How Powerful Was Black Luster Soldier? | Yu-Gi-Oh!

[@SethWistful]

Man, BLS + axe of despair wrecked the playground once upon a time

[@dougneon9550]

Everyone else had synchros I said: Normal Mataza double mage power

[@KingXOreo]

A man of culture, I see

[@juvenileygo]

ahh axe of despair the cheap megamorph. BLS still strong too, kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2itdnuEf9Rpn5o you can play it ranked thanks to drytron

[@AdventureSpence]

Man.. thank you for that tidal wave of nostalgia, consider me shook 😂

[@ultronsigma2737]

@@juvenileygo nevertheless, ít needs supports to make it own competitive in it's archetype

[@chikasnotmadjustdisappoint6266]

Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning is my favorite Yugioh card ever. The artwork, the chaos concept behind it and the fact that was one of the strongest monsters when it was released. When I saw the card for the first time I immediately wanted it and finally managed to get one through trade during high school. Yeah it's been power creeped and reprinted to hell now but it still remains my favorite card and I still have my first copy of the card to this day.

[@yanliechocki]

Used to be mine too. He was the main Boss monster of my piper chaos deck. But now i love the link version more. If i can summon level 7, he's on board.

[@myheroandmadaralover2372]

i aahave in my shaddolls bls ioc and it never leaving mey deck

[@heroeus8173]

It wasn't really powercrept I think it got a force errata

[@patrickbateman4362]

@@heroeus8173 nope, no erratta on BLS. Just isn't as strong as most boss monsters these days. Doesn't take away from how crazy it was when it came out.

[@myheroandmadaralover2372]

@@jamesbrincefield9879 yah it was till borreload came out love that link 4

[@Moshuun]

And Magician Of Black Chaos had that exaggerated swagger.

[@Monkey_30000]

The exaggerated swagger of a black magician

[@M3rtyville]

I wish this card was useful and worth playing

[@treysavage4570]

My fav card ever

[@vaggelisbaousis1756]

"Ooooh! Black Luster Soldier! Our love is forbidden but I like it!!"

[@crowhaveninc.2103]

I can never hear the name "Black Luster Soldier" without thinking about that.

[@stevennguyen8935]

Grandpa what are you doing?

[@vaggelisbaousis1756]

"I was just cleaning the poster. With my naked body. "

[@brandonflores4988]

Same

[@r3zaful]

The original bls is a female The rest was male

[@JJMomoida]

Lol the description on that prize card may as well have read "yeah this dude's as strong as Blue Eyes."

[@runningoncylinders3829]

Black Luster “He’s faster than Sonic” Soldier - Envoy of the (“Hey, it’s not his speed. He must be using the Chaos Emerald to Warp”)

[@zeekbud6266]

@@runningoncylinders3829 whaaaaaaa

[@xxxrnfxxx]

That's exactly what it said

[@Random1nesss]

This is a certified hood classic

[@tatsukinomiya]

@ChaoticNeutral 08 On set

[@KingXOreo]

Damn, son, where'd you find this card?

[@bulkbogan2242]

Man you ever really think about that name? "Black Luster" like I mean luster is basically a reflection of light so it's pretty much always white but this guy is so chaotic that he actually CHANGES THE LAWS OF LIGHT JUST BY EXISTING! Like WOW. Too bad 90% of the cards are more like lack luster soldiers.

[@jokerofmorocco]

It's name doesn't really have any meaning. It's just what they named it in International releases and they love using the name "Luster" a lot like "Luster Dragon", "Luster Dragon 2". It's Japanese name is "Chaos Soldier" hence why it behaves exactly like other Chaos monsters'

[@julianadams3710]

@@jokerofmorocco It’s also why Chaos Form summons the two rituals, the ocg version just says “any “Chaos” ritual monster”

[@brimstoneclub]

"BLS - Envoy of the Evening Twilight" was gimmicky in Virus Decks for me.

[@darkdave1998]

Black Luster is basically shiny black

[@exodia_apophis4133]

The hood called for me, and its spirit was the Black Luster Soldier.

