#(looking at cubics and malefics and meklords)

[nyupuun]

I love the Yugioh Card Game and I think there's something so special about it and I also love being super into the anime. Like. I!!!! can be Jack Atlas!!!!!! I can summon a billion big dragons out and pummel my opponent into the ground. ME!!!!!

[ygo-monster-type-tournament]

By the way, here's the full bracket in text form. I haven't finished the images yet because the way i'm doing it takes a while but looks really cool (it's got rainbow!)

BRACKET A

Shinobird vs. P.U.N.K. vs. Impcantation

Noble Knight vs. Infinitrack vs. World Legacy

Chemicritter vs. Fire Fist vs. Kuriboh

Mikanko vs. Guardian vs. Tachyon

Black Luster Soldier vs. Blaze Fiend vs. Icejade

Hole vs. Crystron vs. Cat (Rush Duel)

Shaddoll vs. S-Force vs. Mekk-Knight

Scrap vs. Digital Bug vs. Drone

Bujin vs. Nimble vs. Tri-Brigade

Beast Gear vs. Charmer vs. Nemeses

Subterror vs. PSY-Frame vs. Orcust

Therion vs. Nordic vs. Branded

The Weather vs. Gorgonic vs. Mythical Beast

Neo-Spacian vs. Predaplant vs. Traptrix

Fire Formation vs. Bystial vs. Kashtira

Dark Magician vs. Mathmech vs. Majestic

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BRACKET B

Madolche vs. Mannadium vs. Skiel

Number vs. Tindangle vs. Crusadia

Numeron vs. Jinzo vs. Live☆Twin

Speedroid vs. Jointech vs. Mayakashi

Dragonmaid vs. Poker Knight vs. Tron

Flamvell vs. Entity vs. Zefra

Ritual Beast vs. The Agent vs. Appliancer

Arcana Force vs. Dark Scorpion vs. Yang Zing

Vernusylph vs. Timelord vs. Evil Eye

Rokket vs. Ogdoadic vs. Umbral Horror

Sky Striker vs. Triamid vs. Aquaactress

Crystal Beast vs. Unchained vs. Voidvelgr

Kaiju vs. Virtual World vs. Synchro Dragon

Heraldic Beast vs. Chrysalis vs. Yubel

/Assault Mode vs. Battlewasp vs. Ghoti

Malefic vs. Fortune Fairy vs. Endymion

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BRACKET C

Blue-Eyes vs. Inzektor vs. Mist Valley

Gravekeeper’s vs. Star Seraph vs. Sunavalon

Evil★Twin vs. Fossil vs. Despia

Code Talker vs. Malicevorous vs. Meklord

Beetrooper vs. Purrely vs. Generaider

Dragon Ruler vs. Iron Chain vs. Genex

Sportsdragon vs. Ancient Gear vs. Aesir

Gaia vs. Constructor vs. Armed Dragon

G Golem vs. B.E.S. vs. Excutie

Music Princess vs. Dark World vs. T.G.

Krawler vs. Prophecy vs. The☆

Batteryman vs. Magistus vs. Thunder Dragon

Magical Musket vs. Strike Dragon vs. A.I.

