Gem-Knights Explained in 44 Minutes [Yu-Gi-Oh! Archetype Analysis]

Alternate Title: Jet Force Gemi-Knights
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Hello Everyone! GoldenNova here! Today, we're taking a look back at Gem-Knights, a series of monsters that got support recently in POTE that just LOVE to Fusion Summon. And also FTK, but we don't talk about that.
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0:00 Intro
1:31 Gem-Knight Main Deck Monsters
14:24 Gem-Knight Fusion Monsters (And Some Other Ones)
27:20 Gem-Knight Spells And Traps
35:52 Tech Picks
41:31 Outro
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#yugioh #gemknight #goldennovayugioh

[@GoldenNovaYugioh]

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[@DivineDragonFelgrand]

Hey GoldenNova, Merry Christmas, can I ask about your thoughts on the VBEX Lore on the Ygorganization website, it seems interesting, I would love to hear your thoughts

[@UnrealMisterD]

GoldenNova: "Burn damage isn't very ladylike" Every single Trickstar, in perfect harmony: "Am I a fucking joke to you?"

[@zero.0-0]

me standing behind prime material dragon: yes

[@ianr.navahuber2195]

@@zero.0-0 me a dinomorphia player (sometimes): Either with the traps negating damage: NOTHING! ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

[@finsmylie8382]

*Laughs in D/D*

[@pn2294]

It’s Idol-like

[@yusheitslv100]

@@finsmylie8382 yay! Someone else who remembers Oracle King d'Arc exists!

[@cipper12]

I love how Laval's entire thing before the invasion is being annoying to gem-knight in the hope that they will do war with them just for fun (and to appease their dragon war god)

[@giraton1]

Fire based Warhammer Orks

[@halyoalex8942]

@@giraton1 you’re right 😂

[@jinxtheunluckypony]

Gem Knights is my absolute favorite archetype in all of Yugioh! I love their lore so much. I really wish the non-ftk deck was viable.

[@CountryTunic524]

It ain't great but I hate ftks but love gem Knight so i play them anyways

[@martinmoore2468]

Gem-Knight deck is my favorite. Some of them were named after the Birthstones. Unfortunately, there is no Peridot, no Opal, no Turquoise, and no Tanzanite in the Gem-Knight cards.

[@Nameless-ln5mr]

Who knows? Maybe they’ll make those someday!

[@martinmoore2468]

@@Nameless-ln5mr I hope so.

[@ianr.navahuber2195]

I am surprised the Gem-Knight Gemini pringles don't include a Gemini effect of "this card's type can be treated as Rock-type"

[@netter11]

Armadillo is second best normal summon the deck can have (beaten by RESCUE RABBIT ONLY) And if you can start with Unexpected Dai followed by Armadillo for search Lazuli/Obsidian/quarts and because its GEM-Armadillo you can go for Phantom Quarts with it for second search effect. Also Unexpected Dai is one of the best ways to bait out hand trap as it ether eats the hand trap so you can Rescue Rabbit or lets you have a free special summon of Lazuli or *insert gem-knight normal monster you run here*(usually tourmaline) and with Gem-Armadillo or Rescue Rabbit follow up, you can easily start going off too. Good video otherwise :) Next can you do Dragunity? :3

[@oscarangel2989]

My favorite moment as a GK player was when a Gladiator Beast player tried to negate the Fusion with heraklinos. He Burned his hand and I still fuse anyways. Prismaura for game.

[@OdinToeluster]

Man, this video really.. rocks

[@jacobheindorf172]

Thunder dragon fusion is also a really nice card for the theme, helping you recycle more banished knights while making a Prismaura. And then it can search you a monster on your next turn. And any tearlaments you splash in can be used to make Amethyst, which is really fun if you make one off of scatter fusion, then summon another one of the tearlament you used and immediately shuffle back the materials. That can even give you a completely free Lazuli trigger.

