Broken Spirit : The Story of The Yata Lock - The Most Hated Play In Yu-Gi-Oh! History

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[@MarvelMan4]

In the Tag Force games, if you do the Yata Lock against the AI, they are programmed to surrender. Neat attention to detail.

[@wolfox7776]

TimeLord1221 Konami van di right sometimes

[@qty1315]

Might not be intentional. I don't know much (or really, anything) about the AI in the Yugioh games. But, I do know that in strategy games the AI is almost always programmed to surrender (if the option is available) if no other options are available. The idea is simple. Every turn, the AI in turn-based games chooses one of the options available to it. If the only thing that an AI can do is surrender, it will surrender because it has no other options. If you don't have the option to surrender, it could cause serious problems unless you design the game around surrendering never being an option (like, say, Advance Wars). It sounds like the idea behind the Yata-Lock is to create a situation where the AI has no option to choose other than surrender. Again, I could be wrong, but it sounds like to have the Yata-Lock in play requires the opponent to have no other option than to surrender. I don't know. To me, it seems like it would be easier and more useful in general to program the AI to choose to surrender once it realizes that it can't possibly win, than to program an AI to surrender in a very specific situation involving a specific card.

[@russellmathura6532]

World championship 2006 too

[@Gaizure]

They have to have zero cards in hand but yeah it’s funny

[@kennethwilliams6916]

As do I this card came out when I was in High school and it's a lock out card that is so f'n hard to counter if you even could!

[@bats10v]

fun fact: in several yugioh video games, the AI will instantly surrender if you get them in the yata lock.

[@joshuakim5240]

Random referential NPC: Muahahahaha! You're finished once i summon my (insert generic dragon boss)! Player: I wipe your field and play Yatagarasu! Yatagarasu: *caws and flaps its measly 200 attack wings* Random referential NPC: Whoa, fuck this! I'm out!

[@thedoomslayer8900]

I guess you learn something new every day. Imma go try that

[@AztecJester93]

Damn that would be hilarious to see in Duel Links!

[@sparda9060]

hell no they don't. which games was it then? all the the yugioh games on psp and gameboy they never surrender, you had to literally take 20+ turns killing them with yata. maybe they put it in in games that released wayyyy after LOD (legacy of darkness) came out.

[@brianaguilar8283]

sparda9060 Yugioh Tag Force and World Championship Series

[@EnvoyofDarkness]

"I love making veteran Yu-gi-oh players remember the good ol' days." he says, talking about the mon that sets of panic attacks in veteran Yu-gi-oh players

[@uteriel282]

one card to break them all

[@sum-dum_nerd]

When did we get the fiend that negates monster effects?

[@AnTunZee]

For me it’s just fond memories because I was never on the receiving end of The Yata Lock

[@nanohitmen]

Everytime I remember my yata-lock deck Fortunate Son plays in my head

[@bullet4myex187]

I see I’m not the only one who thought about it and basically had nam flashbacks lmao

[@BestFriend188]

Yata-Garasu was taken OFF the ban list today...the story continues...

[@gamepad3173]

wait what?

[@bmrabbit]

Yeah but Chaos Dragon Emperor got nerfed to the ground...

[@gamepad3173]

@@bmrabbit so is Chaos Emperor Dragon even worth using since it got nerfed to the ground?

[@BestFriend188]

@@bmrabbit Sam built a competitive deck for yatalock without chaos emperor. Its still viable

[@bingbongdingdong867]

No, not continues. Yugioh is so different now - a new story began.

[@AlexKidwell1]

I'll never forget the look on the face of those kids who I caught up in the Yata-Lock for the first time. The slow realization of horror creeping onto their face.

[@nkyfong]

I wish I played back then so I could do that.

[@lelexvelasrey3814]

ahhh the good old days

[@yurazah]

i love that they then printed a card called "the legacy of yata-garasu" they knew how bad it was

[@eulefranz944]

The fact that dark hole or raigeki were good cards to yata lock your opponent BUT these same cards were useless against yata, facilitated the yata-lock All stars were alligned for this little spirit bird to break the meta

[@uteriel282]

yatas effect isnt even that good. being a spirit monster is what made the card broken.

