#Winda Priestess of Gusto

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Sannyo attempts to describe the final arc of Forbidden Scrollery with a single card

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Congrats on their transition 🥳

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Random Yugioh Card Lore Rambling – The Elemental Charmers

For being one of the more lastingly popular archetypes of the game, the Charmer girls are surprisingly bereft of in-depth lore. Really, all they seem to have is a vague connection to the Duel Terminal setting via Wynn, and an ambiguous connection to the inexplicably-popular ‘Gagagigo and the Terrible, No-Good, Very-Bad Life Decisions’ storyline.

So here are MY thoughts/theories on them!

To begin with, I think that while the Charmers are tied to Duel Terminal, they are not actually PART of the Duel Terminal setting, at least in the present.

We know from the official lore that Wynn the Wind Charmer was born into the Gusto Tribe, specifically that she is the younger sisters of Winda, Priestess of Gusto. But that Wynn left her tribe at a young age to ‘follow her own path’ (and likely dodged a HUGE bullet given the… well, EVERYTHING that would end up happening to her tribe).

Now with the clear similarities between Wynn and the other Gusto in both appearance and naming, as many others have theorized I think it’s no stretch to imagine that Eria the Water Charmer has a similar connection to the Gishki Tribe. Specifically being the long lost sister of Gishki Ariel. Again, given their similar appearance and names.

Now if Wynn and Eria are both from Duel Terminal, does this mean that Hiita and Aussa are as well? Maybe. Hiita might have connections to the Lavals, and Aussa could be some lost survivor of the X-Blades.

However, I don’t think the question of whether Hiita and Aussa, or even Eria really, are connected to Duel Terminal even really MATTERS.

Because in the present of their story, I don’t think the Charmers are even ON the world of Duel Terminal. With Wynn and potentially Eria having been taken away from her homeworld at a young age.

How and by whom? Why, by the mentor of all four of the Elemental Charmers.

The Dark Magician.

Yeah, this is where the theories start getting a bit wild, but I do have at least two strong(?) pieces of evidence here.

First, the fact that all of the Charmers are spellcasters, which actually becomes rather notable when considering Wynn’s family. Because the Gusto tribe are all psychic-type monsters. Which seems to be representative of the strong mental and spiritual connection the Gusto all have with their winged-beast companions through their powerful shared affinity for WIND.

So Wynn being a spellcaster instead implies that she has learned how to channel her powerful wind affinity not through the mental/spiritual connections of her family, but through magic. Almost certainly after having been taught by a powerful magic-user.

So why Dark Magician in particular?

Simple. Because all of the Charmers just so happen to make use of the Dark Magical Circle. One of the ICONIC symbols associated with the Dark Magician.

See, I have another theory about just why we see this Magical Circle in so many card artworks across the game. Because the Dark Magician has actually been traveling all over the Duel Monsters universe, between lands and even whole worlds, both learning and teaching magic to many students, followers and disciples. I mean for one, I think we can actually assume that the Dark Magician was heavily involved in the creation of Endymion’s Magical Citadel.

And I think the Elemental Charmers were one such group of students taught by the Dark Magician.

At one time, the master of dark magic was passing through the world of Duel Terminal when he happened upon a young Wynn, fresh into her journey, perhaps a young Eria as well, and took the promising young elementalist(s) under his wing. Not long after (or before) and world-hop or two, he would take on Hiita and Aussa as well, and the Dark Magician would begin teaching these four girls the art of magic to channel their powerful elemental affinities.

Some time later, after the four girls had begun growing into their potential, each gaining a strong bond with a familiar tied to their element, the Dark Magician would bid his students farewell, as he felt they had little left to learn from him. And that these four charmers would learn much more from their own journey, and each other, than anything more he could teach them.

And so, with the world of Terminus and its many, many problems long behind them, Wynn, Hiita, Eria and Aussa, along with their loyal familiars would set off on their own adventure together.

Now as for the final two members of the Charmer team, Lyna and Dharc, there are a couple possibilities. For one, it seems like those two are notably younger than the main elemental quartet of girls, given that they are later additions to the archetype and notably don’t have the ‘Channeler’ forms that seem to represent the older, more experienced versions of the Charmers. Also notable is that in the Chronicles animation shorts, we see Wynn, Hiita, Eria and Auusa in a mix of their Familiar-Possessed and Channeler forms with both their original and second familiars, while Lyna and Dharc seem to specifically be in their younger Charmer forms with just their original familiars.

