No one else has mentioned it, so I figure I might: I love that, among all the bizarre sanity effects used to sell the Lovecraftian theming of the video, one of the edits is putting "How to Piss Wrong" in Forbidden Apocrypha.
Yeah realizing n'tss cant be insta fusioned was also a big surprise to me, Just, like, "...why make It like this?" And i ask myself the same question when i see that vicious astroud cant be revived, Peak design.
For me, it legit sounded like it was coming from the wall next to me, so I went to the window to make sure nobody was trying to climb up and break in. Freaked me the fuck out.
a friend of mine told me to go help him in diablo 4, which lives right under me, i though he climbed to the first floor to the window and knocked, i was super confused and a bit freaked out, even went to check,,,it wasn't him xD
I think this is my favorite video in terms of editing. 10:06 was when I actually thought something was wrong on my end and then I found out I was baited.
I think a really cool direction to take the archetype would be to allow them to break the rules of the game. A synchro that attaches its synchro materials and becomes treated as an xyz monster. A fusion that can be contact fused with a tuner and a non-tuner and the summon is also treated as a synchro summon. A link monster that must first be fusion summoned. A pendulum monster that can only be pendulum summoned from the graveyard. Lean into the incomprehensibility of their origin.
I once saw a whole team of people trying to make “Entity” work as an actual deck and enter a tournament with it. They didn’t do very well, but it was funny to watch them try making Hastorr turbo playable.
Yeah thats the one downside I found when trying to make an Entity deck. So I gave up and created a "cultist" archetype to support them and level 10 and 12 boss Synchros that required them as material. Even made some Links for support back when Links first hit. Good times.
I'm shocked it didn't show up with a mention here. Guess we'll wait it out for the D/D Archetype Archive before the Entities crawl up out of deep space.
You can thank the guy who donated some huge sum on Rata's charity stream a few months back; he asked for either Entities or something else I can't remember.
Shoutouts to the fun editing on this one like hiding little ghouls here and there, randomly including door knocking sounds and people talking over the narration to make the audience think they're going crazy.
As a Call of Cthulhu player, having main deck investigators, cultists, and minor spawn of these eldritch animations would be so cool to add to the archetype.
That knocking at 7:02 is absolutely wild. I went back multiple times, and even when I knew it was coming, I still *felt* like it was coming from my door. Absolutely incredible editing work.
I legit got so freaked out watching this at 2 am and thought someone knocked on my front door cause when I checked I realized my door was unlocked. Genuinely spent 10 minutes making sure no one got in
I can tell this video came from Rata having a very specific idea and wanting to see it through, and I think he did a great job. That bit in the middle with the fake loading is an old trick, but it's one that actually almost got me because I was watching on my phone and my phone always likes to have a small hiccup regardless of where I am, so I almost thought it was genuine. Then Mr. Sausage hit me.
@@Honest_Mids_Masher Ye, of course. I love Invoked as well and Generaider feels like it as well, with Loptr being the cultist. But the Entities are way darker and it looks better.
You take the moon and you take the sun. He'll always save the day. He'll take everything that seems like fun and always find a way. That's why the people of this world believe in Rata Rata Rata Rata Rata Rata!
Lovely touches with the Eternal Darkness-style sanity effects. (Also, fun fact: Farmer Maggot isn't even in the Magic: the Gathering LotR set. The dogs who watch his mushroom fields, sure, but not him.)
Adamanciparors fit the theme and (If Azathoth was unbanned) actually play the deck in the intended playstyle. Plus there's the flavor win where these researchers keep digging until they find Cthulhu.
2:50 you actually can’t summon N’tss with instant fusion because for some reason they thought it would be too OP while not giving nordon which is clearly better any restriction.
i mean nordon predates n'tss by a whole ass year, so looking at them side-by-side proooobably ain't the best way to gleam insight about the design process that said, the whole "must be either fusion summoned, or special summoned by" text had _i think_ only really appeared on beast-eyes at that point in time, so i imagine it's mostly just that they hadn't moved away from the design ethos of nonstandard summoning conditions and fusion summoning being mutually exclusive, and i'm not really surprise that they weren't gonna break that trend for _elder entity n'tss_ of all cards
@@quijassajiuq900 would you care to elaborate on this supposed other way to spend instant fusion involving n'tss, or is that some forbidden occultic knowledge that makes you poop toads for the rest of your life
Nyarla actually had some use cases when Lunalight was meta relevant during TOSS, as it's detach is an effect rather than a cost just like redoer. This let lunalight yellow marten search serenade dance on the way to being handtrap safe through Aza if they opted into that route as opposed to ranking up with a blank redoer on their turn. Iirc the OCG had similar use cases for the card in Nekroz where they would use herald for kaleido, reattach herald, then let herald hit the grave getting two searches off the one. We never got to do that since we got Nyarla like 4 years later.
This video was very good. Unfortunately, Rata forgot that there is an level 5 Normal Monster that he knows that symbolically belongs to this archetype, and that can be used to summon Azathoth
Yeah, I only remember Nyarla as an honorary Nekroz monster. Whilst the TCG suffered with using your Unicore + Manju to summon Daigusto Emeral to try and increase your resources, it was common on simulators for you to make Nyarla and attach Herald from grave to it. Then you had the option to either tribute Nyarla through Valkyrus to get a draw and a search, or if the old decks of 2015 or so couldn't beat over a 2600 wall, you could threaten to loop the Herald by detaching and re-attaching it every other turn. (Or every turn, if you Kaleidoscoped for another Unicore, which you bet your ass you did whilst he was at 3)
I will never get over how Nyarla has probably the absolute RAWEST artwork of any YuGiOh card ever designed. It is so beautiful in how wrong it is to look at, and it is perfect in every way.
