How Old School Yu-gi-oh Changed | A Yu-Gi-Oh TCG Retrospective (Part 1)
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So Yugioh has changed a lot since 2002, but why did those changes happen, and what did they do to the game itself?
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0:00 Introduction
4:48 Early Yu-Gi-Oh (Legacy of the Pharoah)
21:38 Battle City Era
27:14 GX Era (Generation Next)
36:13 5D's Era (The Whole Kitchen Sync)
#yugioh #tcg #cards
The most impressive thing about this video is that there were ZERO pot of greed references or jokes
Good, the meme is older than the average CoD player.
Alright you have me hooked. What does it do?
@@josh8901look it up on yt lol
@@josh8901you couldnt beleive how complex its effect is
@@majintv24 👀
Takahashi, as always being the chaddest of all chads. In a game where people can get so meta chasey and try hard. Telling them "it's ok to NOT be the king" means everything and more.
Well yeah, cause Kaz is king. Duh
@@jeffbrownstainthe only king
as a self-proclaimed Yugioh historian, I absolutely love this lookback. So many videos in the category focus purely on the meta impact of the game that seeing the history of the game through a casual player's eyes is really refreshing. Really looking forward to part 2.
Thanks dude, I actually cross-referenced your History of Fusion Summoning videos during my research and they were genuinely helpful, so I'm glad you appreciated it👍
@@Foxcadeyou see you guys one by working together, just like mr. Takahashi would have wanted. "United we stand, or together we'll fall"- yugioh 2002
Since you said you really like the synchro era, you should look into Edison Format, probably the 2nd most popular legacy format. It replicates a format from early 2010. I really like it because it's plenty diverse, and to me it's the perfect middle ground between old school monkey Yugioh and modern ludicrous speed Yugioh.
EDISON GANG REPRESENT
Edison gang represent!!
This. I defend Goat as a fun and skillful format to play, especially for older players looking for a nostalgic experience, but Edison has way more to offer. An insane amount of viable decks with few cards shared between them, no "trinity" that all but seals games on turn 1 if only one player opens them, combos that resemble the modern day but also don't make nigh-unbreakable boards with 5 negates... It's the perfect balance.
SOON TO BE 1ST LETS GO EDISON GANG
@@stegomasaurus6737 I’ve been hosting unlimited duels as “goat format with ash blossoms” it takes care of some issues lmao
Neos Cake, Ojama Lime, and Revolver playing Mirror Force? I'm glad to see someone doing a retrospective who really gets it.
10:41 What's really funny is that in recent years, Yugitubers like MBT have gone back and explored the "no tribute" version of the game (known as Junior Format) and have since tried to flesh it out into an actual competitive game with the current card pool, exploring the game one year at a time and gradually introducing more of the card pool and banning/limiting certain cards to better balance out this version of the game. Its honestly a really fascinating version of Yugioh compared to Master Rule since the Junior Format ruleset also prohibits you from activating more than 1 spell per turn, activating more than 1 trap per turn, and setting more than one spell/trap per turn.
doesnt that make the stars useless as a card symbol?
@@ich3730 Laughs in Synchro and XYZ mechanics.
2121 is not worth living in
Traptrix is dead-
@@aidanklobuchar1798 it honestly becomes more important with those extra deck monsters, since it can majorly affect what you can summon out if there's even one star of difference
Honestly a bit surprised you didn't bring up Cyber Dragon. Arguably one of the most important meta changing cards in this era. I'd dare say you could talk about this game pre and post Cyber Dragon
i agree. good video but i was waiting the entire time for him to mention cyber dragon
How did cyber dragon affect the meta and if it did, what made it so meta?
@@Tha-Gayle It's a monster you can just Special Summon if your opponent controls at least one monster and you don't; powercrept over The Fiend Megacyber, which that card you can Special Summon it if your opponent controls at least 2 more monsters than you do. Basically, it's an easy free, 2100 ATK summon, running at three copies; which also powercreeps 1900 ATK Normal Monsters because Cyber Dragon bodies them over like it's nothing.
@luxerhusku2609 oh ok so it was more so it special summon effect.
@@Tha-Gayle Correct. Its Special Summon effect is much faster
I will always defend archtypes as a good inclusion to the game. Side decking with some specific card in mind against a single strategy, with that same card doing absolutely nothing against a second one or even helping a third one gives so much room for experimentation in a given format with different playstyles that don't revolve around banishing a light and a dark.
Archetypes, whether one agrees with em or not, were a necesary addition as the game evolved in order to curtail broken interactions and encourage deck diversity. The real problem is how a lot of the archetypical cards these days just feel like "cards" rather than having any personality or flavor in a vacuum in favor of just being for the sake of being used in a specific combo route in a specific kind of interaction rather than something that can be slotted in with other cards with a particular function with pros and cons for doing so based on what the card is in a vacuum.
