Yu-Gi-Oh! - Gaia The Fierce Knight & Curse Of Dragon Archetype

[@YuNarukamiKun]

In the manga, Yugi tributes Griffor and Kuriboh with the Black Luster Ritual. One soul of light and one of darkness. This opens the Gateway to Chaos. Then Yugi commands Gaia to “Charge into the black pits of Chaos! Let it suffuse you! And be granted absolute power!” Gaia then emerges as the Black Luster Soldier.

[@kevinbell5674]

Ah, someone beat me to it.

[@southernheroesrock]

Is that why Griffor is in the Super Soldier ritual? Neat

[@CountDVB]

That is quite awesome and it is cool how that has become in-universe lore for what happened with Gaia.

[@Hanmacx]

I want a Kuriboh that supports both Gaia and Chaos/Black Luster Soldier Archetype

[@Dnite13]

@@Hanmacx make kuriboh a tuner hehehe

[@roninwarriorsfan]

And of course because Gaia & Curse of Dragon are in Yugi's deck, they have to be fused with Dark Magician. Dark Calvery is Dark Magician wearing Gaia's armor riding his steed, and Dark Magician the Magical Dragon Knight is Dark Magician wearing Gaia's armor while riding Curse of Dragon

[@Raidraptor_-_Ultimate_Falcon]

Cavalry, not Calvery

[@atlasswatteam8437]

@kitchennightmareshost7248exactly bro

[@FriedGamer]

@@Raidraptor_-_Ultimate_Falconbeat me to it

[@misterOrca4]

If it's Yugi, of course, it has to be Dark Magician.

[@fernandoguillen5996]

Gaia: DM, Stop stealing my partners!

[@filipvadas7602]

The Gaia archetype has always been interesting to me. The original monster was basically a massive clutch tool for Yugi back in Duelist Kingdom and its cool to see that aspect being represented in all future support. Its just a shame that, like Summoned Skull, Yugi basically dropped the card in favor of more Magician support and the God Cards later on.

[@alistairrae9807]

I completely agree Gaia and Summoned Skull are awesome

[@jobejacobs62]

Dark Magician >>> Summoned Skull tbh

[@EvilerOMEGA]

@@jobejacobs62 Summoned Skull gives the same attack power for half the tributes. I think summoned skull should have been non-Yami Yugi's ace, or at least one of them.

[@TeenPerspektiva]

​@@EvilerOMEGAyeah but it doesnt have the magic synergies

[@rod_sunrise8907]

​@@EvilerOMEGAI mean, summoned skull IS revealed to be one yugi's cards aswell as others like curse of and buster blader which is kinda cool

[@calumbishop7082]

FUN FACT: In the original Yu-Gi-Oh manga, in 1997, Gaia there Fierce Knight in its debut appearance was referred to as the "strongest card in the Magical Knight type", this was translated to English as the 'Warrior' type and was just regarded as weird quirk of the early manga. 24 years later in Yu-Gi-Oh Sevens and the Rush Duel game, Konami formally introduced the Magical Knight type, as a fully fledged type (granted its still Fusion Monster exclusive for now, but that will likely change at some point). The Magical Knight Type has not come to the main game yet, but when it does I hope we get retrains of Gaia because it is such an obscure fact.

[@StonedHunter]

I didn't know any of that. That's so cool! I really hope we get that now.

[@aceclover758]

If I am not mistake during that time, Gaia was the strongest warrior monster

[@PhantasmagoriaRS]

It's going to be a painful fun fact since the Duel Links dataminers revealed the Paladin and Skysoldier type in place of the Magical Knight and Celestial Warrior type (tho we don't know which replace what.)

[@DarkVampireDee]

You would think they would've added this lore to the video 🧐

[@jorgecarrillo1044]

There isn’t just a connection between Gaia and Black Luster Solider. In the manga they alluded to how the two are actually one in the same. Hence why the two mention each other so much in their cards.

[@tatsukinomiya]

From a Lancer to a Swordsman? Talk about class change

[@ravenfal1496]

Yep. The Black Luster Ritual is Gaia using the ritual to become the Black Luster Soldier.

