As far as thematics, I believe the idea is that the bones "crumble" and get rearranged into a different shape, which is why a lot of them destroy mementos to get different ones, and then mementoral is all the bones combined.
Their more unique effects also reflect the flavor text/lore of the normal monsters - Mace: flavor text says enemies love its cuteness, hence why it gets enemies to join its side for a turn. The search it gets may also be it using its key to obtain a card ‘locked away’ in the deck. - Goblin: flavor text/artwork show connection to ‘fake trap’ which protects your traps, hence why it has a protection effect. The 2 cards it sends to gy may represent the 2 kanji letters its always practicing maybe? - Fairywitch: flavor text says she was destined to be a fairy but chose to be a witch, hence why her effect can either conjure a fiend (goblin/ghattic) like witches do, or a fairy (mace) like she was destined to. - Dark Blade: err… his flavor text says he is powerful… hence he pops backrow?? or maybe he controls mementos instead of dragons?? idk - Tatsunootoshigo: Flavor text points out its a bizarre mixture of creatures parts, hence why it destroys a memento into separate creature parts, with larger monsters (higher level) breaking off into more parts. - Tri-horned: name/flavor text/artwork point out its 3 horns, hence why both its effects involve the number 3. Update: - Ghattic: Original name/text says it’s a ghost, so it was undead even before it became a memento, hence why it can revive itself from the GY easily. Perhaps its association to attics is why it can retrieve a card back to the hand; could be seen as taking something from/into an attic for later use maybe? - Mystical Sheep: Can fusion summon because, while it’s based on the sheep #2 vanilla, sheep #1 had an effect that concerned it being treated as fusion material. -Thunder Dragon: Effect to destroy 1 and search 2 is a reference to the fusion having 2 heads and also the original thunder dragon having the effect to discard itself to search 2 copies. Effect to banish opponent’s monsters by battle could be an homage to the thunder dragon archetype’s focus on banishing?
@@8bitdiedieYeah, instead of manipulating Dragons, he manipulates the Memento bones for a summon. He basically goes from a dragon controlling Dark Lord to a Necromancer. And for the powerful swing part, that leans in even more into manipulating Memento bones as he absorbs whatever life is left in one Memento to power up a magical attack that bust other magic instead of a physical slash against monsters.
My theory on why they destroy themselves: they’re all old normal monsters that built up resentment for not being played. That’s why they’re mementos, echoes of the past and they’re all fighting for the spotlight. And in their mindless race for it, Mementoral uses that to usher in his reign.
Their unique effects reflect the flavor text/lore of the normal monsters - Mace: flavor text says enemies love its cuteness, hence why it gets enemies to join its side for a turn. The search it gets may also be it using its key to obtain a card ‘locked away’ in the deck. - Goblin: flavor text/artwork show connection to ‘fake trap’ which protects your traps, hence why it has a protection effect. The 2 cards it sends to gy may represent the 2 kanji letters its always practicing maybe? - Fairywitch: flavor text says she was destined to be a fairy but chose to be a witch, hence why her effect can either conjure a fiend (goblin/ghattic) like witches do, or a fairy (mace) like she was destined to. - Dark Blade:err… his flavor text says he is powerful… hence he pops backrow?? or maybe he controls mementos instead of dragons?? idk - Tatsunootoshigo: Flavor text points out its a bizarre mixture of creatures parts, hence why it destroys a memento into separate creature parts, with larger monsters (higher level) breaking off into more parts. - Tri-horned: name/flavor text/artwork point out its 3 horns, hence why both its effects involve the number 3. Update: - Ghattic: Original name/text says it’s a ghost, so it was undead even before it became a memento, hence why it can revive itself from the GY easily. Perhaps its association to attics is why it can retrieve a card back to the hand; could be seen as taking something from/into an attic for later use maybe? - Mystical Sheep: Can fusion summon because, while it’s based on the sheep #2 vanilla, sheep #1 had an effect that concerned it being treated as fusion material. -Thunder Dragon: Effect to destroy 1 and search 2 is a reference to the fusion having 2 heads and also the original thunder dragon having the effect to discard itself to search 2 copies. Effect to banish opponent’s monsters by battle could be an homage to the thunder dragon archetype’s focus on banishing?
So a bit of fun info. Mementoral Tecuhtlica seems to be based on the ancient Aztec deity Mictlāntēcutli, a god of the dead and ruler of Mictlān, the lowest level of the underworld. If you look closely at the artwork of the Memento monsters, you can even see some decidedly mesoamerican inspired patterns in the corners of the card art. I believe what the theme is trying to imply here is that all these old vanilla monsters were condemned to the lowest levels of unplayability hell, where they encountered this ancient deity that gave them new life in the underworld.
An archetype based around literally reviving dead monsters with a giant dracolich is probably the coolest thing ever also them just hard confirming there will be extra deck monsters later is pretty hype
While Dark Blade is a more relevant Normal Monster than the other Momentos.. I feel like that's a good reflection with his effect being the most relevant for getting them rolling. His relevance as a Normal Monster allows him to have the power to make his forgotten brothers and sisters more relevant kind of thing.
