Nekroz Explained in 30 Minutes [Yu-Gi-Oh Archetype Analysis]

Alternate Title: seeing Nekroz make armor and weapons from Ice Dragons Getting a lot of Drizzit vibes here.
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I Explain all of the Nekroz cards in Yu-Gi-Oh! at time of recording, how they work individually and together, as well as synergies with other cards, You might even learn some trivia while you're here!
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Hello Everyone! GoldenNova here! It's Patron Week, and that month, Nekroz took center stage! As one of the few decks in the game's history to be considtered 'Tier Zero', Nekroz pushed the game to a limit it'd never seen before. Amazing reach, oppressive effects, and the ability to close the game out of nowhere meant that this deck, through a number of hits, still kept on going. But how does it hold up today?
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0:00 Intro
1:48 Nekroz Orange Monsters
9:07 Nekroz Ritual Spells
12:10 Nekroz Light Blue Monsters
24:08 Tech Cards
28:05 Outro
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#yugioh #nekroz #goldennovayugioh

[@thatman666]

And this took about 15 years for rituals to have a deck that’s considered to be their magnum opus.

[@shis1988]

Heralds are laughing and crying because Eva was banned.

[@noncesto]

He really said "Dance water Dance", damn im gonna cry rn

[@KaitlynFedrick]

Favourite has gotta be Gungnir just because of the design. I have a field centre with her on it and a copy of the Ulti

[@iammeandnotme]

Dance/Gungnir/Sophia have always held a special place heart of the cards. A single strong mother looking out for her children in the apocalypse called Duel Terminal, how could not fall for her?

[@lefteron6804]

"She is not a MILP - I mother I'd like to play. Now nekroz of gungnir - baby slap me with an icecle." -Rata , archetype archive on Aliens, closing statements on Alien Mother.

[@AnotherWindaSimp]

Uh, quick and brief correction. You are refering to Noellia,her mother, the person who is dance princess,nekroz of gungnir and nekroz of sophia,is her daughter, Emilia

[@dreelfantasy8842]

Now that Gishki got new support, let's hope for that Nekroz support too with maybe a trap card for Clausolas to search

[@billybobjoe1335]

Except Drytrons would probably make that deck too good again.

[@streetgamer3452]

@@billybobjoe1335 they’ll balance it. They want tear to be tier 0 not Nekroz again

[@r3zaful]

konami planned to continue the duel terminal storyline, nekroz support is not exactly the priority since Ariel has returned from death to revive the glory of ritua/ghiski.

[@thomasbitmail7937]

@@billybobjoe1335 you don't need Drytron to run Nekroz. They are far better without them.

[@SlashtheHedgehog7]

An in-theme trap that lets you ritual summon on your opponent's turn makes Trishula jumpscares a funny thing you could do?

[@AbstractReplayer]

Nekroz is my absolutely favorite deck of all time. I just wish they would do something again like Shaddoll and BA did (their literal DUEA colleagues) over the course of countless formats. Also some more tech ideas: - Dogmatika goes pretty well with them since Nadir Servant and Maximus can get more ED monsters to the grave - Play Diviner of the Herald instead of Manju. With N'tss in the ED she can also get rid of cards that lock you out of special summoning; Ritual Decks' greatest fear - Ultimate Slayer is another way to get ED monsters to the grave while also being removal going second - If you play Impcantations then give Zaborg the Mega Monarch a chance. You should know by now why

[@xCorvus7x]

By now? What exactly had happened then?

[@starship-nine4892]

Nekroz in terms of lore was always really cool to me, basically Monster Hunter in Yugioh. Such a neat concept and really fun theming. But JESUS I hated fighting against them when I got back into the game in 2015-2016. Edit: My favorite Nekroz is Gungnir because I like pretty women and also her armor just looks the best IMO.

[@a-listgamer7873]

Yeah, I really like the idea of them using other monsters as their equipment

[@rexraptar7467]

Ah Nekroz, a name that strikes fear into some and aw in others. Dogmatika has carried the ED usage of Nekroz well.

