I love that Memento were promoted as these angry spirits who had grown vengeful over being thrown out and abandoned, only for the lore to reveal that they're actually just a bunch of goobers who play games and throw parties.
Heh, looks like the well of abandoned cards from GX has returned with a vengeance. I may try to pick up this archetype; could make for some fun stories.
"You thought we were vengeful spirits? Nah fam! We're just vibing in the Gy" (well..... they are in hell, but my interpretation is that they live in the Gy)
@@starjadiancloneinvestigato1772 There are times when it's a random group or person that falsely claims a song, but YT has never looked into the validity of those claims.
If youre interested in keeping the 1999 lore as faithful as possible - mementotlan twin dragon is not a retrain of thunder dragon, but actually a retrain of Two Mouth Darkruler, which is a 1999 release of a card that is basically thunder dragon facing the other way
The best part of this archetype is that, according to the VBEX4 card lore book, the Mementos are just a bunch of goofy goobers despite their edgy appearances. There is nothing outright malicious in their book descriptions and we even get a few funny ones. Mementotlan-Horned Dragon is "concerned about how scary and diabolic its face looked." Mementotlan Twin Dragon is terrible at hide-and-seek because of its electrified body. Mementotlan Tatsunootoshigo is fast, but tends to trip and fall apart while running, but can put itself back together.
Must be a tie-in to the Día de Muertos inspirations it's drawing from. My myth fu is failing me, so I don't know about this particular god of the dead's portrayal, but the celebration itself is always a cheery occasion, more about remembering our deceased and celebrate in their memory instead of mourning them with sadness, so in this vein, them being silly is a great touch. With this information in mind, I want to think that the crystals in particular may be stand-ins for candies, as sweets are a big part of the celebration, while the bones are a double up on both the sugar skulls and actual bones that are so integral to the ancient rituals.
Little fun fact, the spell card "Mementomictlan" references the Mictlán, which is where the Aztecs believed the souls of people went after passing away.
Memento has to be the best archetype recently released purely in aesthetic, lore and fun playstyle. I want more old vanilla getting the Memento treatment especially Beast of Talwar, one of my all time vanilla favorite
I hope they eventually add support from other generations from some of the unused vanillas throughout the series. And eventually add extra deck monsters based on the gen, so if they add gx more fusions, 5ds would add synchros, etc etc
Since Pegasus’s Parrot Dragon & Dark Rabbit somehow never got toon counterparts Memento would be an acceptable home for their eventual reworks 😌 a bone dragon with giant parrot wings and beak sounds magnificent.
I'm not joking as a viewer, I want to say thank you for making these videos. It keeps me up to date and even find out cards about a certain archetype I never knew existed.
I really like how accurate memento represents the day of the dead, they are based on aztec rituals and the deity of the dead, looks kinda sinister on the outside but then (through the lore and spell card artwork) you can see that they are just having fun and celebrating the departed, just like the holiday itself.
Fairywitch getting a more anime-esque cute face and a smaller frame with more obvious booba and crystal cat ear really shows how much yugioh art style has changed AND I AM HERE FOR IT
Love the theme of bones in the Memento archetypes. Bones are often the remains of people and animals which are also preserved through time with them being collected and kept in cases. They are like treasures to humans and sadly there are still bones which haven't been found. These are forgotten until found.
@@mohamedal-ganzoury3699 crazy! Talk about monkey paw. I'm getting my stuff ready to play the millennium archetype lol. IF they go ahead and do memento blue eyes then I will flip a coin between the two haha.
It would be so so so funny to me. If the level 6 for the Mementos turned out to be Summoned Skull. 1-Cause this would be the 7th time Summoned Skull has been retrained and at this point its pretty comical 2-The thing is already made of bones so you'd basically just be turning Summoned Skull into a fancier pile of bones 3-Out of most of the Yugi cards Summoned Skull is kind of the most "forgotten" as its probably the one card in Yugi's deck that hasn't gotten much support and is the only one not really tied to any archetype Alternatively they could turn Beast of Talwar into a Memento Its a random level 6 from way back when that no one is really gonna miss if it gets retrained
The dark blade one is there purely because the artwork is absolutely metal. Also, don't know if this card qualifies, but for the level 6 card that comes to mind is judge man.
Important to note that twin headed thunder dragon is a fusion monster that is very loved by the players of Yu-Gi-Oh forbidden memories (a game that came out before 2000, If im not mistaken) due to it being very usefull in that game
Useful in any game where Fusion didn't need Polymerization (Forbidden Memories where it was absurdly easy to make and Duelists of the Roses where it was a respectable Fusion boss monster only really outdone by the highly specific Meteor Black Dragon) and even then, the Effect of Thunder Dragon was very well made at the time as it was made to get materials needed for Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon easily though of course it wasn't really used for that.
I always love when YuGiOh integrates worldwide mythical cultures into their card. And combining memento/revival, with Aztec mythology, whilst keeping the theme of YuGiOh (dark games) is peak design!
I think it's another sort of nod. Its Attack power which was once a top stat line for Level 4 or lower monsters with no drawback had been powercrept by the time it came out and another 1900 ATK Vanilla beatstick was released in the same set so it was forgotten about.
A part of me wonders if the resurrection of the monsters isn’t fully malevolent. With ‘Bone Party’ and ‘Dance’ being spells and traps, I think it might be honoring the dead. Much like how the Day of the Dead isn’t a time for sorrow, it’s more of celebrating the lives of those who’ve died. In addition, the celebration is meant to sustain their memories forever. Maybe that’s what the archetype is trying to do. And anyone who threatens the memory of the monsters will invoke the boss monsters’ wrath 🤔
Interesting Fact: tlan in Aztec means place (you can check it in the academia mexicana de la lengua web page) so Mementotlan would translate as the place you remember.
