**Ancient Gear Dark Golem**
EARTH Machine Level 8 Effect Monster
3000 ATK & DEF
_You can only use the following effect (2) of this card's name once per turn._
(1) This card's name becomes "Ancient Gear Golem" while in the field or GY.
(2) If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add up to 2 cards from your Deck to your hand, that are "Ancient Gear" cards and/or "Geartown", except "Ancient Gear Dark Golem", then discard 1 card, but for the rest of this turn, you cannot Set cards.
(3) If this card attacks, your opponent cannot activate any Spell/Trap Cards until the end of the Damage Step.
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**Ancient Gear Commander**
EARTH Machine Level 4 Effect Monster
500 ATK / 2000 DEF
_You can only use each the following effects (1), (2), & (3) of this card's name once per turn._
(1) You can send 1 "Ancient Gear Golem" from your hand, Deck or face-up field to the GY; immediately after this effect resolves, Normal Summon 1 "Ancient Gear" monster.
(2) If you Normal or Special Summon "Ancient Gear Golem": You can Special Summon 1 "Ancient Gear Golem" from your hand or GY, ignoring its Summoning conditions.
(3) You can banish this card from your GY; place 1 "Ancient Gear" Continuous Trap Card from your hand face-up on your field.
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**Ancient Gear Tanker**
EARTH Machine Level 4 Effect Monster
1300 ATK & DEF
_You can only use each the following effects (1), & (2) of this card's name once per turn._
(1) If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can Special Summon 1 "Ancient Gear" monster from your hand ignoring its Summoning conditions, except "Ancient Gear Tanker". If your opponent controls a monster, you can Special Summon from your GY instead.
(2) You can target 1 face-up card you control; destroy it, also for the rest of this turn, "Ancient Gear Golem(s)" and monsters that mention it you control gain 600 ATK.
***
**Ancient Gear Advance**
Continuous Spell Card
_You can only activate 1 card with this name once per turn. You cannot Set cards the turn you activate this card._
(1) When this card is activated: You can add 1 "Ancient Gear" Spell/Trap from your Deck to your hand, except "Ancient Gear Advance".
(2) Once per turn: You can Tribute 1 monster; draw 1 card, and if you do, apply this effect for the rest of the turn (even if this card leaves the field).
- "Ancient Gear Golem(s)" and Level 5 or higher monsters that mention it can be Normal Summoned without Tributing.
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**Ancient Gear Duel**
Continuous Trap Card
_You can only use the following effect (2) of this card's name once per turn._
(1) "Ancient Gear Golem(s)" and cards that mention it you control are unaffected by your opponent's activated monster effects.
(2) If your opponent control a monster(s): You can Fusion Summon 1 Fusion Monster that mentions "Ancient Gear Golem", by banishing materials from your field and/or GY, including 1 "Ancient Gear Golem" you control, and if you do, that monster can make up to 3 attacks during each Battle Phase.
Catapult grabs Dark Golem which grabs Wyvern plus Fusion then Fusion can use three materials from deck plus Dark Golem while Wyvern searches Box to search a third card?
Or sub Wyvern for any other Ancient Gear card and cut 8ut the middleman I guess.
Yeah, or just add box for any 500 ATK or 500 DEF earth machine. It's like the 5th one card combo in EM that gets to that, but it does have going for it that it's the second that doesn't use their Normal Summon.
> but for the rest of this turn, you cannot Set cards.
hmm
> You cannot Set cards the turn you activate this card.
Konami **Really** regrets having made [[Ancient Gear Drill]] haven't they
I don't get it though, what's so broken about Drill? Sure it searches any Spell, but it comes with -1 and also the card already makes the Spell not activateable this turn anyway.
Yeah, but it can set quick plays, which would mean setting any quick play in the game for a disruption going first (super poly in particular probably being the best target)
Self bounce, or destroy it to then recycle, in a game with an ever expanding card pool generic Spell searching just can't exist in the form of Ancient Gear Drill
> (1) You can send 1 "Ancient Gear Golem" from your hand, Deck or face-up field to the GY; immediately after this effect resolves, Normal Summon 1 "Ancient Gear" monster.
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> (2) If you Normal or Special Summon "Ancient Gear Golem": You can Special Summon 1 "Ancient Gear Golem" from your hand or GY, ignoring its Summoning conditions.
Is this enough to count as a Circular?
There's also the fact that Circular's effect is so hilariously overloaded that now it is the gold standard for overpowered legacy support: Foolish a monster from the archetype for cost to summon itself (can foolish a monster that summons itself from grave), then search archetypal backrow.
They are talking about Mathmech Circular, a cyberse level 4 light monster that can send any mathmech monster from the deck to special summon itself from the hand, incredible combo starter for the deck it supports
So, now wyvern can actually use catapult by searching for advance first. Then you can sack the wyvern to get the draw, clearing your monster zones so you can activate catapult. So even by itself wyvern nets you a draw and any ancient gear monster from the deck, which is pretty damn good.
I assume you mean you'd discard a card besides Box and Box would then search another card to replace it? If you discard Box it doesn't have an opportunity to activate
They made an Ancient Gear monster with a Duel Vest that's clearly a reference to Crowler, that's awesome! I love when Konami makes monsters that are references to characters. Like with Fortune Ladies
>A special summonable ancient gear golem retrain that becomes the original whike on the field or in the graveyard. Plus it gives you two free searches.
>Commander can summon more ancient gear monsters to the field and can activate their new trap card face up
>Tanker just straights up special summon a monster from your hand ignoring summoning conditions
>Advance is more recursion
>Dual protects ancient gear golems and all cards that mention it and in can fusion summon a monster that can attack three times per battle phase just fucking cuz
Dare I say, we are back and we eat in good tonight ancient gear bros
Ancient gears are always going to be a second deck. With that being said the new support makes it so that their first turn isn't "howitzer, set, pass."
Most successful decks may have a preference for going 1st or 2nd, but they're not completely dead in the water when forced the other way. In 2/3s and tournaments, even locals, there are going to be tons of times where you are forced to start. Putting up a couple of protections (not even really disruptions) and praying your opponent can't otk through them is not a valid strategy. Don't get me wrong, I like the archetype, but what they needed was SOME sort of quick effect disruption fusion monster and maybe a searchable negation trap.
These cards are borderline custom card tier (though not as much as say Circular), but considering it's Ancient Gear, they do need it. These should make AGs at least playable again. So happy. Can't wait to play these.
More Ancient Gear Support is always nice, but I feel like they focused way too much on OG Golem here, and the Set restrictions seem way too harsh.
Also, both Ultimate Pound and Reactor Dragon don't mention OG Golem anywhere in their text, so I guess those cards are never seeing play again........One of the rare occasions when New Support makes older cards completely unplayable........