[@kreatorkeon4478]

*The Exaggerated Swagger of a Young Yellow Swordsman*

[@dougneon9550]

Isn't he green?

[@kreatorkeon4478]

@@dougneon9550 Sometimes.

[@formerctgovernordannelmall1452]

The Exaggerated Swagger of an Obnoxious Celtic Guardian

[@slifer875]

The Exaggerated Swagger of a BLACK luster soldier.

[@TeamGentlementlemen]

This comment wins it for me.

[@cax1175]

Black Luster Soldier Envoy of the Beginning is probably my favorite card, just a beast in GOAT format and I put it in chaos decks today. It's not even a card I had growing up. I actually really liked the original BLS as a kid, because it was blue (favorite color) as a ritual and had actual decent attack.

[@gengar464]

Soldier of chaos is practically multiple bls cards in one card

[@ShiningJudgment666]

Plus the added protection which can make it difficult to deal with when you're staring down 4500 ATK and can't get past it with targeting or destruction. Of course there's ways past it but still. The banish and ATK climb effects are the ones you'd use the most.

[@luminousepoque8666]

So much history behind BLS. Excellent video, as always.

[@Gigamex2]

"Oh Black Luster Soldier. No one must know of our forbidden love."

[@justondement4458]

Black Luster Soldier has to be one of my all time favorite cards

[@Moshuun]

It’s always gonna be Yata, for me. That card changed the way I looked at how to play the game.

[@yata3826]

Aww that's so nice of you

[@Moshuun]

@@AxisChurchDevotee it’s always gonna be a threat because it’s still easy to board wipe for a lot of decks.

[@jamesruth100]

@Augusto Zoli plus the whole reason it was that powerful in the first place was because it was piss easy to wipe the entire board and hand with chaos emperor dragon and then float into yata. In an era of slow ass decks the yata-lock deck was practically an olympic sprinter and there weren't really responses to it. These days there's not really a 1 card option to wipe everything and there's like 50 layers of disruption, not to mention that the graveyard is functionally a second hand. Yata would flounder against a wall of hand traps and graveyard effects if it only destroyed the board, and any kind of janky setup you'd be doing to get a board, graveyard, AND hand wipe off would probably be incredibly easy to disrupt. A modern yata-lock would probably have about as much impact as other super inconsistent gimmic decks do. That being said, I think Yata is just on there these days because Konami has a nagging "what if" in the back of their head that they might have accidentally printed (or will accidentally print) something that would make it oppressive again.

[@thewanderingmistnull2451]

@Augusto Zoli It doesn't matter how packed the game is with Graveyard effects when they can all be locked down with Necrovalley.

[@planetshaper4503]

Ah yes, Yata the gleaming vanguard. Nice choice :3

[@FabulouslyTerrifyingEnt]

Black Luster was always one of my favorite cards. Right next to blue eyes and exodia.

[@rainbowdragon168]

This is the third most iconic card after Dark Magician and Blue Eyes White Dragon.

[@isaiasjunior3535]

Maybe the fourth. Exodia the Forbidden One is a great recognizable Card, even for non-yugioh players

[@RogueStand]

Dont forget red eyes

[@Mario-xh1lq]

Dark magician girl as well

[@rainbowdragon168]

Ok ok I get your points

[@runningoncylinders3829]

Exodia & Egyptian Gods are way more iconic. BLS, Buster Blader, and Cyber Dragon are iconic to people with game or anime history.

[@drunkduck9854]

Buster Blader next maybe 👀 Btw I love this series, keep it up.

[@beforedawnYGO]

Sacred Soldier was a maybe-sometimes tech card for Duel Links, in the Vampire Deck. Vampires do not rely on Normal Summon much (or use effects to give extra Normal Summons) and often banished Dark monsters, so Sacred Soldier was useful for recycling resources and also putting some points on the board.