I don´t know if someone has mentioned it before, but the field spell Mementomictlan takes its name from Mictlan, the underworld in the aztec culture, tying it back together with the god boss monster and why it can search it.
1. I love the Memento archetype. It being a collection of retrains of old monsters, both well known and obscure, that just have a cool new aesthetic and playstyle is a really nice idea. THIS is how you do nostalgia. 2. I'll never forget thinking that these guys were supposed to be malevolent spirits of monsters who felt discarded, only to learn that their actual lore depicts them as a bunch of wholesome goobers who are just chilling in the GY, while acting like roommates. Almost like an edgier looking version of Ghostricks lol
You know when thinking about their inspiration and considering what combined conquerer is based on. I wouldn't be surprised if memento is basically just one big festival of the dead for the monsters. I mean we have bone party and Fracture dance, so maybe that's what they're going for? To celebrate the lives of these monsters in a sorta meta sense?
I think Angwitch is actually "Angel-witch" not "Angry witch". Looking at the Japanese name of the original, it does have the word angel. I think the original was translated as fairy instead of angel, because of the censorship of religious themes in the TCG, which has gotten somewhat more lax since then.
I'd love to see more cards of this archetype. One monster I think could fit in "Memento," in my opinion, is Cyber-Tech Alligator or Cybatic Wyvern. It's vanilla monster card that I hold dear to my heart as my ace monster.
I like the direction Yu-Gi-Oh! is heading in. I have noticed Konami has been focusing on retraining old-school cards. They are really going all in on the nostalgia for us old-school players.
I left due to the BS during the XYZ era, but every extra mechanic and the power creep after that has only alienated me further. Give us more than the current format/master rule before I care. Only YuGiOh things I have done since then is play Dueling Book (not in awhile though) and watch RUclips videos .
@@alexanderrobins7497 I also left during the XYZ era. Back then, it was getting unnecessarily complex, and monster effects became more degenerate as most cards went on, to the point that nowadays it is pretty normal to end the duel in just a couple of turns. I loved what today would be considered the 'slow pace' nature of the game in the early days because it resembled a real strategy game that required proper thought processes in order to win, unlike today, which involves creating an unbreakable board and turns that take forever as if you were playing solitaire. The only saving grace these days is the notion of archetypes because it gives a sense of strategy per archetype, whereas before you used to mash a bunch of unrelated cards and make them work together somehow.
We needed this video, hope Konami continues to support this archetype so it can becomes tier 1 I don’t know about you but that would be the ultimate Meme
"-tlan" is a Nahautl suffix denoting a "place", such as the central city of Tenochtitlan or Micotlan the resting place of souls. I think the tlan added to all of the cards represents the bones and crystals making a new suitable home for the old soul, which is why they come back from the dead.
Have come to absolutely love this deck after testing it out in master duel Love the concept, the play style, everything about it, and will always be happy to see more support for it. This video was hilariously uploaded RIGHT when I was doing research for the deck. Perfect timing!
Most of RUclips's copyright strike nonsense wouldn't stand up to an actual challenge. Using music for 10 seconds in a 20 minute video is completely transformative - the problem is nobody actually having the money to take RUclips to court over it. @@SowaraAkther1
neko gal no2 is hard to get the treatment as memento as theres another thing about them. most memento are seen in the yugioh anime. all their counter part are seen in the anime. Not all the memento are cards from 1999, I think the requirement is that they"re at least 20 years old card and that appear in the anime in on form either played by side character or played by background charater. Neko Gal 2 wasnt in the anime. by that rule the most likely lv 6 is Goddess of Reversal which is lv 6. was shown in the anime and also from 1999 released from the starter deck then
the funny thing is, I was ready for a dark theme for their lore so I was waiting for it's lore to be translated, and when the translation came, Their lore is as light as Madolche's lore lmao
Something i love with this new archetype it's because he bring back forgotten monsters from the grave or Oblivion. In my case i discovered older cards i didn't know their existence. I created recently a deck mixed with Mementotlan archetype and ritual monsters. Hope we'll have a ritual mementotlan monster soon
This archetype honestly reminds me of the crystal beasts. I know they don't play the same. Funny how you can have 7 crystal beasts in the grave, or field, to summon a monster that has a rainbow theme.
I absolutely love this archetype and deck. Takes a lot of studying to play it right, because just summoning things willy nilly will cause you to end on literally nothing lol. Also if an opponent actually knows how the deck works they can hold off to hand trap your Tatsunootoshigo or banish your Ghatic and you're screwed, but if you bait out the traps right then you can end on an absolutely rediculous board with 5(10) on-field monster negates, two pops, a change of heart into linking SP, a banish from SP, and a fuse into Guardian Chimera. Super fun to play once you start seeing the Beautiful Mind equations in your head to actually accomplish what you want with this deck. Absolutely love the lore of these guys too. Can absolutely relate to being a ball of anxiety over looking unfriendly or scary and just wanting to party with everybody 😂😂
As a commentary on nostalgia, i haven't played yugioh in a very long time, but i work with tcgs. I saw these cards come across my desk and got unreasonably excited for them.
