WHY DO MY MONSTERS KEEP EXPLODING!?!? [Yu-Gi-Oh! Archetypes Explained: Koa'ki Meiru]

[@calich33sehead]

I always thought it was a Hawaiian name. The fact that it’s derived from the Japanese equivalent reminds me of how Giant Trunade got its name.

[@willthomas4516]

Same here , I guess it's just the way the vowels flow that give off the vibe.

[@ghostamity5116]

Me too lmao

[@mill_ania]

Koaki feels like Duel Terminal lore cards that missed the memo. The whole Chaos Att. hate is so weird in vacuum, but it make sense if they're part of Justice or a third-party that fight both the Worms AND Justice. What a strange buncha rocks.

[@baxterbruce9827]

Actually, this was basically an attempt by Konami to make a control deck to reign in several dominant Light or Dark focused decks at the time It didn't work

[@hozimina]

Koa'ki has always been my favorite deck, and I'm so grateful someone was willing to talk about these old bricks. I always felt that had just a few cards been changed this deck could have been a decent midrange control deck but alas our hopes have died.

[@vla1ne]

funny enough, cards like draco and doom still pop into the meta from time to time.

[@buddyzilla4557]

I think it is more implied that Darkworld is in a seperate reality from the Different Dimention that Kozaki lives in but also has access too. It is recognized in the lore that he is the lead REASERCHER and authority on Darkworld. This indicates it is something generally unfamiliar in the reality he exist within. The Different Dimention itself is expressed as a chaotic in-between space where many interdimentional travels mistakenly wind up. He and other scientists have there base here and it makes sense he is using it as a semi-remote location for R&D experiments related to other dimentions. Weve seen the magical dimentions also act as a seperate relatiy and magical scientist seems linked as well, developing experiments alongside Kozaki. It seems this is a different dimention research facility for collective efforts. Kozaki seems focused in the Darkworld himself and rebuilt Gagagigo using Darkworld technology. He also created Giant Kozaki this way and implicably other experiments.

[@ZEDEX252]

Liking the new interface design you have. I will say i like the cards a bit bigger but overall the design is good

[@aknight7642]

Agreed I also like the cards being bigger as well.

[@apollosparks6019]

Ah finally, Iron core specimen lab is a mirrorjade counter

[@rexorchid9745]

Titles like these are why I like the videos this channel produces. Goes for the "professional flair" and has fun doing it.

[@ai2802]

Would love to see a series revamp of this archetype. Always loved the idea of these monsters.

[@vla1ne]

imo, it doesn't even need a series revamp, it just needs *sane* support. give it 3 new cards; 1)A new core card that carries the "iron core of koa'ki meiru" name while in deck and hand. maybe give it the ability to recycle or search if sent from hand to grave ,to give synergy with the costs 2)Give them a continuous spell or trap that acts like a fusion of koa'ki meiru prototype and core transport unit, but with a better protection effect that maybe takes a page from the level 5 (and doesn't just trigger in the end phase) 3) finally give them a new field spell that doesn't have a maintenance cost, searches IF a koa'ki meiru gets destroyed or tributed (thereby triggering off maintenance checks, effect costs, AND standard destruction outside of end phase), and maybe gives an additional boost ala overclocks reveal effect. the deck could literally stabilize with just that, and maybe some new decent non-rock monsters to fill out other variants. the deck is already absolutely lethal to light and dark decks, and has great stun elements, giving them more consistency backrow is the only real thing they need.

[@chrisshorten4406]

My favorite Koa'ki Meiru is Ghoulungulate. I just think he's cool. Also, thank you for making a video for this archetype. I love Koa'ki Meiru, and have been continually trying to build a viable deck on Master Duel that isn't just Adamancipator with a sprinkling of Koa'ki Meiru.

[@RedTheWeeb]

In terms of design prototype will always be my favorite since I had it as a kid and still have that same exact copy

[@GearGuardianGaming]

its a close second for me. the ultra rare core i pulled, first of the archtype, takes the title of my favorite.

[@allanberche7902]

My brother and I loved Koaki Meiru monsters when we were younger because of the art. I wish the archetype had better ways to search out Iron Core and a better way to recycle it without skipping draw

[@mayayamato7351]

imagine if they gave us new support for the archetype in the next new set

[@allanberche7902]

@@mayayamato7351 I could imagine a power crept version of the original intent that Nova talked about. Print more high stats level fours to modern standars with searching/recycling effects for the iron cores, throw in some extenders and you could get a decent aggro deck out of the archetype

[@theod4660]

I remembre creating a deck whose win condition was to prevent your opponent from playing, and skip your draw phase with the iron core to win when they don’t have any cards left

[@willthomas4516]

I like the new animated logo at the beginning , it's really smooth.

