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    It’s Time For A Second Wave Of “Gradius”! [RD/KP23]

    NeoArkadiaBy NeoArkadiaNovember 9, 202522 Comments

    Pew pew.

    RD/KP23-JP001 Choujikuusentouki Vic Viper (Super Time-Space Fighter Vic Viper) [Gradius]
    Level 4 LIGHT Machine Normal Monster
    ATK 1200
    DEF 800
    パワーカプセルにより、様々な能力を発揮する超高性能戦闘機。
    (A high-performance jet fighter with power capsules for variable attack capabilities.)

    RD/KP23-JP023 Option [Gradius’ Option]
    Level 1 LIGHT Machine Effect Monster
    ATK 0
    DEF 800
    【REQUIREMENT】 Send the top card of your Deck to the GY.
    【EFFECT】 Choose 1 face-up Level 4 LIGHT Machine monster with an original DEF of 800 on your field and have this card gain ATK equal to the [Original ATK of the chosen monster] until the end of the opponent’s next turn.

    RD/KP23-JP024 マルチプル Multiple [Lord British’s Multiple]
    Level 1 LIGHT Machine Effect Monster
    ATK 0
    DEF 800
    This card’s name is treated as “Gradius’ Option” while in the hand and in the GY.
    【REQUIREMENT】 Send the top card of the Deck to the GY.
    【EFFECT】 This card’s name is treated as “Gradius’ Option” for the rest of this turn. If there is a face-up monster on your field whose original name is “Lord British Salamander”, then you can choose 1 monster on your opponent’s field and change its battle position.

    RD/KP23-JP025 ビック・バイパー スプレッドボム Vic Viper – Spread Bomb
    Level 4 LIGHT Machine Effect Monster
    ATK 1200
    DEF 800
    【REQUIREMENT】 Send 1 other monster from your hand or field to the GY.
    【EFFECT】 This card’s name becomes “Gradius” for the rest of this turn, then you can choose 1 Spell/Trap Card on your opponent’s field and destroy it. For the rest of this turn, you cannot attack with monsters, except Machine monsters whose original DEF is 800.

    RD/KP23-JP026 ビック・バイパー ビギニング Vic Viper – Beginning
    Level 4 LIGHT Machine Effect Monster
    ATK 1200
    DEF 800
    【REQUIREMENT】 Pay 100 LP.
    【EFFECT】 This card’s name becomes “Gradius” for the rest of this turn. Then, you can send up to 2 other monsters from your hand or field to the GY. If you sent a monster(s), then you can choose “Gradius’ Option” in your GY equal to [The number of monsters sent to the GY for this effect] and Special Summon them in face-up Defense Position.

    RD/KP23-JP041 ビック・バイパー リップルレーザー Vic Viper – Ripple Laser
    Level 4 LIGHT Machine Fusion Effect Monster
    ATK 2500
    DEF 800
    Materials: “Gradius” + “Gradius’ Option”
    You can Contact Fusion this card.
    【REQUIREMENT】 None
    【EFFECT】 Send the top 2 cards of your Deck to the GY, then you can choose up to 2 face-up monsters on your opponent’s field and have them lose 800 ATK until the end of the turn.

    RD/KP23-JP042 Vic Viper – Full Custom
    Level 4 LIGHT Machine Fusion Effect Monster
    ATK 3200
    DEF 800
    Materials: “Gradius” + “Gradius’ Option” + “Gradius’ Option”
    You can Contact Fusion this card.
    【REQUIREMENT】 None
    【CONTINUOUS EFFECT】 This card cannot be destroyed by effects. This card’s attacks pierce.

    RD/KP23-JP053 ハイパースピード Hyper Speed
    Normal Spell Card
    【REQUIREMENT】 None
    【EFFECT】 Fusion Summon a Level 4 Machine monster with 800 DEF by sending monsters from your hand or field to the GY. If “Power Capsule Red” is in your GY, then the monster that was Special Summoned by this effect gains 600 ATK until the end of the turn.

    RD/KP23-JP054 Power-Up Gauge [Power Meter]
    Normal Spell Card
    【REQUIREMENT】 Place 1 face-up monster on your field on the bottom of the owner’s Deck.
    【EFFECT】 Choose 1 LIGHT Machine monster with 800 DEF in your GY and add it to the hand. If “Power Capsule Red” is in your GY, then you can Fusion Summon a Level 4 LIGHT Machine monster with 800 DEF by sending monsters from your hand or field to the GY as material.

    RD/KP23-JP055 Power Capsule Blue
    Normal Spell Card
    【REQUIREMENT】 If there is a face-up “Gradius” on your field.
    【EFFECT】 Choose up to 3 face-up monsters on your opponent’s field whose total Levels are 8 or less and destroy them, but for the rest of the turn, you cannot attack with monsters, except with Machine monsters with an original DEF of 800.

    RD/KP23-JP056 Power Capsule Red
    Normal Spell Card
    【REQUIREMENT】 None
    【EFFECT】 Excavate the top 4 cards of your Deck and reveal them. Choose up to 1 “Gradius” and 1 LIGHT Machine Effect Monster with 800 DEF among them and add them to your hand, then place the remaining cards on the bottom of your Deck in any order.

