The Secret Rares gave us Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon to search weaker Pendulum Monsters while in the Scale and prevent damage while also doing double damage as a monster, Raiza the Mega Monarch to return cards on field and in grave to Deck and give you an additional card on field if you used a WIND to Tribute Summon this, Baxia, Brightness of the Yang Zing as a Synchro that needs Wyrm non-Tuners to shuffle cards on field up to the number of different Attributes you used to summon this and to pop a monster you control to revive a Level 4 or lower monster, Stellarknight Delteros as a Rank 4 needing 3 Level 4s to prevent your opponent from responding to your summons while also popping cards and floating into other tellarknights, Yang Zing Path to return your Yang Zings to Deck for a draw 2, Magical Spring to let you draw for your opponent’s face-up Spells and Traps at the cost of discarding for your face-up Spells and Traps and then gives those face-up Spells and Traps basically complete immunity for a few turns, Time-Space Trap Hole to return monsters Special Summoned from hand or Extra Deck to the Deck at a cost of 1000 LP for each, and Dante, Traveler of the Burning Abyss as a generic Rank 3 that can let you mill up to 3 cards for a 500 ATK boost per each and also going to Defense Position after it attacks and grabbing your Burning Abyss cards from grave after it goes to grave. The Ghost Rare was Stellarknight Delteros, which was also an Ultimate Rare alongside Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon, El Shaddoll Construct, Saffira, Queen of Dragons, and Baxia, Brightness of the Yang Zing. You still have the Ghost Rare and 5 Ultimate Rares in this set during this time, but I’ll let you know when those are gone of course.
This won’t really change throughout this era, so I’ll get the regular ratios out of the way now with 8 Secret Rares, 10 Ultra Rares, 14 Super Rares, 20 Rares, and 48 Commons. Stadium and the OCG Imports are Gaia the Polar Knight, Gaia the Mid-Knight Sun, Chaos Seed, Exchange of Night and Day, Number 58: Burner Visor, Felis, Lightsworn Archer, Fishborg Doctor, Panzer Dragon, Cloudcastle, and Pilgrim Reaper. The TCG Exclusives in this set are Doomstar Magician, Scarm, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss, Graff, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss, Cir, Malebranche of the Burning Abyss, Dante, Traveler of the Burning Abyss, The Traveler and the Burning Abyss, U.A. while also supporting old archetypes like Artifacts, Archfiends, Batterymen, Numbers, Agents, Djinns, Monarchs, Skull Servants, Fishborg, Gaia, and Lightsworns. We see new archetypes in this set like Melodious, Performapal, Shaddoll, Superheavy Samurai, tellarknight, Yang Zing, Odd-Eyes, Burning Abyss, and U.A. This set completely shifted the meta to favor archetypes that debuted in this set while everything before it went down a peg just for this set existing. It’s kinda big to start with possibly one of the greatest sets of all time, but that’s just how Arc-V started off. Here we’ll look at all the Arc-V era sets to see how good there are, and there are some very good ones in this era, so let’s get started with these sets. Oh yeah, there was also the Wyrm-type making its debut. The meta in this era was still mostly not Pendulum-based except for a select few times.
It’s controversial due to the power level of Pendulums in theory, which was mostly balanced with a lack of Pendulum Decks being meta compared to how many there were. Pendulum Monsters are those cards that can be a Monster or a Spell basically, can have a Monster and Pendulum Effect, and have Scales to help you summon monsters of various Levels from your hand or face-up from your Extra Deck, which is where Pendulum Monsters typically go. I’ve finally gotten to the Arc-V Era, so of course we’ll see a lot of Pendulum Monsters in these sets. Wait… Monsters that act like Spells? Hello Pojo Readers, Crunch$G back reviewing every Core Set in the game’s history by getting to one of the more controversial eras due to the new summoning mechanic, Pendulum Summoning.
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