I'm not sure if I remember this correctly since its been years, but I heard somewhere that Draco Equiste was one of the countermeasures Yusei got to go against meklords before shooting star was given to him, and that the idea came from the duel he had against paradox with yugi and jaden. Him seeing jaden's fusions showed him the viability of using a mechanic that is not synchro. But when he got Shooting Star, he dropped Plan A for the new one cause Shooting Star could just blip out for a bit before getting snatched, has more versatile effects, and had more synergy with his synchro focused deck.

Actually, he specifically designed Draco equiste to face the meklords (and was revealed he did so by taking inspiration from Judai) before he could master accel Synchro. It's something himself mentions, as he realizes Synchro summoning just isn't as reliable anymore. However in the only duel that it was used, it was defeated and he obtained shooting star dragon a few episodes after which meant he didn't need the fusion monster anymore... It's kind of a shame, would have loved to see it used at least once more

Draco-Equiste takes a Dragon synchro. Unless there’s a quick play fusion speed spell, or a fusion trap card that doesn’t take the materials out of the graveyard, trying to summon Draco-Equiste is a little slow. And yes, I’m mostly talking about the anime, so I don’t want to hear from any of the IRL competitive nerds

@@TieflingKumasithat doesn’t matter in the anime. They use much worse cards on the regular. Your entire rebuttal would make more sense for the actual game not the anime

@@streetgamer3452 True, anime duels are pre-planned anyway But yeah, you’re not wrong

2500 ATK that requires ONE less tribute! KONAMI ruined YUGIOH!

In very early Yugioh it was a meta option. Instead of dark magician, it was dark magician of chaos that was usable. However today dark magician himself is used more with all his support.

His reasoning for using the non-Number Xyz Monsters in the first season was really weak though, namely that he believes it's "unfair" to use Numbers against someone who doesn't have any. It would've been in character for Yuma at the start of the show, but it's something he should've gotten over when Shark pounded Yuma into the dirt with Black Ray Lancer, and it's less excusable in the WDC because it's a tournament to decide the strongest duelist. Intentionally holding back out of a sense of "fairness" in such an environment is disrespectful and arrogant.

it is unfair though, the numbers are indistructable by any means except for battle with another number or card effects, and theres only 100 (not counting the barians and chaos) which means bringing out any number and putting it in defence makes it only weak to card effects if you dont have another number

@reimu-ic6lz >Can only be destroyed by card effects or another number. Well bob's your uncle m8. If you dont have a Number of your own, Numbers for all intents and purposes read "Cannot be destroyed by battle" and even back then we had plenty of ways to deal with such cards as Shark demonstrated in his second duel with Yuma. And if it's something like Heraldry Crest which can't be destroyed by card effects and is a Skill Drain on legs? We had ways to deal with that too even back then. It wouldn't have been easy, but it's a tournament to decide the strongest. If you can't beat it, then you deserve to go home.

I think it was spoiled here in Germany, because about 2 weeks before the episode aired they made ads for the then new set, where they featured Draco Equiste being fused using Stardust Dragon and Junk Warrior. That was the time when they actually showed ads for the TCG on TV.

Drill Warrior too for being a Edison staple.

That’s a very good one

i dont think this is about remembering the cards but about remembering their appearances in the anime

It also has a special summoning animation in one of the tag force games

It was? Good for the card, I thought nobody ever used it.

My thoughts exactly when Drill Warrior was brought up. It's one of those moments where you can tell that Dylan is a Yugioh anime fan first and a TCG player second, because Edison format go brr.

He summon Electrum in at last one other duel

i agree with the "other monsters having better effect" part, but the summon conditions seems weird to me since in the anime they constantly pull out their asses cards with the most hyper specific activation conditions like is nothing

​@@estevaoM524 Yeah but in cases like Dark Flare Knight and Dark Sage the player using them doesn't even own the cards needed to summon them so either a match against or a tag team with Joey is the only way to play them. Same goes for another not mentioned in the vid Black Skull Dragon.

Sherry also used fusion, and somehow fusion summoning was used a ton more in the manga than in the Anime. Kind of a shame, although I understand this summoning method was considered a lot less effective at the time

Yusei learning to fusion summon thanks to Judai is my headcannon

@@GrandeBigdor I've heard it has actually been confirmed, but I can't find a reliable source

Anything is possible!

He did get a new form geas the dragon of destruction that supports sarchophagus of light archetype.

@@yuseifudo7987 I know. That's why I said 4 Gandora cards. Gandora, Gandora X, Gandora Giga Rays, and Geas Gandora.

@@ShayTheValiant Ah my bad man

Yeah those two are really cool

Isn't that basically every duel protagonists are in?

@@bigfish5544 I never mentioned the protagonists

@@rainbowdragon168 what I mean is that this list will only be filled with protagonists duel. Maybe it would be better to do "top 10 times where characters other than protagonists managed to turn a duel around when they were at the bring of losing", although that does make for a long title lol

@@bigfish5544 There are other times where other characters apart from the protagonists managed to turn a duel around.

It’s his deck prior to the story.

@@thatman666 In hindsight, I think the story is worse off for that episode's existence. It doesn't help his case against people calling him a Gary Stu when he just rolls up with a literal, real-life Starter Deck after not having played for 10 years and starts cleaning house.

vrains is a separate universe from zexal (no the 6 anime are NOT all in one timeline just because the first 3 happen to be) so whereas photons were custom made exclusively for people working under dr.faker and mr.heartland (kaito, gauche, and droite although of the 3 only kaito used photon main deck monsters) in vrains they are not custom made for specific people and just regular cards hence yusaku had photon thrasher and there was no reason to explain why he had it as it was not special in the vrains universe, this is similar to in arc v when yuri had super polymerization because arc v is not in the same timeline as gx so super poly was not a one of a kind card owned by judai as judai is not a character in arc v, (although there is merit to theorizing in the context of arc v that super poly "could" be exclusive to high ranking students/faculty in academia but yuri is the only arc v character we see use it and like photon thrasher being in vrains, super poly didn't need any explanation as to why its in arc v), its subtle worldbuilding thats shows rather than tells

That’s the hilarity of onomatopoeia. And I’m glad that’s where I learned it.

As i remember we dont have real life counter part of this card(atleast in TCG) yet. Not sure if they release It in OCG or not

And that’s likely why Skyscraper 3 will never exist.

Surprisingly they still have dialogue for them and duel links

and he used 2 of very old monsters as its materials

Its because Judai used Magma Neos a lot. He used in like 5 duels, but Chaos Neos and Storm Neos he only used once

They were shown a lot more than that (notably when the Anime would make a shot of Neos alongside all of its fusions, and in promo arts) but it was never summoned more than that