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Serplight is an Archetype of Sea Serpent/DARK monsters with various Levels, but mostly consisting of Level 5 monsters. They focus on Normal Summoning monsters without Tributing them, and gaining effects should you do so. Each of the Level 5s have an effect that discards them, and one that works if you Normal Summoned them without Tributing. Along with that, they combine themselves with both a Level 5 Synchro and a Rank 5 Xyz Monster as well, which is slightly weird, but they can boost themselves should you do so. They have later gotten Level 7 support as well, in form of a Main Deck, Synchro and Xyz Monster. Their name is a portmanteau of Serpent and Plight, or if you wish, Blight works as well, and they live in swamp areas and they are mysterious monsters that drag people into the water. Main Deck Monsters: Serplight Bogling Sea Serpent/DARK/Tuner Level 2 If you control no monsters in your Main Monster Zone: You can Special Summon this card from your hand, also you cannot Special Summon monsters from your Extra Deck for the rest of this turn, except Sea Serpent monsters. If this card is sent from the field to the GY: You can add 1 "Serplight" monster from your Deck to your hand, except "Serplight Bogling". You can only use each effect of "Serplight Bogling" once per turn. 400/400 Serplight Swampling Sea Serpent/DARK Level 3 When this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can Special Summon 1 "Serplight" monster from your hand, but its ATK and DEF are halved, also you cannot Special Summon monsters from your Extra Deck for the rest of this turn, except Sea Serpent monsters. If this card is sent from the field to the GY: You can add 1 "Serplight" Spell/Trap from your Deck to your hand. You can only use each effect of "Serplight Swampling" once per turn. 500/1000 Serplight Wetling Sea Serpent/DARK Level 3 You can target 1 "Serplight" card you control; return it to the hand, and if you do, Special Summon this card from your hand. If this card is sent from the field to the GY: You can Special Summon 1 Sea Serpent monster from your hand as a Level 3, 5 or 7 monster, also you cannot Special Summon monsters from your Extra Deck for the rest of this turn, except Sea Serpent monsters. You can only use each effect of "Serplight Wetling" once per turn. 1500/0 Serplight Creeper Sea Serpent/DARK Level 5 You can discard this card; this turn, you can Normal Summon "Serplight" monsters without Tributing. If this card was Normal Summoned without Tributing, it gains this effect. ● Your opponent cannot Sea Serpent monsters you control for attacks or with effects, except the monster with the highest ATK. 1000/2200 Serplight Diver Sea Serpent/DARK Level 5 You can discard this card, then target 1 "Serplight" Spell/Trap in your GY; add it to your hand. If this card was Normal Summoned without Tributing, it gains this effect. ● You can target 1 "Serplight" monster in your GY; Special Summon it it, but its ATK and DEF are halved, also you cannot Special Summon monsters from your Extra Deck for the rest of this turn, except Sea Serpent monsters. You can only use each effect of "Serplight Diver" once per turn. 1700/1700 Serplight Snatcher Sea Serpent/DARK Level 5 You can discard this card, then target 1 "Serplight" monster in your GY, except "Serplight Snatcher"; add it to your hand. If this card was Normal Summoned without Tributing, it gains this effect. ● You can target 1 card on the field; return it to the hand, then its controller