Swordsoul vs. Talismanic vs. Ojama

Majespecter vs. Vision HERO vs. CAN:D

Infernity vs. Void vs. Volcanic

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BRACKET D

High Tech Dragon vs. Gunkan vs. Gagaga

Megalith vs. Sushi Fairy vs. Anti

Ninja vs. Earthbound vs. Gladiator Beast

Frightfur vs. Archfiend vs. Synchron

Dinomist vs. Ursarctic vs. Gouki

D/D vs. Helixx vs. Raidraptor

Witchcrafter vs. Gold Pride vs. D-Scale

Gimmick Puppet vs. Cloudian vs. Mermail

War Rock vs. Utopia vs. Armatos Legio

Drytron vs. Gandora vs. Infernoid

Steelswarm vs. Battleguard vs. Superheavy Samurai

Blackwing vs. Smile vs. Cyber Dragon

True King vs. Cyberdark vs. Alien

Magician Girl vs. Koa’ki Meiru vs. Performapal

Parshath vs. Galactica vs. Vylon

Cubic vs. Fairy Tail vs. Reptilianne

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BRACKET E

Galaxy vs. White vs. Skysavior

Thorn Prisoner vs. Supreme King vs. SPYRAL

Burning Abyss vs. U.A. vs. Melffy

Phantom Knights vs. Simorgh vs. Red-Eyes

Destiny HERO vs. Mokey Mokey vs. Evilswarm

Fusion Dragon vs. Zubaba vs. Frog

Clear vs. Adamancipator vs. Fire King

Dogmatika vs. Jersey vs. Duston

Floowandereeze vs. Valkyrie vs. Abyss Actor

Prediction Princess vs. Magikey vs. Six Samurai

Wind-Up vs. Danger! vs. Lightsworn

Gishki vs. Xyz Dragon vs. Vanquish Soul

Altergeist vs. Machina vs. Springans

Spellbook vs. Magnum Overlord vs. Nekroz

Herald vs. Arts Angel vs. Rikka

Evolsaur vs. Performage vs. Cynet

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BRACKET F

Eldlitch vs. Ancient Warriors vs. Penguin

F.A. vs. Codebreaker vs. Kozmo

Evil HERO vs. Topologic vs. Qliphort

Igknight vs. Vampire vs. Dark Contract

Dracoslayer vs. Shiranui vs. Fur Hire

Dododo vs. Kairyu-Shin vs. Toon

Fortune Lady vs. Jurrac vs. Amorphage

Melodious vs. Amazement vs. Thunderbeetle

Evolzar vs. Pendulum Dragon vs. Ice Barrier

Gem-Knight vs. Ewekai vs. Djinn

Gusto vs. Starry Knight vs. Tearlaments

Sevens Road vs. Odd-Eyes vs. Zoodiac

Exodia vs. Super Quant vs. Karakuri

Nemleria vs. Monarch vs. Lyrilusc

Scareclaw vs. Nephthys vs. Salamangreat

Hazy Flame vs. Dracoverlord vs. Vaylantz

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BRACKET G

Plunder Patroll vs. Warrior vs. Butterspy

Libromancer vs. Harpie vs. Runick

Evoltile vs. Symphonic Warrior vs. Gadget

Borrel vs. True Draco vs. Dinowrestler

Morphtronic vs. Prank-Kids vs. Laval

Atlantean vs. Materiactor vs. Dinomorphia

Hieratic vs. Myutant vs. Darklord

Cyber Angel vs. Gizmek vs. Labyrinth

Heroic vs. Phantom Beast vs. Edge Imp

Granel vs. Artifact vs. Constellar

Elemental HERO vs. Goyo vs. Ally of Justice

Watt vs. Knightmare vs. Marincess

Sylvan vs. Elementsaber vs. Photon

Ghostrick vs. Vendread vs. Buster Blader

Aroma vs. Wisel vs. Mirror Imagine

Worm vs. Amazoness vs. Yosenju

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BRACKET H

Metalfoes vs. Flower Cardian vs. Ultimate Flag

Royal Rebel’s vs. Solfachord vs. Dragunity

Rose Dragon vs. New Order vs. Exosister

C vs. Windwitch vs. Spright

Dream Mirror vs. Transamu vs. Metaphys

Naturia vs. Graydle vs. Venom

@Ignister vs. Battlin’ Boxer vs. Lunalight

Junk vs. Time Thief vs. Rescue-ACE

Chronomaly vs. Destruction Sword vs. Phantasm Spiral

Masked HERO vs. Tenyi vs. Tellarknight

Trickstar vs. Gogogo vs. Attraction

Cipher vs. Vehicroid vs. Deskbot

Invoked vs. Elemental Lord vs. X-Saber

Resonator vs. Stardust vs. Fabled

Geargia vs. ZW - vs. Fluffal

Pendulum Magician vs. Shadow Flower vs. Paleozoic

[magpiejay1234]

So, I finished Semi-Nomis, so let’s talk about Semi-Nomis. Like the previous, I’ll only talk about archetypes that have vanilla Effect Semi-Nomis:

*Backup Warrior i kinda pointless. Synchro Warriors don’t have support for main deck monsters anyway, so...