[@crimsonbutterfly2282]

The family that creates Tier 0 Formats together stays together!

[@samanderson1188]

Konami needs to make a Nekroz Structure Deck tbh

[@nullanvoid7215]

Especially now that it's like actually safe to lol

[@kennydarmawan13]

Nekroz is when Ritual Monsters got really good. Maybe too good. For certain, I prefer something like Impcantations, where the support solves the issue, but doesn't over-fix them until the ban-hammer is pulled out. Kinda like what happened with Drytron several years later.

[@Andychiu845]

Nekroz bring something new and exciting to ritual. Impcan is good but they block the field since their monster doesn’t do much after summon. Drytron literally break ritual mechanic

[@kennydarmawan13]

@@Andychiu845 Yup. And I see. Well, I prefer that over whatever Drytron was. And agreed with Drytron.

[@Salvare___000]

tbf Drytron's problem wasn't Drytrons but the infinite negates they could put on the field thanks to Eva, Benten and Ultimateness; Drytrons are the better Impcantations while still not being too op by themselves, no wonder they stopped being played once those three cards were taken care of

[@akiradkcn]

@@Salvare___000 this

[@Andychiu845]

@@Salvare___000 because ritual used to be suck. It suck so hard that konami start printing busted effect on some of them so people starting using them (mostly non-opt, floodgate effect) but the issue that make ritual suck was it cost so much resources. So once drytron fix that issues, ritual become busted.

[@GreyGaymer]

I adore Nekroz for the lore flavor! Rituals are so sticky and they managed to make it work! Also, my fave Nekroz is Nekroz of Valkyrus, because uh... hellooooooooo NURSE!

[@xCorvus7x]

Nurse? Pardon, what do you mean?

[@GreyGaymer]

@δτ "Hello Nurse" is a phrase that means "hey you're sexy"

[@xCorvus7x]

@@GreyGaymer Interesting. (Huh, now I think I actually heard that before.) Thank you for the explanation.

[@renaldyhaen]

If fusion can use Quick-play as Fusion spell, we need searchable Quick-ritual spell too. Maybe a card (or arctype) that can search spell/trap that mention "ritual summon" from deck to hand. Ritual like Shinobaron, Shinobaroness, and Demise lvl. 4 are good ritual monsters if you summon them in opponent turn. Ruin & Demise have their own Quick-play spell ritual, but not searchable, actually it will make them better if it is searchable.

[@xCorvus7x]

So far Quick-play Ritual summoning is reserved for Megalith.

[@drive5555]

Nekroz is my favorite deck I currently play nekroz dogmatika I also play the deck on masterduel buy I hate how some people quit as soon as I ritual into a nekroz

[@ying.golden]

YES IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS

[@Closer2Zero]

Honestly a sour As my opinion of them was at the time, you can’t argue with how beautifully themed they are in the way that all the best Yu-Gi-Oh cards and card arts are. They tell a story and make wonderful callbacks to iconic monsters of the games history

[@josea.ruizquinones9262]

My favorite variant is Nekroz of Dogmatika (for fully punishing most extra-deck reliant archetypes)

[@Kingxavier28_]

Wooo! Let’s go Nekroz! Your explain videos are awesome!

[@jesuscryst3239]

Another tech pick would be zaborg the mega monarch in a more impcantation oriented build. The imps give you tribute fodder and zaborg sending 3 arc lights, psy-frame omega, toad, and your choice of fossil knight, n'tss, and/or wind pegasus(basically any targets for nadir servant or punishment) while also shredding your opponents extra deck is too spicy not to mention. It might be a bit high roll, but man is it crazy when it goes off!

[@xCorvus7x]

Wouldn't this also work with Drytron?

[@jesuscryst3239]

@@xCorvus7x not really because drytron and impcantations don't work well together. Drytrons prevent you from special summoning monsters that can be normal summoned, and the imps can be normal summoned, but they usually are special summoned.

[@jesuscryst3239]

@@xCorvus7x unless you meant specifically zaborg, in which case yes, but drytron extra decks can be a bit tight, so adding all the stuff for zaborg and still play the necessities for drytron would be a tight fit.

