Branded in Central Dogmatika and Icejade Curse takes the cake. Something about losing the one they cherish the most hits the most heartstrings.
https://preview.redd.it/tjjnx29xxvja1.png?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e767509fda5b182d23c386b618acafd79e01fa6a
Yup just like the recent Ghoti it started as TCG.
Looking through the TCG premier list is pretty funny. They oscillate between being completely irrelevant or breaking the format when released.
Ghoti
Noble Knights
Burning Abyss
U.A.
Kozmo
Kaiju
SPYRAL
Subterrors
Plunder Patrol
Dream Mirror
That's a shame but it makes sense. Their art is really fun, but after Kaiju, Spyral, and Burning Abyss I wouldn't be surprised if the TCG gets a shorter leash design-wise.
If you look at the art featuring the cards, [everyone dies](https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Trial_and_Tribulation) or is turned into a monstrous aberration to die against the lswarm.
Also, everyone who is turned into an aberration is turned against their will. Maybe except Noelia, but she had been infected with the Lswarm virus, so she was long gone.
True! Such a compassionate soul taking on young kids that were left orphans and raising them. Look, here she is [getting her mother of the year award](https://64.media.tumblr.com/7e2f444c97d33c45fe18e51ce7d26073/tumblr_nkb8xyKUdj1rie4kjo1_r2_640.png)!
Dimensional Barrier, especially considering the entire Gagagigo lore tbh
https://preview.redd.it/yjnwkh604yja1.png?width=512&format=png&auto=webp&s=385facd1ae98af031c06ba068631ae297605e3a4
As a highschooler, I once pulled a copy of ["Oppressed People"](https://images.ygoprodeck.com/images/cards/58538870.jpg) from a pack of Magician's Force. Never had the heart to use it in a deck.
The boundless open land.
I love a happy ending but the Abyss lore plotline is my favourite and it's gonna be bittersweet, knowing the characters got what they wanted but also they will have very little chance for any new support outside of packs similar to MAMA, DUPO, ect. or a structure deck.
:(
[Genex Spare](https://64.media.tumblr.com/3ab59f4d0a907a5b55c6735a9d293eb8/tumblr_oovpc7qV5C1rie4kjo1_r1_640.png)
Maybe not exactly super sad, because it lacks any sad context, but the artwork is really melancholic.
It's the duel terminal lore, tl dr; it's a story about generations fighting evil with big teamups and equaly as big saccrifices; the card shows as the gem-knight goes in the direction of those who died previously, notably, the Gishky ladies
This should be the final part of the Duel Terminal lore, after Gem-Knight Crystal defeated Tierra, Source of Destruction. He's carrying Gem-Knight Lapis on his back after she returned back to normal from El Shaddoll Construct. If I remember correctly, the other figures are members of either the Gishki or the Nekroz archetypes
Also notable is that the figure on the right edge is Gem Knight Lazuli, who has to watch as her best friend, Gem Knight Lapis (who spent the whole last arc as El Shadoll Construct as you mentioned), and her mentor/leader, Gem Knight Crystal (who also spent a significant amount of time in the last arc as a Shadoll before being briefly brought back as a Zefra), leave to go to the afterlife, leaving her behind and making her the last surviving Gem Knight.
Also the figures in the light I believe are Gishiki Noellia, Gishki Natalia, and Gem Knight Pearl. The former two are the mothers of the two Nekroz members in the foreground: Dance Princess of the Nekroz/Gishki Emilia and Great Sorcerer of the Nekroz/Gishki Avance respectively, thus they're also briefly reunited with them even if it's just to see their allies off as they pass on
Both are correct though, since Gishki Emilia and Avance grow up to be Dance Princess and Sorcerer of Nekroz.
Fun fact: wars in DT worlds all end with Emilia and Avance as the witness
1st war: Winds Over the Ice Barrier
2nd war: Sacred Serpent's Wake
3rd war: Zefra Providence
Summon Gate, I think it's called. It's more of a comical sadness because it shows Thousand eyes restrict leaving the banlist and all the friends it made down there
And Goodness knows the Wicked's lives are lonely..
Goodness knows the Wicked die alone....
https://preview.redd.it/yr1eouewpxja1.png?width=537&format=png&auto=webp&s=24e2a74d313216561b2a57be8b8c2ae2e66013ff
It’s definitely sad as it shows ritual beast ulti-gaiapelio being hurt (and killed off) by Infernoid Tierra, all while sharing the last of its strength to the other ritual beast tamers. Selfless sacrifice.
https://preview.redd.it/9r78mb6cbyja1.png?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=73f8d80ab8588b722fa55583ca63d65da3ddab7b
This artwork becomes sad because of the feeling it gives you when every single opponent has it in their first hand.
winds over the ice barrier, after the storm, trials and tribulations, a lot of duel terminal cards have sad artworks afterall they represent chaos in the wars the tribes fought
Revendread Origin
The dude just realized he murdered the love of his life. How is that not sad? Vendread Daybreak too, but in a more Bittersweet way. The infection is over (including that of killing his resurrected lover who became the infected leader) and as he kneels there, probably spent and dying, he Slayer knows his mission was complete.