10:12 the *Deck or Extra Deck* clause means that they 100% have more Memento cards planned which makes me really happy. This and the new Illusionist type cards are such a nice way to retrain old monsters that were never relevant and give them a cohesive playstile
It's not a guarantee. They just bake it in, just in case they *decide* to release a card that fits it. There's many examples of incomplete archetypes like this. Although it is still highly likely there will be an Extra Deck Memento.
Can you imagine if the vanilla fusion monsters got retrained into future support? With a possible archetype polymerization spell that destroys the materials to summon
Great Mammoth of Goldfine almost feels too easy a pick. Other than that, my votes are for Rabid Horseman, Man-eating Black Shark, and Twin-headed Thunder Dragon. Importantly, none of these (including mammoth) repeat monster types, so you can still run There Can Be Only One.
I think it's cool it seems like the memento monster's effects seem to be a bit based off their source's flavor text. I kinda hope they do that for more normal monster retrains
Serpent night dragon has an interesting chance of showing up in the Starry Night archtype, because Serpent was the opposite of the card Starry Night is based on
@@the_solomon_sage8431funny "anti-synergy" card that special summons itself to your opponent's field by bouncing one of their monsters to hand. Give it an ability to return itself to hand during the End Phase and the deck would be 🔥
This is so cool! It's really fascinating to see the R&D department of Konami to revamp their older cards into new versions, and build a new theme or archetype. Now I wanna see more old school vanilla monsters get this treatment but for different or even new themes or archetypes. And I like the idea of Nova doing his personal scoring of each theme or archetype that he'll do further on. Also I wanna see Nova tackle the Shark archetype, after all, he did a video on all penguin cards. So why not sharks?
Or... The savior/head honcho for the archetype. The very reason certain monster's have now been turned into a new form. It could be to simply give them new life and purpose. Or maybe something much more sinister.
@@drakofox1362 i think mementoral might be like metaphys executor. There is no original version, he is the original. Unless konami released a card that could be the original version of executor and i just don't know about it(which is a possibility)
candidates i'd add to this archetype are Harpie's Brother and Frog the Jam. not just forgotten, purposefully excluded from their old archetypes. though, i dont know how Frog the Jam would work on account of having no bones.....
acknowledged that the horse isn't released in TCG but was blind to my girl Fairywitch. I am, still salty about this, we were getting cards 'related' to her, in 2019, since she is the Witch, that "Witch's Apprentice" works for, and yet we've never gotten her.
They look SO good, this remembers me from Saint Seiya Hades Saga where enemies and allied that died on the past came again to life with the Surplices armors
Now we just need the ritual retrain of tri-horned dragon (it was a ritual monster in early video games) and we'll have the holy horned trinity of dragons.
Still gotta watch the whole video, but just realized that "memento mori" is a reminder to other meta cards that sooner or later they'll be underpowered much like the vanillas that inspired the archetype
Honestly, there are so many old normal monsters I'd love to see revived as Memento support. There are so many old normal monsters with absolutely sick art that could look even cooler as a dark and edgy Memento monster. My personal favorites are: 7 Colored Fish Air Eater Amphibian Beast Ansatsu Aqua Madoor Armored Starfish Barrel Lily Barrel Rock Behegon Binding Chain Bolt Penguin Boulder Tortoise Corroding Shark Cosmo Queen Crawling Dragon Crazy Fish Curtain of the Dark Ones Cyber Soldier Dark Plant Dragon Statue Dungeon Worm Embyonic Beast Emperor of the Land and Sea Fiend's Hand Fungi of the Musk Garvas Gate Deeg Ghoul with an Appetite Giant Mech-Soldier Guant Scorpion of the Tundra Gil Garth (I honestly would have loved to see this instead of dark blade but oh well lol) Golgoil Graveyard and the Hand of Invitation Great Bill Hercules Beetle King of Yamimakai Larvas Laughing Flower Madjinn Gunn Megasonic Eye Mikazukinoyaiba Mon Larvas Mr. Volcano Ogre of the Black Shadow Sengenjin Sentinel of the Seas Serpent Night Dragon Sky Dragon Slime Toad Spikebot Stone Ghost Sword Slasher Synchar The Drdek The Earl of Demise Toad Master Togex Twin Long Rods (#1 or #2) Ushi Oni Wetha Whiptail Crow Wow Warrior Yamadron Yaranzo Yormungarde Zanki Zoa and even a few rituals and fusions could be turned into mementos. Fusions espeicially, given the forshadowed extra deck monsters in the effects. Chakra Crab Turtle Dokurorider Fiend's Mirror Garma Sword Javelin Beetle Performance of Sword Skull Guardian Super War-Lion The Masked Beast Zera the Mant Amphibious Bugroth Aqua Dragon Barox Charubin the Fire Knight Crimson Sunbird Cyber Saurus Darkfire Dragon Deepsea Shark Dragoness the Wicked Knight Flame Ghost Fusionist Humanoid Worm Drake Kaiser Dragon Kamionwizard Kwagar Hercules Man-eating Black Shark Marine Beast Mavelus Musician King Mystical Sand Punished Eagle Rare Fish Roaring Ocean Snake Skelegon Skull Knight Skullbird Soul Hunter Vermillion Sparrow Warrior of Tradition Zombie Warrior Obviously I wouldn't want to see *all* of these turned into Memento monsters, as that'd make the archetype way too big, but if they choose to make further support for the archetype, I hope they choose monsters from this list.