Loved the touch of hidden text appearing in the background before the effects being listed. Made me think I was seeing things, which fits with the theme of the archetype.
The direction of Rata's videos are actually getting crazy. These editing jokes without hyperbole are kafkaesque and transformative. Okay maybe a little bit of gassing up Rata up but these are so good.
The editing in this episode was SUPERB. Rata keeps setting the bar higher with each new section. I especially liked the Hastorr edit where the card art is flipped, it is so subtle yet it works so well with the theme of messing with the viewer's mind.
I'd do an honorable mention for Dark Contract with The Entities. While the effect is D/D/D exclusive, it clearly references the entities by having different effects depending on the monster summoned from the extra, the name and the artwork that feature nyarla.
I'm in love with the way this video is made. The jokes, the editing, the lore it's all amazing. Honestly this makes me want to see Rata analyze Lovecraftian references in other media like in Bloodborne
I really enjoy how Entities tried to marry Fusion, Synchro, and XYZ in a single deck, while using them to make each other. I actually kinda hope that some day maybe we'll get a Divine Arsenal archetype in a similar fashion, where they make other Divine Arsenals for the other monster types. The lore said there's 12 of them and AA-Zeus was only the last one made in the lore, so we could easily get others for Ritual/Fusion/Synchro/Pendulum/Link. Two ways they could go: either make them all Greek gods, or my preference of making them all the "lead" gods of different mythologies. For Greek gods, then we'd get like CC-Poseidon Sea's Rage and EE-Hades Hells Fire. For "lead" gods there'd instead be ones like CC-Odin, EE-Osiris, GG-Amaterasu, II-Indra. And then they'd all have similar summoning conditions and effects to Zeus. They would all require 3+ level 12 monsters as base materials, or could be summoned by sending the same card type to the grave if that card type battled this turn, and then have a powerful ignition effect with the cost being banishing that same type from your field/grave. Plus, if there's others, then you could potentially do Entity style summoning the other Divine Arsenals and then overlay them to properly summon Zeus.
I think this might be the newest archetype you covered? I love the entity’s designs, though their idea sounds like something out of the anime. Hard to believe they’re game original.
Cant belive you didnt mention the fact that Tsathoggua shapeshifted in the most horrific entity in the entire game, so horrific that he isnt even included in the entity archetype due to his pure evilness: Toadally Awesome
The funny thing is: I actually once made a custom archetype based on lovecraftian mythos before I knew that there were more entities than just ntss. Mine was called "Eldread" and focused on ritual and xyz summons, with the rituals having to be summoned from the graveyard to convey the whole "sleeping in their graves in the lost city" stick and a bunch of increasingly tentacle-ridden priests as searchers/dumpers. They're on dueling book by "Isitar" if anyone wants to see them. It's been I while since I made them though
"the most undescriptible horrors man can't comprehend, as if they see them they become mad in fear" Proceeds to describe them so people can may understand how they look like
Do you think the reason the entities are all extra deck monsters is to coincide with the theme of them all being other worldly beings? Like the main the deck represents the mortal world and the extra deck represents the incomprehensible land that these beings call home?
I used to run Hastorr in my speedroid deck (with it being a wind and an easy lv 4). Had a ton of fun with that card, especially as a fan of cosmic horror. Honestly, I kind of wished Azathought was a rank 12, with Azathoth being the outer god whose dreams created the universe, and if awakened, will erase all of existence.
Dreamland is a reference to the books "The Silver Key" and "Dream-Quest for Unknown Kaddath" in which the protagonist explores a dreamscape world for answers. Nyarlathotep and Hastur make an appearance in that story!
Im just disappointed we didn't get an Azathot begone joke. Truly Rata's sanity is slipping? Retuning? Trying to order a kimchi burrito at 4:19am while on vacation in Portsmouth? Anyway, it's doing something.
No wayyy. Out of all the archetypes, I expected this the least! Let's see how much lore rata shoved into this one and what gruesome fate awaits Jimbles at the end of this
I would love to see Entity get a support wave. A cult, where main deck monsters have a mix of "destroy a monster you control" effects and on-death effect, eventually enabling a robust enough board state where you could summon multiple Extra Decks monsters legitimately in a turn.
My absolute favorite “archetype” and I’m always bummed that it’s basically unplayable without its two banned cards. Least I’ve got Ghoti to fill that “beyond reality” vibe
@@ismaelhiza4423 I also love their vibe. Own a deck of them physically. Inspired by Mbt’s Myutant/Ghoti combo deck. Wish they had a few more tools to run better pure though
The fact that the deck was clearly designed to like, use one of the Synchro 4's to bridge to Nodens, then have Nodens bring them back for the Nyarla overlay to get to the Azzy really left the deck a shell of it's already barely extant self even *before* Azzy got banned. Like, "Get to Nodens" was the only play that made Azzy work at all, so the minute he was banned the deck didn't have any real play conditions, which is a shame.