[@bakersdozen4283]

Remove Talos you are correct. Also without these broken torrential tribute, black hole, and raigeki cards the card loses a lot of viability. Unless you support it correctly

[@Samurai31631]

Iron Maw Fenrir It wasn’t hard to support yata. FTK’s were running rampant. It was more on how not to get FTKed and how not to get locked yourself that made it difficult.

[@sergiodamas1436]

@@uteriel282 and the low stats

[@ShatnersProdigy]

I'd get yata locked 8 times before i have to sit through a zoodiac combo again

[@ShaddoII]

Nah man, slowly being hit for 200 each turn with no way to stop it until you die is depressing.

[@renjuno1991]

Midnight you dont get hit you get *P E C K E D*

[@sasukekuniski1959]

depressing is for stupid people

[@ninjos4]

Sasuke kuniski so expanding is for geniuses?

[@thejosie]

@@ShaddoII just forfeit

[@TheSLATEcleaner]

Yata-Garasu is such a great card. It's completely broken, but it's an amazing example of a skill testing card in that its power isn't super obvious just looking at it head-on. Thank Wizards for never printing anything similar in Magic, I can't imagine something like "1U, 1/1, flying, haste, whenever this creature deals damage to a player, that player skips their next draw step. At the end of each turn, return this creature from the battlefield to its owner's hand." That would make people literally cry.

[@bobboberson6664]

Don't give them ideas. Have you seen tibalts trickery??? Turn two ugin

[@witecatj7700]

Ah Yatagarasu. I had the pleasure of actually beating this deck back in the day. My opponent got me into this lock after a well placed Raigeki. He then summoned his yata and hit me with the lock. He also had a lvl 4 1800 attack sea serpant (can't remember its name) that would do the btunt of the damage. The thing was, I had Card Destruction and Pot of Greed in hand. Also in my graveyard I had Sinister Serpant. On my turn I got serpant back to my hand and set it. I ended my turn. I kept doing this for about 4 turns. He never once activated any spells or set traps. So on my next turn I activated POG and drew my Dark hole. Nuked his monster and set the Mirror Force I also drew. Activated Card Destruction and got rid of that darn bird. I summoned my Dark Elf and attacked him to drop him to 1500 life points. Ended my turn. He placeed a face down monster and ended his turn. Next draw was nobleman of crossout and I used it. It was a Fiber Jar and he was open for as direct attack. He was not too happy after that and left before his next match.

[@GatorRay]

+WitecatJ WOW! I LOVE hearing about personal duel stories like this.

[@pherasabraxas]

This post made my night. I enjoyed reading this alot 🤗

[@PunishedFelix]

hardcore heart of the cards man

[@HFOfficial]

If you had cards in hand, you weren't in the yata lock

[@TrollCapAmerica]

Yeah you got lucky once by not ending up actually locked in the days before Yata was a completely braindead win condition . 99% of the time it goes the other way and THEN CED came out turning the game into a mindless race to lucksack into a couple cards that give you an autowin

[@Djangothepaintrain]

"Good old days of the past" Yeah, i guess having the equivalent of a trickstar reincarnation - droll n lock combo every turn was a real fun ride

[@sandroguzelj1234]

well it sure was better than todays meta where the person who goes first vomits their entire hand on the board, goes plus idk how many cards and then you have exactly one turn to break their board or its gg.....

[@TrollCapAmerica]

Today they go up and down with different decks new OP options etc but back then there was only ever one thing going and no hope of it going away on the horizon. Hell you still get emergency bans nowadays back then there weren't ever banlists to hope could curtail a mistake

[@Djangothepaintrain]

At least nowadays you have a hand to try and break boards, and if something's broken, it gets banned, like it did with the pendulums ftk, astrograph sorcerer, master piece and such, and we don't get ONE single op card that gets played in 90% of the decks just because it's too op

[@f1r3hunt3rz5]

@@Djangothepaintrain Links Knightmares beg to fucking differ.