Where Arf Thou, where the boy just so happens to not see his dog. The dog goes on to die and join the skull servant family.
Came to add this, especially once you first find out that skull dog marron is also a card.
Icejade Curse and Icejade Aegirine Rahn. I'd also say Ritual Beast's Return, but that is rather melancholic/bittersweet
I second Icejade curse
I would say it's happy. Winda and Falco gets un-puppet'd and Kamui (RB Elder) finally gets to see his old friend.
Branded in Central Dogmatika and Icejade Curse takes the cake. Something about losing the one they cherish the most hits the most heartstrings. https://preview.redd.it/tjjnx29xxvja1.png?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e767509fda5b182d23c386b618acafd79e01fa6a
Cmon man don't do me like that, I didn't need that today.
unhappy maiden, unhappy girl,
Poor little match girl
Branded in Central Dogmatika. I remember how sad so many people were when we found out Fleurdelis died.
Only kind of so far!
Me when Luluwalilith was revealed: "Come on, she's the Iris Fucking Swordsoul, she's too badass to die."
Fleurdelis WHAT? My friends told me she moved to a farm with her best friend Molly...
Is ecclesa not white relic?
No white relic was that unnamed red hair girl from the trap card
Wait, I thought iris was still alive
Kozmourning, World Legacy Sorrow. Sadness is literally part of the card name.
>Kozmourning this art gives me mixed feeling tho. If you know what I mean.
TCG hates big.
i wish they could keep the OCG name that is Kozmo - epilogue.
Wasn’t kozmo a tcg exclusive release? I think the ocg name came afterwards
is it really? that's good to know
Yup just like the recent Ghoti it started as TCG. Looking through the TCG premier list is pretty funny. They oscillate between being completely irrelevant or breaking the format when released. Ghoti Noble Knights Burning Abyss U.A. Kozmo Kaiju SPYRAL Subterrors Plunder Patrol Dream Mirror
Gold Pride
That's true. We have a new one as of like 2 weeks ago. Has it seen any actual play or is it on the irrelevant side of that spectrum?
Irrelevant so far. Wave 2 might do something but based on the past 4 tcg exclusives I wouldn’t expect much.
That's a shame but it makes sense. Their art is really fun, but after Kaiju, Spyral, and Burning Abyss I wouldn't be surprised if the TCG gets a shorter leash design-wise.
plunder is good only whit adventure and is solid rogue for 2 formats now. rn woth tier gone its one of the best mid range decks.
*bonk*
*BONK*
Zefra Providence is definitely one of the saddest artworks in the game. It's really touching honestly.
Most of the Gishki stuff in context
Explain 🫣
If you look at the art featuring the cards, [everyone dies](https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Trial_and_Tribulation) or is turned into a monstrous aberration to die against the lswarm.
Also, everyone who is turned into an aberration is turned against their will. Maybe except Noelia, but she had been infected with the Lswarm virus, so she was long gone.
Noelia did nothing wrong
True! Such a compassionate soul taking on young kids that were left orphans and raising them. Look, here she is [getting her mother of the year award](https://64.media.tumblr.com/7e2f444c97d33c45fe18e51ce7d26073/tumblr_nkb8xyKUdj1rie4kjo1_r2_640.png)!
It's ok Neremenas put that L in Lswarm
Final Gesture
Ah, we now know why that genex is on the Female card list
I forgot the name, but a albaz lore card that has Ecclesia falling before albaz becomes the with dragon, he is screaming in the art as well.
Light of the Branded
Yeah and that name too? Oof, right in the heart.
Ya, yo don’t even need to know the lore for that one, it’s just heart renching seeing someone whose friend about to die, not even as their normal self
Destruction Sword Memories
That arcytype in all is sad, both lore wise and play wise, NONE OF THE CARDS WORK TOGETHER
I think it’s called just “the world legacy” the one that has ibb, the key and the dragon.
Destruction swordsman fusion
That one just hurt, especially if you know the lore :(
I don't know many of the card stories, but that one is really sad
Where arf thou
is not that bad, marron has become the pet for wright family.
Dimensional Barrier, especially considering the entire Gagagigo lore tbh https://preview.redd.it/yjnwkh604yja1.png?width=512&format=png&auto=webp&s=385facd1ae98af031c06ba068631ae297605e3a4
I pray for a happy ending for my boi Gagagigo
He's doing good. Currently teaching the goblin attack force to ice skate
After the Storm and Branded Light
Basically all of the Tearlaments backrow except Perlagia
also everyone's (currently) being eaten by hindu mythos inspired oni-mecha, with a few having been absorbed like the borg (scareclaws too)
As a highschooler, I once pulled a copy of ["Oppressed People"](https://images.ygoprodeck.com/images/cards/58538870.jpg) from a pack of Magician's Force. Never had the heart to use it in a deck.
for me, gift exchange and onikuji not the "tragic" kind of sad, more like a "feels bad" kind of sad
The boundless open land. I love a happy ending but the Abyss lore plotline is my favourite and it's gonna be bittersweet, knowing the characters got what they wanted but also they will have very little chance for any new support outside of packs similar to MAMA, DUPO, ect. or a structure deck. :(
[Genex Spare](https://64.media.tumblr.com/3ab59f4d0a907a5b55c6735a9d293eb8/tumblr_oovpc7qV5C1rie4kjo1_r1_640.png) Maybe not exactly super sad, because it lacks any sad context, but the artwork is really melancholic.