@@thaddeusgenhelm8979 yea it basically did the one thing. It could do some occasional neat stuff with Hashtor and Nty’ss, but without its main playmaker, yea there’s nothing to make a deck around. All round quite the shame and a massive bummer for all this nifty artwork
You might not believe it, but these cards have an actual playstyle and have internal interactions between them. They just encourage "madness." N'tss triggers the Hastorr steal effect, Nyarla recycles N'tss. Both of Nyarla's effects activate ANY card sent to GY by "card effect" and the first effect lets Nyarla dodge the Cthugua bounce. Obviously, everybody realizes Cthugua and Norden have synergy but did you know fusion summoning triggers Cthugua even if it's banished by Necro Fusion or Fossil Fusion? Did you know? Forbidden Apocrypha eliminates cards "unaffected by" anything like the anime ZEXAL card? It does this because it doesn't affect the card it affects the player. What the effect does is it makes the player sacrifice their cards. Like the Kaiju do it bypasses any protections. So now Dreamlands, this card is madness incarnate. It's completely a slow disruption card and lost a bit of power due to Links. The thing to realize, is all* of your cards are 2 and 4, so the last effect of Dreamlands pretty much will only hit your opponent. If your opponent has no levels on your turn and you have a setup field, you're supposed to play a lvl 4 and make it a lvl 5 to absorb the Dreamlands end turn effect, which will in turn trigger the draw effect. OoooOOOooo maaaadnesss! 😂
Maybe… mix in some unconventional but thematically appropriate main deck monsters. Like perhaps have them be tied in as either servants of the entity, spawn of the entity, and spells/traps called rites of the entity. The collection would all be mostly lower level monsters with some higher level monsters representing some of the non-god terrors that supplement the power of the entities, like mother hydra, flying polyps, black goats, Star spawn, and the dunwich horror. Things you might go into before the main entity or during the proceedings in some cases. At least one card they should have is a dedicated win condition card call “the stars are right”, requiring 3 types of extra deck entity monster to activate where it begins unraveling their deck rapidly face down and locking down effects until either they manage to get the entities off the board. The smaller monsters helping to either get you to your win condition, bolster your entity, or recycle the key cards.
@@Motleydoll123yeah something like that. Low level monsters that extend, search or special summon (maybe even ignoring conditions) with some main deck boss monster(s).
@@Motleydoll123 "At least one card they should have is a dedicated win condition card call “the stars are right”, requiring 3 types of extra deck entity monster to activate where it begins unraveling their deck rapidly face down and locking down effects until either they manage to get the entities off the board. The smaller monsters helping to either get you to your win condition, bolster your entity, or recycle the key cards." God that sounds fucking beautiful. Just the idea of "unspooling" the entire field and re-writing the rules of the game on the fly with a card effect that requires nonsensical combos that seem to dead-end is fucking gorgeous. For Yog-Sothoth specifically I would recommend making him a Continuous Spell that acts as a floodgate for the archtype, but his name would sound like a monster card (Yog-Sothoth is the Gate and the Key)
@@StarboyXL9 indeed. The unraveling effect was a idea that rather than an instant win condition, you have this fitting moment where everything is coming to a end, forcing a kind of desperation that is fitting for a lovecraftian horror theme, a kind of seemingly inevitable where it seems like all could become lost.. And I agree yogsothoth could certainly be a monster or a continuous spell. Maybe it could be that is both potentially… a monster that either becomes a continuous spell, or a spell that transforms into a monster when the conditions are right. Might make it 2 cards where one is a continuous spell card called “the key and the gate”, and the other is outer entity yog-sothoth, either spawning or reclaiming the other, either through a specific effect, and each bringing their own form of floodgating effect and lockdown, forcing the opponent to use rather extreme methods to eliminate the entity.
5:17 The editting in the whole video is fitting. I certainly feel my sanity slowly leaving. Something as simple as a card art being mirrored after being covered is great. Especially since it's overshadowed by the more obvious distortions.
I need to be aware of a family member if they need help and the knocking and sounds were incredibly effective on me because of it but love your content dude.
I love how, like the average enjoyer of Lovecraftian anything, almost none of the things you mention are actually done directly by Lovecraft or even directly adapt to stuff he did 😂
I mean, its pretty simple to build a deck based on them, Just add level 2 Monsters that special themselves or special others like one of the resonators who specials a level 4 or lower from hand or do something else like drawing, like ipiria, while stocking up on the ready fusion and synchro fusionist who can add ready fusion when used as material, hell, you can even include some sprights to make the single most based spright variant.
Cthuga is kinda infamously an enabler of all sorts of janky and strange loops and FTKs. The on summon let's you recycle rank 4s like the limited emeral and the draw effects can let you draw combo pieces/your entire deck
I remember seeing a Halq Auroradon combo that made all 3 copies of Cthugua, then overlaid those and Coltwing for a 4 material Primathmech Alembertian... which then searched Rekindling to bring them back. Truly a horrifying play.
No joke; my computer got a blue screen for the first time in years at about the same time i started watching this video on my phone. What a strange coincadence.
I have that exact H.P. Lovecraft collection on my shelf lmao. Also got a copy off alll the cards related to entities. i love the art and the lore behind them. Its a shame they will probably remain untouched for eternity. It ties in with my favorite (playable) deck D/D/D as they formed a contract with them (Dark contract with the entities). Also I have been working on actual main deck monsters and modern bosses for the archetype because i just love the deck so much. I do ask friends for feedback to make sure the cards are not too weak or too powerful. Its pretty fun. Loved the video btw it was a nice surprise to see it still gets some attention. :)
Very surprised this wasn't saved as the Halloween special, would have fit. Also, i'm absolutely down for more bite-sized AA videos that cover the smaller group of cards if they're easier to produce. -Teo
Sometimes I think I have forsight. Currently I was just thinking much about the Lovecraftian, and overall Cosmic Horror Influence in Digimon, and here you are making YGO Content about Eldrich Horror. Your going pretty hard on the soundeffects this time, I like that Style.