[@UngovernableU]

@@Djangothepaintrain one single op card oof my dude everyone and their child has a knightmare in their deck unless u mean like a single broken card

[@silvion90]

Me: Man, these F.A kinda work like Fortune Ladies! Friend: What's Fortune Ladies? Me: *Cries a little*

[@18TheFinal]

What's F.A

[@gamergames334]

@@18TheFinal F.A my balls GOTTEM

[@annedrieck7316]

Thats a cute elf pfp😙

[@r3zaful]

@@gamergames334 gottoms

[@jasonshannon8708]

Story time: Alright so it's been a long time(2004) but I did consistently beat Yata/Envoy decks back when they were the best deck. I made this deck to celebrate after winning a regional with the Meta BLS/Chaos/Yata deck. You see, for a time BLS and Emperor Dragon were restricted but DMOC was not yet; and Painful Choice was still also only restricted. My deck was of course Tripple DMOC(way before the errata) w/ Monster Reborn, Premature B, Painful, Graceful, MoF(Semi), Apprentice Magician etc etc etc. I didn't need Envoy or BLS or Yata as I could fairly consistently bring out 3 DMOCS. I can comment the list if anyone cares. Also during the Yata era but before Chaos stuff was out(maybe 2003) I had an amazing machine deck that never lost to Yata even once. Limiter Removal was at 3 and I was lucky enough to own 3 Mechanical Chasers(TP1 was new still) and also figured out Magical Scientist could bring out 3 Machine Dragons and they can all attack over a Reaper on the Nightmare which you Creature Swapped to them of course. I really thrived competitively during these YGO eras and made a lot good friends. I still have my Millennial Puzzle Trophy too. I'm thinking about playing in April again but not sure yet. Thank you sincerely if you've read this far.

[@alconfalcon4994]

The Yata-Lock seriously sounds like something a Yu-Gi-Oh! Protagonist would do

[@tdarkhorse4]

you're so close. it's something that almost happened TO yugi, but his opponent didn't know how to do it correctly to auto-win because protagonist. instead yugi beat slifer twice by turning the second mouth against it. one by deckout, which now that i'm already into typing i just realized you were prolly referencing; and the other killing all 3 gods with the second mouth by reversing their magnetic polarity.

[@kichiroumitsurugi4363]

@@tdarkhorse4 Basically, Yugi got Marik in a loop with Revival Jam's effect to force Slifer to destroy it, which would special summon it back, forcing Marik to draw 3 every time this happened, all the way to deck out. The second time, Yugi used Magnetic Field to force Slifer's attack decrease effect to hit the gods instead of the Magnet Warriors, continually summoning and desummoning Valkyrion to force the effect

[@nkaujci]

even KOnami didnt believe how strong it was at first...

[@uteriel282]

konami was probs thinking that being a spirit monster makes it worse when it was the one point that made the card so op.

[@Serin9X]

Konami at that time was so completely clueless as to how their game actually worked. It bordered on hilarity.

[@JoseFlores-xh5cj]

Nobody knew how to play yugioh back then

[@brianaguilar8283]

Serin9X maybe that’s why they released Victory Dragon

[@qty1315]

@@Serin9X Not really. I think it's more that they didn't think that a big competitive scene would form around their card game for kids about monsters and magic. It seems like they only expected to sell the cards to kids for a few years while the anime was on the air. A couple broken cards here or there didn't matter too much when the scope of the competitive scene was 12-year old kids playing against each other on the playground. Hack, keep in mind that the early days of Yu-Gi-Oh were filled with cards that are considered to be broken these days (Pot Of Greed being the most famous) simply because Konami didn't care about balancing the game in the slightest. Overpowered cards (Blue-Eyes, Exodia) are fun for kids to win with, and they'll continue to buy packs of cards to get those OP cards. It's like how early Smash Bros. games were incredibly unbalanced for competitive play. They weren't initially designed to be played competitively, so they didn't need to be balanced. Mewtwo in the original Pokemon games is also a good example. The creator didn't intend for Mewtwo to be balanced, or have any counters at all, because Mewtwo was meant to be a Pokemon that broke the game because you caught it at the end of the game. There weren't any intentions of creating competitive Pokemon tournaments, so why would it matter if Mewtwo was virtually unbeatable?

