Melodius is an archetype that spends so much time figuring out how to get on the stage and get their instruments together that they forgot that they needed to actually have a song.
I just want to appreciate the fact that any time Rata releases a new video, it always seems to bring out the highest quality comments. Not sarcasm btw, this comment is a 10/10
@@_Vengeance_ Her becoming a Dark Signer reference with a 'dark melody' strategy tuning a new Synchro Melodious would have been an amazing turn for the character.
Now they have pendulums, a fusion spell that fuses cards in the pendulum zones, a fusion monster that summons any Melodious from the deck, and another one that bounces opponent's monsters without targeting. Yuzu's time has come after 9 years of pain.
You know, I have a genuine conspiracy theory that all the "When this card is special summoned" effects were because the card designers thought "Oh she's a main character in the Arc V anime, the anime writers HAVE to give her some pendulums eventually and we'll just adapt them then", but then Arc V's writers reduced Yuzu's character to a lampshade after season 1 and the card designers never bothered, leaving us with this mess.
Either that or when they went ahead to make the support they realized how trash this deck is and just took what they had already made and released it as a standalone archetype (Solfachords)
Now that Rata has made a video about this archtype, I expect a big wave of support before the years end so that a support report can be crammed in as a last minute addendum
@@turtlenuggetz7895 I fooled around with customs for a while. ignoring the wincon from just getting elegy, aria, 2 sonata, and schuberta or bloom diva live, I had one that banished all cards on the opponent's field if you controlled 5 melodious monsters with different levels, and 4 were special summoned. The drawback of it was that at the EP, you'd banish all non-fusions you control.
I think my biggest shock of all of this is the fact that Melodius didn't upgrade like the Odd-Eyes cards did and encompass every deck style: *_Diva_* - Providing main stage presence, as well as supporting the leading performers *(Pendulum)* *_Maestra_* - A composer who conducts the performance, enhancing the players by masterfully blending the variety of performers provided for the composition *(Fusion)* *_Choir_* - A collective of voices working in a unified harmony, balanced and in tune with each other to create a stronger, singular sound that moves the audience with intoned force *(Synchro)* *_Songstress_* - A singular performer who can, if even for a moment, achieve stupendous sound through a controlled inflection of their voice, and return back to a mellow cantor *(XYZ)* *_Composer_* - The one responsible for conceiving and planning out the entire sound of the concert. The one who not only knows all the players needed, but how and when they must act in tandem to achieve the perfect realization of their masterpiece *(Link)* Plus they already went with the idea of having the spells (and maybe traps) being based on terms in musical sound and performances, so there is a lot of room to make different kinds of protection, splash, and control cards. This could have made for a really fun deck where your support cards assemble a concert of performers, with the spells and traps weaving the parts of a performance, and finally consolidating all of the musicians into the performance leader, who brings the duel to its peak, before coming to a close!
Yea it's just weird for Yuzu to NOT be a lack of all trades like Yuya does, or have Yuzu go into Rituals for the Composer role as well, directing a true masterpiece
Yeah, it's really weird that they don't have any Pendulum monsters, despite belonging to the Pendulum girl. Having access to Pendulum summons could've helped them out quite a bit, considering how many of them activate their effect only upon special summoning.
@@a1rg3ar31 Yea, feels like being a heroine in YGO is a massive burden for some bookers, and it shows... kinda spills over really considering but yes Yuzu being a Jill of all Trades would be nice, and maybe a good Ritual user if we can't find a 5th man (so they get to duel a Nekroz user)
@@kitelanford The problem is that early melodious cards have different effects from anime to real life, so the archetype ended up tripping itself more than it should, the anime version of the deck while not very great at least had a consistent swarm a little and do burn damage either on summon or via balle, so the real life version being changed to lockdown early on did end up contradicting itself. That being the Ritual direction of yours is a good idea and much better than giving it every extra deck method.
@@Thisdude850 Did say either or but to be fair, their insane quest goals is there as a Jack of all Trades Duelist, but want to manifest something... I still am mad at the lack of Ritual spotlight in Arc-V... poor Aura, she has no Nekroz companion
"This could probably do with some support right now." And a few months later, Konami announced new cards for the archetype. Truly, Rata is the Nostradamus of Yugioh.
Another thing to note with Aria stopping your own targeting: IT WAS PART OF MELODIOUS’ DEBUT IN THE PHYSICAL TCG They HAD a card that prevented you being able to target your own monsters and MADE CARDS IN-ARCHETYPE THAT TARGETTED. Like they FORGOT Aria could do that!
Interesting note: there was a decent period shortly after ARC-V was brought into Duel Links that Melodious was Tier 1. The secret: Yuzu had a skill that let you tribute a Melodious monster to SS a Melodious Maestra monster from the deck, so you could start with the material for any Fusion Summon you want by bringing out Shopina to recycle the monster tributed for the skill. Also: Bloom Diva is great as the monster summoned for Ostinato since it protects itself.
Yeah...which is funny since she's the monster ON the card. If only melodious had any direction(s) at all, they could have a gameplan of killing the opponent by ramming an untargertable, unable-to-be-negated Bloom Diva into an entire board of monsters from the opponent.