[@Ironiclast1312]

Gem-Knights are such a fun deck and as a fan of them its been fun to see all the forms the deck has taken over the years. From classic beatdown toolbox to ftk to actually good ftk with Adamancipator. They even had their time in early Duel Links where they would use either Volcanic Shell (Citrine) or Thunder Dragon (Prismaura) in tandem with Fusion Recycling Plant to fuel their fusion plays. And personally my favorite Gem Knight is Zirconia. I once made a "Gem Knight 8 Axis" deck that revolved around constantly summoning Zirconia and using him for rank 8's and big synchros

[@soulhunter65]

Super heavy samurai are getting some new cards in the next main set soon. Maybe a video on that should be coming up

[@Nameless-ln5mr]

Gem Knights?!?! My favorite archetype is being covered on this channel!

[@jacobwashington7658]

Fun little card to include is "Piercing The Darkness" You draw a card when summoning a normal monster, and most of your Fusions become SUPER POWERFUL BEATSTICKS when you use a normal monster as material. Favorite target is topaz. Beating over My friends chaos max Dragon and burning them for 4000 then attacking again for game. Hell, you can use Master Diamond to fit the bill for battle phase fun craziness with this card. You don't necessarily need it, but it works well when you play with normal monsters.

[@SorenFE93]

Awesome video as always, Nova! You are a man of great knowledge and virtue! Also I can always appreciate hearing Tales of Vesperia music during the fusion section.

[@KaganeInugami]

The use of Undying Resolve is such a quality touch. Considering that the only place that this plays in Vesperia is an island/cave of crystals. Fantastic job Nova.

[@GreatBigPillock]

I'm actually glad someone caught that. XD

[@naruceleste3591]

Okay it's funny seeing the Adamancipator For Synchro Options mentioned because I've considered attempting an Adamancipator Gem-Knight deck off and on a few times now. Something about playing Gem-Knights in Over the Nexus once made them stick in my brain since. ...my partner having a random Seraphinite in their older collection happened to be an ironic cherry on top

[@EthanKironus8067]

My favourites are Topaz and/or Master Diamond; even just Topaz is pretty terrifying with Particle Fusion, and I've churned out so many OTKs in World Duel Carnival with them that I've lost count.

[@Nameless-ln5mr]

My favorites are Master Diamond and Ruby. Ruby has two things going for him. One, piercing damage never hurts… me! Two, he’s got 2500 ATK, so he gives me “protagonist ace monster” vibes.

[@thorne3648]

There's so many good monsters in this archetype, by my favorite is definitely gen knight shyamalan

[@theslanderousgent4475]

Solid Rocks Nova And Merry Christmas

[@ravensquote7206]

(<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="360">6:00</a>) Update: 4 ( 3 since one's banned). Over Future Fusion now exists and is also a continuous fusion card. (<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="689">11:29</a>) Gem Merchant notably works with Ancient Gear Knight, boosting its ATK/DEF to 2,800/1,500. (<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1245">20:45</a>) Gem-Knight Quartz (my personal favorite) can 1.) Serve as the "Gem-Knight" material for this card or 2.) serve as the fairy-type material for this card, AND can do so after having set the fusion spell to bring this card out herself. ... she can also set Future Fusion/ Over Future Fusion to in turn send Ancient Gear Golem from the deck to the grave. This doesn't help traditional AG decks much since the Ancient Gear archetype doesn't have relatively much GY support rn, but I digress. (<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1315">21:55</a>) & (<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1351">22:31</a>) The primal being token brought to the field by Nibiru should count for these IIRC. Pyroxene Fusion (<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2127">35:27</a>) might be able to pull this off.

[@pedrorosa9893]

Happiest day!!!! My favorite Arcturo in a nova video!!!!😂

[@cometthecrazycrimson6780]

we.....are the crystal gems, we always save the day

[@obie3188]

🎵And if you think we can't We'll always find a way🎶

[@BlackDragonSamurai]

In addition to Dark Calling, tossing in Evil Hero Adusted Gold with it gives you a Dark Calling searcher, the Fiend for the Dark Gaia material, AND a Light attribute for Seraphinite.