[@xCheeseHead95x]

Hey Cap! I absolutely love these history videos as they let me see how the game was being played competitively when I was but 10 years old or during times when I was taking a break during my teen years. It's pretty amazing to see all these things I was oblivious to during those eras! I'm sure there's a ton of history metas you can cover, but I have noticed you make mention of many infernity otks that I don't understand and that would be awesome if you could cover that archetype someday! Much love

[@keithgriner61]

I still remember the feeling of betrayal after my buddy dropped Yata on his field the first time.

[@marcusjihansson]

Have you done a Yugioh history, Dragon ruler format? If not, would be a fun idea!

[@mikepower8999]

Ha! man that was a crazy broken but fun as hell format. Super rengeneration was a very satisfying card to get off.

[@royblekman8186]

Marcus Johansson i would love to learn the story of those cards.

[@DarkSymphony777]

Roy Blekman me too all I know is that the dragon rulers is the only archetype who has all it's cards are banned

[@BoBIzzaro13]

I would LOVE this

[@marcusjihansson]

darksymphony777 Yeah. Dragon Rulers was nerfed twice and still remained a top tier deck. Until Konami stomped the deck, and said you shall not pass!

[@skeeplebop]

I used to play yugioh when I was in 8th grade, about 14 years ago, right around the time that CED and the Yata lock were going strong. I remember going to local tournaments where dudes (that were significantly older than me and capable of buying however many boosters that were necessary) would kick my ass left and right using the dreaded combo. It's funny though, as a kid, I really didn't consider that the game could be so flawed as to allow a strategy so broken, so I always attributed my losses to my own level of skill and lack of funds to get the cards I wanted/needed. Looking back, clearly the strat was broken af, and I'm thoroughly surprised that I made it as far as I did without abusing Yata, Chaos Emperor, or Black Luster. Good for you, young Joe.

[@hitmonchan52]

In a sense you were right tho. You were still a noob to the yugis and kaibas running around

[@Olecranon89]

Can confirm. I attended local sanctioned tournaments every week as a kid back in the early 2000's and adopted the Yata Garasu strategy when the card was first released. It made me pretty much unbeatable. I won around 50 tournaments in a row (maybe more) or approximately 150 duels with zero losses, making me the two time regional champion, and I received two official Millennium Puzzle trophies because of it. I ranked in the top 100 in North America and top 1000 worldwide on the official Yugioh website. I actually started to feel guilty about it towards the end, because it really wasn't fair. The only people who could even compete against me were others using the same strategy. I remember once being down to 200 hp while my opponent still had a full 8000, and I still managed to win due to getting him into a "Yata Lock." I quit Yugioh after receiving the second trophy, and was not at all surprised to learn years later that the strategy had been banned.

[@rasmusstenhjkoustrup5345]

August 2003 Format, with Yata-Lock Hand Controle, Daaamn, that was some good times, still have my originale deck from back then. And again, love this series Cap G, keep it up man XD

[@danielsmith5032]

What an excellent video! It took me on a stroll down memory lane! Thank you!

[@serenadesilhout]

Great video. I haven't played yugioh since middle school (well over a decade ago) but I enjoy these videos. Keep it up!

[@majorleaugeb9168]

Shout out from jersey came across this channel good vids . You break things down and learned things I didn't even know and I'm a OG yugioh player .. keep up the good work man

[@whatshendrix]

Man, your channel is an absolute treasure!

[@TheGutCowboys]

Love these videos. I don’t play yugioh but I play ssbm and love hearing about the histories of strategies evolving and broken stuff like this.

[@user-nk7et6mb5u]

I love your Yugioh stories series so much

[@bluescythe5530]

Man this brings me back. I used to run the lock myself. And have been locked. Newer era yugioh yata would be trickstars seeing as they essentially do the same thing. This was a fun video man. Keep up the good work.

