also floats into their new Field Spell, activating directly from the deck. The Field Spell would give the player some "gifts" for tribute summoning the turn it was activated and also give the archetype some form of GY management, where it could send/retrieve cards from the players GY.

1:19 Retrain idea for Lady here: _Vampire Mistress_ (DARK) Level 4 Zombie/Effect _If your opponent sends a card from their deck to the GY, you can special summon this card from your hand or GY. Zombie monsters you control gain 50 ATK/DEF for every card that’s on the field, in the GY and in both players hands. If a Zombie monster you control inflicts battle damage to your opponent: Declare 1 card type (Monster, Spell, or Trap); your opponent sends 1 card of that type from their Deck to the GY._ ATK/1550 DEF/1550

Im just in the process of building a vampire deck in md This video is right on time to remind me why i need to build it

While probably not a fix to the archetype, I made retrains of the OG Vampire Lord and Genesis to make better versions of those cards. Vampire Lord - Reincarnated Attribute: DARK Type: Zombie Level: 5 Atk: 2000 Def: 1500 Effect1: This card is always treated as “Vampire Lord”. Effect2: HOPT: You can Special Summon this card from your Hand or GY by banishing one Zombie Monster from Either Player’s GY. Effect3: While this card is on the field or in the GY, (Quick Effect) if your opponent special summons a monster, banish one card in your opponent’s hand. Effect4: (Quick Effect) If this card is tributed to summon “Vampire Genesis”, then that summoned monster is unaffected by your opponent’s card effects. _________________________ Vampire Genesis - Reborn Attribute: DARK Type: Zombie Level: 8 Atk: 3000 Def: 2100 Effect1: This card is always treated as “Vampire Genesis”. Effect2: You can Special Summon this card by tributing 1 “Vampire Lord” on your side of the field. Effect3: You’re Opponent cannot Tribute Monsters while this card is face-up on the field. Effect4: If this card leaves the field, Special Summon it during the End Phase, and if you do, banish up to three cards from your opponent’s field and/or GY. Thoughts for these cards for themselves regardless of competitive viability?

2:30 Idea for a “Vampire Genesis” retrain that would serve as the boss monster it should have been: _Vampire Ascendant_ (DARK) Level 8 Zombie/Tuner/Effect _Can be Normal summoned/set using 1 Zombie monster as tribute. You can Tribute 1 Level/Rank/Link 5 or higher “Vampire” monster you control: Special Summon this card from your hand or GY. Gains ATK/DEF equal to any battle or effect damage you inflict. You can discard 1 card (Quick Effect): Apply 1 of the following effects, depending on the discarded card’s type (Each of the following effects of “Vampire Ascendant” can only be applied once per turn):_ ⚪️Monster: Cannot be destroyed for the rest of the turn, and also, for the rest of the turn, you gain LP equal to the total ATK/DEF of all monsters that are sent to the GY or banished. ⚪️Spell: Cannot be Banished for the rest of the turn, Also, Activate 1 Spell/Trap (from your hand, deck or GY) that mentions “Vampire” in its name or effects. ⚪️Trap: Cannot be tributed or used as material for the rest of the turn, Also, Special Summon 1 Zombie monster (from your hand, Spell/Trap zones or GY) who’s Level/Rank/Link is less than or equal to the level/rank/link of a face-up monster on the field. ATK/3000 DEF/2100

This in another one of these videos that hurts me a little. It's a fun deck, and i really wanted this one to succeed when i saw the mechanics of it. i just wish it were handled better.

How. Dare. You. I knew it was a matter of time before you called one of my favourite archetypes failed. If it ain't tier zero, it will be on here. Fr tho I love your content :)

Seeing my favorite archetype cross the ‘failed cards’ series may be the death knell for me ever returning to this game

Just finished binging this whole series yesterday glad to see this uploaded today

Omg my favorite archetype! I hope when I draw my vampires they excel in the card game I'm working...I can't make the same MISTAKE! Love your videos, such a big help how to build games!

