Even in an archetype explicitly themed around and named after bears, they still get a robot dragon boss monster. Unbelievable.

Ursarctic would have been halfway to being saved if the Level 8 monsters all said "you can Special Summon this card from your hand without tributing if you control a Level 7 'Ursarctic' monster."

The only thing that I got out of this failed cards video was that I should start building BearhasBears. Fun Fact: Ursarctic is redundantly named. Ursa being Bear Arct being also Bear And Arctic means “Has Bears” unlike how the Antarctic “Doesn’t have Bears” In other words. “Bears have Bears” Another Fun Fact: the reason Ursarctic Randomly crossed over with Drytron is because the Constellations the Archetypes are named after ACTUALLY cross over into each other.

I absolutely adore the aesthetics of this archetype and learning that they got a top in any format at all felt like a heavy whiff of smelling salts straight to the sinuses

Ursarctics are related through the Drytrons through the actual celestial constellations in the far northern sky. Drytrons are based on constellations in the sign Draco, and the ursarctics are based on Ursa minor and major, which are directly next to Draco. I think it's amazing Konami made support for both archetypes, even if it sucks.

Am I the only one that feels happy that there might still be hope for this archetype? It’s honestly a much more happier ending than the other Failed Archetype episodes so far.

My biggest gripe with Ursarctic isn't that they're bad (they can be a half decent F-around deck in solo mode and some festivals), but that they don't count towards Synchro summons for missions

Dark Synchro should be treated as Synchro Summon even in Polari.

This will forever be the "awful draw 7 archetype" to me

This is one of those archetypes that actually translated well to Duel Links and were pretty good even without their new support. It had several things going for it: - Smaller decks made drawing Radiation and Departure more likely - Yusei had a skill that allowed you to discard a lvl 2 or lower machine or warrior to search a synchron. Discard any level 1 synchron to get Synchron Explorer which let you summon Polari with 1 card consistently. - On the topic of the previous skill, it had another ability to cheat out Shooting Quasar Dragon if you can summon Stardust Dragon, giving the deck a threating endgame - The lack of Ash Blossom makes it hard to kill the deck turn 1 - It came out in a period where Orcusts were everywhere, and Septentrion could shut down that deck So surprisingly, Ursatrics were good (albeit bricky) in that game and was even tiered in DLM

The end of the video is probably the happiest epilogue for fans of older and more janky archetypes: The hope that, with enough support, your favorite archetype can be playable in a casual environment.

*Note: Polari says "activate "..." from the deck", not add to the hand, so the card can't be Ash'ed.

5:22 Small note, you can't Ash Blossom Polari. Playing Spell/Traps from deck is one of the few blind spots Ash has. That said, something like Veiler or Imperm would absolutely stop you dead in your tracks.

Your videos are always an inspiration, resolving complicated mechanics and brought to the community in digestable pieces. Thanks for your always great content!

Funnily enough, Ursarctics are played with Yusei in Duel Links to go into Shooting Quasar Dragon with his skill.

It should also be mentioned that the Ursarctic/Drytron collaboration also don't work because both archetypes gives the user a restriction that hampers the other archetype that they are supposed to work with. Ursarctics makes it so you can only special summon monsters with levels, and drytron have a XYZ monster which is necessary for there combos and protection. Drytron gives a restriction to where you can only special summon monsters that can't be normal summoned or set, which locks ALL of the main deck Ursarctics, and therefor turns them into bricks. both decks combo potential hinders the other for no reason. plus the cards that work with both archetypes, work better for Ursarctics then Drytron, due to the monsters being too high level or Drytron already having similar cards or effects that work better for them.

As an Ursarctic player, i know the deck has some short comings. I'm still holding out that theyre missing some members to round out their team to have 7. The level 8s are just a transformed version of their level 7 counterparts. And the level 7 synchros are the level 8s after being amped by Polari's energy. So that means they could get a third synchro monster for the third bear. And to be that guy.... 118 days since last Ursarctic support.

