I would love if they made more archetypes like this. Imagine going to locals and your opponent starts playing actual f-cking solitaire and manages to xyz summon their King of Clubs with 12 materials.
Man, Arc-V’s anime introduced some of the coolest archetypes in the game to this day, hope we get another theme someday that’s as heavy into its theming as this one
Flower Cardian - Yugioh Original Card FC Pine - OG FC Pine with Crane - Crane Crane FC Cherry Blossom - Naturia Beetle FC Cherry Blossom with Curtain - Curtain of the Dark Ones FC Peony with Butterfly - Blazewing Butterfly FC Clover with Boar - Boar Soldier FC Zebra Grass - Naturia Cosmobeet FC Zebra Grass with Moon - The Wicked Avatar FC Maple with Deer - Valerifawn, Mystical Beast of the Forest FC Willow - Giant Trunade FC Willow with Calligrapher - Flower Cardian Lightshower FC Paulownia - Tentacle Plant FC Paulownia with Phoenix - Fenghuang I Love this Deck!!!
Honestly Chojiro Tokumatsu was one of the better minor side characters with a deck, I can only hope he gets the rest of the cards in less than 20 years in an animation chronical.
One important thing about Super All In - Lightshower protects your Cardians from destruction. Including by this card. Which then prevents the LP loss as well. If you can get a properly summoned Lightshower into grave (easy enough by using it as non-tuner material), it can use one of the four summons to guarantee they stick, or you can just fire this on a second synchro while Lightshower is also on board. This plus de-synchro can let you go effectively infinite surprisingly easily... Synchronized Realm can make a funny FTK
I love this archetype (mainly because I really like the guy who used them in Arc-V). He was a fun "cool old man" figure for the gang who deserved more spotlight than they gave him.
fun fact: in japanese boardefly is spelled ino-shika-cho also you didn't mention that if you have lightshower on the field you don't get the negative effect of super all-in, making it a free +3 (at least, usually it becomes a +5/6 depending on what you bring back)
@@yusheitslv100 The game you play with Hanafuda. In the game Koi-Koi, you’re trying to collect combos of cards to earn points. A Hanafuda deck is divided into 12 suits (for each month), with various point values for each card. There are various combos you can make with the cards of different suits. Boar-Deer-Butterfly is a combo of the 10-point cards from June, July, and October, and is worth 5 points. Ino, Shikamaru, and Choji have names containing the words for boar, deer, and butterfly, in reference to that combo.
Good... good... the Cardian Yakuza is pleased. A few notes though. In your koi koi example, when you draw a card off the deck, you have the option to pair it off with any card on the table before it belongs to the table. So in your specific example, the maple you drew from the top can be paired with the maple on the board. Also an important note about Super All In, if you control a Flower Cardian Lightshower at the time you draw a card, you can avoid the destruction effect completely since Lightshower prevents the destruction of your Cardians, so basically you can have a board of Moonflower and Lightshower, send Moonflower back, summon four and despite what you draw you can keep it all. You also don't lose life off this since it must destroy 1 to make you pay. I love this deck so much, it's themed around cheating and usually your opponent will have no idea what you're doing so it looks like you are. Great video, Nova, I approve.
Another trick with Super All In: If you bring back Lightshower, you won't lose anything if you whiff since Lightshower prevents Cardians from being destroyed.
FINALLY, MY SIGNATURE DECK THAT EVERYONE UNDERESTIMATES GETS THE RECOGNITION IT DESERVES. I looooved this from start to finish. I do have a few nitpicks/additions, but, overall, this was a _fantastic_ showing of what makes Cardians tick and such a surprising anti-meta threat. Also the idea of teching in Convulsion of Nature is quite simply the single wildest freaking idea I have ever heard and I am going to be doing that immediately. It LITERALLY TURNS OFF WHIFFS. WHAT THE HECK. ...Speaking of those additions/nitpicks: Flower Stacking only has a once per turn on its Graveyard effect; its regular stacking effect can be used as many times as you want. The fact that Recardination can add ANY Spell/Trap to your hand from the excavated 5 makes it especially fantastic as a "whiff" when you are running off-archetype spells like R.O.T.A., Allure, etc. Even Called by the Grave, to stop those pesky Drolls. Super Koi Koi has a hard once per turn on its regular effect, but nothing on its Graveyard one, so you can keep tributing for free summons. Notably, it says any MONSTER, not just any "Flower Cardian" monster. The best use for this detail I've found is basically a free pass to play through an early Nibiru from your opponent. Just tribute the token to keep on playing, maybe even pop the Nibiru using Clover with Boar while you're passing by. Super All-In says "destroy all monsters you control, and if you do, halve your LP." ...Now, it might be me misremembering, but didn't we have a monster that provides blanket destruction immunity to every single monster you control...? So, yeah, if one of the Cardians you're bringing back is Lightshower, there is literally no downside or risk to using Super All-In. Which, may I remind you, isn't once per turn at all. Just casually go +8 in card advantage, it's fine. (Another way of achieving that protection is to have two synchros on the field, one of them being Lightshower, and return the other one for Super All-In; the Lightshower is gonna protect your 4 revived Cardians