[@magicalpasta5462]

I'm actually really loving the gem knights, I put them with madolche cards because both are earth attribute monsters

[@IrisGarland]

Gem-Knight Zirconia has always been my favorite, ever since Arc-V era; I dunno, I just think it has a really sweet design, and I loooove monsters with big chungus bungus statlines

[@Y0sh1no5am]

Gem-Knigh Ruby just an awesome Ace monster as it's piercing damage and gaining atk points from a gem monster in the graveyard. U can do up to 6500 piercing Damage. Its huge, Its like Flame wingman but more devastating. I love Topaz too even its 1800, doing Flame wingman's super effect and get to attack twice. Hell yeah.

[@petercarlisle7044]

Crystal Rose, a symbol of Julia and Zuzu's "Friendship". That Julia's story and she is sticking to it. Which is funny because the Gem-Knights archetype was meant to symbolise Jaden & Jesse's "friendship".

[@Yunglex313]

I forget which Tales of theme that is, but big ups for using it... I feel like it's a remix of one of Tales of Vesperia's battle themes.

[@GreatBigPillock]

Yo, editor here. It's "Undying Resolve" - which is a remix of "Tenacity". It only plays in the Erealumen Crystallands, which is why I chose it. :P

[@23gameoverlord]

Ah Crystal Knights, my old confidant how love using you and your brutal combos. Though I feel Nova did miss in not talking about the Rank 4 monster Cairongogon, sure it's not a Gem-knight by name it's made out of Gem-knight monsters but it can also provide protection for key cards by spending a xyz unit to change to a new target.

[@tempestgreen1125]

I think the coolest thing is it’s not made out gem knights, but gem knight. Crystal Zinc and Master diamond are all the same person, with this corrupted monster being a malformed being of all 3

[@jacobwashington7658]

@@tempestgreen1125 There's him and Daigusto Emeral. I love the designs and effects.

[@Bezaliel13]

Easy to see this archetype as a reference to Jaden and Jesse. Be nice if Crystal Beasts got more Fusions.

[@pokeperson1000]

I liked to use Gem Enhancement to dodge targeting effects or get in an additional attack back when the game was slow enough for me to do so

[@MushyYGO]

Solid rocks brother

[@RogueMetaHere]

I've been playing Gem-Knights since 2016. My favorite card in the deck is Madter Diamond. Nothing feels better than copying Topaz' effect and beating and burning your opponent to death.

[@huckyfunky9852]

Let's hope the deck gets more support

[@Actionfan19]

Like maybe some non fusion spells?

[@huckyfunky9852]

@@Actionfan19 creativity is unlimited

[@GameSlayer50000]

lol love this archetype, reminds me of steven universe, which i also love

[@maaoruzketo]

Easily my 2nd favorite archetype, just behind Monarchs. Both decks just suffer from consistency issues. Gem-Knights have no on field protection and can burn through your own hand without replenishment, while Monarchs suffer from bricking hard and Ash Blossom/veiler/impermanence stopping their turn

[@Robbbbinator]

i feel u. My fav archetype is Monarch aswell. My second favourite is World Chalice because of the lore but Gem-Knights is 3rd or 4th favorite:)

[@bluekirby_64]

It finally is their time to shine.

[@josephdull2248]

My problem with the gem knights support is that it made the deck worse. They were so scared to make the FTK better, they restricted the support to only going second. Then they gave the fusion Cross eyes because it doesn't know if it wants to go first or go second. They didnt enhance the decks going second ability at all. And now your decks LESS consistent because you are nearly 100% relying on black garden. Before you could manage without black garden with some hands,but not anymore. The new support takes up valuable resource space where they're bricks without black garden. The deck is actually more consistent in doing it's FTK with pre support lists. But that's beside the point ig

[@tempestgreen1125]

I totally agree with you. It’s funny how the best card imo (brilliant rose) is literally a shitter unexpected dai. I do think you could be more favorable to gem quartz setting a fusion from deck IF block + brilliant were unbanned. Those are some crazy cards but scatter is just so bad

[@brycebledsoe3870]

Now if only it wasn't impossible to find cards to build a gem knight deck!

[@o3zman]

Ah man, at 50k we get to learn about our favorite up-and-coming moon spider yugituber. What a time to be alive :>

[@SaturnBlade]

Gem-Knight Pearl is a reference to DBZ seven pearls and M on the forehead and looks like certain a villain.