Rata really used an Ordinary Sausage clip, I love it. I saw the loading circle and knew it was part of the video, but got genuinely confused when I saw Mr Sausage, since I watch him very frequently.
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No one else has mentioned it, so I figure I might:
I love that, among all the bizarre sanity effects used to sell the Lovecraftian theming of the video, one of the edits is putting "How to Piss Wrong" in Forbidden Apocrypha.
The Sludge
Instant Fusion on N'Tss? Azathot with 2300 ATK? You must be seeing things. Come and get some refreshments from the trough.
*Slurp* Mmmmm delicious. It tastes like my own tongue.
The deepest lore is all Rata's mistakes in these videos are just eldritch entities peering through the veil.
Yeah realizing n'tss cant be insta fusioned was also a big surprise to me, Just, like, "...why make It like this?" And i ask myself the same question when i see that vicious astroud cant be revived, Peak design.
Ojama
Cannot be used as material for an Xyz Summon
In an archetype full of incomprensible deities, one of their scariest monsters is a chick who kills you after she dies.
To be fair that's mainly because the old man who makes frogs out of mochi and the oil spill are banned.
To be fair, "chick that kills you after you die" is a whole genre of horror, especially in Japan. Just look at The Ring/Ringu.
Actually that’s probably a reference to the thing on the doorstep
@@GrimDarkHalfOff Did not expect you here
Jesus, that knocking sound actually made me get up to check my door
i was wondering how someone got in my clothes drawer
Sitting by a window and thought it was a bird again
Luckily I was in the bathroom and figured no one was knocking on my shower.
For me, it legit sounded like it was coming from the wall next to me, so I went to the window to make sure nobody was trying to climb up and break in. Freaked me the fuck out.
a friend of mine told me to go help him in diablo 4, which lives right under me, i though he climbed to the first floor to the window and knocked, i was super confused and a bit freaked out, even went to check,,,it wasn't him xD
I think this is my favorite video in terms of editing. 10:06 was when I actually thought something was wrong on my end and then I found out I was baited.
Rata tricking us to gain retention
My favorite was the knocking at around 7:03
@@DuxDamnatiothat one in particular scared the living crap out of me because I was wearing headphones
same i thought my internet went out lmao
@@DuxDamnatioim at mcds and was confused.
I can imagine Rata looking at the list of archetypes and just choosing the one that is the least likely to bloat up his support reports in the future.
Inb4 entity gets new support in a week or two😂
Elder Entity Structure Deck incoming!
I mean, "bloat" it certainly won't. But he DID give them the idea to make elder entity links, so there's a chance of them appearing in the future.
@@youriwillemse9351 Link monster that's a futuristic air conditioner
@@seki108 or a cat
I think a really cool direction to take the archetype would be to allow them to break the rules of the game. A synchro that attaches its synchro materials and becomes treated as an xyz monster. A fusion that can be contact fused with a tuner and a non-tuner and the summon is also treated as a synchro summon. A link monster that must first be fusion summoned. A pendulum monster that can only be pendulum summoned from the graveyard.
Lean into the incomprehensibility of their origin.
I once saw a whole team of people trying to make “Entity” work as an actual deck and enter a tournament with it. They didn’t do very well, but it was funny to watch them try making Hastorr turbo playable.
Don't do my boi dirty like that.
Yeah thats the one downside I found when trying to make an Entity deck. So I gave up and created a "cultist" archetype to support them and level 10 and 12 boss Synchros that required them as material. Even made some Links for support back when Links first hit. Good times.
@@StarboyXL9👐Adamancipator👐
Some fun fact : Nyarla appears in the artwork of a DDD card called "Dark Contract with Entities"
I'm shocked it didn't show up with a mention here.
Guess we'll wait it out for the D/D Archetype Archive before the Entities crawl up out of deep space.
Ddd are just business demon, they pay and actually fought evil demons like yamimakai.
And now I'm surprised these things didn't show up in Arc V (The anime or manga)
There is very little exaggeration when I say this is the last archetype I ever expected to be covered on this show
That’s exactly why you should expect to see it
Malicevorous?
its because its the last archetype he expects to get legacy support so he doesnt have to add another one to the support report list lol
You can thank the guy who donated some huge sum on Rata's charity stream a few months back; he asked for either Entities or something else I can't remember.
Aha but you see the one i least expect is actually getting the fucking hero video
Shoutouts to the fun editing on this one like hiding little ghouls here and there, randomly including door knocking sounds and people talking over the narration to make the audience think they're going crazy.
The random repetition of Azathot not being able to be used as material, too.
@@EggOfNobleArmsCannot be used as material for an xyz summon
What editing? It's just a normal rata video
You can just feel rata having an absolute blast making this one
I feel like he wont have such a blast after seeing the genex support, now every war of the worthless archetype got support
A rata video on a Saturday? Must be the work of some spooky gods or something.
You mean... work of an Entity?
It must be the work of.....ALIENS!!!!!!
@@silverthedruid4754 This must be the work of an enemy entity!
I think I know who. It was either the work of GLURTHTKON or CLEEGONC
I’m such happenis
Ah yes an old man and his instant ramen noodles the most iconic duo of an archetype based on the lovecraftian mythos. Truly the stuff of nightmares.
TBF Lovecraft was deathly scared of italians,so fearing noodles is not a reach.
Mr Norden Loves Ramen Noodles
I am ALWAYS afraid when the entity player pulls out a cat
I just hope it has a very normal name
My cat has a very normal name
It’s crackerlady
I know Lovecraft had a cat, but I don't know its name,
I hope it was normal and sane and not a racial slur.
