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In this thread, I review Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards [Now reviewing Generation 7!]
- Thread starter Fj0823
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Fj0823 I've been wondering about Duel Links artwork.
My question is if the artwork is originally square and extended later, or if the physical cards are merely cropped versions? Example: This Dark Magician Girl and Axe Raider have artwork not visible in the cards.
Monsters usually have a full detailed artwork that's usually cropped for the cards.
Mats and posters and other promotional stuff use the full artwork
Found a couple. Seeing Magician of Black Chaos from the waist down is wild.
Is there an artist credits website? Besides the Takahashi stuff obviously.
This reminds me that I'm looking forward to Jinzo. One of the coolest looking monsters in the game and one of the most famous abilities.Found a couple. Seeing Magician of Black Chaos from the waist down is wild.
Is there an artist credits website? Besides the Takahashi stuff obviously.
God I love that purple Dark Magician art. I also imagined that he looked so pissed because his hat is too big and he needs to hold it up all the time.
Jinzo was badass and he had a pretty damn useful effect.My favourite card is Jinzo:
Also a big fan of Slate Warrior:
And a friend of mine went crazy about it even though it isn't exactly a great card. He traded me roughly 50 good-rad cards, including a holo Jinzo, for it. I still feel kinda bad about ripping him off, BUT HE REALLY WANTED IT.
Aha, yeah. I have fond memories of him. I drew a holographic Exodia Necross from a pack as a kid:
And a friend of mine went crazy about it even though it isn't exactly a great card. He traded me roughly 50 good-rad cards, including a holo Jinzo, for it. I still feel kinda bad about ripping him off, BUT HE REALLY WANTED IT.
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Are you going to review the rival cards too like Kaiba's Blue Eyes White Dragon and Jack Atlas Red Archfiend Dragon too? I'm actually surprised long after I stopped playing, some old archetypes are still getting new cards. I'm back with YuGiOh thanks to Duel Links and seeing new cards and some crazy combos are cool even if some feels like they don't even let you play and finish you in one turn. Some of the Blue Eyes cards are funny since they can quickly get a few 3000 monster on the field if they draw well and could be really hard to turn around.
Blue-Eyes White Dragon
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Blue-Eyes White Dragon
Generation 1: Duel Monsters
User: Seto Kaiba
Original Artwork:
Latest Artwork:
Imagine having a card with such a reputation as the strongest card ever that there's a written rule on Konami's Yu-Gi-Oh! Design Team that states that no other normal monster can ever match the strength of that card. A card whose design, name and anime appereances have created thousands of references and memes. If there is one card that goes beyond being associated with "Yu-Gi-Oh!" it has to be this one. Your friends might not know a thing about this game, but they have heard the name before.
A powerful engine of destruction, virtually invincible. Blue-Eyes White Dragon is a level 8, Light, Dragon-Type Normal Monster that boasts the highest attack among all normal monsters in the game, 20 years of new cards and mechanics cannot strip him of the title of strongest normal monster, it has 3000 ATK. And a solid 2500 DEF.
Blue-Eyes artworks are all freaking great (with the exception of it's mandatory god-awful "Stone Tablet" version), but it's the original artwork the one that I think made this card what it is. Despite the fact of the original artwork being a Blue-Eyes Blue Dragon the artwork immediately pulls your attention towards it's signature feature, it's eye. The pose of the card, the colors, everything works to make that blue-eye as striking as possible, even the little wrinkles on the creature's eye-socket focus on making it stand out. And it works. You feel as if that dragon is staring directly at your soul. The rest of the creature feels a bit cartoonish at times, which is why I feel the card's second artwork tried to make him look more menacing and while I don´t hate it. I think simplicity worked best this time.
That said, I cannot not give a shoutout to Kazuki Takahashi's simply beatiful anniversary artwork for the card, it's absolutely breathtaking and my favorite artwork for the creature
The fully drawn background does wonders to sell this as a living thing that inhabits another world. The lack of detailed backgrounds is one of the main sins of YGO artwork, and this card is a testament of what could be.
Unlike Dark Magician, Blue-Eye's design remains consistent even with the previosly mentioned coloring issues that make it look blue at times, no matter how many artworks this card gets, it never gets old. You can even throw the fucker in space and it will still look majestic. But that simple first artwork is undeniably what made the card an icon.