[@jobejacobs62]

Honestly, BLS is an evolved version of Gaia just like Magician of Black Chaos is the new form of Dark Magician. Ironically, both BLS and MoBC are both Chaos monsters which is a Fusion of Light and Darkness. Both of Yugi's theme winning strategies involve: Fusion summoning and Ritual summoning. Gaia is a Fusion method, while BLS is a Ritual method. Dark Magician is a Fusion method, while MoBC is a Ritual method. Ironically, same goes for BEWD who can do both. But theres something that connects and brings Gaia/BLS, DM, & BEWD altogether: Its called Chaos (since DM is Dark and BEWD is Light), since they all have cards that interact with one another such as Ritual and Fusions. That's why we got cards like Dragon Master Knight, Magician of Chaos, Dark Cavalry, Chaos Form, etc. that mentions them or reoccurring Types (Dragon, Warrior, or Spellcaster) in the same text.

[@peterzelaya9948]

They're both soldiers of chaos. So yeah it makes sense. If you look at the card art the similarities are def there

[@ChrisPTY507]

Yeah. Indeed. The manga established that Gaia is in fact, the Black Luster Soldier.

[@enlongjones2394]

Worth noting: in the manga, the black luster ritual *transformed* Gaia into BLS.

[@Alysa-Aiday]

If that's true, then fusing BLS with BEUD to summon Dragon Master Knight *_(DMK)_* means he, Gaia, *_REALLY_* levels up in the world; From double lance wielding horseback mounted knight, to essentially the ultimate dragon rider.

[@Spiffy131]

Gaia was my starting archetype deck in Yugioh Master Duel and I’ve fallen in love with these cards, one of my favorite archetypes in the game!

[@demariusmorgan]

I LOVE you're archetype videos. Especially when you talk in detail about the designs and inspiration behind the cards. It made me develop a deep love for yugioh card art and lore.

[@TheRedMage01]

0:47 the sound I've always imagined a Dragon making.

[@welsj91]

"Go, Curse of Dragon! Take flight!" *squee squee*

[@Yardnoc3103]

Fun Fact: Soldier Gaia the Fierce Knight's artwork has him wearing armor that is similar to that of the Black Luster Soldier. This has produced a very popular fan theory that Gaia, with the help of the Curse of Dragon, obtains the powers of light and darkness and later becomes the Black Luster Soldier when he masters the powers of chaos.

[@ducklett01god]

Its not a theory it confirmed

[@Alysa-Aiday]

​@@ducklett01god: *_AND THEN, at some point,_* he essentially tames BEUD to become Dragon Master Knight, right??

[@ducklett01god]

@@Alysa-Aiday if he could tame curse of dragon as his normal knight form then as the bls he definitlly could

[@thefanwithoutaface8105]

Gaia might not have been Yugi's Go to Monster or even one of his most reliable, but Gaia was still a pretty solid bruiser and was the Muscle to Dark Magician's brains, who came in handy until he was replaced by Buster Blader.

[@Linkhood]

Technically the reason that BLS and Gaia are connected is because in the manga BLS required 3 specific tributes to be summoned: a light monster, a dark monster, and Gaia

[@julianogodoy964]

I like the Gaia archetype. The whole design with a guy charging in with two jousting lances seemed so cool. And then it fused into a dragon riding knight, I feel like that started me into the dragon-riding knight fandom

[@supremeking6694]

10:39 In my opinion, the reason Lord Gaia the Fierce Knight Special Summons itself instead of Normal Summon without a tribute is because Gaia rides a dragon which is a Special entity, instead of a horse. Or if could also be that the Lord Gaia actually flies instead of moving on the ground, which is superior (since it also gains attack)

[@kevinbell5674]

To add to Gaia's connection to Black Luster Soldier, in the original manga, Black Luster Ritual required Yugi to Tribute 2 monsters whose ATK combined equaled 1500 or more to turn Gaia into Black Luster Soldier. He Tributed Kuriboh and Griffore to do this. Dark Magic Ritual worked the same way but with Dark Magician.