So maybe rather than being mentored by the Dark Magician, Lyna and Dharc were actually taken in later and mentored by the original four girls after their training under the Dark Magician?

Now as for the theory that sooner or later, Eria’s Gigobyte familiar is going to grow up, do something terrible to his mistress and become the ‘young evildoer’, Gagagigo of one of Yugioh’s frankly more overrated card-lore’s…

Frankly I think it is ENTIRELY up in the air whether or not Eria’s Gigobyte is the one who grows up into Gagagigo.

Yes, it did seem very plausible back when we had the rather ominous and foreboding ‘Familiar-Possessed’ artworks that could be read as the Charmers being literally possessed by their familiars, which in turn would provide a natural ‘Start of Darkness’ for Gagagigo.

BUT, with the more recent wave of support for the Charmers and the redesigns of their Familiar-Possessed forms, that read is feeling a lot less plausible. For one, the new Familiar-Possessed designs don’t have the unsettling and foreboding vibes they previously had, and paint the act of ‘familiar possession’ as a far more benign, supportive and symbiotic cooperation between the Charmers and their Familiars.

On top of that, we also have the older/empowered forms of Eria’s familiar referred to as ‘Jigabyte’ and ‘Gagigobyte’, feeling fairly distinct from ‘Gagagigo’. Who also appears in both the Familiar-Possessed redesign and all the other newer Charmer support card-art. Implying there could very likely be some retconning at play.

Given how often Gigobyte shows up in other card art as a generic low-level monster, I think it’s pretty clear there are almost certainly more than one of these little guys running around. So while the Gigobyte who shows up on the card ‘Gigobyte’ is still the one who grows up into Gagagigo, until we get more concrete evidence via more Charmer support, I think it’s entirely plausible if not LIKELY that Eria’s familiar is simply a simply a different Gigobyte.

Finally, personally I really don’t like this whole idea that Eria’s Gigobyte is somehow ‘destined’ to become Gagagigo. It feels like the Charmers’ story is just being hijacked by a totally different story, with Eria now being relegated to being just a side-character, or worse a fridged mentor, of Gagagigo’s story.

While that might have worked back when all we had of this group was the Charmers and their Familiar-Possessed forms, with the more recent support indicating there is probably going to be MORE to the Charmers’ story. So it doesn’t feel appropriate to just chain them to Gagagigo’s story at this point.

Not to mention, as it should be rather clear, I think the Gagagigo story is SUPER overrated. Just because it was one of the first Yugioh card-lore stories doesn’t necessarily make it, you know, good. It’s just this lizard boy getting jerked around by plot, fighting random dudes and being repeatedly redeemed and re-evil’d. I know traumatized sad-bois are a fetish for you people, but you realize you need an actual story and character to make your kinks actually INTERESTING, right?

[arkadiaasks]

I asked because both the Japanese names of Ib and Tamagushi contain “Miko” and the Miko in Ib’s name was translated as Justiciar over in the states, so I assumed that they would translate the Priestess archetype as Justiciar for consistency’s sake. Unless, of course, they want to make liberal use of “This card is always treated as a ‘Priestess’ card.”

Synchro Ib and Tamagushi use two technically different words in Japanese that sound the same and have very similar overlapping meanings but wouldn't work together.

It's basically a difference of like, Equus verse Horse, both mean the same thing, but are different words.

It's a good question to ask but in theory, they wouldn't work together due to the technicalities of Japanese as a language.

The existing Priestess cards are:

Winda, Priestess of Gusto Shinonome the Vaylantz Priestess Ariel, Priestess of the Nekroz Maiden of the Aqua Priestess of the Ashened City Dance Maiden Crowned by the World Chalice Priestess with Eyes of Blue Gravekeeper's Priestess Emilia, Dance Priestess of the Nekroz

But they're so disperate, that like I said, I think Konami would make the two Norito mats require "Level 6 so-such Spellcaster monster" for their effects, rather than chase a "Priestess" theme.

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Contact with Gusto

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Winda, Priestess of Gusto

“When this card is destroyed by battle with an opponent’s attacking monster and sent to your Graveyard: You can Special Summon 1 ‘Gusto’ Tuner monster from your Deck.”