Blue-Eyes is well worth it's 2 tribute requirement to hit the field, but again, it was outclassed by "Summoned Skull" as the go to beater of Yu-Gi-Oh's early days, why wait until you have 2 monsters when you can just use 1 and get a 2500 beater that you can equip with axe of despair? Why risk running 3 of those fuckers and brick your deck for the unlikely event that you'll be able to fuse them into Ultimate Dragon?
In modern YGO the times have changed, and thankfully for Blue-Eyes, it's enormous batch of support geared into turning the deck into a Synchro-focused deck that also has access to great fusions monsters and have made it a force to be reckoned with in the casual circles of the game.
The lore behind the support is creative as hell, it's basically an order of Blue-Eyes worshippers that do everything in their power to get their master to the field. Even the egg of the dragon itself became a card to help you bring out the engine of destruction as fast as possible
Together with many new forms for the creature itself to take and disrupt the opponent with quick effects and non stop attacks
And even amazing Spell support
Blue-Eyes' level 8 even makes it able to make use the Xyz monsters of one of the many "-Eyes" Dragon themes inspired by it, my personal favorite "Galaxy-Eyes"
Even if not a tournament winner, Blue-Eyes is a beloved deck, one that makes it worth the pain of finding a good price for it's rarest cards.
Blue-Eyes is the card that started it all really, even the very first expansion set of the game is named after it. There's few bad things to say about it. The reason why I consider "Dark Magician" to be the face of YGO, is because I firmly believe Blue-Eyes White Dragon goes above and beyond that.
Trivia time!I In the manga and anime the spirit of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon is supposed to inhabit originally a human egyptian girl named Kisara. This piece of lore inspired the creation of "Maiden with Eyes of Blue"
Generation 1: Duel Monsters
User: Seto Kaiba
Original Artwork:
Latest Artwork:
Imagine having a card with such a reputation as the strongest card ever that there's a written rule on Konami's Yu-Gi-Oh! Design Team that states that no other normal monster can ever match the strength of that card. A card whose design, name and anime appereances have created thousands of references and memes. If there is one card that goes beyond being associated with "Yu-Gi-Oh!" it has to be this one. Your friends might not know a thing about this game, but they have heard the name before.
A powerful engine of destruction, virtually invincible. Blue-Eyes White Dragon is a level 8, Light, Dragon-Type Normal Monster that boasts the highest attack among all normal monsters in the game, 20 years of new cards and mechanics cannot strip him of the title of strongest normal monster, it has 3000 ATK. And a solid 2500 DEF.
Blue-Eyes artworks are all freaking great (with the exception of it's mandatory god-awful "Stone Tablet" version), but it's the original artwork the one that I think made this card what it is. Despite the fact of the original artwork being a Blue-Eyes Blue Dragon the artwork immediately pulls your attention towards it's signature feature, it's eye. The pose of the card, the colors, everything works to make that blue-eye as striking as possible, even the little wrinkles on the creature's eye-socket focus on making it stand out. And it works. You feel as if that dragon is staring directly at your soul. The rest of the creature feels a bit cartoonish at times, which is why I feel the card's second artwork tried to make him look more menacing and while I don´t hate it. I think simplicity worked best this time.
That said, I cannot not give a shoutout to Kazuki Takahashi's simply beatiful anniversary artwork for the card, it's absolutely breathtaking and my favorite artwork for the creature
The fully drawn background does wonders to sell this as a living thing that inhabits another world. The lack of detailed backgrounds is one of the main sins of YGO artwork, and this card is a testament of what could be.
Unlike Dark Magician, Blue-Eye's design remains consistent even with the previosly mentioned coloring issues that make it look blue at times, no matter how many artworks this card gets, it never gets old. You can even throw the fucker in space and it will still look majestic. But that simple first artwork is undeniably what made the card an icon.
Blue-Eyes is well worth it's 2 tribute requirement to hit the field, but again, it was outclassed by "Summoned Skull" as the go to beater of Yu-Gi-Oh's early days, why wait until you have 2 monsters when you can just use 1 and get a 2500 beater that you can equip with axe of despair? Why risk running 3 of those fuckers and brick your deck for the unlikely event that you'll be able to fuse them into Ultimate Dragon?
In modern YGO the times have changed, and thankfully for Blue-Eyes, it's enormous batch of support geared into turning the deck into a Synchro-focused deck that also has access to great fusions monsters and have made it a force to be reckoned with in the casual circles of the game.
