Yu-Gi-Oh! Single Card History: Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon

The craziest Dark Magician fusion to become a blue turtle

[@jobejacobs62]

Card Trivia: Red Eyes Dark Dragoon idea was based on Yugi vs Kaiba semi finals duel (as a "What If" moment) if Yugi fused Red Eyes with Dark Magician instead of Buster Blader. Also, Dark Dragoons look is similar to Dark Paladin, yet Dark Dragoon is actually based on both Dragons: Gandora & Red Eyes (symbolism for both Yugi & Joeys bond with Atem) reason why it says Dragon EFFECT monster and Dark Dragoon has Gigarays on its armor. Edit: 8,900 days later, Im still waiting for new Dark Paladin support cards.

[@CarboniteFrozen]

Dark Paladin BEST DM FUSION!

[@jobejacobs62]

@@CarboniteFrozen True. We need and want Dark Paladin support!!! Hopefully its on the way!

[@jobejacobs62]

@@CoolsyNitro Fun Fact: Konami said themselves this is where the Dragoon idea originated from. Heres another one: Dragon Master Magia originated from the Virtual World arc. Care to try again?

[@CoolsyNitro]

@@jobejacobs62 No they fucking did not. They NEVER said that is where Dragoon came from. You need to give sources for your bullshit. You make up false facts about our cards and you fake regional profiles. No wonder the DM community considers you as such an embarrassment EDIT: The Master Dragon Magia fact is EXTREMELY OBVIOUS as to where it came from. I remember that scene from the anime. Don’t try to prove yourself right with something that is in plain sight

[@Sinbad7S]

I’m still waiting for Blue Eyes Dragoon lol

[@thegreatscribbles960]

Man they weren't joking about the power of friendship

[@scorpiophoenix2778]

Love the Perfect Dark music! Remids me of the good days

[@DragonAlchemist0]

Honestly Verte was always banlist worth since it's inception. It has a huge tool box of fusion spells to work with before it was released during arc v era bunch of unique fusion spells for specific decks came around. Ancient gears got there own, pendulum, and a bunch of other decks. It had to go before dragon but it didn't since we all knew red eyes fusion already was around that was gonna just get smashed into any deck that turn link Verte and make dragoon. And or any other monster that had access to a fusion spell that fused from the deck or graveyard.

[@be9240]

Ban lists destroy the game and only make it so you have to spend more money.

[@M3rtyville]

to think an archetype as bad as pledaplants get such a broken monster suddenly

[@mamamia5905]

Still banned too. Release Dragoon! At least on Master Duel 😢😂

[@chritsfootballs]

Also remember the ocg didn’t have talents or Zeus when dragoon came out, they had very little answers to the card

[@eonflutehza131]

A very well done video. Couldn't have said it better

[@pamoon_]

Imagine if Verte just said 2 Plant monsters instead of being generic Red Eyes Dark Dragoon would be a great Traptrix, Naturia or Sylvan boss monster

[@lordstian4233]

Thank you!

[@gamakujira64e23]

Or maybe if verte said 2 Predaplant monster Dragoon would be a good boss monster for DM

[@rez-1270]

Just NO, Verte type card should only exsist for decks where Dragoon should be in like DM or Red eyes decks!

[@IC-23]

​@@rez-1270So you want them to print a card and have it not be usable in it's native or related archetype?

[@mikaela5938]

Verte should just not have been printed at all bc it's not good in predaplants and only other decks

[@DarkAuraLord]

as a branded player, I'm excited to see this one lol

[@johnboona4048]

Dragoon's effect is like when a kid has his way in designing a monster card. Like I want this card to be untargettable, undestroyable, also give him a once per turn destruction effect, and last but not the least i want this to have an omni negate just in case 🤓👌

[@aaronabbey2604]

Don't forget the cherry on top the burn effect and getting stronger for no real reason.

[@CelMeme-oq8sn]

They only forgot to ask the ease to summon, because running the garnet materials are not worth it most of the time

[@Shinkiro47]

Really digging the use of Perfect Dark's N64 OST btw

[@WastefulMinds]

surprised you didn't mention Duality to summon it out. love running it in decks that have lv8 light spellcasters in them like swordsoul with iris swordsoul or the handful of lv8 in Dogmatika.