[@xCorvus7x]

@@jesuscryst3239 I meant Zaborg specifically. That's sensible.

[@jesuscryst3239]

@@xCorvus7x you could cut the drytron extra to say 2 mu beta, dynamond, linkuriboh or anima, fucho, downerd, and Zeus (that being like the bare minimum), then you could definitely do the 8 cards for zaborg, but then the problem is zaborg wouldn't be searchable compared to something like vanity's ruler that could potentially be more impactful.

[@Milkathedutchangeldragon]

All I got from this is nekroz is basically monster hunter . Use monsters as skins/armor to kill bigger monsters and do more damage . Love that 😂

[@joseftheerazor]

Finally!!! A trivia of my favorite archetypes

[@nytecrow6452]

Honestly, Rituals have always been my favorite Mechanic...I just hated how resource intensive it was originally.

[@Lttewrld]

The cabin in the woods unicorn reference is on god level‼️✅

[@GreatBigPillock]

This is from a fun format - but mind you, I played RitBeasts back then, as the Nekroz matchup was generally pretty good since they don't care about getting their stuff banished. Plus they could dodge Clausolas pretty easily. Though I'll admit, I was briefly tempted to play these myself, before deciding against it on principle as a Gishki purist. XD

[@TrueReverse74]

FINALLYYYYYY, Is it my turn? is it my time to leap from the bsclground and SHIIIIIIINE!!! I've been waiting for this one! Please let this be fate that new nekroz support is coming soon. Hopefully a trap card, new normal monsters in addition to the obvious new ritual ones, new ritual spells to get the stronger monsters out earlier, maybe a field spell to boost recycleability so you don't drain so many resources trying to get your monsters out and committing super hard.

[@anthonythomas305]

Power of the Nekroz Ritual summoning!

[@TrueReverse74]

If nekroz got support again, you think they'd use more dragunity monsters this time around?

[@michaelnelson1127]

I mean, they already use Areadbhair, but since Exa is a confirmed descendant, I wouldn’t be against it.

[@muhammadtaha2487]

Yoooooo loved this deck, setting up clausosal and unicore with like 5 hand traps to back em up. Good days

[@underdogdueling93]

So I sadly am one of those people that DOES use 1-2 Sophia if only for the extra deck lock. It works well if you're going 2nd since your opponent only has a Main Phase 1 during their first turn. So if you can get that lock, you might be doing pretty good even if she can't be summoned easily, as your opponent would have to basically skip their turn. Though I WAS lucky enough to summon her out once. But only once xD

[@AnotherWindaSimp]

I am into Spellcaster themed decks. And she's got quite a hard summoning condition too. But it's worth the try if you have ways to recover your banished stuff

[@kaiserdragon7233]

8:38 fun fact, there's only two other level 5 dragon type in the game. A synchro monster and a normal monster.

[@benjaminseelking9483]

Funny thing that you mentioned the Idea of a Yugioh Anime being Headed with a Ritual Player, as i am currently working on that exact thing for myself. And i am building it as a Sea Serpent Archetype to boot

[@23gameoverlord]

I think Nekroz is tied with Geshiki in being the most Ritual centric Archetype there is in the game, as the whole Archetype is built around ritual summoning.

[@krakenskull2557]

I'm still waiting for part 5 of the duel terminal

[@Lobomaru02]

Golden Nova: Dance, water, dance. Me: *screams as I have Demyx flashbacks*

[@thegayghost872]

I'm surprised Rush Duels didn't introduce ritual monsters, since 90% of their cards are crappy DM era normal monsters.

[@1cYMusic]

Nekroz is a favourite of a friend of mine (the one who got me into YGO actually)! How about splashing Dogmatika in?

[@vo1ce147]

Maybe it can work especially with card like garua ,and ntiss can be a good plus and more pop depend on the board states.