That’s 5-6 Monsters already played on the first turn! That’s damn crazy! That means Mementorals will be freaking tough to kill unless you Banish them!😮 But holy hell they can pop off quick!
Their end board consists of nothing but a 5K beater, 50% of the time and sometimes not even that! On top of having a basically non-existent end-board, it also dies to a single ash blossom. I have no idea what they need to fix it. It's so fundamentally flawed, I have no idea what Konami were thinking when they designed it.
I'm hoping they use this as a launch pad to get more normal cards that would never see play a rework to put them into other archetypes or completely new ones to help revive the old classics.
Since we’re taking old vanillas and retraining them: Firewing Pegasus, Flame Cerebrus, Mr. Volcano, Flame Champion, and Darkfire Soldier #1 and #2 could all be transformed into a new FIRE Pyro deck, just saying.
I think that it's interesting the past cards get some light in a new look. I've been trying to get Konami to approve the All-eyes archetype I've been working on so it's nice the other cards are now in an archetype that gives them a new outfit.
I just wanted to say thank you for your hard work and entertaining videos on yugioh content. I really enjoy watching and listening to your yugioh explained videos and the random jokes you put in them.
I love Tri-Horned Dragon, even found a way to use him in one of my decks involving the Hieratic Archetype. I do enjoy it when they show love to older, less known/more forgotten monsters, though I still prefer my Tri-Horned Dragon with all his organs and skin, thank you very much, lol.
It's likely obvious but I like how each is a retrain of an old card but the archetype name is "Momento" which if I remember correctly is latin for roughly "Remember"
Memento Mace can technically open you up to using Synchro I think. Here me out; you use her effect to nab an opponent's monster, all while having both a tuner on the field, and a copy of the trap card Urgent Tuning. Granted you can only bust out Synchro's with generic materials, however you'll be not only interrupting your opponent by snatching their monster during their turn, you'll also get a monster of your own to either soak up a hit or deter your opponent from attacking.
Tri Horned Dragon was my favorite Secret Rare… until I understood it sucked. I still feel a fondness for it though so I really look forward to building a deck involving my favorite dragon.
Mementoral being the archetypal Metaphys Executioner/ Malefic Truth Dragon; Each Archetypes' monster line-ups being very explicitly retrains/ variants of older monsters, with the mandatory "big final boss monster" that breaks theme to be a new original card. We've had soft confirmed future ED monsters which makes me hopeful for some very old bad fusion retrains. I wouldn't expect Fusionist though specifically because of it's popularity except we got the Dark Blade retrain and that was a classic card in playground format. What I'd really like to see though, is this deck does have ideal theming for getting an alt wincon. The sad part of retrains is always that they often replace the originals or exist completely apart from them, and even when they do rope the original in those cards are plainly bad in the first place so it frankly sucks half the time. Currently Memento's retraining is in the sphere of "basically just a reference" where the normals have nothing to do with the actual deck, but Memento's theme could very well lend itself to a field/ continuous spell that can pop a "Memento" monster you control to summon a normal monster with entirely identical stats (level, type, attribute, atk, def) from at least the deck, ideally from anywhere (hand, deck, GY), along with a win condition when you control 5(?) monsters summoned by this effect. I'm thinking 5 because Exodia and Destiny Board, but 3 would be much less egregious and still line up with say Vennominaga's counters. The idea here obviously being trading out the "Memento" retains for their old "unplayed" originals, where if you don't get rid of them by using them as materials and manage to keep them around long enough to gather a whole field of them they reward you for playing them by literally winning the game for you.
Can you use Memento Bone Back when your memento monsters get destroyed by battle? Cuz is just says "by an opponent's card" not card effects so can you crash one of your monsters to summon the fake dragon?
Once you get mementoral on board you've got optional chaos synergy if you can spare and/or banish recycle the 2 level 1s. Chaos sorcerer or black luster soldier - envoy of the beginning could build in an otk or even ftk possibility. You could also use cards like trap tracks and chaos burst to get faster destruction of mementos to summon mementoral quicker as well as deal 1000+ burn too pushing closer to otk/ftk. 5000(X ?depending on number of opponent's monsters?) + 3000(x2) is more than enough damage to otk the opponent.
I petition that if the Momento Extra Deck Monsters are not lost and forgotten Normal Ritual Monsters like The Masked Beast, Skull Guardian, Zera The Mant, Dokurider and the rest we riot!
main problem with this deck imo is that they are heavily based on GY and destruction effects but they dont do nothing on the GY or when destroyed,because they all destroy monsters for effect.
Memento fire kings. Hybrid Combo done for you. Fire kings don't care what cards are destroyed including their own. Trap tracks, chaos burst, torrential tribute all provide synergy to both add in Black luster soldier - envoy of the beginning and you've got a 3 way synergy; memento + fire kings + chaos. A build that is an otk/ftk machine.