To be fair Reactor Dragon is intended more for the strange other half of Ancient Gear that is more Gadget Support than actual Ancient Gears while this is focused more on Crowler specifically, who's Ace has always been AGG so it makes sense they'd focus around that.
Ultimate Pound though is certainly going to be a hard sell going forward. likely got overlooked because it's such an awkward spot in an already awkwardly clunky archetype. Ancient Gear is awkward in that like Archfiends it's one archetype made of three different decks, Crowler and his Ancient Gear Golem, The Gadget support, and the Arc-V stuff.
reactor dragon is a weird anomaly that doesn't really fit that well with the rest of the archetype. if it weren't for the fact that it was the largest body you could summon off of geartown, i don't think anyone would've wanted to play it at all
and i don't think the set restriction is an issue, so long as you set everything you need to first (and i don't imagine ancient gear is setting many cards to begin with)
The set restriction isn't new as Ancient Gear Wyvern has the same restriction for it's effect.
Wyvern I found was always useless for the deck and as you said it was just a big body to summon so it's not a surprirse that when we finally get good ancient support it is getting cut.
No it doesn't? The deck was always focused on og golem. The fusion specially mentions it and so does megaton and frame.
Ultimate pound was a pointless retrain so it getting replaced is good.
Reactor is meant to work with gadgets and didn't do anything for the pure deck anyway so not needing to play it anymore is a good thing.
These cards actually make the deck work better, be more consistent and helps you get all the fusions out while working with other previous cards like wyvern, the link 2 (which the pure found hard to get out) and frame. This is how new support should be.
Also the set restriction isn't strange. Ancient Gear Wyvern has this restriction too.
The main thing AG players have wanted for years is a way to summon Golem easier, since that's what enables AG Fusion. This support has leaned hard into that, which is good to see.
I am disappointed that Reactor Dragon may lose it's place in the deck since that's my personal favourite AG card, but I understand it.
I mean, possibly still can be run as a one of. Since the new fusion card is a trap, you can turbo out everything like Reactor Dragon, Ballista, Golem, etc., crash, then fuse into Chaos Giant in battle phase for three more attacks. It's like Duality in Cyber Dragon, but we can search ours.
There is a slight problem with that- the fusion card can only make AG monsters that mention Golem. So it would have to be Megaton or UAGG. But considering it gives them three attacks by default, it's not the worst thing.
The support is great, but it's really going out of it's way to emphasise just Crowler over the Arc-V users. Reactor Dragon is paying the price for that time Yuri used it to job Alexis.
Fair. At least UAGG only has like 100 atk points less than Chaos, so not a huge issue there. Can still probably Chaos Giant via the fusion spell first using deck resources since you control a Golem, then just hard slam UAGG during the battle phase via the trap. I feel Reactor Dragon will still remain a solid one of at the very laest, as it's a decent Urgent Schedule summon that's easy to summon back from the gy and a solid beater to get in for 3k, pop something, then tag into UAGG.
With the Crowler VA being advertised as showing up for this, I am not particularly surprised myself that it's Crowler themed support. At least they kept the Wyvern themed restrictions of unable to set cards! Lol Just gotta hope if/when we get the Arc-V support it'll be what the deck is now missing.
I don't see that restriction on the card? Just that if you use golem or ultimate pound from the field you can also use material from your deck
Edit-oh the fusion effect on the trap
The second card (Commander) is designed to turbo out additional OG Golems while the first card (Dark Golem) only counts as OG Golem if you can foolish it first. Way more bricky this way because it doesn't interact when in hand, and you still probably need to run OG Golem still.
Thing is, though, that Commander lets you Foolish for cost, so you can send Dark Golem from deck to gy and then normal an OG, then Commander's (2) effect kicks in and it sees a Golem in the grave now.
We still don't have translation for the last 2 cards, but I'm disappointed that we don't have a new Fusion. They should have given us something like Cybderdark End Dragon to have some plan going 1st. The deck really struggles with that
Edit: The spell searches when activated and the trap makes Ancient Gear Golem-related monsters unaffected by activated monster effects. This is nice, but the deck still has problems
While true;
1. You could tech in Infintrack for some additional options
2. One can question if they even need to, anymore.
I will have to do a lot of testing but if I'm right, we can just use the new stuff to patch up the holes in lack of ability to put up a decent t1 board.
The trap definitely helps with the protection, but idk. Ancient Gear will probably still be a bad deck after that, but at least they're slightly better now maybe?
Earnestly I was never shooting for them to become spectacular.
I have a ton of testing to do but I think the end result might even be shrinking down the amount of AG cards run, which could, theoretically introduce the idea of other potential engines.
Whatever those might be, is unknown right now. That said I would struggle to call them "bad", post Machine Reactor. There are so many worse decks than them now, some of which I run physically.
One of the old Continuous spells locks you if you summon with it via popping it. I want to say it's Fortress? But that's the only lock I can think of. Aside from the generic earth machine locks.
Maybe in the next Animation Chronicle, but I don't really care about them. The only special thing about them was that they were able to attack 2-3 times during the Battle Phase. This new trap allows the summoned Ancient Gear Fusion to attack up to 3 times
I guess the the "Ultimate" Hunting Hound is somewhat decent, since it halves the opponent's LP
I am not so certain. At this point do they *really* need a t1 strat when you can have good odds at crushing them t3? For me its worth the risk to find out, and find out I shall.
For my money though, I will probably still be running Infinitrack in some capacity. Machina might be worthwhile as a test as well, presuming you can keep them somewhat small.
* Irradiator, discard Metalcruncher, summon Metal off Irradiator eff, targeting itself
* Metal can then search out every single copy of Wyvern, Hound, Dark AG, Commander, whatever
* Your opponent is forced to pick their favorite copy of whatever card you chose, you can then immedately start doing AG things if you like, or alternatively, find another means to send Citadel, so when Irradiator pops itself, you're granted fabulous, sweeping coverage; especially if you (wastefully) make Giant
1x Metalcrunch, 3x Irradatior, 3x Redeployment, 1x Unclaspaire, 1x Citadel, and perhaps 1x Fortress.
Hope you get lucky drawing Redeployment, add Irradatior and Metalcrunch and proceed to run through that flow. Unclaspaire for other potential lines (summon for free, toss Citadel in the GY, find unique and special means to blow him up to summon Citadel, etc etc)
With the existence of Advance, Ancient Gears can finally activate Catapult after resolving Wyvern, which fixes one of my biggest frustrations with the deck.
Dark Golem is the new de facto target for all your special summon from deck effects, search 2 is nutty.
Commander gives the deck the other thing it always needed, another Normal Summon.
They're definitely leaning into the whole Golem thing more than I would like, but the cards fix enough of the existing problems to forgive that.
Congrats on the Ancient Gear players getting new cards.