from destruction.) Willow effect -> shuffle Willow from grave is a beautiful combo that can actually lead to literally free infinite material if you're down to 2 cards in deck. Shuffle in a Willow, while you have the other card you want to get in hand as the other card in the deck, until you only have it left: Use it, have the next Willow shuffle in the next card you want, and then use that as material for the next Willow's shuffle... repeat ad infinitum. Works especially well with Willow with Calligrapher, for free synchros. Boardefly being an Abyss Dweller on 'roids is pretty apt: It doesn't matter if you remove Dweller, Droplet it after activation, or anything: the effect is gonna be lingering, so if they let it resolve, it's kinda out of their hands entirely. Count in how absurdly easy it is to assemble lethal damage with Cardians, and the crackback after their interrupted combo is going to be a _breeze._ On the same note as Paulownia, people just not reading Cardians is genuinely one of its greatest strengths. Not because they lack power, but because not reading them can _really_ screw someone over. People will try to Ash Blossom your Cherry Blossom with Curtain. I've once played against this clearly on mental autopilot Swordsoul player, who going second against me, tried to Raigeki my field... while I had Lightshower on board... *TWICE.* _IN SUCCESSION._ Because surely the second time would work, right? Not only that, but Boardefly being a lingering effect means it's probably not gonna be lasting to the end board; even attentive Yu-Gi-Oh players who (gasp) read will usually only read the cards that are on the field once their turn comes, to know what they're dealing with. Boardefly's activation is... so incredibly innocuous, one tiny lapse of judgment can make it completely pass your opponent by, and have them realize entirely too late what you've done. So many turns started by them using Foolish Burial and then standing there without doing anything for a solid minute, in pure confusion... so beautiful. Lastly, honestly, outing a 5,000 attack monster who can't be targeted or destroyed by card effects, floats into a Lightshower even if you _banish_ it, and is immune to Battle Phase effects, is just genuinely kinda difficult. Especially with the Graveyard lock neutering most meta decks' combos. Well, that's it. Thank you for enabling me to go ape over my flower children. Cardians are currently in a weird spot, meta-wise. In the Master Duel meta, as I'd call it, they're kings. Drytron can do nothing, DPE is useless, Swordsoul is basically useless, Prank-Kids, Dinos, Phantom Knights, Eldlich, Dragon Link, Virtual World, Sky Striker, Adamancipator... I could go on and on, but Cardians straight up just shuts all of these decks down. But, in the current TCG meta, and the upcoming OCG one, things are a lot more complicated. Its matchup with Therion is... tenuous at best. Branded straight up does not care about anything Cardians do. Floowandereeze can't do anything against them, but Cardians can't do anything against Barrier of the Wind, either, so it's just about who wins the coin toss. With Verte gone, DPE and Dragoon are gone as threats, and being invincible to them was one of Cardians' best strengths. Pendulum does not care at all. Etc. They're still very solid, but soooo much less fortunate than just a little bit ago. Tearalaments on the horizon are a bright light, though... They literally cannot do anything to Cardians. S.H.I.T. (Shaddoll Herald Ishizu Tearalaments) or pure. Splights... I genuinely have no clue. But, well, we can play through entirely too many negates. It's part of why the Adamancipator (pre-Block Dragon ban) and Drytron matchups were so good. I think we'll do just fine.
@@siren_atlantica I've never been close to timing out so I would assume they were reading cards then or something? closest I've gotten is probably still like 2 mins left because it's not necessarily hard to plan out your combos or anything because on some level it's just "don't whiff" and that really can simplify the game. That said I am really tempted to add berserker's soul to the deck which of course increases whiff odds but imagine how funny it would be to win off of that. Though as far as I know shaddoll winda is literally unstoppable turn 1 against cardians so that's a problem if they put her out.
If Chojiro ever joins Duel Links in the future, I already know that Flower Cardian Boardefly is going to be his Ace Monster with the summoning animation.
i would play duel links again if chojiro comes to the game. also add the Moonflowerviewing. yes with skills that manipulating levels so that lightshower and Lightflare can perform
Couple things on this video, I love the techs you thought of. There are some things I'd like to point out. First off, when you get to the end of even a decent combo turn, you're going to have a very small deck, think 8-12 left. The effect to skip your draw from shower and viewing are actually positives, as they preserve your deck for more Cardian combos with any whiffed spells last turn. Second, shower protects from the all in downside, even when summoned as part of it's effect, making all in effectively soul charge. Third, yes! We do use rota and reborn. Though, there's one more important tech to mention - synchronized realm. It's a non opt burn for synchro summoning, and with viewing, de-synch, and willow loops, you can get the ftk more consistently than most. Finally, my funny tech choice of or anyone who's gotten this far is a one of counter trap - gravity collapse. It allows you to negate a summon and stop any summoning for the rest of the turn for the tiny cost of a synchro, like a leftover Moonflower or Boardfly! Have fun!!!
