The Archetype Dragon Link Ruined (mostly) [Yu-Gi-Oh! Archetypes Explained: Guardragon]

[@RedTheWeeb]

A few weeks ago my girlfriend told me about her old pet dragon "gwyr" in D&D and i realized like last week it sounded like imduk design wise and i started showing her the imduk cards to see and she sad it was close but not at the same time mostly due to the color being off.

[@morthozst-n-rusalye]

Was it edible?

[@yusheitslv100]

The question still stands: why does Guardragon Reincarnation show the creation of Ib, the World Chalice Justiciar, which is a SYNCHRO monster, when Reincarnation Fusion Summons?

[@Enkidu659]

They really need to errata the ED monsters to only target Guardragon cards. The fact they were printed the way they were proves no one at Konami knows how this game works... or does and REALLY wanted people to buy the set despite it hurting the game..... I'm going to bet its both.

[@streetgamer3452]

If they had more main deck monsters sure but there’s so little that it makes sense to be just generic

[@lo4tr]

@@streetgamer3452 Considering the state of the game... it doesn't make sense to have any ED monster capable of generic special summoning because it's too easy to break. There needs to be archetypal restrictions on pretty much every ED monster, either that they can only interact with their monsters or they restrict the summoning of monsters.

[@I_am_Kuro]

you on the other hand probably forgot how MR4 worked and how ygos economy is carried by either cute anime girls and dragons. The community got sky striker in DASA tthe year prior, making generic dragon support was the logical move

[@calich33sehead]

Agarpain lasted as long as Topologic Gumblar Dragon. It and Elpy are two of those cards that make you wonder why they were printed.

[@mateusaparecido4590]

The word "Komoney" says everything

[@calich33sehead]

@@mateusaparecido4590 but the Guardragons were super rare. Pot of Extravagance, Phantazmay and Borreload Savage were the big money cards in Savage Strike from what I know.

[@cipper12]

Ohhhh mann I still remember when all of them are legal alongside unerata'd red-eyes md. What a time to choose to get back into Yu-Gi-Oh...

[@linksstruepower7443]

That Dragon doggo is a real MVP. Most valuable pooch.

[@iguana8436]

Easy way to fix elpy make it so it can only special summon guardragon monsters

[@walterlopez5054]

ok, so the fusion monster can be fusion summoned the old fashioned way with polymerization, right? so Dragon's Mirror to banish any 3 dead link monster from the grave could summon it, right?

[@Protect_all_ljf3forms]

Yep

[@BorreloadMJ]

I’m hopeful since dragon links were brought up, we’ll soon get into the Rokkets & Borreloads

[@ConspoAlt]

honestly i only know this is an archetype because of the md world legacy solo mode

[@gamerwolffang2722]

Oof I found them out a year or 2 before MD came out, and had a jiss of the story

[@nicholascalton293]

Love your content! Keep up the good work! Would love to see a lore of sorts for Yang Zings/Tenyi if you ever get the moment to, but it's always interesting what comes out.

[@enlongjones2394]

Justicia may not have suffered as bad a fate as bad as Avram, but it still lost a good deal from its Japanese flavor text. “The World Key sheds tears that do not flow, as fate is fulfilled. The gates of God crumble in a great din, and the serpent devours the dream of the protectors. That soul lies in the land of the beginning, while his soul lies in the land of the end. ―- Now, this world, this divine prison, shall be unlocked.”

[@tickledeggz]

The Gaurdragons were ruined by being to generic, cant reallg say it was Dragon-Link.deck since they were the Dragon Link monsters in Dragon Link.

[@SorenFE93]

Guardragon Cataclysm....I know what I'm teching into Hieratics when I get around to building them lol.

[@Flameville]

Highly recommend doing this

[@kingbeerz7978]

Oh a new video, guess I’ll check this out.

[@TheWcasey]

Man they kinda crippled this archetype. I'm glad it exists to further the story (Since I didn't know they existed). Design wise leaving out the duke I think I like Agarpain the best.

[@ianr.navahuber2195]

2:02 What's the song playing here? I know its the master duel theme, but whcih one? 2:42 This card became one of my favrite thanks to Duel links 17:42 Tri-Horn Guardragon?!

[@Zachattack2490]

So why do they have a tuner if they don't have any archetype specific synchros?

[@GreatBigPillock]

World Chalice Justiciar, technically.