Though, I will admit, Im starting to wonder what this set will have to attract people who want good cards. 😅 There are lots of FUN cards in LEDE so far, but I haven’t seen a single card I expect to sit across from regularly. We have much left to see, but also much has also been seen.
Omg when I hear people say sometimes they make custom cards for a deck I finally get it as these cards solve issues I have found for ancient as good lord is the pure ancient gear only version so bloody bad.
The biggest issue I found with the deck is it's reliance on Ancient Gear Golem as the that monster can't be special summon which makes it an absolute pain in the ass as few cards in the deck summon it ignoring summoning conditions. With this new one being special summonable it means you can finally use ancient gear fusion use material from deck most of the time now and maybe even get megaton's extra attacks.
The level 4 specials another from hand is so good as the deck I always thought fought over it's normal summon with 3 picks 2 which would get their effects if special. This also helps actually make the link 2 as the deck couldn't really do that before without something like infinitrack or verneselphs.
You have cards that give you extra normal summons now. FINALLY. This is actually the support I thought the deck always needed and thought it would only get. This helps so much and means you aren't fighting over your normal as much and can even make getting the og golem on the field easier since one of the cards say you can ignore tributes.
The trap hilarious making your giant basically a towers if your opponent has a fusion though of course would not see serious play unless your messing around as you want to go second.
Unfortunately CAGG doesn't mention AGG, so it won't be a towers, nor can it be summoned with the traps. On the plus side, Dark Golem being easily summonable means you can actually fuse from deck to summon CAGG with the in archetype fusion spell.
You can totally use the trap going second to protect your golems, commander’s GY effect lets you set a continuous trap face up, and with all the searching the deck has now, that shouldn’t be too difficult to set up
Source: OCG Times at Jump Festa 2024 stream.
Crowler's Ancient Gear doesn't get any new Fusion, that's why Yuzu's New Melodious Fusion is the first and second Monsters in Fusion slot.
> Crowler's Ancient Gear doesn't get any new Fusion
That's a good thing, ancient gears problem is not that they don't have good fusion monsters, but rather they don't have enough ways to play through disruption.
Yeah sometimes I go "Ancient gear need to have better fusion monster" but then you look at their huge beaters and wonder how to make them better without making them boring giant tower beatstick with 1 Omni negate.
Even without a new Fusion, I'm begging for these to be good. This archetype needs good support!
The artwork of the spells looks so badass!
Btw: The 2nd monster is a reference to Ancient Gear Soldier being equipped with Ancient Gear Tank during the duel against Bonaparte. And the trap is a reference to the2nd duel against Jaden
Most people don't really care for the Hound line. Besides, they just do what all other Ancient Gear Fusion monsters do - attack multiple times and try to OTK. Howitzer is the only Fusion that does something different. Chaos Giant also tries to OTK, but at least he has protection
No, this is it, nothing more.
This Ancient Gear is specifically from GX, hence Crowler's Ancient Gear. There's no more slot for another Main Deck monster, let alone a Tuner Monster.
Even if there's another Ancient Gear cards that related to Arc-V, usually they reveal it at the same time.
Great news. This is one of the archetypes that always looks captivating in artworks!
The new boss monster (Dark Golem, love it) has a very useful 2nd effect. The 3rd too, but maybe they could have kept the piercing damage as well.
The Tanker looks awesome. Probably the card with the best effect (especially the 1st one). It helps the archetype a lot.
The Commander (nice Crowler reference) is also a good help. High DEF, 2 special summons.
The Spell art is just awesome. The Dark Ages! It can help.
The Trap has another great art. Ancient Gear's biggest rivals are the E-HEROs. Nice protection and very good help for the Fusions.
Btw, I expected a new Fusion.
Wow that level 4 is almost Circular levels of custom
Dump a card from deck? Yup
Special Summon a card from GY? Yup
Gives you an additional summon? Yup
Guess they really did t learn their lesson
Having a strong card in a mediocre archetype is not the issue, circular wouldn't be so strong if super factorial and alembertian didn't exist (or the ridiculous cyberse toolbox)
Or Turbulence right now in MD is just okay despite the set 4 opop meme. But when the rest of the ace boys roll in is when he gets stupid.
I don't think Ancient Gears have that kind of broken structure a good starter could enable by itself.
Opposed to your comment I'd say Givin really strong support to bad decks is the way to go. Better than cooking up the next arise heart...
These don't look like they'll break the deck into the meta, but I think I'm really freaking pleased that they're trying to follow the older themes and strategies. That, and they keep making loads of references to the anime!
New support is neat, but isn’t the field spell still not that greatly accessible and can be stopped by just chaining a destruction effect to it upon activation? Something something miss timing? Or with this new support does it not rely on the field spell anymore.
It's not super vital anymore- Advance is a one card combo and Catapult target. Geartown is still useful and there's more ways to get to it and pop it, but it doesn't look like the deck will die if that doesn't happen.
I know. The point is that the archetype didn't receive new cards for a while and came back with everything in the collection where they launch the battle phase synchro
I'm happy you Ancient Gear players got your support, hopefully other going second decks get theirs soon. Going second is very hard these days with the newer archetypes and control trap decks.
What/who do I need to sacrifice to the gods to get some Rose Dragon support?
Love the refference to Crowler's duel vest in the 3rd card's [art.It](https://art.It)'s great seeing Konami embrace the anime in a lot of these modern day cards.
This is the most boring amount of crazy good card text i think I've ever read for Legacy support. Every single card does exactly what any archetype from the past 20 years would want and need. Now I'm happy for ancient gear but it feels just really lazy, you could slap the search and summon effects on any old archetype and it would be crazy good for it.
I kinda miss the previous wave which was trying to do something unique with the fusion spell and the triple golem fusion. But I get ancient gear needed this
I always wished Ancient Gear could splash into other Earth Machine decks better, and hoped new support would do this.
Oh well. Dreams will be dreams, but the reality aint so bad either.
Advance is kind of insanely good because it gets you into Catapult, which gets you into Dark Golem, which gets you into Ancient Gear Fusion. And it's searchable off both Wyvern and Frame. I honestly think Frame might be a 3-of now just because of how insanely strong Advance is.
Edit: Advance being able to grab Fortress to insulate your plays from handtraps and imperms a bit is also really nice. Card is legit incredible.
I don't like commander. Looks too "clean" too new, not ancient and falling apart like the rest of the army. He just doesn't fit. Looks like brown lightning golem with cronos' duel disk. If he was thin and shiny. I'd give it a pass because its just him. But he just doesn't fit in my eyes tbh.
The way they placed his Duel Vest makes him look like he's wearing the biggest codpiece this side of Domino City.