[@adamgee8313]

Nova: says that you need to have the "Iron core" in hand. Nega-ton corepanel: says that you need it in the grave. Confusion, much?

[@23gameoverlord]

Oh I remember this deck. I never actually got a lot of these cards, except getting most of the rock monsters. I do feel that this archetype just needs a major redesign.

[@vla1ne]

imo, it doesn't even need a series revamp, it just needs *sane* support. maybe give it 3 new cards; 1)A new core card that carries the "iron core of koa'ki meiru" name while in deck and hand. maybe give it the ability to recycle or search if sent from hand to grave ,to give synergy with the costs 2)Give them a continuous spell or trap that acts like a fusion of koa'ki meiru prototype and core transport unit, but with a better protection effect that maybe takes a page from the level 5 (and doesn't just trigger in the end phase) 3) finally give them a new field spell that doesn't have a maintenance cost, searches IF a koa'ki meiru gets destroyed or tributed (thereby triggering off maintenance checks, effect costs, AND standard destruction outside of end phase), and maybe gives an additional boost ala overclocks reveal effect. the deck could literally stabilize with just that, and maybe some new decent non-rock monsters to fill out other variants. the deck is already absolutely lethal to light and dark decks, and has great stun elements, giving them more consistency backrow is the only real thing they need.

[@VamYGO]

I like the new logo and start of the video! Its really nice you're doing this for your mod's birthday.

[@theonewhowatches869]

Oh, Happy Birthday Blitz

[@lennyface8195]

I got bored, so I made a Koa'ki Meiru Link Monster. Name: "Koa'ki Meiru Dragonecro" Attribute: Earth Type: Zombie/Link/Effect Link Arrows: Bottom-Center, Middle-Right ATK/LINK: 2100/[2] Materials: 2 "Koa'ki Meiru" monsters Effect: If this card is Special Summoned: You can add 1 "Koa'ki Meiru" card from your Deck to your hand. You can reveal 1 "Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru" in your hand, then target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls; destroy it, and if you do, you can Special Summon 1 "Koa'ki Meiru" monster with ATK less than or equal to the destroyed monster's original ATK from your GY in Defense Position. You can only use each effect of "Koa'ki Meiru Dragonecro" once per turn.

[@bluekirby_64]

8:38 How ironic that the least splashable happens to be WATER Aqua.

[@vagrant2863]

Just realized a Koa'ki Meiru structure deck would be really cool since you could put the entire archetype in there without much generic filler.

[@wingedbluj1674]

Koa'Ki Meiru is essential to rockstun

[@jrepra]

35:05 have you considered...winning? *crowd giving an audible gasp*

[@Flameville]

HE FINALLY DID IT!!! I had been secretly hoping you did one of your videos for these cards!!!! Now what’s gotta be done for you to do a D.D video???

[@GoldenNovaYugioh]

If you mean D.D., I'm not sure! If you mean D/D, that's actually a Patron Goal we're working towards!

[@Flameville]

@@GoldenNovaYugioh I meant D.D different dimension 😭🙏🏾I know it’s niche and obscure at this point

[@JonBc14]

i love how Bergzak looks yea ive been waiting for a full on mass support for these guys aside from supporting only the rock stun variant

[@RedDragonForce2]

I made two support cards for this archetype. Iron Core Refinery Continuous Spell Effect1: “Koa’ki Meiru” Monsters cannot be destroyed during the End Phase. Effect2: OPT: You can add 1 “Iron Core” card from your deck or GY to your hand, except “Iron Core Refinery”. Effect3: If this card is removed from the field, destroy all non-“Koa’ki Meiru” Monsters on the field and in the hand and send them to the GY. _________________________ Iron Core Pick Axe Equip Spell Effect1: This card can only be equipped to a “Koa’ki Meiru” monster. Effect2: A “Koa’ki Meiru” monster equipped with this card is not destroyed during the End Phase. Effect3: You can reveal one “Iron Core” card or “Koa’ki Meiru” Monster in your hand to Special Summon one “Koa’ki Meiru” monster from your deck or GY. Thoughts?