Like mittens
@@mattcatlow9264
It was not named Mittens
It was very much a racial slur
@@aprinnyonbreak1290THE CAT IS CALLED NI-
@@silverthedruid4754 Nigel
Rata outdid himself with this one. The editing jokes are so good
As a Call of Cthulhu player, having main deck investigators, cultists, and minor spawn of these eldritch animations would be so cool to add to the archetype.
Investigator of the Entity, Follower of the Entity, Spawn of the Entity
It's okay, Rata. Yuma can't hurt you anymore. He's on the Forbidden list.
Gagaga Sister has another effect.
KATTOBINGU
Where his hair belong.
..................Moment
ugnibottak
Least he took *True King of All Calamities* with him.
The fact that you worked sanity effects into the editing is why I love this channel so much. Good shit, Rata
That knocking at 7:02 is absolutely wild. I went back multiple times, and even when I knew it was coming, I still *felt* like it was coming from my door. Absolutely incredible editing work.
Probably not his work lol. Just a stock sound you can find.
7:02 the knocking sound effect here deadass tricked me into checking the door
Amazing job with the editing
Even more convincing when wearing headphones and your right ear is facing the direction of the front door.
@@squeegeewing Yeah... I friking jumped out of my chair at that.
@@squeegeewingthis is exactly what happened to me, and I was watching on my phone while standing next to the door. Horror-riffic!
On the right side I have a window, but I still checked it just to be sure.
I legit got so freaked out watching this at 2 am and thought someone knocked on my front door cause when I checked I realized my door was unlocked. Genuinely spent 10 minutes making sure no one got in
I can tell this video came from Rata having a very specific idea and wanting to see it through, and I think he did a great job. That bit in the middle with the fake loading is an old trick, but it's one that actually almost got me because I was watching on my phone and my phone always likes to have a small hiccup regardless of where I am, so I almost thought it was genuine.
Then Mr. Sausage hit me.
The worst part about Azzathot is that the effect does not activate, so there's very little you can do about it once it hits the field.
No the worst thing about em is Cannot Be Used As Material For An Xyz Summon.
Rata is...
The MOTHER i never had
The sister everybody would want
The friend that everybody deserves
The sheer commitment to making sure the vid feels like it's grappling with reality is a work of art.
I want a cultist archetype so bad. Please give me cultist main deck monsters that kind of support these extra deck monsters, Konami.
Ngl i could see it work as a ritual deck where the main deck monsters search the materials and provide protection for the rituals.
You shall have nothing. Here have a gross orb chicken and a new waifu.
@@Leartes-vq7ygso, dogmatika with Zoa then?
Aleister was based off a cultist
@@Honest_Mids_Masher Ye, of course. I love Invoked as well and Generaider feels like it as well, with Loptr being the cultist. But the Entities are way darker and it looks better.
Ratas videos are not comedy gold, they are straight up diamond
The random buffering/Ordinary Sausage joke got me.
You take the moon and you take the sun.
He'll always save the day. He'll take everything that seems like fun and always find a way.
That's why the people of this world believe in
Rata Rata Rata Rata Rata Rata!
Master rank 1 comedian
@@r3zaful xD
Comedy chops so powerful that he cannot be used as XYZ material
The Ordinary Sausage jumpscare really got me, good job!
Lovely touches with the Eternal Darkness-style sanity effects. (Also, fun fact: Farmer Maggot isn't even in the Magic: the Gathering LotR set. The dogs who watch his mushroom fields, sure, but not him.)
Imagine a crossover of entity and lswarm archetypes. True horror revealed.
pretty sure that's how you get tyranids
Adamanciparors fit the theme and (If Azathoth was unbanned) actually play the deck in the intended playstyle.
Plus there's the flavor win where these researchers keep digging until they find Cthulhu.
It also kinda works with Gishki, since they have some Deep One vibes
Why yes, I DO run Gishki lswarm Entities, with Kaijus how could you tell?
@@aprinnyonbreak1290 based
Entitylswarm? That's just twitter users
@7:03 the knocking actually got me, cause i have a wall to my right and thought it was mum trying to get my attention for something
2:50 you actually can’t summon N’tss with instant fusion because for some reason they thought it would be too OP while not giving nordon which is clearly better any restriction.
i mean nordon predates n'tss by a whole ass year, so looking at them side-by-side proooobably ain't the best way to gleam insight about the design process
that said, the whole "must be either fusion summoned, or special summoned by" text had _i think_ only really appeared on beast-eyes at that point in time, so i imagine it's mostly just that they hadn't moved away from the design ethos of nonstandard summoning conditions and fusion summoning being mutually exclusive, and i'm not really surprise that they weren't gonna break that trend for _elder entity n'tss_ of all cards
??? That wasn’t mentioned in the video dude
@@quijassajiuq900 would you care to elaborate on this supposed other way to spend instant fusion involving n'tss, or is that some forbidden occultic knowledge that makes you poop toads for the rest of your life
@@hi-i-am-atan Instant fusion wasn't even mentioned in the video idk what you're talking about
@@quijassajiuq900"you can technically spend your instant fusion on this"
Brother you have very low SAN now, go back and rest.
Nyarla actually had some use cases when Lunalight was meta relevant during TOSS, as it's detach is an effect rather than a cost just like redoer. This let lunalight yellow marten search serenade dance on the way to being handtrap safe through Aza if they opted into that route as opposed to ranking up with a blank redoer on their turn. Iirc the OCG had similar use cases for the card in Nekroz where they would use herald for kaleido, reattach herald, then let herald hit the grave getting two searches off the one. We never got to do that since we got Nyarla like 4 years later.
