There are lots of yu-gi-oh! Cards that are released each year, giving you more and more cards to gather and play with. However, sometimes there are some updates that have to happen to the cards to make sure they are competitive and make sense in the framework of the game.

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One of these cards is almost notorious at this time for a very confusing change that long -term fans still find confusing to this day. This is the curious story of Harpie's brother, which is why the card suffers from a little identity crisis and everything you need to know to understand the decision.
What is the Harpie Ararism type?
Before we can dive into Harpie's brother, we have to take a look at Harpies Ararism type. For classic yu-gi-oh fans, this archetype can track its roots back to the very first anime and the earliest sets of the card game.
The harpies are the signature cards for the sometimes enemy, sometimes allied Mai Valentine. Her strategy was almost always about getting one of the three Harpy Lady cards in play and then giving it bonuses from other cards.

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Like a fun piece of trivia, gamecube game yu-gi-oh! The false -bound kingdom gave all Harpy ladies a name. Harpy Lady 1's name is Airo ', Harpy Lady 2's name is Ocupete, and Harpy Lady 3's name is Keraino.
All of these names are based on the ancient Greek myth of the harpies and are inspired by their classic names on Aello, which means “Storm Swift”, ocypete, for “The Fast Wing” and Celaeno, which means “the dark”.
As an archetype, there is plenty of support for the Harpy Lady cards released over a variety of sets over the years, which gives the archetype the power to compete, or at least be fun to play, along with more modern cards.
How does the Harpy tire play?
As a little curious restriction on the tire, all three Harpy Lady and Cyber Harpie Lady cards share a special rule as restricts the number of cards you can play in a tire. Because they have the name state “This card's name is always treated as Harpie Lady”, you can only have one no more than three of any number of these cards in your deck.
For example, you can include a Cyber Harpie Lady, a Harpie Lady 2 and a Harpie Lady 3 in a tire, but no more.
Some other Harpie Lady cards are treated like a Harpie Lady when they are in play but do not have the same tire-building restrictions. With all these cards you can quickly fill the field with lots of synergistic harpies and turn the match to your advantage after just one turn or two.
So what about Harpie's brother?
As it turns out, Harpie's brother was not a brother at all and was a case of design changes that occurred over time. When the location team responsible for translating short texts from Japanese to English, it saw the card, they had no idea that archetypes and synergistic cards would come to the game. They saw a man with bird -like features and large red wings that looked terribly close to the harpy ladies.
Harpie's brother was first released in 2004's Pharaoh's service set as a normal normal monster card. As more and more sets were released Not a single support card for the Harpie ladies would include something about Harpie's brother.

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Although it is not, for the most part, not a problem caused the name from the Yu-Gi-Oh Offcial Card game to the broader YU-Gi-OH trading card game some confusion for players. The Yu-Gi-Ohs OCG Card Name is “Birdman” And bears no relationship with the harpie ladies.
This change would be updated with the release of Astral Pack Two 2013. The Harpie brother would no longer be known as a member of the Harpie family and would instead be known as Sky Scout.
The English printout of the card is not the only one that has this change. The French, German, Italian and Spanish versions of the card were also called all Harpie's brother and would have to face the same inevitable change.
Has this happened to other yu-gi-oh cards?
Of course, it has, especially in a card game with thousands of cards. Sometimes these changes have been quite benign, such as removing an unintentional extra space or missed capitalization on a letter. Other times, such as Harpie's brother, it required a complete name change to make sure everything was appropriately stood up. Other cards must have major changes to ensure that there was no confusion if the card belongs or where it does not.
Other cards that have received large errata included:
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Red Eyes B. Chicken
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Hero's band
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Changed to Hero's Bond to denote that it is included in the “Hero” ararcial type.
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Frog
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Became a mucus pad to separate it from the “frog” ararcial type.
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While Errata as this has subsided in recent years when design team gets more in line with global editions, there is always a chance that something will slip through the controls that Konami puts in place, which possibly leads to more changes such as Harpie's brother of Sky Scout that happens in the future.

Yu-gi-oh!
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Yu-gi-oh! The movie
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Yu-gi-oh
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April 18, 2000
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2004-04-29