One of the great things about sets like Duelist Saga is that they’re an opportunity to finally bring cards from the anime and manga series to life that Duelists thought may never see the light of day. Oftentimes these cards are part of pairs where one half of the pair makes the leap but the other doesn’t make the cut for a long time. In Duelist Saga, some of these pairs are finally completed, including a couple you might not even realize existed!



Technically speaking, the whole ‘hunder family would be a quartet, but Duelist Saga specifically completes the brother/sister pair with Brohunder. The ‘hunder family was from the Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL manga. Unfortunately, Brohunder got lost in Heartland’s biggest amusement park and wasn’t found until years later.

Brohunder can search out any of his other family members, but it seems a lot more likely that you’d grab a card like Thunder King Rai-Oh or Denko Sekka instead.

In mythology, Gozuki and Mezuki are guardians of the underworld who meet the souls of the newly departed. They’re practically always together, and were together in Bastion’s Deck as well in the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX manga. They did not, however, make the leap from the underworld to our world together. Mezuki has been a crucial part of every successful Zombie Deck in the 8+ years since its original release, and Gozuki is just now making it to the party. Fortunately, the two cards work quite well together, with Gozuki able to send Mezuki straight to the Graveyard.

Harpie’s Feather Duster takes care of all of your opponent’s current Spell/Trap Cards, and its companion card, Harpie’s Feather Storm takes care of all their activated monster effects for a turn. Mai Valentine’s Harpie’s Feather Duster was one of the earliest promo cards to come with a video game, and also one of the earliest cards to become Forbidden in Advanced Format play. In this day and age, Totem Bird is an incredibly popular opening play, and it just so happens to be a WIND Winged Beast. Throw down a Totem Bird backed up by Harpie’s Feather Storm, and you can take care of an entire turn’s worth of activated monster effects in addition to a Spell/Trap.

And if you really want to use the Harpie’s Feather Duster search/retrieval effect, you can always try building a Harpie Deck for the original Yu-Gi-Oh! era Generation Duel!

Ascension Sky Dragon was the YCS Prize card for the 2014-2015 Dueling season, but it was also Rex Goodwin’s Duel Dragon in the Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s manga series. He first used it in a Turbo Duel against Jack Atlas, the very same Duel in which the recently resurgent Absolute King Back Jack debuted. Goodwin’s strategy involved lots of Level 1 and 2 monsters. After filling the Graveyard with at least 4 Level 2 monsters, he would then use the Tuner Synchro Celestial Double Star Shaman to bring them all back to the field. That’s 10 Levels worth of monsters, exactly the requirement for Ascension Sky Dragon. Meanwhile, if threatened or destroyed, Ascension Sky Dragon would split back up into Celestial Double Star Shaman and the other Level 2 monsters, creating a loop of death and rebirth, similar to his anime strategy using Sun Dragon Inti and Moon Dragon Quilla.

The vast majority of Duelists don’t own Ascension Sky Dragon, so what’s the best Level 10 Synchro Monster you can Summon thanks to Celestial Double Star Shaman? It’s probably Flower Cardian Lightflare, a 5000 ATK monster that can negate a Spell/Trap Card during every turn, negates the effects of monsters it battles, and replaces itself with another “Flower Cardian” Synchro (probably Flower Cardian Lightshower) if your opponent does anything short of Tributing it for a Kaiju.



It seems obvious at first glance that Black Ray Lancer and Full Armored Black Ray Lancer are a pair, but no matter how hard you wrack your brain, you probably won’t have any recollection of where Full Armored Black Ray Lancer is from. The only appearance of this card in English was in the Yu-Gi-Oh! World Duel Carnival video game, as part of Shark’s Decks. Now that’s a deep cut!

Duelist Saga completes a lot of things, and one of those things can be your collection when it launches Friday!