draws 1 card. You can only use each effect of "Serplight Snatcher" once per turn. 2000/1500 Serplight Lurker Sea Serpent/DARK Level 5 You can discard this card; this turn, the Summon of Sea Serpent monsters cannot be negated, also your opponent cannot activate cards or effects when you Summon a Sea Serpent monster(s). If this card was Normal Summoned without Tributing, it gains this effect. ● During your Main Phase, you can: Immediately after this effect resolves, Normal Summon 1 Sea Serpent monster. You can only use each effect of "Serplight Lurker" once per turn. 2200/0 Serplight Spreader Sea Serpent/DARK Level 5 You can discard this card, then target 1 "Serplight" monster you control with a Level and declare a Level between 3-to-7; that target's Level becomes the declared Level until the end of this turn. If this card was Normal Summoned without Tributing, it gains this effect. ● Once per turn: You can target 1 Sea Serpent monster you control; reduce or increase its Level by up to 2. 2100/1100 Serplight Terrortorial Sea Serpent/DARK Level 7 If this card is Tribute Summoned by Tributing a Sea Serpent monster: Its ATK/DEF become 3000. If this card was Normal Summoned without Tributing, it gains this effect. ● (Quick Effect): You can target 1 Field Spell on the field; return it to the hand, and if you do, you can activate 1 Field Spell from your Deck. 1500/2500 Extra Deck Monsters: Serplight Submerger Sea Serpent/DARK/Synchro Level 5 1 Sea Serpent Tuner + 1+ non-Tuner Sea Serpent monsters When this card is Special Summoned, you can: Immediately after this effect resolves, Normal Summon 1 Level 5 or higher Sea Serpent monster without Tributing, also you cannot Special Summon monsters from your Extra Deck for the rest of this turn, except Sea Serpent monsters. If this card is sent to the GY: You can target 1 Sea Serpent Xyz Monster you control; attach this card to that target as material. You can only use each effect of "Serplight Submerger" once per turn. 2000/2000 Serplight Sinker Sea Serpent/DARK Rank 5 2+ Level 5 Sea Serpent monsters, including a Synchro Monster You can detach 1 material from this card; Special Summon 1 "Serplight" monster from your hand or Deck, and if you Special Summoned a Level 5 or higher monster it is treated as being Normal Summoned without Tributing. You can only use this effect of "Serplight Sinker" once per turn. Once per turn, if this card battles an opponent's monster that was not Normal Summoned, at the start of the Damage Step: You can banish that monster. While this card has a Synchro Monster as material, it cannot be targeted by or destroyed by your opponent's card effects. 2500/2500 Serplight Monstrosity Sea Serpent/DARK/Synchro Level 7 1 Sea Serpent Tuner + 1+ non-Tuner Sea Serpent monsters When this card is Synchro Summoned: You can banish all other monsters on the field there were not Normal Summoned. Once per turn: You can target 1 other Sea Serpent monster you control; that target's Level becomes 7 until the end of this turn. An Xyz Monster that has this card as material gains this effect. ● Once per turn: You can target 1 Sea Serpent monster in your GY; attach it to this card as material. 