[@seancarlstorm]

I was only interested in this deck to add to my pure dogmatika but I actually want to try this deck on its own 😮

[@SeraSmiles]

Nekroz might be the most meta ritual deck ever but I'll always think Demise OTK & pure Cyber Angels are the quintessential ritual decks

My faves is the dragon ones. They look so~ cool!!! Even if their effects aren’t as used as most of the others. 😅👌❤

[@nioykak5782]

Surprised you didn't bring up the dogmatika rituals to go with nekroz, considering the theme of extra deck hate and using your extra deck as ritual materials

[@TheStarBazaar]

5:43 cheeky Kingdom Hearts joke 💯

[@GoldenNovaYugioh]

What can I say, it was Demyx Time!

[@gizmojams6556]

I knew the NA champ that year. Playing trapless BA and the dude was just a genius. Cool guy too

[@Trekkie46]

I seriously forgot how many non-ritual monsters they have. Shurit is the only one I ever saw used.

[@123mymegamen]

Quick question when are you going to continue the duel turminal story and are you going to tackle the world legacy storyline

[@Toby-Wan_Kenobi]

IT'S HERE! IT'S FINALLY HERE! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@Magna_Dragon]

24:00 Considering Jurrac monsters' ashes became Neo-Flamvell monsters, I don't think we will have some soon

[@captainmunchlax4808]

Honestly I feel like Nekroz still kinda has their stuff, it’s just waiting on that one piece of support to make them absolutely bonkers again

[@MysticVaporeon233]

I was dueling one of my friends who had a Nekrozs deck while I was using Libromancers and I have to say both decks are very good I won 3-2 but the last game was a very close one they have some powerful monsters

[@MysticVaporeon233]

I do have to say for anyone asks how did I win my last game mirror of the ice barrier very nice card that most people don't run but since I knew that he was running Nekrozs and Trisula would have been a threat I thought that running two copies would be decent he banished one on the field while the other one was set banished one of my impcantations in my hand and banished one of my Libromancers in the grave after he did that I activated mirror and banished Trisula a Nekrozs in grave and a spell in hand he grabbed a spell card and ended his turn cuz he couldn't attack and my next draw was first appearance which is what I needed to get Libromancer fire search for geek boy then special summon geek boy then search bonded then used first appearance to ritual summon fire starter and used bonded to ritual summon fire burst and that was game

[@rainhicks3423]

If I wanted to stay on the water theme, what other cards or theme would anyone recommend with this deck? I don’t mind running some cards that aren’t water for generic support of ritual cards. Just curious

[@Transformersgirl]

Cyberse; Code talker and Salamangreat. Also Tech Genius (TG) please

[@ragos0587]

YESSIR my character archetype

[@pokeperson1000]

What's my favorite Nekroz? Dunno, never really played with them, even in DuelingNetwork. Was too preoccupied with various inefficient 60 card pure variants of decks that I'd keep throwing together to play with for two to three weeks before my short attention span moved onto another one. Filthy casual, I know. I kept going back to Gem-Knights and Deskbots though. They were kinda my default. To the point where once Duelingbook came out, my first course of action was to recreate the Gem-Knight and Deskbot decks that I had made back on DuelingNetwork. Not to actually play them again or anything, but literally just to have them there. For comfort. Or something. I didn't even play anymore after MR4 came out. I understood how links worked, I just... didn't want to spend the brain power it took to implement links into every deck that liked to make multiple extra deck monsters. I was lazy like that.

[@relicking9207]

Am I the only one who wants a Ritual Synchro Archetype? Make a Synchro, then Banish the materials in the GY to Ritual Summon something

[@salehjl9345]

Magikey got some of everything it might be good for you

[@relicking9207]

@@salehjl9345 I am aware of them but don't know what they're about off the top of my head though

[@6210classick]

Drytron?

[@relicking9207]

@@6210classick They don't tune, they use atk instead of level

[@6210classick]

@@relicking9207 Diviner and Instant Fusion kinda facilities Synchro summoning

[@salzburysteak]

Brio is and always will be my fav Nekroz, also the deck could easily be good again with all the consistency the engine has, just needs a revamp and a way to keep up with modern metas advantage vomiting

[@DeSmokedone]

can u do World legacy archetype

[@rolodwayne5841]

You forgot to mention that dogmatika also has good synergy with nekroz. Especially since they are also a big middle finger to the extra deck.