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Over the Nexus Deck Profile: DARK Gusto

The Gusto archetype is an interesting one focused on the pretty niche combination of WIND Psychic monsters, and the not remotely niche combination of WIND Winged-Beast monsters. Like Winda up there, many of them have effects that let you summon a new monster when they're destroyed by battle. This allows you to make chains of Winda into Gulldo into Egul into Winda, and so on. Egul can also search Gusto Thunbolt, which in turn can search any other Psychic Gusto monster in our deck. Cool! The sheer number of Tuners in this list, and how this chain involves at least two Tuners, makes Red Nova Dragon both accessible and very strong. But where does the DARK part come in? See, there are enough dark staples like Sangan and Gorz that are useful in any deck, that I decided to include them here to enable one of the strongest "what-if" monsters in the 5D's era, Dark Simorgh. Our dark count is relatively low, with only 8 in total in the main deck, but it's enough to make Dark Simorgh a very powerful threat. Special summoning it from the hand or graveyard by banishing a dark and a wind from the opposite location makes it easy to catch the opponent off guard with it, and preventing them from setting cards, which includes both face-down defense position monsters, and spells and traps, is deadly in this era. Additionally, cards like Creature Swap and Reeze, Whirlwind of Gusto make it very easy to steal your opponent's strongest monster in exchange for one of your weaker ones! Just remember that Winda has to be destroyed by your opponent's monster specifically, so Creature Swap doesn't work well with it! Before I go into the list, a couple important things to note about Gustos in Over the Nexus specifically; first, Winda is named "Wynnda, Priestess of Gusto", a spelling error likely referring to Winda's canonical sister, Wynn the Wind Charmer. Second, and more important, Reeze is bugged; she lets you select ANY monster to give to your opponent, not just a face-up Gusto monster like the text says. Whether or not you exploit this bug is up to you, but I'd advise against it if you're playing against a human opponent. MONSTERS (23): Caam, Serenity of Gusto x1 Dark Simorgh x2 Gorz the Emissary of Darkness x1 Gusto Egul x3 Gusto Gulldo x3 Gusto Thunbolt x3 Krebons x3 Reeze, Whirlwind of Gusto x1 Sangan x1 Tragoedia x1 Windaar, Sage of Gusto x1 Winda, Priestess of Gusto x3 SPELLS (16): Book of Moon x2 Contact with Gusto x2 Creature Swap x3 Dark Hole x1 Emergency Teleport x1 Giant Trunade x1 Mind Control x1 Monster Reborn x1 Mystical Space Typhoon x2 Pot of Avarice x2 TRAPS (1): Treacherous Trap Hole x1 EXTRA DECK: Ally of Justice Catastor x1 Armory Arm x1 Black Rose Dragon x1 Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier x1 Colossal Fighter x1 Daigusto Eguls x1 Daigusto Gulldos x1 Daigusto Sphreeze x1 Goyo Guardian x1 Red Dragon Archfiend x1 Red Nova Dragon x1 Scrap Dragon x1 Stardust Dragon x1 Thought Ruler Archfiend x1 Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier x1

[freezydraws]

The Charmers honestly give me life, and the branching archetypes are no exception.

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Some not so well known fan art. I'm a huge fan of yugioh and my go to deck for the last 3 years has been gusto they are underdogs and I love it. Enjoy some winda

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This is a continuation of the mondstadt creator post.

This the gusto tribe. They are very peaceful tribe who prefers not to fight and solves issues peacefully but will fight if they cannot be reasoned with.

At a young age, they gain familiars for life. This means the familiar can only be with the person they're tied to, their children, descendants and reincarnations.

We have winda the priestess of the gusto

Her familiar is called gusto gulldo

These two can mix their powers to become daigusto gulldo

In this form, they have the power to control the power of the wind and the atmosphere. That means she can create galeforce winds and tornadoes. If I had to say how strong these two are I would say around tied with Rex Lapis currently.

Here we have Kamui and his partner Falco they can mix their powers to become daigusto falcos

His level of power would be around current Barbatos levels of power. He has unique ability to create an airlock where all the air is sucked out of an area. It means that he can create an area where nothing can breath and can quickly put out fires because their is no oxygen. If he where to use this on a person, it would be like that airbender from avatar who sucked the air out that lady from basing sei but in a much bigger area. Area is the size of the coliseum like area in the thousand winds temple.

These are the guardians of the gusto tribe. Apex Avian and simorgh bird of sovereignty.