I literally used this as a cheap level 7 option for Kashtiras in master duel. Unironically, I prefer to normal summon the level 7 BES monster because it’s better than using the ursarctic

I remember one solo mode duel in Master Duel sticking me with Ursarctics. I had no idea how it was supposed to work because it felt like I was committing my entire hand to summon one mediocre guy. Turns out I wasn't missing anything, it's just bad.

Just hearing that quote at the beginning and not having watched the video yet, any archetype that could resolve a "Draw 7" spell card with anything close to consistency would get that card banned in a hot second, so they must not be able to do it.

Is there a possibility that you can do "GIMMICK PUPPETS" at some point? (Used to play and love the deck back in the day, but man! This archtype got some problems) 1. You are mostly locked to only using gimmick puppets with dready doll 2. Magnet doll need your opponent to have a monster on the field, so if you start, then its a brick card 3. With the lock to only puppet monster there are usually only the play with 2 out of the 3 puppet xyz (the rank 8 ones) 4. You cannot do much with the string counters mechanic (why are they even there if its only for 1 Cxyz monster) 5. Non of the effects are quick effects, so basically they can be countered pretty easy 6. The protection with the baby and the other doll arent really big for the time they came out - but gigantes doll is nice :) 7. Most of the printed gimmick puppet monster were so bad, that one was only used for locking your opponent and not in gimmick decks and the cards like the trojan puppet or the joker never saw actually big play 8. The gimmick spell and traps are mostly underwhelming 9. In duel links they would see a useful amount of play since they burn your opponent and you have only 4000 LP but for the regular card game they do not enough damage 10. LEO!!!!! I mean, what were they thinking??? 11. For your gimmick puppet plays you have to go minus in card advantage a lot of the time :( and the endboard isnt that great at the end 12. WHAT IS EGGHEADS PROBLEM? CANT YOU JUST BE NORMAL? 13. I waited a 100 years for some gimmick Support, but the konami guys have forsaken me :,( P.s: i remebered that during this time they also banned the only good rank-up spell card (i think it was silver chaos, the one you get back from the graveyard). I think they banned it because of some utopia stuff you did during that time but not sure anymore

The funniest part about Konami haphazardly stapling Drytrons to an archetype that prevents you from using Xyz or Link monsters is the fact that they also gave Drytrons an Xyz monster.

Your video honestly helped me decide that I really do want to play this deck. I love space, synchros, and bears even if it won't be that good.

Friendly reminder from an ursarctic player, ursarctic isn't that bad as it used to be, as more and more high level cards get released the deck's power grows, you can put in icejades, kashtira, centurion, plus the new DUNE support makes it way more easy to get the draw 7 card(radiation), in master duel ppl went master 1 without this dune support, isn't much but it's def better than some really failed/old archetypes, give us mechabears some love🥺

For those who understand the connection between Drytron and Ursarctic,. if I could remember fully,. The main characters on the OCG Structure deck manga are mainly using those archtypes..The main protagonist is primarily using the Ursarctic while his rival is supposed to be the Drytron player.

I wouldn't be surprised in the next half year this archetype gets more support since you did a video on it.

Now that Mr. Logs made this video Ursarctics would get new support

It's a gimmick because of the synchro pool but ursarctic tuners aren't archetype-locked, so you can tech them into dragonmaids: high level monsters that are fine in the graveyard, mixed with level 2s and 3s to synchro summon with.

Theoretically, if you can summon Polar Star, and have Ursarctic Drytron in GY, you can turbo out Septentrion/Grand Chariot with added Fusion/Synchro SD for your opponent. Generically, no lock, three total card slots. Polar Star stays as further material options.

BuT tHeY'rE gOoD iN dUeL LiNkS!!!!!!@@#@!!

Their artworks are really cool!

For such fantastic art, I'm hurt that the archtype is so bad.