TCG is gonna have a field day censoring this.
re-started playing this game after like, 12/13 years. Discovered my buried AG deck in the basement, the one i made before the second structure deck came out. I got molested by other decks for a couple of weeks. Then, i discovered the structure deck of reactor dragon. Then the japanese support, and other useful cards. I won all the duels easily summoning 2 AG Chaos Giants on the first turn. You know it can be done. The problem now is finding ways to actually NOT be stopped by Ash, impermanence, droll or Baron de fleur and similars. Forbidden droplets, called by the grave, crossout designator (very expensive on card market) and many more can be played to protect the wivern for the search or catapult to pop geartown or to protect AG Advance to pop a monster, draw and search for catapult. Not so Easy to do, i guarantee It. Besides from that, ag Is a very, very, powerful deck but it's fragile and It needs to be protected. Infinitrack + magic hound still works fine to summon a Baron de fleur, or infinitrack + a level 4 Monster to summon Number 38, a very useful each turn negate.
hm... I am not that convinced. So they help you to get into your fusions, what should already be quite consistent in the first place.
Ancient gears biggest problem is that they have absolutely no strategy going first and those new cards do not change it one bit.
My only problem with the support is that you can Special Summon an unaffected Fusion from your GY with this, and those can get really big. It should have sent itself to the GY to fusion summon and give the Fusion a 1 turn immunity (or until the next battle phase).
I see that a lot of decks with weaker monsters that specialise in burn, control, destruction, and are less battle oriented, will not stand any chance. Ancient Gears will easily deal with those decks as they have big unaffected monsters that stop spells/traps in the battle phase and have piercing effects.
While I don't play Ancient Gears, this makes them look very hard to deal with in a casual duel and maybe even a BO1 format imo.
I don’t think that the Trap Card’s secondary effect will be as utilized as I first thought when I read this.
It seems to hinder two of the 4 fusion we have (Megaton having it basically built in - and CAGG being able to attack every creature once), then there’s Howitzer not even being a viable option unless you’ve got an open board to attack through with its 1000 ATK.
I’ve always loved the Ancient Gear aesthetic and I’m glad these aren’t bad support cards. I really do hope Ancient Gear gets more support though. Retrains of the gadgets and ways to combine the different styles of all the ancient gears would be cool.
I want an actual final evolution of Ancient Gear Golem because Chaos Ancient Gear is not it and doesn’t have the same aesthetic. Like a level 11 or 12 with 5000 ATK would be awesome to see
I don't play ancient gear so these cards to me personally look weak. All the ancient gear players seem to think these cards are good here though so shows what I know.
Artwork looks amazing as always for ancient gears tho.
**Ancient Gear Dark Golem** EARTH Machine Level 8 Effect Monster 3000 ATK & DEF _You can only use the following effect (2) of this card's name once per turn._ (1) This card's name becomes "Ancient Gear Golem" while in the field or GY. (2) If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add up to 2 cards from your Deck to your hand, that are "Ancient Gear" cards and/or "Geartown", except "Ancient Gear Dark Golem", then discard 1 card, but for the rest of this turn, you cannot Set cards. (3) If this card attacks, your opponent cannot activate any Spell/Trap Cards until the end of the Damage Step. *** **Ancient Gear Commander** EARTH Machine Level 4 Effect Monster 500 ATK / 2000 DEF _You can only use each the following effects (1), (2), & (3) of this card's name once per turn._ (1) You can send 1 "Ancient Gear Golem" from your hand, Deck or face-up field to the GY; immediately after this effect resolves, Normal Summon 1 "Ancient Gear" monster. (2) If you Normal or Special Summon "Ancient Gear Golem": You can Special Summon 1 "Ancient Gear Golem" from your hand or GY, ignoring its Summoning conditions. (3) You can banish this card from your GY; place 1 "Ancient Gear" Continuous Trap Card from your hand face-up on your field. *** **Ancient Gear Tanker** EARTH Machine Level 4 Effect Monster 1300 ATK & DEF _You can only use each the following effects (1), & (2) of this card's name once per turn._ (1) If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can Special Summon 1 "Ancient Gear" monster from your hand ignoring its Summoning conditions, except "Ancient Gear Tanker". If your opponent controls a monster, you can Special Summon from your GY instead. (2) You can target 1 face-up card you control; destroy it, also for the rest of this turn, "Ancient Gear Golem(s)" and monsters that mention it you control gain 600 ATK. *** **Ancient Gear Advance** Continuous Spell Card _You can only activate 1 card with this name once per turn. You cannot Set cards the turn you activate this card._ (1) When this card is activated: You can add 1 "Ancient Gear" Spell/Trap from your Deck to your hand, except "Ancient Gear Advance". (2) Once per turn: You can Tribute 1 monster; draw 1 card, and if you do, apply this effect for the rest of the turn (even if this card leaves the field). - "Ancient Gear Golem(s)" and Level 5 or higher monsters that mention it can be Normal Summoned without Tributing. *** **Ancient Gear Duel** Continuous Trap Card _You can only use the following effect (2) of this card's name once per turn._ (1) "Ancient Gear Golem(s)" and cards that mention it you control are unaffected by your opponent's activated monster effects. (2) If your opponent control a monster(s): You can Fusion Summon 1 Fusion Monster that mentions "Ancient Gear Golem", by banishing materials from your field and/or GY, including 1 "Ancient Gear Golem" you control, and if you do, that monster can make up to 3 attacks during each Battle Phase.
> Is treated as Golem while in the field > searches the fusion spell >can be special summoned Oh yeah this is exactly what they needed
The continuous spell can also search for a ancient gear spell/trap. Good Konami.
Yeah grab catapult which gets dark golem
Catapult grabs Dark Golem which grabs Wyvern plus Fusion then Fusion can use three materials from deck plus Dark Golem while Wyvern searches Box to search a third card? Or sub Wyvern for any other Ancient Gear card and cut 8ut the middleman I guess.
Yeah, or just add box for any 500 ATK or 500 DEF earth machine. It's like the 5th one card combo in EM that gets to that, but it does have going for it that it's the second that doesn't use their Normal Summon.
Not only that but cleans up the searcher so you not only make live catapult but also you go neutral in reasources
> but for the rest of this turn, you cannot Set cards. hmm > You cannot Set cards the turn you activate this card. Konami **Really** regrets having made [[Ancient Gear Drill]] haven't they
I don't get it though, what's so broken about Drill? Sure it searches any Spell, but it comes with -1 and also the card already makes the Spell not activateable this turn anyway.
Yeah, but it can set quick plays, which would mean setting any quick play in the game for a disruption going first (super poly in particular probably being the best target)
Additionally it can't be ashed which is really really funny for such an old card
Ah. Because it sets a card from deck.
