Upon being uplifted, will you find salvation or will you be deemed unworthy of finally reaching the stars?
New Theme ①:ヘカトンケイル Hecatoncheire
A faceless Fusion Monster whose invisible hands promise your opponent salvation!
見えざる神ジャウザー(ヘカトンケイル ジャウザー) Hecatoncheire Jawza [Kanji: Unseen God Jawza]
Ark Note:
Hecatoncheire is the name for the many-armed giant sons of Gaia who were siblings to the Cyclops and the Titans in Greek Mythology.
Jawza is from Al-Jawza “The Central One”, and refers originally the constellation Orion but overtime got transitioned to Gemini. Jawza is apparently a story of a woman who married her lover but was found dead the next morning after the wedding and her husband ran for his life.
New Theme ②: 糾罪巧(エニアクラフト) Enneacraft
A Flip Monster Theme deployed to ascertain the sins of man!
糾罪巧-Atoriϝ.MAR(エニアクラフト-アトリマール) Enneacraft – Atoriϝ.MAR
Ark Note: As far as I can tell, Ennea means “9” in Greek. And MIGHT be referring to the Enneagram of Personality. 糾 (To verify) can sound 九 (Nine). The ace monster’s name includes ϝ which is Digamma, i.e. the sixth letter in Greek. MAR likely refers to ocean.
New Theme ③: キラーチューン Killertune
A Synchro Tuner to make some killer noise on the floor with its wild scratches!
キラーチューン・レッドシール Killertune Redseal
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I love how the first two take clear inspiration of higher beings / religion…
Then you have an Edgy Girl who makes sick tunes… one of these things isn’t like the other
My immediate thought on seeing Hecatoncheire was “Shinato”.
huh, now that you mention it, does remind me of shinato
That’s every Deck Build Pack. Two that follow the theme, and one that has to be different.
My immediate thought on the first one was the “Invisible Hand” of Sloth in Re:Zero. It was used by a character that took the name Betelgeuse based on the star in the Orion constellation. Betelgeuse name itself is a corrupted mistranslation of the original Arabic name for the star where they mistook the Y for a B in Yad al-Jawza which means The HAND of Jawza.
And you already know that Jawza is the Arabic character associated as the cosntellation we currently call Orion.
>Girl
i mean she looks rly cool tho
Could be a guy. There’re few male characters with similar outfit, like that one War Rock guy.
Nah, that’s a what in the cyberpunk ass think who’s has a meth addiction.
Old god taking Angelic form
Whale airship
Like 70% of Pulchara
This’ll be fun
The second theme reminds me of Zoids
>Hecatoncheire
VOIDVERG MENTIONED!?!?!?!? ZWIJO ZIL VELGOAT REFERENCE!?!?!?!?!?!?
why are we getting so biblical? and whats with the vanquish souls 2 lookin ass
Biblical?
Literally every cool thing ever is from the bible
Brother yugioh is the most religious card game there is. You have 12 different constelations of gods, zodiac signs and deities releasing per year. And thats not even talking about the fact that this whole game started from ancient egyptian mythology and deities. You cant expect something so hyper religious to just not be religious suddenly.
Wait till you hear about duel terminal…or dogmatika…or orcust.
Nah that ain’t even Vanquish Soul. You can see the art is badass on killertune and ass in VS
Likely lv 9 + Flip? This might make Prediction Princess playable
Oh fck yeah, waiting to make Prediction Princess finally playable again
Ah, the Trinity is back.
– Draconic Demon Beyond Compression.
– Space Whale Mecha
– Scrap Rebel Waifu
Definitely not draconic. Could be another Fiend fusion deck. Or maybe fairy. Given the ininvisible hands’ description it could be an Illusion fusion deck which might be interesting.
I don’t think it will be draconique. Looks more like fiend to me.
Not draconic, almost certainly either Light Fiend or Dark Fairy
Nothing dragonic about it, Bruno Santo. Its more eldlich looking than dragon looking. Also it’s COMPREHENSION. Something you don’t have.
Anything can be dragon if you think hard enough
Haters will stay crying. This is the peak design we have and not like what we get last time in Justice Hunter
Why are you like that? Why you must act like a rétard?
Jawsa is lacking the wdjat but the design is fairly illusion adjacent imo so in a world where it isnt a fiend or a fairy i think that’s the third most likely option.
It’s usually the second archetype of the bunch (set order not reveal wise) for a DBP that does the best. Not always but a lot of the time. It’s interesting to see a flip deck in that slot…. maybe we are finally going to see super pushed flips😅
I don’t know if that’s quite true in recent memory. Ryzeal and Dragon Tale were the first reveal and both ruled their formats until new support changed the paradigm to make another dbp dominant but less so. Yummy is hyped up but it’s the weakest of the 3 in justice hunters based on results.
New Greek deck. So, Greece gonna be the next Worlds location?
“A Flip Monster Theme deployed to ascertain the sins of man!” Shouldn’t THIS be the waifu deck?
Can’t say I’m impressed with there being another Fusion deck and another Synchro deck after we just got a Fusion deck and Synchro deck in the last Deck Build Pack.
It would be nice if we could get a FIRE Ritual deck someday…
What would they base a FIRE Ritual deck? Salamangreat and Nepthys technically took the bulk of the Phoenix motifs. The most I could think of are Oracle Bones (in ancient times “divination” in China involved burning bones and creating prophecies based on how the bones cracked)…
A single mythical animal and burning old bones is the extent of your imagination? With that username?
A couple of ideas:
A deck based around Legendary Flame Lord – the first FIRE Ritual monster in the game. FIRE Spellcaster theme. That would revolve around collecting Spell Counters, including by the act of using Ritual Spells, probably to cause extra burn damage or destruction. Inflicting burn damage or destruction through the act of Ritual Summoning while reaping Spell Counters.