I have a all yugioh protagonist in one deck that mainly specializes in warrior monster and spellcastors and dark blade is one of my favorite cards I have in my deck just because he's a simple 1800 beat stick that I can summon without any fuse
An artistic similarity is Chewbone. It is a level 3 earth zombie that produces tokens. The skeleton design is simialr in style to this series, plus it has red, crested horns with a red crystal orb inside it. The tokens produced are depicted as smaller versions with the horn crests being bone colored like the rest of them, but the crimson orbs still existing inside as the possible lifesource. There was a vanilla released in the 1999 OCG called Bone mouse. It was a dark level one zombie with slightly different battle stats. The design was somewhat reminiscent with it being a far less decared mouse with most of its skin still on. There is nothing else to connect these nessisarily but perhaps Chewbone could have been an early inspiration or prototype of the Momentos?
A man of culture, I to fondly hold onto my old Zelda games. If I may suggest, I would like to see any of Gong's duels broken down because I really like the superheavy archetype
Don't know if anyone mentioned this, but Mementolan twin dragon could also be based on Two mouth dark ruler. Both of their heads are even shown in a left facing profile as opposed to Twin headed Thunder dragon's right. Additionally two mouth dark ruler actually released before twin headed thunder dragon in march of ‘99.
This is such a cool concept!!! I wasn't even aware that these old cards got a entire reimagined archetype 😮 I hope more vanilla old school cards join this archetype or get a their own reimagining archetype! Maybe one for each year?
I wonder if Kononami will ever perhaps get even crazier with these Archetypes, like creating a series of cards inspired by Old Sci-Fi movies like Back to the Future or Starship Troopers.
The Memento archetype is so cool. If we still had an anime airing I could see them played by an antagonist character who's resurrected from the dead or something
twin headed thunder dragon is in fact 1999 card it made an appearance in 1999 in jp release of forbidden memories which is it first chronological appearance
Yes. Can't wait for more memento monsters to come back from yhe 1990's/2000's. My guess for a new member would be Baby Dragon, since it was kinda iconic during Duelist Kingdom amd was mostly forgotten due to its basically weak level and stats.
This archetype looked so cool I grabbed what I could in the TCG. It just came out in master duel and while it is very hard to use and easy to interrupt from what I have seen I still think it's fun. Love the nostalgia. Really wanna finish in the TCG but bone party and angwitch are too expensive for me to want to spend the money right now
Glad to have discovered your channel when i did last year. Love how you give us solid therough info about these interesting archtypes both current and favorites from the past. it keeps me up to date on if I ever decide to give yugioh a second shot after a solid 14 year run before i retired back in 2016. It gives me solid info on which types I might wanna give a try if I decide to make a comeback to the game but in a casual setting this time. Thanks for the fun videos.
I am pretty sure "Angwitch" stands for "Angel Witch", especially since in german it is "Enghexe" which stems from "Engel" and "Hexe", which means Angel and Witch respectively.
I love Level 11 monsters. Sure monsters of levels 10 and 12 are Usually boss monsters, but Level 11 monsters also come in Boss Mode and ready to shake the duel field up.
Apparently from what I can gather research wise of constant hours of internet searching, there seems to be only 1 card released in 1999 as a level 6 monster and its Judge Man. So I mean a grumpy bone Judge man retrain doesn't sound like a bad idea and a really cool addition to the roster honestly.
Just saying, if you like the concept of classic-era monsters reimagined under a particular theming, Rush Duel has been doing this for a while with its Bubble Era series.
So currently, there are no level 10 or 12 memento monsters, nor are there any “Mementotlan” ones past level 8… Anyone here have ideas for “Mementotlan” monsters that are levels 9-12? I’m thinking… Level 9: Dark Sage Level 10: Ultimate Obedient Fiend Level 11: Gate Guardian Level 12: Five-Headed Dragon
Five headed and gate guardian you could make an argument for since they basically have no effects but the others despite not having good effects aren't "normal" enough to be one in my opinion.
@@whothis5810 I mean I couldn’t find anything better for levels 9 and 10… All the other ones seemed too new to consider. Although upon looking, I’m thinking… Theinen the Great Sphinx for the level 10… And Black Skull Dragon for level 9?
@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire black skull dragon is a good choice, for the level 10 it's could be exodia since exodia is already a dead skeleton monster that's sort of a normal monster
Five-Headed Dragon already has a pretty decent retrain with Five-Headed Link Dragon, and Gate Guardian literally had a fully revamped Archetype last year, so it wouldn't really make sense to have them be Memento monsters
@@KirbyGroovy I mean versions for the original crappy ones… A fusion memento for five-headed, and a main deck memento for the GG (the new support has a level 12 fusion retrain, but not one for the level 11 main deck one, or even retrain for the three component monsters).
i hope they add the flame cerebrus (yes that how they spell it) to this archetype it was one of my favorites growing up as a kid & its a level six monster
Another theory to tie in Mementoland Twin Dragon, would be to also tie it to twin mouth dark ruler which was an earlier card which is very similar to twin headed thunder dragon, though of course the card does heavily play on the latter rather than the former.
The twin thunderdragon does have another vanilla card with a similar artwork of a green colored dragon. Maybe it's that one that's from the correct year
11:01 -I believe it is also an illusion to Two Mouthed Darkruler, which WAS a vanilla released in 1999 in the OCG. Despite the thunder typing and fusion status tying it directly to Twin Headed Thunder Dragon, its art is in a reversed pose. This links it with Two Mouthed Dark Ruler whose design was recycled for Twin Headed Thunder dragon. They posed it, facing the other direction and changed the color from green to red. Two Mouth Dark Ruler came first under this design and it is pretty clear they just reused it since it doesn't have two heads nor resemble the Thunder dragon in the slightest. You pointed out that Calligraphy Goblin counts because of its cameo in False Trap, so I think this was a tongue in cheek joke about the recycling of monster designs early on. Technically, Twin headed Thunder Dragon did not cameo before his debut but we did kind of see him in a seperate 1999 OCG vanilla monster since they are essentially identicle in appearence. Of course a twin head would be a double vanilla reference.