The lore behind the support is creative as hell, it's basically an order of Blue-Eyes worshippers that do everything in their power to get their master to the field. Even the egg of the dragon itself became a card to help you bring out the engine of destruction as fast as possible
Together with many new forms for the creature itself to take and disrupt the opponent with quick effects and non stop attacks
And even amazing Spell support
Blue-Eyes' level 8 even makes it able to make use the Xyz monsters of one of the many "-Eyes" Dragon themes inspired by it, my personal favorite "Galaxy-Eyes"
Even if not a tournament winner, Blue-Eyes is a beloved deck, one that makes it worth the pain of finding a good price for it's rarest cards.
Blue-Eyes is the card that started it all really, even the very first expansion set of the game is named after it. There's few bad things to say about it. The reason why I consider "Dark Magician" to be the face of YGO, is because I firmly believe Blue-Eyes White Dragon goes above and beyond that.
Trivia time!I In the manga and anime the spirit of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon is supposed to inhabit originally a human egyptian girl named Kisara. This piece of lore inspired the creation of "Maiden with Eyes of Blue"
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This is a really solid start, and I look forward to see what else you have in store! I am sure Red-Eyes Black Dragon will be next based on the pattern we have so far, but after that I wonder what sort of popular cards will be covered. Are the Egyptian God cards next after that?
Are cards on the Forbidden/Limited list considered popular enough to be covered, even if they are not necessarily popular in the anime? The pattern so far is based on the anime cards. That is not counting Pot of Greed of course, since that card was used so frequently that it is even a staple in the anime.
Thank you for reading.
Are cards on the Forbidden/Limited list considered popular enough to be covered, even if they are not necessarily popular in the anime? The pattern so far is based on the anime cards. That is not counting Pot of Greed of course, since that card was used so frequently that it is even a staple in the anime.
Thank you for reading.
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The Egyptian Gods should come after I´m done with the main character's aces.
It should be fun to see the reactions when I explain just how much they SUCK.
My favourite card is Jinzo:
Same, what a legend. Back when I played competitively Jinzo was the shit.
Also, Blue Eyes is definitely the most iconic monster.
I am kind of grateful that as the series go by, the main characters' aces have effects that made them usable compared to the Normal Monster status that is the norm for earlier cards (though the prominent ones have tremendous support to make up for it). Like for example Stardust Dragon has a very useful effect that makes it worth using even back then. Elemental Hero Neos is not quite useful on its own but I admired it for attempting to make Fusion summoning easier since it doesn't rely on a Spell Card to use, despite its serious drawback of returning to the deck after a Fusion Summon (I wonder if the Neos support made a Neos deck more usable).
Of course, there is the most extreme case of Firewall Dragon where it's now a banned card for being too useful.
Thank you for reading.
Of course, there is the most extreme case of Firewall Dragon where it's now a banned card for being too useful.
Thank you for reading.
I wasn't into the game when I was younger but recently got into the original anime then jumped into the Manga and decided to work my way through all the manga versions, and I'm currently on Zexal. Looking forward to giving the game a go on switch when the western release drops and I played some duel links but that format is too limited.
Not completely sure what I'm going to play but I'm partial to the planet series from gx like this card
Then again I also really enjoy Dragons so maybe I'll just build around this guy
Also this guy
Not completely sure what I'm going to play but I'm partial to the planet series from gx like this card
Then again I also really enjoy Dragons so maybe I'll just build around this guy
Also this guy
I appreciate the great work you put in Fj0823 but you have done a disservice by not including the best blue eyes fusion
Something else interesting is that these 2 most iconic cards are vanilla cards. There's no effect that makes them stand out just their appearances and high attack makes them stand out (like you said they have a lot of support but the base card itself has no ability).
This card always left an impression as the fusion monsters. Yeah it's not a good fusion needing 3 Blue eyes when probably using 1 is more than enough but it just felt like an awesome card.
Something else interesting is that these 2 most iconic cards are vanilla cards. There's no effect that makes them stand out just their appearances and high attack makes them stand out (like you said they have a lot of support but the base card itself has no ability).
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I mean yeah, the card is memorable but I don't think it's nearly as iconic as regular Blue-Eyes or as good as Twin-Burst
The card itself debuted at Kaiba's absolute worst performance so that doesn't help
I doubt that anyone would go for it in a world where you can just use this one instead
And the above has much better artwork
(And even then is its a waste ot 3 great cards.)