[@PANICBLADE]

I love the natural synergy of the BLS Super Soldier with Envoy of the Beginning. If you run 3 of each, it's very easy to get both on the field at once before you even normal summon because you can send the light/dark monsters you need for Envoy to the grave through the Super Soldier ritual. I know it's not a super competitive meta build or anything but it still has otk potential and is super fun to run.

[@positronlaserforce]

Black Luster Soldier. Anime-wise it was one of the more special monsters for me even though it only appeared twice?

[@underpressure1954]

In the manga it appeared 3/4 time.

[@slifer875]

it appears 4 times in DM and twice in GX

[@heroeus8173]

It actually make a cameo in zexal In master roku's duel

[@alishehab190]

Was my favorite card as a child. I didn't really understand how OP he was back then but he looked cool as hell

[@oranganewton]

I remember trading my soul to a friend in grade 8 for an Envoy of the Beginning when it came out...it took him a few days to remember I'm a ginger :p

[@cmrobbins88]

One of my favorite cards and archetypes along with Dark Magician and the Silent LV archetypes. I remember feeling so powerful with the OG Black Luster Soldier when I had the Yugi Evolution Starter Deck.

[@tinyjammer]

Love these "yugioh icons" episodes please continue the series

[@AreUOkAnnie]

this card had the most epic introduction ever (the duel with Mai)

[@jorieboy11]

Still waiting for soldier of chaos to be reprinted so i can afford it.

[@GamingYoshi64]

Same I wanna do a BLS deck so bad but I don't wanna spend $70 for SoC

[@SEELE-ONE]

Same with all the new Dark Magician cards… like, >$100 for Magician’s Soul??? GTFO

[@joshuaolachea2356]

Same super expensive right now

[@s.plissken_91]

The Ritual is my favorite art, but Envoy of the Beginning is my all time favorite card.

[@aisadal2521]

Yesss, a classic card! I can't wait to see more of this Icon series!

[@SydneySutterKolinkBattler]

Envoy of the Beginning may have been the most OP BLS card for a looong time and probably had the most impact but I strongly consider Soldier of Chaos his final form. And what I especially love about it, aside from how good it is, is how easily you can put it in a deck based off Yugi and, even disregarding, it's just so good in other, more regular decks, that I would absolutely try to fit it into one if I had it. To conclude... reprint plz, Konami?

[@ShiningJudgment666]

Any Deck that can easily use a Level 7+ monster for Link Material should try to fit it. It's no joke and well worth summoning with protection. Even with 1 ATK boost, it can be nigh-unstoppable since it can't be run over easily since 4500 ATK trumps most other boss monsters and it can get stronger still and it will have pretty solid protection (Dark Dragoon level protection). And it can banish stuff. The double attack effect is kinda slow though since you need to wait a turn to benefit from it. I have one. Wasn't cheap. Costed me more than Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon.

[@mythic6632]

We’ll take Black Luster Soldier - Legendary Swordsman

[@giovannijacobs4496]

BLS is Gaia after a lot of training. I dig it. Then dark magician inherited his hose and made dark cavalry

[@gerogyzurkov2259]

Cyber dragon next please and it's other variants. Since we getting soon a retrain for Zane's boss monster cyber end dragon. So should be good to see it in icons

[@skullservant8486]

Cyber end retrain? Must have missed it

[@gerogyzurkov2259]

@@skullservant8486 it's been posted on fb yugioh pages for a while.

[@te-jay6058]

We are getting a cyber/cyberdark structure deck with "cyberdark end dragon" being the new bossmonster. Maybe thats the reason why cyber end dragon gets a retrain.

[@Frankya92]

I’ll never forget getting black luster soldier and black luster ritual for my birthday when I was a kid. I still have it in mint condition 🔥

[@sully571]

I play a 60 card deck with OG dark magician, blue eyes, red eyes, neos, 39 utopia, buster blader, and the new ritual BLS and the link BLS and I don't even play multiple copies of anything apart from OG blue-eyes and 2 poly and 2 alternative ritual art and I kick the shit out of archetype decks all the time on Yugioh pro. Thanks for listening to my life story that no one asked for.