*Magna Warriors are not amazing, but they are servicable. There needs to be more generic Rock support to use them though.

*Gofu and Gram are both pointless Semi-Nomis, since Gofu remains banned and Gram does not need to be a Semi-Nomis. Gofu is obviously broken, but giving it a summoning restriction is meaningless if  it doesn’t mean much.

*Alternative Dragons are Semi-Nomis due to their gimmick, which is acceptable.

*OG Chaos Trio are kind of pointless these days, but I like their summoning method still. They are responsible for proliferation of LIGHT and DARK monsters, though.

*Storm Dragon is pointless, needs an upgraded form because its art is at least cool looking.

*Dinoster Power is a Semi-Nomi due to the gimmicks of Dracoslayers covering every major summoning method/Monster Card Type, which is acceptable.

*Dark Dragster is a Semi-Nomi to avoid you from summoning the F.A. Level 9 Synchro willy nilly, but that will be irrelevant the moment F.A.s get more support.

*Flower Cardians are largely composed of Semi-Nomis for their main deck monsters, but again, this is due to their gimmick.

*Giga Rays Gandora is a Semi-Nomi, but it hasn’t been released in TCG IIRC, so whatever.

*A few of the Cubics are also Semi-Nomi, but again, that is due to rule of Cool.

*Gate Guardian is technically a Guardian, but ideally it would have its own archetype already.

*Does anybody use Lady Sisters outside of Duel Links? Pretty sure Harpies these days use Rank 4s.

*Sutekh is another Semi-Nomi where I have to ask “why is this restricted”?

*Koa’ki Meiru Maximus is the only true archetypal boss monster in this group, that is not an Extra Deck monster. Wow.

*Machina Cannon is like Machina Force. Machinas need real monsters.

*Remaining Malefics besides the Gears are Semi-Nomis, and yeah, this is their gimmick.

*Meklord Astro Dragon Asterisk is basically the secondary boss monster of Meklords. Since its burn damage is super specific, you won’t use it much. Instead, you will use it for its ATK gain gimmick and maybe because it is a Level 10 Machine for Rank 10 memes, though it is DARK, instead of EARTH.

*Smartfon is a Semi-Nomi because...?

*Trasher and Vanisher are both kinda pointless since you have like a bajillion Level 4 Photons. At least Vanisher has super good effects, Trasher is just a Level 4 beatstick, in an archetype composed of high level/rank beatsticks.

*Red-Eyes have technically three Semi-Nomis, but Darkness Metal isn’t a Semi-Nomi. Again.

*Scrap Orthos is a Semi-Nomi...because? I mean it looks cool, and its effect is decent for the archetype, but it doesn’t have obscenely high stats, and you can Special Summon it super easily.

*Early Toons are largely composed of Semi-Nomis, but I’m more curious as to why we don’t have a “Mermaid” archetype for Mermaid Archer(Red Archery Girl in English)/Toon Mermaid. I mean sure, there is Mermails, but that’s not exactly the same thing.

*Volcanic Queen is a Semi-Nomi due to animé. No really, this card was used by one of the Truemans(Truemen?) against Axel, as a means of dramatic irony. It is effectively a worse Sphere Mode that burns everyone. Volcanics deserve better, like an archetypal spell that allows them to Tribute opponents monster, it fits with their theme too.

Generally speaking, main deck Semi-Nomis, unlike their Nomi counterparts exist largely to support their archetypes rather than to serve as boss monsters of their archetype.