Any good exodia strategy is focused on doing this, but given there are other "draw through as many cards as you can turn one to beat your opponent" strategies that can be pulled off with two cards in the end rather than exodia's 5 it's still not great. Especially with hand traps like Ash Blossom being a thing in competitive anyway
Yep manga has a lot of awesome cards that were adapted with slight tweaks! Masked heroes next Hunh? Let me guess we're getting some planet series and dragon goodness too right? Oh and Ma'at of courseElemental HERO Absolute Zero
Generations 2: GX
Users: Jaden Yuki (manga)
Artwork:
In the infinitely superior GX manga, Jaden's origin as a duelist began with him breaking a leg. While at the hospital Jaden meets Koyo Hibiki, a world class duelist with a strange disease, Koyo teaches Jaden how to duel to keep him entertained during his stay at the hospital. But Jaden loves it so much that he keeps visiting Koyo to play on his hospital bed even after being discharged. Eventually Koyo decides to duel Jaden for real, and has his sister buy Jaden a duel disk. He asks Jaden to create the best deck he can and is very 2 to see Jaden use a "HERO" deck just like him. Jaden's usual anime heroes and Koyo's never seen before HEROs such as "Lady Heat" and "Ocean" clash. Proud of his friends Koyo entrusts his one of a kind "Elemental HERO Deck" to Jaden, including his ace "Elemental HERO Terra Firma" before finally collapsing in a coma from his illness.
Young Jaden swears to honor his wishes to train him as a Pro and enrolls in Duel Academy.
Eventually, Jaden realizes that he must start making that deck his own. And this is where the next two cards we're going to be talking about come in. Jaden starts using new Elemental HERO Fusions that are well...Elemental.
The most popular one with the fandom is a level 8, WATER, Warrior-Type Fusion Monster. Absolute Zero!
Absolute Zero is my favorite looking HERO. The Super Hero landing pose combined with the Iceman maneuver look amazing, the bright white armor with little blue accents sell the idea that this is one cool HERO...Get it? The Dark Blue background with Snowflakes gives it the finishing chilly touch to an already awesome monster.
Like all other of Jaden's true Elemental HERO, it's fusion requirements are extremely lax, any HERO plus a monster with an attribute of the corresponding element will result into this awesome fusion. Same happens for other elements such as FIRE or LIGHT.
With such a low cost Absolute Zero has a devastating effect, not only it gains 500 ATK For every other WATER monster in the field, it also nukes your opponent's field when he leaves the field for ANY reason. That includes you fusing it with another Attribute for a new true Elemental HERO.
Absolute Zero is just a small appetizer to get you familiarized with the GX Manga cards. No self respecting Hero player uses the Anime heroes. And cards like absolute Zero being just the tip of the iceberg is a huge reason why.
Our next card covers the true power of Manga Heroes...and I hope you like Kamen Rider.
Trivia Time!
This card's artwork is based on its first on panel appereance
Elemental HERO Absolute Zero
Generations 2: GX
Users: Jaden Yuki (manga)
Artwork:
In the infinitely superior GX manga, Jaden's origin as a duelist began with him breaking a leg. While at the hospital Jaden meets Koyo Hibiki, a world class duelist with a strange disease, Koyo teaches Jaden how to duel to keep him entertained during his stay at the hospital. But Jaden loves it so much that he keeps visiting Koyo to play on his hospital bed even after being discharged. Eventually Koyo decides to duel Jaden for real, and has his sister buy Jaden a duel disk. He asks Jaden to create the best deck he can and is very 2 to see Jaden use a "HERO" deck just like him. Jaden's usual anime heroes and Koyo's never seen before HEROs such as "Lady Heat" and "Ocean" clash. Proud of his friends Koyo entrusts his one of a kind "Elemental HERO Deck" to Jaden, including his ace "Elemental HERO Terra Firma" before finally collapsing in a coma from his illness.
Young Jaden swears to honor his wishes to train him as a Pro and enrolls in Duel Academy.