[@tatsukinomiya]

Envoy of the Beginning really changed the whole concept of the way I played my decks

[@runningoncylinders3829]

Some of the first cards that wanted stuff in the GY were Chaos cards. Before that you’d just go oh-well my stuff’s gone, unless Monster Reborn came out.

[@tatsukinomiya]

@@runningoncylinders3829 Honestly

[@nnnp634]

@@runningoncylinders3829 Foolish Burial and Call of the haunted also existed. Gy was always an additional resource just not that powerful.

[@freman007]

Black Luster Soldier: Soldier of Chaos. The real Gouki boss monster.

[@_ArsNova]

BLS was one of those cards that I had that was super cool as a kid, but I didn't have the ritual summon spell card for lol.

[@WarriorofZero]

One of my favorite monsters, tied with Red-Eyes Black Dragon. I pulled a 1st ed IOC Envoy as a kid, which was my ace card during school playground duels. I die inside thinking about that card being destroyed to bits and how much it’s worth in mint condition now...

[@butter5842]

I remember getting an envoy BLS to finish my chaos agent deck in 2014-15. Very good times :)

[@mavenYGO]

original BLS was my favourite ritual, BLS-Envoy of Beginning is my favourite card ever released tied with OG DMOC

[@Agent_Alpha_SLV]

i don't know how many people fell in love with Yu-gi-oh because of the artwork but i'm one of them. BLS, Chaos Emperor and Buster Blader was my absolute fav cards even to this day, just because of how insanely good they look.

[@Nyhmnim]

All my homies use IOC 1st BLS in goat nothing less

[@Darkwarp1994]

you know i always liked the look of super soldier kinda gave the black luster soldier in gandora like armor vibe to me

[@gregoryberrycone]

that original card is by far the best one aesthetically speaking, such a beautiful card. i have a deck built around it for that specific reason. its obviously overshadowed by envoy of the beginning but in a casual setting (ie the only way im ever playing) i'll take the ritual summon any day edit: strictly playing goat format btw should probably clarify

[@Anzorious]

Should do SwordsMan of Landstar next

[@runningoncylinders3829]

The complete opposite of BLS

[@jayd.doubledubs]

Dzeef is being kinder to bad cards now; that's nice

[@chimeratcg07]

The most iconic Warrior monster in YGO history, in my opinion.

[@amosbirb2616]

God two fo the decks I remember most as a kid were the Sangan/Chaos Sorcerer deck and my Black Luster Soldier/Chaos emperor Dragon/Obelisk the tormentor deck. Both were incredibly fun

[@logandaley1544]

Black Luster Soldier was my favorite card when I was younger. It just looked so cool

[@treysavage4570]

Black luster soldier got me into yugioh up until this point I was watching here and dare idk this card was soo tough to me and in the same arc atem summons my all time fav card magician of black chaos, definitely the best arc in yugioh

[@bradpollard444]

Black Luster Soldier Envoy of the Beginning is my all time favorite card.

[@thefloridaman41]

Good video but it felt like you should have mentioned the support and talked about the inbuilt connection they tried with Gaia.

[@aprinnyonbreak1290]

One of the Ten Overlords of the playground, along with Dark Patrician, Relinquished, Summoned Skull, Axe of Despair, Change of Heart into sacrifice without proper cost, Untranlated Egyptian Gods, and Darkly Big Rabbi.

[@tubamannamabut1003]

He kinda looks like the warrior of light from final fantasy. He might be based

[@slifer875]

My favorite card and archetype, what i hate about the field spell, ritual spell and BLS ritual monster is that they can only be use once per turn, why? is not even overpowered in any way, its not even fair but too restricted.

[@ultronsigma2737]

gonna wait the support in october this year

[@heroeus8173]

New support ? Ahh you are bringing some good news

[@pokeperson1000]

I hope Gaia eventually gets an episode

[@dolebiscuit]

I like how Toon BLS's summoning condition is basically a ritual summon without the ritual spell; homage to the OG.