@@pablorosada9788 Honestly if they gave them the ability to attack directly plus the ability to not take damage this could be a neat protect the castle/army deck
Fun Fact: If you use Brilliant Rose’s effect to Special Summon itself, you can’t then activate Bloom Harmonist (the Link-2)’s effect that turn since Brilliant Rose isn’t treated as a Melodious monster. Even though the card is meant to be Melodious support in addition to Gem-Knight support… And it already treats itself as a Gem-Knight for that side of the support…
Funnier fact: the archetypal Melodious fusion spells don’t have “Fusion” in them, so Fusion Parasite can’t search them, and *its fusion material substitution effect is nigh-useless in Melodious since none of the Melodious fusion monsters have named materials* At least when the other Bracelet Girls got brainwashed, they got cool superpowered dark side boss monsters out of it, but Yuzu gets bad touch’d and has NOTHING to show for it.
A real sad shame Yuzu's archetype didn't go the same path as Yuya's in gaining Synchro, XYZ, or even Pendulum as she's supposed to be a Bracelet Girl from that dimension. Really hurts to see.
@@mmmbhss3468 in fact, it feels like it was designed with Pendulums in mind, yet recieved none. Like they thought Pendulum would be an easily splashable mechanic, which it wasn't.
the funny thing is they MADE a pendulum deck that is also focused on musical fairies, the solfachords. Which really feels like an anime deck that they forgot to put in the anime with how specific some of their effects are.
Melodious have been my neglected pet deck for almost a decade now. Everything about them is so sad because it reflects the similar neglect of Yuzu in the anime. A video like this is like a dream come true.
3:25 I'm so happy this gag is still around. Man, time (and Konami) has not been kind to Melodious, hopefully they get something in a future main set or the LIGHT duelist pack (whenever that happens).
@nsalieister3334 with Konami, the answer usually is exactly that: a complete change in playstyle. Or a field card with eighty lines of text that's designed to do all of the things the deck needs.
@seeker38 Give the ol skill drain boss monsters that attacks directly treatment and a link 1 that searches the field spell that searches all cards and can special summon a melodies from your deck hand or gy if you control a melodies fusion monster This literally works for all archtypes
Indeed. It's like anything to do with it and/or Yuzu MUST get screwed over in some fashion. Reality just hates that character and those cards for no given reason.
@NS Aliester Not all archetypes though (Ice Barriers, Ursarctics, Gustos, Ritual Beasts, Jurrac, Evols, Mayakashis, Vendreads, Lavals, Scareclaw, etc.)..... Konami can't elevate the archetype's trash ceiling with that kind of band-aid......
17:45-18:18 One can use similar words and thoughts to describe Arc-V. Like Yuzu, once the story beats go further in, she and the melodious bow off the stage to be a stagehand.
I'm surprised these never got pendulums considering they're an arc-v archetype and all have effects when special summoned. When Arc-v was airing I was waiting for performapal/odd-eyes level of support for melodious *queue JK Simmons/J Jonah Jameson laughing here*
That's on the anime for never giving Yuzu any Pendulums. All the problems Melodious have are rooted in Yuzu being demoted after season 1 and the writers not caring to give her any duels. She also didn't duel once in the manga, which was the last chance. I'll take 2 Pendulums over the Link any time.
@@JohnSmith-iw1wd right. Kinda messed up the Tyler sisters got pendulums before Yuzu. I know there's predaplant and Fluffal/Edge-Imp pendulums, but I think that's tied into the manga, idk, I never read it.
@@JohnSmith-iw1wd Never any Pendulums of her own, technically. She _did_ actually Pendulum Summon once, but that was only with procedurally-generated generic Pendulums in the circumstances of the tournament she was in, like Action Cards so often were. Still doesn't justify NEVER getting any proper ones of her own, nor any real development past season 1.
I don't think I have ever seen an Archetype Archive achieve a protection score of over three, much less a four. As someone who hasn't played a whole lot of Yu-Gi-Oh I have always wondered what an archetype focused on protection would actually look like. I'm very satisfied to finally have my answer. Really good video.
I can think of a few. Majespecters, The Weather, maybe Superheavy Samurai but that's more of a deck full of big bonks that happen to be in defense position. The problem with purely defensive decks in YGO is that the game is too fast to allow a grindy playstyle, so most of the time playing defensively comes hand in hand with some kind of hard stun (often floodgates of some sort) or else you just get overwhelmed even through all your protection. And that's no fun.
Seeing these decks get covered would be interesting but I have a feeling we don’t see many protection decks because they aren’t very well liked in the community
It's funny that Melodious has no pendulum monsters despite belonging to the pendulum girl. And now there is a music based pendulum deck that looks like it was made for the anime with the weird gimmick.
[Insert music pun here.] Glad to have a new video to watch. I never could figure out what to do with a Melodious deck, and after watching this video I still don't.
Did you see the new support? They're all pretty solid. They helped the archetype find more ways to special summon (they got pendulums, finally which makes sense lololol) and they received new fusion monsters that help support the archetype in a lot of ways and one of them disrupts boards. They're really good! It is all really good too in setting up elegy+aria combo while putting up a big board of melodious fusions too.
they finally did it. even if i could throw some complaints, this and cardians are all ive been waiting for in arc-v support, so ill take it. it helps it's not that bad and my want for pendulum melodious was finally answered.
@@DarkCT that was literally my reaction too like... omg, after literally 5 years they're now a playable deck. 😭🤚🤚🤚 And this support is great bc the pendulums makes the deck drop certain cards that used to be needed in the deck like Mozarta and Ties of the Bretheran because the deck can now pendulum summon + interact with the GY more better.
@@winstonpham8617 a deck of operatic singers needed scales. period. end of, nevermind the pendulum era was when these things aired. Bach and Etoile each have a great part to play, though you have to be careful about Etoiles effect last i checked. also an actually searchable fusion? Yes please. although one thing about Etoile i forgot to mention- she can almost turn your locked cards like ostinato temporarily live again. Melodious had to many contraditions. their best backrow not usable either because of targeting or no monster clauses. so many special summons needed, but no ways. and in some way, each question has been answered. may i say about dang time. Ive been asking for this longer than earbound servant support. another wave of cardians and im gonna be on the moon.