[@qedsoku849]

Summon verre, set duality, pass

[@1106hdgaming]

What I dont understand, is why Dragoon is still banned in the OCG?!

[@luisavalos4415]

It’s a philosophy that the OCG has. It doesn’t matter if it’s a card that isn’t a problem anymore they’ll just wait YEARS after it’s been power crept to release it.

[@TurntOddish]

This bugs me so much because that's the only reason it's banned in Master Duel. I just want them to ban Predaplant Verte Anaconda so I can finally use my boi in my mediocre Red-Eyes decks...

[@jackrodriguez3404]

@@TurntOddishyou’re doing the lords work wishing for that

[@AG30]

@@TurntOddishexactly I just want to use it as a duality target because the dark magicians drawing 2 cards with duality isn’t as amazing. (1 draw from duality another from the DM’s)

[@mattyorshin]

​@TurntOddish same

[@WhatIsGoinOnPeople]

Unban Dragoon in Master Duel

[@user-yd8hg9wn2r]

Bruh dragoon always great card and boss in tcg or ocg but almost no deck can summon him right now except branded maybe

[@johnbalkin8223]

Such a cool card. Dragoon is cool.

[@henrydavis229]

Great break down

[@Wortigon2000]

yeah well, Verte is banworthy for sure. But Dragoon would be a nice card in Master Duel, where it's literally not just banned, but impossible to get in any way. Not even craftable. DPE on the other hand is a fairly commn package in Master Duel still. Verte + Fusion Destiny + (since Celestial is banned there atm) Denier, and Dasher for their graveyard effects. Destiny HERO Draw Hand was also a pick I've seen instead of Denier a bunch of times. They're both good options for the low level part. Alternatively, if you just want more generic bodies on the board, Malicious can work too.

[@josenba]

I love the Perfect Dark song in the background

[@Heyhowsitgoin999]

That is a lot of text to say "Whelp now I'm a turtle."

[@A.boogie88]

If your opponents monster attacks dragoon and it has a spell card attached to it to increase in atk would that work in dragoon? It's not technically affecting dragoon buy when that monster attacks it would?

[@richard8670]

to be fair its not true that this card saw 0 meta usage ever, it was played in branded in kashtira format as a way to beat shifter and in a few branded decks with duality (which had a couple major event tops). it saw meta usage until 2023 and it wasnt a lot, but its something

[@chrismiller3548]

If played in dm decks you can use eye of timaeus so you aren't locked out of other summons

[@elcato8126]

How are you going to search eye of timaeus?

[@chrismiller3548]

@@elcato8126 you have to hard draw it, but for casual play sacrificing the searchability to actually be able to summon other things is worth it. Not everything has to be from the perspective of a competitive mindset you know. Casual players exist too

[@wbrodie55]

​@@chrismiller3548 shhhhh! You scare the competitive players with that kind of talk 😂

[@spacewizardpip1111]

@@wbrodie55Well they weren’t trying to play DM to begin with so why would they get scared lmao

[@straightenin47]

or you can just use secrets of dark magic which is searchable

[@spsfitnessstrudley7718]

And yet it’s also ban on master dual 😂

[@phamvuminh8435]

Hi, kinda new to the game. Dragoon can still be Kaiju right?

[@e-tan3911]

Dragoon has no protection from tributing, thus Kaijus can be used against him.

[@quanchi2716]

Hate being a dm main and can't use this card never used it either thanks yall

[@cosmomage2166]

Timaeus the United dragon is not a bad card in a dm deck. It brings dragoon from extra deck as good as anaconda.

[@Rabidragon9241]

No it doesn't. Anaconda gave 1 card combos that made dragoon. Anaconda also let's you use 2 normals to get the full power of dragoon

[@elcato8126]

As an actual DM player. We fucking hate Timaeus. He doesn't do shit that Secrets doesn't already do but better... and we also hate secrets because it's ass. We need a Branded Fusion for us.