Archetypes led to 95% of decks I play against being cookie cutter and requiring 2 brain cells to play. And you have to go along with it to some degree or another or you don't have a chance against them.
@@Chris-jw8vm this guy gets whats really wrong with yugioh this, hand traps, and pendulum summoning
@@inuyasha989 pendulum summoning? You mean the mechanic that hasn't been relevant for years? Whose amount of historical meta dominating decks can be counted on one hand?
@@Chris-jw8vm 95% of the exact same archtype or different ones? because in most formats there are 2 or 3 best decks completely different from each other.
refreshing to see a yugioh retrospective that isn't just "wah old good new bad"
well i mean the new is kinda bad as someone who still plays yugioh and have been since it release WHNE I WAS 15 :P yugioh used to be about strategy now its about koing your opponent before they get their first or even 2nd turn depending who is going first :P plus i also feel like fun decks used to thrive back in the day you could go to a tradish format tournament and youd see anything from exodia decks to chaos decks to lvl decks and depending on how they were built they could hold their own then came along the one shot wonders then pendulum summoning which is so broken its not even funny and then came hand traps and thats all you see now is op one shot decks with every counter in their deck in the form of a hand trap yugioh doesnt even use trap cards much anymore unless its support as they are deemed "too slow" and people wonder why harpies feather duster and reigeki both got unbanned after being on the bann list for decades and dont even get me started on the unnecessary censorship cause they are afraid they might offend a handful of bible thumpers (im christian for what its worth so thats saying something when i say that :P) considering most players who play yugioh are like 16-18+ at LEAST alot of which are over the age of 18 as well i dont see many young kids running decks unless their parents got them into it but i dont think calling solemn judgement japans original name gods judgment is gonna make yugioh players start burning boosters like the bible thumpers burned harry potter books
@@inuyasha989 lol 1- no, it wasn't, it was always been a shitty game, it just took more turns for the same outcome. it's a random game, so it has always been a flip coin simulator. to fix that you need consistency cards, but then you pop off turn 1, so you need handtraps to stop your opponent, so he needs negations and so on. it got more complex and we have more tools, but it isn't bad because they put those things into the game. 2- pend best deck.... ok, no, it was busted yes. but they eventually fixed it... kinda. 3- yes, BUT, also it has been already proved that big boobed waifus helped nurturing the incel movement and the rise of fascism worldwide that is overtaking our culture.... sooo.... they were right, but for the wrong reasons, and they are fashy too now so... idk. if you don't believe me, just look at 4chan... youtube... fox news.. they are everywhere complaining about boobs and M&Ms... anime booba was the dawnfall of mankind.
@@inuyasha989 Pend summoning broken? Very poor choice of words
@@inuyasha989 man nobody cares, let people play the game.
@@Badbufon you attempt to counter your statement during 3 by essentially saying “big booba lover=Incel or fascist” Is very off, all your other stuff made a decent point one way or another , but then you make everything you stated either ignored or somewhat invalidated through such an opinionated statement. Censorship in card designs are quite stupid and sometimes make their designs even more questionable. And while opinions are something everyone has and it helps to make us all different from one another it should not be treated as gospel.
Crazy how Solemn Judgment, the original Counter Trap, is STILL to this day the best legal Counter Trap in the game (since Red Reboot is banned).
That opening statement is pure deep philosophy. Rest in Peace, Takahashi
The quote is definitely what I needed to hear. I'm not the only one but many men like myself are in the rough Place nowadays. But Mr Takahashi wouldn't give up. And yugi muto wouldnt either.💯
@@bakionigeri6414 Each day is a new draw and you never know when you'll get that epic topdeck.
Alredy commented, but I feel like the original Cyber Dragon deserved a slight mention for the GX era. Sure it didn't break the game like the Chaos Set or introduce a change like the transition to archetypes But because it marked the game changing on a fundimental level as , back then, Special Summoning was well... *special* Unlike today where its ironically more common then Normal Summoning Before then it was mainly reserved for Fusions, Rituals and some Main Deck boss monsters that *NEEDED* to be Special Summoned Then in comes Cyber Dragon. A level 5 beater with 2100 ATK that can be summoned straight from the hand as long as you control no monsters and your opponent does. It was basically a free monster and field advantage Now, again, this isn't anything big now, but back then it was *wild*
Not only that, he also had the first actual good contact fusion with fortress dragon. And he made one of the first OTK strategys possible by being the mat for cyber twin dragon which you got with future fusion.
@@bl00by_ bruh that title would go to xyz dragon cannon and it's related cards. they did contact fusion first and was actually pretty decent or if you want to get super technical, valkyria the magna warrior was the first boss monster with a contact fusion-like effect despite not being a fusion monster itself but the concept of contact fusion technically started with the magnet warriors
@@lssjvegeta7103 Yeah, but those were trash and haven't seen competitve success. Fortress actually saw play over the years.