[@thenerdbeast7375]

It's wild how these two initially unrelated monsters became an intertwined archetype.

[@yuseifudo7987]

fun fact they are related.

[@shanethompson5262]

I still wish there was a non-Effect Synchro retrain for Curse of Dragon. Add to Gaia Drake's Abysmal summoning requirements.

[@phoenixvance6642]

What about if we got a gaia non-effect rank 4 like we have gem-knight pearl

[@dylanwong2939]

We need a “Fierce Steed” card which is a lv 3 beast monster that searches or summons out Gaia. As well as a dragon master knight retrain that’s part of the Gaia archetype.

[@Sanguivore]

Fantastic idea!

[@SpecsTube]

Next has to be Summoned Skull or the Archfied archetype. Another vanilla monster used by Yugi that got retrains and upgrades over time.

[@LesondoAnimations.]

That's very interesting

[@pokeaca27]

I'm still waiting for its fusion wirh dark magician or other yugi cards

[@8bitdiedie]

@@pokeaca27I’m still waiting for it to have playable support. All Summoned Skull support is either unplayable and irrelevant, or only works with the Archfiend chess strategy (which Summoned Skull is useless in).

[@jobejacobs62]

​@@8bitdiedie Summoned Skulls Ritual and Fusions are somewhat playable, also, Xyz also.

[@adamloga3788]

As a fan and user of a Summoned Skull deck, I approve of this message. The ritual one can be a right pain in the butt for an unprepared opponent.

[@FrostGhidorahEX]

Given his eventual replacement by Buster Blader. Its funny that Yugi's sort of big warrior has a theme with dragons. Gaia was about working together with dragons and empowering yourself to face the oncoming challenge. Buster Blader was about putting Dragons as far into the negative as possible using your overwhelming strength to not give them a moment to breath. Not sure if there's a theme or message to pull from that. But now I just get the image of Buster seeing Gaia ride on Curse and just having that frown he had in the manga XD

[@CordyCordyCordyCordy]

I really like that Spiral is used to name Gaian support cards due to Gaia’s English attack name being Spiral Shaver

[@wallycastagnir]

i mean lorewise in manga BLS was the upgrade to gaia

[@Combaticon]

I hope that the Ultimate-Magical Archtype can be explored one day, since some haven't been mentioned due to them not existing at the time (The Dark Magicians and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon - I anticipate Master of Chaos will be featured in the BLS Archtype).

[@Mike_Ka-Chowski]

Yugi also used Gaia and Cursed of Dragon as tribute for BLS in the first virtual world arc.

[@ChaserNeos]

In the early Yu-Gi-Oh games, ritual summoning was weird mainly because of cost value. You had a certain amount you couldn't go over and each card had a value with Ritual monsters being incredibly expensive at 255 but you can just tribute summon them. The way around this in the early games was to run the ritual spell, which only required you having a certain monster on the field and two tributes, with the required monster becoming the ritual monster. In this case, Gaia was needed on the field to use Black Luster Ritual. So there's another connection.

[@thehandsomeone8369]

This reminded me how wild the first season was. Honestly made the card game feel like an RPG. Kinda miss the madness before rules were established.

[@chazgordon4410]

I know he's not specifically a "Gaia the fierce knight" card, but Skilled Blue Magician is Gaia support, and I'm sad he wasn't here I know he's a nothing card but his gimmick is kinda fun

[@dakotastein9499]

if i recall correctly theres a deeper connection in the manga and stories behind the cards... that what the black luster ritual actually does transform gaia rather than sacrofice him.

[@EmilioL12]

15:59 Another fun fact that green lance is the one that shows in the final duel Yugi vs Atem when Atem use an equip spell to deal piercing battle damage

[@theweasly]

Yeah, some people already mentioned this, but Black Luster Soldier is basically the same person as Gaia. Similarly, Magician of the Black Chaos is alluded to be the same dude as Dark Magician.

[@ducklett01god]

Dedication between light and darkness confirmed the dark magician theory

[@felwinterpeak1674]

First Buster Blader, now its Gaia. Hopefully soon we'll get a gearfried video. It sucks their isnt any support cards for him. Just a lore of him going backwards to become stronger.

