Union monsters are a special kind of monster that can, from the field, be equipped to other monsters to grant them additional effects and prevent their destruction. Some union monsters like the ABC pieces or Squeaknight have been extremely good in the past, but these ten cards got the short end of the stick.
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├ The List
Intro: (0:00)
10- Zombie Tiger: (0:14)
9- Des Dendle: (1:46)
8- Heavy Mech Support Platform: (2:56)
7- Second Goblin: (4:07)
6- Vylon Pentachloro: (5:25)
5- Pitch-Dark Dragon: (6:40)
4- Kiryu: (8:07)
3- Metallizing Parasite – Lunatite / Soltite: (9:15)
2- Freezing Beast/Burning Beast: (10:43)
1- Koitsu / Doitsu: (12:03)
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With how easy now a days it is to Special Summon monsters, you can easily get both Lumantite & Solite. Also if you use these 2 in Paleozoic Deck (who if summoned to act as mon. & are naturally immune to monster effects), you can use Lumantite to protect them from spells, and Solite can protect them if their own effects are negated and need another way to be unaffected by mon. Effects.
S/o to Soitsu and Doitsu who do the same but with level 3 and 4, thus granting you a 2500 atk monster in two turns!
(Still shit honestly but gotta play them for that booty!)
To koitsu and aitsus benefit, i did play against this one guy a while back who used the elemental special summoners (mother grizzly etc) to play these as a gimmick strat to some degree of success. Not to say they're good, I'm an average player and was tinkering with the deck i was using, but it was memorable to say the least
The ruling for Union monsters needing to be equipped by their own effects to grant their boosts is only true for older Unions that explicitly say they have to be (such as Koitsu). Newer Unions can be equipped by effects such as Unauthorized Reactivation or Roll Out! without having this issue.
Also, huge shame you didn't go over the actual biggest reason why the Vylon Unions suck. Since they have synergy with Union Hangar and Unauthorized Reactivation, you should theoretically be able to summon one, equip Union Driver to it with either Spell, and use Driver to equip and special out a second Vylon Union monster, but since the Vylons have the old Union ruling text of "A monster can only be equipped with 1 Union Monster at a time", you can't legally activate Driver to equip either of them since Driver is already your 1 equipped Union in this case.
tl;dr konami plz reprint the vylon unions
I used to use Lunatite in a old water deck 😅 Summon it out with Mother Grizzy
Do a video
Top 10 Strongest Common Cards
Counting down the strongest cards that were ORIGINALLY PRINTED as a common
The higher level unions get better when you can do things like getting them in the GY then using the union trap/spells that let you equip from the GY – but it's still the same problem. It's slow and too many resources for not something good enough vs most decks.
Honestly supriesed thst dark blade and his dragon have yet to get a reteain yet
Why do i know more than half of this cards?
I love it when you show what other insane cards came out in the same set of these worst tyoe cards
Pentachloro
Penta Chloro.
Five Chlorine Atoms in a compound.
The Japanese name "Pentachro" makes more sense in the context of the archetype as geometric shapes: referring to a Pentachoron, which the monster somewhat resembles.
Pretty sure the vylon name is pronounced “penta-kloro”
The biggest appeal of old school union monsters was Frontline Base.
Doitsu wasn't actually mentioned at the end, and he certainly deserves it since he's part of the 4 man squad that Koitsu and Aitsu are also part of.
duel logs, 10:30
Lunatite was made in a meta where 1: Cards like Relinquished, BEWD, Toons, Anti-spell fragrance and Kayest were played at 1 or 2, and 2: Sangan/Witch/Mother Grizzly existed and H20 or UMI/ Legendary Ocean level 5 decks were a viable way to get into your water monsters. I think you forget that its a level 7 monster with LESS THAN 1500 ATK/DEF in a meta where 3 off searchers were a staple practice for emptying the deck. SMH
It was literally a staple for anti-destruction or spell target decks back then because it was SO EASY TO SEARCH AND SS onto something like a level 4 Gogigagagagio or a level 4 Rage of the Deep sea with your entire GY dumped full of fish and grizzlies.
Soltite was redundant but Lunatite was actually on decklists at the time. Nice try calling it laughable though. In reality, it was a 1 tribute, monarch synergistic, level 6 in hand, toss to ss, Spell immune tech target for Water focused decks that could also be used with Mobius to lockdown an entire board.
also it only took 2 cards, Grizzly and Lunatite, to combo loop it, not 4.