@@Jcbryant123 i love the deck, but even i felt sick of myself when i ended my turn with less than a minute to go and burned them on the draw for game. There are some things so horrible that they just shouldn't be done, and playing cardians at locals is one of them.
It always really weird looking Avatar (assuming that is Avatar) in that Flower Cardian card Avatar is the equivalent of Ra, imagine a random Egyptian God in random card's artworks
Honestly it would be cool if Konami made the rest of the suits for this deck as in its own way it could be a koi koi training deck. Plus this deck desperately needs the help.
Cardians are one of my all time favorite decks. Found them in duel links and was blown away in master duel. It's also very funny how many people waste ash blossom on cherry blossom only for me to activate the effect again because none of them are once per turn. Pure bliss 😊
ahh my main master duel deck. keep speshul summoning is fun. really fun. also i liked the lightshower's artwork. that supercharged umbrella makes a really cool sleeper weapon, and Moonflowerviewing's fan seems visually inherit some of the umbrella's power.
Maybe this is the best Cardian explanation I've ever found. Well detailed, by the by. Now with the last supports included. I hope this deck gets all the remaining monster months soon. I'm kinda iching about a new release expectation. Nothing announced for now. This deck is ma favo and once. Love the artwork and play style based on the original Hanafuna made-style. The deck is fun, creative, long and strong. Have lesser bricks currently and a lot os strategies around some single effects. I can tell I mastered this deck. Maybe more than Chojiro Tokumatsu did (hope he didn't read this comment). Still, I made some miracles... a single card on board made me finish the turn with 2 Lightshowers and a Flare after a bunch of negations from opponent and after a disgrace from Super All in. I was admired how consistent this deck can be. Trust the cards. It is not luck. It is consistence, baby. Also maybe the rarest decks/archetypes you can truly put every (at least a) single card from archetype and play with it. Cardians are my passion.
So other important and common played tech. De-synchro; moonflowerviewing to draw one, de-synchro to trigger the resummoning draws, then moonflowerviewing again for another draw. Synchro zone; whenever you synchro burn for 500. For a specific burn variant where you try and turbo 3 light shower Any virus trap; just a great amount of control options. The rank up spiders for xyz plays; it's not uncommon to sit on 2 zebra or willow they can be useful for an extra body on board.
This channel is single-handedly why why I LOVE making decks. Even stuff I’ll never play competitively lol I build almost every deck of the archetypes you’ve made videos on since my return to the series earlier this year. Anyways, another great video. Love the channel.
I've been using my Flower Cardian deck in Duel Links for about a year and I absolutely love it. It's a crazy archetype that is unfortunately slept on because they aren't giant dragons or bad ass looking sorcerers...they're just innocuous little cards...but these cards are razor sharp and are not to be trifled with.
I love see how Yu-Gi-Oh would do a pokemon Deck. Where you have Poke-Ball Tuners. That can be tributed to Special special Level-4 or lower “Pokemon” monsters. I think it work best as a synchro/Fusion archetype. As a substitute for evolution. While treating Link or ritual monsters as the “legendary Pokemon”. I don’t, seems like fun.
I used to run a Flower Cardigan deck when they first came out and I used Exodius, The Ultimate Forbidden Lord for monster recovery as well as another easy synchro material.
This sounds like a very interesting Archetype to play, and the fact it has aspects of another card game mixed in is neat. I wonder though, with this and the Poker knights, what else kind of card games can be turned into a Yu-Gi-Oh Archetype?
I won a game yesterday in the Synchro Festival in Master Duel by just sitting on Lightshower and not drawing for several turns. Granted it was against a trap stun deck but was still very nice after loosing to Maxx c for the 20th time.
Ah yes cardian's the deck that with the synchro summon burn for 500 spell combined with ways to loop moonflower and willow multiple times let's you ftk the opponent
Really hope they print the scrolls for this deck yet. Would be nice to see a little more support since we get locked into our own archetype for summons. Curious what they could add for effects. Would be neat to have in archetype floodgates or more negations or banish effects. What do the scrolls do in Koi Koi?
Man, the only thing better than a Nova sponsorship bit is when it has bonus Delilah. Always a great time, or your money back. Also, I should mention that Moonflowerviewing is specifically a reference to the yaku Tsukiakari no Hanami which is ... literally Moonlit Flower Viewing, comprised of both Hanami (Flower Viewing) and Tsukimi (Moon Viewing). The interesting part that I find, however, is that there is a variant ruling where the Rain Man and Toad card and Lightning card both actually make Tsukiakari no Hanami and its two component yaku into invalid yaku. This is referred to as the "rainy day" ruling by some, with the concept that inclement weather ruins viewing parties. The reason I find this interesting is that it can be rather difficult to go from Moonflowerviewing into Lightshower. I just think that's a neat thing is all.