This video was very good. Unfortunately, Rata forgot that there is an level 5 Normal Monster that he knows that symbolically belongs to this archetype, and that can be used to summon Azathoth
I'm afraid to ask but what monster are you talking about?
@@youriwillemse9351 shapesnatch is considerate an elder god monster in one of those early 2000 games
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought Shapesnatch should have made an appearance.
@@lucabaldazzi7289 congratulations, you have legitimately cursed me with Eldritch knowledge
@@ZachPrime We do that here
Its always a good day when Rata posts new stuff, thank You my beloved
Yeah, I only remember Nyarla as an honorary Nekroz monster. Whilst the TCG suffered with using your Unicore + Manju to summon Daigusto Emeral to try and increase your resources, it was common on simulators for you to make Nyarla and attach Herald from grave to it. Then you had the option to either tribute Nyarla through Valkyrus to get a draw and a search, or if the old decks of 2015 or so couldn't beat over a 2600 wall, you could threaten to loop the Herald by detaching and re-attaching it every other turn. (Or every turn, if you Kaleidoscoped for another Unicore, which you bet your ass you did whilst he was at 3)
Finally, the Rata x Ordinary Sausage crossover that the world needed.
I will never get over how Nyarla has probably the absolute RAWEST artwork of any YuGiOh card ever designed. It is so beautiful in how wrong it is to look at, and it is perfect in every way.
Loved the touch of hidden text appearing in the background before the effects being listed. Made me think I was seeing things, which fits with the theme of the archetype.
The direction of Rata's videos are actually getting crazy. These editing jokes without hyperbole are kafkaesque and transformative.
Okay maybe a little bit of gassing up Rata up but these are so good.
The editing in this episode was SUPERB. Rata keeps setting the bar higher with each new section.
I especially liked the Hastorr edit where the card art is flipped, it is so subtle yet it works so well with the theme of messing with the viewer's mind.
Ojama Lime is a far greater gloaming horror than any other horrific amalgamation we mortals can strain to perceive.
Ah yes, a MTG video. Rata never disappoints on his variety content
Having bits in the editing is brilliant. Even in a vid with far less material than usual, this still managed to get me to crack a smile
I'd do an honorable mention for Dark Contract with The Entities. While the effect is D/D/D exclusive, it clearly references the entities by having different effects depending on the monster summoned from the extra, the name and the artwork that feature nyarla.
This is pretty common as you have Contract with the Swamp King. I'm surprised there wasn't a "Dark Contract with Red Dragon Archfiend" etc.
I'm in love with the way this video is made. The jokes, the editing, the lore it's all amazing. Honestly this makes me want to see Rata analyze Lovecraftian references in other media like in Bloodborne
I really enjoy how Entities tried to marry Fusion, Synchro, and XYZ in a single deck, while using them to make each other.
I actually kinda hope that some day maybe we'll get a Divine Arsenal archetype in a similar fashion, where they make other Divine Arsenals for the other monster types. The lore said there's 12 of them and AA-Zeus was only the last one made in the lore, so we could easily get others for Ritual/Fusion/Synchro/Pendulum/Link.
Two ways they could go: either make them all Greek gods, or my preference of making them all the "lead" gods of different mythologies.
For Greek gods, then we'd get like CC-Poseidon Sea's Rage and EE-Hades Hells Fire. For "lead" gods there'd instead be ones like CC-Odin, EE-Osiris, GG-Amaterasu, II-Indra.
And then they'd all have similar summoning conditions and effects to Zeus. They would all require 3+ level 12 monsters as base materials, or could be summoned by sending the same card type to the grave if that card type battled this turn, and then have a powerful ignition effect with the cost being banishing that same type from your field/grave.
Plus, if there's others, then you could potentially do Entity style summoning the other Divine Arsenals and then overlay them to properly summon Zeus.
I think this might be the newest archetype you covered?
I love the entity’s designs, though their idea sounds like something out of the anime. Hard to believe they’re game original.
Lunalights came out a few months after these
The anime kinda had another go at it with Tindangles
Fun fact: Bakura has voice lines for the Entities in Duel Links
I'm ceying dude😂 release the fucking cards damned it!
"The locals might get real concerned with the lovecraft player pulls out a cat in the middle of the duel" pffffft that fuckin killed me.
Cant belive you didnt mention the fact that Tsathoggua shapeshifted in the most horrific entity in the entire game, so horrific that he isnt even included in the entity archetype due to his pure evilness: Toadally Awesome
The funny thing is: I actually once made a custom archetype based on lovecraftian mythos before I knew that there were more entities than just ntss. Mine was called "Eldread" and focused on ritual and xyz summons, with the rituals having to be summoned from the graveyard to convey the whole "sleeping in their graves in the lost city" stick and a bunch of increasingly tentacle-ridden priests as searchers/dumpers.
They're on dueling book by "Isitar" if anyone wants to see them. It's been I while since I made them though
I'd love to pit your Lovecraftian archetype against mine someday
Any day you want, champ!
"the most undescriptible horrors man can't comprehend, as if they see them they become mad in fear"
Proceeds to describe them so people can may understand how they look like
Do you think the reason the entities are all extra deck monsters is to coincide with the theme of them all being other worldly beings? Like the main the deck represents the mortal world and the extra deck represents the incomprehensible land that these beings call home?
I used to run Hastorr in my speedroid deck (with it being a wind and an easy lv 4). Had a ton of fun with that card, especially as a fan of cosmic horror.
