Well, here we are at the OG big number! Remember how in elementary school we would wonder how much difference there would be when we either turned 10 or how big a gap of 10 years was? Well as I grew older at least, Calc ruined the impressiveness of the OG big number, but there are some OGs that we can still admire to this day. In the early Link era in Duel Links (Link era refers to the time when a new summoning mechanic– Link summoning– was introduced, and Duel Links is a mobile game that allows players to partake in speed duels; which are duels but with a specific ruleset to make them shorter and not as combo heavy) there was this one archetype that was released that made it stand out from the rest. This one archetype was so good that many wondered if it had reached Tier 0 status (meaning that no other deck can defeat it besides itself in a mirror match). This archetype stood against all others to rightfully be considered the OG archetype to push Duel Links into becoming more combo heavy (but still not as combo heavy as its physical counterpart). The archetype in question is the Live☆ / Evil★ Twins (Live☆Twins and Evil★Twins)! And they will charm you over and steal all your opponent’s life points!
The archetype is pretty simple, after all it focuses on the twins– Ki-sikil & Lil-la. Just your everyday average monsters. Nothing to concern yourselves over… What a minute– THE Ki-sikil and THE Lil-la, the two famous v-tubers in the yugioh-monster world (they are not real figures, I’m just trying to play them up as much as I can)! Yes, Live☆Twin Ki-sikil and Live☆Twin Lil-la from Live☆Twin Channel (actual card)! For anyone late to the party these two are the yugioh-monster world’s biggest v-tubers! Yup, everyone loves v-tubers! There isn’t a single person that I, the author, don’t know that don’t like v-tubers and I totally love them too (I don’t know anyone who actively watches v-tubers, nor do I myself). In typically v-tuber fashion though, they tend to get festive with the seasons! We can see how cute Ki-sikil becomes when she dons her snowman outfit and how spooky Lil-la is when she’s jumping people for sweets! But as you all know v-tubers have their own life. Their real-life bodies aren’t the same as the models they show off to the world which where we introduce– Evil★Twin Ki-sikil and Evil★Twin Lil-la! And these two aren’t going away with accomplishing what they want– stealing as much riches as they can by inserting viruses in everyone’s computers to optimally locate said riches (as depicted by their spell and trap cards)!
Their effects and gameplay also work like how they are depicted as well. When you get either Live☆Twin they will call out the other from the deck. Then you Link them together (using Link summoning) to get out one of the Evil★Twin (you do this to get the effects of the Evil★Twins, which either benefit you the player or harm your opponent) The Evil★Twin will in turn revive the other (Ki-sikil or Lil-la, whichever is NOT on the field) and then will Link itself and the revived Live☆Twin to make the other Evil★Twin (you benefit by gaining both effects by summoning both Twins). The archetype’s spells and traps also help facilitate changing between the Twins so that you can gain advantage while also making your opponent lose advantage in the process (in addition to depicting how the Twins plan and execute their plan to steal riches). This proved to be game changing in Duel Links and soon pushed the meta as far as it could, making them the OGs at their time period. They also provided us with a valuable lesson, if you like v-tubers, don’t. They’ll steal everything you have (just joking)!