[@zacthemastodonranger]

Nova you need to keep that EVIL side in check we don't need you going mad scientist on us

[@reviloojsdv3862]

The fact the Kaiba Corp Bling was used as a meta skill for top tier Duel Links Koa’ki Meiru since Ice and Maximus were nuts in speed duel format as well back then.

[@oldxyz7741]

Ursartic is back in light

[@Beelcifer6076]

I like the new design. Also hear me out tri-brigade Koa'ki

[@davidgutierrez3349]

How funny, been thinking about building a deck on these, reminiscing on when they were top tier in duel links. Then you put out a video on them, so I have to build it now.

[@natanmoses674]

I think the four main tribute rocks are the coolest of them all since they aren’t once per turn. If you get barrier statue or pachycephalos and overload down, that’s a solid monster lock against anything except floo pretty much

[@blazingblackness4442]

10:25 Born to Crusade!!

[@TerraEmperor1]

This was the first deck I made to KoG with in duel links lol

[@dragonmaster951753]

Drago is a staple in dragunity since you can special it off of seal and not be locked out of your deck

[@SorenFE93]

Ooooh. Lovin' the new layout. Very stylish!

[@mesiagamer5217]

Berzack isnt once per turn so it can clear full field of small blockers before that last direct attack,

[@VSilver2]

Time-tearing morganite works well too. Please let this deck get a more modern support of a new field spell. The pure version is so close to being a real contender for a stun deck

[@tha1stalchemist]

*Vader breathez heavy* I just realized we NEVER got ah psychic koaki meru... damnit komoni... *Vader breathez heavy*

[@bothack8874]

i remeber play koaki meiru dirung xyz era. aahh god times

[@SoloQueueGamer]

Rock Stun is basically the four Rock KM and Fossil Dyna.

[@symantares9171]

This is awesome! Koa'Ki is one of my favorite decks ever!

[@thatluckydragon8088]

Drago would be a great neutralizer for most light attribute decks

[@brandol75]

you guys remember an old deck called "rock stun"? with unification, you can make it a "koa'ki rock stun".

[@danleon5716]

YES YES YES!!! One of My favorite archetypes.

[@aaa1e2r3]

Another tech would be Ties of the Brethren, since it can bring out three of one type of Koaki Meiru, in this case either Beast Warrior or Rock to set up 3 for just 2k atk. In a rock stun style deck, you can get a spell, trap and monster effect negate with this.

[@Svarnir_Frostfang]

I was just thinking if Rock Stun could be made nowadays and I think that's a fantastic way to do it.

[@GearGuardianGaming]

used to have a rock stun deck, combining the koa'ki meiru rocks with triamids and block dragon...until adamancipators came along and got block dragon banned...

[@ThatOneWeirdFlex]

Koa'ki Meiru (Ko-a-ki Meh-ru) is pronounced like Core Chimail in Japanese. Important pronunciation fact, since people like MBT constantly say it wrong.

[@jakeleibowitz165]

I always thought it was a Kobayashi maru star trek reference cause they blow up Like you're supposed to with the maru test lol

[@Curiouzity_Omega]

This deck was an epidemic at duel links at one point. Kind of wacky how that turned out.

[@recaru0331]

15:56 why must you hurt me so? Say it... SAY IT!

[@benschwartz3092]

Thanks for the video! Any chance for a Venom Archetype overview…was a sucker for the concept of this deck😅

[@KaiserGora]

No reptiles? We have empress..... yeah we don't have any reptiles.

[@metalmariomega]

Now that I know the entomology behind the name, I'm far more inclined to pronounce this theme the MBT way now.

[@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225]

Powerhand; Slayer of Yubels

[@drakofox1362]

Ok the new look is nice Golden LOVE IT it's like Eldlitch gave the whole channel a pimp up hehe (hope not tho he is CHEAP!!!)

[@MasterSwo-MK]

Is it me, or do the Therions really seem like Koa'Ki Meiru 2.0?

[@andrew-jx1tj]

you should do speedroids next

[@Beybladebro824Z]

Trying a new format ay? Also Blackwing explained

[@motcUS]

guardian seems like itd be good for imperm this format

[@mokummer7656]

the moment u realize . koaki meiru has 2 cards worth of countering tearlaments .

[@BlueBandanaJake]

The worst thing about this archetype is that it justifies the way MBT says it's name, which if you've ever heard him say it you'd think he was trying to say it wrong as possible lol

[@GoldenNovaYugioh]

Look, after watching him as long as I have? He is.