[@andresmarrero8666]

It is interesting that all the counterparts including Gia Blaze are all mechanical in design, almost like someone saw fit to recreate the original legend.

[@nightmarearcade2663]

I don't know why but for some reason when it comes to all of yugi's legacy support the gaia line up is oddly my favorite from a visual standpoint and I can not for the life of me figure out why.

[@broncofan99]

Same here :O

[@nightmarearcade2663]

@@broncofan99 ok good I'm not the only one.

[@Nasir3623]

Perhaps it’s the horse

[@Je-S1001]

The Gaia/CoD archetype has gotta be one of my favorites in Yu-Gi-Oh. It makes me wish Konami would make a structure deck based around the archetype with a few BLS cards thrown in too. Just so I can get a bunch of them in one go and not have to basically go on a hunt online to get them card by card.

[@ulfberht4431]

I’d love to see a magic card that would work well with the Gaia archetype. Call it “Order of Gaia”, where by any cards of that archetype either gain an ATK/ DEF buff or as some sort of protection against magic/ trap cards

[@Dseagles14]

Black Luster Soldier is Gaia the Fierce Knight after he through the Gates of Chaos so it makes that they support one another

[@chrisharte4280]

I find it funny how Force of the Sun Gaia could add an InferNoble Knights to your Hand up to the number of monsters that he had destroyed that turn. It very much like how the Link Three Nephthys Monster doesn’t care on what Rituals are needed for its Link Summon nor does its first effect cares of that either.

[@kingkryptonite0]

I know Gaia is the main guy but imagine if they made the horses and other dragons shown on the retrains separate monsters that support the archetype. Maybe by searching for a "Gaia" Spell/Trap or something that helps Warriors and other Dragon monsters

[@unclebrian8156]

Another great video, one thing I wish they would do is similar to how we have Skilled Dark Magician to bring out Dark Magician, Skilled White Magician to bring out Buster Blader, Skilled Blue Magician to bring out Gaia the Fierce Knight, Skilled Red Magician to bring out Archfiend monsters (such as Summoned Skull since its now treated as an Archfiend card), & Skilled Brown Magician to bring out Kuriboh they should have a Skilled Gold or Skilled Yellow Magician to bring out Curse of Dragon.

[@naliagonzalez4782]

The crazy thing about these Gaia cards is they have synchro monsters but no Gaia specific tuners.

[@mrbubbles6468]

I like them connecting the Turtle to Gaia because of that one scene but Artillery Turtle does not power Dragon Champion upin any way or destroy defending monsters, or allow Dragon Champion to pierce

[@blizz2748]

I don't even play yugioh I just like watching this guy's videos

[@jamaalsjourney]

Dang Jayy glazer... want a donut?

[@blizz2748]

@@jamaalsjourney I'm sorry what. Are you having a stroke

[@tripler4lyfe843]

It's a good game

[@blizz2748]

@@tripler4lyfe843 I used to play it but it got too complicated. When versus if. A 101 different extradeck types

[@heavylead7182]

​@blizz2748 dudes videos got me back to wanting to play the game myself lol so I understand where you're coming from plus dude just seems like a cool dude to hang out with

[@rainbowdragon168]

Yugi using Catapult Turtle to launch Gaia the Dragon Champion towards the Castle’s ring and destroying drying his duel against Panik is one of the most absurd moments in Yugioh

[@troperhghar9898]

Yugi: oh no im going to lose ... RANDOM BULLSH*T GO

[@the1andonlytitch]

Legit worked though

[@rainbowdragon168]

@@the1andonlytitch Yeah it did

[@rainbowdragon168]

@@troperhghar9898 So true 😂

[@Snipergod1024]

It's certainly up there with "Now, Giant Soldier of Stone! ATTACK THE MOON!" in the hilarious absurdity.

[@thepanelbiter9915]

I’ve used the Gaia cards in Duel Links, to good results. I never knew about the new Catapult Turtle. I always wished Gaia’s horse got a card or two, I always felt bad leaving him for a dragon.