[@Ramenwithegg]

The good ol cursed days of yata. I played during the height of beat down decks. 90% of players at my local card shop pretty much had the same decks. 3 Gemini/goblin attack force, jinzo, injection lily and yata. Every deck. A yata lock would happen literally every other match. It was that frequent and that easy to pull off, yes even without emperor drag

[@NationalistAF]

great video. i like this Yu-Gi-Oh! History stories.

[@KumaPaws376]

I remember these days of non archetype cards

[@sandroguzelj1234]

same. i am sick of every duel being the same: vomit half of your deck on the board and if the opponent cant get past multiple huge bodies with 50+ negation effects its gg....yugioh has gotten depressing af

[@ebolachan8198]

Good old times:)

[@KumaPaws376]

Ebola Chan heck yeah

[@draksunebladefang4107]

Ive only recently began to accept XYZ monsters but I will NEVER accept Pendulums. Praise the Egyptian Gods for Link Monsters. God I miss the good ol' days where boosters weren't comprised of prebuilt decks and you actually had to use strategy to build a deck. Decks that were built around a win condition and not a mechanic with a fancy name.

[@alanpereyra5503]

Links are the most disgusting mechanic, way worse than Pendulum ever were. Its just way too many generic combos that lock you out of playing.

[@bryanprice5784]

PRAISE BE UNTO THE SPIRIT CROW, YATA IS FREE

[@WaXX69420]

This gives me goddamn vietnam flashbacks

[@seekertosecrets]

Did that White Rabbit song play inside your head when you reminisce?

[@manoicewhoeatwo122]

Same getting hiding in the trees and tunnels waiting for your land mines I loved that lil bird

[@gamernation2842]

I love this card, always has been one of my favorites. The card art is so beautiful.

[@VengeAgainProduction]

What I appreciate is hearing these stories as someone who played Yu-Gi-Oh! many, many years ago (pre-2004), but not competitively. So I'd know all the cards, but tournaments and the bandits wasn't something I ever paid attention to, so having this history lesson is much better than just looking up the card, because just seeing its effect doesn't give the true scope of why these cards were such terrors.

[@theogsad-sempai8598]

We owe the ban list to this tiny bird... this tiny bird its god or the devil

[@NickWuebker]

That tiny bird is a fiend. Take that as you will.

[@IronEagleX]

Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I still have my original Yata Lock deck stored away.

[@jamo1774]

Damn back in the good ol days lol. I played a hand destruction yata deck back in the day and won some tourneys from it. This was before chaos tho so it actually took some work to win. I stopped playing before chaos even came out. Great vid man!

[@kcsupersonic1]

Back then, the Yata-Lock as it was known really only ever referred to the combo game-ender of Chaos Emperor Dragon, Witch of the Black Forest/Sangan into Yata. Any other play, and there was an outside chance to play around the Yata with the right resources. You only felt true despair and knew the full meaning of the term Yata-Lock after getting Emperor Dragon-ed into no resources while watching your opponent add Yata to their hand. That was when you were truly locked out.

[@duranyt8274]

If you see this, well said.

[@edwinramos7848]

I love watching this video it inspired me to re create the deck

[@Carlitonsp1]

Rewatching this given recent event.

[@stevenlindgren3314]

This video is perfect. It describes the time era so right on. One thing missed was the MONEY it took in order to build these decks to make these locks happen! Like you couldn't buy singles or reprints yet, so in order to get some of the cards necessary, you had to do insane stupid trades loosing good cards to get "better" cards, work on getting those older ones back, And/or BUY more packs. It was so insanely stupid, you can imagine that that kind of money creep could definitely alone kill the game. Pretty much all competitors had to run a Yata lock deck and rush to get there out first, you were right on there. Banning it saved the game but I want to buy one now so bad cause it's a part of the history.