Honestly, I kind of wished Azathought was a rank 12, with Azathoth being the outer god whose dreams created the universe, and if awakened, will erase all of existence.
"When the Lovecraft player busts out a cat"
If you know, you know
Old Entity Hastorr was a pet card of mine back in the day. He was comfortably at home amid an Alien extra deck.
rata i swear to CHRIST that banging sound made me sweep my ENTIRE HOUSE
Dreamland is a reference to the books "The Silver Key" and "Dream-Quest for Unknown Kaddath" in which the protagonist explores a dreamscape world for answers. Nyarlathotep and Hastur make an appearance in that story!
It's kinda strange that Dreamland says "This card can activate...". So, you are NOT the one to activate its effects, the card has a free will.
Very based of Konami
And here we see Rata's slow descent to madness Is coming into form
Im just disappointed we didn't get an Azathot begone joke.
Truly Rata's sanity is slipping?
Retuning?
Trying to order a kimchi burrito at 4:19am while on vacation in Portsmouth?
Anyway, it's doing something.
7:03 I hate you. So very much. I got up and answered my door. Got me good.
@ 7:00 this knocking noise scared the SHIT out of me. Thanks for that lmao
No wayyy. Out of all the archetypes, I expected this the least! Let's see how much lore rata shoved into this one and what gruesome fate awaits Jimbles at the end of this
What actually happened with Jimbles was even funnier than the gruesome fate he was promised
I would love to see Entity get a support wave. A cult, where main deck monsters have a mix of "destroy a monster you control" effects and on-death effect, eventually enabling a robust enough board state where you could summon multiple Extra Decks monsters legitimately in a turn.
I've waited for you to do this episode. Long live our lord and savior Elder Entity Norden!
You trick me not with your petty magicks, you foul priest.
The elder god shall not wake from its slumber today.
My absolute favorite “archetype” and I’m always bummed that it’s basically unplayable without its two banned cards.
Least I’ve got Ghoti to fill that “beyond reality” vibe
Might not be "beyond reality" but I feel myutants also have a nice vibe. Their artwork is also pretty different from the usual stuff.
@@ismaelhiza4423 I also love their vibe. Own a deck of them physically. Inspired by Mbt’s Myutant/Ghoti combo deck. Wish they had a few more tools to run better pure though
The fact that the deck was clearly designed to like, use one of the Synchro 4's to bridge to Nodens, then have Nodens bring them back for the Nyarla overlay to get to the Azzy really left the deck a shell of it's already barely extant self even *before* Azzy got banned. Like, "Get to Nodens" was the only play that made Azzy work at all, so the minute he was banned the deck didn't have any real play conditions, which is a shame.
@@thaddeusgenhelm8979 yea it basically did the one thing. It could do some occasional neat stuff with Hashtor and Nty’ss, but without its main playmaker, yea there’s nothing to make a deck around.
All round quite the shame and a massive bummer for all this nifty artwork
@@thaddeusgenhelm8979Thankfully if your table will let you play a copy of Azathoth then you can VERY viably play it in Adamancipator/Fossil.
The knocking actually scared me. I'm sitting basically right by my front door
The editting on this one is particularlly stellar. Excellent work Rata. *OUR EYES ARE UPON THEE*
You might not believe it, but these cards have an actual playstyle and have internal interactions between them. They just encourage "madness."
N'tss triggers the Hastorr steal effect, Nyarla recycles N'tss.
Both of Nyarla's effects activate ANY card sent to GY by "card effect" and the first effect lets Nyarla dodge the Cthugua bounce.
Obviously, everybody realizes Cthugua and Norden have synergy but did you know fusion summoning triggers Cthugua even if it's banished by Necro Fusion or Fossil Fusion?
Did you know? Forbidden Apocrypha eliminates cards "unaffected by" anything like the anime ZEXAL card? It does this because it doesn't affect the card it affects the player. What the effect does is it makes the player sacrifice their cards. Like the Kaiju do it bypasses any protections.
So now Dreamlands, this card is madness incarnate. It's completely a slow disruption card and lost a bit of power due to Links. The thing to realize, is all* of your cards are 2 and 4, so the last effect of Dreamlands pretty much will only hit your opponent. If your opponent has no levels on your turn and you have a setup field, you're supposed to play a lvl 4 and make it a lvl 5 to absorb the Dreamlands end turn effect, which will in turn trigger the draw effect.
OoooOOOooo maaaadnesss! 😂
I think it’d be great if the entities got an archetype of zealots, cultists and mad men to help with summoning them out and give em a playstyle
Maybe… mix in some unconventional but thematically appropriate main deck monsters. Like perhaps have them be tied in as either servants of the entity, spawn of the entity, and spells/traps called rites of the entity. The collection would all be mostly lower level monsters with some higher level monsters representing some of the non-god terrors that supplement the power of the entities, like mother hydra, flying polyps, black goats, Star spawn, and the dunwich horror. Things you might go into before the main entity or during the proceedings in some cases. At least one card they should have is a dedicated win condition card call “the stars are right”, requiring 3 types of extra deck entity monster to activate where it begins unraveling their deck rapidly face down and locking down effects until either they manage to get the entities off the board. The smaller monsters helping to either get you to your win condition, bolster your entity, or recycle the key cards.
@@Motleydoll123yeah something like that.
Low level monsters that extend, search or special summon (maybe even ignoring conditions) with some main deck boss monster(s).
@@Motleydoll123 "At least one card they should have is a dedicated win condition card call “the stars are right”, requiring 3 types of extra deck entity monster to activate where it begins unraveling their deck rapidly face down and locking down effects until either they manage to get the entities off the board. The smaller monsters helping to either get you to your win condition, bolster your entity, or recycle the key cards."