[@bandalodyugitube]

I remember back in 2013-2014, Tom and Simon from Team Dboyz were testing their Dark Paladin and Dragon Master Knight decks for that specific matchup of which they were making a video for

[@newbiesama]

I remembers back in teh day a duel I had in school. I had a deck with 80 cards (yes that was aloud back then). And I was up against a jinzo. I knew only one card could help me. I already had BL ritual in my hand, so I just needed to pull BL soldier......and I did.

[@vedra16]

I love your videos about old school yugioh 💜 Let it not be forgotten! 😁

[@frozenbinarystudio]

BLS is my favorite card I hacked my Duelists of the Roses save file so I could have him as my Deck Leader

[@Cragmortis]

I am sad about the fact that when summon sorceress was running rampant, I had a deck where you summoned her, target a warrior monster, summoned galloping gaia, tributed it with a ritual spell. In this case I was using hymn of light to summon queen of dragons, searched Envoy of the evening twilight, used divine sword phoenix blade to banish monsters so I would have equal lights and darks and ripped a card from my opponents hand. My deck left you with your draw phase card. I miss summon sorceress :(

[@BigMark-gq2oe]

I liked to think that my BLS deck was pretty good but with the release of Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel OOOOOOO BABY THINGS JUST GOT A WHOLE LOT MORE INTERESTING

[@NinjaLobsterStudios]

Seeing that toon bls has all of the Toon text, I’m really surprised Konami never just put all the instructions on Toon World and then made every card just say stuff like “can only be special summoned by the effect of Toon World”. Would have saved so much text, especially on a lot of the older toon monsters

[@gigamilk6981]

Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the late Evening Brunch Time -

[@cardboard.sp00n19]

I really hope Konami gets to fix the flaws on the Ritual archetype. I wish it would be more playable.

[@Darkwarp1994]

ah good old black luster soldier i remember the day it first showed up in the anime in yugi vs mai when yugi summoned it to send mai harpie pet dragon to her graveyard god i feel old after saying that XD

[@blackluster901]

Ahhh how far my baby has come! :')

[@scarletnight4554]

I sometimes forget, that there are other variants besides envoy of the beginning

[@bmcoyne88]

Chaos Form, plus "Super Soldier" cards, seem to provide added support to BLS (mostly the ritual side), as an archetype, but not much. At least from looking up and reading the cards' text on the yugioh database. Come to think of it, I'm surprised most BLS monster cards have yet to be re-printed with a disclaimer text, which says, "This card is always treated as a 'Chaos' monster." Seeing as how 'Chaos' is in the card's name in the OCG (i. e. The card's name is "Chaos Soldier," rather than "BLS").

[@jedaye47]

I think they dont need to reprint because there's nothing giving support to the chaos series

[@Zerafin_]

For me its always gonna be Relinquished / Thousand-Eyes Restrict. I just love those cards and their decks and still play them in Goat Format.

[@yugiohdeloestepr]

Great video. Just to add to the discussion: The original vanilla BLS released in 1999 was made of stainless steel (therefore illegal). Also only 1 copy existed. However, if it were legal at the time, it would've been meta defining for a few formats because at the time, the OCG's rules allowed level 5 and higher monsters to be summoned without tribute. And BLS is superior to Blue-Eyes because: A. Dragon Capture Jar existed and had potential to stop Blue-Eyes and Curse of Dragon, but not BLS B. Legendary Sword existed and had a place in the meta because of Kanan, Gaia, and other smaller Warrior beaters. Sword made BLS bigger than Blue-Eyes. But this is a hypothetical what-if format.

[@thomasconiglio9236]

Everyone owned that BLS that had a monster crease through the middle of the card as a kid.

[@enlongjones2394]

Idea for Sacred Soldier. *Ursarctic Chaos deck*. There are 2 Gaia cards who help you get BLS monsters on the field when tributed. Charging Gaia searches a BLS monster, and Arisen Gaia special Simmons a BLS monster. And Ursarctics need to tribute level 7+ monsters from the hand or field to use their quick Summoning effects. So, you tribute Charging Gaia to summon an Ursarctic and search Sacred Soldier. Then you tribute Arisen Gaia to summon Sacred Soldier and another Ursarctic. Then you add Charging Gaia back to your hand with Sacred Soldier, for more search/tribute fodder. I’m only half joking with this.

