The Ishizu Cards - Failed Cards, Archetypes, Mechanics & Designs in Yu-Gi-Oh

Ishizu is the name of an anime character from the first series, who has a duel against Seto Kaiba, who doesn't really have any other duels in this series. The card she uses are all vanilla monsters with no effects, and Konami basically printed every single card that appears in her deck into the actual game, albeit with changed effects. In order to go over all the cards in this video I think we should first recap the duel, because it will make a lot of sense why they created some future support cards for Ishizu's cards, which is the unofficial name for the series of cards that were gonna be going over in this video.

Script by TDL
Edited by S

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[shokocontane]

It is canonically confirmed in the manga that Ishizu, with the power of her Millenium Necklace, could see 5 cards into the future and predicted that the Tearalaments would be created. That was why she used her Earth Fairy deck against Kaiba, to plant the idea of an Egyptian-themed GY manipulation archetype into his head, thus making sure that 2 decades later, KaibaCorp's descendant, now named Kaiba's Online Network Archive of Maiden (with Eyes of Blue) Illustrations, also known as K.O.N.A.M.I, would retrain her shitty deck to support the newly born GY Queens.

Such a power move from 1 queen to several others. All hail Ishizu.

[Miniperi.]

4:20 '1850 is the threshold for decently stat monster' So glad the Mechanicalchaser meta hasnt been forgotten.

[Meme-pgtw]

The ishizu cards were a mistake not because they were bad but because they were too broken

[MrSamthefan]

I guess you could say her cards were dragging her down... into the grave

[Animexdraco]

I mean, when a group of card/engine or whatever ended up to be far too strong that it forced all of them to be either ban or limited, this is also a kind of failed card design

[itanocircus]

Failed Cards is my favorite type of video on your channel. I think this series is a good single cross section of what u do well with all your other videos combined.

[KnightlyBrosGaming]

Seeing the monsters side by side has taught me a few things. I was confused as to why Mudora wielded gauntlets instead of the sword he had before. The gauntlets represents Cestus of Dagla which Ishizu equipped him with. Super cool detail!!

I also noticed that the retrains all wear white just like Ishizu. The originals did not. Thanks for this video! 👍👍

[ZeroHerod]

It's baffling to think no one at Konami looked at the Ishizu retrains, the environment they were to be released in and their effects and thought "are these too good?"

Someone had to have known they would break the game to some degree. Surely. Right?

[Thess-wmke]

This is a proper critique of design failure honestly, not just an April fool's joke like people are saying

[Dr.Barber]

Okay so... April Fools aside I think you could argue that the Ishizus were a bit of a failure if you're trying to play them wholly legit along with their intended support.

[skyknighteman]

It's a failed archetype because they all got BANNED!

[KingRoni]

To answer the weird activation of Soul Exchange, Battle City Rules state that normal spells can be played like trap cards (there's a little bit more to it, since im pretty sure the idea of quick-play spells didn't exist yet, but that's all there is to it really)

[seelkamoon]

I hate when I forget what date is today.

[vanguardRailgun]

I like how them being a failed archtype isn’t completely wrong. They are failed in a completely different context, they are failed because they are TOO good.

[ShyRanger]

I have been suggesting for a while that way too good/broken cards could count for this series since they fail in the complete opposite way. Not sure if taht had any sway, or if you were also thinking the same fora while, either way, really happy to see it finally show up.

[terrenceojeda]

The reason why kaiba used a normal spell on Ishizu's turn is because of the Battle City ruling where if you set a spell card, it becomes a quick play spell after its been set for one turn. Not many people know about that.

[yumiharitsuki]

It's very cute how Mudora wields the Cestus of Dagla

[WilliamReginaldLucas]

When I saw the title of this video I had to believe it was April Fools as Ishizu Tearlaments was the best deck ever, I also didn’t even know about the old versions of the cards she played.

Loved this video btw, Ishizu vs. Kaiba is one of my favourite duels in the anime!

[Ehjookayted]

I was wondering what you’d do today and you did not disappoint 😂

[okita_souji_alter]

Despite this being a clear April fools joke they fail simply because they made them too good