Why was Harpie's brother renamed Sky Scout?

There are a lot of yu-gi-oh! Cards issued every year and provide you with more and more cards with which you can collect and play. Sometimes, however, there are several updates that have to happen on the cards to make sure they are competitive and make sense in the extent of the game.

One of these cards is almost infamous at this point for a very confusing change that long -term fans still confusing to this day. This is the curious story of Harpie's brother, why the card suffers from a little identity crisis and everything you need to know to understand the decision.

What is the Harpie Archetype?

Before we can immerse ourselves in Harpie's brother, we have to look at the Harpies archetype. For classic Yu-Gi-oh fans, this archetype can watch its roots back to the first first anime and the oldest card game sets.

Harpies are signature cards sometimes enemy, sometimes Mai Valentine. Her strategy almost always included getting one of the three Harpy Harpa cards in the game and then giving it bonuses from other cards.

As a fun piece of Trivio, Gamecube Yu-Gi-Oh! Falsebound Kingdom gave all the harpse ladies a name. The name Harpy Lady 1 is Airo ', the name Harpy Lady 2 is Ocupete and the name Harpy Lady 3 is Keraino.

All these names are based on the ancient Greek myth of Harpies and are inspired by their classic names Aello, which means “Storm Swift”, Ockyphete, for “Swift Wing” and Celaeno, which means “dark”.

As an archetype there are plenty of support for Harpy card Lady released in various sets over the years, giving the archetype the power to compete, or at least fun to play, along with more modern cards.

What is a playing harpy package?

As a little curious restriction on board they share all three harps lady and Cyber ​​Harpie tabs Lady special rule that limits the number of cards you can play on board. Since they have the condition of the name “the name of this card is always considered a lady Harpie,” you can only have a a maximum of three of any number of these cards aboard.

For example, you can include one Cyber ​​Harpie Lady, one Harpie Lady 2 and one Harpie Lady 3 in the deck, but not.

Several other Lady Harpie cards are considered a lady Harpie when they are in the game, but do not have the same limitations of building the deck. With all these cards, you can quickly fill the field with a lot of synergic harpies and turn the match in your favor after turning or two.

So what is the agreement with Harpie's brother?

As it turned out, Harpie's brother was not a brother at all, and he was the case of the design changes that had occurred over time. When the localization team responsible for translating the text of the card from Japanese to English saw this card, they had no idea that archetypes and synergistic cards were coming into play. They saw men with characteristics similar to birds and large reddish wings that looked so close to the Harp ladies.

Harpie's brother was first released in 2004 in Pharaon's servant as a normal normal Monster card. Since more and more sets have been released, the players started noticing it Not a single support card for ladies Harpie would not include anything about the brother Harpie.

Although this is not a problem for the most part, the name changes from the Offional Card of Yu-Gi-Oh to a wider Yu-Gi game game, it caused some confusion for players. The The OCG Yu-Gi-Oh Card Name is “Birdman” and the bears No relationship with ladies harpie.

This change would be updated by the release of Astral Pack Two in 2013. Harpie's brother would no longer be known as a member of the Harpie family, and instead he would be known forever as Sky Scout.

The English card printing is not the only one that has this change. French, German, Italian and Spanish versions of the card were also referred to as Harpie's brother and would have to face the same inevitable change.

Has it happened to other yu-gi-oh cards?

Of course, it has it, especially in a card game with thousands of cards. Sometimes these changes were rather benign, such as removal of random space or missed capitalization on the letter. At other times, like Harpie's brother, it required a change in the whole name to ensure that everything was appropriately sorted. Other cards had to have fundamental changes to ensure that there was no confusion where the card belongs or where not.

Among other cards that received the main errata:

• Red-Eyes B. Chick

• Hero's bond

  • He turned into a heroic bond to indicate that he was included in the “hero” archetype.

• Lover the jam

  • He became a toad of the slime to separate it from the archetype of the “frog”.

While Errata like this has slowed down in recent years because the designer teams are more in line with global editions, there is always a chance that something will slip on controls that Konami introduces to a place, which may lead to further changes like Harpie's brother to make Sky Scout. in the future.