[@droskibaby00]

Lore reasons to tie in with world chalice/world legacy

[@gamerwolffang2722]

It's cuz the tuner dragon fused it's soul to ib in order to revive her, making her into a synchro monster... A generic broken synchro at that

[@sjaakbakker9944]

dragon link aka good stuff piles

[@xhxir5294]

man I am sad that agarpain and elpy are banned I wanted to make a Full in archetype deck

[@23gameoverlord]

Hmmmm. These look like an interesting deck to play, but I'm not hundred percent if I want to get them all to try. Maybe just cards that have our adorable dragon doggo.

[@protege6383]

1:26 yeah I genuinely have to wonder how has it been so long since og duel monsters and Konami still is somehow so completely and utterly incompetent when it comes to balance like why the fuck is Borreload synchro GENERIC, and at that BARRONE DE FLEUR THE ENTIRE ARCHETYPE WAS BUILT ON FLEUR SYNCHRON HOW DO YOU FUCK THAT UP ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS SLAP BORRELLOAD WITH A DARK DRAGON OR BETTER YET ROKKET TUNER RESTRICTION AND BARRONNE WITH THE FLEUR RESTRICTION KONAMI WHAT THE FUCK

[@smdrightnow2070]

Rocket dragons got them band

[@catriamflockentanz]

16:15 Geography is *not* fun. Geography along it's long-time accomplice Topography has taken everyone prisoner and isn't letting up. Sure it's a lenient warden but a warden nonetheless.

[@jrtg5758]

Everytime I come in and out of the yugioh scene I always find myself playing dragons lol. Back in the day it was chaos dragons. Now it's dragon link while still using a chaos engine. I've been playing d link for like a good 3 years now on and off. From 10 negate boards to the more layered mid range deck we have now

[@catriamflockentanz]

Given Konami is as obsessed with Dragons as Capcom is with SF2 that's not surprising.

[@jrtg5758]

@catriamflockentanz7715 Yeah, they'll hit us crazy style every other banlist, but then drop new generic dragon support and / or chaos support that just sends us right back into relativity. When I was a boy, I played a trash red eyes deck on the schoolyard. Then, like 9th grade summer, I got back in and copped the dragons collide structure deck lol. I fell off and came back 3 years ago to play dragons again, lol

[@lo4tr]

@@jrtg5758 I find it funny that they keep dropping OP dragon support... wasn't the point of wyrm that Konami could essentially break dragon down into two types to curb some of the mess? Instead, they just treat wyrm as another place to stick absolutely broken support. We have 2 dragon types and both are stupid...

[@jrtg5758]

@@lo4tr woah woah woah woah woah, pal. Definitely not stupid lol. You sound a bit bitter. Lol been taking too many Ls from d link and swordsoul?

[@lo4tr]

@@jrtg5758 I actually like Swordsoul. My point isn't that I hate the existence of OP cards, but that dragon and wyrm seem to get the brunt of it and a lot of other types just don't, which I find funny because the existence of wyrm was supposed to fix the dragon problem. I suppose saying 'stupid' might be a bit facetious. Then again, Konami also invented link monsters to 'slow the game down' so I shouldn't be surprised.

[@qb3540]

Dragonlink MasterRule 4 was fucking dope, one draconnect become a 5 board negate.

[@windmirror7083]

The only archetype I've come across that has no cohesive strategy or combo within itself. Its not an archetype that can be ran pure. Its just an Engine....nothing more. Just...an...engine

[@esteban8471]

Guardragon is essentially an engine trying to be it's own deck, but they're missing key components and their cards are all very generic. I find that to be rather strange.

[@wallycastagnir]

Revolver played some himself

[@pokidraco1428]

Me during the puns: I get it

[@nilesrodriguez4343]

Half this deck is banned lol

[@khiemvu8510]

I thought World Legacy Monstrosity is a Generaider card 😂

[@RGA301092]

You didn't even bring up Guardragon Justicia's OCG flavor text. Nova L. 0/10 /s

[@leoornstein3963]

Dragon Link 💪

[@badass6300]

IMO link and Pendulum monsters should be support monsters to bring out massive effect, fusion, synchro and xyz monsters, not to be the powerful by themselves.

[@michaelnelson1127]

HIIIIISSSSSSSSSSS!

[@jtalkalot19]

Isn't Guardragon technically not an archetype since there are no cards that mention them by name? You can't cover an archetype that doesn't exist! I'm getting my lawyers.😂

[@Gknight11037]

Just ignore the videos on Digital Bugs or Adventure lol

[@cah137-y4s]

As cool as the Guardragons are, I am extremely relieved that Agarpain is banned; as a former Master Duel player, the concept of being able to cheat out Mirrorjade even more easily than Branded Despia can already do that is a _terrifying_ prospect.

[@maroufali3139]

Mirrorjade is a wyrm

[@motutaressanressan8902]

I will not going to lie elpy mast come back