I mean the cards have only physically EXISTED for less than two weeks. Do you mean he should have done this when we only had the previews or that he needs to wait a few years or so per archetype just to be sure they won't get support?
8:24 At least it's captured in the Spell card he appears in. Tatsunootoshigo is my favorite old school vanilla to the point where it's in my phone's keyboard suggestions, so I agree that it's a crime he's not been released here. Though if they do, I worry they'll call him Seahorse...
I personally think the thought behind them is them basically destroying everything they can because they weren’t remembered since they’re shit normal monsters so I think the effects fit under that
If they are going for one monster for each type, there are a lot of monsters that I would like to see that will just not be made because Spellcaster and Fiend are already in the deck (I wouldn't change Fairywitch for nothing though there are various fiends I would've prefered instead of Goblin Calligrapher). For the Winged Beast type I would love to get a Fiend Reflection #2 remake, that would be literally insane, same with Skull Red Bird, though I'm calling it now: it will be Memento Kurama. For Aqua I'm expecting The Furious Sea King or Enchanting Mermaid. For zombie I would absolutely LOVE if they bring back Dark Assailant, though I'm expecting something more popular like Dragon Zombie or Yaranzo. I would love it if they make more of the same types though, it's sad if because Spellcaster, Fiend, Beast, etc. are already taken we can't get things like Gemini Elf, Fusionist, Dark Gray, The Shadow That Controls The Dark, Kuomori Dragon and others remade
Not only is Dark Blade not obscure but they seemed to actually have a Job unlike everyone but Goblin (who was probably replaced by automation) and they worked for another normal monster who is more obscure. Did King of Yamimakai get pissed at Dark Blade? Was 1530 defense the deal breaker to having the King be the Memento instead? Who got custody of the dragons? These are the real questions.
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As far as thematics, I believe the idea is that the bones "crumble" and get rearranged into a different shape, which is why a lot of them destroy mementos to get different ones, and then mementoral is all the bones combined.
Their more unique effects also reflect the flavor text/lore of the normal monsters
- Mace: flavor text says enemies love its cuteness, hence why it gets enemies to join its side for a turn. The search it gets may also be it using its key to obtain a card ‘locked away’ in the deck.
- Goblin: flavor text/artwork show connection to ‘fake trap’ which protects your traps, hence why it has a protection effect. The 2 cards it sends to gy may represent the 2 kanji letters its always practicing maybe?
- Fairywitch: flavor text says she was destined to be a fairy but chose to be a witch, hence why her effect can either conjure a fiend (goblin/ghattic) like witches do, or a fairy (mace) like she was destined to.
- Dark Blade: err… his flavor text says he is powerful… hence he pops backrow?? or maybe he controls mementos instead of dragons?? idk
- Tatsunootoshigo: Flavor text points out its a bizarre mixture of creatures parts, hence why it destroys a memento into separate creature parts, with larger monsters (higher level) breaking off into more parts.
- Tri-horned: name/flavor text/artwork point out its 3 horns, hence why both its effects involve the number 3.
Update:
- Ghattic: Original name/text says it’s a ghost, so it was undead even before it became a memento, hence why it can revive itself from the GY easily. Perhaps its association to attics is why it can retrieve a card back to the hand; could be seen as taking something from/into an attic for later use maybe?
- Mystical Sheep: Can fusion summon because, while it’s based on the sheep #2 vanilla, sheep #1 had an effect that concerned it being treated as fusion material.
-Thunder Dragon: Effect to destroy 1 and search 2 is a reference to the fusion having 2 heads and also the original thunder dragon having the effect to discard itself to search 2 copies. Effect to banish opponent’s monsters by battle could be an homage to the thunder dragon archetype’s focus on banishing?
@@8bitdiediegreat analysis 8bit
@@8bitdiedieYeah, instead of manipulating Dragons, he manipulates the Memento bones for a summon. He basically goes from a dragon controlling Dark Lord to a Necromancer.
And for the powerful swing part, that leans in even more into manipulating Memento bones as he absorbs whatever life is left in one Memento to power up a magical attack that bust other magic instead of a physical slash against monsters.
@@8bitdiedieThis archetype is so freaking cool, I can't wait to get it in Master Duel!
My theory on why they destroy themselves: they’re all old normal monsters that built up resentment for not being played. That’s why they’re mementos, echoes of the past and they’re all fighting for the spotlight. And in their mindless race for it, Mementoral uses that to usher in his reign.
Their unique effects reflect the flavor text/lore of the normal monsters
- Mace: flavor text says enemies love its cuteness, hence why it gets enemies to join its side for a turn. The search it gets may also be it using its key to obtain a card ‘locked away’ in the deck.
- Goblin: flavor text/artwork show connection to ‘fake trap’ which protects your traps, hence why it has a protection effect. The 2 cards it sends to gy may represent the 2 kanji letters its always practicing maybe?
- Fairywitch: flavor text says she was destined to be a fairy but chose to be a witch, hence why her effect can either conjure a fiend (goblin/ghattic) like witches do, or a fairy (mace) like she was destined to.