I hope that vampires will receive new support just like the gimmick puppets, as long it is not a random FTK

My favorite yugioh video format, thank you ❤

as the self titled "worlds best vampire player" i would disagree with this video, its very competent and high power deck with the potential to be tier zero if the opponent simply lest you do your plays and you get a good hand every time

They should make a busted zombie deck at some point i wanna see how high the ceiling is with all the generic zombie support.

Me, a Vampire player, loving the last two videos slandering Yugiboomers only for Karma to get me:

Turtle was always the clutch and I loved the vampires and zombie types.

9/10 vid, needed castlevania bgm

I recently got back into the game and just build this card and with some other support from generic zombies, and for playing with my friends it's been a lot of fun and holds it own pretty well.

Really well researched and well explained. I play a Vampire deck myself, it's fun and can do a little bit. But really strong... I have to admit it's not. I just hope that maybe something will come out that will make the topic more playable again. On the question of what topic could come next. I have one that is very complex, scattered across many topics. And has split into more or less 3 as its own theme deck. We're talking about arch-fiends, they play everywhere but in my opinion they don't really have their own topic. They split into chess archfiends who are just plain bad. The Red Dragon Archfiends are basically a theme but do not exist as an independent deck. And then the other archfiends who shift a little and are present in the field. That's what I would like to see from you and would love to see it, but I know it's a lot of work. Thank you for your really great videos.

The thing I like most of the time about these archetypes is usually the art, the effect and the name typically make sense to a story perspective or role play purposes. So though they fall behind or aren’t meta they make sense from a story and visual point of view

Vampires as a deck might not see much success but I think they're cool for making use of several mechanics that have often been overlooked (which might be why they don't succeed much), and they managed to incorporate a lot of vampire's properties in stories into the gameplay with them. The LP costs on effects creates a "live fast die young" aggression because you simply cannot sustain a duel that lasts more than a few turns despite having as much monster recovery as zombie support provides, that is until you play Vampire's Domain or some other source of LP gain. Even then with Domain your LP gain is in the form of lifelink, so despite the extra breathing room it affords you, you still need to attack often to offset your effect costs. Imo it does a good job of representing not just the vampire's bloodsucking, but the hunger and the frenzy of starvation that drives it. The creature stealing covers both vampiric "charm" tropes and vampiric conversion depending on the effect in question (e.g. the reanimate theft on Frauline would be conversion, while Fascinator's steal is a charm), and then there's Vamp with it's relinquished effect that functions as another type of bloodsucking/ charm rep. The Xyz having exemptions from level requirements for opponent's monsters used as material is a cool mechanic though I'm not certain what the flavour tie in for it is.

0:39 Idea to retrain Vampire Baby: _Vampire Progeny_ (DARK) Level 3 Zombie/Tuner/Effect _During either players turn, if you control a Level/Rank/Link 5 or higher “Vampire” monster, you can normal or Special summon this card from your hand or GY. A Monster destroyed by a “Vampire” monster you control (by battle or card effect) can immediately be special summoned to your field._ ATK/1000 DEF/1000

I have a question? Is the gimmick puppet and chronomaly archetypes classed as fails? If so maybe they're an idea for a future video?

I usually paired a few Golden Land forever cards with vampires, was it any good? No but it scratched the nitche itche I wanted solved so

6:30 Vampire Sorcerer's effect does not trigger by battle? "opponent's card" does not include that?

How would you analyze the Dragunity deck? Thanks

I'm sure Triamids will be an amazing topic for this series!

My favorite archetype, so much fun to play.

Is pure ojamas a failed archytpe? It is good when you include other archtypes in it like armed dragon and abc, but without them it barely does anything other than just lock your opponent out of using monsters and beat down strategy with no protection and no way of searching on the first turn.