God that sounds fucking beautiful. Just the idea of "unspooling" the entire field and re-writing the rules of the game on the fly with a card effect that requires nonsensical combos that seem to dead-end is fucking gorgeous.
For Yog-Sothoth specifically I would recommend making him a Continuous Spell that acts as a floodgate for the archtype, but his name would sound like a monster card (Yog-Sothoth is the Gate and the Key)
@@StarboyXL9 indeed. The unraveling effect was a idea that rather than an instant win condition, you have this fitting moment where everything is coming to a end, forcing a kind of desperation that is fitting for a lovecraftian horror theme, a kind of seemingly inevitable where it seems like all could become lost.. And I agree yogsothoth could certainly be a monster or a continuous spell. Maybe it could be that is both potentially… a monster that either becomes a continuous spell, or a spell that transforms into a monster when the conditions are right. Might make it 2 cards where one is a continuous spell card called “the key and the gate”, and the other is outer entity yog-sothoth, either spawning or reclaiming the other, either through a specific effect, and each bringing their own form of floodgating effect and lockdown, forcing the opponent to use rather extreme methods to eliminate the entity.
wtf you messing with my brain, at 7:02 that thing freaked me out thinking something was in my walls. Great job.
5:17
The editting in the whole video is fitting. I certainly feel my sanity slowly leaving. Something as simple as a card art being mirrored after being covered is great. Especially since it's overshadowed by the more obvious distortions.
I need to be aware of a family member if they need help and the knocking and sounds were incredibly effective on me because of it but love your content dude.
1:45 Funny that you mention a Tolkien archetype, since i'm in the process of making a custom one i call the Free Army Archetype.
If you do better than Wizards , you have my support.
10:05 BRO! that part actually got me so good since I actually watch all of OS's videos
I really thought I accidentally switched to the next video😂
This might honestly be one of your best videos just on the editing front. So many little touches in here.
"N'tssN'tssN'tssN'tssN'tss" This is why i love your videos my guy🤣🤣
Rata uploads a vid about Entities of all things while I'm prepping to run a Call of Cthulhu game and listening to the King in Yellow.
This is a SIGN.
I love how, like the average enjoyer of Lovecraftian anything, almost none of the things you mention are actually done directly by Lovecraft or even directly adapt to stuff he did 😂
You know what else will haunt your psyche forever? Reviewing Every. Single. Archfiend.
I mean, its pretty simple to build a deck based on them, Just add level 2 Monsters that special themselves or special others like one of the resonators who specials a level 4 or lower from hand or do something else like drawing, like ipiria, while stocking up on the ready fusion and synchro fusionist who can add ready fusion when used as material, hell, you can even include some sprights to make the single most based spright variant.
ive been waiting for an entity video for so long WOOOOOOOOO
Cthuga is kinda infamously an enabler of all sorts of janky and strange loops and FTKs. The on summon let's you recycle rank 4s like the limited emeral and the draw effects can let you draw combo pieces/your entire deck
I remember seeing a Halq Auroradon combo that made all 3 copies of Cthugua, then overlaid those and Coltwing for a 4 material Primathmech Alembertian... which then searched Rekindling to bring them back. Truly a horrifying play.
@@OyVeeyremember what the video was called? i gotta see this
No joke; my computer got a blue screen for the first time in years at about the same time i started watching this video on my phone. What a strange coincadence.
I refuse to believe its a coincidence that all three main characters of Hayore! Nyaruko-San are featured in this archetype.
OH MY GOD THATS ACTUALLY TRUE MDWEAPWMAOMEFDAOPIWEMFDOAEMAOWE3IMDAPOWEMID CANT BE A COINCIDENCE
Rata had fun editing this one.
I LOVE HASTORR, THE ART IS SO COOOOOL
I have that exact H.P. Lovecraft collection on my shelf lmao. Also got a copy off alll the cards related to entities. i love the art and the lore behind them. Its a shame they will probably remain untouched for eternity. It ties in with my favorite (playable) deck D/D/D as they formed a contract with them (Dark contract with the entities).
Also I have been working on actual main deck monsters and modern bosses for the archetype because i just love the deck so much. I do ask friends for feedback to make sure the cards are not too weak or too powerful. Its pretty fun.
Loved the video btw it was a nice surprise to see it still gets some attention. :)
Entity deck profiles are hilarious. They are 60 card pile decks with only 1 Entity card in the extra deck
9:20 - With how often my internet likes to shit the bed I genuinely thought I was having connection problems here XD
10:00 Oh Cool, the video has Sanity Effects!
NEW RATA VIDEO??? THIS IS WHAT I BEEN WAITING FOR!!!
Very surprised this wasn't saved as the Halloween special, would have fit.
Also, i'm absolutely down for more bite-sized AA videos that cover the smaller group of cards if they're easier to produce.
-Teo
Sometimes I think I have forsight. Currently I was just thinking much about the Lovecraftian, and overall Cosmic Horror Influence in Digimon, and here you are making YGO Content about Eldrich Horror.
Your going pretty hard on the soundeffects this time, I like that Style.
Never knew a lovecraft archetype existed, but I guess that fits with the lore.
The amount of crazy in this video is hilarious. Its even listed as "Magic tge Gathering" for its category
13:19 accurate lovecraftian lifestyle
Rata really used an Ordinary Sausage clip, I love it. I saw the loading circle and knew it was part of the video, but got genuinely confused when I saw Mr Sausage, since I watch him very frequently.