I’ll be honest one of my favorite things to do with this deck is make the big synchros then go into muddy mudragon and use it and a level 5 or higher cardian for shura the combat star since all the big synchros are 6 and above it’s attack boost turns even boardefly into a 3200 beat stick.
How strange. I'm just starting to learn about Yu-gi-oh archtypes and I was interested in learning about the Cardian archtype and went to search it on youtube and wham, this video was uploaded just two hours earlier!
Could you do a D/D/D explained video? It’s one of my favorite archetypes and it’s up there to be one of the strongest and complex archetype’s in yugioh history period
This is a pretty interesting Archetype, and it makes me wonder, with is Archetype and the Poker Knights what else kind of card games can they turn into a Yu-Gi-Oh Archetype?
Woo! Love this archetype. It was the first archetype I learned when getting back into Yugioh. Can’t wait for more support, there is certainly room for more monsters.
He kinda play bad (or have bad luck) if that was the case. A good hand can basically mill out your entire deck without even caring about any sort of hand trap
I'm going to bring this up seeing as no one is saying anything with how many cards that are monsters hit the grave wouldn't pot of Avarice work perfectly as the graveyard isn't a second deck for this archetype.
First time fighting this deck today and i hated it he didn't do anything amazing so I wasn't sure what the boss monster was but he took a 6 minute turn and it felt like fighting exodia just sitting there waiting for him to draw his whole deck
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I would love if they made more archetypes like this. Imagine going to locals and your opponent starts playing actual f-cking solitaire and manages to xyz summon their King of Clubs with 12 materials.
That would HAVE to have an effect when you detach 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 12 materials. (Would be 11, but then the 12th has no reason for being there)
Old Mind kind of does this somewhat
Man, Arc-V’s anime introduced some of the coolest archetypes in the game to this day, hope we get another theme someday that’s as heavy into its theming as this one
I really hope they make the Road Raven deck Yuya's mom used a real archetype.
Flower Cardian - Yugioh Original Card
FC Pine - OG
FC Pine with Crane - Crane Crane
FC Cherry Blossom - Naturia Beetle
FC Cherry Blossom with Curtain - Curtain of the Dark Ones
FC Peony with Butterfly - Blazewing Butterfly
FC Clover with Boar - Boar Soldier
FC Zebra Grass - Naturia Cosmobeet
FC Zebra Grass with Moon - The Wicked Avatar
FC Maple with Deer - Valerifawn, Mystical Beast of the Forest
FC Willow - Giant Trunade
FC Willow with Calligrapher - Flower Cardian Lightshower
FC Paulownia - Tentacle Plant
FC Paulownia with Phoenix - Fenghuang
I Love this Deck!!!
Honestly Chojiro Tokumatsu was one of the better minor side characters with a deck, I can only hope he gets the rest of the cards in less than 20 years in an animation chronical.
I hope we can all ENJOYYYYYYY new support soon.
I mean we’re getting a lot more legacy support so that’s very possible
One important thing about Super All In - Lightshower protects your Cardians from destruction. Including by this card. Which then prevents the LP loss as well. If you can get a properly summoned Lightshower into grave (easy enough by using it as non-tuner material), it can use one of the four summons to guarantee they stick, or you can just fire this on a second synchro while Lightshower is also on board.
This plus de-synchro can let you go effectively infinite surprisingly easily... Synchronized Realm can make a funny FTK
ah yes, the one true solitaire archetype
I love this archetype (mainly because I really like the guy who used them in Arc-V). He was a fun "cool old man" figure for the gang who deserved more spotlight than they gave him.
ENJOYYYYYYY
Just like roku in Zexal...
fun fact: in japanese boardefly is spelled ino-shika-cho
also you didn't mention that if you have lightshower on the field you don't get the negative effect of super all-in, making it a free +3 (at least, usually it becomes a +5/6 depending on what you bring back)
What is Boardefly referencing that Naruto also has "Ino-Shika-Cho"?
@@yusheitslv100 The game you play with Hanafuda.
In the game Koi-Koi, you’re trying to collect combos of cards to earn points. A Hanafuda deck is divided into 12 suits (for each month), with various point values for each card. There are various combos you can make with the cards of different suits. Boar-Deer-Butterfly is a combo of the 10-point cards from June, July, and October, and is worth 5 points.
Ino, Shikamaru, and Choji have names containing the words for boar, deer, and butterfly, in reference to that combo.
This also explains why choji's final form is a butterfly... It's all a reference
Good... good... the Cardian Yakuza is pleased.
A few notes though. In your koi koi example, when you draw a card off the deck, you have the option to pair it off with any card on the table before it belongs to the table. So in your specific example, the maple you drew from the top can be paired with the maple on the board.
