Watching Yu-Gi-Oh! short videos is making the veteran players lose...

Just from seeing this one card, Ancient Gear Wyvern, Professor Crowler was already getting excited! As expected! The higher world's understanding of AG was completely different from his! Just this Wyvern alone improved the deck's strength by more than a little! And he hadn't even seen the other AG cards yet!

"Mamma Mia! Continue, continue!" Crowler's excited tone made Yusei Hoshi smile. "Mr. Yusei! Quickly continue! Let me see what other must-run cards AG has!"

The short video continued to play!

Ancient Gear is Faith: "Running three Wyverns in the build is no problem. Next is the consideration for other AG monsters. How should I put this? If we're focusing on a Fusion build, then the deck won't run too many dead cards. The most classic Ancient Gear Golem is usually not run in high numbers, about 1-2 copies. Then Ancient Gear Reactor Dragon is also run at 0-1 copies. Therefore, it's not hard to see that the focus is on other key AG cards. For example, this card! Ancient Gear Frame!"

[Card Name: Ancient Gear Frame (Level 4)]

[Attribute: EARTH]

[Type: Machine]

[ATK/DEF: 1600/500] (Note: Text has different stats, using official stats for clarity)

As the second must-run card appeared, the duelists across the six worlds immediately shifted their gaze to it! Completely different from the previous one, this card's role was not searching or negating monster effects! It was its first effect!

Effect 1: If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can Special Summon 1 "Ancient Gear" monster from your hand, except "Ancient Gear Frame", ignoring its Summoning conditions. If your opponent controls a monster, you can Special Summon from your GY instead.

Effect 2: You can destroy 1 card you control; increase the ATK of all "Ancient Gear" monsters you control by 600.

Comparing the two effects, they hadn't yet realized the role of the second effect! They had only seen the first effect's possibility of unconditionally summoning from the archetype! But this was just the beginning. When the subsequent related AG support monster cards appeared one after another, the GX world went completely crazy.

Ancient Gear is Faith: "You think that's it? No, there are more cards that can combo together! Let's look at them together, and you'll understand immediately."

Card 1! Ancient Gear Statue! Run 0-1! Level 2! 500/800!

Effect 1: If your opponent controls more monsters than you do, you can Special Summon this card! (Built-in Special Summon ability!)

Effect 2: You can Tribute this card; Special Summon 1 "Ancient Gear Golem" or 1 monster that lists it in its text from your hand or Deck, ignoring its Summoning conditions. (Provides summoning that ignores conditions, similar to Frame!)

Card 2! Ancient Gear Commander! Run 1-2! Level 4! 500/2000!

Effect 1: You can send 1 "Ancient Gear Golem" from your hand, Deck, or face-up field to the GY; immediately Normal Summon 1 "Ancient Gear" monster. (Another absurd effect that provides an in-archetype summon!)

Effect 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. (Yet another effect that provides an in-archetype summon ignoring conditions!)

Effect 3: You can banish this card from your GY; place 1 "Ancient Gear" Continuous Trap face-up on your field from your hand. (Provides a way to set backrow!) Three effects, none of which were useless!

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GX World

After seeing these cards that could all provide summons that ignored conditions for the AG archetype, an explosion of discussion began!

"Holy cow! Is the professor's AG this good in Mr. Yusei's higher world?"

"Hiss, which one of these low-level monsters isn't stronger than what the professor uses now? See! This is what you call professional!"

"Uh, I'm scared, I'm scared. The hardest part of Ancient Gears is summoning the big boss. After seeing these, I'm already numb."

"Isn't it? After seeing this, I even want to ask, has Tribute Summoning been phased out? I'll laugh at anyone who still uses Tribute Summoning!"

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The students who had experienced AG, especially those who had lost to Professor Crowler, were all in an uproar, complaining. These few cards all indicated that summoning high-level Ancient Gear monsters had become a piece of cake. Or rather, summoning high-level AG monsters had become incredibly smooth! Which one of the low-level monsters couldn't help with the summon?

Professor Crowler was dumbfounded after seeing this! Suddenly, he understood why the Extra Deck was filled with so many Fusion cards. It turns out... his ace, which he took so much pride in, Ancient Gear Golem, could no longer hold its own on the field?

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