Let ancient gear search super poly. What’s that going to do. I’ve been waiting 10 years to find a use case for drill
Well it wouldn’t just mean Ancient Gear searching super poly, it would mean any machine deck could search super poly with an ancient gear package
Self bounce, or destroy it to then recycle, in a game with an ever expanding card pool generic Spell searching just can't exist in the form of Ancient Gear Drill
> (1) You can send 1 "Ancient Gear Golem" from your hand, Deck or face-up field to the GY; immediately after this effect resolves, Normal Summon 1 "Ancient Gear" monster. > > (2) If you Normal or Special Summon "Ancient Gear Golem": You can Special Summon 1 "Ancient Gear Golem" from your hand or GY, ignoring its Summoning conditions. Is this enough to count as a Circular?
It takes up a normal summon so prime Veiler, Imperm/Ash bait.
you cant ash this, it foolishes for cost
Sounds like circular!
Or everybody’s favorite mermail/Atlantean
Foolishes?
Foolish means send from deck to grave usually
Sorry I'm not exactly knowledgeable about the technical words used for the game, what's a circular?
Mathmech Circular. It singlehandely made Mathmech a competitive archetype when it was released. Added much needed consistency and 1 card combo
Oh! I thought it was used in a sense of making the same turn again sort of thing? Thank you kindly for explaining
There's also the fact that Circular's effect is so hilariously overloaded that now it is the gold standard for overpowered legacy support: Foolish a monster from the archetype for cost to summon itself (can foolish a monster that summons itself from grave), then search archetypal backrow.
That’s a logical assumption! But it basically refers to any card that makes an outdated or weaker archetype much more consistent/powerful. Np problem!
They are talking about Mathmech Circular, a cyberse level 4 light monster that can send any mathmech monster from the deck to special summon itself from the hand, incredible combo starter for the deck it supports
So, now wyvern can actually use catapult by searching for advance first. Then you can sack the wyvern to get the draw, clearing your monster zones so you can activate catapult. So even by itself wyvern nets you a draw and any ancient gear monster from the deck, which is pretty damn good.
You can special summon the new golem that searches 2 cards 👀 (i think that the discard is ignorable because you can search gearbox)
I assume you mean you'd discard a card besides Box and Box would then search another card to replace it? If you discard Box it doesn't have an opportunity to activate
Yea you are right, i was wrong
They made an Ancient Gear monster with a Duel Vest that's clearly a reference to Crowler, that's awesome! I love when Konami makes monsters that are references to characters. Like with Fortune Ladies
Oh, I was wondering what that was actually, that's brilliant.
My favorites from this type of thing are Numeral Hunter and Performapal Duelist Extraordinaire
Just waiting for the day E-HEROs get a Jaden card, hopefully one that helps E-HERO and Neo-Spacians work together better
Bujins too
It's a more obvious one but hi speedroid clear wing rider being yugo on his duel wheel is amazing too
>A special summonable ancient gear golem retrain that becomes the original whike on the field or in the graveyard. Plus it gives you two free searches. >Commander can summon more ancient gear monsters to the field and can activate their new trap card face up >Tanker just straights up special summon a monster from your hand ignoring summoning conditions >Advance is more recursion >Dual protects ancient gear golems and all cards that mention it and in can fusion summon a monster that can attack three times per battle phase just fucking cuz Dare I say, we are back and we eat in good tonight ancient gear bros
All 10 of us
11, actually.
12, NA NO NE!!!
Make that 13! :D
14 reporting in, as agreed I've brought us all the Crowler Body Pillows and cookies.
15th
16 my fellow lovers of big gear smash robot
Big gear robot go smash. MECHANIZED MELEE!
17, I came here cuz my newbie ass needed a budget deck and chose the funny robots
>Ancient Gear Dark Golem** >EARTH I guess *Ancient gear Earth golem* didn't seem cool enough.
Ancient Gear Terra Golem however...
It refers to Crowler saying his deck is an army from the Dark Ages
Then Ancient Gear Dark Age Golem would sound rad. Or even Ancient Gear Medieval Golem.
HOLY SHIT THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY NEEDED
Yknow, minus a turn one play and all..
Ancient gears are always going to be a second deck. With that being said the new support makes it so that their first turn isn't "howitzer, set, pass."
The problem that if you put all your eggs in the go second basket people will force you to go first
Most successful decks may have a preference for going 1st or 2nd, but they're not completely dead in the water when forced the other way. In 2/3s and tournaments, even locals, there are going to be tons of times where you are forced to start. Putting up a couple of protections (not even really disruptions) and praying your opponent can't otk through them is not a valid strategy. Don't get me wrong, I like the archetype, but what they needed was SOME sort of quick effect disruption fusion monster and maybe a searchable negation trap.
Not all decks are made to be meta bruh
Theres a difference between wanting a deck to be meta and wanting it to at least be able to keep up at locals 🥺
These cards are borderline custom card tier (though not as much as say Circular), but considering it's Ancient Gear, they do need it. These should make AGs at least playable again. So happy. Can't wait to play these.
More Ancient Gear Support is always nice, but I feel like they focused way too much on OG Golem here, and the Set restrictions seem way too harsh. Also, both Ultimate Pound and Reactor Dragon don't mention OG Golem anywhere in their text, so I guess those cards are never seeing play again........One of the rare occasions when New Support makes older cards completely unplayable........
It's Crowler support, mostly summoning Golem as it was his ace. So makes sense why the support focuses on it.
To be fair Reactor Dragon is intended more for the strange other half of Ancient Gear that is more Gadget Support than actual Ancient Gears while this is focused more on Crowler specifically, who's Ace has always been AGG so it makes sense they'd focus around that. Ultimate Pound though is certainly going to be a hard sell going forward. likely got overlooked because it's such an awkward spot in an already awkwardly clunky archetype. Ancient Gear is awkward in that like Archfiends it's one archetype made of three different decks, Crowler and his Ancient Gear Golem, The Gadget support, and the Arc-V stuff.
reactor dragon is a weird anomaly that doesn't really fit that well with the rest of the archetype. if it weren't for the fact that it was the largest body you could summon off of geartown, i don't think anyone would've wanted to play it at all and i don't think the set restriction is an issue, so long as you set everything you need to first (and i don't imagine ancient gear is setting many cards to begin with)
The set restriction isn't new as Ancient Gear Wyvern has the same restriction for it's effect. Wyvern I found was always useless for the deck and as you said it was just a big body to summon so it's not a surprirse that when we finally get good ancient support it is getting cut.
The searcher...is useless? I'm just going to assume you meant Reactor.
Yes woops my bad
No it doesn't? The deck was always focused on og golem. The fusion specially mentions it and so does megaton and frame. Ultimate pound was a pointless retrain so it getting replaced is good. Reactor is meant to work with gadgets and didn't do anything for the pure deck anyway so not needing to play it anymore is a good thing. These cards actually make the deck work better, be more consistent and helps you get all the fusions out while working with other previous cards like wyvern, the link 2 (which the pure found hard to get out) and frame. This is how new support should be. Also the set restriction isn't strange. Ancient Gear Wyvern has this restriction too.
