#continuous trap

Yummy★Redemption

The truly terrifying nature of Snatchy's sweet craving actions is revealed! Snatchy isn't just collecting the Yummys... It's eating the sweets straight off of them! How could you, Snatchy? Their heinous deeds are revealed by the smattering of cookie crumbles on their cheeks and their mouth shape. It appears that they may be having some regrets upon seeing the two absolutely devastated Yummys on the ground and the completed terrified one backed up against the wall under the oppressiveness of Snatchy's shadow, as evidenced by the beads of sweat forming on the side of its head. The starkness of Snatchy's shadow helps sell the atmosphere of this art so well, and the poor, unfortunate, sobbing Yummys only add to it. MAN I hate seeing them so sad though!!!! The Cooky Yummys gaining little blobby cat ears when they're missing their cookie ears is kinda funny though. Also, is it just me, or does the closeup of the lion looking Cooky make it look like their cookies are sandwich cookies/macarons???

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Sentence of Doom

The framing of this card is killer (literally). Dark Necrofear looks like she's about to guide that gigantic planchette directly into your heart. There’s even the almost hilariously fitting “Good Bye” sandwiching the planchette’s point. This really is such a cool reinterpretation of how Destiny Board plays out in the manga, and I So wish that this is what it looked like in the anime (instead of just Necrofear’s hand). I mean, who doesn’t love a Dark Necrofear card??? Especially when she’s looking sinister (like always), with a tilted head that enhances the look of her dark, glowing eyes and serious expression. The multicolored ghostly energy swirls create a fun layering effect where they overlap with each other and everything else, creating extra colors in certain places. It’s also just neat to see it roll off her arms and the fingers on her outstretched hand. The card’s name did get kind of a lame revision for the English release, which technically doesn’t make sense with what Destiny Board actually does.

Bad Reaction to Simochi

Finally, this card has an image that directly reflects its name. The other pose isn’t terrible, but there’s a distinct difference between “clutching yourself while in the midst of ghostly hands” and “covering your mouth like you’re going to throw up.” This pose is definitely the more evocative one, tbh. I will say that I don’t really like the reduction of the ghost hands to weirdly flat lightning arms, but part of that is due to the singular color that they were allowed to have. If that’s because of palette limitations, then I get it, but I still don’t really like them. The art for the poor elf lady herself though is excellent and more than makes up for it. I even like how the shading on her hair directly above her closed eyes makes it look like she has sad eyebrows (like this: 😔).

Magical Musket - Crooked Crown

For an archetype that's been out for eight entire years now, it sure feels very obscure for some reason. I only know about it from one of you guys mentioning it a while back, and even then, I've never once seen one of these cards organically. Which is sad, because I think they're interesting, especially when paired with the context that one of the inspirations for them is the German opera Der Freischütz, with this card being an excellent example of that. Magical Musket Mastermind Zakiel (background) and Magical Musketeer Max (foreground) are directly inspired by the characters Samiel and Max from the aforementioned opera. But more than that, this appears to be a rendition of one of the last scenes of the opera, where the final magic bullet is shot. Zakiel would have full control over the trajectory of this bullet (his intention indicated by his finger gun to the head), which has a tragic outcome for Max (shown by his superb expression and posture). The subtle detail of the white rose petals blowing across is what undeniably indicates when this scene takes place, even though you don't get to see what Max is shooting. Those diagonal blue speedlines in the background create a very convincing foil card illusion that it's kind of scary. This card was only ever released as a common, but I have to imagine that it would look amazing with an actual foil effect. I also must say, the glowing x and circle (and faint electricity bolts) really sell the "magic bullet" angle. Well, that and the fact that you can't see any part of Max's right arm (barely any of his right hand either), which I feel enhance the idea that he has no control over it. I'm genuinely surprised that this card (and archetype in general) doesn't have any edits made to it for the TCG version. Changing hand positions is not unusual for them, and I feel like a "finger gun to the head" pose would be an obvious edit, but I guess not! Same goes for the pistol here, and any other guns used in these cards, really. Maybe they look just demonic enough that they didn't feel a change was necessary? Idk! Just feels a little weird to me when they'll literally edit the smallest things ever.

Ojama Pajama

Yay! Ojama bros sleepover! There's so many little details here referencing other Yugioh cards. The one I immediately noticed was the Dustons on Ojama Green's blanket, but also, Ojama Yellow's pajamas are modeled after White Potan, and most of their snacks reminds me of the Madolche monsters. Ojama Green also has their signature floral speedo pattern on his pajamas! Ojama Black's striped pajamas are cute too. Really though, looking at this makes me miss sleepovers with my friends :( Incredibly cute though!

Attack of the Cornered Rat

A swarm of cute little undead rats??? Sign me up. I think it’s wild how easily they pulled off making undead rats look adorable (I love it so much). Especially that one just to the left of the one that’s front and center. It’s straight up missing and eye and half it’s face, but it’s easily the cutest one here. Aside from the excellent little ratties, the angle of the whole thing rocks. It really helps bring these charging rats to life, as if this were some sort of low angle movie shot of them running past. The giant ass dust cloud obscures the rats in the back, which helps make them look a little sinister by enhancing the glow of their red eyes.

DNA Surgery

Surgery time! Time to fix your DNA! These three must be super tiny if they're going to do something as intricate as DNA surgery, if such a thing is even possible (or plausible). My main wish looking at this art is that these guys were drawn closer (/bigger). There's so much empty space at the top, especially above the two nurses!! Sure, you gotta get those operating room lights in there for an alien abduction examination type feel, but they don't necessarily need so much space to themselves. The framing of this scene is kinda wild too, if you really look at it. If you look close enough, the blonde nurse is holding onto the handle of what is most likely a hospital stretcher, which is somehow pointed towards the viewer without running into anything??? And this doctor guy is either mega tall or standing right on top of the viewer. I will say though, I love that his head mirror was drawn exactly the same way as his eyes, making him look like he has three eyes total. The nurses are drawn super cute though, and I especially like their black dot eyes. Part of me thinks that it's funny that, despite all the minor censoring they'll do, they didn't mess with the boobs on these blue elf ladies at all. Not even the blonde one who has more defined boobs.