Whenever I hear Ojama Lime's voice I feel sad because it more often than not means that the video has come to an end... then again, that's probably intentional given Rata's relationship with the archetype.
I’m not sure if this is intentional, but this came out on Mother’s Day in the uk at least and that really can’t be anything but hilarious for me knowing the thing about Yuzu in the manga
Rata is truly the JonTron of the Yu-Gi-Oh community: he makes a banger disappears for a few months, everyone forgets, then he comes back and everything loses their shit saying "HE'S BACK."
it's been so long that I legit thought "archetype archive" was a new series lmfao Also the equip card Kahoyreigetsu is honestly pretty good in magistus and even witchcrafter decks as it's a desperately needed free summon and either fusion card search or discard ammo in the form of metalfoes fusion :D
Honestly, Melodious is due for more support. It would be cool if they somehow worked Pendulum, Synchro and Xyz into the archetype to contrast Yuya's use of the summon mechanics. Just giving Melodious 2 Scales, searchers, a Tuner, a DPE and more ways to abuse the fact that they couldn't be destroyed by Card Effects would make the archetype a lot more playable
If they get featured in a duelist pack then I want 3 pendulums (2 lv 4, 1Lv 7 or 8) a Synchro, an Xyz and a proper Field Spell stage. And something else for the 7th card. Then Animation Chronicle can follow up by making her unreleased cards like Saint Instrument.
Again a very good video Rata. The Yugioh community is honestly blessed with you and I would wish that your non yugioh related content would go so good as well because your humor and editing is extremly good. So probs to you, because you manage to bring a smile over my otherwise depressed life.
Once I had a dream that Rata uploaded a really long video covering multiple archetypes, and also it was really high budget and had the framing device of a magical board game and also scenes of sychronized dancing. Also for some reason Rata looked like a completely different buff guy.
I had a dream once that Rata was reviewing new train support and one of the cards was a lvl 1 train cart that looked the candy house from Hansel & Gretel.
Especially with the reliance of special summoning your monsters, without much that can do that consistently, you'd think they'd give the deck at least 2 so it's possible.
I think the big problem with this archetype is that they lock you into said archetype. Melodius is a Light/Fairy archetype, which means that it could have some very good access to a variety of generic Fairy support, chief among them being some very effective Link Monsters. I do think that Ostinato has some potential for decks with problems keeping field presence like Weather Painters, but having 2 extra bricks in a deck that already has terrible consistency is not a good idea
That's why I play them with counter fairies. They only trigger their effects during the opponent's turn so during my turn I can focus on the melodious side.
When it was released, Schuberta was pretty real. The quick effect to banish 3 ruined most GY setups at the time, so it worked as an effective disruption. There's an old channel called Azallea (I think) that used to play this deck a lot, and I've seen Schuberta ruin setups over and over again.
For those curious, there was a point in time where Melodious were a *scourge upon mankind* in Duel Links. Their protection, combined with their Fusions' effects basically created a *WALL* very few decks could get over as Duel Links as a format to this day heavily relies on Battle Phase effects.
I am so happy that Rata has done a new Archetype Archive base on the one deck that I THOUGHT would get the Synchro, Xyz and Pendulum treatment like Odd-Eyes but no luck. Now we're only hoping since Konami has their eye on Rata (Volcanics will be getting support soon FINALLY); WE MIGHT get Melodious support and make this Deck complete. I look forward to that day. Thank you Rata!
this was legit one of my main decks during arc-V. Total hot trash, but being able to hard counter burning abyss, kozmo, certain builds of qli, and shadolls(once super poly got banned) was always great.
This deck was quite the menace in Duel Links for a time because Bloom Diva basically t-posed on you until you surrendered or died. But with Effect Veiler now being in the game, I don't know how viable it is now.
I keep forgetting that this archetype exist. It's also amazing how much this archetype feels like something a one-off villain would use in a filler episode.
One of the first games using melodious I’ve ever seen was against fuller power gouki, meaning at a time where summon sorc and halqifibrax was legal along side all knightmares. Dude had the full extra link, but couldn’t out the aria elegy lock. Then, he summoned three sonata and dropped a score on the tri-gate. Opponents monsters were indestructible, but he still took the damage.
I believe a lot of the lineup was made with generic light fairy support like Celestial Transformation and Valhalla in mind, because the archetype is just that unfinished otherwise.
Its a funny feeling seeing you cover these cards, I've been using them since they came out. Fun fact it took like 2+ years for the fusions/ostinato to be released after the first wave.
In defence of Mozarta. I once ran into a player who played Valhalla, summoned Mozarta, used Mozarta’s effect to summon ARCANA FORCE 21 THE WORLD and make the Galaxy Xyz package in the most epic way possible
Insane that most of these cards have 1 or even 2 major drawbacks. And being forced to be so insular means it can't even find a home in Fairy piles. Also, and I don't think this would fix this archetype, but it is so weird that Yuzu is the only character from the first season to not graduate into getting Pendulums.
it would fix something. look at how many of the cards need a special summon to get the effects off. now picture if they had had scales like nearly everybody but cardians got from their era. finally fairy musicians could actually play the scales. *Solfachord shows up, is pushed out of the room*
I hate that it took so long for me to hit play! I'm at least glad I was able to watch this after a long day. Keep up the great work Rata! You're awesome!
