Can I Beat A MODERN Deck Using An OLD 2005 Yu-Gi-Oh! Deck in Master Duel?

Can I Beat a NEW Modern Yu-Gi-Oh! Deck using one from 2005? Today's challenge combines both eras of Yu-Gi-Oh!

[@devinb3538]

The best feeling is when your opponent sets up a board and has an 8000+ attack monster just to get ended by an old card like magical cylinder.

[@knockout8157]

Plot twist: the 8000 attack monster was an old card as well!

[@schizophrenicmelancholy2706]

That actually happened to me. I bricked hard and I only placed a Magical Cylinder because it was the only card I placed. 10 minutes of special summons, fusions and xyz summons and I get faced with a card that dealt over 8000 damage. All it took was the Magic Cylinder and I won.

[@Danny_Deleto]

@@schizophrenicmelancholy2706 Heart of the cards.

[@chriswright8074]

@@schizophrenicmelancholy2706 really not a fan of the new play styl

[@schizophrenicmelancholy2706]

@@chriswright8074 agreed. Too much meta and a lot of not being able to do literally anything when you play a normal deck. I still stick with my “Only Toons” deck and Doto’s Luck Deck (I do *not* have Doto’s luck, so I will lose 90% of the time) regardless.

[@jaih5529]

The funny thing is that cards like Mirror Force that are a bit of a joke by todays standards can often catch people off guard because no-one expects it

[@rhymestyle]

YEAH THATS WHAT I WAS SAYING! You never expect it and then BAM it gets flipped

[@MysticGospel]

It's Magic Cylinder for me, but it's worth the risk.

[@darkprince9900]

That or magic cylinder lmaoo

[@kataphrut7740]

Literally what happens in Yugioh Vrains- the main villain of season one uses Mirror Force against the heroes various link spam decks and no one is ready for it

[@onyxguardian5122]

I catch people off guard with waking the dragon, summon blackwing full armor master and if they cant get rid of it and accidentally use a monster effect, that monsters mine 🤣

[@Shmop_]

They need to add different types of formats and a real tag dual mode in the game, this game would be the best yugioh game

[@rhymestyle]

I AGREE

[@SillyKepanchi]

YEessss , Tag dueling was so much fun during Duel Links, Reminded me of doing ally battles in Pokemon Emerald with Steven haha. Would be killer to tag duel with friends online

[@sandman2166]

And if they put more effort into the mobile version

[@sandman2166]

Keeps crashing away

[@mrbrightside4u]

I feel like Tag Duels don't really work in this format. It would just be even more waiting, there's a good chance by the time the turn gets to you the game is more or less decided and combo pieces are so specific, that you can't really play off someone else's board unless you deckbuild together.

[@khancethehunter2389]

It does bring a smile to my face seeing a oldschool deck beating modern decks. its that extra bit of salt in the wound when they realize that the lost to a old non meta deck that makes it feel enjoyable. (It reminds me of that one guy who destroys meta decks with a toxic kuriboh deck and I love that video)

[@garothegoldenknight4539]

Play against full power kashtira, then we talk. Play against full power tear, then we talk Play against drytron turn skip,then we talk

[@Tarojun_Zakra]

I lost it and giggled so hard just like you did after the Compulsory. The look of that person's face after doing all that and dying to a old school deck would of been priceless. Old school for the win! Lost interest in YGO around that time, and felt nostalgia that I could identify and know exactly what each of your cards did. All the modern stuff, I just can't keep track of and kept me away from even bothering a revisit. If they do ever release a old era theme format for nostalgia sake, even I may be tempted to try it out again.

[@juniorduran9874]

I feel you, I recently started playing again and I only rock old school decks. Dark magicians, Summoned skull, no xyz’s, no pendulums, just pure og. Best way to game

[@deion1564]

Imagine bringing out your boss monster after going through 6-10 other monsters, only for it to get sent back to the extra deck and you can't do anything about it and they summon a monster for 2000 attack and rinse and repeat the entire duel. That's basically this video and its so funny, I love it

[@299orange]

X-fusion x-link summon for an empty board hahaha

[@lunacurtis780]

And they say ygo has no resources. The tribute fodder is a resource!