Mementotlan Twin Dragon may not be based on Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon but Two-Mouth Darkruler which did come out in the OCG in 1999 in the starter box. Its basically the same monster artwork but Darkruler is green and Thunder dragon is red.
Angwitch might mean angel witch instead of angry witch. In fact, I just looked it up on the wiki, the card is called Enghexe in German (hexe = witch, engel = angel ... though eng = tight, it's a tight witch now). And Fairy Witch is actually "Enjeru Majo", Majo means witch and Enjeru is literally just angel with a Japanese accent. Mystical Sheep also has a fusion ability because Mystical Sheep #2 is a fusion material for Fusionist, a super iconic fusion monster with a whopping 100 more ATK than Mystical Sheep #2, and the first fusion to have a fusion itself, Rare Fish, with 1500 ATK and no effect. Oh, the field spell is a memento of Geartown, which is why it gives all Memento monsters the ancient gear effect.
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New Memento Announced:
Mementotlan Akihiron
LV 5 | WATER | Aqua | Effect
Is this one based of any older card? Or is it unrelated?
@@jinzo5956 it's an old card.
I love that Memento were promoted as these angry spirits who had grown vengeful over being thrown out and abandoned, only for the lore to reveal that they're actually just a bunch of goobers who play games and throw parties.
So basically, the edgy counterpart of the Ghostrick archetype.
2004 lore vs 2024 lore
Heh, looks like the well of abandoned cards from GX has returned with a vengeance. I may try to pick up this archetype; could make for some fun stories.
"You thought we were vengeful spirits?
Nah fam! We're just vibing in the Gy" (well..... they are in hell, but my interpretation is that they live in the Gy)
You can kinda see in the artwork of Bone Party, Mace and Goblin are just having a good time.
dang copyright music bot worked fast
Oh so I’m not going insane lol
is that what happened in the 1 minute mark, i thought i was going crazy watching. lol
So that’s why it suddenly cut out
so glad that nintendo is out there muting videos that use their music, they are truly doing the world a favour by protecting us from evil
@@starjadiancloneinvestigato1772 There are times when it's a random group or person that falsely claims a song, but YT has never looked into the validity of those claims.
If youre interested in keeping the 1999 lore as faithful as possible - mementotlan twin dragon is not a retrain of thunder dragon, but actually a retrain of Two Mouth Darkruler, which is a 1999 release of a card that is basically thunder dragon facing the other way
The stat line is off if you're using Two Mouth Darkruler though.
I’m pretty sure the fusion is making fun of Old Yugioh reprinting Artwork with different names
@@ShiningJudgment666 yeah I'm just saying you can pretend because they look exactly the same and I like the 1999 theme
Twin Headed Thunder Dragon was in YuGiOh Forbidden Memories, which came out in December 1999 in Japan
The best part of this archetype is that, according to the VBEX4 card lore book, the Mementos are just a bunch of goofy goobers despite their edgy appearances. There is nothing outright malicious in their book descriptions and we even get a few funny ones.
Mementotlan-Horned Dragon is "concerned about how scary and diabolic its face looked."
Mementotlan Twin Dragon is terrible at hide-and-seek because of its electrified body.
Mementotlan Tatsunootoshigo is fast, but tends to trip and fall apart while running, but can put itself back together.
Yo that's something i didn't expect i thought these guys would be a bit vengeful or something, on some Yubel type timing.
Must be a tie-in to the Día de Muertos inspirations it's drawing from. My myth fu is failing me, so I don't know about this particular god of the dead's portrayal, but the celebration itself is always a cheery occasion, more about remembering our deceased and celebrate in their memory instead of mourning them with sadness, so in this vein, them being silly is a great touch.
With this information in mind, I want to think that the crystals in particular may be stand-ins for candies, as sweets are a big part of the celebration, while the bones are a double up on both the sugar skulls and actual bones that are so integral to the ancient rituals.
I absolutely love this where can I get this book?!
Adorable
I'm imagining the memento monsters playing hide and seek and twin dragon is always the first to be found
Little fun fact, the spell card "Mementomictlan" references the Mictlán, which is where the Aztecs believed the souls of people went after passing away.
It kinda feels that you didn't watch the video
Memento has to be the best archetype recently released purely in aesthetic, lore and fun playstyle. I want more old vanilla getting the Memento treatment especially Beast of Talwar, one of my all time vanilla favorite
I'd like *bat* to be retrained......
That is not a joke
Bat is an actual card
It's never been ported in the tcg
But it is in duel links
Morinphen would be great, it's a big meme monster in OCG that almost win the MD sleeve vote, and it can wordplay with "Memento Mori" itself
Gimme Mementolan Long Rods
@@lilsunny7399 who?!
I hope they eventually add support from other generations from some of the unused vanillas throughout the series. And eventually add extra deck monsters based on the gen, so if they add gx more fusions, 5ds would add synchros, etc etc
A lorebook states they just kind of party a lot and have a little bit of anxiety over looking kind of scary.
So they are literally Spooky Scary Skeletons
@@xerael4659 Down shivering all your cards~
So they're partying like it's 1999?
Since Pegasus’s Parrot Dragon & Dark Rabbit somehow never got toon counterparts Memento would be an acceptable home for their eventual reworks 😌 a bone dragon with giant parrot wings and beak sounds magnificent.