I mean that's because they were from the first anime where most of the iconic cards were vanilla cards lol. Also even if you wanted to play something like ultimate, nobody is ever going to use it over Neo Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon or Blue Eyes Alternative Ultimate Dragon which are basically the same thing but with actual effects and nobody is really going to use those either lol
This is basically exactly the same as me. I still have a good few cards somewhere, not entirely sure what's in them but I know I have a couple of versions of Dark Magician and I always loved them almost purely for the design. Will look forward to seeing updates to this thread.
I really love the modern Blue Eyes support cards. I'm not big on nostalgia in general, so I like how it adds new stuff to the card's lore and everything while respecting the original card. It's fanservice done right imo.
It almost was, but the feet ruin the design for me, and it looks like he is wearing diamond clown shoes instead of having proper dragon feet.
Blue eyes ultimate is probably most known for the GBA games and trying to get quick wins via Cyber Stein + Megamorph.
shoutouts to Blue Eyes Chaos Max Dragon
For being the card so many blue eyes players try to use even though it's not actually that good and every time I've faced it in link evolution I just summon Borrelload Dragon and steal it and use it against them lol
For being the card so many blue eyes players try to use even though it's not actually that good and every time I've faced it in link evolution I just summon Borrelload Dragon and steal it and use it against them lol
Red-Eyes Black Dragon
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Red-Eyes Black Dragon
Generation 1: Duel Monsters
User: Joey Wheeler
Original Artwork:
Latest Artwork:
First off, censoring the word "Black". Yikes.
Here's Joey Wheeler's signature card after he won it from Rex Raptor, Red-Eyes B. Dragon is a ferocious dragon with a deadly attack, a level 7 DARK Dragon-Type monster with 2400 ATK and 2000 DEF. Much like his owner in the show, Red-Eyes has a lot of potential but it's always overshadowed by Yugi and Kaiba´s cards.
Red-Eyes has a lousy original artwork, if you can somehow not see him as a cartoon bird laughing "HUR HUR HUR" the art does the "Dragon that compares in strength with the mighty Blue-Eyes" no favors, it has the same cartoony vibe as Blue-Eyes but the less detailed art style just makes it stand out more. It's proportions are weird and hard to understand, it looks like it's uncomfortable, it's pose is boring and the lack of focus on his eyes to make it feel like a true counterpart to Blue-Eyes is just lame. I really dislike his OG Artwork even when every ounce of nostalgia in my body is screaming telling m to give the art a 10/10. It's not that good. Not by a longshot.
Takahashi's later anniversary artwork pictured above does wonders for the design though, as does it's 2nd Artwork they both make Red-Eyes look darker, edgier and savage. I love those artworks and I think they should've been the default one.
As a card for the game...it's terrible. It requires 2 tributes for a measly 2400 ATK. Once again "Summoned Skull" hilariously outclassed it in YGO´s early days.
I guess you now expect me to list all the great support the card has received since then...and there is quite a lot of support, but it's a disjointed mess that feels like they just wanted to throw shit at the wall and see what sticks
Here's an Xyz monster!
But wait no! Let's try giving it Gemini monsters and a Fusion!
No wait! I got it! A couple of equip monsters AND a new fusion that requires equips!
Shit no, let's give it a ritual
Fuck Fuck...errr a Synchro Zombie version that is unplayable with other Red-Eyes cards because it needs zombies for everything! It would be great for zombie decks tho!
No wait!! A Link monster with an effect that doesn´t help any of the above strategies at all!
Yeah...Unlike Blue-Eyes and Dark Magician who have so much support that you can build different decks with different strategies while still having them as your main card, Red-Eyes gets little bits of an idea that gets immediately scrapped so they can try something else. There's no truly effective playstyle because you just don´t have enough tools to pull any of the strategies the new cards want you to create effectively. It's a damn shame because the cards themselves are good...they just need to just pick a damn idea and stick with it.
Red-Eyes Black Dragon is the "B." where the other two mains are "A+", not a bad card or deck for fun matches, but not enough of a good card to justiy having a deck around it. Damn shame.
Trivia time: In the anime world, Red-Eyes is not nearly as rare as Blue-Eyes or Dark Magician, Kaiba keeps one copy in his briefcase, while Atticus Rhodes from GX also has one.
That's it for tonight!
Generation 1: Duel Monsters
User: Joey Wheeler
Original Artwork:
Latest Artwork:
First off, censoring the word "Black". Yikes.