Also an important note about Super All In, if you control a Flower Cardian Lightshower at the time you draw a card, you can avoid the destruction effect completely since Lightshower prevents the destruction of your Cardians, so basically you can have a board of Moonflower and Lightshower, send Moonflower back, summon four and despite what you draw you can keep it all. You also don't lose life off this since it must destroy 1 to make you pay.
I love this deck so much, it's themed around cheating and usually your opponent will have no idea what you're doing so it looks like you are.
Great video, Nova, I approve.
Another trick with Super All In:
If you bring back Lightshower, you won't lose anything if you whiff since Lightshower prevents Cardians from being destroyed.
FINALLY, MY SIGNATURE DECK THAT EVERYONE UNDERESTIMATES GETS THE RECOGNITION IT DESERVES.
I looooved this from start to finish. I do have a few nitpicks/additions, but, overall, this was a _fantastic_ showing of what makes Cardians tick and such a surprising anti-meta threat.
Also the idea of teching in Convulsion of Nature is quite simply the single wildest freaking idea I have ever heard and I am going to be doing that immediately. It LITERALLY TURNS OFF WHIFFS. WHAT THE HECK.
...Speaking of those additions/nitpicks:
Flower Stacking only has a once per turn on its Graveyard effect; its regular stacking effect can be used as many times as you want.
The fact that Recardination can add ANY Spell/Trap to your hand from the excavated 5 makes it especially fantastic as a "whiff" when you are running off-archetype spells like R.O.T.A., Allure, etc. Even Called by the Grave, to stop those pesky Drolls.
Super Koi Koi has a hard once per turn on its regular effect, but nothing on its Graveyard one, so you can keep tributing for free summons. Notably, it says any MONSTER, not just any "Flower Cardian" monster. The best use for this detail I've found is basically a free pass to play through an early Nibiru from your opponent. Just tribute the token to keep on playing, maybe even pop the Nibiru using Clover with Boar while you're passing by.
Super All-In says "destroy all monsters you control, and if you do, halve your LP." ...Now, it might be me misremembering, but didn't we have a monster that provides blanket destruction immunity to every single monster you control...? So, yeah, if one of the Cardians you're bringing back is Lightshower, there is literally no downside or risk to using Super All-In. Which, may I remind you, isn't once per turn at all. Just casually go +8 in card advantage, it's fine. (Another way of achieving that protection is to have two synchros on the field, one of them being Lightshower, and return the other one for Super All-In; the Lightshower is gonna protect your 4 revived Cardians from destruction.)
Willow effect -> shuffle Willow from grave is a beautiful combo that can actually lead to literally free infinite material if you're down to 2 cards in deck. Shuffle in a Willow, while you have the other card you want to get in hand as the other card in the deck, until you only have it left: Use it, have the next Willow shuffle in the next card you want, and then use that as material for the next Willow's shuffle... repeat ad infinitum. Works especially well with Willow with Calligrapher, for free synchros.
Boardefly being an Abyss Dweller on 'roids is pretty apt: It doesn't matter if you remove Dweller, Droplet it after activation, or anything: the effect is gonna be lingering, so if they let it resolve, it's kinda out of their hands entirely. Count in how absurdly easy it is to assemble lethal damage with Cardians, and the crackback after their interrupted combo is going to be a _breeze._
On the same note as Paulownia, people just not reading Cardians is genuinely one of its greatest strengths. Not because they lack power, but because not reading them can _really_ screw someone over. People will try to Ash Blossom your Cherry Blossom with Curtain. I've once played against this clearly on mental autopilot Swordsoul player, who going second against me, tried to Raigeki my field... while I had Lightshower on board... *TWICE.* _IN SUCCESSION._ Because surely the second time would work, right?
Not only that, but Boardefly being a lingering effect means it's probably not gonna be lasting to the end board; even attentive Yu-Gi-Oh players who (gasp) read will usually only read the cards that are on the field once their turn comes, to know what they're dealing with. Boardefly's activation is... so incredibly innocuous, one tiny lapse of judgment can make it completely pass your opponent by, and have them realize entirely too late what you've done. So many turns started by them using Foolish Burial and then standing there without doing anything for a solid minute, in pure confusion... so beautiful.
Lastly, honestly, outing a 5,000 attack monster who can't be targeted or destroyed by card effects, floats into a Lightshower even if you _banish_ it, and is immune to Battle Phase effects, is just genuinely kinda difficult. Especially with the Graveyard lock neutering most meta decks' combos.
Well, that's it. Thank you for enabling me to go ape over my flower children.