[@dicebagdaryl]

I was a sophomore in high school in 2003. Let me tell you, that time period was the WILD WEST of Yu-Gi-Oh. All the best players at my school had Chaos decks. I even knew one kid who got a part-time job at Whataburger just so he could afford to build his deck. Cards like Yata-Garasu, Chaos Emperor Dragon-Envoy of the End, Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning, Jinzo, Sinister Serpent, Monster Reborn, Premature Burial, Change of Heart, Pot of Greed, 3x Mystical Space Typhoon, Raigeki, Harpie's Feather Duster, Dark Hole, Heavy Storm, Painful Choice... it was a great time to play the game!

[@AnTunZee]

Ahh the Memories. I remember pulling Yata Garasu and Chaos Emperor Dragon-Envoy of the End in back to back weeks. I became the number one duelist at my school by far with the Yata Lock. The Yata Lock was so powerful I was able to duel 2v1 because all cards complimented each other. I Yata Locked every game but never got Yata Locked myself. It was so despised and misunderstood at the time. Even when I switched decks and played with other duelists decks, they could never pull it off. I remember putting 3 win conditions in my Yata Lock Deck. The best times

[@catsopi]

Love this video. I remember those days bittersweetly

[@robc5210]

This was a good review, most other reviews about this only focus on the Chaos Emperor Dragon combo. I brought yata garasu to a local tournament when he first came out and dominated with it. But this was before CED ever existed. So it used confiscation, delinquent duo, forceful sentry, drop off x3, don zaloog x3, spirit reaper, and cards like mystic tomato to get don and reaper out slowly eating up their hand picking away at them making them skip draw phases until the lock was on. It was far and away the most powerful and dominant card in the game. And it wasn't easy to get as a 000 secret rare, you pretty much had to buy multiple booster boxes or pay $70 on ebay essentially making it a pay to win card at the time. CED continued that tradition as another 000 secret rare. A lot of people in my area who couldn't afford those cards simply could not play in a competitive game. Anyway thanks for the nostalgia

[@magicianzero3960]

Whooooa I came into the game around the yata, bls, and emperor dragon era. This takes me back!

[@utopia19876]

I would love to see this type of videos of newer “Crisis” you know? Like PePe format or Zoodiac

[@DT_Worlds_Strongest_Goth]

This card created a craze at my LGS , people were buying japanese packs where it was a common and trading those commons as if they were 50 dollar cards

[@lorddelta1805]

The G is back

[@user-nm4xe8zu8z]

The history is very good. I never know yata bird helped created banlist. Good work on the video.

[@StarTard8]

Cap, why not do a video on the first truly consistent FTK in YGO: The Fabled MAGICAL SCIENTIST FTK???

[@eocineV2]

I second this, loved that deck.

[@rerickf]

Frog FTK?

[@Samurai31631]

That deck was dirty. “Reasoning, you said lvl 4. I get sangan. I play last will. Now I use monster gate. I get magical scientist from sangan’s effect and summon catapult turtle with last will’s effect. I summon magical scientist...GG”

[@ShiningJudgment666]

@@rerickf Magical Scientist did it first.

[@JJSquirtle]

Magical scientist was disgustingly consistent

[@alexs8846]

Im 32 now, I remember playing in this era of Duel monsters. When yata came into the meta it really salted up ppls feelings. Like it was the first time i saw in tournaments a monster doing life point damage and the opponent quitting the same turn. I left the scene before it got banned. But yea, this brought back the good memories. I even remember when Gemini elf was released and all of us were so pumped lol I hope you kids playing now are having a great time playing. Duel Monsters was my haven growing up

[@kumasu321]

Nice video. Brings nostalgia. I think you should use old card texts for your videos though, as that Witch of the Black forest had a different version of its effect back then. So it throws the explanation off.

[@sleepysaffron]

Sooooo He’s back

[@thomasalsaiyad9288]

friendly audio advice from a passerby: add a de-esser to your vocal chain to remove the harsh Sss in your audio. Love the content G

[@brushfire248100]

I won my first tournament with Yata-Garastu & Sanctuary combo .👍 miss those days Before FTks

[@DrunkManSquakin666]

Ironically, I'm rather fond of Yata, despite having only been on the receiving end of one. It was just such an iconic card of the time that hearing about it only brings back the fond memories I have of the DM era. My friend also had one in his Chaos Control deck, which sported three copies of DmoC. If he didn't take you out turn one with Painful Choice and Monster Reborn, he''d end the game by his fourth turn. Gonna be building my own version of that deck as soon as I can, just for the nostalgia.

