Dark Templar @Ignister
Generation 6: VRAINS
Users: Ai
Artwork:
3 monsters with different names.
If a monster is Special Summoned to a zone this card points to, even during the Damage Step: You can Special Summon as many Level 4 or lower "@Ignister" monsters from your GY to the zone(s) this card points to, but their effects are negated. When this card destroys an opponent monster by battle: You can Special Summon 1 Cyberse monster from your GY. You can only use each effect of "Dark Templar @Ignister" once per turn.
In the final Clash with Bohman, Ai is confident in his choice to believe that there is a future where AI and Humans can live together in harmony, to the point he is willing to
make the ultimate sacrifice. At the end of the Battle, Ai mysteriously disappears leaving Yusaku and his "friends" motivated to start working towards the future both Ai and Yusaku fought for.
At this point, the VRAINS crew got notified that the show had been cancelled and that they only had up to episode 120 to wrap everything up. Making this the shortest YGO anime, with no manga adaptation, and the cause of the first long-term hiatus in YGO anime history. Many blame poor ratings,the negative opinion from fans or even the production problems the show constantly faced...Still, none of that matters now. Just that this gave the crew 18 episodes to work on the supporting cast and let them all end on a high note and make the best of the situation. Every character got a moment to shine in these 18 episodes and it really showed that the team did a big effort to play the hand they got the best they could....
ZIKE! NO THEY DIDN´T LMAO!
You see as it turns out, Ai didn't really disappear! He became so sad that all his Ignis AI friends died hoping for a future where AI and Humans can live together, so sad in fact that he TURNS EVIL AND DECIDES TO EXTERMINATE HUMANITY! For you see! Turns out the simulations conveniently also show that if Ai was the sole survivor of the battle between AIs, he would also cause humanity's destruction! This causes Ai to go insane with sorrow....But no wait! Ai was actually evil all along! He manipulated Yusaku's environment through the internet to make him grow angrier and angrier until he became the amazing man with no personality!
So now Ai decides to steal two of the artificial bodies for AI that were built by Aoi's brother company (because they were all working towards AI and Human cooperation remember?) one for him and one for the AI of his longtime friend,
YUSAKUS AI ASSISTED VACUUM CLEANER. And together w
ith their new bodies, they decide to take on humanity!
So now Ai looks like this
And he spends the next 18 episodes systematically destroying every single character in the show to lure Yusaku into a final fight, he even destroys Blue Maiden and her brother in a 2 vs 1 because of course he does .Yusaku only stands there and watches his friends fall and die one after the other without fighting during all this, because he is the bestest and the moment he duels, he HAS TO win and the arc will end.
Yeah, I can see why this show got canned.
Anyways, Ai now uses a deck with the epitome of card designs, truly befitting the final boss of the show. He uses....a bunch of blobs called @Ignister...
This deck has access to all summoning methods to form powerful monsters that each represent one of Ai's fallen AI friends...and at least those look kinda cool.
Plus a Link Monster that represents Ai himself...The LINK-3, DARK, Cyberse-Type...Dark Templar @Ignister!
Dark Templar's design is just EVIL! Decode Talker because VRAINS simply just doesn't give a fuck anymore, so what's another TRON design at this point? But this one has like evil wings and is purple...and uh, spikier! you know, so you can make out the who's who when the two of them
fight. I´m just tired at this point. 2/10.
In terms of effects Dark Templar is all about swarming, whenever you summon a monster to a zone his arrows point to, he will special summon an @Ignister blob from the graveyard to another of the zones he points at, letting you set up Ritual, Fusion, Synchro, Xyz and Link summons (Fuck Pendulums I guess...), and whenever he destroys a monster by battle, he will also special summon a Cyberse monster from your grave. This is a REALLY good card for the @Ignister deck, and I'm a sucker for decks that make use of all the game mechanics possible, so I can't hate on the @Ignister Playstyle as much as I hate on their designs.
Great effect, terrible card coming from a terribly written, rushed ending. As I type this, VRAINS is coming to an end tomorrow, with Yusaku winning and everyone learning their lesson or something, I hate that my last review of this thread that's not a Kuriboh has to be about what I consider a low point in the franchise...
Still,with Gen 7 confirmed for the middle of 2020, I can only hope that VRAINS and all that it entailed serves as a cautionary tale, and that we get a return to glory.
TRIVIA TIME!
@Ignister all have a mark in their bodies representing their theme
Next Up!
THE LAST CARD. THE LAST KURIBOH