Eventually, Jaden realizes that he must start making that deck his own. And this is where the next two cards we're going to be talking about come in. Jaden starts using new Elemental HERO Fusions that are well...Elemental.
The most popular one with the fandom is a level 8, WATER, Warrior-Type Fusion Monster. Absolute Zero!
Absolute Zero is my favorite looking HERO. The Super Hero landing pose combined with the Iceman maneuver look amazing, the bright white armor with little blue accents sell the idea that this is one cool HERO...Get it? The Dark Blue background with Snowflakes gives it the finishing chilly touch to an already awesome monster.
Like all other of Jaden's true Elemental HERO, it's fusion requirements are extremely lax, any HERO plus a monster with an attribute of the corresponding element will result into this awesome fusion. Same happens for other elements such as FIRE or LIGHT.
With such a low cost Absolute Zero has a devastating effect, not only it gains 500 ATK For every other WATER monster in the field, it also nukes your opponent's field when he leaves the field for ANY reason. That includes you fusing it with another Attribute for a new true Elemental HERO.
Absolute Zero is just a small appetizer to get you familiarized with the GX Manga cards. No self respecting Hero player uses the Anime heroes. And cards like absolute Zero being just the tip of the iceberg is a huge reason why.
Our next card covers the true power of Manga Heroes...and I hope you like Kamen Rider.
Trivia Time!
This card's artwork is based on its first on panel appereance
To clarify they're in the game, he does not use them in story mode at all since story mode is only based on the animes
Do you still earn them when you play duels with him or are they in separate booster packs? If I'm understanding correctly you get character's cards when you play as them but they also have traditional booster packs.
The cards you get from winning duels in story and challenge mode are explicitly always cards that are in the specific deck you're facing, so no, you'd need to open the packs (in this case it's obviously the Jaden pack for Hero monsters and support)
He actually does use a number of them in the story mode, but mostly only in his final duel or two. Feels like a major powerup to what was in his arsenal before that lol
Damn, they made even more Blue-Eyes cards?!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"
Alternative ultimate is even newerLike every Tuesday.
This one is the latest flavor:
Yes, that is a BEWD with a flashlight stuck in its throat
This is probably to this day the greatest Yu gi oh card of all time. The CHAOS deck is the reason behind the introduction of the banned list.This was my Ace.
My ultimate trump card to nuke the entire field.
>solidLike every Tuesday.
This one is the latest flavor:
Yes, that is a BEWD with a flashlight stuck in its throat
nah, even considering only the pre-errata version too many things now have protection or floating effects. The best Yugioh cards ever made are actually shit like painful choice and graceful charity that can enable so much shit. In terms of monsters something like Firewall Dragon is also leagues better
I don't even consider them ahahahah... They are just fucking broken ( completely "out of the rules " ) .
It's also worth noting it's effect was nerfed and it's currently legal at 1 now, but nobody uses it. (and not just because no meta deck right now is capable of using it, since thunder dragons often use other chaos card like Chaos Dragon Levianeer and occasionally even Black Luster Soldier- Envoy of the Beginning)
No, I got the name wrong.
Ash Blossom and Joyous Spring is a really fucking good card, probably the most used card in the meta right now, but it won't sell for much since it was recently reprinted in the soul burner structure deck
Yeah i agree with you. I didn't mean that it's useful today... I meant that at the time was like something we never saw before... They introduced the banned list specifically to nerf the CHAOS deck.
I'd still say Firewall Dragon is a much more broken card just by virtue of being an extra deck monster making it much more consistent to bring out, and the fact that it could be used in a lot of FTKs as well which are just fucking cancer
This was my Ace.
My ultimate trump card to nuke the entire field.
I mean some anime archetypes are meta, but they pretty much never play them in the show like you'd do in the game. For instance Salmangreats is one of the most used meta decks right now (though the fact that it's relatively cheap compared to other meta decks due to most cards being in a structure deck helps), but it has a bunch of shit cards in the archetype and the anime character uses all of those as well as the good ones. And anime characters rarely ever play staple cards aside from pot of greed in the OG series and GX
I completely agree.