- Dark Blade:err… his flavor text says he is powerful… hence he pops backrow?? or maybe he controls mementos instead of dragons?? idk
- Tatsunootoshigo: Flavor text points out its a bizarre mixture of creatures parts, hence why it destroys a memento into separate creature parts, with larger monsters (higher level) breaking off into more parts.
- Tri-horned: name/flavor text/artwork point out its 3 horns, hence why both its effects involve the number 3.
Update:
- Ghattic: Original name/text says it’s a ghost, so it was undead even before it became a memento, hence why it can revive itself from the GY easily. Perhaps its association to attics is why it can retrieve a card back to the hand; could be seen as taking something from/into an attic for later use maybe?
- Mystical Sheep: Can fusion summon because, while it’s based on the sheep #2 vanilla, sheep #1 had an effect that concerned it being treated as fusion material.
-Thunder Dragon: Effect to destroy 1 and search 2 is a reference to the fusion having 2 heads and also the original thunder dragon having the effect to discard itself to search 2 copies. Effect to banish opponent’s monsters by battle could be an homage to the thunder dragon archetype’s focus on banishing?
Flavor Text format is real??
So a bit of fun info. Mementoral Tecuhtlica seems to be based on the ancient Aztec deity Mictlāntēcutli, a god of the dead and ruler of Mictlān, the lowest level of the underworld. If you look closely at the artwork of the Memento monsters, you can even see some decidedly mesoamerican inspired patterns in the corners of the card art. I believe what the theme is trying to imply here is that all these old vanilla monsters were condemned to the lowest levels of unplayability hell, where they encountered this ancient deity that gave them new life in the underworld.
An archetype based around literally reviving dead monsters with a giant dracolich is probably the coolest thing ever also them just hard confirming there will be extra deck monsters later is pretty hype
We already had a dracolich long ago and that is red-eyes zombie dragon. It also wields the power of necromancy
It would be really cool if the extra deck monsters are retrains of classic non effect fusion monsters
@@mike10th Wish granted, they made a Memento monster based on Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon
While Dark Blade is a more relevant Normal Monster than the other Momentos.. I feel like that's a good reflection with his effect being the most relevant for getting them rolling. His relevance as a Normal Monster allows him to have the power to make his forgotten brothers and sisters more relevant kind of thing.
As I big fan of the DM era, who didn't get the chance to play back in the day, I am happy to have the chance to pay respect to these old relics.
I have a dream... Memento Bat
I'd rather want a memento wolf
First thing I think of is Memento Bat is also Virus support.
Memento fusionist
Omg. I use Bat in chemcritter deck just because it synergy with lv 2s
Memento Slime Toad.
10:12 the *Deck or Extra Deck* clause means that they 100% have more Memento cards planned which makes me really happy.
This and the new Illusionist type cards are such a nice way to retrain old monsters that were never relevant and give them a cohesive playstile
It's not a guarantee. They just bake it in, just in case they *decide* to release a card that fits it. There's many examples of incomplete archetypes like this. Although it is still highly likely there will be an Extra Deck Memento.
@@monkfishy6348 Remind me of Nekroz since Clausolas mention trap but there's no Nekroz trap card till now
@@Observe-h1tstill not one right?
@@ThatOneWeirdFlex yep
Can you imagine if the vanilla fusion monsters got retrained into future support? With a possible archetype polymerization spell that destroys the materials to summon
Great Mammoth of Goldfine almost feels too easy a pick. Other than that, my votes are for Rabid Horseman, Man-eating Black Shark, and Twin-headed Thunder Dragon. Importantly, none of these (including mammoth) repeat monster types, so you can still run There Can Be Only One.
@@CobaltDracoI think they should be more obscure than that.
my Metal Dragon already got turned into ride
Mementorial Collection
Congrats, you’re a prophet! Looks like Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon got the Memento treatment with a fusion spell card to boot. 😂
I think it's cool it seems like the memento monster's effects seem to be a bit based off their source's flavor text. I kinda hope they do that for more normal monster retrains
Did you think Serpent Night Dragon will get a Memento retrain?! Or maybe even the Luster Dragon and Emerald Dragon?
Serpent night dragon has an interesting chance of showing up in the Starry Night archtype, because Serpent was the opposite of the card Starry Night is based on
So far, Memento seems to want to use monsters with different types. So until we get something that breaks the mold, probably not.
I'd Rather Serpent Night get a retrain that works with Trancendasaurus with an effect that always treats it like a Dinosaur card.
@@the_solomon_sage8431funny "anti-synergy" card that special summons itself to your opponent's field by bouncing one of their monsters to hand. Give it an ability to return itself to hand during the End Phase and the deck would be 🔥
This is so cool! It's really fascinating to see the R&D department of Konami to revamp their older cards into new versions, and build a new theme or archetype. Now I wanna see more old school vanilla monsters get this treatment but for different or even new themes or archetypes. And I like the idea of Nova doing his personal scoring of each theme or archetype that he'll do further on.
Also I wanna see Nova tackle the Shark archetype, after all, he did a video on all penguin cards. So why not sharks?