[@doubl2480]

I came back into the game towards the end of 2015, so I never saw this deck at its prime. Heard many times than it was tier 0 and all, but was it all because of the Djinn lock? Because none of the other cards seem that game-breaking, maybe with the exception of Trishula.

[@IyoMaestro]

Yeah but even without Djinn it was still by far the best deck. Yeah non of the cards read as if they were gamebreaking but when you have a deck filled with that many good cards in one deck + busted generic Ritual Support it leads to a very good deck with very little weaknesses during it's time. A Jack of all trades but master of non type situation with the exception being the crazy consistency the deck had.

[@ianr.navahuber2195]

7:16 the beginning of the Zefra arc?

[@SheruMuko]

So you did not mention Dogmatika in the tech options?

[@GhostWalk530]

The original Anti- Meta deck. I would still use these if i were to join a tourney

[@finaldarkfire]

4:41 the joke of course being that the bad things ALREADY happened to Aerial. So many bad things...

[@thomasbitmail7937]

Nekroz Gang U N I T E!!!!! Give us the Trap Konami!

[@acwolf92]

So would (capt.) Toshiro Hitsugaya from bleach play this deck?

[@xCorvus7x]

23:01 Isn't Sophia an actual goddess? If you're only interested in competitively viable cards, you could call it a waste of cardboard, sure, but it's very fitting that the forbidden art to draw from her power is very difficult to perform (then again, the pay-off is incredibly mediocre, given the cost, and doesn't really match the vibe of divine power, as if this was the result of a ritual performed incorrectly, as if something had gone wrong there; and it's not like the card would have seen play, had it been a literal alternative win condition, right?). Edit: On a different note, Nekroz can barely foot the material to summon the Nekroz of Sophia at all. While the archetype consists of almost exclusively three types and you'll likely run monsters of all three types, there is no combination of those that includes one of each type and adds up to eleven. Shurit and his other forms are Level-3, -6, -9, and -10 Warriors. The Great Sorcerer Avance, the Dance Priestess Emilia, and their respective forms are Level-4, -7, and -8 Spellcasters (plus one Level-11 in the Nekroz of Sophia herself but she can obviously not be a material for her own summon). Exa and his forms are Level-5 and -10 Dragons. The only way aside from level modulation is to use a Level-3 Warrior (Shurit or his Clausolas form), a Level-4 Spellcaster (Avance the Great Sorcerer or his Unicore form; or the Dance Priestess Emilia herself), and the one Level-4 Psychic, the Priestess Ariel. This means there are two constellations of characters involved, both of which add even more flavour to the card: In the first case, the materials are the three members of the Nekroz other than Emilia: Avance, Ariel, and Shurit. Note that they are required to be on the field, as if they were surrounding Emilia performing the ritual to draw from Sophia, and perhaps aiding her in this effort somehow; they must not be in the graveyard, so Emilia is not standing over their corpses (unlike Noellia at some earlier point in the story). In the second case, the materials are Emilia, Shurit, and Ariel. One might wonder what happened to Avance but aside from that the scene looks rather similar to the first case. Exa is missing in both cases, which may add a sadder note to the card. However, it seems that for some reason Ariel joining the Nekroz is crucial for accessing the power of Sophia.

[@danielhurst3616]

Anyone notice that shurit has pendulum eye's

[@enderdragon9029]

Ever say dance water dance again and I will hit you with the 🔑

[@SheruMuko]

20:28 I do not blame you for butchering that name. Air-Ed-Bar

[@oldxyz7741]

Fun fact dis firs romaniant that whent to a ycs he used dis deck

[@softyymaru4435]

they’re just playing monster hunter

[@streetgamer3452]

Nekroz. Never played competitively when this deck was meta, and I’ve tried it out these days and it’s so lackluster and boring even for a control player like me

[@bamfbabybamf]

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