@@bl00by_ ooh you meant the first one that actually saw play xD
Thank you Actman for making a video so bad that people recommended this video instead. GJ Foxcade, great watch!
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Eh i thought actmans video was perfectly adequate, it'd be weird if he switched up his format for yugioh. Still glad this popped up in my suggestions from his video XD
I DID NOT MEAN (he did not mean), TO BLOW YOUR MIND (to blow your miiiind), BUT THAT SHIT HAPPENS TO ME, ALL THE TIIIIIIIIIIIME
I watched farfa’s interview with cat man and it seemed like we just missed the point
@@dustinsterling3248 TANAC!
Foxcade is finally back, baby!
Funny you should mention dandelion because that card's never coming off the ban list because of Link summoning and the fact that it's affect is not a hard once per turn or even a soft once per turn. If you recycle it multiple times you could have the most unbreakable board the world has ever seen
To be fair, they could errata it. They did it to Chaos Emperor Dragon who, if it were re-released with its original card effect, would *still* be one of the most powerfull cards in the game
Errata might be done on that card to get unbanned
Being able to use tokens for Link Summoning is such bs and whenever MR6 drops (if ever) they should retcon that, maybe errataing cards with tokens that are *supposed* to be for links with the clause that they can, cus it's so dumb that so many token-summoning cards are banned due to Links
@@Kureiji-jy3cbor maybe master rule 6 making tokens for sycros only usable for syncros
Why they thought it sound be a good idea to let people use tokens as materials for anything is beyond me
Seeing this in my sub feed after getting DEEP into all things YGO (anime/manga AND TCG) all over again thanks to Fox's last vid was certainly a hell of an experience. Can't wait to dig into this thing!
I really appreciated the Yugioh history overview, it's a game that sounds fascinating, but is really hard to approach as an outsider. I agree completely about archetypes being a good idea, because the "40 best cards in the format" phenomenon is a huge problem. For example, if you play Commander in Magic, choosing a 5-color commander lets you play any legal card, and you can probably guess at least 20 cards of "good stuff" staples that *will* be present in that deck, regardless of the text on that commander. One method I've seen to prevent an archetype from becoming a prescribed decklist is to leave a conspicuous hole in the archetype. For example, in Netrunner, one side will eventually want to get 3 different categories of cards in play: a fracter, a decoder, and a killer (don't worry about what they do). One archetype was printed that spent an unusual resource to fuel these cards, but they only created a fracter and a killer. What decoder should one choose for this archetype? "Figure it out. You do you." Also, it is wild that the default format is "almost everything". No wonder there's a reputation for power creep, new cards would never be played otherwise!
That's not an entirely unexplored concept in Yugioh. There's a lot of archetypes or card series designed to be an "engine"- a small handful of cards not meant to be a deck on their own, but synergized with other decks strategies. One of the most popular was the "Invoked" cards which was a fusion archetype with only one main deck monster, "Aleister the Invoker," and a number of Fusion monsters that can be summoned by banishing Aleister and a monster with a certain attribute. Since "Invoked" only had 1 monster you can't run it as a pure deck, but it gave a lot of power to the decks it synergized with like Shaddolls or Dogmatika.
As for me, a Cyber Dragon player (that stopped watching the series after that graduation duel between Jaiden and Zane) returning last year to play this game, I got overwhealmed on how fast and complex modern game is played. Like what is even this Synchro stuff? What is this Stardust Dragon? Xyz? How do you put a card onto another card to make a new monster? It all happened so fast, I had to move out of a slow paced deck and get into a modern 10 minute combo floodgating ygo. So yes, even tho I lose my mind every day, it's worth seeying the nostalgia of Cyber End Dragon deck giving a fight vs any modern deck.
Cannot state enough just how utterly refreshing it is to finally see a channel which doesn't usually focus on yugioh actually look into how the game was, how it actually evolved and why it evolved they way it did instead of just trashing it for not being the exact same as an idolized childhood memory from 20 years go. Seriously it's so fucking appreciated and really hope it widely reaches the more general audiences so more discussions can be had that don't devolve into one side parroting an overdone and over-exaggerated take.
We didn't get too excited either. The old Yugioh had problems and the game evolved but now the game fixes the previous problems to have many more problems than the old Yugioh, and that shows a bad evolution that they have had in the long run (looking forward to part 2)
maybe if yugioh as a game bothered to address its many, many debilitating issues ppl wouldn't parrot those issues over and over. food for thought
@@ghost-iv8gt Really bothered replying to a comment from a year ago just to complain? There is a difference between actual issues in the game and then the idiot statements of shit like "synchros and everything after ruined this" from those who refuse to even learn while throwing a tantrum when someone doesn't play like a toddler.