List Idea: Worst 10 Effect Monsters that you need 1 Tribute to normal summon. (Normal Monsters would too easily fill this list otherwise)
Do the best union too!
I made a fun deck of the paper plane guys. With them being fairies, playing Athena, Valhala, and Hecatrice, and Celestial Transformation makes them easy to play. Also Tethis
Union effects apply regardless of when equipped
Honestly speaking, if they reworked Union monsters to be equipable from the hand, they actually might be good. But, yeah, as they are, they are underwhelming.
Who would win: A powerful dragon who is an engine of Destruction
or
Two naked dudes on a plane
Pentachloro is pronounced "penta" (as in pentagon) and "chloro" (as in chlorine)
All of them, lol. Union is the single worst mechanic in the history of the game. Completely unplayable and dead on arrival, even back in the day no single sane person ever used this mechanic.
Giant Orc has 22,000 ATK points???
Don’t underestimate the paper plane man deck
Future video idea, top 10 spells/traps that mention a specific in order for it to be used. I.E any of the support cards that can be used when red archfiend dragon is in play.
Unions are one of those mechanics that I just assumed I didn't get as a kid. Like, I had this mindset of "if they printed it, it must be good!" for some reason
top 10 monsters that both good on the field and when it leaves the field.
E.g.: Imperion Magnum Super Conductive Battlebot can negate any card effect once per turn, when it leaves the field, it can special summon 1 Valkyrion and 1 Berserkion Magna Warrior from your hand/deck ignoring summoning condition
– Dragunity Knight – Areadbhair can negate monster effect by banishing 1 dragunity monster from GY, banishing any monster it destroys and destroying all opponent spell/trap if it leaves the field
– Cyber Dragon Nova can special summon Cyber Dragon from hand/GY, can double its ATK and special summon 1 machine fusion monster if it leaves the field
– Mekk-Knight Crusadia Avramax cannot be targeted by card effects, it gains ATK equal to opponent special summoned monster ATK when it battles, it can shuffle something from the field to the deck when it leaves the field.
lunatite can be brought out with mother grizzly. If it survives, which it should if you run all 3 mother grizzly cards and your opponent doesnt have a main phase 2 play, and you bring out a beefy water monster like mobius, you can equip lunatite to protect your beefy monster from so many staple spells. Field wipes like raigeki, lightning vortex and dark hole, single destruction cards like hammer shot and fissure, as well as steal cards like snatch steal, brain control and change of heart. Im not saying it is amazing, but in goat and some earlier formats, water has some good playability with salvage and legendary ocean as support cards, mobius is fantastic, and there were a decent number of good water monsters, like aqua dolphin, abyss soldier and even yomi ship as a card you can bring out with mother grizzly too. Running 1 copy of lunatite isnt that bad in a deck like that and can actually be useful if you get the combo off. Even if you garnet draw it, you can still use it as fodder for abyss soldier and you can recycle it from the GY with pot of avarice. Also, if you are running legendary ocean, the card only needs 1 tribute, not that you would summon it this way anyway.
Again, not saying this makes the card good. Especially in modern context. But i dont think it should be this low on the list, or at all honestly.
Man this reminded me, of when I was getting through years worth of videos in a few months a bit after I discovered this channel.
for number 5 you could also use spear dragon lol.
Wow.
I remember Koitsu for one reason and one reason only: my friend and I would have playground duels with no tributes and reading was hard, so he'd equip it to his Blue-Eyes and be invincible.
I actually like the freezing and burning beast mechanic, I bet you could make a version of that that actually worked. Could be a fun archetypal gimmick
Found you through your wow channel years ago, still crazy to me that this channel is more popular and that you have a dnd one. Love the 1 hour just talking videos
Aitsu Koitsu was revamped with their superior alternatives Soitsu Doitsu
Kinda disappointed you just assumed there is no way to cheat out metallizing parasites. Still a damn shame they are such high level, they have one of the strongest equip effects and an awesome artwork and concept that goes with their effect.
When I think of Union monsters I think of Freezing and burning beast LOL.
Now hold on there. If Heavy Mech Support Platform is so bad, then why did it appear in every machine structure deck?
…oh
Union monsters have a cool concept but in practice, they've failed miserably since the pace of the game is faster…they didn't work then and much less now.