All the Monsters that require being Special Summoned to get their effects off makes me think this Archetype was supposed to get Pendulum support at some point, considering this originated from Arc-V.
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Melodius is an archetype that spends so much time figuring out how to get on the stage and get their instruments together that they forgot that they needed to actually have a song.
It's that fucking Family Guy bit where the gang forms a band and they hype up the crowd then Quagmire realizes they don't know any songs.
I just want to appreciate the fact that any time Rata releases a new video, it always seems to bring out the highest quality comments. Not sarcasm btw, this comment is a 10/10
As a former Melodious player, this is the best description I've heard for them. Yes the Aria-Elegy lock is a nuisance. But that's about it really
"Screw it, just improvise!"
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Hearing Rata again? Melody to my ears.
What is the Melody!?
@@scar6822 the Melodious Melody
@@scar6822 nanananana once a year, got Legacy of the worthless stuck on replay,playplayplay
You know you are going to hell for making that pun right?
More like Melo-die
Poor Yuzu was never the same after that Duel Runner accident. They had to amputate her character agency in the emergency room.
We have replaced Yuzu Hiragi post-Synchro with a sexy lamp. Let's see if anyone notices.
@@misterbadguy7325 Everyone was too focused of how ARC-V still took the damage to his overall quality to notice
To be fair, falling down several floors from a motorcycle moving at high-speed in front of a cheering crowd will do that to ya'
She became a Dark Signer but Sergey stole her new cards, leaving her a powerless, lifeless husk.
@@_Vengeance_ Her becoming a Dark Signer reference with a 'dark melody' strategy tuning a new Synchro Melodious would have been an amazing turn for the character.
Now they have pendulums, a fusion spell that fuses cards in the pendulum zones, a fusion monster that summons any Melodious from the deck, and another one that bounces opponent's monsters without targeting.
Yuzu's time has come after 9 years of pain.
I heard that, whenever Rata uploads, an angel gets its wings and a baby is born with a smile.
True story.
Konami: "Here's the newest legacy support: Ojama Angel."
True fact, I am the angel
@@mudkitz Go back, go back, we've made a mistake, privatize, demonetize, go back
I dunno, it seems more like every time rata uploads a goblin rises from a swamp and gets shot into space...
I hear that whenever Rata uploads, a dog killed by Kaiba's smile will be revived
You know, I have a genuine conspiracy theory that all the "When this card is special summoned" effects were because the card designers thought "Oh she's a main character in the Arc V anime, the anime writers HAVE to give her some pendulums eventually and we'll just adapt them then", but then Arc V's writers reduced Yuzu's character to a lampshade after season 1 and the card designers never bothered, leaving us with this mess.
Either that or when they went ahead to make the support they realized how trash this deck is and just took what they had already made and released it as a standalone archetype (Solfachords)
So basically what happens to every female lead in yugioh?
@@darksword0928 To be honest... both Altergeist and Trickstars are good.
@@KlavierMenn then they gave blue angel a worse(at the time) archetype in the form of marincess.
Dunno about altergheist
@@darksword0928dino wrestler only got 1 god card
5:36 It didn't even hit me until he said that. I was like, "damn, that is a really good effect. Okay. Yes. Oh...oh no."
That's why most effects of this kind include " _your opponent's_ card effects"
Yes…I don’t know why Aria did not include this basic effect…
I wonder how much stronger the deck would be overall if they retrained it or errata'd it to be your opponent's card effects
@@ShermTank7272 Not much.
@@ShermTank7272 it would allow you to do a lot more generic jank support cards for the archetype for sure.
Now that Rata has made a video about this archtype, I expect a big wave of support before the years end so that a support report can be crammed in as a last minute addendum
New Melodius cards that are just Tearlaments lmao
What the deck needs right now:
-more swarming that doesn't apply only when the field is empty
-Some sort of win condition
-a new boss monster
they should add a spell that autowins if you control 5 melodious maestra with different names
@@turtlenuggetz7895 I fooled around with customs for a while. ignoring the wincon from just getting elegy, aria, 2 sonata, and schuberta or bloom diva live, I had one that banished all cards on the opponent's field if you controlled 5 melodious monsters with different levels, and 4 were special summoned. The drawback of it was that at the EP, you'd banish all non-fusions you control.
Here comes the Melodious Omninegate!
Since you mentioned Beastborg in this video, they will be printed this year. Thank you for new archetype Lord Rata.
But much like Forbidden Beasts, they suffer a glaring flaw: reliance on their Continuous Spell for plays.
If they don't print Crimson Chain is ok
@@thatman666 At least they have Tri brigade support. While Melodious has hentai jokes and innuendo.
@@thatman666 Why does that sound familiar?
@@rikoaries Venom, Earthbound Immortal, Malefic, Koa'ki Meiru. Probably consider Toons as well.
I think my biggest shock of all of this is the fact that Melodius didn't upgrade like the Odd-Eyes cards did and encompass every deck style:
*_Diva_* - Providing main stage presence, as well as supporting the leading performers *(Pendulum)*
*_Maestra_* - A composer who conducts the performance, enhancing the players by masterfully blending the variety of performers provided for the composition *(Fusion)*
*_Choir_* - A collective of voices working in a unified harmony, balanced and in tune with each other to create a stronger, singular sound that moves the audience with intoned force *(Synchro)*
*_Songstress_* - A singular performer who can, if even for a moment, achieve stupendous sound through a controlled inflection of their voice, and return back to a mellow cantor *(XYZ)*
*_Composer_* - The one responsible for conceiving and planning out the entire sound of the concert. The one who not only knows all the players needed, but how and when they must act in tandem to achieve the perfect realization of their masterpiece *(Link)*
Plus they already went with the idea of having the spells (and maybe traps) being based on terms in musical sound and performances, so there is a lot of room to make different kinds of protection, splash, and control cards. This could have made for a really fun deck where your support cards assemble a concert of performers, with the spells and traps weaving the parts of a performance, and finally consolidating all of the musicians into the performance leader, who brings the duel to its peak, before coming to a close!