There are some really good vampire combos you can do especially with vampire sucker and zombie world, tributing your opponent's cards during his turn is kinda crazy. But yea vampires can be kinda inconsistent, especially without beatrice, you can't even access your doomking engine early on a lot of the time. But with good support like Eldlitch and doomking you could somewhat play them. Eldlitch is kinda broken since you can special summon zombies from your deck, so you can get your high level vampires out very easily.

Konami, having owned Castlevania! You wouldnt possibly dream how they fumble a Vampire achetype, huh? OH WAIT-!

Zombie Vampire also sees use in my blind second rank 8 deck. Its already pumping out 8s with Kaiju/Slumber, Alpha, Bigfoot+Thunderbird, Orochi, etc. Just Change of Heart and overlay whatever I stole. Then rank up to Pain Gainer, Sins, swing with a 4k beater, then add Zeus. Too bad the rest of it isn't very viable.

Vampires are my favorite deck in the game, and I have spent hours making it work in Master Duel as well as it can. If anyone else wants to make these bloodsuckers work, here's how I do it. Main Deck 3x Vampire Ghost 3x Samurai Skull 2x Vampire Familiar 2x Vampire Retainer 1-2x Vampire Fraulein 1-2x Vampire Scarlet Scourge 1-2x Vampire Voivode 2-3x Vampire's Domain 2-3x Vampire Awakening 2-3x Vampire Domination Extra Deck 1x Vampire Sucker 1x Vampire Fascinator 1-2x The Zombie Vampire 1x Dhampir Vampire Sheridan That's the main package that I find is most efficient, but to round out the deck I normally use 3x Maxx C 3x Ash Blossom 2x Ghost Belle 1x Spooky Dogwood 1x Nibiru 1x Raigeki 2x Vampire's Kingdom 2x Haunted Shrine 1x Solemn Judgment 1x Zeus 1x Underworld Goddess 2x Crimson Knight Vampire Bram 1x Accesscode Talker The main starters of the deck are Zombie Ghost and Samurai Skull, which does make it somewhat prone to bricking since the deck has no real searchers for the first turn. When starting with Ghost, Normal Summon him to the field, then send one Vampire card to the GY, preferably Voivode so you can summon him back later, or Familiar or Retainer so you can modify your play line a bit to be a bit better. Assuming you send a card that's not Familiar or Retainer however, use the rest of Ghost's ability to add Fraulein to your hand, then send Familiar to the GY. Then use Familiar's GY effect to summon it to the field and send Ghost to the GY, but don't activate Ghost's ability immediately. You need to resolve Familiar first, or you'll mess up the combo. After Familiar summons itself, use its ability to add Scarlet Scourge to your hand. Once that's done, use Ghost's GY ability to Tribute Summon Scarlet Scourge from your hand, and use Scarlet Scourge's ability to summon the Voivode or whatever other monster you sent to the GY at the start of the combo, if you sent one. The Samurai Skull starter is very much weaker, but still I find it required for the deck since it's better than bricking 50% more. Normal Summon Skull, send Ghost or Familiar to the GY, and either activate Ghost's effect to get a Vampire on the field, or activate Familiar to get Fraulein into your hand. If you have Fraulein in hand, add Scarlet Scourge instead. The Ghost starter leaves you with Scarlet Scourge and hopefully Voivode on the field, with Fraulein in your hand able to summon herself once you make an attack. Unfortunately, there's no real way to get Zombie Vampire onto the field on Turn 1, unless your hand is absolutely perfect. Voivode has a once per turn monster negate so long as there's a monster of the same name in the GY, which does work on things that send themselves to the GY as cost, such as Ash and Maxx C. Scarlet Scourge allows you to steal your opponent's monsters when it destroys them by battle, which is very important for summoning Dhampir or Vampire Zombie. Fraulein is a battle phase hand trap that summons herself to the field in Defense position when your opponent declares an attack, and can buff your Zombie monsters during Damage Calculation in a battle between a Zombie monster and another Monster by up to 3000 points by paying the same amount of Life Points. You would be surprised at just how many people don't realize exactly what she does, thinking that she can only do it once per turn, or that she can't buff herself. I have won so many games with her alone. After you perform the Ghost starting combo, you need to do one of two things, usually. If Voivode is on the field, you need to be at one of your opponent's monsters in battle with Scarlet Scourge, summon them on your side, then summon Zombie Vampire using Voivode and that monster. Zombie Vampire allows you to detach a material to mill the top 4 cards of both players decks, and allows you to summon any one monster that got milled by that effect. You want to detach Voivode as he has the ability to Tribute Summon himself from the GY if an opponent's monster gets summoned from their GY. However, if you were not able to get Voivode onto the field however, then you want to steal a monster from your opponent and use it and Scarlet Scourge to summon Dhampir. Then you should try to pop an opponent's monster using Dhampir's effect, detaching Scarlet Scourge, which triggers Dhampir's other effects and allows you to steal the monster you popped, letting you work towards Zombie Vampire. After that, or if the board state doesn't let you use Dhampir's effect, try to transition Dhampir into Zeus, who is the back up boss monster when you can't get Zombie Vampire out, because Zeus.