2500/2500 Serplight Abomination Sea Serpent/DARK/Xyz Rank 7 2+ Level 7 Sea Serpent monsters, including a Synchro Monster You can also Xyz Summon this card by detaching 1 Synchro Monster from a Sea Serpent Xyz Monster you control and using that monster as material. (Transfer its materials to this card.) Up to twice per turn: You can detach 1 material from this card; banish 1 random card from your opponent's hand. Once per turn, if this card inflicts battle damage to your opponent: You can target 1 Sea Serpent monster in your GY; Special Summon it, and if you Special Summoned a Level 5 or higher monster it is treated as being Normal Summoned without Tributing. While this card has a Synchro Monster as material, it is unaffected by your opponent's card effects. 2700/2700 Spells/Traps: Serplight Boglands Field Spell During the turn player's Main Phase, they can Normal Summon 1 Sea Serpent monster in addition to your Normal Summon/Set. (This effect can only be gained once per turn.) Once per turn: The turn player can return 1 Tribute Summoned Sea Serpent monster they control to the hand; that player Special Summons 1 Sea Serpent monster from their Deck. If a "Serplight" monster(s) you control would be destroyed by battle or card effect, you can return this card to your hand instead.  Serplight Swamplands Field Spell Each turn, the turn player can Normal Summon 1 Level 5 or higher Sea Serpent monsters without Tributing. Level 5 and higher Sea Serpent on the field cannot be targeted by or destroyed by their opponent's card effects. All "Serplight" monsters you control gain 300 ATK and DEF. Serplight Wetlands Field Spell Once per turn: The turn player can discard 1 Sea Serpent monster; immediately after this effect resolves, Normal Summon 1 Level 5 or higher Sea Serpent monster without Tributing. While you control a Level 5 or higher Sea Serpent monster that was Normal Summoned without Tributing, "Serplight" Spells/Traps you control cannot be targeted by or destroyed by your opponent's card effects. Serplight Territory Continuous Spell Activate by sending 1 "Serplight" Field Spell from your hand or field to the GY; this card's name becomes that card's name, and replace this effect with that card's original effects. If you control a Level 5 or higher Sea Serpent monster that was Normal Summoned without Tributing, you can send the Field Spell from your Deck to your GY instead. Serplight Toxins Normal Trap Target 1 Level 5 or higher "Serplight" monster you control that began the Duel in the Main Deck; treat it as being Normal Summoned without Tributing, also it gains 500 ATK and DEF. If this card is in your GY: You can banish 1 or 2 "Serplight" monsters from your GY; Special Summon this card as a Normal Monster (Sea Serpent/DARK/Level ?/0 ATK/2000 DEF) (This card is NOT a Trap). Its Level becomes 5 if you banished 1 monster or 7 if you banished 2 monsters. If you control a "Serplight" Field Spell, you can activate this card from your hand. You can only use each effect of "Serplight Toxins" once per turn. Serplight Shallowness Continuous Trap You can target 1 other "Serplight" card you control; return it to your hand, then immediately after this effect resolves, you can Normal Summon 1 Sea Serpent monster. You can only use this effect of "Serplight Shallowness" once per turn. If you control a Sea Serpent monster that was Special Summoned from the Extra Deck, you can activate this card from your hand. Serplight Drowning Counter Trap If you control a Level 5 or higher Sea Serpent monster that was Normal Summoned without Tributing, when your opponent would Summon a monster(s): Negate the Summon, and if you do, banish that monster(s), then if you control a Sea Serpent monster that was Special Summoned from the Extra Deck, you can Set this card instead of sending it to the GY. You can only activate 1 "Serplight Drowning" per turn.

