Yu-Gi-Oh! is a trading card game known for its diverse archetypes, which are groups of cards that a particular card belongs to. These archetypes are not directly based on a card’s monster type or the Tarot cards. The Sky Striker Archetype focuses on removing threats on the opponent’s board using spell cards, with stronger effects as more spell cards are played.
The Artifact cards are based on mythological weapons and warriors, with Moralltach and Beagalltach being based on two swords from an Irish legend. The monsters are based on Major Arcana tarot cards, each possessing a different symbolic meaning. The Spell and Trap Cards come in the form of Minor Arcana tarot cards, although there was not one for each card in a complete 78-card tarot card set at the time of their release.
The Spellbook/Prophecy archetypes are vaguely tarot focused, with “Arcana Force” consisting of Light Fairy monsters with a coin toss. These cards symbolize powerful archetypes of spiritual states, people, virtues, and circumstances. However, two big factors hold Arcana Force back from being playable: the monsters are based on Major Arcana tarot cards, each having a different symbolic meaning.
The Tarot Master Archetype revolves around the central monster Tarot Master and its Spell Cards Oracle Tarots. Overall, Yu-Gi-Oh! offers a wide variety of archetypes that cater to various themes and abilities.
📹 The Tarot Inspiration of the “Arcana Force” Archetype
Let’s face it, the Arcana Force archetype is bad, but that does not mean it is without merit or interest. How well do the monsters …
📹 Yu-Gi-Oh! – Spellbook/Prophecy Archetype
There is a severe lack of gamble cards with two good effects They could just make the tails effect less good so that any heads flipping support still makes sense. Or make the tails effect even better for some cards so that if you do always flip heads you lose out on some good effects, meaning you need to get rid of your support once you play into your better monsters I can imagine an archetype where the field spell makes everything hyper consistent and your low level monsters benefit, but you have to choose when to destroy your spell, risking consistency and comeback potential if your opponent disrupts you And then you can swing for game if you flip tails on your boss monster, but if you flip heads you still get some protection
I know this is very late, now that we have the Endymions, Witchcrafters, Invoked and the Spellbooks archetypes and their background. So the sequence of events are 1. The Witchcrafter Collaboration 2. The Endymion’s alliance with the Witchcrafters 3. The Tragedy of Aleister the Invoker 4. Crowley and the founding of the Prophecy Spellcasters 5. Endymion vs Prophecy War
Hello everyone, I just wanna point out that Spellbook Prophecy and Invoker are all from a big archetype. Why? Well, I will tell you about the lore of these archetypes as a whole. These are not 100% correct, but it is kind of true to the original lore I think. First of all “Prophecy” using magic runes and “Spellbook” as the sources of their power as you can see in their artworks. They are different with Endymion, those who using a lot of magic circle. I have researched a lot to make sure Prophecy doesn’t have any connection to Endymion. Anyways, here is why Prophecy is connected to Invoker: In 2017 Konami had revealed who was the origin of Prophecy. That was Aleister the Invoker. His full name probably is Aleister Crowley, because in the artwork of the new Spellbook Link monster “Crowley, the first Prophecy” you can tell that card is almost identical to Aleister. He wasn’t the first person to controlled magic power, but due to him obtained a really powerful artifact called “The Book Of The Law”, he could summon and control some really powerful creatures and using their power as his own. After so much experiments with the magic power inside the artifact, Aleister made a mistake. He made an experiment with the Dark Magic using his own body, which made him unable to control it and corrupted. This can be shown in the artwork of the new Invoker Link monster, “Aleister, the Invoker of Madness” and “Omega Summon”. It was pretty sure that Aleister was the Ancestor of Prohpecy, and he had builted a “Grand Spellbook Tower” to passed down his magic knowledge to his succesors before he corrupted and tranformed into “Invoked Caliga”.
I do appreciate that you pointed out that Tarot started out as a card game, and not a form of divination back in Ancient Egypt (you know, like Duel Monsters were canonically). But the way you do a Tarot reading is a bit different from how you described (with two separate decks of Major and Minor, etc., and it can vary per person). It’s also not ALWAYS for telling the future. Some readers, myself included, believe that you don’t always need a random card to act as a significator (a.k.a. the “you”) card, and that whether cards are reversed or upright matter. While many cards are based off the Rider-Waite-Smith tradition, and the meanings are pretty well-known, they’re also not set in stone; they’ve changed over the decades, and can be heavily influenced by the art and the reader.
😁 I read tarot. 😅 Technically you can use Yu-Gi-Oh cards they would just be classified as an oracle deck. You would just have makeup meanings like people in the comments are doing and internalize the meanings so you can bounce off the symbolism. Also Crowley deck, Thoth, is a different system to what most people think of as tarot since most decks are based on the Rider-Waite. Basically some of the meanings and symbolism don’t line up so you need Thoth specific references to learn Crowley’s deck.
There’s a huge collective reading community on Youtube. A youtuber called Waterbaby tarot explains, how to go beyond the barnum effect while she performs sepereate subject readings, on planerary positions specific to you. It can take a long time to find online readers who you resonate with but this woman is blunt and on it like a car bonnet.