Ursarctic Lore Video? Please and Thank You. I'm sure that has something to do with why Urs and Dry were seemingly forced together.

To be honest, i know that this archetype isn't that good... When i get one of those card in a booster, i was like: "Uh! Looks like an archetype that i could use for the joke. I never heard of it, so it must be not that good" But i tried its and i love it! (Yeah, i have weird taste, i know) I'm a casual player, so being competitive isn't my goal... not at all. It's the first deck that i have real FUN by playing it. And it's something that not always happend when i play yu gi oh, especially on master duel. (For some personnal reason) I'm happy to have found a deck that was for me. In my opinion, the "magical side" of yu gi oh is that: You have so much possibilities with all the archetypes and card that there is, for sure, a deck made for you somewhere. Thank you @TheDuelLogs for this video It was very interesting, i learn new things about this archetype and that gave me some ideas to upgrade my deck Thank you again and have a good day

Ursarctic is underrated, specifically because people don't understand how they function. Don't get me wrong, they're still bad because they can't handle being interrupted, but if they don't get interrupted, they set up good boards. I remember playing them during Salad format, where you were able to see a Salad deck 50% of the time. That was 50% a free win. The other 30% was Dragon Link, which wasn't free because they have other options, but you had the advantage because Septentrion ruined their consistency. The standard Ursarctic combo requires three cards not four, because the small bears recure cards. Also the cards you tribute can be anything. They're meant to be played alongside high-level hand traps. Nibiru, Phantazmey, Zoo King Alpha, Pankrotops. These protect you going second, but also become fodder going first. They did not use your normal, letting you be a bit more creative with builds. Personally preferred Halq, because of all the shenanigans, plus it baits out handtraps. Screw Auroradon, that's brick city, just Halq was fine. Because Halq leaves field as cost it is not affected by Sept. Which means you can summon any quick sync. Now that Halq is gone, you have other options again. Surprisingly, the fusion is actually really good. All it costs is your searchable field spell, and it gives you either free recursion every turn even opponents, or sac it to get the other sync. It's not even bricky because Drytron field searches the fusion spell. Draw seven was nice, but not what the deck needed. It fixes the risky loss of card advantage, but so did the fusion so that's no longer a problem. However, you can very easily draw all seven that turn one, and grab a Solemn which would protect your board. New cards are cool, but unfortunately the deck is still bad because it requires the right format to be playable, which is not now. The extra deck is being thrown away for generic main deck boss monsters, so the new Polari is not effective.

Couple of correction for the beginning. Miktanus adds ursarctic from gy to hand dosent Special summon and polari activates big dipper from deck and dosent add to hand

its so sad because it has one of the best card artworks in the game. love the mech designs

theyre still pretty cool for having a dark synchro and a fusion monster that fuses 2 field spells

DuelLogs making a video of ursartics right as I'm making them, damn the timing

I would love to see a video that talks about ogdoadic. While nowhere near as bad as ursartic it would be great to see you talk about the archetype and its synergy with the other reptile decks along with the fact that ogdoadics main flaw is that there’s no good extra deck reptiles except the aliens. Plus any excuse to see you talk about reptiles as a whole would be great.

Love this Bears. Cute big bear.

Meanwhile in Duel Links, Ursarctic is basically meta lol. Although before this video came out, I definitely noticed how fragile the deck was to interruption. One good book of moon and then you have an overwhelming sensation to just scoop. They make me think of a strong boxer with a glass jaw. They either get you, or you get them.

Awesome. I was using prediction princess to help. I don’t think that newer support is in md yet tho

I remember looking over Ursarctic's on release and thought. If people can't take my War Rocks serious; Why would I take this serious?

Ursartic my beloved

Polari activate big dipper directly from deck so i don't think your opp can ash it, although 1 imperm still ends your turn. Although as a dl player who saw this deck on its prime, its pretty much a fun deck there kekw.

Hope you will cover the Dream Mirror archetype sometime soon.