Here's an interesting little Continuous Trap that is able to negate end the Battle Phase in two different ways. So, when your opponent targets a monster you control for an attack, you get to either an effect that negates the attack and ends the Battle Phase and makes your opponent draw a card, or power up your monster, but your opponent can then choose to negate the attack and end the Battle Phase, making the choice of them ramming into a monster, but getting to keep attacking afterwards or to stop the Battle Phase, leaving your monsters powered up and protected, so this card really plays with both players.

Been a while since I have made a Pendulum Synchro, so here's a Level 9 monster that is based around Attributes! Its material requirements require different Attribute non-Tuners, but don't get discouraged by that, since you want as many different Attributes as you can to boost this card with new effects! As it's LIGHT already, you get the effect that makes you able to put it in a Pendulum Zone if it would be destroyed, and if it's DARK, you can destroy a card your opponent controls, if it's FIRE or WATER you get to boost its ATK, if it's EARTH or WIND it cannot be targeted by card effects or Tributed. In the Pendulum Zone, you get to send 2 or more Pendulum Monsters from your Extra Deck to the GY to Special Summon it again and gain those Attributes, so it never really dies!

I recently backed up all my old Archetypes, and I looked over some of my old Archetypes, and that made me want to update, as many were made before Link Monsters were introduces, which changed the game quite a bit. So, I decided to start with the oldest Archetype I have backed up, I probably won't do every single one, but just the ones I find interesting or feel like needed an update. I also include the original version, so you can see the differences. Retrospecter is an Archetype of Zombie/LIGHT Archetype with various Levels that focuses on Synchro Summoning, shuffling your cards back into the Deck, and they can all Special Summon themselves from the GY by discarding a Retrospecter monster, where most gain a new effect should you do so. Newly have Link Monsters as well. The name is a portmanteau of Retro, Retrospect and Specter (as in a ghost), which all reference how the cards are based on old-school gaming consoles and related concepts, where the monsters are each based on the various generations of consoles. Okay Main Deck Monsters: Retrospecter - Dualscreens Zombie/LIGHT Level 1 You can discard 1 "Retrospecter" monster; Special Summon this card from your GY, also you can cannot Special Summon other "Retrospecter" monsters from your GY for the rest of the turn. If this card is Special Summoned from the GY by its own effect: You can make this card become a Tuner. 500/500 Retrospecter - Cubes Zombie/LIGHT Level 2 You can discard 1 "Retrospecter" monster; Special Summon this card from your GY, also you can cannot Special Summon other "Retrospecter" monsters from your GY for the rest of the turn. If this card is Special Summoned from the GY by its own effect: You can Special Summon 1 "Retrospecter" monster from your hand in Defense Position. 400/1000 Retrospecter - Visions Zombie/LIGHT/Tuner Level 2 You can discard 1 "Retrospecter" monster; Special Summon this card from your GY, also you can cannot Special Summon other "Retrospecter" monsters from your GY for the rest of the turn. If this card is sent to the GY for the Link or Synchro Summon of a Zombie monster: You can shuffle this card from your GY into your Deck, then target 1 Spell/Trap on the field; shuffle it into the Deck. 1000/500 Retrospecter - Odysseys Zombie/LIGHT Level 3 You can discard 1 "Retrospecter" monster; Special Summon this card from your GY, also you can cannot Special Summon other "Retrospecter" monsters from your GY for the rest of the turn. Once per turn, if this card was Special Summoned from your GY by its own effect: You can target 1 "Retrospecter" card in your GY; shuffle that target into your Deck, and if you do, add 1 "Retrospecter" card with a different name than that target from your Deck to your hand. 1100/1800 Retrospecter - Stations Zombie/LIGHT Level 4 You can discard 1 "Retrospecter" monster; Special Summon this card from your GY, also you can cannot Special Summon other "Retrospecter" monsters from your GY for the rest of the turn. Once per turn, If this card was Special Summoned from the GY by its own effect, if a "Retrospecter" card(s) is shuffled into your Deck or Extra Deck: You can draw 2 cards, then discard 1 card. 1200/2000 Retrospecter - Systems Zombie/LIGHT/Tuner Level 4 You can discard 1 "Retrospecter" monster; Special Summon this card from your GY, also you can cannot Special Summon other "Retrospecter" monsters from your GY for the rest of the turn. Once per turn, if this card was Special Summoned from the GY by its own effect: You can target 1 "Retrospecter" monster you control with a Level, then activate 1 of these effects; ● Increase its Level by 1. ● Reduce its Level by 1. 