Fun fact: “Crowley, The First Propheseer”‘s artwork shows (Aleister) Crowley in a strange tank filled with liquid. This could possibly be a reference to the “A Certain Magical Index” Light Novels and Anime, where another character named Aleister Crowley is depicted in a similar glass-tank. I’m not saying it IS a reference, but it could be, since there are enough similarities to make it look that way
I got 17: the star, upside-down. “When the Star comes up in a reversed position, it suggests you do not believe in yourself and your ability to achieve your goals. As a block, this card represents a lack of vision for your own future and a lack of trust in yourself.” That’s… Terrifyingly accurate.
So one thing i wanted to add:crowley is here because he created the thoth card deck. This card deck was done to rid tarot cards of christian implications like the hierophant being a katholic priest while the priest in the thoth deck is a shaman, judgement because of the day of reckoning immigary replacing it with aeon or world whose animals symbolize the 4 apostles that wrote the bible replacing the arcana with universe
Yay, an episode on Prophecy/Spellbooks 😀 I wonder when you would make iiiit. It is soooo fun to hear about the backstory or where the cards originated from. Like Hey. Literally there is so much information and yet it is not so wide known, or I just don’t see it anywhere… Anyway, thanks for making these articles! ^^
The first second and third cards in a tarot readkng also represent Past, Present and Future. What happened and what you’d done in the past. What is happening and what you are or should do now. And what may happen if you continue on your cirrent path or change your path. It’s complex as hell and it takes someone really skilled in divination to get it right. Every card means something different whether reversed (top of the card facing the one doing the reading) or straight (top of the card facing the one the reading is for)
That description of the war always felt off to me because I always saw them work together and getting along with no problem. It most likely wasn’t that simple and there were plenty more things involved. They literally have Crowley in a tank in the closet and that is most certainly someone that you cannot trust on word alone. Then again I always did see all the spell counter cards as from the same world, as well as the sky strikers due to that archetype’s eerie similarity to invoked.
2 cards in the spell books was not original spell book cards those cards are. Spellbook of organization was known as pigeonholing book of spells. Hidden Spellbook was known as hidden book of spells they go changed like many cards to fit with archetypes that are coming to the game. As well as the kanji of those cards holding spellbook was also part of the reason the 2 had the name change.
Alister Crowley aware of the threat of the Endymion army set out to find something out their to stop them but as he continued invoking these monsters and slowly losing sanity he created The Grand Spellbook Tower to teach spell casters the skills and knowledge that he learned. When the Endymion army struck Crowley was no where to be found and so the Fool trying to save everyone attempted to the master power fell victim to same side effect as Crowley. Alister hearing what had happened summoning dozens of beast’s was driven mad and seeks nothing but death destruction and domination. A small part of Alister Crowley’s mind wonders if the Fool was saved.
So I rolled and coin flipped for a 6 and Tails Amores of Prophecy- the Lovers Arcana Reversed- loss of balance, once sidedness, and disharmony Hmm…no I can’t say I agree with that haha. I’d like to think I have good internal balance and my friendships/bonds with people aren’t very one sided…..I hope anyways haha
So… Just found this article after the latest one pointed me here. Ive always wondered how the social links in the persona series were given their arcana. Just got to empress and, going off of Persona 3 as the game ive spent the most time with? It seems every arcana is reversed and, your goal throughout out the game while maxing that social link, is to turn them upright. That? Makes an already awesome game 50 times cooler in my mind. Edit: however should the arcana warn of negativity? Like the devil or the tower? It seems your role in those social links is to turn them from upright to reverse.
Where does the lore come from? Like, in MTG there’s flavor text on almost every card, giving depth. But Yu-Gi-Oh, there’s like… Nothing. Except on normal monsters. Where does the rest come from?? :/ Cause some of the lore is so neat and how certain cards or archetypes intertwine with each other. (I.e, spellbooks, invoked, and Endymion)
Do the Heraldic beast archetype Heraldic Beast Aberconway Heraldic Beast Basilisk Heraldic Beast Berners Falcon Heraldic Beast Eale Heraldic Beast Leo Heraldic Beast Twin-Headed Eagle Heraldic Beast Unicorn Heraldic Beast Amphisbaena Number 8: Heraldic King Genom-Heritage Number 69: Heraldry Crest Number C69: Heraldry Crest of Horror Number 18: Heraldry Patriarch Advanced Heraldry Art spell Augmented Heraldry field spell Heraldry Change trap Heraldry Charge spell Heraldry Reborn spell Heraldry Record counter trap Heraldry Blast equip spell Heraldry Burst trap Heraldry Catastrophe trap Heraldry Curse equip spell
I know this is a Yugioh article but when i heard what the reversed tarot card mean I can’t help to remember the Persona series. For real, every confidant/social link you make in the series were their reversed tarot at first but when you max your link with them, it become upright again…….Huh…NEAT!!
Yugi: ah yes your card is the red eyes black dragon, while you haven’t seen it yet you have lots of potential if you take advantage of it. Next Ah yes the dark magician you are a very loyal friend a good person willing to do whatever it takes to protect your friends Oh ..the blue eyes white dragon… You’re a dickhead who’s gonna kill himself just to try and duel me again for my position as pararoh Person:wait what Yugi:and i will beat you every single time until you believe in the heart of the cards Person:huh?? Yugi: exodia OBLITERATE HIM!