[@mystictomato9466]

Exodia, Magician of Black Chaos or Dark Magician Girl next! Also the big 3 would be nice as well (Blue-Eyes, Red-Eyes and DM).

[@JackSparda69]

I remember playing ritual bls deck using beginning and evening twilight knight to ritual summer super soldier,the banishing was fun and you could deal 6000 damage with only 1 card it was crazy

[@shis1988]

So is the link retrain called Chaos Soldier Chaos soldier?

[@ShiningJudgment666]

Yes.

[@shayukitsune8879]

5:17 you stated this multiple times but you hadn’t watched the anime so you wouldn’t know this but the card is widely remembered due to the anime kaiba and yugi team up moment :p it was a anime filler episode(I think it was filler)

[@Reject0utkast]

I think the coolest thing about black luster soldier to me when I was a kid I realized his armor resembled the three god cards Lol

[@JD-iu6rv]

It would be cool to see a video on jinzo

[@jasoneffler9903]

BLS and CED got to be the 2 most iconic boss monsters besides Exodia.

[@vparsa87]

So black luster soldier is Gaia the Fierce knight?

[@EdderRamirezLopez]

For me it is great that nowadays one can have the opportunity to find Dragon Master Knight in competitive decks just because it is a great option to send to the GY via Dogmatika Punishment to guarantee you kill your opponent's monster.

[@ShiningJudgment666]

It's a last resort option at best if you're in a situation where you're against something that you wouldn't normally be able to activate Punishment against. Dogmatika Punishment would be mediocre if it didn't have the interactions with Elder Entity N'tss or Titaniklad the Ash Dragon in most cases since they turn a +0 into a +1. Also, Five-Headed Link Dragon would probably be a better target since it would at least be summonable (generic Link-5 with 5000 ATK) though I personally never go into anything higher than a Link-3 (BLS - Soldier of Chaos or Knightmare Unicorn) in decks using the Dogmatika engine.

[@osbaldohernandez9174]

I remember my cousin went to the flea market it was my brothers birthday and said hey I forgot I bought you some yu gi oh cards I opened them and the last card in the pack was this guy and I was happy

[@Lukas-yt1mn]

Bls is my favorite ritual monster And bls envoy of the beggining is my favorite card of all

[@emiremi2486]

Sacred soldier was used with slash dragon in duel links, when slash is destroyed with sacred soldier equipped, you can ss him

[@Altigue]

Buster Blader next. Would love to hear what you gotta say bout the Original Boogieman himself, Doug.

[@Kongumon]

Dragon Master Knight is best in Cyberdark decks, if you can dump it to give the fusions a massive attack boost.

[@pixel5646]

Just going to say, Soldier of Chaos really needs its reprint fast. That card is way too expensive.

[@bigd1348]

Black Lester soldier is going to be released as a vanilla pretty soon

[@runningoncylinders3829]

You don’t have the BLS to Summon THIS Monster! (Someone at some point).

[@wesleyevans2981]

You know what's an iconic card? The Cyber Commander! It has 750 attack points and does nothing!

[@thegreenitalianmachine5411]

Maybe the next monster can be Time Wizard. Since that card was basically Joey's Personality in Duelist Kingdom.

[@cax1175]

Breaker the Magical Warrior should be an icon

[@DuelingNetsJadenyuki]

Honest + BLS envoy was insane in 2011

[@CultOfAthena_]

Loving the series.

[@ultronsigma2737]

it needs more support to consistent and new powerful ritual monster that rival current boss mons

[@Shadowrulzalways]

Well BLS was on merchandise only in the USA. Cuz remember America marketed Yugioh much differently than Japan did. In Japan, BLS was only popular as a card.

[@saratielaguilera2956]

I have 2 from that time and i still used them

[@rz7179]

Would be cool to see Konami reprint the ritual version as Ultimate or Ghost rarity.