[@sharafelemam3917]

I love your vids!

[@kryptekgamer9416]

These Yugioh Stories are soooooooo good

[@rousedrabble]

I remember being 14 years old around 2004 and reading a tournament report about the top 8 from a regional or something. One opponent had played down to an empty hand and ended his turn with no creatures in play. The other opponent looked over his plays and ultimately normal summoned Yata from hand. The crowd gasped as if the match was over, but the opponent revealed torrential tribute and the game went on. Card was so busted to its peers that even appearing outside of the combo was an immediate instant speed removal check with the game on the line. BTH was the popular way to deal with threats then, torrential tribute was limited at the time, and ring of destruction is the only other trap I can think of from that meta that would have helped. In retrospect its nuts that a card was allowed to be that powerful with 0 deckbuilding cost.

[@aoisora1445]

butterfly dagger elma was also fun too when the equip card goes to grave it goes back to your hand but there were lots of fun times during the time of many equip cards lols

[@DeInevitable]

Cap G always takes me back to the "good old days" like the yata lock and wind up loop. the most prevalence was actually during the chaos format. use chaos emperor dragon effect then sack Yata and GG

[@mismismism]

This took me all the way back. I remember when this came out, I pulled a Yata in one of my first packs from the set and none of us really got why it was that rarity cuz it didn't seem strong at the time, but once we messed around with it I went from the one that got the unlucky pulls to the luckiest one in the group cuz Yata was ridiculous at that time.

[@kangurukaiser9395]

One of my favorite plays, i remember the good ol days when this was usable

[@GrimXexe]

I remember around 2003 playing with my buddies, I ran, still do, a Red-Eyes deck and my buddy ran a fiend deck with Yata, and god was that the bane of my existence….he ran a Yata Banish build and his ace was Maju, and depending on how his opening turn went down it was pretty much game over…dark times

[@Gryph00]

I remember I went from Classic Beatdown (Hayabusa Knight themed) > Yata Lock > Beginning and End Deck (Chaos dragon and Luster Soldier envoy of the end) to finally a self made deck I competed with in locals that focused on dark monsters like Necrofear (still have that bad boy lol) man I miss the OG days with this game.

[@HoloDrake]

I remember when mechanical chaser was expensive just because it had 50 more attack than the other 1800 beat sticks at the time, and because it was exclusive to the first ever tournament pack for a long time

[@bloodCount8895]

My favorite duels in high school back in 02-05.

[@heelalucard2962]

Yata is back baybay

[@Electric-Wind-Hook-Fist]

It’s about TIME

[@fcm3d]

Oh god the nostalgia! I ran over so many people with Yata. I miss that bird.

[@ianriot1578]

Yata was secret rare. I rarely seen people with it. Loved ur video man so accurate with the history

[@xnewkingx]

guess what, the terror of the meta is back 🔥 we missed u yata lock🔥🔥

[@MedRock21]

I've chased the high that my yata hand control deck created in every card game I've played since then. I stopped playing a set or two after Legacy of Darkness, but looking back it truly was an incredible time to be playing that insane set of cards. Hearing '15 years ago' is nauseating, however... 😅

[@whitemageserenia]

ugh... Yata-Garasu a card I'll never forget. Back when I used to play Yu-gi-oh a lot, it was actually during that era. my first deck was SDY gen 1 so I've been with the game for a while, but I was at a local tournament one day, and I was doing shockingly well (I got 8th place I think, but its locals so no one cares but that's not the point anyway lol) anyway, I end up going against this one player, who always seemed to have either Smashing Ground, Fissure, Hammer shot and what not for any monster I had on the field. I never could have more than 1 monster cause they'd just blow it away. Eventually they tributed for Airnight Parshath, equipped it with Axe and well, I couldn't do anything, all my resources were pretty much gone, had no more back row, had nothing in hand, and had nothing but 2000 and below defense creatures. She eventually summoned Yata-Garasu... my first time ever even seeing the card, and it was GG from there. >< I couldn't play against that player at all, she was too good, and likewise those cards were way too broken during that era >

[@painxYGO]

Something even deadlier than yata lock at that time would have been "yata pass".