1800/1200 Extra Deck Monsters: Retrospecter - Gears Zombie/LIGHT/Link Link Arrows: Bottom 1 Zombie monster You can discard 1 "Retrospecter" monster; Special Summon this card from your GY, also you can cannot Special Summon other "Retrospecter" monsters from your GY for the rest of the turn. If you control no monsters in your Main Monster Zone: You can Special Summon 1 "Retrospecter" monster from your hand to your zone this card points to, but shuffle it into the Deck when it leaves the field. If a "Retrospecter" card(s) is shuffled into your Deck or Extra Deck: You can add 1 "Retrospecter" card from your Deck to your hand. You can only use each effect of "Retrospecter - Gears" once per turn. 1000/LINK-1 Retrospecter - Switches Zombie/LIGHT/Link Link Arrows: Left, Right 2 Zombie monsters You can discard 1 "Retrospecter" monster; Special Summon this card from your GY, also you can cannot Special Summon other "Retrospecter" monsters from your GY for the rest of the turn. You can Tribute 1 Zombie monster, then target 1 Zombie monster in your GY; Special Summon it, but shuffle it into the Deck when it leaves the field. If a Zombie Synchro Monster is Synchro Summoned to your zone this card points to: You can shuffle 1 card on the field or in either player's GY into the Deck. You can only use each effect of "Retrospecter - Switches" once per turn. 1500/LINK-2 Retrospecter - Geneses Zombie/LIGHT/Synchro Level 5 1 Zombie Tuner + 1+ non-Tuner Zombie monsters You can discard 1 "Retrospecter" monster; Special Summon this card from your GY, also you can cannot Special Summon other "Retrospecter" monsters from your GY for the rest of the turn. Once per turn, when this card destroys an opponent's monster by battle: You can target 2 Zombie monsters in your GY; shuffle the first target into your Deck, and if you do, add the second target to your hand. If this card was Special Summoned from the GY by its own effect, it is unaffected by the effects of your opponent's monsters whose ATK is higher than this card's ATK. 2300/2000 Retrospecter - Boxes Zombie/LIGHT/Synchro Level 6 1 Zombie Tuner + 1+ non-Tuner Zombie monsters. You can discard 1 "Retrospecter" monster; Special Summon this card from your GY, also you can cannot Special Summon other "Retrospecter" monsters from your GY for the rest of the turn. Once per turn (Quick Effect): You can target 1 "Retrospecter" monster in your GY; shuffle that target into your Deck, and if you do, for the rest of the turn "Retrospecter" monsters you control cannot be destroyed by card effects. If this card was Special Summoned from the GY by its own effect, negate the effects of all monsters your opponent controls whose ATK is less than or equal to this card's ATK. 2500/2000 Spells/Traps: Retrospecter - 2D Realms Field Spell Each time a "Retrospecter" card(s) is shuffled into your Deck or Extra Deck, place 1 Retro Counter on this card for each of those cards. All "Retrospecter" monsters you control gain 100 ATK and DEF for each Retro Counter on this card. Once per turn, if exactly 1 "Retrospecter" monster is Special Summoned from your GY: You can shuffle it into your Deck, then Special Summon 1 "Retrospecter" monster with a different name from your Deck. If this card would be destroyed, you can remove 2 Retro Counters from this card instead. Retrospecter - HD Devolution Quick-Play Spell Target 1 "Retrospecter" monster you control that was Special Summoned from the Extra Deck or GY; shuffle it into the Deck, then Special Summon up to 2 "Retrospecter" monsters from your hand and/or GY. You can only activate 1 "Retrospecter - HD Devolution" per turn. Retrospecter - Pro Controller Equip Spell Activate by targeting 1 "Retrospecter" monster in your GY; Special Summon that target and equip this card to that card. It is treated as being Special Summoned by its own effect, also it cannot be destroyed by battle. If this card leaves the field, shuffle the equipped monster into the Deck. You can only activate 1 "Retrospecter - Pro Controller" per turn. Retrospecter - 8-bit Blast Normal Trap When your opponent Normal Summons or Special Summons a monster(s) from their hand: Target 1 of those monsters; shuffle that target(s) into the Deck. You must control a "Retrospecter" monster to activate and to resolve this effect. If this card is in your GY: You can shuffle 1 "Retrospecter" monster in your GY into your Deck; add this card to your hand. You can only use each effect of "Retrospecter - 8-bit Blast" once per turn. Retrospecter - 16-bit Boom Normal Trap When your opponent Special Summons a monster(s) from their Main or Extra Deck: Target 1 of those monsters; shuffle that target(s) into the Deck. You must control a "Retrospecter" monster to activate and to resolve this effect. If this card is in your GY: You can shuffle 1 "Retrospecter" monster in your GY into your Deck; add this card to your hand. You can only use each effect of "Retrospecter - 16-bit Boom" once per turn.