Ursarctic with Lava Golem or Kaijus and the Adventure Token Engine was pretty decent.

Ursarctics are gundams, I adore the artwork and the idea behind it so much and I even slipped in 3 drytron lvl1s and 2 of the rituals to make full use of the fusion, along with lava golems and kaiju's for discard fodder.. after buying it, I slowly lost faith and realised it's the meta or nothing... I bitterly chose to quit after this failed archetype.

I love the bear robot theme, wish it got some more support.

It is fun to use Polari as synchro material for some of the Shooting Star synchro monsters or others that require a synchro monster to summon

8:53 Fun fact, despite theem being synchros, since they are all special summons only, it can bypass cards that limit synchro summoning like Contact "C"

The weirdest part about this archetype is that, THIS, out of ALL THE DECKS AND ARCHETYPES, is the closest we got to an adaptation of the "Dark Synchro Summon" mechanic seen in YuGiOh 5D's...... The 2nd thing being their connection to DRYTRON 8:42 I guess because "WATER Attribute" and "cosmic theme".... 13:30 emergency update

Wow, an archetype I’ve never heard of

With this video, I finally understand what Ursatic is trying to do. Never wrapped my head around it before. L.1 Synchro ? Drytron?

The reason Drytron and Usrarctic combo support exists is actually because of their design origin! Ursarctic is based on the Ursa constellations (specifically Ursa Major) because the big dipper forms the head of ursa major and it has 7 stars. Drytron is based on the Draconids constellation (which is actually a dragon so it makes more sense for them to be dragons instead of machines but whatever) which you can see on the art of the ritual spell. Both archetypes' monsters are named directly by the stars found within either constellation. The two archetypes intertwine because the tail of draconids actually lies _between_ ursa major and ursa minor

I hate how much I love this archetype. Its been my master duel go to

Incoming support!

I don’t know if anyone else has pointed this out but Polari’s second effect is to activate the field spell directly from the deck, so you can’t Ash to prevent Big Dipper.

Anybody else remember that one challenge in Master Duel solo mode that gives you these cards? That was painful, so bricky it felt entirely luck based

It's a small thing, but I've noticed the duel logs often speaks in the past tense about these cards. "It WAS a beast-warrior type monster". But...it still is

I knew it was inevitable seeing this archetype in this hall of fame but as an Ursarctic main, it still does hurt to see. I do agree with everything Logs has said. The archetype has no protection. Its form of interaction isn't really intuitive enough except for Megatanus because the level 8s not only need to have hit the field, they also needed an Ursarctic monster to already be on the board. You go -5 to end on 1 monster that's a floodgate with no inherent protection (Septentrion, pre-Radiation) and even with Radiation, the deck still bricks to Dark Hole. That being said though, if you really want to play Ursarctics, you can splash in the Adventure package since you don't really have a Normal Summon. You can also use PUNKs, my favorite variant, to give them access to an easy Baronne or Chengying, or the new Horus cards to give them some form of counter when they start wiping your cards.

I don't know if you have a video about Generaiders, if not please i would love to see it.

Truest video , if a plus 7 can't save you idk what can

Can you please make umbral horror failed card and mechanics so Konami could print them support?

I've dabble with this deck in DuelLinks to play Bishbaalkin

The build a bear archetype 🤣🤣

You know. This reminds me. With the cards linking Raidraptors & Phantom Knights. It might be a reference to Yuto & Shun's friendship which is dumb. But at least both of their decks were XYZ focused.

10 cards that helped redefine the game on their release. Cards that may not have been super strong or game breaking on their release, but have left a lasting impact on the game.

ursarctic actually wreaking havoc in duel links

We just kinda ignoring that its topped in the ocg multiple times at this point, right? not just the one at the end

it sounds like it's saying "I'm good but I'd have to shoot my foot to be good"

Something i do really appreciate about the Ursarctic support is how they needed to make one card useful for 2 different archetypes at once (Drytron and Ursarctic). They could've (and realistically should have) made 2 seperate cards, one that more specifically supports each, but it's nice to see that they work okay. At least Bright Knight works better for Ursarctics than it does Drytrons. Drytrons does not need extension, it just needs consistency, which this only kind of provided.