@@Dragonmatic when did i say synchros or anything after ruined the game? the games flaws run far deeper and are far older than synchro summoning. cope harder, the game sucks, that's why we aren't getting new players
@@ghost-iv8gt That is one of the plenty of mindless statements which people keep being parroted as issues when it couldn't be further than the truth. And new players are being introduced to the game every day, have personally seen people I know go from not knowing jackshit to actively playing D/D/D, Sprights, Vanquish Soul and other modern decks. If the game's core gameplay was as bad as some make it out to be, there would not be consistently record breaking attendances during tournaments in the last 3 years. The main issue is establishing a good tutorial and getting it through some people's dense skulls that after a quarter of a century the game would naturally have changed.
As someone who is into Magic and has been playing Digimon casually since it’s latest release, it’s always interesting to see how a card game took its shape! Magic was the first TCG, meaning everyone was a brand new player and no one could tell what was going to be good. (In beta test, someone said they traded a forest for a mox emerald thinking they do the same thing. And yes, they have the same rules text, but one is a basic land and core to how the game works while the other is a part of the power 9, a hall of fame of the game’s best cards.) Judging power level is difficult when the game is so new. Digimon started hesitantly with effects such that vanilla cards, costed aggressively to make up for their lack of ability, were pretty good in the early days. Now that has shifted. Even the colors have become more less relevant as archetypes become more of a thing. Magic has been able to avoid archetypes by leaning on their color pie and set rotation. Both of those ensure that the best cards aren’t universal or game-defining. As for Yugioh, I don’t play, but watching 5Ds recently does make me want to put together some synchro decks as a little battle chest.
If you are interested in trying Yugioh but don't want to jump into the deep end of the current meta or the slower early years, I'd recommend looking at Edison Format. It's near the end of the Synchro era when it got its own identity as a TCG and you had diverse options for deck options, but combos aren't 10+ minutes long. It's a fun format that has a pretty dedicated following.
REALLY good video i agree with almost every point you make here, i cant wait for the second part and am glad to see another based generaider enjoyer
dire finally got a W!
Common dire W
@@brave1_007 *uncommon dire W
@@aether6293 true haha
I know we all think the Yugi vs. Strings Revival jam mill was hype, but I think the Rebecca vs. Vivian Fire princess burn strategy was super underrated in terms of the anime talking about alternative win conditions
I remember seeing an episode or two of the original Yugioh anime when I was very young in the 2000s, but I didn’t have cable so I didn’t grow up with the series. Then I discovered the series as a whole as a preteen, and it is one of my franchises. The news of Kazuki Takahashi’s death was both shocking and sad, and I appreciate the tribute in the beginning of the video.
It was on kidswb I didn't have cable either
it was on saturday mornings and aired on afternoon blocks after school like kdswb on certain local tv stations non cable i didnt have cable till i was 16 myself (35 now lol)
The reason i think why neos spacian fusion monsters returned to the ED during the EP, is because it's a reference to Ultraman, which is a show where a human transform into a giant alien super hero that's protecting earth. Which in the show, Ultraman has limited time for how long they need to fight before they ran out of time and turned back into their human form and usually they fly away to the sky once the threat is deal with. So Neos spacian is basically mimicking/referencing that in how the archetypes work Cool idea on paper.... But yeah absolutely not great on execution Though i do think this is a cool idea and one of the first instance of an archetype that would imagined how would an archetype fight/work and translating that into card game form
To be fair, the idea *could* have worked really well if the fusions resummoned back all the materials once they go back to the ED. That way you actually have something to defend yourself with. Instead , for most of them, you either need to reduce your opponent's LP to 0 or remove their resources so that they can't nuke you from orbit next turn The new support is nice tho and Rainbow Neos is *f*cking insane* even today
God awful archetype, burning abyss has both cool references and meta defining moment. All that effort fusing 2-3 monster then hampered by trash mechanic that makes even spirit monsters blushed for references no one cared about until now.
Such a pleasant video! You're in the small minority of players who come back after a hiatus with a positive attitude. Looking forward to part 2!
You do bring up a good point in this video: We need more support for more neglected archetypes as a whole. I recently got into Burning Abyss, and my god is it rough to play BAs in 2022. If it weren't for the recent Bystial archetype working as a band-aid for the deck, this would be unplayable. Although, i suppose thats sort of the point of generic support in a trading card game.
I see you've discovered the joy of C1 Dante target Cir, C2 Cir target Dante and Beatrice pass.
They'll probably get around to it. They gave freaking *Meklords* really good support about 2 years ago. An archetype they haven't touched more or less since the Synchro era And sure, giving generic support would be great, but they would need to be carefull not to run into the same problem they did with generic Zombie support 5-6 years ago, where it got so bad they went on a crusade ridicilously overbalance *everything* Zombie related PS: Love Burning Abyss too, but, yeah, its rough. The archetype is STARVING for some new support.