I see the boss monster like the boss monster for Metaphys, something made for the archetype with no old monster to pull from
Or... The savior/head honcho for the archetype. The very reason certain monster's have now been turned into a new form. It could be to simply give them new life and purpose. Or maybe something much more sinister.
I say the boss monster might be 5 Headed dragon hence why it needs 5 cards shuffle
@@drakofox1362 i think mementoral might be like metaphys executor. There is no original version, he is the original. Unless konami released a card that could be the original version of executor and i just don't know about it(which is a possibility)
@@scary-sounds who knows really but I'm keeping my theory on just in case
@@drakofox1362 you could be right. And it would be interesting if he was the five headed dragon all along.
candidates i'd add to this archetype are Harpie's Brother and Frog the Jam. not just forgotten, purposefully excluded from their old archetypes.
though, i dont know how Frog the Jam would work on account of having no bones.....
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acknowledged that the horse isn't released in TCG but was blind to my girl Fairywitch. I am, still salty about this, we were getting cards 'related' to her, in 2019, since she is the Witch, that "Witch's Apprentice" works for, and yet we've never gotten her.
They look SO good, this remembers me from Saint Seiya Hades Saga where enemies and allied that died on the past came again to life with the Surplices armors
Now we just need the ritual retrain of tri-horned dragon (it was a ritual monster in early video games) and we'll have the holy horned trinity of dragons.
It's great to see old cards get new flavor. Im still waiting for an update on the cyber style step-child, Cyber Ogre lol
Give me my Memento Beaver Warrior, you cowards!
"Mommy I see it! Is that..." "yes my dear..that is..the Tri horned Dragon"
Still gotta watch the whole video, but just realized that "memento mori" is a reminder to other meta cards that sooner or later they'll be underpowered much like the vanillas that inspired the archetype
I agree Dark Blade is a weird choice with the sheer amount of cards he shows up with, I guess they need an excuse to reprint Fusion Deployment?
Honestly, there are so many old normal monsters I'd love to see revived as Memento support. There are so many old normal monsters with absolutely sick art that could look even cooler as a dark and edgy Memento monster.
My personal favorites are:
7 Colored Fish
Air Eater
Amphibian Beast
Ansatsu
Aqua Madoor
Armored Starfish
Barrel Lily
Barrel Rock
Behegon
Binding Chain
Bolt Penguin
Boulder Tortoise
Corroding Shark
Cosmo Queen
Crawling Dragon
Crazy Fish
Curtain of the Dark Ones
Cyber Soldier
Dark Plant
Dragon Statue
Dungeon Worm
Embyonic Beast
Emperor of the Land and Sea
Fiend's Hand
Fungi of the Musk
Garvas
Gate Deeg
Ghoul with an Appetite
Giant Mech-Soldier
Guant Scorpion of the Tundra
Gil Garth (I honestly would have loved to see this instead of dark blade but oh well lol)
Golgoil
Graveyard and the Hand of Invitation
Great Bill
Hercules Beetle
King of Yamimakai
Larvas
Laughing Flower
Madjinn Gunn
Megasonic Eye
Mikazukinoyaiba
Mon Larvas
Mr. Volcano
Ogre of the Black Shadow
Sengenjin
Sentinel of the Seas
Serpent Night Dragon
Sky Dragon
Slime Toad
Spikebot
Stone Ghost
Sword Slasher
Synchar
The Drdek
The Earl of Demise
Toad Master
Togex
Twin Long Rods (#1 or #2)
Ushi Oni
Wetha
Whiptail Crow
Wow Warrior
Yamadron
Yaranzo
Yormungarde
Zanki
Zoa
and even a few rituals and fusions could be turned into mementos. Fusions espeicially, given the forshadowed extra deck monsters in the effects.
Chakra
Crab Turtle
Dokurorider
Fiend's Mirror
Garma Sword
Javelin Beetle
Performance of Sword
Skull Guardian
Super War-Lion
The Masked Beast
Zera the Mant
Amphibious Bugroth
Aqua Dragon
Barox
Charubin the Fire Knight
Crimson Sunbird
Cyber Saurus
Darkfire Dragon
Deepsea Shark
Dragoness the Wicked Knight
Flame Ghost
Fusionist
Humanoid Worm Drake
Kaiser Dragon
Kamionwizard
Kwagar Hercules
Man-eating Black Shark
Marine Beast
Mavelus
Musician King
Mystical Sand
Punished Eagle
Rare Fish
Roaring Ocean Snake
Skelegon
Skull Knight
Skullbird
Soul Hunter
Vermillion Sparrow
Warrior of Tradition
Zombie Warrior
Obviously I wouldn't want to see *all* of these turned into Memento monsters, as that'd make the archetype way too big, but if they choose to make further support for the archetype, I hope they choose monsters from this list.
I love how this worked I really feels like a anime villain deck
That’s 5-6 Monsters already played on the first turn! That’s damn crazy! That means Mementorals will be freaking tough to kill unless you Banish them!😮
But holy hell they can pop off quick!
Nibiru
Their end board consists of nothing but a 5K beater, 50% of the time and sometimes not even that! On top of having a basically non-existent end-board, it also dies to a single ash blossom. I have no idea what they need to fix it. It's so fundamentally flawed, I have no idea what Konami were thinking when they designed it.