[@floofiekun1875]

"Fusion is a cheap tactic to make weak Gem-Knights stronger!"

[@brandol75]

i don't know if crystal rose is a (crystal) card, but since it doesn't say that is not treated as a crystal card i assume is, but it's sure a (rose) card, so as brilliant rose. So what relation that have with johan and aki, i don't know.

[@tjbonnes4936]

I've lost track. How many of the Hidden Arsenal archetypes has Nova covered? Pretty certain Flamvell is up for grabs

[@mrmeteor64]

My fated enemy. Did you know my beloved archfiends tried to destroy the gem-knights in the lore. Also a duellist who loves them made me feel nervous because I was sick that the time and I ended ban on twitch chat. But mark my words as a fiend duellist he and I will settle this like men.

[@sowhazupguy]

These puns are shortening my lifespan

[@firepuppies4086]

What if you use Quartz against someone to an extreme?

[@laundrysauce1263]

Have you done one of these for dragunity yet?

[@yusheitslv100]

Gem-Knight Lapis also won't be relevant for long after the Normal Monsters are covered. Lazuli: *becomes El Shaddoll Construct.*

[@josephrasgado1782]

Ah yes The bastard child of jaden yuki and jesse anderson gem knights

[@oussamalasfer4860]

when the extra deck monsters all most as much as main deck lol

[@Chihiro-Kikuchi]

Rose diamond is my favourite, and the ftk feels like the wrong way to play the deck to me

[@jacobwashington7658]

I AGREE!

[@EthanKironus8067]

It's the other way around--Gem-Knights are canon to Melodious! P.S. And Gem-Knight Pearl has ENORMOUS utility...in the lore. It was responsible for defeating Vylon Disigma! As shown in Xyz Reversal and Oni-Gami Combo, of course.

[@Snivy_1245]

Did he just say that Gem-Knights aren't known for being splashed? *sideeyes Seraphinite*

[@LamentingMelody]

Time for some crystal bois

[@martinmoore2468]

Gem-Knight would've been so cool if they were in the different attributes. Rather than just only the Earth attributes.

[@HerrMajorWalnut]

Sir where is the updated duel terminal lore.

[@StarlightMagician]

"I would never want this to be consistant enough to Win tournaments" I personally wouldn't mind that being the case. As long as it doesn't involve a fucking FTK!!!

[@ricon0suave]

Gonna proxy all of these with Steven Universe art

[@kingcrowbro2486]

Need...more...yugioh....lore....

[@ultimafire2001]

It's powerful, but has a crack on it

[@zacthemastodonranger]

Pokémon explained when kappa

[@GoldenNovaYugioh]

Bout to do Steel Types Explained next April Fools Day, swear to god.

[@gloomba3312]

@@GoldenNovaYugioh please actually do, that would be fantastic

[@OjamaIndigo]

Hey, quick question cause I’m a bit confused. You link to the gem knight vid in the description, but in the video it seems you’re mostly talking about the gem knights from an in-game perspective instead of lore like you are in the short, is there a video where you go over this part of the Duel Terminal lore like in this short?

[@elvenatheart982]

I kinda hate this archetype because the ai in Master duel during campaign won 5 tines in a row when I tried to beat it.

[@FrancisCabatit]

Bruh 🤣

[@CarDaMax1770]

You were doing so well, but you couldn't resist making a *Steven Universe* reference here, could you? ( >_>)

[@samu0l095]

:D Now i will find more ways to use this without that dirty FTK Belushit.

[@sjaakbakker9944]

More like garnets am I right? 😂

[@GakuKodori]

Weak players use Black Garden, Gem-chads FTK all through handtraps and copying lapis-lazuli's effect twice

[@gamerule18]

Me and the Asher when shiny rock go hard Like if you agree

[@gamerule18]

Ignore if you satan

[@Mael_Lalire]

Hi, vernu are bad asf with gem knights cause you can't activate roses, also dont ever play shifter, cause it's stunning you, you can't make anything

[@dragonmasterknight7]

PLEASE NEVER USE THE DUB NAMES FOR THAT SEASON AGAIN!!!!!