Cardians are currently in a weird spot, meta-wise. In the Master Duel meta, as I'd call it, they're kings. Drytron can do nothing, DPE is useless, Swordsoul is basically useless, Prank-Kids, Dinos, Phantom Knights, Eldlich, Dragon Link, Virtual World, Sky Striker, Adamancipator... I could go on and on, but Cardians straight up just shuts all of these decks down. But, in the current TCG meta, and the upcoming OCG one, things are a lot more complicated. Its matchup with Therion is... tenuous at best. Branded straight up does not care about anything Cardians do. Floowandereeze can't do anything against them, but Cardians can't do anything against Barrier of the Wind, either, so it's just about who wins the coin toss. With Verte gone, DPE and Dragoon are gone as threats, and being invincible to them was one of Cardians' best strengths. Pendulum does not care at all. Etc. They're still very solid, but soooo much less fortunate than just a little bit ago. Tearalaments on the horizon are a bright light, though... They literally cannot do anything to Cardians. S.H.I.T. (Shaddoll Herald Ishizu Tearalaments) or pure. Splights... I genuinely have no clue. But, well, we can play through entirely too many negates. It's part of why the Adamancipator (pre-Block Dragon ban) and Drytron matchups were so good.
I think we'll do just fine.
I have faced off against this archetype before and it's very formidable.
Well, you have me tempted to build cardians in MD, so well played.
I've seen them in MD once and they timed out lmao
@@siren_atlantica if you faced them then you got a free win.
@@siren_atlantica I've never been close to timing out so I would assume they were reading cards then or something? closest I've gotten is probably still like 2 mins left because it's not necessarily hard to plan out your combos or anything because on some level it's just "don't whiff" and that really can simplify the game.
That said I am really tempted to add berserker's soul to the deck which of course increases whiff odds but imagine how funny it would be to win off of that.
Though as far as I know shaddoll winda is literally unstoppable turn 1 against cardians so that's a problem if they put her out.
One thing to make sure of: unless you have a droll and lock bird somewhere in your deck, NEVER maxx c this deck. They will always take that challenge.
Cardian: Maxx C challenge? More like Deck out my opponent challenge.
For the Synchro Festival in Master Duel, I played Flower Cardians and I've never decked out so many people so easily
If Chojiro ever joins Duel Links in the future, I already know that Flower Cardian Boardefly is going to be his Ace Monster with the summoning animation.
Or they give him skills to allow him to make higher level monsters
i would play duel links again if chojiro comes to the game. also add the Moonflowerviewing.
yes with skills that manipulating levels so that lightshower and Lightflare can perform
Couple things on this video, I love the techs you thought of. There are some things I'd like to point out. First off, when you get to the end of even a decent combo turn, you're going to have a very small deck, think 8-12 left. The effect to skip your draw from shower and viewing are actually positives, as they preserve your deck for more Cardian combos with any whiffed spells last turn. Second, shower protects from the all in downside, even when summoned as part of it's effect, making all in effectively soul charge. Third, yes! We do use rota and reborn. Though, there's one more important tech to mention - synchronized realm. It's a non opt burn for synchro summoning, and with viewing, de-synch, and willow loops, you can get the ftk more consistently than most. Finally, my funny tech choice of or anyone who's gotten this far is a one of counter trap - gravity collapse. It allows you to negate a summon and stop any summoning for the rest of the turn for the tiny cost of a synchro, like a leftover Moonflower or Boardfly! Have fun!!!
My opponent: so I’m on a bit of a schedule. How long will your combo take?
Me: yes
I once brought the game to time on turn 1 using flower cardians, without even slowplaying. After that, nobody at my locals would let me use the deck.
@@vla1ne I don't blame them. This deck is disgusting. The worst experience to play against in this game IMO.
@@Jcbryant123 i love the deck, but even i felt sick of myself when i ended my turn with less than a minute to go and burned them on the draw for game.
There are some things so horrible that they just shouldn't be done, and playing cardians at locals is one of them.
@@vla1ne yeah no offense to you, but playing Cardians at all. IMO this is the worst archetype in the game.
@@Jcbryant123 ah, personally, i love them, but it's easy to understand why others don't. Though i had a cardian mirror match once... Never again.
The guy from Dark Bribe really stepped up his game, huh
It always really weird looking Avatar (assuming that is Avatar) in that Flower Cardian card
Avatar is the equivalent of Ra, imagine a random Egyptian God in random card's artworks
He has done it! He has tapped into forbidden power! HE HAS READ THE FLOWER CARDIANS!
HE HAS READ -THE FLOWER CARDIANS- !
Honestly it would be cool if Konami made the rest of the suits for this deck as in its own way it could be a koi koi training deck. Plus this deck desperately needs the help.
Cardians are one of my all time favorite decks. Found them in duel links and was blown away in master duel. It's also very funny how many people waste ash blossom on cherry blossom only for me to activate the effect again because none of them are once per turn. Pure bliss 😊
ahh my main master duel deck. keep speshul summoning is fun. really fun.
also i liked the lightshower's artwork. that supercharged umbrella makes a really cool sleeper weapon, and Moonflowerviewing's fan seems visually inherit some of the umbrella's power.
Maybe this is the best Cardian explanation I've ever found. Well detailed, by the by. Now with the last supports included.
I hope this deck gets all the remaining monster months soon. I'm kinda iching about a new release expectation. Nothing announced for now. This deck is ma favo and once.
Love the artwork and play style based on the original Hanafuna made-style.