@@overthemoon34 I've actually been trying to make shit like Cicada King work in this deck along with rank 6 monsters (its why i'm shoving Bystials in here), but archetypes like Branded Despia can just dodge negates now and until Beldrake releases next set, i can ONLY rely on XYZ monsters or trap cards to get shit done. We need more good rank 3s. I have no means of stopping something like Branded Banishment. Even Ashura King only stops monster effects. I can only play so much back row removal without killing my consistency, i only play enough to out Mine. What am I supposed to do, play Spiritualism? Like, I could, but BAs excavate cards a fair amount. Its why we play Galaxy Cyclone. I'll have to look into backrow removal GY effects i guess. Either that, or i'll need to start playing DMOC or some shit so i can grab outs out of the GY.
5Ds is and always will be peak Yu-Gi-Oh for me. My favorite season, this is when I got into Yu-Gi-Oh, synchro is my favorite summoning archetype.
I stopped at the dungeon dice era. That was it for me.
Last pack i bought was 1st edition invasion of chaos in like 2005
5ds couldve been the 2nd greatest ygo series but synchro arc happened and it never recovered
Honestly talking about how the Synchro summon mechanic sped up the game, as someone who had never watched 5DS until around the time you dropped your last video, the thing that amused me in watching that anime is seeing just how much more interesting the actual strategies used in the anime were. It felt like they were truly playing the card game instead of made up effects or trying to use a mechanic which in real life demanded extraordinary amounts of luck. Sure the anime still has the clutch low LP topdeck moments all the time and its share of dookie archetypes, but it felt like it really fleshed out strategies on display, which I think mirrored the card game itself in terms of Konami striving to make a far more dynamic card game with more in-archetype interactions.
The "ignore the Guardian Code for as long as possible" arc of Foxcade has been one of my personal favorites.
Lol
18:55 "Jank decks that wanted to play the funny burger". I took that personally. 😂
Its weird to see another Yu gi oh video in my sub box in like 5 days. First Act man and now Foxcade. I am not complaining.
Wait, act man has a yugioh video? Brb
With the main difference that Foxcade made a much better aproach of the history of Yu-Gi-Oh! from a casual perspective than Act man and his bad takes.
@@ARM-jz2qy What do you mean? The Legendary Fisherman III is CLEARLY broken and is shaking up the meta rn, obviously.
Right as I got back into Yugioh via Master Duel too. Perfect timing
44:26 *THE SAVIOR HAS RETURNED*
Alongside this video being very well made and your points nicely backed up, I really like how you went through the effort of getting footage for a lot of the decks, playstyles and formats you're talking about. It's tiring seeing the same LotD Exodia clip with banned cards over and over again when someone tries to explain the game's pacing, and I noticed that you went through the effort of showing how Magical Scientist FTK works in practice while explaining it for only 15 seconds. Thanks for taking the time to do those small things, it really helps to keep the video evergreen. Can't believe I hadn't subbed when the 5D's video came out, keep up the great quality.
Quick note: Goat format is not actually slow. The best deck is a first turn kill. People just didn't know that until way later
Im so happy i have another foxcade video to watch and even more excited it’s about my favourite tcg, looking forward to binge watching this until part 2 comes out in a year
This was such an incredibly well made video. I can't wait for the next part. Although I still love playing modern Yu-Gi-Oh! to this day, I definitely have the fondest memories of it from the 5D's era where the standard of buying three structure decks meant you've got a near-competitive ready deck became the norm. I loved the variety of strong decks during the specific era of Machina, Gravekeepers, Agents, Dragunity, Six Samurais and Dark Worlds which at that time were still affordable for students like me.
People act as if power creep and stratospheric prices are a new thing, consider that there wasn't a tcg player or Amazon back in 2002 to buy cards from, staples prices were through the roof and there weren't any budget replacements, which makes it even worse when every deck is just a good stuff pile of cards. Not to mention, pull ratios were abysmal, you'd get 1-3 ultras and 4-6 supers and a secret if you were lucky, out of which only 2 or 3 cards were usable. Hell, the early OCG format of exodia OTK was gated BECAUSE there wasn't enough stock of the cards so not everybody could play it, which is the only reason it wasn't a tier 0 deck. Modern yugioh is the best time to play right now, even if you only want to play goat or reaper format or if you want to make a casual deck that at least has a win condition, complain about the competitive scene but know that it was always the same.
I'm so excited to watch this. Glad for the content fam 🙏 I'll be looking for pt 2 👀
Very good video man,it reminds of deltazeta history of yugioh but from casual standpoint and amazing how yugioh changed so much.
This is what the actman video should've been like...
You so accurately described the early days of playing yugioh, every recess my friends and I played. All we did was make rules up and throw cards down confidently and no one ever won, recess would just end so we’d call it a tie and play again the next day. Great times looking back on it
I believe the new changes in yugioh are a good thing for gameplay. The older Yu-Gi-Oh felt like such a stalemate until one of you got lucky with your draw for turn.