Apex Avian has the ability to basically absorb the soul of any living thing. It also has the ability Negation screech. Negation screech can prevent the ability anything to anyone as long as it is within Apex Avian's range. This ability can be active as long as it wants to let them have it. The area is from the entire area of dragonspine mountain at max. Apex Avian's ability can be used for healing by destroying cancer cells within someone and preventing them from getting it again. This the reason why they don't have medical insurance or have the concept of it. Simmorgh is the much more powerful out of the two. Simmorgh has the ability to remove gravity around an area. That area is the size of the entire nation of liyue all the way from the highest peaks up to islands outside the city. It can send it up to the air flip it upside down and make it crash back down like a meteor.

The gusto tribe can talk to animals and spirits.

[emetkoto]

Didn’t the good raidraptor card get banned? I would love to see your decklist if possible

im not sure but that sounds about right honestly lol...i dont ever play in tournaments or anything so me and my friends usually just ignore the banlist when we duel

just for you here’s the decklist for the worst deck ever, lyrigustoraptors or as i like to call it.....BIRDSBIRDSBIRDS

3 lyrilusc sapphire swallow

3 lyrilusc colbalt sparrow

3 lyrilusc turquoise warbler

3 raidraptor pain lainius

3 raidraptor last strix

2 pilica, descendant of gusto

2 winda, priestess of gusto

3 gusto egul

2 gusto gulldo

3 mystical space typhoon

3 polymerization (technically 2 and a fusion sub bc i ran out of polys)

1 twin twisters

1 cattle call

1 xyz unit

1 one for one

1where arf thou

1 moon mirror shield

1 planckton

2 icarus attack

1 moon dance ritual

and 1 jar of avarice

its terrible i know

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Yugioh Field Center Winda Priestess of Gusto Custom Orica Token Card

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Posted Cards Master Post - 36

April 2022

Hiita the Fire Charmer

Fox Fire

Blazing Hiita

Familiar-Possessed - Hiita

Inari Fire

Hiita the Fire Charmer, Ablaze

Awakening of the Possessed - Greater Inari Fire

Spiritual Fire Art - Kurenai

Eria the Water Charmer

Gigobyte

Raging Eria

Familiar-Possesed - Eria

Gagagigo

Giga Gagagigo

Gogiga Gagagigo

Jigabyte

Gagagigo the Risen

Eria the Water Charmer, Gentle

Awakening of the Possessed - Gagigobyte

Spiritual Water Art - Aoi

Wynn the Wind Charmer

Petit Dragon

Storming Wynn

Familiar-Possessed - Wynn

Ranryu

Wynn the Wind Charmer, Verdant

Awakening of the Possessed - Rasenryu

Spiritual Wind Art - Miyabi

Wynn the Wind Channeler

Blessings for Gusto

Caam, Serenity of Gusto

Contact with Gusto

Daigusto Eguls

Daigusto Emeral

Daigusto Falcos

Daigusto Gulldos

Daigusto Laplampilica

Daigusto Phoenix

Daigusto Sphreez

Dust Storm of Gusto

Gusto Codor

Gusto Egul

Gusto Falco

Gusto Griffin

Gusto Gulldo

Gusto Squirro

Gusto Thunbolt

Gusto Vedir

Kamui, Hope of Gusto

Musto, Oracle of Gusto

Pilica, Descendant of Gusto

Reeze, Whirlwind of Gusto

Tailwind of Gusto

Whirlwind of Gusto

Winda, Priestess of Gusto

Windaar, Sage of Gusto

King Beast Barbaros

Witch's Apprentice

Backup Operator

Backup Secretary

Backup Supervisor

Wee Witch's Apprentice

Cheepcheepcheep

Cockadoodledoo

Hoshiningen

Hip Hoshiningen

Star Power!!

Link Party

Last Day of Witch

Effect Veiler 

No cards were posted in May 2022.

June 2022

Alice, Lady of Lament

Malice, Lady of Lament

Loris, Lady of Lament (Japanese)

Lilith, Lady of Lament

Armory Call

Protector of The Agents - Moon

Blue-Eyes Jet Dragon

Blue-Eyes Tyrant Dragon

Branded Disciple 

Breath of Resurrection

Castel, the Skyblaster Musketeer

Chaos Nephthys

Clear New World

Dark Contract with Patent License

Dark Dimension Soldier 

Darton the Mechanical Monstrosity

D/D Gryphon

D/D/D Deviser King Deus Machinex

D/D/D Headhunt

Dictator of D.