[@victorleppas3067]

I love this deck since release but except as an rock engine with 3-4 differents monsters I don't know if a fun deck is possible actually.

[@notthisnow589]

Always thought their idea very interesting, unfortunately they are really slow and hardly maintained into their own archetype. Hope in the future we get some new support that give then some playability

[@Trekkie46]

You neglected to mention that Magical Scientist's daughter is Sailor Saturn.

[@nightlock826]

Ahh yes: My first true custom deck in casuals.

[@TezcatsGhost]

i really enjoyed this archetype when i furst played duel links the lower life point among and the limited zones often caused maximus paired with some normal summon in the best case urknight for a negate search to be one of the best otk decks then the diamond core was released and it was at the peak of the meta without much competition until they heavily limited pretty much everything making the deck almost unplayable i really wish the pure version was actually playable but its gimmick is just too flawed for modern yugioh to have any kind of meta relevance as a pure deck

[@leojamesquiambao1047]

Just to clarify, Nova. Kozaky isn't related to the dark world lore, since his lore actually refers to Demon world and not dark world.

[@gogovish]

the same demon world tourguide from the underworld is from which is not to be confused with the underworld that ha des is ruler of

[@leojamesquiambao1047]

@@gogovish Yup. Yugioh has a multiverse too it seems

[@g.n.a4871]

Not so fun fact about doom him was apart for otk with genex bird man and galle the red star bird i think when you could do a lot of dmg with high level monsters

[@zx7ba9]

How... do you get a 'mah' sound from mei???

[@Bezaliel13]

Nice when Konami remembers to give power to justify a drawback, unlike Gemini.

[@brandonbackup873]

Still not enough power for the cost.

[@Bezaliel13]

@@brandonbackup873 Not NOW, but that is a powercreep issue. The monsters with stronger Effects without any drawbacks being an issue and the reason I found it nice.

[@sjaakbakker9944]

Ice looks like a monster runic spell lol

[@kithesageel5737]

at 17:12 minutes into the video the word phase is mispelt phrase

[@teamroninz3108]

Loving all of your vids Can you do dragon rulers

[@GoldenNovaYugioh]

ONE DAY

[@TheMarauderOfficial]

yo nice new logo

[@corvusblackfeather456]

Those guys were so weird to fight, why you showing me a card in your hand? Wait how can you block my spell? What is this game?! Good times

[@pandaellington6751]

So is kaoki also in duel terminal?

[@Dinowrestler]

I wish it was a better deck. At least we got Draco.

[@kuribohgremlin5596]

new logo??

[@SheruMuko]

Everybody Explode Now!

[@Calla47]

You know, I clicked on this video to learn more about the archetype, not listen to somebody harp on the flaws of the old ways and compare it to the power creep bull shit of today.

[@tonyba3077]

Man it's true what they say: nobody knows how to pronounce this archetype name properly lol

[@benappleton1554]

anyone have a koak'ki meiru list?

[@genesis4322]

I like the theming and the art style that Koa'ki's have but lord are they not very good. It's hard to make a good deck around the idea of every important monster having a maintenance cost.

[@brandonbackup873]

I mean, it's been done, remember that Lightsworns' mill effects were supposed to be a downside. The obvious difference is that Koaki Mei'ru don't get any advantage for paying either of their costs and are entirely banking on their stats and effects to make up the difference.

[@genesis4322]

@@brandonbackup873 Difference is that Lightsworns don't die if you don't mill because it's mandatory. Feels real bad playing Koa'ki and not having a way to get to a core or other monster to pitch.

[@brandonbackup873]

@@genesis4322 Well, yeah, that too. Just pointing out they had made the "Every monster has a drawback, but big numbers and stats" work before, so you can see the thought process. It... Makes sense, kind of.

[@genesis4322]

@@brandonbackup873 It doesn't hold up nearly as well as something like Lightsworns because your monsters exploding half the time playing Koa'kis is out of your control.

[@brandonbackup873]

@@genesis4322 You know I'm in agreement with you on Koa'ki's overall quality, right? This isn't an argument or even a debate, no need to be so aggressive on a point we both agree on already.

[@everydaywitheli594]

You spelled end phase wrong you said phrase😂

[@utopia19876]

The pronunciation stung a little ngl.

[@No1ANTAGON1ST]

My favorite disappointment archetype. Love Maximus. Hate how the deck destroys itself but has no graveyard benefits lol