[@jobejacobs62]

​@@Rabidragon9241Timaeus the United Dragon is way better. Verte copers are idiots.

[@AustinStephan]

When I was getting into playing, I pulled this from a Pharoah tin. I was so stoked to have a shiny rare card, until I saw that it was pretty much useless in meta.

[@hatefulgaming1800]

It’s alright in branded

[@orlandobritt1460]

I'll lose every time just so I do not have to play meta crap.

[@MutantsInDisguise]

Dragoon is visually cool.

[@manchovieclemmons2380]

The new blue eyes card is probably better dm support than this, but its harder to make.

[@mauricebarr4035]

We need it back

[@ShogunPlasma]

So the moral of the story is - my fellow TCG players don't know how to play correctly

[@mikaela5938]

the literal only reason this was broken in ocg was because of how much maxx c ruins deck building in that game and it keeps not being banned over there

[@qb3540]

The best Boss Monster ever made

[@toddphillips7113]

i have that and i got it earlier this year.

[@austinhighfield984]

Free my boi verte

[@julifer9211]

Fun fact Dragoon has a combo where It does a magia end board It was invited by me 2020 It also has a tier 1 style lock down unbreakable till this day. Also invented by me. Years later Konami notice and creating the 1 card magia that i invited 2020 We are still waiting for the other combo i invited to be made 1 card as well 😁🤫😎🐐

[@ryanoops123]

I really wish it gets unbanned here in ocg so I can splash my 90s bandai print dark magicians into my decks xD

[@BlackRose-rp7kv]

can't wait for the new broken one konami makes with flame swordsman 🥰🥰🥰

[@nicolasvidalon8470]

Why banned on master duel ??

[@DemetrisBarnes]

The strong hindrance for Dragoon is the red-eyes fusion spell. If it was worded the way destiny fusion is, it would be more viable

[@ianslee4765]

Red eyes fusion single handledly is keeping red eyes from being a solid deck at this point plus like two or three better options to fuse into

[@DemetrisBarnes]

@ianslee4765 what the deck also needs is some graveyard recursion and more special summoning. And probably retrain the Gemini monsters, and make them non Gemini monsters. Probably a card or 2 that's not a hopt. Idk what else they can use.

[@ianslee4765]

@@DemetrisBarnes "x of the red eyes" (quick effect)can special summon this card(from your hand) if a "red eyes" monster leaves the field. Using this card, and cards from your hand or either side of the field as fusion material. You can only summon dark monsters the rest of this turn. Field spell "red eyes layer" all level seven and lower red eyes cards are uneffected by opponents card effects. If this card is destroyed both players take damage equal to half of one red eyes monsters original attack. Neither player can conduct their battle phase the turn this effect resolves. You can only use this effect once per turn. Being lazy now so just like one fusion monster that gains "original attack" based on the fusion material and that's the deck imo. Its a deck that tries to burn you to get your resources out just to try and steal them for itself

[@beitno3029]

I just pulled this card

[@chuchojuarez95]

Tru duelist time

[@gorg457]

I didn't know that Red-eyes Dark Dragoon was a Dragon type monster 😂 0:47

[@DragonAlchemist0]

Still not calling needlefiber that tcg name.

[@ixiahj]

Is that why its banned? People splash it in every deck other than DM decks?

[@jobejacobs62]

Yes. Even in DM decks its still technically weaker. Dragoon was only strong in OCG

[@CelMeme-oq8sn]

In DM it's the strongest fusion by far, but in other decks is not anywhere good

[@rudy5053]

Plz konami errata verte, predaplants deserve to have 1 good card. 😢

[@pedro_oito1561]

dragon type? or spellcaster?

[@nnnp634]

They added one o to avoid DuelLogs' list of top non-dragon monster with Dragon in its name

[@shadowboy2417]

​@@nnnp634A dragoon isn't a dragon tho

[@mixodeficto]

what is man yapping about?

[@MisterZalem]

they need to trade anaconda in DM for dragoon: we got the dragon lords now so why not go full broken?