Yea it's just weird for Yuzu to NOT be a lack of all trades like Yuya does, or have Yuzu go into Rituals for the Composer role as well, directing a true masterpiece
Yeah, it's really weird that they don't have any Pendulum monsters, despite belonging to the Pendulum girl. Having access to Pendulum summons could've helped them out quite a bit, considering how many of them activate their effect only upon special summoning.
@@a1rg3ar31 Yea, feels like being a heroine in YGO is a massive burden for some bookers, and it shows... kinda spills over really considering but yes Yuzu being a Jill of all Trades would be nice, and maybe a good Ritual user if we can't find a 5th man (so they get to duel a Nekroz user)
@@kitelanford The problem is that early melodious cards have different effects from anime to real life, so the archetype ended up tripping itself more than it should, the anime version of the deck while not very great at least had a consistent swarm a little and do burn damage either on summon or via balle, so the real life version being changed to lockdown early on did end up contradicting itself.
That being the Ritual direction of yours is a good idea and much better than giving it every extra deck method.
@@Thisdude850 Did say either or but to be fair, their insane quest goals is there as a Jack of all Trades Duelist, but want to manifest something...
I still am mad at the lack of Ritual spotlight in Arc-V... poor Aura, she has no Nekroz companion
"This could probably do with some support right now."
And a few months later, Konami announced new cards for the archetype. Truly, Rata is the Nostradamus of Yugioh.
Another thing to note with Aria stopping your own targeting:
IT WAS PART OF MELODIOUS’ DEBUT IN THE PHYSICAL TCG
They HAD a card that prevented you being able to target your own monsters and MADE CARDS IN-ARCHETYPE THAT TARGETTED.
Like they FORGOT Aria could do that!
seeing a new Archetype Archive from Rata again is sublime.
And Ojama Lime's return is lovely as well. surprised he has decent singing skills.
What other surprises is Jimbles hiding from us?
I miss the one whose Shape was Snatched though
You underestimated Jimbles' dedication to be a good va or overestimated Lime's ability to be bad at everything
@@jayd.doubledubs Little but of both really
Interesting note: there was a decent period shortly after ARC-V was brought into Duel Links that Melodious was Tier 1.
The secret: Yuzu had a skill that let you tribute a Melodious monster to SS a Melodious Maestra monster from the deck, so you could start with the material for any Fusion Summon you want by bringing out Shopina to recycle the monster tributed for the skill.
Also: Bloom Diva is great as the monster summoned for Ostinato since it protects itself.
Yeah...which is funny since she's the monster ON the card. If only melodious had any direction(s) at all, they could have a gameplan of killing the opponent by ramming an untargertable, unable-to-be-negated Bloom Diva into an entire board of monsters from the opponent.
@@KuroeNezumi until they summon a card like Red Nova Dragon, that just says f you to Bloom Diva.
@@lisaruhm6681 Damage Calc Score okay?
@@oHiMi1337 I think he meant Red Supernova Dragon
I had a lot of fun playing this in DL, wish it had more of a gameplan.
Honestly, I am glad to not only hear Rata again, but also relieved that I’m not the only one who feels that Melodious feels incomplete,
Considering the other parts involve CP. I'm pretty sure that Melodious will stay incomplete.
@@aliastheabnormal Just going to ask, what does CP mean?
Step 1: Make Aria+Elegy
Step 2: .............
Step 3: Lose
@@aliastheabnormal ?
@@pablorosada9788 Honestly if they gave them the ability to attack directly plus the ability to not take damage this could be a neat protect the castle/army deck
Fun Fact: If you use Brilliant Rose’s effect to Special Summon itself, you can’t then activate Bloom Harmonist (the Link-2)’s effect that turn since Brilliant Rose isn’t treated as a Melodious monster.
Even though the card is meant to be Melodious support in addition to Gem-Knight support…
And it already treats itself as a Gem-Knight for that side of the support…
...and "Raider's Knight" has two archetype conditions to support two different decks, just like "Brilliant Rose".
No more comment.
Funnier fact: the archetypal Melodious fusion spells don’t have “Fusion” in them, so Fusion Parasite can’t search them, and *its fusion material substitution effect is nigh-useless in Melodious since none of the Melodious fusion monsters have named materials*
At least when the other Bracelet Girls got brainwashed, they got cool superpowered dark side boss monsters out of it, but Yuzu gets bad touch’d and has NOTHING to show for it.
Ojama lime is performing in public and not being immediately booed off the stage is a rare W for him.
Surely nobody in comments would dare Boo! at Ojama Lime's performance.
Just here to say, they just got support, and pendulum monsters.
Only took them almost 10 years.
A real sad shame Yuzu's archetype didn't go the same path as Yuya's in gaining Synchro, XYZ, or even Pendulum as she's supposed to be a Bracelet Girl from that dimension. Really hurts to see.
It is assumed that Yuzu has Pendulum in her deck🥲
Really bad, like this archetype really really does deserve pendulums
@@mmmbhss3468 It seems that Konami is indifferent to this deck, is really unfortunate
@@mmmbhss3468 in fact, it feels like it was designed with Pendulums in mind, yet recieved none. Like they thought Pendulum would be an easily splashable mechanic, which it wasn't.
the funny thing is they MADE a pendulum deck that is also focused on musical fairies, the solfachords. Which really feels like an anime deck that they forgot to put in the anime with how specific some of their effects are.