Here's Joey Wheeler's signature card after he won it from Rex Raptor, Red-Eyes B. Dragon is a ferocious dragon with a deadly attack, a level 7 DARK Dragon-Type monster with 2400 ATK and 2000 DEF. Much like his owner in the show, Red-Eyes has a lot of potential but it's always overshadowed by Yugi and Kaiba´s cards.
Red-Eyes has a lousy original artwork, if you can somehow not see him as a cartoon bird laughing "HUR HUR HUR" the art does the "Dragon that compares in strength with the mighty Blue-Eyes" no favors, it has the same cartoony vibe as Blue-Eyes but the less detailed art style just makes it stand out more. It's proportions are weird and hard to understand, it looks like it's uncomfortable, it's pose is boring and the lack of focus on his eyes to make it feel like a true counterpart to Blue-Eyes is just lame. I really dislike his OG Artwork even when every ounce of nostalgia in my body is screaming telling m to give the art a 10/10. It's not that good. Not by a longshot.
Takahashi's later anniversary artwork pictured above does wonders for the design though, as does it's 2nd Artwork they both make Red-Eyes look darker, edgier and savage. I love those artworks and I think they should've been the default one.
As a card for the game...it's terrible. It requires 2 tributes for a measly 2400 ATK. Once again "Summoned Skull" hilariously outclassed it in YGO´s early days.
I guess you now expect me to list all the great support the card has received since then...and there is quite a lot of support, but it's a disjointed mess that feels like they just wanted to throw shit at the wall and see what sticks
Here's an Xyz monster!
But wait no! Let's try giving it Gemini monsters and a Fusion!
No wait! I got it! A couple of equip monsters AND a new fusion that requires equips!
Shit no, let's give it a ritual
Fuck Fuck...errr a Synchro Zombie version that is unplayable with other Red-Eyes cards because it needs zombies for everything! It would be great for zombie decks tho!
No wait!! A Link monster with an effect that doesn´t help any of the above strategies at all!
Yeah...Unlike Blue-Eyes and Dark Magician who have so much support that you can build different decks with different strategies while still having them as your main card, Red-Eyes gets little bits of an idea that gets immediately scrapped so they can try something else. There's no truly effective playstyle because you just don´t have enough tools to pull any of the strategies the new cards want you to create effectively. It's a damn shame because the cards themselves are good...they just need to just pick a damn idea and stick with it.
Red-Eyes Black Dragon is the "B." where the other two mains are "A+", not a bad card or deck for fun matches, but not enough of a good card to justiy having a deck around it. Damn shame.
Trivia time: In the anime world, Red-Eyes is not nearly as rare as Blue-Eyes or Dark Magician, Kaiba keeps one copy in his briefcase, while Atticus Rhodes from GX also has one.
That's it for tonight!
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I hope you do mirror force just so we can bring up Revolver's vintage card fetish and how it was one of the most hilarious anime pay off moments ever in Vrains
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Reviewing Exodia would be impossible since nobody has ever been able to summon him before.
Awesome, this is gonna be fun thread to read. Loving the detail!
Good timing too, happened to come across Dark Side of Dimensions running on Starz a couple of days ago really early morning when I couldn't fall back asleep and ended up just watching the whole thing again lol, really like the movie.
They made a lot of reaction expressions for Dark Magician Girl as well when she finally arrived.
Good timing too, happened to come across Dark Side of Dimensions running on Starz a couple of days ago really early morning when I couldn't fall back asleep and ended up just watching the whole thing again lol, really like the movie.
Yeah, a lot of those bits of character were great, loved it.
He was depicted with the most personality out of the main protagonist's cards in the anime. Love his anime rendition
They made a lot of reaction expressions for Dark Magician Girl as well when she finally arrived.
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It's like that how of the 3 ''Original Big Boss Monster'' they decided to only give Blue-Eyes good support
In fact, even if I wish I had better support with Dark Magician, I pity the Red-Eyes player which the support is all over the place
Random question, but do you know about the Harpie Lady cards in the Rise of Destiny booster packs? I used to had a Harpie Lady deck with a bunch of them but then my cousin said I can only have three of them despite the numbering in the name. I used to run 2 Harpie Lady #1, 1 Harpie Lady #2, and 2 Harpie Lady #3 but changed it to 2 Harpie Lady #1 and one Harpie Lady #2 afterwards.