@@monkfishy6348I guess they knew what they needed lmao
I can't wait for this archetype to come to Master Duel
I'm hoping they use this as a launch pad to get more normal cards that would never see play a rework to put them into other archetypes or completely new ones to help revive the old classics.
In my eyes, the momento popping theme embodies all those scrap normal monsters we used to glue on printed better monsters as we were children
Since we’re taking old vanillas and retraining them: Firewing Pegasus, Flame Cerebrus, Mr. Volcano, Flame Champion, and Darkfire Soldier #1 and #2 could all be transformed into a new FIRE Pyro deck, just saying.
Mementorial Pyre!
0:34 Imagine if they gave Memento retrains to cards like the Itsu, Shining Angel, or an Ojama
21:11 What is this? a new section?
Kinda wish they had some rad vanilla monsters support built in
I think that it's interesting the past cards get some light in a new look. I've been trying to get Konami to approve the All-eyes archetype I've been working on so it's nice the other cards are now in an archetype that gives them a new outfit.
Hear me out, Memento Beaver warrior or, Memento hematoma soul
Ooh a neat theme
Hope they show Beast if Talwar, Sengenjin, Chakra and Performance of Swords
I just wanted to say thank you for your hard work and entertaining videos on yugioh content. I really enjoy watching and listening to your yugioh explained videos and the random jokes you put in them.
I love Tri-Horned Dragon, even found a way to use him in one of my decks involving the Hieratic Archetype. I do enjoy it when they show love to older, less known/more forgotten monsters, though I still prefer my Tri-Horned Dragon with all his organs and skin, thank you very much, lol.
I like how the decks in this set take inspiration from crystal beasts/ ultimate crystals.
TRI-HOOOOOOOOORN YEAAAAAH
It's likely obvious but I like how each is a retrain of an old card but the archetype name is "Momento" which if I remember correctly is latin for roughly "Remember"
wow i am so excited! maybe we will get more support in the future! it is an awesome concept!
As cool as this archetype is, they REALLY made sure it loses to EVERY going second card or handtrap possible.
Because of netherskulls effect that means we’re getting an extra deck memento and more likely than not to tie into the them it has to be fusion
Hoo boy, is it good to be back.
THE BOY, WE HAVE THE BOY!
I like the idea of using the nova scale here
Memento Mace can technically open you up to using Synchro I think.
Here me out; you use her effect to nab an opponent's monster, all while having both a tuner on the field, and a copy of the trap card Urgent Tuning. Granted you can only bust out Synchro's with generic materials, however you'll be not only interrupting your opponent by snatching their monster during their turn, you'll also get a monster of your own to either soak up a hit or deter your opponent from attacking.
I say the boss monster is the retrain of 5 headed dragon because of the 5 cards shuffle and the colors of its bones to matches that dragon
I just noticed that u can't spell memento without meme , it's a meme deck confirmed
Tri Horned Dragon was my favorite Secret Rare… until I understood it sucked. I still feel a fondness for it though so I really look forward to building a deck involving my favorite dragon.
Is memeto with unchained+their new support good together?
Mementoral being the archetypal Metaphys Executioner/ Malefic Truth Dragon; Each Archetypes' monster line-ups being very explicitly retrains/ variants of older monsters, with the mandatory "big final boss monster" that breaks theme to be a new original card.
We've had soft confirmed future ED monsters which makes me hopeful for some very old bad fusion retrains. I wouldn't expect Fusionist though specifically because of it's popularity except we got the Dark Blade retrain and that was a classic card in playground format.
What I'd really like to see though, is this deck does have ideal theming for getting an alt wincon. The sad part of retrains is always that they often replace the originals or exist completely apart from them, and even when they do rope the original in those cards are plainly bad in the first place so it frankly sucks half the time. Currently Memento's retraining is in the sphere of "basically just a reference" where the normals have nothing to do with the actual deck, but Memento's theme could very well lend itself to a field/ continuous spell that can pop a "Memento" monster you control to summon a normal monster with entirely identical stats (level, type, attribute, atk, def) from at least the deck, ideally from anywhere (hand, deck, GY), along with a win condition when you control 5(?) monsters summoned by this effect. I'm thinking 5 because Exodia and Destiny Board, but 3 would be much less egregious and still line up with say Vennominaga's counters. The idea here obviously being trading out the "Memento" retains for their old "unplayed" originals, where if you don't get rid of them by using them as materials and manage to keep them around long enough to gather a whole field of them they reward you for playing them by literally winning the game for you.
I wonder how would you make the tri horned dragon archetype?
20:26 This guy has a good sense of humor. XD
Can you use Memento Bone Back when your memento monsters get destroyed by battle? Cuz is just says "by an opponent's card" not card effects so can you crash one of your monsters to summon the fake dragon?
Memento unchained is gonna go brrrrrr
Once you get mementoral on board you've got optional chaos synergy if you can spare and/or banish recycle the 2 level 1s. Chaos sorcerer or black luster soldier - envoy of the beginning could build in an otk or even ftk possibility. You could also use cards like trap tracks and chaos burst to get faster destruction of mementos to summon mementoral quicker as well as deal 1000+ burn too pushing closer to otk/ftk. 5000(X ?depending on number of opponent's monsters?) + 3000(x2) is more than enough damage to otk the opponent.