[@Midneight0]

Older formats would be incredible. Like we just need 1 for like GX or 5D era and so many more people would want to play. I know none of my friends want to play now because of the 5 minute combo turns and coinflips basically deciding a lot of duels. Just cut the power creep a bit and Konami would make a lot of money

[@selfmadeweeb]

Bro the fact that you’re trying this pushes the meta sideways 😳

[@az5129]

compulsory evacuation device was my favorite card back then, and i ran 3 in my deck. You spend all that time summoning that special monster, and i just bounced it back. The faces they make back then was priceless. lol

[@treebush]

Same back in the day it was my staple budget that people didn't play for some reason

[@unknownsavagery4015]

I've been playing master duel from the beginning and honestly there's only 4 things I would love in the game, a draft mode, Tag duels, minimum 10 gems for a lose and 20 for a win to keep people motivated and a search feature when deck building that has cards categories like draw cards.

[@Shootingfoul]

You know how Yugioh has stars for each monsters? Make a troll mode to where, Yugioh plays like Hearthstone or Shadowverse, where you gain 1 mana per turn and monster's mana cost = their star level. Also artificially give mana cost to spells, traps and hand trap effects.

[@unknownsavagery4015]

@@Shootingfoul wtf😂?

[@Ziggs-]

I still think it would be so cool if master duel added something to where you can test out decks that you've built even if you dont the all cards made just tp see if you liked the deck you've made ot something, kinda like how dragon ball legends lets you test play the banner units of characters

[@rhymestyle]

isnt that what the new trial mode is they released today?

[@TonyBest100]

​@@rhymestyle Nah, the new Duel Trials is just letting you use one of 3 loaner decks to use, this time between Stardust, Elemental Heroes and Utopia, with no other decks usable. Only need 3 wins to get the reward pack.

[@matija5748]

@@rhymestyle nah trial mode is just 3 very bad loaner decks and you have to win 3 games with one of them and event is split in 3 parts

[@MH-ut1rc]

​@@matija5748horribly bad loaner decks don't even think about using the synchro

[@hobbes281]

@@Honest_Mids_Masher Jaden's deck is 2nd best despite how bad it is. And it doesn't even have multiple poly's & searchers like King of the Swamp. Yusei's is just awful. Only one time have I seen anyone get multiple synchro's going. It was just sad. Meanwhile, the XYZ deck is awful too, but because it has some bigger body's & all the ZW equip stuff it actually is the best given the godawful decks it's going against.

[@eternallk1ngs_57]

My favorite thing about rhyme is whenever he goes second he always thinks he's gonna get kaiju'd😂

[@rhymestyle]

I got ptsd

[@yannym4605]

This was truly inspirational. Like watching an old warrior show up some young bloods.

[@MasalaMan]

Yooooo the compulsory on the neos wingman was so dirrrttyyy. That guy must've been so mad. Lol. The heart of the cards was on your side for that Duel.

[@SaitoIkari]

Left a like because of the rainbow neos getting comically evacuated back into the extra deck lol that was great.

[@brianlobianco3862]

I play a deck that 4 out 5 matches I lose, but that 1 out 5 “Priceless” Love to see you have the same feeling about it

[@eddievilches2439]

broooo!!!!! that was nuts hahah that last duel

[@rayromo2470]

They should have certain online modes with requirements like no links, pendulums ect. so we can just have a good nostalgic battle lol. Links are cool and I'm down to win or lose in some turns but I like the long sweaty battles man.

[@ssgotaku8036]

Lovin the master Duel content!! Keep it up 💯💯💯🐐

[@bluewolfprince4308]

Makes sense for Neos to be a plain monster on its own since its strength comes from Contact Fusing with other Neo Spacians. It's interesting how each one can dramatically change his looks. Mediocre on its own, stronger with others.

[@aidenmurdoch]

This was the greatest Yu-Gi-Oh vid I've seen in a while.

[@mrbrightside4u]

The question of whether old decks can win against today's meta kinda depends on if we're using the banlist from back then. I mean, there have been so many FTKs througout the history of Yu-Gi-Oh! You just need one that doesn't immediately die to Ash or Imperm.

[@lunacurtis780]

Right! I think that's one thing the last event showed us; the only thing holding old decks back is Ash Blossom

[@shrajo4480]

One idea I think could be cool would be to try something like this with seereax. Where one of you plays a deck with older cards only but can play 3 copies of any card (pot of greed, graceful charity, etc). And the other uses a modern deck and follow the banlist in master duel. Maybe you would have to impose other restrictions on the modern deck though.