I love it how whenever rata uploads the whole yugioh community comes together just to watch him
Whenever Rata uploads, the whole YuGiOh community comes.
Whenever Rata uploads, the whole YuGiOh community.
Melodious have been my neglected pet deck for almost a decade now. Everything about them is so sad because it reflects the similar neglect of Yuzu in the anime. A video like this is like a dream come true.
The fact the last card related to Yuzu had Fusion Parasite mentioned on its effect is just the cherry on the top
@@zerobullets6935 I can rest in peace now.
RATA! YOU DID IT AGAIN DAMN IT. THEY MADE MELODIUSE SUPPORT WITHIN A 6 MONTHS OF THIS VIDEOS UPLOAD. PLEASE GIVE ME YOYR POWER
No he will not
@@idosarts_and_krafts but I asked nicely 🥺
@@jasonsippel2353 .........ah
I ....did not notice that, still, it's up to him to decide
3:25 I'm so happy this gag is still around.
Man, time (and Konami) has not been kind to Melodious, hopefully they get something in a future main set or the LIGHT duelist pack (whenever that happens).
I mean what can you give the archtype to salvage it other than a complete change in playstyle
@nsalieister3334 with Konami, the answer usually is exactly that: a complete change in playstyle. Or a field card with eighty lines of text that's designed to do all of the things the deck needs.
@seeker38 Give the ol skill drain boss monsters that attacks directly treatment and a link 1 that searches the field spell that searches all cards and can special summon a melodies from your deck hand or gy if you control a melodies fusion monster
This literally works for all archtypes
Indeed. It's like anything to do with it and/or Yuzu MUST get screwed over in some fashion. Reality just hates that character and those cards for no given reason.
@NS Aliester Not all archetypes though (Ice Barriers, Ursarctics, Gustos, Ritual Beasts, Jurrac, Evols, Mayakashis, Vendreads, Lavals, Scareclaw, etc.)..... Konami can't elevate the archetype's trash ceiling with that kind of band-aid......
17:45-18:18 One can use similar words and thoughts to describe Arc-V. Like Yuzu, once the story beats go further in, she and the melodious bow off the stage to be a stagehand.
First a fantastic departure with the Ultrakill video and now some classic Rata? I'm here for all of it!
I'm surprised these never got pendulums considering they're an arc-v archetype and all have effects when special summoned. When Arc-v was airing I was waiting for performapal/odd-eyes level of support for melodious
*queue JK Simmons/J Jonah Jameson laughing here*
Melodious are Majespecters extrapolated entirely into "Bad Idea" space.
That's on the anime for never giving Yuzu any Pendulums. All the problems Melodious have are rooted in Yuzu being demoted after season 1 and the writers not caring to give her any duels. She also didn't duel once in the manga, which was the last chance.
I'll take 2 Pendulums over the Link any time.
@@JohnSmith-iw1wd right. Kinda messed up the Tyler sisters got pendulums before Yuzu. I know there's predaplant and Fluffal/Edge-Imp pendulums, but I think that's tied into the manga, idk, I never read it.
@@marvdick-underwood you're correct in that assumption
@@JohnSmith-iw1wd Never any Pendulums of her own, technically. She _did_ actually Pendulum Summon once, but that was only with procedurally-generated generic Pendulums in the circumstances of the tournament she was in, like Action Cards so often were.
Still doesn't justify NEVER getting any proper ones of her own, nor any real development past season 1.
Yuzu's last duel was in episode 83....
ARC-V was 148 episodes.
What did she do for the rest of the show?? Just sit in the bleachers??
@@vaughnrudy8084Got lost from one dimension to the next, got kidnapped, then died.
did her other universe selves at least get to do anything cool@@vanitassmangareviews8869
@@vanitassmangareviews8869her getting kidnapped could have worked if she actually fought back
That's just criminal
You can say Rata's voice is a.....melody to the ears.
I'll see myself out.
Rata is always the best thing to listen to.
Next to 80s rock music lol
Get back here. We love puns.
I don't think I have ever seen an Archetype Archive achieve a protection score of over three, much less a four. As someone who hasn't played a whole lot of Yu-Gi-Oh I have always wondered what an archetype focused on protection would actually look like. I'm very satisfied to finally have my answer. Really good video.
I can think of a few. Majespecters, The Weather, maybe Superheavy Samurai but that's more of a deck full of big bonks that happen to be in defense position.
The problem with purely defensive decks in YGO is that the game is too fast to allow a grindy playstyle, so most of the time playing defensively comes hand in hand with some kind of hard stun (often floodgates of some sort) or else you just get overwhelmed even through all your protection. And that's no fun.
@@ExeloMinish Maybe Lyrilusc too.
I think the 5 in recovery, which we also haven't seen, would go to something like Salamangreat.
Seeing these decks get covered would be interesting but I have a feeling we don’t see many protection decks because they aren’t very well liked in the community
@@moonjelly5 Batterymen got a 3 in recovery, when the max score used to be 3.
"first archetype archive in the year would be meliodius or something"
Rata your foreshadowing is impeccable
Can't believe a new Archetype Archive came out... I watch the previous ones so many times over and over. This is beautiful
It's funny that Melodious has no pendulum monsters despite belonging to the pendulum girl.
And now there is a music based pendulum deck that looks like it was made for the anime with the weird gimmick.