GX will always have a special place in my Heart, It was the first series I watched back in the early 2000s. Seeing Jaiden quest through Duel Academy and beyond was really great to see. I got to see him win, gain, struggle, throughout the entire series, which made me relate to him even now 18 years later, Despite the amount the of flack the dub gets for its hilarious shenanigans, and cutting of its final season (which I wouldn’t know about until many years later) I still had a great time with it and still do. Then I discovered Duel Monsters , which I would go on to enjoy and then 5ds, Which I used to hate as a kid for some reason I don’t know why I love it now. I would then continue on with the Black Sheep of Zexal and Arc V and then Vrains which was a return to form…. Before Sevens came along which is where I stopped. I say all this to tell you how much Yu-gi-oh means to me and why it will always be one of my favorite series ever. Thank you Takahashi
What a fantastic retrospective! I can’t wait to see the chaos of the new era
Thanks for this; you have inspired me to start a yugioh channel myself but with more of a help system for older players like myself to get back into the game. There’s a niche there that I think I can exploit :).
If Kazuki Takahashi wanted to express that losing wasn't the end of the world, perhaps he shouldn't have made so many manga and anime series about losing literally being the end of the world.
Right? He always talked about Joey being stronger than Yugi or Kaiba, but never let Joey have an important win
Can't wait for part 2 even if it takes a year I really loved the indepth look at all 3 Era's of YGO
Love this video. Reminds me of my own journey through the yugioh timeline. Thanks man.
My history with the game is long and complicated. I, of course, loved playground yugioh. I had been watching the anime since the beginning and my first actual cards came from a Pharaoh's Servant pack I got on christmas. I distinctly remember this because my brother and I got one pack each and were both disappointed we got essentially the exact same cards, the two that pop in my head are gravity bind and Mr. Volcano. A couple months later my Grandma got my brother and I a starter deck each and we could actually play together. I would have been around 6 at that point. I kept watching the anime and collecting cards until I was around 10, my mom deciding that she was sick of my obsession with the tcg and threw it all away. When I was 13/14 I was not keeping up with the anime as closely, but my family was going through a rough patch and school was its own kind of hell. Mom got me a starter deck Jaden and once a week I could get one or two packs. It was better than any other kind of trouble I could be getting myself in. I thought the new stuff was all really cool and eventually I found a local card shop in the area, as one might expect I was more interested than ever. My mom saw no reason to buy singles so I was generally stuck building decks from older sets, relying exclusively on my extremely poor pack luck. But I stuck with the game, I basically never won but throughout the synchro era I still had fun. With the launch of XYZ monsters it became readily apparent I had 0 chance of keeping up, seeing even fewer wins as the game got faster. I eventually ended up with 3 decks and stopped trying to really expand beyond that. I had a E-Hero deck, crystal beasts (one of my favorite wins ever coming from actually dropping a rainbow dragon), and an aggressively terrible six samurai deck. Around this time Vanguard came out and I realized that starting the game when it had 2 starter decks and a single core set meant I would actually be able to keep up as the meta expanded. I stopped improving my yugioh decks, and after going to the official Cardfight Vanguard north american launch event (held the same day as a brony con, a single showroom over at the Anaheim convention center) My focus was slowly shifting. I still went to locals but the scene was shrinking until all that remained was me and the handful of sweaty hyper-competitors. When pendulum summoning was announced I knew I was finally completely paced out of the game, I dropped it to shift my focus to vanguard exclusively. Of course even that didn't last, selling my entire collection when my family became homeless and had to live out of a cheap hotel around a year later. Years go by and I just ignored yugioh, until videos about the game started getting recommended to me at the start of the pandemic. I would play duel links on and off for around a year but dropped it again. It just couldn't keep me interested like the physical game. Eventually I found out about the Ice barrier structure deck in probably the middle of 2021, and keeping my love of absolute garbage alive I bought a few to build a proper ice barrier deck like I wanted when I first found out about duel terminal when I was a teen. I still don't play, knowing the jank I enjoy could not keep up in even a moderately competent setting. I just collect the crap decks I found I enjoyed during brief times I would pick up duel links or master duel. I am sure I would enjoy a super casual setting but I don't think I am likely to find a casual place I could mesh with for a variety of reasons I don't really want to expand on. Instead I wait in my room for the Harpie cards I got off TCGplayer to come in the mail.
Yugioh is one of those games and shows I’ll always hold close. After winning a world championship, pioneering the first turn Exodia deck, and becoming the true king of games, I will always be nostalgic for the yugioh.
Always excited to see one of your videos they are a greet way to wind fown after work, keep up the great content and keep up the awesomeness.
44:23 Yup, this video is a good retrospective on Yu-Gi-Oh! when it acknowledges Ojama Lime.
29:46 THE PLUNDER PATROL CAPTAIN IS REAL!