[@gabemoreira3654]

Love watching your old school yugioh videos. New yugioh is not my thing. Downloaded master duel, deleted it after the first duel the guy summoned 4 monsters lol.

[@VenomCalavera]

Yes you definitely should count the first win, that was dinosaurs, a really long combo deck and without the two spaces in the board it was imposoble for him to complete the combo and end with a complete board

[@mugsby7962]

When Rhyme thinks of an idea for a video and hates it, I imagine his inner voice is like, "shut up, don't say that! You know they're gonna hit the like goal, shut up! Dammit!"

[@rhymestyle]

unfortunately

[@meepSquaredYT]

Some top grade Yu-Gi-Oh was played today. Love to see it

[@gododoof]

Mirror force is the epitome of "Oh no! Anyways..."

[@cascada5200]

Rhyme really said: "You activated my trap card." and it won him the duel.

[@juanrojas6063]

those were some fire matches rhyme really does have the power of Atem inside him

[@davidsosa6056]

Bro that last duel was fire. Nice W

[@craigheartsill6552]

Dude I watch you play more than I have lately lol 😂

[@Ov1Wan]

The potential for this game to be amazing is RIGHT THERE, please Konami 😭

[@PowerWinsTop]

Last opp had serious antagonist vibes, that final fusion summon was his downfall

[@xrowplays]

Bro that was really legendary, you gotta do this in comp bro, I believe in you🖤

[@emporer15]

Took me a few weeks to get all the cards but this is my new deck to main in the game unironically. It actually wins about half the time, partly because of how many people scoop when I play Ground Collapse.

[@EvilMyself]

I cant believe you actually managed to summon BLS that game!

[@AyooBeef]

That person, who was playing Heroes, is probably thinking "Ain't no way that deck just dominated me"

[@dudeguy8686]

BLS is still the coolest boss monster, and Primal Seed is still the craziest legal spell, imo. So many silly combos. When Union Carrier was legal, that Primal Seed loop was disgustingly consistent to get rolling on MD. Still pretty easy in Blue-Eyes Chaos, with all the draws, searches, and summons, it's just a little more work now than simply having any two monsters on the field. It's a great way to play solitaire, just not so great for an interesting back-and-forth match, usually

[@Kintaku]

The timing on the surrender 😂 Well played!

[@codyloayza]

The BGM was on point this video!

[@dabobthorton6169]

16:22 Glorious!😮 You gotta try the power of Buster Blader, The dragon destroyer swordsman

[@bryanstark2553]

This is what we needed!

[@trevorflaim5580]

I’ll never stop running 1 copy of Magic Cylinder. Such a beast trap

[@AssasinscreedX29]

This is so trippy because in my casual ass mind I always understood metas being as they are a natural thing in everything competitive but my instincts always rebelled on some but why cant I use old cards to be a boss!? Yes imma lose alot but damnit theirs probably some fire card combos from goat format to go against metas in today's time. I absolutely appreciate this vid, even though it doesn't win alot it's still dope to see haha

[@rhymestyle]

Goat def can have some dope combos

[@Jarasonic327]

I’m sort of the opposite, I do enjoy some of the meta decks like branded, though I had already been playing that deck on master Duel even before branded fusion dropped. But time thieves will always be my precious baby

[@AssasinscreedX29]

@@Jarasonic327 it's all good I'm a fan of swordsoul, the artwork is just so dope to me and also the playstyle is simple enough for me I know its 'mid-meta' ish but yeh I just see just a ocean of OMG the meta is so broken and yada yada yada and I'm over here with my hands up like. Nah thiers has to be some other cards to go crazy with that no one has discovered yet. I guess I dont like to back down so easily idk 😅

[@AssasinscreedX29]

@@Honest_Mids_Masher in terms of coolness I'd have to go with dark magicians and black luster soldier too, personally I always preferred them as just a casual fan, but in terms of competitive stuff they probably wasn't that great but they were definitely cool in my eyes haha

[@AssasinscreedX29]

@@Honest_Mids_Masher all good man haha

[@frank5629]

Always excited to see new ideas/strats

[@frank5629]

Lol its not boring if you enjoy classic style. It makes it sometimes rewarding to wait for the perfect cancels or negates instead of just having a field of all negates. When i said new ideas or strats i meant a way to use old cards to try to compete against the new, i have a deck where i know when i always draw im good and another where nothing from newer generations and feel like having to get the perfect draw in that moment and if i dont well its tough.