The deck is fun, creative, long and strong. Have lesser bricks currently and a lot os strategies around some single effects. I can tell I mastered this deck. Maybe more than Chojiro Tokumatsu did (hope he didn't read this comment). Still, I made some miracles... a single card on board made me finish the turn with 2 Lightshowers and a Flare after a bunch of negations from opponent and after a disgrace from Super All in.
I was admired how consistent this deck can be. Trust the cards. It is not luck. It is consistence, baby. Also maybe the rarest decks/archetypes you can truly put every (at least a) single card from archetype and play with it. Cardians are my passion.
So other important and common played tech. De-synchro; moonflowerviewing to draw one, de-synchro to trigger the resummoning draws, then moonflowerviewing again for another draw.
Synchro zone; whenever you synchro burn for 500. For a specific burn variant where you try and turbo 3 light shower
Any virus trap; just a great amount of control options.
The rank up spiders for xyz plays; it's not uncommon to sit on 2 zebra or willow they can be useful for an extra body on board.
dude you literally uploaded this the same day i started to play flower cardians
This channel is single-handedly why why I LOVE making decks. Even stuff I’ll never play competitively lol I build almost every deck of the archetypes you’ve made videos on since my return to the series earlier this year. Anyways, another great video. Love the channel.
I've been using my Flower Cardian deck in Duel Links for about a year and I absolutely love it. It's a crazy archetype that is unfortunately slept on because they aren't giant dragons or bad ass looking sorcerers...they're just innocuous little cards...but these cards are razor sharp and are not to be trifled with.
Me, who's been playing flower cardians as my sole main deck for 2 straight years: *"interesting"*
I love see how Yu-Gi-Oh would do a pokemon Deck. Where you have Poke-Ball Tuners. That can be tributed to Special special Level-4 or lower “Pokemon” monsters. I think it work best as a synchro/Fusion archetype. As a substitute for evolution. While treating Link or ritual monsters as the “legendary Pokemon”.
I don’t, seems like fun.
Fusion would only have 4 cards: Black Kyurem, White Kyurem, Dusk Mane Necrozma, and Dawn Wings Necrozma.
I'd love to see you do pendulum magicians or endymion next
30:49 D-did you just make a "one card short" reference!? Dredging up the oldest of memories here nova
Glad to see it got noticed!
Brb, gotta listen to the entire Music to Duel By album now.
I used to run a Flower Cardigan deck when they first came out and I used Exodius, The Ultimate Forbidden Lord for monster recovery as well as another easy synchro material.
Oh that's
Oh that's wild!
I love it!
Great video Nova! I really ENJOYYYed your coverage of Cardians, they’re one of my favorite Arc-V archetypes
Hope they add more of these cards to dual links. Would be fun to expand the current deck! : 3
I'm surprised that De-Synchro was not mentioned in this video.
Criminal omission really, it enables so many combos and a burn variation of the deck with synchro field
This sounds like a very interesting Archetype to play, and the fact it has aspects of another card game mixed in is neat. I wonder though, with this and the Poker knights, what else kind of card games can be turned into a Yu-Gi-Oh Archetype?
I won a game yesterday in the Synchro Festival in Master Duel by just sitting on Lightshower and not drawing for several turns. Granted it was against a trap stun deck but was still very nice after loosing to Maxx c for the 20th time.
Ah yes cardian's the deck that with the synchro summon burn for 500 spell combined with ways to loop moonflower and willow multiple times let's you ftk the opponent
the background music really fits the theme. Nice choice!
I guess that explains the ending “fight” of that Summer Wars movie
nova really wants the scrolls
This hanafuda deck is in full bloom. Just watch out for yakuza. Gambling card games are an interesting affair.
Oooh, this was a very interesting video. I love how the arctype mirrors it's inspiration!
Flower Cardians.
More like,
"Come on baby daddy needs a new deck!"
*Loses 3k LP*
Really hope they print the scrolls for this deck yet. Would be nice to see a little more support since we get locked into our own archetype for summons. Curious what they could add for effects. Would be neat to have in archetype floodgates or more negations or banish effects. What do the scrolls do in Koi Koi?
They aren't mucu different than most other Yaku! One involves having a lot of them, so maybe we'd get a Syncho?
We need a full food review video
Man, the only thing better than a Nova sponsorship bit is when it has bonus Delilah. Always a great time, or your money back.
Also, I should mention that Moonflowerviewing is specifically a reference to the yaku Tsukiakari no Hanami which is ... literally Moonlit Flower Viewing, comprised of both Hanami (Flower Viewing) and Tsukimi (Moon Viewing). The interesting part that I find, however, is that there is a variant ruling where the Rain Man and Toad card and Lightning card both actually make Tsukiakari no Hanami and its two component yaku into invalid yaku. This is referred to as the "rainy day" ruling by some, with the concept that inclement weather ruins viewing parties. The reason I find this interesting is that it can be rather difficult to go from Moonflowerviewing into Lightshower. I just think that's a neat thing is all.