I petition that if the Momento Extra Deck Monsters are not lost and forgotten Normal Ritual Monsters like The Masked Beast, Skull Guardian, Zera The Mant, Dokurider and the rest we riot!
When are they adding Memento Mushroom Man
stained glass of light and dark is fairly good in this deck as it has both a light fairy and a dark fiend...so this can lead to some nice hand control
the only reason why I am going to use this deck is becasue of Dark Blade. HE IS THE DAWG, NOVA!! THE DAWG!!!!
Memento witty phantom
Solitary Sword of poison even if ur t attack goes to 0 it will be forced to go to 10,000
So is netherskull dragon based on 5 headed dragon
I really can’t wait to see these in Master Duel
main problem with this deck imo is that they are heavily based on GY and destruction effects but they dont do nothing on the GY or when destroyed,because they all destroy monsters for effect.
Memento fire kings. Hybrid Combo done for you. Fire kings don't care what cards are destroyed including their own. Trap tracks, chaos burst, torrential tribute all provide synergy to both add in Black luster soldier - envoy of the beginning and you've got a 3 way synergy; memento + fire kings + chaos. A build that is an otk/ftk machine.
When will my boy machine king get his update
You're doing this... now? They're REALLY likely to get a second wave of support in a few months...
I mean the cards have only physically EXISTED for less than two weeks.
Do you mean he should have done this when we only had the previews or that he needs to wait a few years or so per archetype just to be sure they won't get support?
8:24 At least it's captured in the Spell card he appears in. Tatsunootoshigo is my favorite old school vanilla to the point where it's in my phone's keyboard suggestions, so I agree that it's a crime he's not been released here. Though if they do, I worry they'll call him Seahorse...
Ok hear me out: Memento The Jam
any update about Memento Kuriboh cousin?
💀 MEMENTO MORI 💀
If only we got memento variants of the ancient elf. I only say this because it was my first ever card way back then
they better do jerry beans man
I personally think the thought behind them is them basically destroying everything they can because they weren’t remembered since they’re shit normal monsters so I think the effects fit under that
the big boss dragon reminds me of the subterror zombie
I hope this isn’t one of those deck that needs floodgates as life support lol
So Question, is Combined Creation a Retrain of Stone D. I saw a Meme about it and thought it wasn't true....
If they are going for one monster for each type, there are a lot of monsters that I would like to see that will just not be made because Spellcaster and Fiend are already in the deck (I wouldn't change Fairywitch for nothing though there are various fiends I would've prefered instead of Goblin Calligrapher).
For the Winged Beast type I would love to get a Fiend Reflection #2 remake, that would be literally insane, same with Skull Red Bird, though I'm calling it now: it will be Memento Kurama.
For Aqua I'm expecting The Furious Sea King or Enchanting Mermaid.
For zombie I would absolutely LOVE if they bring back Dark Assailant, though I'm expecting something more popular like Dragon Zombie or Yaranzo.
I would love it if they make more of the same types though, it's sad if because Spellcaster, Fiend, Beast, etc. are already taken we can't get things like Gemini Elf, Fusionist, Dark Gray, The Shadow That Controls The Dark, Kuomori Dragon and others remade
to be fair in some cases Wyrm is dragon but one that is extremely old and thus extremely powerful, like the dragons of dnd
This is yugiohs version of Disney’s Coco!! Memento/Remember me ! For I have to say goodbye remember me 😅 💀
This reminds me of Metaphys but for vanillas instead of old Dragons
This is like the first non-waifu archetype deck I'm interested in since blackwings.
I feel dark magician blue eyes red eyes might be used here
I’m hoping to see my favorite card the headless knight become Memento support
C'mon Memento Music King
Not only is Dark Blade not obscure but they seemed to actually have a Job unlike everyone but Goblin (who was probably replaced by automation) and they worked for another normal monster who is more obscure.
Did King of Yamimakai get pissed at Dark Blade? Was 1530 defense the deal breaker to having the King be the Memento instead? Who got custody of the dragons? These are the real questions.
Dark blade isn't forgotten my boy has two unions while most monsters of his time had one
Dark Blade also has a fusion.
@@johnlucas2838 I know I use him and Gaia for rota fun
They look awesome but they seem very vulnerable to Ash and Nib
Yes they are but the new support will make it like R-ACE
How about Mementos Alexandrite Dragon?
Should be a Metaphys or Starry Knight.
I feel like nitemare whould play this deck
Memento Twin Headed Thunder Dragon anyone?
We should start calling non dragon dragon monsters charizards
Two words: "MEMENTO Mori"
You actually can't activate it during the draw phase, Nova.
Waiting for cosmo queen's return..
is it me or they each monster represents the color of the rainbow?
Memento Kamionwizard
Is your pfp a legend of dragoon reference
He has an entire video essay on the channel about how much Legend of Dragoon means to him.
@@badwrongfun5541 oh wow I'll have to check it out it's a pretty good game