[@TheProblemChannel]

"Mirror Force is a Joke" Dr. Evil Would like know your location

[@fitnessbro8803]

I agree with the different formats or eras things. It would be amazing indeed. I loved it when you had to carefully pick each card to build a unique over all strat.... Nowadays you just go with the meta and some tweaks.

[@Adamame93]

Great wins Rhyme! My favorite win was my Mystic Swordsman beat down deck vs Beetroopers. I’m sure dude was livid when I used Magic Jammer on his destiny fusion

[@DeesulDaddy]

I would absolutely kill for a permanent GOAT format

[@TheGreatBaronOBeefDip]

I think the key to different formats again is pre errata cards, the pain and agony of Chaos Emperor Dragon into Yata, I lived through it, it was my Nam.

[@whiteb0yFTW]

NGL 1 deck that comes to mind that old decks that can win in today's era is most likely hero's

[@shakeweller]

My favorite retro format is 2014 nawcq with dragon rulers. It's a great sweet spot that combo and control players can both enjoy and all combo, midrange and control are playable

[@bt9235]

Videos like this are great. It’s funny to see an old deck beat the new deck.

[@DavidLee-frost]

Just mentioning this in case you're not aware. The video quality is stuck at 480 (?) Quality settings for the video shows unavailable so I can't choose higher quality It's also 16 hours after upload so might be a KZbin problem. You might want to check it out

[@issac0027]

NEVER have 2 Skill Drains on the field. Keep one in your hand as a reserve in case you lose your first one.

[@S3N_Gaming]

you know that last dude was TIGHTTTT. I wonder if he looked at your deck after the match to see what you were running.

[@tbe4259]

13:00 I got phantom pains in my stomach watching that happen

[@thesye1014]

Im old school still dont know much beyond the new maiden blue eyes deck but to see you get pushed back like yugi and believe in your cards and get the dub was fire! Staged or not like yugioh it was like yugi vs seto. Fav cards vs best cards.

[@franknova987]

Seeing a Hero deck quit, that felt sooo good x3

[@thekittenfreakify]

I recreated old chaos. I use reasoning/monster gate to dig through the deck evenly for board wipes and hand traps to replace old staples. Faith Dmoc basically abuse monster reborn reincarnation to get parshath and chaos duo out. Spirit repaer + there can only be one are a monster soft lock. If i wipe out the field i start ripping cards from yand with reaper. I also tech exchange to take out theyr wipeout and steal hand traps.

[@thekittenfreakify]

One more thing. You need atleast 16 cards that search draw to make the deck consistent enough for it to ger theyr outs and wincon.

[@crag6523]

"Era of structure" Game mode where you match with an opponent, then an era is decided and then players choose a structure deck from that time period

[@OnyxRanger09]

Jeezus all those royal finishes be screaming whale at the top of the mountains

[@ubadman1]

people say they want goat format until magical scientist FTK is everywhere.

[@farisdanial1030]

If youre playing ground collapse, i think that targeting the zones below extra monster zone would be good lock zones

[@thevexxus8055]

would like to see your 3 duels and what deck u choose in the little event we got

[@maxd3str0y3r]

If they added a goat format from like maybe 2008 and under its literally all I would play

[@tishardnatthaniel8047]

That last round was brutal

[@elijahmcdowell8126]

Cyber dragon is my goat man, I could see potential wins

[@odielarson]

Thanks for keeping the game from getting stale by doing content like this. Being a meta slave is beyond boring.

[@Chief-Remeldian-Olympus]

Duel Link allows you to play in the different era but problem with Duel Link is the game set up. Mean unlike your traditional five card zone and 40 card deck limit. Duel Links has a 20-40 card deck limit and a three card zone. The only two good thing about Duel Link is that gems are easier to get and you get to play as the characters with there skills.

[@juliansalazar2655]

3:11 Dude, that would actually bring back a TON of old yugioh players to this game! Different era formats sounds like a dream considering how broken and boring the game is nowadays.