[@damienwayne9608]

Alright so we got a Gaia Synchro monster of the Earth, and a Gaia Synchro of the Sun, and both have them have an upgraded fusion form. We gonna get a Moon Gaia as well eventually, maybe it be water attribute? Basically what the Bujin Archtype did, minus the Susanno which was Storms, not Earth.

[@proto5574]

Gaia Saber the lightning shadow was actually used in the anime by Playmaker before he got his Cyberse cards and he used it to otk a knight of Hanoi with limiter removal

[@GameCyborgCh]

yugi's deck must have spawned the most archetypes of any yugioh anime characters. Dark magician, magician girl, kuriboh, black luster soldier, Gaia and curse of dragon, buster blader, silent arcblades and i probably missed something

[@frankyquilavafireblast895]

I remember pulling a lot of this, and being kind of surprised that guy I got support throughout the years when I got back into Yugioh seriously in the first few months of master duel being released.

[@easternwoyer3876]

13:20 yeah I remember using it as a last resort against Tristan in dueling nexus as I had no other way to get over his number 96 and couldn't beat him fast enough to prevent its summon (i was really bad at yugioh back then)

[@luigisaintil413]

The following archetype is something I found out through master duel. It goes well with BLS archetype. Since they are offshoot of yami Yugi’s deck the relationship with the chaos.

[@RedDragonForce2]

I’m curious if you could go over the Gardna collection. They have diverse archetypes they get splashed into.

[@camerongrow6426]

"Turtle! Launch my Dragon Champion!!" I like that the anime can still make me laugh.

[@michaelstringer1840]

At first I was never a fan of Gaia or really dark magician I’ve always felt they were lacking but as I got older I did realize how good and cool they are.

[@kylespevak6781]

It's hilarious how dark magician became an archetype and then the rest of Yugi's cards became another

[@whitecheeze_rf]

Their color palettes match Yugi's hair colors 🤯

[@danielbutler8103]

They should make some fusion monsters with a Curse Of Dragon monster and a Warrior monster, Or a fusion monster that's either two Gaia The Fierce Knight monsters or two Curse Of Dragon monsters.

[@XxRubenYoxX]

0:04 funny how this is applicable to a few of my favorite archetypes

[@Mekartur]

In Brazilian Portuguese Dub they originally called the fusion "Gaia de Dragón Killer", "O Matador de Dragões". I always liked it more than the original

[@DavidAKJohnson]

Can we all agree that the fact Curse Of Dragon sounded like a seagull in the anime of its battle cry is just absolutely perfect (and also extremely hilarious) 🤣

[@LunaticKD1991]

Respect the seagulls or they'll burn you alive. 😶 Also you'd better run if you see a little armored knight with a joust in his hand sitting on the back of one.

[@Vinylmelody1517]

I've had this idea for a reboot of the og series for a while. What if we go through the same arcs( duelist Kingdom,battle city, waking the dragons if they feel like it etc) but every time we move to a new arc or if yugi wants to be tricky, he switches up his deck, using the modern versions of these cards? For example in duelist Kingdom let's say yugi use the Gaia deck for the first round of the tournament but during the finals he switches to a black luster solder deck. He can still include some of his dark magician cards since that's his ace and so we can still have moments like dark sage vs Joey. Then in battle city yugi will perhaps alternate between using his magnet warriors and the new chimera deck?( For the sake of this idea let's just say you are allowed to bring two decks to the tournament for whatever reason). Then once yugi gets Slifer he switches to the card knights to support Slifer. And so on for each arc ending with atem favoring a dark magician deck and little yugi using a silent magician or gandora deck. As for kaiba he will always use bkue eyes but unlike yugi constantly switching decks and constantly changing his strategies, kaiba will instead I ly use blue eyes but will continue to add new blue eyes support as the series goes on in an attempt to defeat yugi by making his dragons stronger with the exception being in duelist Kingdom where he simply uses his blue eyes deck as a means to get obelisk on board.