[@sasukekuniski1959]

no

[@dorky2958]

And the chad is back spread its wings and ready to break havoc

[@Ghostrider6A]

I had Prohibition in the side deck specifically for that damn bird.

[@TataGio]

This is the Yugioh I last remembered. Its changed so much

[@jeromecruz3237]

I don't know who came first, the yata or ancient gear deck. But I started playing in ancient gear deck era. And just now, I just learned about this devastating yata card because I am playing myboy emulator of World Tournament 2006, and search for some unique deck, where I found this amazing lock.

[@trickythetrickster9307]

Is back now...

[@DallySkyeAnims]

Very nice new logo, mate.

[@manhore718romero9]

I actually miss this deck , I remember back then all the salt from the players. I actually used the card exchange for yata back then since hardly not many could afford yata. Even though I just used exchange for fun but it worked

[@nyleo04]

Ah, the Yata trap totally makes sense now lol I never played competitively back then so I had no idea about this card

[@xell4701]

This video came up in my suggestions and it out a smile on my face 😁 cause I was one of those assholes who played the Yata lock with CED and this video brought back a lot of memories of rage quits at my local every time I played it 👌

[@timothybaker1411]

Mega I miss videos like this

[@Effiedial]

Yata Garasu came out right after I quit. I remember hearing about the Lock, but I never got to really see it in action.

[@joshuawilliams5140]

I can't believe he leaves off the other card that made the Yata lock op even before the next series was Drop off, had same effect as Yata control there resources and was very useful to keep there hand limited to 5 at the start of the duel and you could run 3 of them in the deck which made it a high chance to pull of the Yata lock.

[@d3lan011]

When I was playing during that era(wind control), CED, BLS Envoy, Manticore, were the things to avoid. Once you seen the foundation of the deck, it was a race against time to shut them down.

[@bullet4myex187]

Oh boy the good old yata lock....... good times As someone who played from the beginning of the tcg things like this were a true nightmare. Still miss the old school era sometimes though even with stuff like the yata lock.

[@NefliteX]

I JUST found this video. I have lived through what was the local competitive scene at the time and Yata was first pulled on me. Struggling through the pain of trying to figure out what to do with a stagnant hand while Yata poked me each turn, getting more and more frustrated by it until I quit. I Literally quit Yugioh play for years. Fortunately I NEVER had to live through CED nuking me before the bird pecked my heart out, so I guess yay me.

[@quinkelly1441]

this deck taught me how to resource managed my hand so i would not get lock down after yatas effect also building a floater deck was the key 3 mystic tomato into sangan was good

[@TheElly750]

Jesus.... i forgot about that..... i can close my eyes and see it again....

[@storageunit2683]

I remember long time ago. I got my friend on this lock numerous times to where he had officially retired from the game for like 12 plus years.

[@serenastieveling]

I remember that card. All too well. Also caught several people off guard when they played my deck at the time which was a fringe life gain deck. By the time they locked me they had only 10 cards left and I was still around 6k so I made them play it out and they decked themselves. Twice. More or less my highlight back in the day before the ban list.

[@ryanshedler4861]

I got out of a Yata-Lock and WotBF and CED trick... all because of Sinister Serpent. Card was so undervalued

[@nosfonader8792]

Don’t forget Gravity Bind helped tremendously in preventing your opponent from retaliating. That was always a card to have when you want Yata Lock to happen.

[@thallr0x]

I used him in my Necrofear fiend deck way back in the good ol' days. I still troll my friends with that same deck from time to time.

[@jamierutledge1355]

I played yata grave keepers for a bit and did a lot of locking out the best decks back then.