Had fun with Vamps in Duel Links a couple years ago. Surprised they saw such a messy release.

Thank you for doing this video

Im trying to build a vampire deck. Which monsrets should i use?

I have a vampire deck and I have fun with it. Mine has a mix of zombies such as mezuki, uni-zombie, and pyramid turtle so it is more along the lines of a zombie deck with vampires added. I do admit there are two main flaws with the archtype, the normal summon condition on the larger monsters which hampers a deck born to special summon from the graveyard and the high life point cost for the effects. If cards read special summon from the graveyard they would still be difficult to play but not as bad. Also I have found that fraulein has some synergy with mahaama, but in a vampire deck its cost is too great.

With Vampire awakening, you forgot to mention setting up for an XYZ summon.

My favorite memories of this deck are from Duel Links. In that game, Vampires were so unbelievably strong when they came out they remained top tier even when they limited half of the deck for what seemed to me like an eternity.

Its kinda neat that they need a tribute to be summoned, its like a blood sacrifice in order to summon one of the dark lords

I'd like to see you review Traptrix. It's my personal favorite Deck, though it feels more like a rouge deck, and not really a failed deck... but that might be my bias talking.

this was the 2nd deck i ever built. i enjoy it a lot :3

im a proud vamp enjoyer and i can tell this deck is pretty fun but it relies on making beatriz for the zombie world + balerdroch tech ghost vamp is a step into the right direction but the deck needs a big vamp that special summons vamp stuff from the graveyard as a quick effect, lacks on interruptions while it could be far better, biggest issue is that everything you do has a big cost like paying life, tribute summon, discard for effects, etc... also maybe a new normal summon for zombies like uni-zombie but not so fragile would be nice

Ancient gears is ones I’d be interested in listening to!

Vampire circular sounds like a straight menace to society

I don't play the game anymore but it's so sad for me to see this video. This is my favorite deck ever, it was so fun to play and those artworks were so beautiful

Could make some interesting interruptions like an ash counter that negates a card’s effect in the GY and field and then immediately special summons it to your side of the field. I think they need something that adds a bit more power and a bit more reliance on LP usage to work. Maybe an archetypal “target one monster your opponent controls, that monster’s name is now Vampire Sire” or something. To be honest, I’m spitballing here. I know it’s missing something but I can’t put my finger on what.

In Master Duel I've played Vampire, Fur Hire, currently my best deck is traptrix, Six Samurai deck in real life. They aren't overly consistent against metas but damn lower tier decks are just so fun to play when they can work. I have a amazing replay of using Vampire to take number 77 against a D/D/D deck and wipe thier entire front row of monsters.

Hilariously. Never heard of The Zombie Vampire until now.