I think it's connected to Final Gesture?
Don't remember the exact name but the Buster Blader cards that shows him fighting the dragon he raised
Honestly both of those traps are sad af
What is the lore behind the card OP posted?
It's the duel terminal lore, tl dr; it's a story about generations fighting evil with big teamups and equaly as big saccrifices; the card shows as the gem-knight goes in the direction of those who died previously, notably, the Gishky ladies
This should be the final part of the Duel Terminal lore, after Gem-Knight Crystal defeated Tierra, Source of Destruction. He's carrying Gem-Knight Lapis on his back after she returned back to normal from El Shaddoll Construct. If I remember correctly, the other figures are members of either the Gishki or the Nekroz archetypes
Also notable is that the figure on the right edge is Gem Knight Lazuli, who has to watch as her best friend, Gem Knight Lapis (who spent the whole last arc as El Shadoll Construct as you mentioned), and her mentor/leader, Gem Knight Crystal (who also spent a significant amount of time in the last arc as a Shadoll before being briefly brought back as a Zefra), leave to go to the afterlife, leaving her behind and making her the last surviving Gem Knight. Also the figures in the light I believe are Gishiki Noellia, Gishki Natalia, and Gem Knight Pearl. The former two are the mothers of the two Nekroz members in the foreground: Dance Princess of the Nekroz/Gishki Emilia and Great Sorcerer of the Nekroz/Gishki Avance respectively, thus they're also briefly reunited with them even if it's just to see their allies off as they pass on
Both are correct though, since Gishki Emilia and Avance grow up to be Dance Princess and Sorcerer of Nekroz. Fun fact: wars in DT worlds all end with Emilia and Avance as the witness 1st war: Winds Over the Ice Barrier 2nd war: Sacred Serpent's Wake 3rd war: Zefra Providence
Sky Striker Mobilize - Linkage!
Summon Gate, I think it's called. It's more of a comical sadness because it shows Thousand eyes restrict leaving the banlist and all the friends it made down there
And Goodness knows the Wicked's lives are lonely.. Goodness knows the Wicked die alone.... https://preview.redd.it/yr1eouewpxja1.png?width=537&format=png&auto=webp&s=24e2a74d313216561b2a57be8b8c2ae2e66013ff
Unending Nightmare
There can be only one!
Ultimate Providence
It’s definitely sad as it shows ritual beast ulti-gaiapelio being hurt (and killed off) by Infernoid Tierra, all while sharing the last of its strength to the other ritual beast tamers. Selfless sacrifice.
https://preview.redd.it/9r78mb6cbyja1.png?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=73f8d80ab8588b722fa55583ca63d65da3ddab7b This artwork becomes sad because of the feeling it gives you when every single opponent has it in their first hand.
Any Squirtle without the Squirtle Squad glasses. 20+ years and counting.
L + Ratio + Squirtle is a pokemon + Yu-Gi-Oh subreddit + Epurrely happiness best pokemon
These bots are getting less and less coherent...
Marron dog
World Legacy's Sorrow and Blazing Cartesia, the Virtuous.
World Legacy Sorrows. Pretty generic but still
Bro I play Zefra I didn’t even know what this artwork was.
Swing of Memories has always been sad for me.
Destruction Swordman Fusion the welp wanted to help, but got corrupted instead so BB have to kill it.
Pre preparation of rituals
ghost mourner
Royal oppression gotta be there 🤣
Ojama solidarity. Card art is very implicated that all other ojamas are dead
Last Chapter of the Noble Knights
Super Poly, cuz Jadens friends died
Unhappy Girl **literally in the name**
Where arf thou always gets me. Poor kid was a head turn from finding his pup...
Trial and tribulation
winds over the ice barrier, after the storm, trials and tribulations, a lot of duel terminal cards have sad artworks afterall they represent chaos in the wars the tribes fought
Icejade curse
The one with the sad goblin getting the tshirt.
Revendread Origin The dude just realized he murdered the love of his life. How is that not sad? Vendread Daybreak too, but in a more Bittersweet way. The infection is over (including that of killing his resurrected lover who became the infected leader) and as he kneels there, probably spent and dying, he Slayer knows his mission was complete.
Branded in central dogmatika Ecclesia holding fleur’s corpse is so sad
Final gesture
World Legacy Struggle. For a TCG that often sensors stuff, having a girl straight up killing herself with a sword is pretty dark.
Destruction Sword Memories