This is a nice comment, and I hope to see it come true
Or they could be retrained as Toons
Don't forget Toon Alligator. It had "Toon" in the name, but it was still a vanilla card.
Or maybe the most logical ever fusion monster
Musician king
So Mementoons then?
I'm not joking as a viewer, I want to say thank you for making these videos. It keeps me up to date and even find out cards about a certain archetype I never knew existed.
I really like how accurate memento represents the day of the dead, they are based on aztec rituals and the deity of the dead, looks kinda sinister on the outside but then (through the lore and spell card artwork) you can see that they are just having fun and celebrating the departed, just like the holiday itself.
Fairywitch getting a more anime-esque cute face and a smaller frame with more obvious booba and crystal cat ear really shows how much yugioh art style has changed
AND I AM HERE FOR IT
Love the theme of bones in the Memento archetypes. Bones are often the remains of people and animals which are also preserved through time with them being collected and kept in cases. They are like treasures to humans and sadly there are still bones which haven't been found. These are forgotten until found.
Let's not forget, key mace was an integral card to summon zushin in the 5D's anime
Key mace (Iru) was also integral to the legendary heroes arc! Played by the same VA for Misty from Pokemon!
Mementoal Blue Eyes, literally the 4th BEWD Kaiba ripped in the anime
Genius
Call it Blue Eyes Mementoal Dragon, and you've got a deal!
If they do this, ill full stop play momento
Isn't that blue eyes a millennium card now?
@@mohamedal-ganzoury3699 crazy! Talk about monkey paw. I'm getting my stuff ready to play the millennium archetype lol. IF they go ahead and do memento blue eyes then I will flip a coin between the two haha.
It would be so so so funny to me. If the level 6 for the Mementos turned out to be Summoned Skull.
1-Cause this would be the 7th time Summoned Skull has been retrained and at this point its pretty comical
2-The thing is already made of bones so you'd basically just be turning Summoned Skull into a fancier pile of bones
3-Out of most of the Yugi cards Summoned Skull is kind of the most "forgotten" as its probably the one card in Yugi's deck that hasn't gotten much support and is the only one not really tied to any archetype
Alternatively they could turn Beast of Talwar into a Memento
Its a random level 6 from way back when that no one is really gonna miss if it gets retrained
technicially in japan summoned skull is an archfiend nd the english srd got an rrata to make t an archfiend but till a normal mo ster
Beast of Talwar was actually used in yugioh arc-v by declan akaba. In fact in Duel Links theres even a voiceline for him summoning it.
Beast of talwar is also an archfiend@@glitch9791
What about Celtic guardian?
Ironic because he was apart of one the very first archetypes Archfiends
The dark blade one is there purely because the artwork is absolutely metal. Also, don't know if this card qualifies, but for the level 6 card that comes to mind is judge man.
Important to note that twin headed thunder dragon is a fusion monster that is very loved by the players of Yu-Gi-Oh forbidden memories (a game that came out before 2000, If im not mistaken) due to it being very usefull in that game
memento rogue deck YCS any% speedrun (PB)
@@UltimatePhantasm run time: 17 hours
Useful in any game where Fusion didn't need Polymerization (Forbidden Memories where it was absurdly easy to make and Duelists of the Roses where it was a respectable Fusion boss monster only really outdone by the highly specific Meteor Black Dragon) and even then, the Effect of Thunder Dragon was very well made at the time as it was made to get materials needed for Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon easily though of course it wasn't really used for that.
I always love when YuGiOh integrates worldwide mythical cultures into their card. And combining memento/revival, with Aztec mythology, whilst keeping the theme of YuGiOh (dark games) is peak design!
In the anime when kaiba gets trapped in his own VR game. A key mace acts as a guide for yugi but ends up getting attacked and dies.
Maybe the design for Dark Blade was made in 1999, but only released as an actual card later
I think it's another sort of nod. Its Attack power which was once a top stat line for Level 4 or lower monsters with no drawback had been powercrept by the time it came out and another 1900 ATK Vanilla beatstick was released in the same set so it was forgotten about.
@@ShiningJudgment666my guy 1999 gemini elf
Isn't Dark Blader supposed to a different timeline for Dai Grepher?
I don't know how Old Dai is tho
A part of me wonders if the resurrection of the monsters isn’t fully malevolent. With ‘Bone Party’ and ‘Dance’ being spells and traps, I think it might be honoring the dead. Much like how the Day of the Dead isn’t a time for sorrow, it’s more of celebrating the lives of those who’ve died. In addition, the celebration is meant to sustain their memories forever. Maybe that’s what the archetype is trying to do. And anyone who threatens the memory of the monsters will invoke the boss monsters’ wrath 🤔
Interesting Fact: tlan in Aztec means place (you can check it in the academia mexicana de la lengua web page) so Mementotlan would translate as the place you remember.
I don´t know if someone has mentioned it before, but the field spell Mementomictlan takes its name from Mictlan, the underworld in the aztec culture, tying it back together with the god boss monster and why it can search it.
1. I love the Memento archetype. It being a collection of retrains of old monsters, both well known and obscure, that just have a cool new aesthetic and playstyle is a really nice idea. THIS is how you do nostalgia.
2. I'll never forget thinking that these guys were supposed to be malevolent spirits of monsters who felt discarded, only to learn that their actual lore depicts them as a bunch of wholesome goobers who are just chilling in the GY, while acting like roommates.