I made a Code Talker Deck with some of the somewhat recent support it had gotten, and I felt like I was missing another EARTH monster, as well as something I could use in the GY and that banished easily for Balancer Lord, and I wanted something that could get monsters out without having to Normal Summon them as much, so here's a card with below 1200 ATK for Code Generator, Level 2 and EARTH that does all of that.

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Assault Mode recently got some support, so I figured I would make a little Synchro Tuner for them, though you can also use this elsewhere for its last effect as well. So, when Synchro Summoned, you get to Special Summon any monster that mentions Assault Mode Activate from your hand, but additionally, if you control an Assault Mode monster, you get to Summon that monster from the Deck instead, making it both useful early game as well as later game. As a Synchro Tuner, the last effect becomes very useful, as it is able to Special Summon itself when used as Synchro Material for a Level 8 or higher monster, though it locks down the Extra Deck for Synchros only, but that shouldn't be a problem in a Assault Mode focused Deck anyway, or most Decks that like to Synchro Summon a lot in general.

A random LINK-2 that allows you to look at a random card in your opponent's hand and banish it for a discard, and offers some protection too, that also moves it, in case you want to keep it around for longer.

This is all my Archetypes I have on YCM, in case the site goes down again. I also have them on Pastebin and other sites, but hey, let's test out how many I Archetypes I can fit into one thread, shall we? They are in order of newest to oldest, and I just copied the whole threads, in case I want to post that elsewhere at some point. Not all are here right now, since I don't want to copy paste hundreds of times, but I'll be updating these consistently. In case you want to check their threads, if YCM is still up, here's the full list: https://pastelink.net/mfo5 Finished! This was quite the thing to do, it's so many threads, and copy pasting has some issues attached to it, like images not working always, some weird spacing issues where there's a large space between lines, which takes a long time to fix, so I just said screw it. It was interesting to look back at some of my old cards though, there are some in here that I may want to remake or add to, since the game is so different from what it was back in 2014. I have more that will be forever lost to time, since they were on Dueling Network Forums and that shut down, and some I may have just missed somehow.

A strange LINK-1 that Special Summons to your opponent's field. If a monster is Summoned to the zone it points to, it will negate its effects, and it gains 1000 ATK for each monster on the field whose effects are negated.

You are always trusting, there are scenarios where a player has to trust that the opponent can activate a card that's hidden in their hand or Set, but wouldn't normally be able to know due to game mechanics, so it's not out of the question that Set cards can have counted turns as well. Well yes, that is not how it's suppose to work, though I suppose you could make it work that way too, but I wanted it to work immediately as it got out, since that's both for flavor, and to not have a monster that can just destroy things at any point, but only when it comes out first. I dunno, for the sake of gameplay it may be better, as Sleepy has said, it can be a problem sometimes.

It does specify player turns, it's your turns, as it says, so to answer the first two questions, it would be 1 turn the turn you Set it and your opponent's turn when you can first activate it, then your next turn again it would be 2 turns. No, turn counting is an inherent process of the game, and thus revealing cards is not a part of that. It isn't necessary for you to show it, as each card is set on a specific turn, and both players know this, because Traps are not allowed to be activated the same turn they are Set. I can see how it could be experimental, but there are cards that count how long they have been on the field, like Blockman. There may not have been cards that count how long they were face-down, but I don't really think that it changes much regardless.

I thought you couldn't banish a card for a cost if it's already set to banish itself. Is it different when it comes to Summoning costs like this, or whatever the correct term would be.

A Trap monster that focuses on destroying things depending on how many of your turns it has been Set on the field. It's designed to be offensive if that's what you want, or destroying your own cards, the focus being on Artifacts mostly, due to this becoming a Level 5 monster. Additionally, since you may want this Set for a while, if it's destroyed while Set, it destroys a card on the field, so your opponent gotta be careful with what they blow up.

I like Swallow's Nest as an option for Level 4s to turn into any Level you want. I didn't really think of it before, but it's a bit sad that it can't also be Level 4, since that would be a nice option to have too and it would be fun if the "other" was changed to zone 2 and 4, so you could have 5 options.

Well, the name is strange, not sure what the TCG will do with it, but anyway, hurray another zone dependent monster! It's a fun thing to do, and this seems like it could be pretty useful for high Xyz Decks like Photons or Decks with a lot of different Levels like Synchro Decks.

As I said, I cannot force people to do anything, and if people want to post a lot of questions, they can, and while I would personally probably not decide to answer 10 questions at a time, some people like you may want to do that, and that's great, because it's likely to happen. Also, could I post those links you provided in the first post? In a spoiler box, since those take up a bit of space. It's more likely people will read the first post rather than the second.