Let's not forget the unofficial member that was really fun: Patrician of Darkness. It's a vampire creature that doesn't have Vampire in it's name. It does, however, have all the other design synergies, such as cape, pointed teeth, red moon in the background, level 5 with 2000 attack. It also comes with a decent field control ability in that you control the target of your opponent's attacks. Also: Frow(rhymes with cow)-line. German prefix with the same use as "Miss." Her name is Miss Vampire

Anyone else particularly fond of Vampires and Aromas because the LP manipulation or is it just me? 😊

My Favorite Deck, i am still playing it to this day

1:44 Idea for a Vampire Lord retrain: _Lord of Vampires_ (DARK) Level 5 Zombie/Tuner/Effect _You can normal summon this card without tributes while you control a Field Spell or face-up Continuous Spell/Trap that mentions Zombie or “Vampire” in its name or effects. Cannot be targeted for attacks or opponent’s card effects while you control a Level 4 or lower Zombie monster. If a Zombie monster you control inflicts battle or effect damage to your opponent: Declare 1 card type (Monster, Spell, or Trap); your opponent sends 1 card of that type from their Deck to the GY. Once per turn, while this card is face-up on the field or in the GY, during your next Standby Phase after a Zombie monster in your possession was destroyed and sent to your GY by battle or an opponent's card effect: Special Summon it from the GY._ ATK/2000 DEF/1500

With Vendreads and the new vampire support you think Vrains that was suppose to be more darker in tone would have these cards in the Anime

Vampire player here. I had fun with the deck at locals and even won a few tournament matches (and lost a few more). I’ll add my two cents here. One of the deck’s major issues is its gimmick of sending cards from the opponent’s deck to grave. In the current game this tends to help the opponent win faster.

4:19 The bottom left and right drawings are fire for a child.

The bleed effect became counterproductive to boot. It was that counterproductive that Konami made the bleed turn into walking Monster Reborns. Sucker also made them synergize even better with Zombie World.

"See you next year when they print Vampire Circular" Oof that's a violation

I was wondering if you would eventually do a video about cards that look like protagonists, for example Kaibaman, Numeral Hunter, and the new gimmick puppet support

i was literally watching a vampire deck profile when this was uploaded

Vampire, dragon n spell casters were my favorite archetype, but the design change still bothers me since almost all dragons are humanoid, I can't even remember the last time I saw a vampire card, spell casters are still hit or miss design wise for me

16:51 Using Vampire Sucker and Zombie World also had this card a viable method of tributing an opponent's protected monsters.

I love the Vampires. I named my primary vampire deck, Chibi Vampire. As a tribute to the anime called Karin, though the manga was called Chibi Vampire. It's about an awkward vampire girl who's bad at being a vampire. Bit of an oldie but I recommend it if you like romcoms

vampire lord's back must be in pain for having to carry the archetype alone for such a long long time

Yo my favorite part of long running archetypes is seeing Konami card art design change over time. Cool>>Wafiu>cute>repeat. It's fun to see

I will say that I love this deck for N/R formats. Still not amazing but so fun. Nobody ever expects Red Baron to swap a Familiar or Retainer with an important monster. Also, a point in Kingdoms favor is in MD a bunch of people keep forgetting about the ATK gain. Overall fun but lacking, been looking at Ultimeat Offering to maybe help with normals

That circular joke at the end😂😂😂. Man, at this point circular is just the new Stratos. Every deck is gonna have one.

Should be noted that for Vampire Sorcerer, his condition to search also counts by battle.

I love how most of the vampire archetype is pushing for a gothic horror vibe and sucker just stands there uwuing

Good thing I built and play this deck irl lately. Their gimmick is pretty bonkers in my opinion and crazy strong once it gets rolling.

so weird that Dark Grepher, a warrior card, fits so nicely with all these level 5 and higher Dark cards in this deck 🤔

Would you ever do a Digimon tcg logs channel ?

Let's not forget the extra deck is made of only xyz summons which becomes difficult to summon cause you need 2 ( or more depending on the card in question) monsters of the same lvl to use if it had a fusion vampire monster that could summon monsters from the graveyard without using LP but discarding from the hand it'd do decent in my opinion