    RD/KP23-JP064 リボーンパターン Reborn Pattern
    Normal Trap Card
    【REQUIREMENT】 When a monster on your field is destroyed by your opponent’s attack or your opponent’s effect.
    【EFFECT】 Choose 1 “Gradius” or 1 Level 4 Machine Fusion Monster with 800 DEF in your GY and Special Summon it to your field face-up, then you can choose 1 card on your opponent’s field and destroy it.

    Note: 復活パターン is basically “Revival Pattern”, where in a video game, you use the fact you restart on the screen with none of your power-ups and quickly re-establish your set-up. This term was pioneered with Gradius because a smart and seasoned player can easily turn losing a life and power ups into an advantage, and Gradius is extremely easy to do this tactic if you know what you’re doing.

    RD/KP23-JP065 超時空戦闘機ロードブリティッシュ Chou Jikuu Sentouki Lord British (Super Time-Space Fighter Lord British) [Lord British Salamander]
    Level 4 LIGHT Machine Effect Monster
    ATK 1200
    DEF 800
    【REQUIREMENT】 Send the top card of the Deck to the GY.
    【EFFECT】 This card’s name is treated as “Gradius” for the rest of this turn. Then, you can choose 1 “Gradius’ Option” in your GY and Special Summon it to your field face-up. For the rest of this turn, you cannot attack with monsters, except Machine monsters whose original DEF is 800.

    Note: I’m naming it this way to mirror Gradius (which is Super Time-Space Fighter Vic Viper) and is named after the video game it originated in.

    Note: Could be Lord British Life Force!

    Source: YU-GI-OH!.jp

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    22 Comments

    1. Design on November 9, 2025 10:54 pm

      All cool references and the art is amazing. Glad Gradius’ Option actually is more than 1 card because it’d be painful to Fusion summon otherwise. Too bad Bruno Santo will write a paragraph of ~Literally nothing~ in response to this.

      Reply
      • NeoArkadia on November 9, 2025 11:23 pm

        Please do not personally attack other users.

      • Nikoness on November 11, 2025 9:43 pm

        @Design Keep your provocations in a different page from internet please, not here. Language.

    2. N on November 9, 2025 11:04 pm

      With the full wave they’ve become a lot more consistent.

      What they lack in raw power they make up more in their swarming potential and removal.

      Reply
      • Pablod on November 9, 2025 11:06 pm

        If Rush’s Monarch and Princess Cosmos have taught me anything, it’s that you don’t need Boss Monsters with High ATK to have a viable or competent Deck (just plenty of Consistency and good Main Deck Monsters)

    3. cucundoweh on November 9, 2025 11:13 pm

      It seems like you forgot to include this sentence in the explanation of the effect “For the rest of this turn, you cannot attack with monsters, except Machine monsters whose original DEF is 800” on the Vic Viper – Spread Bomb…

      Reply
      • NeoArkadia on November 9, 2025 11:25 pm

        Funny story, it seems I Ctrl+X’d it to place it on Lord British, of all ironies.

      • yukicrewger2 on November 10, 2025 2:00 am

        @NeoArkadia

        you also have [Lord British’s Multiple] mentioning a “Lord British of Salamander” in its effect, but have said card as just [Lord British Salamander]

        either there is a missing “of” or an accidental adddition “of”

      • NeoArkadia on November 10, 2025 9:44 am

        Accidental addition. I was putzing around while fiddling with texts and didn’t do fully proper clean up.

    4. HalfDemonInuyasha on November 9, 2025 11:17 pm

      Was just telling a friend of mine yesterday that they should make more cards based on the other power-ups. Glad to see it happen.

      Reply
    5. Pablod on November 9, 2025 11:18 pm

      Well, here’s the complete Gradius Deck.

      That means that supposed Super War-Lion Deck would only have a handful of 4-5 cards now.

      It also remains to be seen whether JP038 is a Fusion Monster or a Free Agent.

      Reply
    6. Mister Rosalina on November 9, 2025 11:27 pm

      Correct me if i’m wrong, is this enough to build a deck that has 15 monsters with 800 DEF for the Gradius theme?

      Reply
      • NeoArkadia on November 9, 2025 11:49 pm

        6 monsters x 3 is 18.

      • yukicrewger2 on November 10, 2025 1:58 am

        If not, you could probably add a quick and dirty Cyber Dragon engine based around “Cyber Stealth Dragon”, its also a Light/Machine monster with 800 Def and thus can be affected by “Power Capsule Red”

    7. Donny on November 9, 2025 11:39 pm

      1 billion supports to a random DM card

      Curious

      Reply
      • Jafarquaad on November 9, 2025 11:55 pm

        Well Gradius is a Konami video game.

      • Dedede on November 10, 2025 12:23 am

        also 40th bithday for gradius

      • N on November 10, 2025 12:53 pm

        That is Rush’s MO since late 2022 if you weren’t paying attention

      • a on November 10, 2025 3:25 pm

        >random

        such disrespect

    8. GenesicKaiser on November 10, 2025 5:25 am

      This is really giving the Gradius archetype a lot of justice, on top of including the weapons.

      Reply
    9. 999 on November 10, 2025 4:28 pm

      Being playing the OG gradius Games since the B.E.S structure came to Duel Link and is funny that Konami choose to make the Villains viable on Speed and the Heroes on Rush

      Reply
    10. Paradigm on November 11, 2025 5:28 pm

      Whilst it should be obvious from the different artwork and effect I’ll point this out anyway – this Lord British is a distinct card (effectively a retrain) from the OCG one. That card’s Japanese name is literally just ‘Lord British’ in katakana.

      Reply

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