A deck inspired by the Greek mythical Furies. Fiery flying maidens who were invoked by people to right injustices. FIRE Fairy theme. Have them be a lawfirm of supernatural female attorneys and the ritual spells are the contracts for hiring them.
Still think Legendary Flame Lord is somehow related to the Magistus archetype, considering how much (to me) he looks like Zoroa.
Especially if you take Legendary Flame Lord’s effect compared to the Endymion playstyle, and then compare that to the manga plotline
First monster looks like Infernity Archfiend on power steroids.
Also that artwork looks absloute gorgeous. One of the best looking designs I’ve seen in a long time.
In Yu-Gi-Oh we just call those “Stim Packs”
Also reminds me of Milla’iin from Chaotic for anyone who remembers that game.
@ScionStorm
And me nowhere near a Vault. I think the closest would be Vault 19 in Nevada
A Fallout archtype would be amazing. MTG already got Fallout themed cards last year.
My guesses:
DARK Fiend or Illusion
LIGHT Machine Flip
Multi Attribute Psychic
Isn’t the second one literally a whale? Why not fish?
the whale looks mechanical
Given the set name, the first has a high likelihood of being and Illusion theme.
It’s digamma
My opinion on each of these three themes
1 okay, I know what I’ll be seeing in my nightmares now!
2 geometric sea creatures with flip effects? Interesting
3 she’s clawfully cute (Ugg send me to the shadow realm now 🤦♂️) and not in a sexual way
yugioh to not make sound/music based monsters and archetype for the nth time challenge: difficult
They have like 2 or 3 archetypes based on music/sound/instruments… No ?
@Mr Sax
Symphonic Warriors
Melodious
Lunalight if dancing counts
Solfachord
XYZ Djinns
Orcust if I recall correctly
And I believe there are even more I’m forgetting rn
Vaalmonica
P.U.N.K.
Royal Demon’s
and Valkyrie is based on Ride of the Valkyries iirc
There’s a pendulum scale crystal right above the ship in the second theme’s art. So pendulum flips? Could be interesting.
Re:Zero reference
Thought I was the only one who’s mind went there.
We got both the Unseen Hand and the White Whale in one side set. Subaru is about to run the gauntlet again.
Note for Red Seal: it’s a record label founded in 1902.
Bo animation chronicle this year?
So we’ll be waiting another 15 years for more Arcana Force cards?
Either we’re getting one much later this year or Limited Pack GX: Slifer Red is meant to take up the slot this year.
I just want my Armatoes Legio and Hydradrive…
hyped for killertune. definitely gonna mix them with centurion if theyre compatible
Yeah, I definitely like the teaser for Killertune. Hope the cards live up to that.
Going heavy on the biblical theme, eh? They’ll never survive localization.
Does any Arabic old legend automatically become biblical reference?
The Jawza in this likely comes as a reference to the original uncorrupted name for the star Betelgeuse. Yad al-Jawza (translators mistook the Y for a B) – “the ‘hand’ of Jawza”(the constellation Orion).
Not a waifu??
Woah! Not a waifu??
these are the most awesome archetypes conceptually I’ve seen unveiled in a hot while
Still remember Hecatoncheir from Final Fantasy 13 so I kinda feel like I will like that Theme. Also the Pose reminds me of Shinato.
Finally, it’s been a while since we get a good art for the themes. The last i remembered was from Tactical Master (2022)
“Ermm YGO has no identity, it’s all waifu monsters now!!!” mofos when this
We have the most powerful waifu of all:
Cosmic Horror.
this isn’t a waifu
Damn the arts of the first two are sick as hell.
the synchro one looks like a waifu to me….
I predict that Enneacraft will be a WATER Xyz theme that has the field spell with an effect that “Special Summon from the Deck in face-down Defense Position.
I bet whatever yall want that mimighoul Will break the second theme somehow
I hope Hecato is the weakest so it’s cheap
Bro why is just the Flip you want to be weak 😭😭😭
We suffered enough already
TheOne
We suffered enough from powercreep deadgaynator and generic engines like FS. So any new unique theme is always welcome!!
@Longyuan22 true but Flip archetypes have always been historicaly one of the weakest ones outside of Shaddoll, and maybe Crawler (I don’t remember if that one was meta or not)
It doesn’t need to be broken but a Flip archetype that can at least compete a little would be great
andronous slop
A Flip Monster Theme deployed to ascertain the sins of man!
I think “Enneacraft” will be a theme related to the story of “Sky Thunder” & Sky Crisis.
– insane cosmic horror demon
– holy whale mech from the sky
– waifubait.deck
oh konami, never change
Cry more kid 🥱
sounds like you took a lighthearted joke personally lol
I see this as absolute win!
@TheOne
jokes aside the music themeing could be dope. The triple archetype boosters are always so hype
The 1st and 2nd look so cool!
This deck build pack seems like a dream for edgelords.
I love these 3 a lot. Can’t wait for the reveal!
Me too, I’m getting punk vibes from the last one (the literature genre, not the PUNK cards lol)
btw, who is the artist who drew your pfp Chained?
INB4 PHANTOM KNIGHT PENDULUMS, LV2 AND LV5 Main Deck Monsters, A New Rank-Up Magic and Rank-Down Magic Spells, and a Rank 5 Phantom Knight Boss Monster
I’ll be happy if we get just two more main deck masked heroes with decent effects
I wonder if Killertune will end up with monsters based on various record/CD terms, like burning or ripping. Redseal already seems to have DJ record scratching down in his/her design