[@GBNationalist]

Honestly I miss the old decks. I used to love playing with really unique and hard to execute decks like perfect giant moth deck 😂 using nightmare wheel, spell binding circle, swords of binding light, Robbin zombie/goblin combo with man eater bugs and skull mark ladybug etc to tie them up and grind them down while you set up for 10 turns 😂😂

[@tylerox2010]

Let's gooooo! That last duel was 🔥

[@dbzgtvaf]

Awesome final duel Rhyme.

[@YukiHeroYGO]

The hero player opened NUTS. Had full combo TWICE and somehow managed to lose to 2 backrow! That was too funny 😂

[@joshkelz7069]

Tht last duel was perfect!!

[@austinhammond3545]

Man Doto is gonna enjoy the new NEOS stuff

[@霊]

I took a 2005 ish deck into ranked a while ago, won 2-3 games against modern decks but lost SO many rounds just to get those wins

[@rhymestyle]

which deck?

[@霊]

@@rhymestyle pretty similar to the one you ran in this vid, except I relied way more on BLS to win. I didn’t use jinzo which I probably should have. I had to substitute things like you did as well cause of no charity or pot

[@charlieblack1040]

Well played dude that was brilliant! OG boiiii

[@metalmariomega]

It's funny, there's actually modern analogies to a bunch of old school strategies by this point. A lot of the old school traps to make a Control heavy build work do really well in Labrynth, Thunder Dragon has its own full blown archetype to mess around with classic and modern Chaos staples in, and Warrior Toolbox is now this strange amalgamation of modern archetypes(with Gouki, Infernoble and Sky Striker having the most consistent starters to work with) that's just waiting for RotA to go back to 2 or higher to pop off(or you could be a memer and try to make War Rock work but good luck with that).

[@ninja644]

Broooooooooo. I was completely entertained!

[@zyonith]

props to the hero player for not leaving after the compulsory on his boss monster because i’d be TIGHT lmao

[@willc4095]

Respect that last game

[@TheGoldenRater]

It doesnt matter in goat, but in modern format I would block different zones for ground collapse. Probably the two under the extra monster zones? It ATLEAST blocks out transcode if nothing else.

[@swiftstrike4044]

I made a Celtic Guardian deck once. I went on a 3 win streak beating Branded, Beetrooper, and Eldlich! Funniest shit I've ever done in this game.

[@eduardweber2097]

Masterduel can become an incredible game if they would include area deck restrictions. A none ranked game mode with the cards and banlist limitations of the specific area that include only the available cards of that area.

[@rhymestyle]

They have this. They do monthly events with exclusive rules and most of them have been pretty fun.

[@SonnyO]

Pre-errata Chaos Emperor Dragon with Yata would piss people off today.

[@rhymestyle]

Original CED is actually insane

[@nattynorth]

You should maybe do it with the ban cards vs some subscribers next time

[@ironbutt21]

Ahhh the good old days

[@Lublue5]

You know watching you guys have really got me back into Yugioh I will always prefer old school yugioh because I like 30 turn games. Also you guys make me want to play breakers as well. Can I possible play with you guys next time you feel like it? Not looking for clout or anything lol you guys seem cool and I wouldn’t mind

[@rhymestyle]

Yeah just keep an eye out on our twitter. We always announce lobbies there

[@Lublue5]

@@rhymestyle thanks broski and keep on shooting those 3-pointers lol

[@redoctober67]

That Hero opponent got way too greedy lol

[@gambitgambles]

I know I sound like a Yugiboomer but someone that is playing a deck that they like and not just the meta you can see in their face that they are just having fun.

[@Archangel2277]

I unironically play Necrofear with denstiny board in ranked, surprisingly doesnt do horrible, had to add judgment of anubis because of the lightning storms and harpies on my back row

[@bryancolindres4904]

No bap i felt those wins and that passion let’s goooooo

[@anthonymurchison8035]

I truthfully don’t like to blow my opponent up I like a good back and forth

[@HeezyTwiesel]

Haven't watched yet, but I can tell you. You could, IF YOU READ YOUR CARDS! It's antagonizing

[@GGstillSteppin]

You can win!! Heart of the cards!

[@o-way-zilla3394]

I got to silver rank 1 with this exact deck not bad in today’s Yu-Gi-Oh!

[@OG-ColorfulAbyss.]

I mean, it wasn't consistent but I did pretty good in both events using a Sacred Beast deck with some Bakura thrown in.