Only know of their existence because of the Master Duel challenge. And it was one of the most miserable experiences I've ever had with Yu-Gi-Oh

Still hoping for an analysis of the decks that won the tournaments where they had the lowest representation. The ultimate meta killers, so to speak. Could also include your opinion on whether the meta busting showed that said decks were sufficiently supported in their contemporary metas.

it's not that Ursarctics are too bad. It's that every other deck is too good.

"Like my decisions" 😂

ursarctic are a lot of fun in duel links.

Ursarctics are a really fun & cool archetype, held back by its lack of protection & how resource extensive the deck is. It takes the whole hand to combo off in a time where 1 card combos are king. Had Ursarctics come out in the late Synchro era, They might’ve been far better received

This feels less like a failed archetype and more that it’s more incomplete still, I thought this was something that came out in like 2011 but hearing it came in 2021 gives me hope that it could go hard

I’ve never heard of this archetype

I'm pretty sure the polari place the field spell an not set it so it can't be ashed an it was "considered" a meta deck in duel links just because of the bonds skill an the crazy draw 7 did ursarctic make it to tier 3 no it go powercrept by even more broken skills at that time but it did get tops

This is crazy 😂😂 I just started building this deck in master duel

Springans having rota plus foolish plus teraforming if u dont have the field spell, a field spell that cheats out xyz Monsters matériels that attaché themselves for anywhere, a Monster that place itself on any springans xyz that Can search any Care in the deck( and therion cards too) and has interruptions, a Quick play spell rota plus soulcharge that recycles it self , and not seeing any plays

I stopped playing midway into sycros and all i can tell is that if the cards are not busted from the start, then its useless just because of how fast the game is these days.

the ursartic hare somewhat good on duel links, i rememeber not too long ago they made to the chanmpionships on dl

Edit: holy shit its a water monster you can't get it off cyber emergency. ignore all of this, card sucks I think I'll at least try out the ursatron alpha in drytron when it comes to master duel, it seems like a half-decent extender to grab off cyber emergency. Notably, it also has the potential to actually make meteor shower playable

Ursarctic is probably fav archetype ever in yugioh, but I won't deny how bad it is 1. It is very resource hungry for making essentially mid skill drain on legs with no protection 2. very bricky since you need those resource 3. Cannot go second and/or brake boards to save their life 4. Dies to 1 interruption This archetype definitely needs more support

Good news! Ursarctics were actually Tier 3 in Duel Links recently

I am here to defend Ursarctics. I can take them to at least late diamond in MD. Ursarctic Kashtira. With birth on field. The kash monsters make perfect tributes for their recursion from either pile. Shamisen samsara. Barrone. Stellarwind. All great cards for the extra. Turns off Xyz and links ( dont need ariseheart if you’re running septentrion) they work great. Deck needs maxx c unfortunately to keep up so try and resolve it

A video on rank up magic/ CXyz monsters? They look cool as boss monsters but a lot of them focus on battle and the newer CXyz like Nasch Knight and C62 can be brought out without a rank up spell.

I used Cheep Cheep on this Deck as well as marmitting captain it was effective.

Do a video about the most broken decks of each year please

It's so sad. I'd love to play with cool mecha bears!

I hope that one day Konami releases good ursatron NOT LINK support that allows combining drytrons and ursartics in a good deck

wait ash blossom can't active ןn response to polari. she can negate a summon, search or mill but not activating a s/t or setting a card from ur deck

I play them with the Drytron and the deck is quite fun

Maybe in another dead architypes ,you can make a video about magical musketeers

Okay, this kinda makes me want do a Kashtira Ursarctic deck lol

Funny enough MC from OCG series menaged win with Ursartic agains opponent using...DRYTRON