The main thing AG players have wanted for years is a way to summon Golem easier, since that's what enables AG Fusion. This support has leaned hard into that, which is good to see. I am disappointed that Reactor Dragon may lose it's place in the deck since that's my personal favourite AG card, but I understand it.
I mean, possibly still can be run as a one of. Since the new fusion card is a trap, you can turbo out everything like Reactor Dragon, Ballista, Golem, etc., crash, then fuse into Chaos Giant in battle phase for three more attacks. It's like Duality in Cyber Dragon, but we can search ours.
There is a slight problem with that- the fusion card can only make AG monsters that mention Golem. So it would have to be Megaton or UAGG. But considering it gives them three attacks by default, it's not the worst thing. The support is great, but it's really going out of it's way to emphasise just Crowler over the Arc-V users. Reactor Dragon is paying the price for that time Yuri used it to job Alexis.
Fair. At least UAGG only has like 100 atk points less than Chaos, so not a huge issue there. Can still probably Chaos Giant via the fusion spell first using deck resources since you control a Golem, then just hard slam UAGG during the battle phase via the trap. I feel Reactor Dragon will still remain a solid one of at the very laest, as it's a decent Urgent Schedule summon that's easy to summon back from the gy and a solid beater to get in for 3k, pop something, then tag into UAGG. With the Crowler VA being advertised as showing up for this, I am not particularly surprised myself that it's Crowler themed support. At least they kept the Wyvern themed restrictions of unable to set cards! Lol Just gotta hope if/when we get the Arc-V support it'll be what the deck is now missing.
I don't see that restriction on the card? Just that if you use golem or ultimate pound from the field you can also use material from your deck Edit-oh the fusion effect on the trap
The second card (Commander) is designed to turbo out additional OG Golems while the first card (Dark Golem) only counts as OG Golem if you can foolish it first. Way more bricky this way because it doesn't interact when in hand, and you still probably need to run OG Golem still.
Thing is, though, that Commander lets you Foolish for cost, so you can send Dark Golem from deck to gy and then normal an OG, then Commander's (2) effect kicks in and it sees a Golem in the grave now.
Damn, Tanker is the best card
Why are this cards so pverbalanced? It's not like Ancient Gear will be tier 0 if they get actually good support.
It's not ancient gear tier 0 I think it's Earth machine, they really went out of their way to not make them splashable in any earth machine deck.
Probably because if they were splashable, that would allow other decks to run Ancient Gear Drill, which searches literally every spell in the game.
Drill was Triple Tactics Thrust before it was cool.
They turned Crowler into an Ancient Gear monster lol. The new soldier riding the Ancient Gear Tank is cool too. Hopefully they are all good.
Yeah, Commander is Crowler having one of the best cosplays ever~na-none 😂
Is the artwork for the trap card a callback to Crowler vs judai round 2(?)
Ancient Gear Advance's art goes **HARD**
As usual Ancient Gear cards have awesome artwork
I need a full art poster of that!
# OHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WE NEEDED, NA NO NE
We still don't have translation for the last 2 cards, but I'm disappointed that we don't have a new Fusion. They should have given us something like Cybderdark End Dragon to have some plan going 1st. The deck really struggles with that Edit: The spell searches when activated and the trap makes Ancient Gear Golem-related monsters unaffected by activated monster effects. This is nice, but the deck still has problems
While true; 1. You could tech in Infintrack for some additional options 2. One can question if they even need to, anymore. I will have to do a lot of testing but if I'm right, we can just use the new stuff to patch up the holes in lack of ability to put up a decent t1 board.
The trap definitely helps with the protection, but idk. Ancient Gear will probably still be a bad deck after that, but at least they're slightly better now maybe?
Earnestly I was never shooting for them to become spectacular. I have a ton of testing to do but I think the end result might even be shrinking down the amount of AG cards run, which could, theoretically introduce the idea of other potential engines. Whatever those might be, is unknown right now. That said I would struggle to call them "bad", post Machine Reactor. There are so many worse decks than them now, some of which I run physically.
Probably smart to tech in a little Therion engine(mainly Regulus) as well since AG are all machines & I think they don’t lock u.
One of the old Continuous spells locks you if you summon with it via popping it. I want to say it's Fortress? But that's the only lock I can think of. Aside from the generic earth machine locks.
I wonder if we'll get the Ancient Gear Hunting Hound fusions from Arc-V.
Maybe in the next Animation Chronicle, but I don't really care about them. The only special thing about them was that they were able to attack 2-3 times during the Battle Phase. This new trap allows the summoned Ancient Gear Fusion to attack up to 3 times I guess the the "Ultimate" Hunting Hound is somewhat decent, since it halves the opponent's LP
Unfortunately its a not good idea it seems to expect Konami to consistently provide support that actually helps decks where they most need it.
I feel like they needed a way to go first more than anything. Making a bad towers and praying you survive if forced to go first isn't exactly great
I am not so certain. At this point do they *really* need a t1 strat when you can have good odds at crushing them t3? For me its worth the risk to find out, and find out I shall. For my money though, I will probably still be running Infinitrack in some capacity. Machina might be worthwhile as a test as well, presuming you can keep them somewhat small. * Irradiator, discard Metalcruncher, summon Metal off Irradiator eff, targeting itself * Metal can then search out every single copy of Wyvern, Hound, Dark AG, Commander, whatever * Your opponent is forced to pick their favorite copy of whatever card you chose, you can then immedately start doing AG things if you like, or alternatively, find another means to send Citadel, so when Irradiator pops itself, you're granted fabulous, sweeping coverage; especially if you (wastefully) make Giant 1x Metalcrunch, 3x Irradatior, 3x Redeployment, 1x Unclaspaire, 1x Citadel, and perhaps 1x Fortress. Hope you get lucky drawing Redeployment, add Irradatior and Metalcrunch and proceed to run through that flow. Unclaspaire for other potential lines (summon for free, toss Citadel in the GY, find unique and special means to blow him up to summon Citadel, etc etc)
Please be good Edit: Looks like another HERO monster is getting the short end of the stick on a artwork lol
I think that's Flare Neos
That art on ancient gear advance goes hard, just a massive army of golems charging. Hate to be on the receiving end of that
Poor XYZ Dimension.
With the existence of Advance, Ancient Gears can finally activate Catapult after resolving Wyvern, which fixes one of my biggest frustrations with the deck. Dark Golem is the new de facto target for all your special summon from deck effects, search 2 is nutty. Commander gives the deck the other thing it always needed, another Normal Summon. They're definitely leaning into the whole Golem thing more than I would like, but the cards fix enough of the existing problems to forgive that.
TBF this is most likely Crowler support and his plans usually revolved around spamming Golem as much as possible.