Dimension Conjurer

Dinomorphia Alert

Dinomorphia Brute

Dinomorphia Diplos

Dinomorphia Domain 

Dinomorphia Kentregina

Dinomorphia Reversion 

Dinomorphia Shell 

Dinomorphia Sonic

Dinomorphia Stealthbergia

Dinomorphia Therizia

Dogmatikamacabre 

Doll Happiness

Doll Monster Bear-Bear

Doll Monster Miss Mädchen

Box of Friends 

Doll House

Grandpa Demetto

Princess Cologne 

Transcicada 

Dracoback, the Rideable Dragon

Dragonbite

Dunnell, the Noble Arms of Light

Emergency Teleport

End of the Line

Epigonen, the Impersonation Invader

Epsilon The Magnet Warrior

Fateful Adventure

Fire Opal Head

Flowerdino 

Forest of Lost Flowers

Ghostrick Festival

Ghostrick or Treat

Ghostrick Shot

Ghostrick Siren

Gokipole

Groza, Tyrant of Thunder

Guardian Chimera

Hidden Armory

Illegal Knight

Illusion of Chaos

Imprudent Intrusion

Insect Imitation

Kaiza the Hidden Star

Leafplace Plaice

Libromancer Agent

Libromancer Doombroker

Libromancer Firestarter

Libromancer First Appearance

Libromancer Geek Boy

Libromancer Intervention

Libromancer Magigirl

Mad Hacker

Magicore Warrior of the Relics

Maple Maiden

Master of Chaos

Monster Rebirth

Myutant Mutant

Neiroy, the Dream Mirror Traitor

Nordic Beast Gullinbursti

Nordic Relic Hlidskjalf

Nordic Relic Svalinn

Nordic Smith Ivaldi

Nowru Aries the Vernal Dragon

Onibimaru Soul Sweeper

Psychic Tracker

Psychic Wheeleder

Risebell the Star Adjuster

Risebell the Star Psycher

Risebell the Summoner

Saambell the Star Bonder

Saambell the Summoner

Rite of Aramesir

Rock Scales

Sales Ban

S-Force Lapcewell

S-Force Retroactive

Shining Piecephilia

Silvervine Senri

Simorgh, Bird of Perfection

Skilled Brown Magician

Smile Potion

Smoke Moquito

Sol and Luna

Starlit Papillon

Submareed Tour Ride

Swordsoul Sinister Sovereign - Qixing Longyuan

Swordsoul Strife

The Great Double Casted Caster·

The Zombie Vampire

Thunder Discharge

Timaeus the United Dragon

Top Share

Torrential Tribute

Trancefamiliar

Tribe Drive

Ultimate Fusion

Unending Nightmare

Unwavering Bond

Uradora of Fate

Vampire Fascinator

Vampire Ghost

Virtual World Hime - Nyannyan

Vision with Eyes of Blue

Wandering Gryphon Rider

Water Enchantress of the Temple

White Relic of Dogmatika

XYZ Combine

Xyz Universe

Zaralaam the Dark Palace

Zektrike Kou-ou

Gagaku-P.U.N.K. Crash Beat

Gagaku-P.U.N.K. Wagon

Gagaku-P.U.N.K. Wild Picking

Joruri-P.U.N.K. Dangerous Gabu

Joruri-P.U.N.K. Madame Spider

Joruri-P.U.N.K. Nashiwari Surprise

Noh-P.U.N.K. Deer Note

Noh-P.U.N.K. Foxy Tune

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「ウィンダ」

[reflectiondetonation]

lets see

Winda, Priestess of Gusto was

orphaned as a child and looked over by Gishki Noellia

had to witness Noellia's descent to depravity and watch her people war with the Gishkis

witness the Steelswarm and Evilswarm invasions

prayed to God to deliver the world from ruin

killed by Sophia's resurrection, imbuding her corpse and soul with divine energy

instead of reincarnating was forced to come back as a Shaddoll, with virtually no sapience and just understanding her existence as pain and suffering and seeking the World Tree so she can not be a puppet zombie and move on peacefully

painfully restrained by the Qliphorts as shes screaming in agony, at which point due to the energy of Sophia within her, her binded form is used as the backdoor to Tierra's plan to resurrect and destroy all life, while the Qliphorts use her existence as an "anomaly" (a mortal creature with the power of a god) to justify eradicating all life to correct this anomaly

is only fucking finally then allowed to be purified and live in the new peaceful, godless world

liKE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST THQNK GOD SHE GOT A HAPPY ENDING AFTER ALL THAT