I’ll be honest one of my favorite things to do with this deck is make the big synchros then go into muddy mudragon and use it and a level 5 or higher cardian for shura the combat star since all the big synchros are 6 and above it’s attack boost turns even boardefly into a 3200 beat stick.
i'd love to see some kind of feature match between this deck and Yugi's Face Card Knights. Koi Koi vs Poker.
How strange. I'm just starting to learn about Yu-gi-oh archtypes and I was interested in learning about the Cardian archtype and went to search it on youtube and wham, this video was uploaded just two hours earlier!
What can I say, I have a way with releasing videos RIGHT when they need to be xD
Holy crap! I didn't know this archetype was so deep
30:38 okay I absolutely understood that one, that song was my jam :P
Could you do a D/D/D explained video? It’s one of my favorite archetypes and it’s up there to be one of the strongest and complex archetype’s in yugioh history period
I like their design.
Ok I feel stupid but I was mixing flower cardines and weather painters in my head for a bit
Needing a summer wars edit where they duel love machine using this deck😂😂
Flower Cardians really need a inhouse monster negate
oh hey! an archetype I actually run in Master Duel! Hype!
This is a pretty interesting Archetype, and it makes me wonder, with is Archetype and the Poker Knights what else kind of card games can they turn into a Yu-Gi-Oh Archetype?
Still waiting for the six samurai archetype video.
ENJOY ENJOY ENJOY
Love the hair dude!
37:58 Uh... are you forgetting that Floow is all Normal summons, while ATBPO only goes after special summons?
Woo! Love this archetype. It was the first archetype I learned when getting back into Yugioh.
Can’t wait for more support, there is certainly room for more monsters.
FC win strat:
Hope opponent uses Maxx C so you can win via deckout
Whoa! Didn't expect a face reveal! Cool hair man!
Thank you! I've really gotta re-dye my hair streaks, though, the Red isn't quite as fiery as it used to be.
No mention of the burn ftk combo or exodia silliness, thats so sad.
It took ash imperm and nib to actually stop them in master duel almost mill me with 8 card left in my deck
He kinda play bad (or have bad luck) if that was the case. A good hand can basically mill out your entire deck without even caring about any sort of hand trap
I'd kill for a link monster for this archtype
No need anymore now that you can summon synchros freely again lol
10 minutes to end on 2 cards that are easily removed. The wait was far more threatening
I'm going to bring this up seeing as no one is saying anything with how many cards that are monsters hit the grave wouldn't pot of Avarice work perfectly as the graveyard isn't a second deck for this archetype.
Love your videos nova
Once we see the extent of the new support, I would love to see Dark World Explained
Oh yeah, after I saw that, I flipped! Once we get the full reveal, I'll try to schedule it out!
Excited to see something else than just yugioh. Glad you covered this archetype.
9:12
Summer wars vibes
That is one of my favorite movies.
I really like this archetype it was pretty awesome to see.
The archetype famous for having some of the longest solitaire plays in the game.
8:37 my brain melted ... sorry T.T
First time fighting this deck today and i hated it he didn't do anything amazing so I wasn't sure what the boss monster was but he took a 6 minute turn and it felt like fighting exodia just sitting there waiting for him to draw his whole deck
Before flower cardians there royal knights involve black jack and other type in western play.
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Yeah, I had a feeling they would go together! I'm looking forward to the theme I'll be covering for next month's sponsorship!
@@GoldenNovaYugioh Oh~! Looking forward to it
Doesn't boardefly kinda shut down tear nearly completely? They practically live in the grave
Congratulations on getting sponsored!
I appreciate it! It's always very cool when people reach out to ask me to work with them, especially when it ended up being something so DELICIOUS!
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You have a great voice over, voice my guy
Cardians seem cool and I wonder if Grandpa would play them vs his friend who would use the Face Cards. No not mine, Yugi's.
One of my Main Decks!
Flower Cardians, for when you wanna play yugioh but also not play yugioh
So many cards, so many effects
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Still waiting for the six samurai archetype video.
Looking great as always, gamers
Truly, the most gamer of archetypes is the one that has Inceptioned more games inside of it.
I'm not sure if I like the comments or the video more.
I want Jack Atlas Explained by your next post!
Well, I'm not going to be able to get the nearly 100 card video out this month, but I have it planned for July, so just a few more weeks!
@@GoldenNovaYugioh Eh, that's reasonable ig. Just one favor can you absolutely hammer in on how TERRIBLE Red Dragon Vase is?
Oh yeah, no doubt, that's gonna be a BIG talking point.
ENJOY!!!!!!!
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Fun Fact:
You know Nintendo ? The largest video game company in the world? They were actually founded in 1889 and initially made hanafuda cards.
Koi koi! Sorry I loved summer wars
Could you please make a video on abyss actors
please do next dark world
Finally, i can actually know what this archetype does lol
Tech cards: Exodia