Almost like an edgier looking version of Ghostricks lol
You know when thinking about their inspiration and considering what combined conquerer is based on. I wouldn't be surprised if memento is basically just one big festival of the dead for the monsters. I mean we have bone party and Fracture dance, so maybe that's what they're going for? To celebrate the lives of these monsters in a sorta meta sense?
The conqueror brought back these monsters for one nefarius reason... TO PARTY HARD, BABY! GHATTIC DROPTHE BEAT!
Goblin and dark blade did come out in 1999 just in the ocg because it took a while to translate them
I think Angwitch is actually "Angel-witch" not "Angry witch".
Looking at the Japanese name of the original, it does have the word angel. I think the original was translated as fairy instead of angel, because of the censorship of religious themes in the TCG, which has gotten somewhat more lax since then.
i think it is indeed angel-witch, cause even in spanish she is "Angbruja"
"Anguish"
Literally エンジェル魔女 or angelwitch
The original monster for the tatsunoo whatever also is just called "sea horse"(shii hoosuu)
I'd love to see more cards of this archetype. One monster I think could fit in "Memento," in my opinion, is Cyber-Tech Alligator or Cybatic Wyvern. It's vanilla monster card that I hold dear to my heart as my ace monster.
0:52 Holy crap. A 5000 ATK/DEF monster and it’s not Level 12?! What?!
It's also actually EARTH and not a LIGHT/DARK for a change
I like the direction Yu-Gi-Oh! is heading in. I have noticed Konami has been focusing on retraining old-school cards. They are really going all in on the nostalgia for us old-school players.
Nostalgia is all they have, Yugioh is not attracting new players.
@@vileluca Fr. It has gotten too convoluted for new players. Used to be much simpler back then!
I left due to the BS during the XYZ era, but every extra mechanic and the power creep after that has only alienated me further. Give us more than the current format/master rule before I care. Only YuGiOh things I have done since then is play Dueling Book (not in awhile though) and watch RUclips videos .
It could, it's like pokemon u fortunately they should grow up
@@alexanderrobins7497 I also left during the XYZ era. Back then, it was getting unnecessarily complex, and monster effects became more degenerate as most cards went on, to the point that nowadays it is pretty normal to end the duel in just a couple of turns. I loved what today would be considered the 'slow pace' nature of the game in the early days because it resembled a real strategy game that required proper thought processes in order to win, unlike today, which involves creating an unbreakable board and turns that take forever as if you were playing solitaire.
The only saving grace these days is the notion of archetypes because it gives a sense of strategy per archetype, whereas before you used to mash a bunch of unrelated cards and make them work together somehow.
I've used a memento deck in a master duel event. I really like the archetype and plan to have my own copy of them.
We needed this video, hope Konami continues to support this archetype so it can becomes tier 1 I don’t know about you but that would be the ultimate Meme
"-tlan" is a Nahautl suffix denoting a "place", such as the central city of Tenochtitlan or Micotlan the resting place of souls.
I think the tlan added to all of the cards represents the bones and crystals making a new suitable home for the old soul, which is why they come back from the dead.
based
Have come to absolutely love this deck after testing it out in master duel Love the concept, the play style, everything about it, and will always be happy to see more support for it. This video was hilariously uploaded RIGHT when I was doing research for the deck. Perfect timing!
I would like if the Memento archetype also referenced monsters from both the GX and 5Ds eras, after all, they are old enough to be nostalgic.
Maybe we'll get a synchro and tuner for the deck
I was so confused when the audio cut out during the Zelda example
Some Copyright music shenanigan is my guess, happened in so many videos
1:17 is the sound cutting out for anyone else?
He might have used LoZ music for the bit
I used the sad nostalgia music from the Up film. And even just a few seconds was enough for copyright issues.
Had to mute it sadly 😢
@@TGSAnimethat sucks and it was only for a few seconds too. The copyright system is so picky.
@@TGSAnime well at least I know what music to play here
Most of RUclips's copyright strike nonsense wouldn't stand up to an actual challenge. Using music for 10 seconds in a 20 minute video is completely transformative - the problem is nobody actually having the money to take RUclips to court over it.
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Dark Blade was my favourite card growing up and I'm happy to see him doing well in Mementos
neko gal no2 is hard to get the treatment as memento as theres another thing about them. most memento are seen in the yugioh anime. all their counter part are seen in the anime. Not all the memento are cards from 1999, I think the requirement is that they"re at least 20 years old card and that appear in the anime in on form either played by side character or played by background charater. Neko Gal 2 wasnt in the anime. by that rule the most likely lv 6 is Goddess of Reversal which is lv 6. was shown in the anime and also from 1999 released from the starter deck then
wrechted ghost of the attic wasn't featured in the anime
@@ssgamez6084it was shown as a card, but no one used it.
You mean gyakuteno Megami?
@@manulopez4697 that’s what the commenter probably meant.
the funny thing is, I was ready for a dark theme for their lore so I was waiting for it's lore to be translated, and when the translation came, Their lore is as light as Madolche's lore lmao
Pretty much Ghostrick but a bit cooler
Where can I see the lore mate
@@Dz73zxxx ygorganization, it's a site for yugioh news
@@Dz73zxxxtheir Wikipedia page (or the Yugioh version of it)
Something i love with this new archetype it's because he bring back forgotten monsters from the grave or Oblivion. In my case i discovered older cards i didn't know their existence. I created recently a deck mixed with Mementotlan archetype and ritual monsters.
Hope we'll have a ritual mementotlan monster soon
This archetype honestly reminds me of the crystal beasts. I know they don't play the same. Funny how you can have 7 crystal beasts in the grave, or field, to summon a monster that has a rainbow theme.