Well, it's time to wake up Rata because they got new support.
The heavy references to Bystials makes me think you wrote this a while ago :P
Amazing to see you in my feed Mr Rata. Love and support.
Well, now to go refresh Ygorg over and over again to see the inevitable new wave of Melodias support today
At this point, it feels like the only support Yuzu will get is in fanfiction.
Seeing a new Rata Video in my feed is always like a happy jumpscare.
With Rata covering this archetype, i can confidently guess a new support card will be made in a few months.
I was right
Even after so long without an Archetype Archive, Rata instantly nails it with the Tony Soprano. Every video you make is a sweet symphony, love u
Thank you Rata, every video is a blessing!
Rata is like my Dad, rarely do i get to see him, but it brings so much joy whenever he appears
[Insert music pun here.] Glad to have a new video to watch.
I never could figure out what to do with a Melodious deck, and after watching this video I still don't.
Did you see the new support? They're all pretty solid. They helped the archetype find more ways to special summon (they got pendulums, finally which makes sense lololol) and they received new fusion monsters that help support the archetype in a lot of ways and one of them disrupts boards. They're really good! It is all really good too in setting up elegy+aria combo while putting up a big board of melodious fusions too.
they finally did it. even if i could throw some complaints, this and cardians are all ive been waiting for in arc-v support, so ill take it. it helps it's not that bad and my want for pendulum melodious was finally answered.
@@DarkCT that was literally my reaction too like... omg, after literally 5 years they're now a playable deck. 😭🤚🤚🤚
And this support is great bc the pendulums makes the deck drop certain cards that used to be needed in the deck like Mozarta and Ties of the Bretheran because the deck can now pendulum summon + interact with the GY more better.
@@winstonpham8617 a deck of operatic singers needed scales. period. end of, nevermind the pendulum era was when these things aired. Bach and Etoile each have a great part to play, though you have to be careful about Etoiles effect last i checked. also an actually searchable fusion? Yes please. although one thing about Etoile i forgot to mention- she can almost turn your locked cards like ostinato temporarily live again.
Melodious had to many contraditions. their best backrow not usable either because of targeting or no monster clauses. so many special summons needed, but no ways. and in some way, each question has been answered. may i say about dang time.
Ive been asking for this longer than earbound servant support. another wave of cardians and im gonna be on the moon.
Well after the support came out it top many times in locals in the ocg which suprised me lol
Whenever I hear Ojama Lime's voice I feel sad because it more often than not means that the video has come to an end... then again, that's probably intentional given Rata's relationship with the archetype.
I’m not sure if this is intentional, but this came out on Mother’s Day in the uk at least and that really can’t be anything but hilarious for me knowing the thing about Yuzu in the manga
I am so glad Rata gave this archetype it's
swan song.
Hopefully Rata works his magic and we will get an encore of new Melodious support!
@@MoskalMedia Like they used to say, "Rata memed the card into existence"
The best thing this archetype gave us was a video from RATA.
Rata is truly the JonTron of the Yu-Gi-Oh community: he makes a banger disappears for a few months, everyone forgets, then he comes back and everything loses their shit saying "HE'S BACK."
bruh
It's obvious that Jontron's style of comedy has been a major inspiration for Rata as well.
Why does Abaki moonlighting as a Melodious monster make the most confounding amount of sense to me?
it's been so long that I legit thought "archetype archive" was a new series lmfao
Also the equip card Kahoyreigetsu is honestly pretty good in magistus and even witchcrafter decks as it's a desperately needed free summon and either fusion card search or discard ammo in the form of metalfoes fusion :D
When the world needed him the most, he returned!
but for how long?
@@TheDragonfriday not long enough.
Melodious Deck: *Can protect your whole field from targeting, destruction and battle*
Zues: "Allow me to introduce myself"
Honestly, Melodious is due for more support. It would be cool if they somehow worked Pendulum, Synchro and Xyz into the archetype to contrast Yuya's use of the summon mechanics. Just giving Melodious 2 Scales, searchers, a Tuner, a DPE and more ways to abuse the fact that they couldn't be destroyed by Card Effects would make the archetype a lot more playable
If they get featured in a duelist pack then I want 3 pendulums (2 lv 4, 1Lv 7 or 8) a Synchro, an Xyz and a proper Field Spell stage. And something else for the 7th card. Then Animation Chronicle can follow up by making her unreleased cards like Saint Instrument.
Well, now they got 2 scales, which are searchers, a Fusion that Specials from deck or GY, and a sorta DPE!
Again a very good video Rata. The Yugioh community is honestly blessed with you and I would wish that your non yugioh related content would go so good as well because your humor and editing is extremly good. So probs to you, because you manage to bring a smile over my otherwise depressed life.
Once I had a dream that Rata uploaded a really long video covering multiple archetypes, and also it was really high budget and had the framing device of a magical board game and also scenes of sychronized dancing. Also for some reason Rata looked like a completely different buff guy.
I had a dream once that Rata was reviewing new train support and one of the cards was a lvl 1 train cart that looked the candy house from Hansel & Gretel.
@@zerobullets6935 No, I really did dream this. It sounds fake as hell, I know.
...Which archetypes?
@@a1rg3ar31 That sounds hilarious
The Choson son from the Balkins has come down from the mountains to bless me with this lovely song
Hearing rata in the morning is literal music to my ears
It's so weird that Melodious is the only deck run by a main character from the first dimension in Arc V that didn't get pendulum support.
Especially with the reliance of special summoning your monsters, without much that can do that consistently, you'd think they'd give the deck at least 2 so it's possible.