Oh no, you made me eager to play YGO again. I stopped back in... 2013!
Im just gonna keep replaying til this hits 1 million views.
It’s always the little channels bringing the BEST and most DEEP videos 👏👏
I think there should be some sort of balance. I lime the idea of limited architypes. stuff thats not strictly pigeonholed to a set interaction, but does have a “prefered” one. like effects that reference type or atribute. “target one machine monster” instead of “target one wind up” sort of thing. things that have alikely intended playstyle, but it doesnt mean you have to auto include 3 other cards that all were made with only the archetype in mind.
Recently found you with the 5Ds retrospective and love the channel can’t wait to see more videos of any kind. I also agree I support the defend archetypes because you can get all kinds of different play styles which can fit any player. Like the example of the Generaiders where you play as a big Boss for your opponent. There are of course Heros and Glad Beast with coming together by fusing and battle effect then with the sub sections of archetypes too. There plenty of still good generic cards in the extra deck and other stuff but I always prefer archetypes because it’s always nice to have a deck with similar art and a possible story and connections to them rather than just a bunch of random cards that happen to work together like in the past
What an exceptional analysis! Can't wait for more!
The video I've been looking for x thank you man can't wait for more
Really great history. Thank you!
Really good video. Loved it! 👍
I got back into yugioh when master dual came out it was kinda a shock running into pendulum 4 the first time but figured it out and personally like all the new mechanics +cards 😊
Despite having not played YuGiOh since it first came out I enjoyed this massively. I'd never really realised that they were essentially making an anime and card game in tandem and how complex that must have been! I've really taken for granted how MTG was built from almost day 1 for competitive play! Would have loved to see more of the mechanics of the monsters (although those descriptions look long as hell) - looking forward to the next part!
I was expecting the GX retrospective but this is also good. Great video.
Honestly didn't even try to play the game legit even when it came out. Read one of the first rules books but didn't have any friends anyway. Now the game seems like utter madness lol
The game seems like madness, because it is. If Pokemon is checkers, then something like Magic would be Fire Emblem 3 Houses. Yugioh, to put into perspective, would then be the card game equivalent to Blazblue Centralfiction. And that madness is fun as hell.
That opening was muchly needed. A good reminder. I play locals, and would like to try my hand at a regional level, but i need to work on my stamina playing yugioh all day, and managing my emotional state
Looking forward to the part 2 of this.
This speaks to me on so many levels. I have a similar backstory with the game; getting into it when it first came out, watching and loving the anime, playing the handhelds as access to more cards, then falling out when those stopped; so hearing these opinions from someone with a similar background is relatable and refreshing to me. I am decently biased I will admit, but looking over the years and cards and strategies, I think the best time to have played the game is around the middle of the 5Ds era just before the "ladder climbing" strategies started to take over. Where one set-up lead to an entire turn of solitaire resulting in a boss monster. But that could just be my years of playing and replaying the handheld games on the DS.
I loved when synchros were introduced and just recently started playing master duel after not playing for years and black wings still work pretty well
Unreal video 🔥🔥🔥
Its funny how many parallels there were between Blue Eyes White Dragon and OG Charizard in Pokemon, in that they were the coveted treasures of the playground but not that good in the actual game, not from lack of power but lack of practicality.
I am part of the 'YGO was better before Synchro' camp. I tried to rejoin the YGO TCG during the Link Summon debut, but it was quite challenging to keep up with all the archetype combos and hand traps because they didn't exist when I was younger. Nowadays, I prefer to play Speed Duels because of their simplicity, which brings back memories of the old YGO metas. From an anime perspective, I'm glad that Konami has put significant effort into keeping Black Magician and Blue-Eyes White Dragon somewhat relevant in the present day. They remain faithful to the YGO plot lore, such as how, canonically, Blue-Eyes White Dragon is still the highest ATK-point Normal Summoned monster and has retained its status as the strongest monster since Episode 1 of the original series. The God cards are considered the most powerful entities and still hold that reputation, despite being almost unusable in real-life gameplay due to significant nerfs compared to their anime counterparts, where they were incredibly overpowered. They are iconic and symbolic, representing this game, at least for me, akin to how Pikachu is the mascot of Pokemon.
I love how Tuners started out as slow and weak monsters with effects as terrible as the effect monsters in the era of Yugi/Kaiba format. Now some tuners are even way stronger than the non tuners in the main deck, like with Rokket Tracer
i think its because they recognized they'll eventually run into some sort of roadblock in trying to design tuners that way since then people would just only run specific tuners and ignore the rest which people did do and only use the worst cuz it was necessary if their deck, eventually we'll come to a point where there is enough good tuners that no bad tuner is needed and when this happens some tuners is world more or less then be designed to be DoA or just blatant fluff in a pack which is no way to sell cardboard might as well make tuners the good cards as the combo starters so people design synchro decks around the tuners and pick the non-tuners depending on the deck's needs since there is way more non-tuners with useful effects that is already used anyway on the other hand early synchro did avoided printing a lot of lvl 4 tuners or at least generic ones since lvl 8 synchros were the standard boss monsters and getting to lvl 8 synchros so easily was too much back then
I see u with that duelist of the roses music 👌. Favorite yugioh game
I play modern Yu-Gi-Oh but will always love the beginning more.