The Memento Boss Monsters look like Classic Bionicle Combination models that were good back in the Day
I absolutely love this archetype and deck. Takes a lot of studying to play it right, because just summoning things willy nilly will cause you to end on literally nothing lol. Also if an opponent actually knows how the deck works they can hold off to hand trap your Tatsunootoshigo or banish your Ghatic and you're screwed, but if you bait out the traps right then you can end on an absolutely rediculous board with 5(10) on-field monster negates, two pops, a change of heart into linking SP, a banish from SP, and a fuse into Guardian Chimera. Super fun to play once you start seeing the Beautiful Mind equations in your head to actually accomplish what you want with this deck.
Absolutely love the lore of these guys too. Can absolutely relate to being a ball of anxiety over looking unfriendly or scary and just wanting to party with everybody 😂😂
9:14 'Tatsu no Otoshigo' ('Risen child') is a pretty weird Westernisation considering that the original card is just 'Shiihoosu', aka. 'Sea Horse'.
As a commentary on nostalgia, i haven't played yugioh in a very long time, but i work with tcgs. I saw these cards come across my desk and got unreasonably excited for them.
I have a all yugioh protagonist in one deck that mainly specializes in warrior monster and spellcastors and dark blade is one of my favorite cards I have in my deck just because he's a simple 1800 beat stick that I can summon without any fuse
An artistic similarity is Chewbone. It is a level 3 earth zombie that produces tokens. The skeleton design is simialr in style to this series, plus it has red, crested horns with a red crystal orb inside it. The tokens produced are depicted as smaller versions with the horn crests being bone colored like the rest of them, but the crimson orbs still existing inside as the possible lifesource. There was a vanilla released in the 1999 OCG called Bone mouse. It was a dark level one zombie with slightly different battle stats. The design was somewhat reminiscent with it being a far less decared mouse with most of its skin still on. There is nothing else to connect these nessisarily but perhaps Chewbone could have been an early inspiration or prototype of the Momentos?
A man of culture, I to fondly hold onto my old Zelda games. If I may suggest, I would like to see any of Gong's duels broken down because I really like the superheavy archetype
Don't know if anyone mentioned this, but Mementolan twin dragon could also be based on Two mouth dark ruler. Both of their heads are even shown in a left facing profile as opposed to Twin headed Thunder dragon's right. Additionally two mouth dark ruler actually released before twin headed thunder dragon in march of ‘99.
This has honestly become probably my fav archetype ever sense i started playing them in master duel cuz i find them so much fun to use
8:08 Dark Blade is one of the paths that Warrior Dai Grepher can take which barely misses the mark being released in the OCG in 2001.
Memento Mori the new name of the pergatory all the cards we never put in decks go into. One day they will be reborn into new useful forms.
2:16 I can really feel the "those days are gone" part
11:45
>1999 Level 6 vanilla monster
COME ONNNNNNNNNNN SUMMONED SKULL
This is such a cool concept!!! I wasn't even aware that these old cards got a entire reimagined archetype 😮 I hope more vanilla old school cards join this archetype or get a their own reimagining archetype! Maybe one for each year?
Man, most of these brought me back my "Forbidden Memories."
just built this in master duel, and ended up pulling a bunch of the cards in packs, including 2 Angwitches. Love the archetype!
Never forget those cards that were there when this game came out.
I wonder if Kononami will ever perhaps get even crazier with these Archetypes, like creating a series of cards inspired by Old Sci-Fi movies like Back to the Future or Starship Troopers.
Kozmo are literally just Star Wars Wizard of Oz
Time thief is dr who
The Memento archetype is so cool. If we still had an anime airing I could see them played by an antagonist character who's resurrected from the dead or something
twin headed thunder dragon is in fact 1999 card it made an appearance in 1999 in jp release of forbidden memories which is it first chronological appearance
Any old Yugioh monster should be able to be a Memento card, not just ones from 1999.
Yes. Can't wait for more memento monsters to come back from yhe 1990's/2000's. My guess for a new member would be Baby Dragon, since it was kinda iconic during Duelist Kingdom amd was mostly forgotten due to its basically weak level and stats.
Love this archetype they’re really fun
This archetype looked so cool I grabbed what I could in the TCG. It just came out in master duel and while it is very hard to use and easy to interrupt from what I have seen I still think it's fun. Love the nostalgia. Really wanna finish in the TCG but bone party and angwitch are too expensive for me to want to spend the money right now
Glad to have discovered your channel when i did last year. Love how you give us solid therough info about these interesting archtypes both current and favorites from the past. it keeps me up to date on if I ever decide to give yugioh a second shot after a solid 14 year run before i retired back in 2016. It gives me solid info on which types I might wanna give a try if I decide to make a comeback to the game but in a casual setting this time. Thanks for the fun videos.
I am pretty sure "Angwitch" stands for "Angel Witch", especially since in german it is "Enghexe" which stems from "Engel" and "Hexe", which means Angel and Witch respectively.
I love Level 11 monsters. Sure monsters of levels 10 and 12 are Usually boss monsters, but Level 11 monsters also come in Boss Mode and ready to shake the duel field up.
5:57 I love how you call it an "Evil" kuriboh yet its o.g. text says it harmless.
Imagine a blue eyes Momento card
Mementotlan Red-Eyes and Mementotlan Dark Magician
It could be the 4th blues that kaiba ripped
@@whothis5810that would be cool
@@whothis5810have the memento version be slightly weaker and a visible scar across his chest
@@ked49 yes
iirc, Mementotlan Angwitch's name is mostly a reference to the OCG name for Fairy Witch: Angel Witch.