I love the Tony Soprano joke. Hope we get something similar when Gandolfini of the Ice Barrier is released in the TCG
I think the big problem with this archetype is that they lock you into said archetype. Melodius is a Light/Fairy archetype, which means that it could have some very good access to a variety of generic Fairy support, chief among them being some very effective Link Monsters. I do think that Ostinato has some potential for decks with problems keeping field presence like Weather Painters, but having 2 extra bricks in a deck that already has terrible consistency is not a good idea
That's why I play them with counter fairies. They only trigger their effects during the opponent's turn so during my turn I can focus on the melodious side.
And when the world needed him the most, he returned.
"These cards are functional, but towards an underwhelming purpose'
Fuck, me too bro
Knock, knock, Rata.
Knock, knock.
KNOCK, KNOCK
When it was released, Schuberta was pretty real. The quick effect to banish 3 ruined most GY setups at the time, so it worked as an effective disruption. There's an old channel called Azallea (I think) that used to play this deck a lot, and I've seen Schuberta ruin setups over and over again.
I don’t care how long it takes for him to make a video, I’ll always get excited when Rata blesses us with his presence
15:42, Next they'll probably make a Trickstar card that searches Dark Angel.
melodious got support...
Rata you sly devil you did it again.
For those curious, there was a point in time where Melodious were a *scourge upon mankind* in Duel Links. Their protection, combined with their Fusions' effects basically created a *WALL* very few decks could get over as Duel Links as a format to this day heavily relies on Battle Phase effects.
God I love these girls, and I love even more seeing Rata at it again! Hope ya been well!
I am so happy that Rata has done a new Archetype Archive base on the one deck that I THOUGHT would get the Synchro, Xyz and Pendulum treatment like Odd-Eyes but no luck. Now we're only hoping since Konami has their eye on Rata (Volcanics will be getting support soon FINALLY); WE MIGHT get Melodious support and make this Deck complete. I look forward to that day. Thank you Rata!
Support Report WHEN
Twin long rod’s voice at the end was truly beautiful. An amazing ending to an equally amazing video
Surprised Pianissimo didn’t get a mention since it was randomly relevant as a side option in Zoodiac format and literally never anywhere else.
this was legit one of my main decks during arc-V. Total hot trash, but being able to hard counter burning abyss, kozmo, certain builds of qli, and shadolls(once super poly got banned) was always great.
8 months later but hey we got some new Melodious cards. Thank you based Rata
This deck was quite the menace in Duel Links for a time because Bloom Diva basically t-posed on you until you surrendered or died.
But with Effect Veiler now being in the game, I don't know how viable it is now.
This new Archive Archetype is music for music ears
i just yelled at my husband, "HONEY! NEW RATA!" and heard a muffled "fuck yeah!" from the other room.
Immagine if they reveal new Melodious support that is actually playable from Duelist Nexus right after this video
because of Rata, I exclusively use an Abaki deck composed of 39 Abakis and 1 Ojama Lime
LMAO, can’t wait for the next video.
Yea!!! A new Rata video!!! I've missed you!!!!
I'm shocked this Archetype never got any pendulum cards
I'm convinced that 95% of the month of wait time is just the ojama lime bits
I keep forgetting that this archetype exist. It's also amazing how much this archetype feels like something a one-off villain would use in a filler episode.
@@zerobullets6935 Yep I saw. Some dev remembered they exist and got legacy support for Christmas.
One of the first games using melodious I’ve ever seen was against fuller power gouki, meaning at a time where summon sorc and halqifibrax was legal along side all knightmares. Dude had the full extra link, but couldn’t out the aria elegy lock. Then, he summoned three sonata and dropped a score on the tri-gate. Opponents monsters were indestructible, but he still took the damage.
Farfa's Table 500?
@@Chimeratech_O.D. that’s the one
I believe a lot of the lineup was made with generic light fairy support like Celestial Transformation and Valhalla in mind, because the archetype is just that unfinished otherwise.
Thank you for saying solfachord at the end. This entire video I was trying to figure out which archetype I was getting this confused with.
God, Twin Rods has a great singing voice.
Its a funny feeling seeing you cover these cards, I've been using them since they came out. Fun fact it took like 2+ years for the fusions/ostinato to be released after the first wave.
Well, the deck is now complete and is tier 1. Whodathunkit?
They be prepping for Duel Links story moments.
In defence of Mozarta. I once ran into a player who played Valhalla, summoned Mozarta, used Mozarta’s effect to summon ARCANA FORCE 21 THE WORLD and make the Galaxy Xyz package in the most epic way possible
Insane that most of these cards have 1 or even 2 major drawbacks. And being forced to be so insular means it can't even find a home in Fairy piles.
Also, and I don't think this would fix this archetype, but it is so weird that Yuzu is the only character from the first season to not graduate into getting Pendulums.
it would fix something. look at how many of the cards need a special summon to get the effects off.
now picture if they had had scales like nearly everybody but cardians got from their era. finally fairy musicians could actually play the scales. *Solfachord shows up, is pushed out of the room*
Truly amazing work as always, see you in a year and a half for windwitch
Every Archetype Archive is a soothing melody :)
I hate that it took so long for me to hit play! I'm at least glad I was able to watch this after a long day. Keep up the great work Rata! You're awesome!
It actually was melodious 😂
I unironically didn't know this archetype existed and thought rata was looking at sofachords
All the Monsters that require being Special Summoned to get their effects off makes me think this Archetype was supposed to get Pendulum support at some point, considering this originated from Arc-V.
I love how you can tell that these videos take a long time to make by how rata refers to bystials like they're still a widespread dominant threat