[@Brandon-jf2dw]

Non-existent in Master Duel :”(

[@VGInterviews]

Dat perfect dark ost tho

[@Sheikah_Architect]

yo subbed for Perfect Dark music

[@MiMi-Elona]

Actually this card is should have not been ban it should have been Verte..... this card at full power you need to actually put 2 Vanilla's in your deck and a red eyes fusion...

[@ivanmaterazzo2631]

Well pretty much a correct video on the topic, yet Unliked for the cheap click bait thumbnail.

[@jeanpitre5789]

As someone who LOVES red-eyes, i absolutely HATE this fucking card. Both playing it and against it. It definitely jyst deserves a ban on all formats. Any towers that can be made off a single spell card is broken and everyone knows it. That why it's so toxic.

[@Nexit1337]

dragoon wasn't the reason it was busted, it was verte allowing it everywhere in the first place that made it busted. which is why TCG banlist will and will always be better than OCG's, cause we do not do "honk honk" clown hits on cards 🗿

[@alessiograsso6838]

Dragoon useless? What universe you live guys? This card is a omni-negate once per turn and for negate you have to discard one card from your hand. If you haven't even a card in your hand, you can't do nothing! This card is good and balanced in my opinion, in master duel, japaneses and haters prefere die instead free it

[@jobejacobs62]

It is useless, except for Top Tier decks that can abuse it. On its own or in any weaker decks its very weak and lame. Reason why it has no place in OCG and Master Duel.

[@redace4821]

​@jobejacobs62 Your reasoning is right but your last sentence kinda contradict no? If it's useless then why ban it, not that good right?

[@naknampucha5236]

​@@redace4821lmao., OCG has Maxx C,. that means that's a lot of supply for interruptions and omni-negate. TCG has no interaction and limited hand card advantage. That's why in TCG,. you rather Go Fish for a Kaiju card instead of interrupting your opponents combo.

[@e-tan3911]

It's a good card, but extremely overhyped and didn't do nearly as much as people expected it to do in the tcg.

[@user-yd3pz3ei5k]

Just as Maxx "C" has made things like Adamancipator, Infernoble, Drytron, and Unchained way weaker in the OCG compared to the TCG - it has also made things like Dragoon, Dogmatika, Spright, and Vanquish Soul way stronger in the OCG compared to the TCG.

[@kingofgameing2108]

i wish thay wold unband red eyes dark dragoon its not that good anymore

[@shadow3746]

I wish they would just ban Verte in Master duel and bring back Dragoon to 1 just to see what people do to get it out for a while. In the current meta it would be funny

[@aviatinggamer9051]

2:15 DM is a deck that struggles because of its engine more so than the boards it can set up. The deck is inconsistent and the engine is too slow to produce the end game that it does. With dark dragoon and some engine cards DM could be a viable deck.

[@agamerjourney9146]

This card was very successful in tcg. Guess this video was made for clicks.

[@papernes]

It was a terror to locals, but didn’t have very many tops. Then Verte got banned and it wasn’t worth it to play Dragoon anymore.

[@e-tan3911]

It's most successful tenure was as a plan b for branded decks in Kashtira format. I don't think we can count that as "very successful"

[@richard8670]

Until 2023, it saw 0 meta usage. And only in branded

[@agamerjourney9146]

@@richard8670 it was used before 2023

[@richard8670]

not in meta decks@@agamerjourney9146

[@spsfitnessstrudley7718]

Useless? People straight up quit when this hits the bored

[@jobejacobs62]

No. I seen people Super Poly, Kaiju, Chimeratech, etc. the fuck outta this card. Thats how easy it is to remove Dragoon, its only good in Top Tier meta decks is the reason why its problematic.

[@Citizen_Nappa23]

My opponent summons Dragoon at End phase of their turn I chain Skill Drain. After my draw phase actives Harpies Feather duster destroying DM players back row and eternal soul. Well Dragoon nice knowing you have a nice trip.

[@robsantorobass]

@@Citizen_Nappa23If they didn’t use Dragoon’s negate yet they can just chain Dragoon and negate and destroy Skill Drain.

[@arrownoir]

Custom nonsense.

[@jgarb1]

It’s a spellcaster type……………….