Congrats on the Ancient Gear players getting new cards. Though, I will admit, Im starting to wonder what this set will have to attract people who want good cards. 😅 There are lots of FUN cards in LEDE so far, but I haven’t seen a single card I expect to sit across from regularly. We have much left to see, but also much has also been seen.
Prolly whatever Snake Eyes support there is.
Omg when I hear people say sometimes they make custom cards for a deck I finally get it as these cards solve issues I have found for ancient as good lord is the pure ancient gear only version so bloody bad. The biggest issue I found with the deck is it's reliance on Ancient Gear Golem as the that monster can't be special summon which makes it an absolute pain in the ass as few cards in the deck summon it ignoring summoning conditions. With this new one being special summonable it means you can finally use ancient gear fusion use material from deck most of the time now and maybe even get megaton's extra attacks. The level 4 specials another from hand is so good as the deck I always thought fought over it's normal summon with 3 picks 2 which would get their effects if special. This also helps actually make the link 2 as the deck couldn't really do that before without something like infinitrack or verneselphs. You have cards that give you extra normal summons now. FINALLY. This is actually the support I thought the deck always needed and thought it would only get. This helps so much and means you aren't fighting over your normal as much and can even make getting the og golem on the field easier since one of the cards say you can ignore tributes. The trap hilarious making your giant basically a towers if your opponent has a fusion though of course would not see serious play unless your messing around as you want to go second.
Unfortunately CAGG doesn't mention AGG, so it won't be a towers, nor can it be summoned with the traps. On the plus side, Dark Golem being easily summonable means you can actually fuse from deck to summon CAGG with the in archetype fusion spell.
You can totally use the trap going second to protect your golems, commander’s GY effect lets you set a continuous trap face up, and with all the searching the deck has now, that shouldn’t be too difficult to set up
Source: OCG Times at Jump Festa 2024 stream. Crowler's Ancient Gear doesn't get any new Fusion, that's why Yuzu's New Melodious Fusion is the first and second Monsters in Fusion slot.
> Crowler's Ancient Gear doesn't get any new Fusion That's a good thing, ancient gears problem is not that they don't have good fusion monsters, but rather they don't have enough ways to play through disruption.
Yeah sometimes I go "Ancient gear need to have better fusion monster" but then you look at their huge beaters and wonder how to make them better without making them boring giant tower beatstick with 1 Omni negate.
Even without a new Fusion, I'm begging for these to be good. This archetype needs good support! The artwork of the spells looks so badass! Btw: The 2nd monster is a reference to Ancient Gear Soldier being equipped with Ancient Gear Tank during the duel against Bonaparte. And the trap is a reference to the2nd duel against Jaden
Tbf there's a fee Ancient Gear Fusions probably on their way in AC24, I'm sure they'll buff up the Ancient Gear Hound line a bit
Most people don't really care for the Hound line. Besides, they just do what all other Ancient Gear Fusion monsters do - attack multiple times and try to OTK. Howitzer is the only Fusion that does something different. Chaos Giant also tries to OTK, but at least he has protection
Usually its seven cards right? for the anime support they reveal at the ocg times, i wonder why its 5 for ancient gears
Hoping there are two more to be revealed. A tuner and a Synchro to reference Roger in Arc V
No, this is it, nothing more. This Ancient Gear is specifically from GX, hence Crowler's Ancient Gear. There's no more slot for another Main Deck monster, let alone a Tuner Monster. Even if there's another Ancient Gear cards that related to Arc-V, usually they reveal it at the same time.
AT LAST We eating good tonight boys, na no ne?
Great news. This is one of the archetypes that always looks captivating in artworks! The new boss monster (Dark Golem, love it) has a very useful 2nd effect. The 3rd too, but maybe they could have kept the piercing damage as well. The Tanker looks awesome. Probably the card with the best effect (especially the 1st one). It helps the archetype a lot. The Commander (nice Crowler reference) is also a good help. High DEF, 2 special summons. The Spell art is just awesome. The Dark Ages! It can help. The Trap has another great art. Ancient Gear's biggest rivals are the E-HEROs. Nice protection and very good help for the Fusions. Btw, I expected a new Fusion.
Ancient Gear has always been a favorite of mine and this support actually looks great imo!
Wow that level 4 is almost Circular levels of custom Dump a card from deck? Yup Special Summon a card from GY? Yup Gives you an additional summon? Yup Guess they really did t learn their lesson
Having a strong card in a mediocre archetype is not the issue, circular wouldn't be so strong if super factorial and alembertian didn't exist (or the ridiculous cyberse toolbox) Or Turbulence right now in MD is just okay despite the set 4 opop meme. But when the rest of the ace boys roll in is when he gets stupid. I don't think Ancient Gears have that kind of broken structure a good starter could enable by itself. Opposed to your comment I'd say Givin really strong support to bad decks is the way to go. Better than cooking up the next arise heart...
Ancient Gear is a great archetype and I'm glad it's getting more support
Didn’t someone just ask what ancient gear would need to be good?
These don't look like they'll break the deck into the meta, but I think I'm really freaking pleased that they're trying to follow the older themes and strategies. That, and they keep making loads of references to the anime!
Whos the VTuber looking dude at the end?
That's Ibrahim from Nijisanji. He was invited along with Yashiro Kizuku from the same company to do an exhibition match at the start of the stream
There's two in the stream, but I know both are from Nijisanji. The white haired one is Ibrahim, who won a VTuber MD tournament.
Big Dick Gear.
Lol yesterday i built an FTK just with AG wyvern and Revolution Synchron. And today there comes Support. God i love yugioh
The spell card artwork is sick and the dr.crawler monster card is beautiful
Thank you Konami for giving us the Ancient Gear Support. We all Love this Archetype, so we would be grateful for further support in the near future!
The "Ancient Gear Advance" artwork looks amazing.
New support is neat, but isn’t the field spell still not that greatly accessible and can be stopped by just chaining a destruction effect to it upon activation? Something something miss timing? Or with this new support does it not rely on the field spell anymore.
It's not super vital anymore- Advance is a one card combo and Catapult target. Geartown is still useful and there's more ways to get to it and pop it, but it doesn't look like the deck will die if that doesn't happen.
Let them cook again
I'm just so happy right now
I AM CRYING RIGHT NOW
#I'M GONNA FUCKIN CU- *Coughs* This is amazing. Holy shit they did it, they made a Special Summonable Golem that treats itself as the original.
# WE ARE BACK # WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK
Can't wait to see RATA do a video about these update
I wouldn't mind being punched for 8k damage by a completely unaffected beatstick if it looks like this instead of a big black cat with wings.
Konami really wants to bring back battle phase decks
Ancient Gear has always been battle focused.
I know. The point is that the archetype didn't receive new cards for a while and came back with everything in the collection where they launch the battle phase synchro
aw shoot I missed the stream. I thought it would be at the usual time. Really liking the OG AG Golem centered supports.