Man! Amazing! I Will waiting the Next part excited!
I can’t wait for PART TWO! 😌
Now THIS is a good video, unlike the one by Act Man, which also went in some depth but in the end only served to validate his nostalgic bias rather than challenge it.
One thing he got better however is season 0 footage. I can count the pixels here.
Totally relate 🥹 great video!
Great video! Plans for part 2?
Part 2 when? This was an amazing video!
Fun video! Great watch.
I love reading early Yu-Gi-Oh cause i love seeing how it evolved to practically change genres. Duelist Kingdom battles feel more like DND using trading cards. And it makes sense to lean towards that when things were still in the air since the arc right before that was a DND homage with bakura
I think Duelist Kingdom was taking riffs from another CCG, Monster Collection. It is Japanese exclusive, and did a whole bunch of environment bonuses and card placement.
Great video! I tried to get into the TCG but my school banned the cards the week after I got my Black Skull Dragon tin haha so I never got the experience of playing on the school ground. I only kept up with the anime for years until the pandemic hit and I was obsessed with duel links and eventually master duel. I wonder when how you'll deal with the controversies around hand traps, pendulums, rush duel, etc
There weren't really any controversies with them, Pendulums are one of the worst summoning types in the game, shared with Ritual, Hand traps are necessary to make sure that decks can't just go full power with no interactions and Rush Duels are actually quite liked, not as much as the main game though, obviously.
DNA Surgery Insect Barrier was my favourite combo as a kid I used to play as Weevil people always underestimated me because of this but insects were pretty good. Insect Barrier + DNA Surgery, if you get this lock going you can bring out Great Moth (its evolved form didn't exist in TCG until later and was impossibe to summon) with Petit Moth + Cocoon of Evolution (this is good as a wall too) or attack directly with Leghul Javelin Beetle was good bc you could use Great Moth to bring it out with Javelin Beetle Ritual if the Cocoon got destroyed. Girochin Kuwgata was a good beat stick if you run Forest Bugs also get powerful effect cards: Man-eater Bug Needle Worm (your opponent might run out of cards or have their only way of breaking your lock milled to the graveyard making this a really nasty surprise plus it was very rare not everyone knew about it) 4-star ladybug of Doom You can keep your field full with Flying Kamakiri 1 to bring out more Kamakiri 1s and a Flying Kamakiri 2 I tried Parasite Paracide and had no luck with it. Kwagar Hercules was too weak. Giant Flea and Killer Needle were ok you could keep 1 f each as searchables but Hercules beetle required a tribute and Basic Insect did not get massively powered up by laser cannon armor like it did in the show. I also wanted to play as Rex but back then dinos had zero support Megazowler & sword Arm of Dragon did not exist in the TCG we did get Two Headed King Rex which I was happy to find in a tournament pack Uraby was there too Trakodon and Gokibore you could later get at Mcdonalds but dinos were very limited. Two Headed Rex Uraby Mammoth Graveyard Two Mouth Darkruler Raise Body Heat Wasteland those were tough times for dino duelists even Rex Raptor had to run some dragons in his deck luckily dinosaurs did get a lot more support and main charcter status in GX.
When you mentioned the goat format I was surprised you didn't mention the second most iconic old format - Edison! Its in the synchro era and the diverse pool of decks is staggering. Great analysis on old school yugioh, I agree with a lot of your points. Personally for me 5ds is my favorite era to play and watch.
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I will always love Yugioh, it was a special work of art in my childhood, and it will never leave me. Ever
I’m don’t see how watching someone take a five minute turn could ever be fun.
Bro walked out the door promising us to be back before dinner with part 2 and never came home.
I just went out to get some cigarettes! Its the next video that will go up on the channel, it just turned into a whole production.
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I miss playing old school yugioh
Hyped for part 2
Yu Gi Oh The Eternal Duelist Soul on a Game Boy, but actually on a PC, was my childhood Yu Gi Oh video game.
As someone who stopped playing around the GOAT format era, seeing the evolution of the game here is crazy.
5D's to me was the ideal level of YGO. Everything past that started making it a bit TOO easy to get super powerful card out quickly, and the later support for archetypes like gravekeeper or fiends have become so combo-heavy that a single turn can take up to half an hour. Konami now has the exact OPPOSITE problem they used to have.
Oh man can’t wait for part 2
Loved this. Part two please 🥺
I NEED PART 2 ARGGGG
Great video ❤