[@saintxix1309]

As a YGO Boomer that played from it's inception to around Flaming Eternity, I'm so bummed that iconic og cards like Gaia, Dark Magician, etc didn't get support for about 10+ yrs after I stopped playing. 😭😭

[@codyburgett7962]

Black luster soldier is Gaia, like the same person, in the manga gaia goes through the gates of chaos and emerges as black lister soldier, that’s the relation

[@bahamut1169]

Damn 😮😮 Also it's worth mentioning that in rush duel we have new Gaia and curse of dragon cards

[@KaiserVarius]

Ah HECK YEAH!!! Man I sure hope one day Konami makes an archetype that has Gaia, Curse of Dragon, and Black Luster Soldier all working together!

[@adaurysantos]

well gaia and black luster soldier are the same person so that's not really possible

[@KingRumar]

I’ve always been a big fan of Gaia and when they made Swift Gaia I was losing my sh*t!

[@shadow3746]

Pretty cool. This made makes me want to build a Gaia deck again 😁

[@roninwarriorsfan]

I don't think Skilled Blue Magician was mentioned. It basically does the same as Skilled Dark Magician just for Gaia the fierce knight instead of dark magician

[@ooperblownup]

I've gotten into these videos a lot recently, they're very well made, entertaining and rewatchable. Good stuff man. It would be nice at some point to see you cover some lesser known but cool and forgotten archetypes that could use some modern support, like what about Koaki Meiru or Chemicritter or X-Saber

[@LunarWingCloud]

I always thought it was fun that every time there's a new card type, they would make a Gaia Knight card for it.

[@GalaxiaKnightX]

You know.. since we have Gaia Force of the Earth and now Gaia Blaze, the Force of the Sun. We have the Earth and fire parts of this Synchro and fusion part here. Which makes me think. Are we gonna get a Water version of this. Like Gaia Aqua, The Force of the Ocean. And a fusion which has Gaia riding on a Hippocampus. At this point who knows.

[@ron2millionare972]

Right now, Gaia the Magical Knight of Dragons is my favorite monster.

[@ES-dp6tw]

What other iconic monsters, or personal favourites of yours, would you love to see get a fusion? I'd appreciate a Dark Magician/Girl get a fusion with Summoned Skull, or a fusion form for Wingweaver

[@Pen_Slinger]

Wow I had no idea those final two cards existed! Finally Gaia as some counter measures to keep him in the fight. I'll defiantly be remodeling my deck to include them.

[@Elefantoche]

Yugi: "Go! Curse of dragon. Take blight!" *Sounds of eagle* ... Love how classic DM nonsense reached even production lol.

[@NovaSaber]

Consdering the name and appearance, it's really kind of weird that Soldier Gaia isn't one of the ones with BLS cross-support.

[@masterripper5409]

It's nice to see classic Yugioh monsters get support cards.

[@randomguy9249]

the phylosopy is cool, it's stronger when in pinch, hope it gets great support like the illusionist monsters

[@GodoMatrix]

Cool, there's way more Gaia cards that I even imagine. Nice to see a classic card receiving some love.

[@MojamTheWarlock91]

I love this archetype, so much potential.

[@maxnexus5421]

I find the Dark Magician fusion funny because he practically kicked Gaia out of the horse then gallop away while Gaia is on the ground.

[@eddy9524]

That must be the lore behind Soldier Gaia

[@alexanderrobins7497]

I would like to think the horse got lonely without Gaia until Dark Magician showed up saying "Hey buddy! 😀"

[@cis22]

I still don't get why Curse of Dragon is named like that. When I try to understand the phrase "curse of dragon," I think of it as if it's a curse inflicted by a dragon. And that name has more emphasis on it being a curse instead of being a dragon. So it sounds more like a spell than a monster. At first, I thought it was just some weird English translation. But it's literally just called Curse of Dragon in Japanese as well. Maybe the Japanese name was really supposed to convey that it's a cursed dragon but they got the English words wrong in the process. That's probably why Curse of Dragon, the Cursed Dragon is named like that. Curse of Dragon has become so iconic that it became the actual name of that specific dragon despite it not making any sense. And it just so happens that Curse of Dragon is also cursed.