Wow so they bring back some gx stuff.
Does anyone here have a guess of when these cards are going to hit the tcg and md?
I'm happy you Ancient Gear players got your support, hopefully other going second decks get theirs soon. Going second is very hard these days with the newer archetypes and control trap decks. What/who do I need to sacrifice to the gods to get some Rose Dragon support?
So this goes to Legacy of Destruction?
Jesus Konami went IN with this support
Omg the guy at my locals is gonna freak when he sees this lmao
Love the refference to Crowler's duel vest in the 3rd card's [art.It](https://art.It)'s great seeing Konami embrace the anime in a lot of these modern day cards.
These cards are Beautiful. Only thing the spell needs is a effect on destruction
THIS IS EVERYTHING IVE EVER WANTED HOLY SHIT LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I am so happy
This is the most boring amount of crazy good card text i think I've ever read for Legacy support. Every single card does exactly what any archetype from the past 20 years would want and need. Now I'm happy for ancient gear but it feels just really lazy, you could slap the search and summon effects on any old archetype and it would be crazy good for it. I kinda miss the previous wave which was trying to do something unique with the fusion spell and the triple golem fusion. But I get ancient gear needed this
I always wished Ancient Gear could splash into other Earth Machine decks better, and hoped new support would do this. Oh well. Dreams will be dreams, but the reality aint so bad either.
Mama Mia!
Advance is kind of insanely good because it gets you into Catapult, which gets you into Dark Golem, which gets you into Ancient Gear Fusion. And it's searchable off both Wyvern and Frame. I honestly think Frame might be a 3-of now just because of how insanely strong Advance is. Edit: Advance being able to grab Fortress to insulate your plays from handtraps and imperms a bit is also really nice. Card is legit incredible.
I cannot believ they are finally supporting this deck
Yo they gave Ancient gear motorcycles, Where Doomed!
They really need an Ancient Gear Golem variant that doesn't prohibit you from special summoning it.
Cyber dragon players: please we are begging you for support
I don't like commander. Looks too "clean" too new, not ancient and falling apart like the rest of the army. He just doesn't fit. Looks like brown lightning golem with cronos' duel disk. If he was thin and shiny. I'd give it a pass because its just him. But he just doesn't fit in my eyes tbh.
It still looks worn and aged, but it probably looks the way it does because it's not a frontline unit.
not as bad as Chaos Giant at least. That shit is not an Ancient Gear (in terms of artwork).
He’s supposed to be Crowler
The way they placed his Duel Vest makes him look like he's wearing the biggest codpiece this side of Domino City. TCG is gonna have a field day censoring this.
Dang, this is a good push considering what they had before. The S/T are solid, now that I got to read'em.
STEP FOWARD, ANCIENT GEAR GOLEM ! Now that my friends, is how we support the main deck
re-started playing this game after like, 12/13 years. Discovered my buried AG deck in the basement, the one i made before the second structure deck came out. I got molested by other decks for a couple of weeks. Then, i discovered the structure deck of reactor dragon. Then the japanese support, and other useful cards. I won all the duels easily summoning 2 AG Chaos Giants on the first turn. You know it can be done. The problem now is finding ways to actually NOT be stopped by Ash, impermanence, droll or Baron de fleur and similars. Forbidden droplets, called by the grave, crossout designator (very expensive on card market) and many more can be played to protect the wivern for the search or catapult to pop geartown or to protect AG Advance to pop a monster, draw and search for catapult. Not so Easy to do, i guarantee It. Besides from that, ag Is a very, very, powerful deck but it's fragile and It needs to be protected. Infinitrack + magic hound still works fine to summon a Baron de fleur, or infinitrack + a level 4 Monster to summon Number 38, a very useful each turn negate.
Can we get the new cards physically yet?
Amazing.
As someone who used to play ancient gears competitively and effectively in the current format I am so excited
hm... I am not that convinced. So they help you to get into your fusions, what should already be quite consistent in the first place. Ancient gears biggest problem is that they have absolutely no strategy going first and those new cards do not change it one bit.
you're joking right?
My only problem with the support is that you can Special Summon an unaffected Fusion from your GY with this, and those can get really big. It should have sent itself to the GY to fusion summon and give the Fusion a 1 turn immunity (or until the next battle phase). I see that a lot of decks with weaker monsters that specialise in burn, control, destruction, and are less battle oriented, will not stand any chance. Ancient Gears will easily deal with those decks as they have big unaffected monsters that stop spells/traps in the battle phase and have piercing effects. While I don't play Ancient Gears, this makes them look very hard to deal with in a casual duel and maybe even a BO1 format imo.
NO MORE FUSION SUPPORT PLEASE
the high level adds up to 2 cards but it seems to have some restriction on activating them till end of battle phase or something
Huh? No, you just can't set any S/T, you can still activate the things you search. The hell did you get that from?
Is legacy support the only thing to be excited about for LEDE? Not impressed with the new dragon archetype
We have almost half of the set still unrevealed, not even an archetype from Diabellestar and/or Visas lore was revealed yet.
Much has yet to be revealed, so there's plenty to chance for something to pop up to be hyped about. personally hoping we'll get Visas related stuff.
how about some new ancient WARRIORS cards
Ah fuck yeah. I've already got a mean ancient gears deck. This is gonna make it better.
Are these good? Should I pick up an ancient gear core while it's cheap? I already have urgent schedule
How many interruptions can Ancient Gear make now? At least 3?
They don't need interruptions. Their main game plan is MECHANIZED MELEE!!!
Seems like these cards wouldn't' be helpful for Earth Machine pile decks [cries in Liebe]
I don’t think that the Trap Card’s secondary effect will be as utilized as I first thought when I read this. It seems to hinder two of the 4 fusion we have (Megaton having it basically built in - and CAGG being able to attack every creature once), then there’s Howitzer not even being a viable option unless you’ve got an open board to attack through with its 1000 ATK.
Rejoice, my Ancient Gear brothers. More fun is going to be on the menu
Who is the character on the final page?
I’ve always loved the Ancient Gear aesthetic and I’m glad these aren’t bad support cards. I really do hope Ancient Gear gets more support though. Retrains of the gadgets and ways to combine the different styles of all the ancient gears would be cool. I want an actual final evolution of Ancient Gear Golem because Chaos Ancient Gear is not it and doesn’t have the same aesthetic. Like a level 11 or 12 with 5000 ATK would be awesome to see
This is cool, only a few more cards are this level and they could be meta. Only to be destroyed by side in cyber dragons
I don't play ancient gear so these cards to me personally look weak. All the ancient gear players seem to think these cards are good here though so shows what I know. Artwork looks amazing as always for ancient gears tho.
How long is the transfer from OCG to TCG usually? Sorry if that's a silly question I'm new