It’s so nice to see these normal monsters get a retrained archetype.
Memento Mori is a App Game good character design but really loves the Theme Song for each character
I'd love to see a video about the Meklord archetype. They seem to be super different in the tcg compared to how they were in the 5Ds anime.
Apparently from what I can gather research wise of constant hours of internet searching, there seems to be only 1 card released in 1999 as a level 6 monster and its Judge Man. So I mean a grumpy bone Judge man retrain doesn't sound like a bad idea and a really cool addition to the roster honestly.
Just saying, if you like the concept of classic-era monsters reimagined under a particular theming, Rush Duel has been doing this for a while with its Bubble Era series.
I get raw emotions of nostalgia when I hear the OOT opening music.
I wish the monsters that have the deck master ability from the virtual world arc get a retrained archetype.
Can you do a video on the illusion monsters
This Archetype has so much potential
So currently, there are no level 10 or 12 memento monsters, nor are there any “Mementotlan” ones past level 8…
Anyone here have ideas for “Mementotlan” monsters that are levels 9-12?
I’m thinking…
Level 9: Dark Sage
Level 10: Ultimate Obedient Fiend
Level 11: Gate Guardian
Level 12: Five-Headed Dragon
Five headed and gate guardian you could make an argument for since they basically have no effects but the others despite not having good effects aren't "normal" enough to be one in my opinion.
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I mean I couldn’t find anything better for levels 9 and 10… All the other ones seemed too new to consider.
Although upon looking, I’m thinking…
Theinen the Great Sphinx for the level 10…
And Black Skull Dragon for level 9?
@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire black skull dragon is a good choice, for the level 10 it's could be exodia since exodia is already a dead skeleton monster that's sort of a normal monster
Five-Headed Dragon already has a pretty decent retrain with Five-Headed Link Dragon, and Gate Guardian literally had a fully revamped Archetype last year, so it wouldn't really make sense to have them be Memento monsters
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I mean versions for the original crappy ones… A fusion memento for five-headed, and a main deck memento for the GG (the new support has a level 12 fusion retrain, but not one for the level 11 main deck one, or even retrain for the three component monsters).
i hope they add the flame cerebrus (yes that how they spell it) to this archetype it was one of my favorites growing up as a kid & its a level six monster
I feel the this might be my favorite archetype to come out recently, very fun in Master Dual
memento = The Unus Annus archetype
Now that's a deep cut
Another theory to tie in Mementoland Twin Dragon, would be to also tie it to twin mouth dark ruler which was an earlier card which is very similar to twin headed thunder dragon, though of course the card does heavily play on the latter rather than the former.
Memento Mori is the theme of Persona 3, and appears in Zero Escape Virtues Last Reward
and memento mori is a phrase in latin. omg I can't believe they made an entire language about the memento archetype
The twin thunderdragon does have another vanilla card with a similar artwork of a green colored dragon. Maybe it's that one that's from the correct year
That could be a fun idea for fan art , what monsters yall want to see as memento monsters
11:01 -I believe it is also an illusion to Two Mouthed Darkruler, which WAS a vanilla released in 1999 in the OCG. Despite the thunder typing and fusion status tying it directly to Twin Headed Thunder Dragon, its art is in a reversed pose. This links it with Two Mouthed Dark Ruler whose design was recycled for Twin Headed Thunder dragon. They posed it, facing the other direction and changed the color from green to red. Two Mouth Dark Ruler came first under this design and it is pretty clear they just reused it since it doesn't have two heads nor resemble the Thunder dragon in the slightest. You pointed out that Calligraphy Goblin counts because of its cameo in False Trap, so I think this was a tongue in cheek joke about the recycling of monster designs early on. Technically, Twin headed Thunder Dragon did not cameo before his debut but we did kind of see him in a seperate 1999 OCG vanilla monster since they are essentially identicle in appearence. Of course a twin head would be a double vanilla reference.
Fairy Witch is “Angel Witch” in OCG. Hope it makes sense for the “Ang” of “Angwitch”.
To summerize what this archetype is it is deck based on the feeling of nostalgia
6:15 I think that Angwitch is a play on Angel-Witch because the Japanese name エンジェル・魔女 directly translates to Angel Witch
Mementotlan Twin Dragon may not be based on Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon but Two-Mouth Darkruler which did come out in the OCG in 1999 in the starter box. Its basically the same monster artwork but Darkruler is green and Thunder dragon is red.
Nope, same level and stats as twin headed thunder
For those who played Forbidden Memories, Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon will never be forgotten. That thing carried us throughout the game.😂
i think it would be really good for memento archetype to have spells and traps also from forgotten spells and traps with archetype specific effects.
Apparently according to the card lore they made for mementos. The crystals are supposed to be crystalized bones that have piled up since ancient times
Angwitch might mean angel witch instead of angry witch. In fact, I just looked it up on the wiki, the card is called Enghexe in German (hexe = witch, engel = angel ... though eng = tight, it's a tight witch now). And Fairy Witch is actually "Enjeru Majo", Majo means witch and Enjeru is literally just angel with a Japanese accent.
Mystical Sheep also has a fusion ability because Mystical Sheep #2 is a fusion material for Fusionist, a super iconic fusion monster with a whopping 100 more ATK than Mystical Sheep #2, and the first fusion to have a fusion itself, Rare Fish, with 1500 ATK and no effect.
Oh, the field spell is a memento of Geartown, which is why it gives all Memento monsters the ancient gear effect.