[@ballincruzer511]

I’d love to see a White Aura archetype video! It looks so interesting and fun plus I wanna try and make a deck of one to

[@phantomblack2293]

I'd love to see a video about the photon/galaxy archetype.

[@griffingower1883]

I'm still waiting for an Archetype trivia on the Rokket, Borrel, and Topologic archetypes Note: Borrel and Topologic are archetype's primary made up of Link Monsters

[@thedizzytuna]

I always thought the implication was Gaia and BLS were the same person

[@portagasdace21117]

They are. BLS is just the stronger version of Gaia.

[@azzamandreas862]

On Dark duel stories ritual spell cards had the effect of transforming cards into more powerful ones Eg turning thousand eyes idol into relinquished And turning gaia into black luster soldier Turning 3 Blue eyes into the blue eyes ultimate dragon Which was called blue eyes ultra in that game And a few other early rituals The thing was you required a specific monster to be on the field along with 2 random tributes to sacrifice to make the ritual transform the monster

[@ToasterCorgiGaming]

This is hands-down one of my favorite OTK Archetypes, BUT I never play with the B.L.S. or Chaos cards/support and I have a strong hatred for the Dark Magician Fusions (Flat out Dark Magician favoritism from Konami at that point, waiting on it to fuse with Catapult Turtle, Big Shield Gardna, Summoned Skull, and Kuriboh...), primarily since I'm pretty sure the combinations were never on the field together at any point in the series (Have to rewatch it all to check), as well as the Curse of Dragon one makes me want Erratas to where "The Magical Knight of Dragons" is ALWAYS treated as "Gaia The Dragon Champion", cause one "Negate that target's effects" card screws over all their archetype Spells & Traps, but getting the original Gaia Dragon Champion does not seem worth it to be honest since it's a Vanilla Fusion. Maybe we'll get a Tuner version for it's Synchro Variants, despite the Fire Attribute one being focused more towards Infernoble Knights... I wonder if we'll get a Water Attribute Variant? Maybe remake the two Lvl 4 Light & Dark Ones into Pendulums? Who Knows?

[@rexorchid9745]

Gaia has harnessed and mastered the power of the Drill that has Pierced the Heavens.

[@calich33sehead]

Theoretically, those last two Fusion Monsters are Super Poly targets in DM decks. All you have to do is get out Dark Magician.

[@floodinmon14]

ahhh this reminds me of the 3 Part Fusion in the Millennium World with Curse of Dragon, Mahad, and Dios. has Duos (Priest Seto's Main KA prior to Blue-Eyes) ever been printed? and if it were, would it fuse with Curse of Dragon or it's retrains?

[@thenerdbeast7375]

To be fair Pegasus said Duelist Kingdom was using unique and special rules.

[@jeremytirtokusumo6171]

Im hoping for more support on Gaia to maximize consistency on its OTK gameplay

[@narkreean6490]

A note to know is that Gaia is BLS after entering the Chaos Zone meaning Gaia as Knight is Timeline A and BLS is Timeline B

[@rubenpadilla8037]

Thank you so much for this I've been begging multiple creators to do this I deeply appreciate this

[@lunerblade13]

12:29 a shame this card can’t benefit from spiral spear strike.

[@LomasneyAaron]

I really wish konami would retcon Normal monsters, errata the rules so that Normals no longer require tributes to be summoned. They’d be no longer be a detrament when ran, and more of an upgrade when you needed to summon them in decks that required them, the best examples being Blue eyes, and Dark Magician.

[@romanrendonrodriguez7624]

Gaia and BLS are related since in the manga BLS is the evolution of Gaia, is wasn't a random thing from Konami

[@mrcx6142]

Great video, appreciate it! I do love myself support and archetypes for proper OG cards.

[@thefool7093]

Gaias horse needs its own card.

[@OmnicidalClown1992]

Since I know that the Black Luster Soldier Archetype is on the way, I hope the next Archetype video is the Gunkan Archetype.

[@royalty843]

About time this archetype get some respect